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JoeTGF

Yeah I hate CDG - I won't make any assessment on french people. I stopped taking the 1am with emirates - I got an extra ticket each time but waiting at the airport for 5 hours until the later flight did my head in. Will need to find a few extra tricks. Common Chocs - any airline secrets you can share?

JoeTGF

I didn't think nations (or in this case a nation) would create a seperate prison where people could be held for years without charge...guantanamo bay if it wasn't obvious. Under the terrorism act the UK has pretty wide ranging powers as well where they can side step the burden of proof for a ridicul...

JoeTGF

I can't honestly tell you - my wife has used all those words to describe me in the past but she is by her own admission a spendthrift. You are absolutely right about living for today and I do try to take a leaf out of my wifes book. I can't change the person I am however - I have been shaped by even...

JoeTGF

I have seen it but dont getcha - is that a line used in the movie?

JoeTGF

I believe in god and I "think" he speaks to me. Similar to what you describe DDS sometimes the answer is so clear like you are being guided and at other times its just not. Problem of course is determining whether this is your inner self speaking to you or something else. What I do know is...

JoeTGF

Still makes good reading. As per BM's post - not sure about where the security risk is or why this puts peoples lives in danger - critiscm of David Cameron, spying on the UN.....Nelson Mandela wanting to meet Thatcher.....some not current and some have nothing to do with information that could be co...

JoeTGF

If they utilised that marketing strategy there might be some muslims that feel like trying it.....is there a version of camel bacon?

JoeTGF

gotcha - not resorted to that yet

JoeTGF

I do sympathise. I have been to Bab al Shams but didn't take the kids there - didn't really see it as a place for kids - more a romantic venue. I do however like that in Dubai kids (particularly young ones) are tolerated more than when I lived in the UK. Over there going into a shop with a noisy kid...

JoeTGF

Hi Mel - I am new to DF - welcome back from your hols.

MCL - sorry I offended you - but cheer up - it can only better right

BM - I think you are a sweetheart as well - a feisty one but thats the charm

JoeTGF

Dubai Knight wrote:I can cite a case from personal experience of a taxi driver in jail for 30 days...for farting in his cab!

Knight

when you said personal experience I thought you might have been in the cab with him...

anyway its ridiculous - how do you file evidence of that in a case

JoeTGF

Agree Chocs - too many expats here rely completely on their maids for every aspect of parenting - results in lots of spoilt unruly kids

JoeTGF

Chapter 3? Half occupied would mean plenty of spaces available. In general, buildings allow for at least 1 spot for each apartment. In cases such as 3 bedroom apartments, generally 2 are provided. Then there are extra spots that can be rented if 2 spots are needed and one was allocated. On to chapt...

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Joe, you can't offend MCL!!! No apologies necessary. *Right MCL?* Bora, I think I achieved that one day :D @Joe, me feisty? What ever gave you that impression? :bounce: Thanks Bora - am so conflicted I didn't want to offend MCL but now it seems its covetted! Anyway its not my style to upset anyone....

JoeTGF

He did save the queen in Naked Gun3

JoeTGF

I think you can strike the right balance but its down to the parents and particularly the mum. In the UK you rarely have live in hired help. Also in the UK you wouldn't dream of asking hired help to essentially raise your child and do all the housework, shopping, etc - there are clear boundaries on ...

JoeTGF

I thought both of you made the argument on previous threads about refraining from arguments and having more harmony on DF as the "bitching" was putting new members off? Its all good - spread the love.

JoeTGF

Joe, I thought he was having a laugh, but he corrected me on that one. I am just simply intrigued. I need to know why Bruce is collecting random information. Street carparking is a whole other ball game - total night mare. Dude, how about you put all your questions in one thread. There's a good cha...

JoeTGF

I hear voices all the time 'sshhhh no, hmmm I won't do that, oh ok then maybe I will, hahahahahaha mmmmmmmmmmmmmm' I'll believe in the forces of nature and the universe instead and that what you put out you get back. Simple laws of attraction, that's all. Chocs - are you a follower of the Secret or...

JoeTGF

Hmm , this would depend on how vested you are in the person If done by spouse - WALK If done by LTR - WALK If done by "that hot chick" who you laid - Huh ? what ? Oh yea, and if it did happen, then it means that it was bound to happen to begin with On the last one I agree it was bound to ...

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Chocoholic wrote:Sadly we have a few mates that have ended up in the clink for minor things. Their experiences have not been good.

WOW - in fairness I thought it was all a bit exagerated in the international press as I don't anyone personally that has gone down for stupid/minor things. Bit worrying.

JoeTGF

I have read lots on the law of attraction as well and also believe in it. It makes profound sense sense to me that people (all of us) are connected and that the fact that we are composed of energy and therefore a vibration at a particular frequency. I also believe in karma and other spiritual follow...

JoeTGF

I agree with K on this one generally. I think employers are already forced into giving too much time off to too many people for too many reasons but if you are giving it to pregnant women, mums, disabled people than I don't think its right to exclude muslims for praying/fastin. In fairness my indust...

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brucebanner wrote:Which has a bigger UAE - read; AD and Dubai - presence, Barclays or HSBC?

HSBC by miles. Will you at least thank me in the foreword?

JoeTGF

...Sure scientifically speaking the percentage of incurring genetic errors between people with very close dna sequences is extremely high, however there does not exist any controlled studies that can draw a conclusive conclusion, moreover I foresee that in the future, if families do insist that peo...

JoeTGF

Understand where you are coming from BM. I guy called Shane beat me up when I was at school and even now when I hear that name or get introduced to someone of that name I find it harder to like them. Its hard to seperate our personal events from the larger association. For breaking up your family I ...

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Zubber People still get aids in africa because they don't understand that a condom can prevent the transfer of that disease. Will all aids be eradicated by teaching people why they should use a condom? No. But providing people with education on the issue so that they make informed judgements which a...

JoeTGF

Definitely in the situation of more rural areas that have a lack of access to proper education would have some problems. But if you see in history marriages within tribes or a community was the norm. And they did that for a variety of reasons, the same idea has trickled down to today. If it was com...

JoeTGF

I was 12 years old bud

JoeTGF

Bruce - so its not a book its a wiki? Is that what all the questions were about?

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