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[gremlin]

Since when did common sense and courtesy become so offensive?



Usually advice to tourists to be respectful of their host's cultures and customs would welcomed. But not when it involves LGBTQ+ advice....

When I've been in Muslim countries, I make a point of wearing long trousers where appropriate, not going overboard with displays of affection for Mrs. G in public, etc. It's just common courtesy. Quite why James Cleverly is being branded 'tone deaf' for what seems like sage advice, is beyond me.

[JackyJoll]

Since when did common sense and courtesy become so offensive?



Usually advice to tourists to be respectful of their host's cultures and customs would welcomed. But not when it involves LGBTQ+ advice....

When I've been in Muslim countries, I make a point of wearing long trousers where appropriate, not going overboard with displays of affection for Mrs. G in public, etc. It's just common courtesy. Quite why James Cleverly is being branded 'tone deaf' for what seems like sage advice, is beyond me.

Being arrested in these countries for anything (or nothing) is well worth avoiding.

If their attitude to homosexuality is “wrong,” you’re not there to fix it. You’re there to watch the game!

[Mr. Dazzle]

When I've been in Muslim countries, I make a point of wearing long trousers where appropriate, not going overboard with displays of affection for Mrs. G in public, etc. It's just common courtesy. Quite why James Cleverly is being branded 'tone deaf' for what seems like sage advice, is beyond me.

Does strike me as particularly daft offense.

FWIW I don't think the World Cup should be in Qatar, hosting it there was the wrong decision for various reasons. But since it is being hosted there, it seems that Foreign Office should be giving out this ^^^ advice. People should be taking issue with FIFA's decision, not anything else.

[Cousin Jack]

If you dislike the laws too much, don't visit the country. There are several countries that I would not visit because I dislike their regimes, Saudi Arabia and Iran for example.

[Mussels]

Meh, some people exist purely to moan about Tories and if there's nothing to moan about they start falling apart. Some spout utter rubbish like this while the labour party show themselves as racists.

[Count Steer]

Meh, some people exist purely to moan about Tories and if there's nothing to moan about they start falling apart. Some spout utter rubbish like this while the labour party show themselves as racists.

[mangocrazy]

Meh, some people exist purely to moan about Tories and if there's nothing to moan about they start falling apart. Some spout utter rubbish like this while the labour party show themselves as racists.

I'd say the Tories have been providing us with an embarrassment of riches recently...

[gremlin]

FWIW I don't think the World Cup should be in Qatar, hosting it there was the wrong decision for various reasons. But since it is being hosted there, it seems that Foreign Office should be giving out this ^^^ advice. People should be taking issue with FIFA's decision, not anything else.

Qatar, the great footballing nation? Why not..? I mean it's the perfect temperature to run around playing football with plenty of readily-available stadia and, most importantly for travelling fans, plenty of places to have a reasonably-priced beer and get a bit merry in the sun.

Unless of course you are insinuating that FIFA's decision making process could be, in some strange way, corrupted....

[Mr. Dazzle]

I'm sure I read they've only got 30,000 hotel rooms in the whole country and are expecting a few hundred thousand guests

I dunno, part of me thinks it's hilarious. Encourage a load of heavy drinking, loud mouthed people with a propensity for large-scale thuggery to visit a country with no alcohol and Police who take no shit

[Cousin Jack]

I have zero interest in football, but the obscene sums of money washing around the 'sport' more or less guarantees that many decisions are based on backhanders. I am sure someone profited from the decision to hold it in Qatar.

[gremlin]

I am sure someone profited from the decision to hold it in Qatar.

And in other news, the Pope is revealed to be Catholic and bears have been spotted shitting in the woods.

[Noggin]

Encourage a load of heavy drinking, loud mouthed people with a propensity for large-scale thuggery to visit a country with no alcohol and Police who take no shit

This!! Watching the 'fans' could well be the most entertainment of the tournament!!

[JackyJoll]

Not exactly big news, but the expression “spare prick” leapt to mind!

https://news.sky.com/story/prince-harry ... d-12731369

[Mussels]

Are we meant to feel sorry for him?

[Count Steer]

Are we meant to feel sorry for him?

I do. A bit. You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family. He's pretty much 'not wanted on voyage' as long as his brother's alive but he's never going to have anything like a normal life. He can't resign so he's left being a reality entity, chugging through the media and cranking out misery memoirs. Pretty rubbish existence.

I wouldn't swap with him.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I wouldn't swap with him.

I wouldn't swap with any of them.

I dunno about Harry...he's clearly not the sharpest lightbulb in the allotment, certainly as far as PR goes. I get where he's coming from though and the UK press / the Daily Fail clearly have a vendetta against him. Nothing to do with the fact they keep losing multi million pound court cases I'm sure.

[cheb]

And don't forget there plenty of people who hate you and your family for your accident of birth, and you probably couldn't do anything to appease them, not even suiciding.

Then there's the loud and frequent veneration and vilification of his mother.

It's a wonder any of them are even remotely normal. And no, I wouldn't swap with any of them either.

[JackyJoll]

And no, I wouldn't swap with any of them either.

Why do you dress up as Princess Anne on Thursday nights then?

[cheb]

Because that's the only time you let me have the costume.

[mel]

I wouldn't swap with him.

I wouldn't swap with any of them.

I dunno about Harry...he's clearly not the sharpest lightbulb in the allotment, certainly as far as PR goes.
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