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#1 ·
New thread :)

Rant away!
 
#10 ·
I was in Hong Kong for most of last week. Work and got to see several old mates who used to live in Dubai.

If we were in HK we'd be whinging about the following:

Pollution

Heavy traffic

Pollution

Crowds everywhere so thick you can barely move.

Pollution

Jam packed metro and busses (yes even bankers in HK take public transportation)

Pollution

Local restaurants with no English menus

Pollution

The Chinese

Pollution

Humidity year round

Pollution

Expensive alcohol

Pollution

Shops with unreliable stock. No proper supermarkets.

Pollution

High cost of housing

Pollution

Paying a fortune for a 500 square foot two bedroom flat

Pollution

Expensive schooling

Pollution

Oh, did I mention the pollution?

Makes me lucky to be in Dubai.

Hmm....I'd still take Hong Kong. The grass is definitely greener over there! What an amazing city and the night life puts Dubai to pure shame. Unless you're a banker with a fetish for killing prostitutes...
 
#19 ·
Ooh. I had not seen it before:

"I am out of the office. Indefinitely. For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath.

For escalation, please contact God, though suspect the devil will have custody. (Last line only really worked if I had followed through…)"

Reads like something you only find in a Stephen King thriller, proving that real life is indeed stranger than fiction.
 
#20 ·
#1:
And finally got to witness the event: person driving, with his eyes on the phone, rams into the back of a trailer that was stopped at the traffic light.

#2:
Mother allows kids to run across the road to their parked car. Saw the first one darting and slowed to a crawl; the second one missed hitting the mid section of my car by just that many inches!!!
 
#30 ·
the bank rejecting a cheque because i wrote out "twelve hundred" instead of "one thousand two hundred"

and then me finding out not from my bank but from the cheque recipient.

perhaps i am wrong but i thought it perfectly acceptable to refer to four digit numbers in the hundreds. i am sure i've written cheques as such in canada and never had a hassle.
 
#32 ·
RTA released this at 15:57

For your safety and to enjoy the fireworks that are taking place today as part of the #DubaiTram opening ceremony, please note that the road will be temporary closed today from 4 pm – 7 pm in Al Sufouh Road in both directions from the intersection of the Dubai College to JBR. Alternative routes can be taken from the leftintersection of Abdullah Omran Trim and Sheikh Zayed Road. All roads adjacent to the path of the tram stations in the marina area and Sheikh Zayed Road towards Al Sufouh (bridge exit 5 and 5.5) will be closed and the rest of the roads are open
I don't know what most of that means.
 
#33 ·
RTA released this at 15:57


For your safety and to enjoy the fireworks that are taking place today as part of the #DubaiTram opening ceremony, please note that the road will be temporary closed today from 4 pm – 7 pm in Al Sufouh Road in both directions from the intersection of the Dubai College to JBR. Alternative routes can be taken from the leftintersection of Abdullah Omran Trim and Sheikh Zayed Road. All roads adjacent to the path of the tram stations in the marina area and Sheikh Zayed Road towards Al Sufouh (bridge exit 5 and 5.5) will be closed and the rest of the roads are open


I don't know what most of that means.
pretty much means a giant clusterf*&k
 
#35 · (Edited)
Not sure, the Sheikh is going to go round in the tram, I'd assume the fireworks will go off when he passes. You'd think it would be good PR to release a schedule so all the people who are into that kind of thing can line the streets and wave. 7-ish would be my guess.

Edit - they started just after I pressed submit.
 
#39 ·
I followed a black Lexus 4x4 with no lights on through Barsha at about 8pm. We stopped at the signal, and a police car pulled alongside the Lexus.

Would he wind down his window and tell the good chap to put on his lights? Or perhaps sound his horn or siren? Or even pull the guy over?

Of course not, he was on his mobile and probably far too busy to notice.

It's nearly over for me, thankfully...

PS I remember some 15 years ago on holiday in Luxor, Egypt, standing on the balcony of the Old Winter Palace overlooking the traffic intersection below, absolutely fascinated at how all the cars were all driving without headlights at night, yet flashed madly to announce their presence as they reached the roundabout. :nono: :der:
 
#42 ·
PS I remember some 15 years ago on holiday in Luxor, Egypt, standing on the balcony of the Old Winter Palace overlooking the traffic intersection below, absolutely fascinated at how all the cars were all driving without headlights at night, yet flashed madly to announce their presence as they reached the roundabout. :nono: :der:
That brings back memories of us living in Cairo...

* Policeman would signal for our driver to turn off the head lights since they are blinding him.

* In rural areas, everyone drive in complete darkness, then would turn on their high beam when approximately 20 yards from each other to say "I am here!" Of course you can't see anything from the blindness for the next 30 seconds

* Egyptian-Logic is a learned experience... ;)
 
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