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benwj wrote:

desertdudeshj wrote:You do know that GTR belongs to the crown prince of Dubai Shk Hamdan right.

Worried about the fine, your right I think not. I was actually wondering if the fine was paid at all.

I'm not that familiar with clampers, but I didn't think they answered to anyone, not even Fazza.
They probably do quite well for themselves during this time of the year.

Plz if you can explain this Fazza thing to me...Heard about it alot but never knows the story behind it..

Tom Jones wrote:

Misery Called Life wrote:

Tom Jones wrote:
You present a good argument esp. about the nouveau rich and the young generation who don't know the value of money, because it was handed to them on a silver platter.

However, I do not agree with your last statement regarding the sour grapes.

I am not jealous of those who spend their money foolishly and extravagantly. Not at all. I could care less how easily they got their money, but I object to the millions they spend on trivial and insignificant things, just for vanity. I think that's morally wrong and obscene knowing there are thousands, if not millions, of suffering children and adults all over the world who could be saved and helped with that money.

Cheers!

Enough with this argument already!!! The poor don't want charity, they want Trade!
And in capitalistic societies the more people spend the smoother the wheels turn, the smoother the wheels turn, the less stay poor.

I'm not denying everyone ought to do a bit of charity, but beyond that, live and let live! If I've made a billion bucks fair and square, why should I unduly burden myself with poverty elsewhere?
Off-course obscene shows of wealth and grandeur are tasteless but this "guilt trip" mongering by the 'virtuous' is simply retarded!

What's this world coming to?????

Now caring for your fellow misfortune human beings is considered retarded!!!

How sad!!!!!!

No man don't be shocked, caring an all that jazz is great but this constant guilt trip mongering is not! People may live the way they want too, don't bring starving kids and widows and whatnot into the equation. That's all!!

Yeah, it is inconvenient for some rich folk to feel those little pangs of guilt about poor people. All they have to do is go and buy a $4000 pair of shoes to feel better and take their minds off of it.

now i am feeling guilty and there's me with my new DB9 and a 2 little piece of plastic with 5 digits that cost more than the average car in the UK.

Well Actually ...............................


NO I'm not - i love it.

does this face look bothered ??

arniegang wrote:now i am feeling guilty and there's me with my new DB9 and a 2 little piece of plastic with 5 digits that cost more than the average car in the UK.

Well Actually ...............................


NO I'm not - i love it.

does this face look bothered ??

Well, you could donate a nice chunk of money to a charity of choice to balance it out

arniegang wrote:now i am feeling guilty and there's me with my new DB9 and a 2 little piece of plastic with 5 digits that cost more than the average car in the UK.

Well Actually ...............................


NO I'm not - i love it.

does this face look bothered ??

whats the 5 digits?

benwj wrote:

arniegang wrote:now i am feeling guilty and there's me with my new DB9 and a 2 little piece of plastic with 5 digits that cost more than the average car in the UK.

Well Actually ...............................


NO I'm not - i love it.

does this face look bothered ??

whats the 5 digits?

it spells out my name so sadly i wont be able to post on here

So you managed to get ARN 1 E?

A mate of mine in the US has the Florida plate 'Bollocks' on his mammoth chrome mountain...the septics just don't get it at all!



Knight

Dubai Knight wrote:So you managed to get ARN 1 E?

A mate of mine in the US has the Florida plate 'Bollocks' on his mammoth chrome mountain...the septics just don't get it at all!



Knight

you buuger, you actually arn't that far out

the only reason i am not posting the plate number here is that its really easy to trace a UK home address from a UK plate

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100729/tod-new-harrods-owners-fall-prey-to-clam-870a197.html

-- Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:14 pm --



-- Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:18 pm --

A Koenigsegg CCXR worth £1.2m and a Lamborghini Murcielago worth £350,000 - both in the fetching colour of turquoise - were parked outside the Qatari's ruling family's latest acquisition when they were spotted by traffic wardens.

The cars were initially given tickets and then clamped, to the amazement of passers-by who gathered to watch.

The custom-made cars are part of the royal family's fleet of supercars.

The Qatari ruling family are behind the Qatar Holding Group which bought Harrods from Mohamed al Fayed in April for £1.5bn.

The business is led by the Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Hamad al Thani.

The al Thani family are worth around £2.5bn and have stakes in dozens of businesses around the world.

