JasonP27 t1_ix0t4c0 wrote on November 19, 2022 at 9:31 PM

I'll survive without FIFA too 🤷

myBisL2 t1_ix1u9dn wrote on November 20, 2022 at 2:23 AM

I'm not a huge soccer fan but I've been to a decent number of games and had a lot of fun. Telling me I'll "survive" without beer is true. But I don't want to. if I spent all the money to travel to Qatar, book a hotel, pay to eat out everyday at inflated prices and all that, part of the experience I want is to have beer at the game. No one thinks they will die without beer. But they would prefer to have it and I'd be pissed if at the last minute someone said nevermind, we promised it would be available but meh, who cares? Of course a lot of the fans care. Their lives aren't destroyed because of it, but a certain experience was promised for the exorbitant price of admission and you reneged on that promise. If I had paid to go to the WC in Qatar I'd be absolutely furious.

88leo t1_ix2a45h wrote on November 20, 2022 at 4:43 AM

I would change my flights and leave

myBisL2 t1_ix2agp9 wrote on November 20, 2022 at 4:47 AM

Sure, that's an option. But if you've dropped thousands, of which not all is likely to be refundable, that is a hard pill to swallow. It's a no win situation. Stay and be denied the experience you were promised, or leave and lose thousands for flights you didn't need to take and potentially other costs that aren't refundable and miss out on this major event you were looking forward to. Either way I'd still be mad as hell.

MyDudeNak t1_ix2b00o wrote on November 20, 2022 at 4:52 AM

If someone is paying to go to Qatar to support the world cup, I'm just laughing at them getting upset over the lack of beer. Schadenfreude is calling.

myBisL2 t1_ix2bonz wrote on November 20, 2022 at 4:59 AM

I mean, I personally haven't, but if I had the beer would be the icing on the cake of everything else that has transpired. But also, if you pay for a premium experience I don't think it's ridiculous to want to receive what was promised. My husband and I enjoy fine dining. If I book a reservation with a fine dining restaurant and I am dropping a wad of cash I otherwise wouldn't normally for a premium experience and after I showed up they said oh, we know we said you'd get x and that's a standard part of the experience but too bad, you can live without it, I would not be happy about that. Again, it's not the end of the world, but it is an expected and promised part of the experience. I see no reason why it is silly to be upset that at the last minute you're being told you can just live without it in such a flippant manner.

MyDudeNak t1_ix3tnhk wrote on November 20, 2022 at 3:26 PM

Its silly because they thought they were actually going to get special treatment in Qatar of all places, and it's funny because they deserve the shit experience even if they shelled out a ton of money.

MysteriousB t1_ix328ok wrote on November 20, 2022 at 10:48 AM

Oh my god so this explains why football fans can't just be polite or leave a match bot destroying things.

You literally NEED alcohol to enjoy it.

Saleh1434 t1_ix2q7rk wrote on November 20, 2022 at 7:54 AM

Well then don't go to a muslim country if you wznt to drink beer. It's simple. And I know the rich get to drink. That's wrong. Should be no alcohol whatsoever.