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Hey TOASTMAN, I'd like to give a reply to your question, seeing the things you are studying are my bag baby! It's good that you've chosen a course that focuses on more than one area of media and communications, if you end up being good at it, these skills will enable you to work almost anywhere in t...

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You brought up a good point, it's hard to find a bar without loud music where you can actually talk to your mates! If you're into the clubbing scene then check out Trilogy at the Madinat, also the MIX and whoooohoooo IBI (was the Terminal) is now back in business. Longs Bar, Rock Bottoms, Jimi Dix a...

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Dubai is filled with gorgeous girls from all over the world! Think your friend must have a specific taste in women. Personally from what I've seen of Lebanese women they have plastic surgery as soon as humanly possible, and the make-up is slapped on with a trowl and I really don't know who finds tha...

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Is it just me does there appear to be a major short falling in customer service in Dubai? The city brands itself as a shopping heaven, but the people working in them sometimes just don't seem to have a clue, I find this particularly annoying in electrical stores where the staff appear to know nothin...

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Just a question about the ipod, when you go and look at one of these things, do you ask about "The Battery Problem"? If you look at the ipod it's a sealed unit with no way to replace the recharchable battery once its life has run out, and people say it's good for a couple of hundred recharges and la...

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Whoa peeps! Granted there are some problems with Taxi's around Dubai but let me put a new light on it. Alot of the drivers are fresh in the country and obviously have not been shown routes to places, so are just as lost as many tourists and if they don't speak your language very well you have that b...

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It's not always the case that the VISA sign means you can use a visa card issued in any country. The credit and debit cards in the UK, Europe and US now have extra security chips and pin codes that need to be used with a transaction, unfortunately we don't have that in the UAE yet. Sometimes it will...

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Ah this was for an ad campaign run sometime ago, very funny I like it, maybe all the guys who like to stare at girls in Dubai should take note.

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Just a question - And why must you be a servant? I don't like that term.

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Guys, Those relies were a bit harsh, one thing that bugs me is that salaries do not increase when the rents and other things go up, so peole find it harder and harder to cope. Plus there is no legislation which governs the amounts by which landlords can put rents up, and the 2 year rule has now been...

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All I can say is that the powers that be need to start seriously looking at this problem, otherwise Dubai is going to be only for those that can afford it and in a few years time I can see another city taking over, because Dubai has become too expensive for Joe Public and will just be a playground f...

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Hey! White girls are not easy I take offense to that!

Plus Islam was the first religion to abolish slavery? Erm just look at how all the labour guys are treated, I'm sorry but "slave" labour is well and truly alive and well in the UAE.

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Personally I think suicide bombers are the lowest of the low. To take away innocent lives is a waste and what kind of sick reward would you get for that? It's the fanatical people who brainwash week minded people into doing such things and make them believe it's for the greater good. You cannot just...

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Ah I liked that, I really miss a good cup of tea, the places to eat and drink here can't make a decent one to save their lives. Please note, tea does not come with warm milk! or cream, cream is for coffee! White sugar is for tea, brown is for coffee. And the milk should be put in first, that's the b...

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Well dude, I'm certainly not going to reduce myself to their level and I'm not going to waste my life by killing myself and taking innocent people with me, I consider myself to have a higher opinion than that and a great respect for life. Both my own and that of other people, no matter what they've ...

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Plus I also think the eye for an eye attitude is outdated, as the most intelligent creatures on this planet, do you not think there are other ways to do things? Two wrongs do not make a right! All those who take anothers life for whatever reason should rot in hell. Blowing yourself up along with oth...

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Hey Guys, With regard to dribing licences, you can probably hire a car on your EU licence, but best maybe to pick up an international driving licence. If you end up living here, you don't have to take another driving test, you just get it swapped for a UAE one, it's really easy. Yeah as said in one ...

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TAX?!

OK then everyone will definately leave the UAE, that's one of the big incentives to work and live here is that it's tax free!

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Hey did you guys hear?

If you have an original ipod, Apple have agreed to pay out a fifty dollar voucher to everyone as compensation for the battery problem.

Not sure how you'd get your hands on it here though.

Chocoholic

I don't profess to understand all that these people go through in some territories, please don't think me that naive!

We'll just have to agree to disagree, I just don't agree with it. I have no more to say on the subject.

You're entitled to your opinion.

Chocoholic

Love can make you do some crazy, wacko stuff, I think it can often drive the most sane person to do some weird things.

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Ok here's a question for you! In a few magazines recently they been looking into the topic of dating agencies, which we all know are illegal here. But how come it's OK to go out to a club/bar every night of the week to find free and easy people for no strings attached fun, yet you can't meet people ...

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But many of these marriages happen so fast, and the couple only meet in the presence of other family members, so how can you get to know one another.

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In a perfect world it's a great idea. But across the globe, youngsters are doing it left right and centre. There should be a greater emphasis on being safe and educating people. Look at the problems in Europe, you have babies having babies, I think the youngest is 12 or 13!!!! If you're encouraged b...

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It's a tough one, if you're going to issue the death penalty you better make damn sure beyond any reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty of the crime, there have been many incidents recently where people who were hanged years ago, have been found that they weren't guilty of the crime. It is an ...

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I hate the double standards, if you're a bloke, you're encouraged to 'Sow your wild oates' as they used to put, but for a woman to do the same you're branded a slag - what the heck is that all about - and the difference is? But also you have to look at the way the world is changing and attitudes to ...

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Well they say that the 6 month mark in a relationship is a major one, by that time most people know whether or not they're in love with their other half, but it varies. There's no way in a million years I'd marry someone without living with them, then you find out all their nasty little habits and w...

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Oh luv - why why why?!!!!

No offense to those Lebanese guys who are nice, but many of them don't get called Lebansleazy for nothing.

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Heym Just something I've been thinking about since I came back from holiday. Where I went everywhere had solar panels for creating electricity, in a country like the UAE where the sun shines virtually 365 days a year why on earth aren't people using solar power? The only thing I've seen that utilise...

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Hey Guys, I'm writing this because I'm totally disgusted at the proposals from Dubai Municipality to build a Dolphinarium at Dubai Creek. Basically they want to hold 3 dolhpins captive and make them perform ridiculous parlour tricks for human entertianment including pulling kids around in rubber boa...

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Finding a date in Dubai

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A plea to stop the Dolphinarium!

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