As well as their magnificent car collection, their assets include a fleet of multi-million pound yachts and luxury homes around the world.

so what are rich ppl suppose to drive ? Electric cars get real

one should be more concern about whom his country is spoiling with his tax money !
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/201 ... te-schools

Just because you have mega bucks, does not mean you HAVE to drive a suped up car!

You know if all these super rich people & celebs and whatnot each put a million dollars towards charity, so much could be done and it's not much skin off their nose, plus it's a tax rightoff too.

I have no problem with people who have 'earned' their money, but what sits uncomfortably is those who've done nothing to earn it or have earnt it off the blood, sweat and tears of others i.e. Sheiky boy running around in hs flash cars, while some poor workers are building his city, living in appalling conditions.

Terrible.

and what makes you think that those guys aren't paying their dues ?
Emirates for one are one of the most charity ppl around "not me" it comes with the religious and the culture.

the same poor workers build the city for you too choc after you ranaway form paying your country dues, so what did you do for them ?

If I recall, Chocs donates money and goods to charitable causes in Dubai.

Do you disagree with the point that the guy at the top could do without a second luxury 40,000 sq ft villa in another Emirate, or maybe a few less sports cars if it meant that the workers could live in comfortable, clean, air conditioned housing including enough nutritiously complete food and a decent salary?

To be perfectly honest, charity is something that comes from within, I see no reason in having a go at rich people when indeed we have no idea whether the contribute or not, and even if they don't, well who says they have to?
We should all look inside ourselves and see what we can contribute to those less lucky than ourselves.

I wonder how many of the socialists have actually spoken to one of these poor workers they so emotionally talk about, or invited one into their house. Paying one to mow your lawn, wash your car, or walk your dog doesn't count.

kanelli wrote:If I recall, Chocs donates money and goods to charitable causes in Dubai.

Yes, she does.

She bought me a drink the other night.

It was a very worthy cause!



Knight

-- Sun Aug 01, 2010 8:39 am --

I suppose the capitalistic standpoint would be that these mega rich few will actually be able to help a larger number of poorer people by investing their, not so hard earned, billions into commercial ventures that will ultimately provide jobs and security for many, thereby creating a stronger economic ecosystem and further increase their already vast earning capacity.

In a democratic capitalist environment, Darwinian theory clearly shows that a corporation must adapt to the changing business environment or be overtaken by faster, leaner, more efficient corporations. In the Gulf, the need to compete in an open international market is put aside as protectionism, exploitation, monopolisation and government supported blocking of free trade competition is endemic. You have to follow the golden rule: He who has the gold...rules!

With the globally disproportionate numbers of rich vs poor, even if you stripped every billionaire of every cent of his worth and distributed it evenly to every citizen of the planet, there would still not be enough to go around.

For anyone who knows any Emirati history, in the early days of the union when the oil revenue started rolling in, Sheikh Zayed once pulled every dollar from the Central Bank and distributed it (in cash!) to the major families in the country based on their particular needs and personal requests. The caveat was that the money was a one time handout and should be used to build commerce and infrastructure that would help the long term greater good. Some, the sensible ones, took this to heart and put it to good use. In one fell swoop, he kick started the UAE economy as this injection of capital into the system allowed locals to invest in business ventures and create employment and wealth for themselves as well as the rapidly growing expatriate workforce.

In more recent times, the realisation that the sand on the surface was worth more than the oil underneath it, created the real estate feeding frenzy and the vultures that fed off it. The concept of 'Selling Sand by the Dirham' allowed the privileged few to bolster their already significant coffers to unrealistic proportions in an extremely short period of time and spawned the current generation of spoiled rich kids who think that money grows on palm trees and is merely there to further their own selfish impulses.

The financial crash may have been a wake up call, but when the money snowball is rolling down the mountain and has got so big that this global glitch is just a mere bump in the way that is easily ridden over with just a small dent in the surface, the need to flaunt that wealth to the less fortunate is increased. Sad, but an unfortunate fact of nature.

Personally I feel sorry for them. If jetting off to London with your gold plated d*ck extension in the cargo hold gets you off? Then so be it. Just don't expect any respect from the real people.



