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BlackburnRovers

Will you be driving yourself, then I can let you know a shortcut...

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Banning a particular group of people is just asinine, every individual who acts like an idiot should be apprehended, but blanket bans are stupid

Many locals dont like the sight of bikini clad people in public beaches, so do they propose banning all westerners for that?

BlackburnRovers

Wet Floors in bathroom = Dirty

But what I find funny is that many people who find it

ign to use water to wash, find it perfectly ok to not use water at all, or to not wash hands!

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That'll be becaue 99.99999999999999 (you get the picture) % of their reporting staff are from the subcontinent! Many Arab reporters are in GN as well. And its not because they are from a particular place; a number of Indian broadsheets would put GN/KT to shame with it's quality of reporting , so th...

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Red Chief wrote:
TeddyBear wrote:Really, which one? (serious)

I live in Sharjah. So the nearest from me is Coral Beach Hotel: 4*, pool with cooling water, 2 water slides for kids, brown bachelors are not allowed at any charge.

but non-brown bachelors are?

What if someone brown wants to use it for swimming?

BlackburnRovers

I object to having past one of the toughest tests in the world, having driven for 18 years without incident, to then have to be put through a crappy test here, which they'd fail me for no apparent reason to make more cash. It makes no sense whatsoever! Did you know that there were plenty of people ...

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Chocoholic wrote:But that's only because the persons nationality and license origin are different, if they were the same it would be no problem.

Erm, so how does that rule make any sense?

BlackburnRovers

Hmm, you sound like a wind up merchant to me

I doubt anyone, Indian or otherwise, would be curious as to why people shower everyday.

In fact most Indians I know shower everyday, the ones that dont are generally from labor camps...

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I can imagine the number of cars who will still be charged for going at 111 kph....

unofficial taxes and what not...

BlackburnRovers

Vidya Chhabria is either the widow or daughter of Late Manohar (?) Chhabria who started Jumbo Group, so she is the richest by inheritance....

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. Even shop names are written in Urdu or Hindi, which rank alongside Arabic and English as the major tongues of the UAE's grand multicultural experiment. Thats an absolutely false statement. I have not seen a single shop sign ever in Hindi, even in hardcore Indian areas like Karama. Maybe 1 or 2 sh...

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Drive towards Abu Dhabi till you see signs for "Saadiyat Island" Exit, approximately 90 km from Dubai Marina, take the exit, make sure you do not take the "Yas Island East" exit. Drive for ~25 km and you will end up on the Corniche (its a seaside road) , take a U turn at the firs...

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Having interacted with such drivers, most of the issues are psychological and based on a extremely status based mindset.... Many of these people think, "I wont let a lowly Indian/expat go ahead of me or put one over me". Of course if they other driver is higher on the social ladder than hi...

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How could I forget another big cause; abuse of religious principles, mostly by followers of my religion.....

they speed,refuse to wear seatbelts and then claim "Accidents are predestined" or "Seatbelts dont protect you, God does", so its ok not to weat seatbelts

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Ok, now I can understand people getting in trouble because they carry banned medicine,. However the poor guy in this case spent a month in jail, because even though the medicine wasnt banned , the authorities took 1 month to verify it was ok. Why on earth should a person be in jail with criminals wh...

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On one hand its wrong to run away from debts. On other hand, banks here are ***** If you owe 5000 Dhs on a loan, and have 50000 dhs in the bank, and you lose your job, the bank will freeze your 50000 untill you return the 5000 from outside the 50000. They are bigger crooks than banks in many other c...

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This story is not the full story i suspect. Anyone with more than 3 brain cells could look on the internet to decide if this drug contains illegal or banned UAE substances. They could have looked the drug up at the Airport, one assumes they have internet access or was it a case of Estisucks a lot h...

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Only Emiratis will be allowed to start ay 16, many of them drive from 14 onwards, and making it legal will allow them to do so legally. Going by the way many of them drive, and the huge chip they have on their shoulders, I dont think this will be a good move.

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He may have showed an attitude; However its a bit of a joke that swearing can lead someone to 3 years in jail, while underage driving or running over people at a zebra crossing leads to 6 months...

BlackburnRovers

treat ppl like you wana be treated period. . does that work only one way? The guy at the car wash yesterday who screamed at the worker in Arabic calling him animal, because he was wiping the car slowly, or the guy at lift today who got angry because I was getting off on a floor before him seemed to...

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People may love to speed but if laws were strict and enforced equally and strictly on every driver, then you wouldnt see much speeding...

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I know you‘ve grown up here, so I can’t blame you when you don’t see anything wrong when a governmnet employee asks you to do something, without smiling at you or saying please or thank you!!!! ) I have grown up here and I can see thats wrong. But I agree, a lot of people who grow up here see nothi...

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Its funny how its so difficult for even white collar professionals to visit friends/relatives in other GCC countries.....

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Choco, you beat me to it, I was about to post on this ! Anyways, there is already a debate over this going on online... Many expats are saying the image portrayed was false. As expected Dubai backers came and said "Dubai is best place, everyone is rich, if you dont like it, just leave".......

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The biggest irony IMo was that she used Skype...

Someone should have just said it there and then that Skype is banned so that we have to pay indirect taxes!

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I dont get it; after Cairo match, many Egyptians were saying "so what if the Algerian players were stoned and injured by Eg fans, at least we won". I mean they must be really twisted to think that winning makes attacking other players ok.... And now we have Alaa Mubarak saying they should ...

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Egypt is the African champions having trashed Ivory Coast in the process, so benwj's statemtns are stupid. That said the Egyptians are acting like 6 year olds, with their statements of declsaring war and refusing to play with Algerians.......

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While Dubai isnt going to collapse anytime soon, a lot of people are pretending that all is fine simply because its in their interests to say so... DDS, come one, when you say bankruptcy laws are very lenient here, you know its BS! Banks can and do have people imprisoned for missing loan payments, a...

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Just taxes, would be more honest if they just called it a "tax on cars". At least it will be fairer then

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Normally people doing such heinous crimes are ashamed. Here we have a molester who "showed fierce resistance" when confronted.... And the molester didnt appear in court, meaning he is happily roaming around ! Woman in a coma was ‘molested while lying in her hospital bed’ Wafa Issa Last Upd...

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