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erm I posted the same last week. And alhtough not verified, I can tell you that I know of two people who were actually fined 10,000 Dhs for talking on the phone whilst driving, and not using a headset! That's the problem right there. The chain email claims 5000 and you say your friends got 10000. A...

In all honesty, I am having trouble 'feeling' the recession here. Maybe all the Europeans quit 'New Dubai' and of course traffic has gone down slightly, which could partly be attirbuted to Salik. But I still know only two guys who lost their jobs, and another who lost it and got another in a month....

B. Farrow, the GM of Hertz UAE, and the guy who wrote safety columns here and there, got fired. I found out while randomly browsing FB groups and coming across his open profile.

K-Dog wrote: “We are doing a lot of reverse briefing of designers. We’re asking them to cut their fees by up to half and to change the materials they’re specifying to bring down costs by about 30%.”

If anyone thought that build quality was bad here, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Awesome. My old school, Arab Unity, is in the bad list. Frankly I don't see how they could be blamed for retarded students. I remember that Arab Unity used to take in just about anyone who could pay the fees. Heck, I was one of the better students there. All my classmates turned out fine, including ...

An update found here - http://www.expatwoman.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=62224 Seems the court came to its senses and dismissed the case. The couple had a liquor license, so they didn't get a fine or jail time. Nothing will happen to the taxi driver though - the couple was told to forget about ...

uaekid wrote:speaking of rambo ,where is that guy who had to escap in a boat from Dubai ? anyone got his book ?

He is working on the sequel.

that nudie pic in an inveZtor blog put me off.

that nudie pic in an inveZtor blog put me off. You can't be serious, are you? It is the distraction for the everyday hard working investor... maybe not in Arabia !? Del would say: Are you gay bandit!? Thnx for the reply. :wink: Nekkid pics like that effectively makes your blog unreadable in public ...

Indian, Pakistani and Iranian schools are yet to be rated! The reports of these schools should be interesting, considering that they have the largest foot-falls! yes I totally agree with you... by the way I graduated high school with a CBSE syllabus which those schools are not mentioned on the list...

Hack, can you guarantee 25% ROI per month? The monthly returns are not fixed , It can be 25% , can be 30% or even more , So we cannot really issue a guarantee letter for you. I would recommend that you send me your contact details and we can set up a meeting on this. Please contact the Administrato...

Some of the banks are also lowering the minimum salary requirement to buy a car - down to 4,000AED where some required 10,000AED. Yes, let's get the little guy into the credit cycle with low payments and high interest. By the time they get finished paying off the car loan it will probably end up be...

^^ Fair enough! U r totally right........ But I'm tryin to look at things a lil differently here, n i dnt see why it's such a big deal for every country to have some association with educational institutions........It'd really benefit communities big time! Look at it this way, the Roman Catholic Ch...

Chocoholic wrote:How do you manage to add photos to your posts?

upload them to photobucket.com and link them here, you forum noob.

spam

joining a forum just to promote a commercial entity = spam.

Even Herve and Redkite were more subtle.

last i read, they had no idea how to make money off of it. it'd be stupid on their part to NOT sell now.

put the blame on your boss, so that u don't get beaten up in the parking lot.

Well I could gain one friend within 3 years and a half its good … but I really feel that I need a really good friend but I don’t know how or where… this is really giving me a crappy mood these days; and the fact that I don’t know how to make friends is making it worse … so any suggestions people ot...

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For a start stop calling your maid/nanny a servant! How un-pc is that! Secondly where does she come from and why don't you just get her to apply for a visa herself instead of telling anyone she is employed by you. If that fails - then shock horror, your wife and family with have to do what Mr and M...

FTD wrote:A person who doesn't drink wakes up..... and that's as good as their day is going to get

Lame answer.

This is all lies! Forum-poster Ebonics told us all his workers are happy to be exploited where he works.

rudeboy wrote:

FTD wrote:

rudeboy wrote:atleast we wake up knowing what we did last night. most of the time u drunk ppl dont know where u were or what u were doing or what was DONE to u last night

Yeah, but there are downsides too.

downsides too not drinking?

hehe

souq.com's comments sections are hilarious, full of coded phone numbers and low-ball offers. Anyway, I buy all my crap from ebay.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.co.hk, ebay......

It is true, that many of these workers are caught between a rock and a hard place, i.e. having no work at all in their own countries or working for a pitance here. However, this does not give companies the right to exploit them the way they do! Everyone has the right to clean running water, good wa...

Any bets on a new law coming out in Dubai, banning people from carrying cameras/snapping under constructions sites, labourers working, labour housing facilities etc The reasoning from the authorities would be that it's not permitted because of National Security issues! Snapping photos in public is ...

How come we don't get hot blonde labourers from Latvia here?

nice, i see lots of sand there. what a beautiful place. got to agree. looks like an awsome place. where is this? can u google earth it and send me the exact location? any tips for driving in the desert? got a 4 wheeler but scared to go to the desert because my clutch might efff up. It's not much fu...

aishamalik wrote:i have seen plenty of white girls with asian men in europe and usa, its about the invidual not their nationality

That is there, of course. America was great when I was there. Here there is a class divide along racial lines that becomes ingrained in every expat once they've been here for a while.