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So can fans expect this sort of "we screw up, treat you bad, and then lie to the outside world" in WC 2022? Aparently workers were given Arabic clothes to wear and let in for free, so it would appear that many "Qataris" were attending.... all this at the cost of genuine ticket ho...

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Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad idea? Judging by the comments most people are happy at it, but it will lead to serious safety lapses... Btw, I am sure we could have bet money that it would have to be a Malayali run company that thinks of speed limiters. What next, cars to automatically pa...

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Most speed limiters have a maximum of 120/140 programmed into the car. Here they are talking of a dynamic speed controller, so if you going at 100 kph and enter a 80 kph zone, your speed will automatically decrease, and you cant go over 80 no matter what. So if you need to accelerate in an emergency...

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i agree with DDS; its all about enforcement. In 2008, it was not uncommon to have cars wheeze past me doing 200 when I was at 160. Nowadays, the fastest ones are doing ~ 180. The "trucks on rhl" policy in abu dhabi is also a good example of how things can be achieved if enforcement is there.

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I had missed the biggest hazard such a system would bring, which I found through a comment; just imagine driving behind a car and it suddenly slows down from 120 to 80 without brake lights, because of the auto speed controller....

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I had Arab Orient my first year; afte having to pay out for a hit and run, they refused to renew my insurance, since they claimed "we lost 3000 dhs in repairing your car". Isnt that the point of a "full" insurance policy? Anyways moved to RSA, never needed to use them, but they s...

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You know bm, I used to think the same thing about the word 'Paki'. I always thought what the big deal about it, until I was called a Paki by a rude british man in Dubai and it felt really awful. It's not just the word, it the hatred behind it. Funny thing is that more often than not, he would not h...

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If a man can be jailed for 6 months for refusing to pay rent to a landlord who had decided not to provide the apartment/factory in question, anything is possible... DUBAI // A manager of a petroleum company was sentenced to six months in prison for a bounced cheque he said he wrote to pay rent for a...

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Here are some very insightful comment on AB.com on this case salman Thursday, 31 March 2011 2:48 PM - UAE I've lived here all my life. And I know for a fact that the law, no matter how ridiculous it may seem to outsiders, is still more helpful for females in such cases. As a Muslim country the autho...

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Talking of Indians, is this the most sycophantic piece ever published as a letter here ? He is talking about the Amerian guy jailed for using profanities when dealing with an efficient DU Customer service agent. The article Jailed expat learns the hard way: no cursing (April 9) described how an Amer...

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7days is down and a popular online forum has taken down all threads related to this incident.

Sage, the Telegraph and BBC are reporting it as well.

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Whilst i am truly sorry for his familys loss, i still think that the British and European press love to hate Dubai for reasons i can only describe as jealously/ oneupmanship. I am british expat living in Dubai and have done for a number of years. All i ever ready from the Daily Mail and the like is...

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Listen: if we say one wrong word when we reach london airport, they throw us in Jail, I know one local was in Jail for 6 months because of 1 word in the Airport Problems always comes from the same nationality, (Mall incident, Beach incident, .... etc) Many people die because of hunger and wars, inn...

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Something that you can use with a spoon ? (just to clarify i mean use with a spoon not do while spooning

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I witnessed a test many years ago on a crowded ferry crossing the Nile in Luxor. A guy who worked for me stood in the middle of the throng and shouted "Mohammed?" About 90% of the guys turned around to see who had called their name! :lol: :lol: :lol: Knight Abdullah and Mohammad are somet...

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1KQClAR27

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This story is infuriating because the bias is completely evident. Tourists should read stories like this and think twice about visiting Dubai. If anything happens to you at the hands of an Emirati you are just wasting your time to report it and follow through with a trial because the Emirati will g...

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There are 2 forms of queue breakers in Dubai 1) This guy barges in and becomes abusive if ou point it out. How dare you not allow someone to break in front just because he speaks Arabic? 2) This one is often Indian, sometimes Filipino, tries to push through acting as if he is doing something perfect...

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I am just thinking of the indian guy who was sitting with me on the second time in traffic court, he was drunk and took a wrong turn 23,000AED and he dint have the money, i am sure he is still inside coz those are 230 days in Jail. . its funny that people killing others on the road can get away wit...

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Depends on your nationality :( Reminds me of the recent story about a British(?) man who, when backing out of his driveway, ran over his daughter and killed her. The housemaid didn't think to keep the child away from the car. He was arrested for "murder" and didn't get much sympathy, just...

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Why did you hand your licence over to a car hire firm? Surely only the police can take your licence? Its the police that took my license. I always thought they took it away for "dangerous" offences, and not touching a wall when reversing you car in an undergrund parking. In this case, he ...

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This year, summer has been very late to come. Normally it hits 38C by end of April.

Even in the USA and the Mediterranean (Turkey etc), spring has been late to come; it was 14C in Dallas last week .

That said last summer was long as well, it was hot well till mod of November.

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The decision of the Sharia court was a declaration of law, and what other conclusion can anyone make of it? People often try to pass off cultural nonsense by naming it Sharia so that less people will question it. The case you mentioned was just plain old racism in Qatar. It does worry me; I have he...

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AFAIK Etisalat and Du dont have DND lists , they do offer to block all your incoming calls though, making your phon useless

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3 men were sentenced to 6 years in jail for raping and killing a Chinese woman and stealing her money; so 7 years for this doesnt make sense at all

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They are for senior military members; the writing in Arabic is "Armed Forces" or Quwwat Al Musallaha

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I have been flashed by a maniac when i was doing 150 kph, that was because he was racing with his mate on the next lane. I have also been flashed because the guy is doing 180 and weaving across lanes. And whenever AUH Police pullA one of them over, they appear to be vigorously arguing with the offic...

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i have a weird feeing i saw the guy few months back when I was surveying opinions on Icon 1 from its residents

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I think they have been the 3rd largest since the USSR broke up. China, India, USA have been 1st , 2nd, 3rd for as long as i can remember. what i find more surprising is that Indonesia is 4th and that too with 230 million people. I mean you see chinese, indians, and americans in many countries. But y...

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