24th November Qatar bans ROYGBIV from World Cup

 


First it was flags, then multicoloured arm bands before finally declaring floppy hats to not be welcome in the desert kingdom. Now in a bizaare act of overkill the Qatari government has gone and banned a meteorological phenomenon caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets that result in a spectrum of light, that normally takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc from appearing in the sky. 

Speaking to Grace Under Pressure, BBC weather wonder, Tomasz Schafernaker, condemned the action saying, "It's just 100% overkill. The climatic conditions in Qatar mean the liklihood of such a climatic coalition happening is virtually zero but I guess this just sums up the regime. And I don't expect FIFA's reaction to be very helpful either."

But just when the world thought things couldn't get any worse, not content with banning Judy Garland's most famous song from The Wizard of OZ,  lepreachauns with buckets of gold, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, the lowest age group in the Girl Guiding movement, packets of Skittles and the British rock super group formed by former deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, the panic stricken Qatari government has sunk to a new low in its so called moral crusade.

At the time of going to press Grace Under Pressure is able to confirm that George, Zippy, Geoffery and Bungle are currently languishing in a Qatari jail on after being accussed of perverting family values through their on screen same sex relationship. It appears the Qatar anti Rainbow movement is bent on stopping anyone having a gay old time in Doha.



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