Pedantic originally meant someone who is a stickler for accuracy. Which you aren't Still, half the description you mention fits you.
Leaving aside the irony of you saying about people arguing about owt, I mistyped then. To then call me a Jock is beyond the pale. You know what P G Wodehouse had to say about Jocks.
Castro You've derailed this thread with your petty obsession to 'correct' other posters. It's seems you can't help yourself. It's very tedious.
Well I would say for 100% the World Cup will be held in Qatar. Since the anouncment the building work has been going flat out, and with FIFA drawing out the appeals and complaints there will be a point ( maybe already reached ) when they have spent so much money building the stadiums it will be imposable for the tournament not to be held there. Oh and the contents of the brown envelopes has been spent. As to the workers rights and conditions, another long drawn out process. Heard on the news last night when asked about the improvements which have not happened since the last media uproar, they HOPE to have new legeslation in place for migrant worker rights early next year. The work will be finished before any improvements for the workers are seen. Then they will issue them all with exit visa's, return their passports and kick them out. Just heard now some FIFA guy saying, stop your moaning you have seven years to sort out the problems with your league schedule.
Just give all U18 year olds a chance. Give the overpaid ****s a break. Don't qualify and who cares. Even if we won this world cup it would probably do us very little good. Can you imagine if anyone other than Germany/Brazil win it? It would never sit quite right. It would feel like they only won because of the dramatic changes.