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Bora Bora wrote:Any chance that you can introduce the Kid to your world???

herve wrote:

benwj wrote:Hey herve, how’s life in Florida?
I really need to read your book to find out how bad it really is in Dubai.
Dubai is changing from a small tribal state to a large secular society. Cases like these are the resistance to change. But they are needed to keep the rate of change in check and prevent society spiraling out of control.
Now is actually a very good time to be in Dubai because there is relative freedom, but strict laws at the same time. Crime for instance is quite low… an accurate measure of society morals imo.
I bet you can’t leave your house unlocked in Florida. Or leave your car unlocked, let alone running with the keys in as I do. Can you walk down any street at any time of the day, with no risk of being mugged? Does your kid go to a school where drugs and knives are routine?
Change will continue, and one day Dubai will have the freedom that everyone desires… but maybe at a price. That’s when I’ll leave and you can come back if you like.
I am predicting that the sentence gets reduced to 1000 dirham fine after receiving the desired media coverage.

So ...benjw, you reduce your life to material things, you car, your wallet, your house....things your parents did not have 30 years ago, how about non material things, freedom, reading what you want, saying what you want, no fear to be deported, jailed because a bitter woman who has never enjoyed romance get jealous and calls the police because you are showing affection to your wife, no fear to be imprisonned indefinitely for being framed by Emirati thieves and crooks. Have you ever offered flowers to your wife benjw, did you choose her, did you seduce her?
I never lived in fear Florida, I did in Dubai.
Ignorance is a bliss benjw, enjoy it, you will never know what you are missing.
You are wrong about something though, Dubai will never change, because if it did, that would mean the end of the Maktoom autocracy and the end of the cash flow to their coffers.

benwj wrote:

Bora Bora wrote:Any chance that you can introduce the Kid to your world???

I am sure that the kid knows the benefits of western society. How else do you think he lost his virginity?

benwj wrote:

Bora Bora wrote:Any chance that you can introduce the Kid to your world???

I am sure that the kid knows the benefits of western society. How else do you think he lost his virginity?

Chocoholic wrote:

uaekid wrote:and where did u get the idea that mam.man pda is o.k ? Or that it is in public or that the law does not punish it ?

Erm do we not see men walking down the street holding hands on a daily basis? Touching noses? Kissing on cheeks and lips, walking along with hands in eac others back pockets and I've seen alot worse.

This is widely accepted here. In many western countries this would be frowned upon. Yet it seems a man and a woman who are friends cannot greet each other with a peck on the cheek!

There's a fair share of underground gay clubs aswell and if you think they don't exist then you truly have your head in the sand, there was a recent documentary on it, where men from neighbouring GCC countries come over to party nd get their rocks off.

It's so stupid. Once again hypocrisy at it's best.

uaekid wrote:you see bora bora it just took me 2 posts to get you to your sence.you are wellcome.

uaekid wrote:and where did u get the idea that mam.man pda is o.k ? Or that it is in public or that the law does not punish it ?

Bora Bora wrote:

uaekid wrote:and where did u get the idea that mam.man pda is o.k ? Or that it is in public or that the law does not punish it ?

Highlighted text: PMSL I see, you have a whole different definition of man.man PDA. So what you are saying is that the kind of man.man PDA you are talking about has to stay behind closed doors. And if the "law" should enter an apartment, or find two men in the back of a car, going at it then they face arrest and, and, they go to jail and finish what they were doing.

I get it: you dont' see anything wrong about the man.man PDA in public because you think that is the norm.

RobbyG wrote:

Bora Bora wrote:

uaekid wrote:and where did u get the idea that mam.man pda is o.k ? Or that it is in public or that the law does not punish it ?

Highlighted text: PMSL I see, you have a whole different definition of man.man PDA. So what you are saying is that the kind of man.man PDA you are talking about has to stay behind closed doors. And if the "law" should enter an apartment, or find two men in the back of a car, going at it then they face arrest and, and, they go to jail and finish what they were doing.

I get it: you dont' see anything wrong about the man.man PDA in public because you think that is the norm.

How much more proof do you want hon?

Chocoholic wrote:Bora, I hear ya, but in some paces it's still frowned upon quite a bit.

This whole incident is just silly. But as I said, people will learn when tourists stop coming.

benwj wrote:

Bora Bora wrote:Any chance that you can introduce the Kid to your world???

I am sure that the kid knows the benefits of western society. How else do you think he lost his virginity?

gertrude wrote:Bora, do you know why Kid eats with his fingers (like all Emirati's do) ???
Because he does not know the difference between a fork and a gay.
Not that the fork could poke the tomato, rather that: the fork pokes today's meal and the gay pokes yesterday's meal.

uaekid wrote:

benwj wrote:

Bora Bora wrote:Any chance that you can introduce the Kid to your world???

I am sure that the kid knows the benefits of western society. How else do you think he lost his virginity?

hey we had an agreement ! what happens in your houes stays in your house, now I'm gona have to tell your momy that you told

RobbyG wrote:Anyone who thinks Dubai will turn secular should take a good look at the hypocrisy that radiates from the place. A society resorting to public display of religion (not limited to private sphere) as an identity is the first stage of a primitive society from the Middle Ages (7th Century Western style) and the last stage of humiliating oneselve in a modernized world, because you give in to your fears of a changing world around you. Its a backwards process in culturization.

benwj wrote:

RobbyG wrote:Anyone who thinks Dubai will turn secular should take a good look at the hypocrisy that radiates from the place. A society resorting to public display of religion (not limited to private sphere) as an identity is the first stage of a primitive society from the Middle Ages (7th Century Western style) and the last stage of humiliating oneselve in a modernized world, because you give in to your fears of a changing world around you. Its a backwards process in culturization.

There is only one problem.
Religious restrictions are slowly eroding in Dubai. Religion is not gaining popularity.

RobbyG wrote:

benwj wrote:

RobbyG wrote:Anyone who thinks Dubai will turn secular should take a good look at the hypocrisy that radiates from the place. A society resorting to public display of religion (not limited to private sphere) as an identity is the first stage of a primitive society from the Middle Ages (7th Century Western style) and the last stage of humiliating oneselve in a modernized world, because you give in to your fears of a changing world around you. Its a backwards process in culturization.

There is only one problem.
Religious restrictions are slowly eroding in Dubai. Religion is not gaining popularity.

I seriously doubt that after the Abu Dhabi bailout. The influence of Abu Dhabi is not exactly liberal.

gertrude wrote:Not only you can go to jail for kissing on the cheeks, but now texting each other with se*ual messages can land you in prison for 3 months. Dubai is a wonderful place to be !
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