Knight

40 US billionaires pledge half wealth to charity - http://news.xin.msn.com/en/top-stories/ ... id=4257079

so let me get this straight:

1) arabs when they go to london drive around in fancy cars, wearing fancy clothes, do whatever they like the BRITISH media create a big fuss about it.

2) when some brit comes to dubai and decides to get a bit kinky on a beach or in a shopping mall or behave like a CHAV, the BRITISH media is at it again creating a big fuss about it :S

lol so arabs cant do anything there and the brits dont get happy when someone doesnt allow them to do anything in dubai!!

if you are brit or a western thinking of coming to dubai, than honestly listen to Herve and do everyone a favour and dont come to UAE. Instead go to hmmmm India, walk around in a bikini and let all the malluss look at you like a xxx object... hmmmm but than again there are some women who like that sort of things ey!

oh by the way just because you have money and drive fancy cars doesnt make you spoiled!

Daily Mail or the Sun should do an article about spoiled Brits, Europeans and even Americans living in Dubai driving fancy cars

Are british football players spoiled bunch of lads because they drive fancy cars and shop in designer shops?

Grow up ppl and GET ON WITH IT!!!!

No, shipping your fancy cars on an airplane just for your holiday is over the top. The classy ones buy one when they get there.

didnt know Dubaiforums was the place that decides what is and isnt classy!!

rudeboy wrote:didnt know Dubaiforums was the place that decides what is and isnt classy!!

It is.

Some of us are.



Knight

Doing a jig on raw nerves, tappity tap tap tap.

Seriously I'm siding with the locals now, but lets face ,locals or not rich ppl drive flashy cars, I mean you wont see them driving a mini cooper like you, and that’s what money is for, right?
And I don't know why you came up with the assumption that they don't pay for charity, you are being too judgmental toward them, and sorry kanelli but when you do a personal charity you don't have to brag all over the news "that goes for everyone " and If I know those big cooperate CEOs, they just want media publicity and taxes write offs. I don't get it, why is when ppl do good deeds just have to show the hall world them feeding the poor and announcing it .

Perhaps the grapes are sour?



Cheers,
Shafique

uaekid wrote:Seriously I'm siding with the locals now, but lets face ,locals or not rich ppl drive flashy cars, I mean you wont see them driving a mini cooper like you, and that’s what money is for, right?
And I don't know why you came up with the assumption that they don't pay for charity, you are being too judgmental toward them, and sorry kanelli but when you do a personal charity you don't have to brag all over the news "that goes for everyone " and If I know those big cooperate CEOs, they just want media publicity and taxes write offs. I don't get it, why is when ppl do good deeds just have to show the hall world them feeding the poor and announcing it .

I seem to remember the UAE 'bragging' about the money that they have donated towards children literacy and various other charities.
I think the idea in announcing it is to encourage others to donate also.

Now who is biased against those who give. Tell me how it is acceptable to brag about how much money you blow on frivolous things yet not acceptable to brag that you give x amount of your wealth to x number of charities?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... aires.html

Another nice write up in the Daily Mail in the UK for our holidaying friends.

Personally, i think i'd do the same if i was them, although i wouldn't have painted the Koenigsegg that colour......

uaekid wrote:Seriously I'm siding with the locals now, but lets face ,locals or not rich ppl drive flashy cars, I mean you wont see them driving a mini cooper like you, and that’s what money is for, right?
And I don't know why you came up with the assumption that they don't pay for charity, you are being too judgmental toward them, and sorry kanelli but when you do a personal charity you don't have to brag all over the news "that goes for everyone " and If I know those big cooperate CEOs, they just want media publicity and taxes write offs. I don't get it, why is when ppl do good deeds just have to show the hall world them feeding the poor and announcing it .

Benwj, pay attention the bold section.
Kanelli, you as usual you attack people with no ground for being who you are and in this issue gave the assumption that Arabs or locals who drives luxury cars does not do or pay for charity !! before doing so you should take a look at how much UAE red cross along with other government charity organization contribute to charily in which mostly the locals are the ones donating to. I understand you raciest issues here but don't make an as* of your self.

Along with the fact that you and the others never mentioned or talked about this issue until the media asked you to, and that why I refer to you guys as "sheeps" !! you and the rest of the sheep's never minded other westerns who lived way more high life style, not only that but made a figure out of them in your societies and wear t-shirts that has their pictures and make them walk on red carpets …
Stop being fack kanelli.