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[OFF TOPIC] General Chat


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French most want to go to Belgium. At least they are being realistic.  Will be a mess if they all turn up at once. We Belgians all want to go to the UAE, but cannot even go to Luxembourg!

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59 minutes ago, hckosice said:

yuesey ?! :yikes:

 

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I'm more surprised by the rather random looking Zanzibar of your neighbours :d Plus I'm surprised at the Maldives being that high :yikes:

 

Oh and obviously the 12 points from Cyprus go to...... :p 

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Tried to read another Games Bids Ceremony thread. This time for London 2012. I couldn’t even make it to the rings reveal because of how toxic that thread was. Someone literally wrote “I’m bored” midway through Pandemonium ?

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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1 hour ago, hckosice said:

yuesey ?! :yikes:

 

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How can anyone in Albania afford to travel to Qatar?

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5 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Tried to read another Games Bids Ceremony thread. This time for London 2012. I couldn’t even make it to the rings reveal because of how toxic that thread was. Someone literally wrote “I’m bored” midway through Pandemonium ?

Going through nearly 6000 opening ceremony posts on the main Dutch forum (only place I was active at the time) was a bit much, but a quick scan did reveal a post of myself saying something like "finally" and judging by the surrounding posts, that must (not surprisingly) have been when the parade of nations started :d 

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9 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

How can anyone in Albania afford to travel to Qatar?

well, there are many Albanian mafia boss keeping their hands on human trafficking, drug and (big) weapons dealing...:yikes: :pope::hairpull: :zip:

 

they (I mean, the whole "klan") surely can afford to travel to Qatar whenever they want...:nopompom: :wall:

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by the way, there's no chance Maldives is the main vacation destination for Italy (even as a dream destination...here all the people below 45/50 dream about Ibiza and/or Mykonos...:p...those over 50, instead, normally dream about staying at home without their sons/daughters trolling around and their boss harassing them :whistle:)...

 

we usually go to Spain, Greece and/or Croatia mainly...most Italians can't even afford to go to Maldives...even in offseason (especially now, after the covid-19 disaster, with many people losing their job or having their salary partially cut)...

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23 minutes ago, phelps said:

well, there are many Albanian mafia boss keeping their hands on human trafficking, drug and (big) weapons dealing...:yikes: :pope::hairpull: :zip:

 

they (I mean, the whole "klan") surely can afford to travel to Qatar whenever they want...:nopompom: :wall:

Ah, like the infamous 'Morocco Maffia' we have here....one of the big leaders of which was arrested late last year (finally) in....Dubai :p 

 

I know, not Qatar, but close enough, sort of :d 

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