dresden
- BlueOrb wrote:
How cool is it to hang around in 5 star hotels having a night out, every week, and NOT feel like [color=red]you shouldn't really be there[/color]?!
Excellent quote. Just about sums up expat life here in Dubai...
... the [color=red]latter[/color] sums up the attitude against "Dubai Expats who think their stuff don't stink" upon return home.
M!
..... Discovery Channel within the usual 'commercial' breaks
the refrain is '... blue moon ... ' and can be heard in a programme forecast for Discovery World weeknights 'Events that shock the world' (all abt catastrophies)
PLEASE CAN ANYBODY HELP ME OUT WHO THE INTERPRETER/ BAND IS???
used to be famous in the 90's as far as i recall, searched already itunes and the rest of the usual suspects.... but seems to be bloody senseless
thx
desertdudeshj
I have yet to see/hear it. Will try to get a hold on it once I do. I know how irritating it can be. try googling song in discovery commericial or something. I usually find it like this after some snooping
M!
it just came up a minute ago, but watch out annoyingly there are 2 different spots, one short where the refrain is not appearing and a 'extended# version where its constantly been repeated..... :twisted:
Its not limited to a commercial it used to be a more or less famous pop song in the 90's or so
thanks for your help
BlueOrb
"The Killing Moon", by Echo and the Bunnymen........
Hope this stops you going mad! :D
M!
THANKS thats it
FFS u saved me from throwing behind the next truck
what ya wanna drink?
Good Job and thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!
BlueOrb
No problem. Glad to help!
It's good to know i'm not the only one sitting watching Discovery Science (that's the penalty for not spending a bit more per month on my Du subscription....)
desertdudeshj
Ok heres one I've been after. Its the song from the adv for whale wars on animal planet. Goes something like this " no ones going to save me now"
Anyone ?
BlueOrb
"Bullet With Butterfly Wings" by Smashing Pumpkins.
This thread is turning into "Pop Quiz"...normally happens around 11.30 at night after a few beers....!
desertdudeshj
Hey Awesome Blueorb, your quite happening with obscure adv music arn't you :lol:
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BlueOrb
Got to hold my hands up.....the first one was all my own work, but the Smashing pumpkins was with a small amount of help from Google......I'm too honest......
desertdudeshj
Blu Minus points for the wrong answer. I know bullet by SP and would recognised it. The song came back to me when I youtubed it. Its not the one. :(
Its sounds more like a song from a brit poprock band and its a fast paced song.
BlueOrb
Google not my friend no more........although it says that all over the net. Maybe they mean theme tune and not advert music. I checked out the pumpkins tune - agreed, definitley not what i am thinking of.
I seem to think it might be something from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Really heavy guitar and slightly out of tune at the end. What do you reckon.
If it does turn out to be RHCP, can i get back some points for the google incident?! This is all my own work!
desertdudeshj
No I don't think its the chilli peppers either its not kiedis's voice. I'll give you back the points once you find out what song it is. Deal ?
BlueOrb
Deal!
But what if i said the RHCP's donate a quarter of the budget for the whole Sea Shepherd/Save the Whales/Annoy the japanese thing? Just read it...
I'll keep looking.....
desertdudeshj
HAHA..I rock. Told you it sounded like brit pop. Its knights of cydonia by MUSE. Youtube it !
Sorry Blu no points for you this time
desertdudeshj
Oh and Google IS my friend. 8)
BlueOrb
I was going to say that too!! I youtubed it as well, but my connection here is appalling and got bored waiting for the tune to kick in to confirm.
I was going to say "I suspect you had a little help from my former friend google too?"....but i see you have already answered that!
desertdudeshj
Sorry Blu have to be faster than that to git dem points you knows ;)
BlueOrb
Try being fast with an Etisalat radio link carrying your internet......never mind. Maybe someone else has a tune bugging them and i can try again.....easier if you know it straight away rather than asking google, etc - i might stand a chance that way. :)
desertdudeshj
Why Radio link man, where do you live and isnt it expensive ?
BlueOrb
I'm at work....on an island that until last year was totally empty, so infrastructure, especially communications, were, and in this case still are, temporary at the moment (construction site). Some days it's Ok, but if too many people are logged on, and someone decides to transfer a lot of data, etc, the thing slows up like 56k!
Might be expensive, but i'm not paying!
desertdudeshj
Island as in crusoe or lost ...:D
BlueOrb
Bit like "Lost"...as i frequently wonder what the hell is going on and why am i still here? :D
M!
same bloody things are popin' up in my mind...... but lucky me i commute between 4th world here and Europe quite frequently ... the only thing which bothers you in Europe is the bloody weather.... as everything below 30 DEG is considered as an inhuman condition
so its like a vicious circle... once you are here you are bothered by stupidity/ incompetence/ characters in genral.... once you are there youre getting pissed by the weather and stupid prices for the petrol and cigarettes....
BlueOrb
Just re-read my last post. By "why am i still here" i meant with my own job and the cretins i have to work with sometimes. I didn't mean why am i still here in UAE. Just in case anyone was about to post an "...if you don't like it go home, westerner" type post! :)
For the record, I think it's great here, if a little frustrating sometimes with the issues we all know (and moan) about. But at the end of the day i'd rather be here......
M!
no worries Yani, we are on the same page it is shit 3th world it will always be shitty 3th world with the tendency to the 4th world and nothin ever gonna change, not the fake bling-bling and the hookers next to it ;)
sarcasm is just another service we are proud to offer :lol: :lol: :lol:
BlueOrb
I actually find the whole "more money than taste" thing great!
In the UK, outside of London, you're lucky to see a Porsche. Here, you see every car you could think of. And top-spec at that.
Got home last night to find a Maybach limo parked in my parking space, with the chauffeur polishing the windcreen. Honked my horn, made a "I'm parking there, so shift it mate!" sort of gesture, and he moved.
Fantastic, Made my day. That would only happen to me in Dubai!
M!
to you apperently YES.... :wink:
to others elsewhere may not... just with a little provocation doable... at least in my places
Funny the movement of this thread
Metaphor79
- BlueOrb wrote:
I actually find the whole "more money than taste" thing great!
In the UK, outside of London, you're lucky to see a Porsche. Here, you see every car you could think of. And top-spec at that.
Got home last night to find a Maybach limo parked in my parking space, with the chauffeur polishing the windcreen. Honked my horn, made a "I'm parking there, so shift it mate!" sort of gesture, and he moved.
Fantastic, Made my day. That would only happen to me in Dubai!
:D :D
desertdudeshj
- BlueOrb wrote:
I actually find the whole "more money than taste" thing great!
In the UK, outside of London, you're lucky to see a Porsche. Here, you see every car you could think of. And top-spec at that.
Got home last night to find a Maybach limo parked in my parking space, with the chauffeur polishing the windcreen. Honked my horn, made a "I'm parking there, so shift it mate!" sort of gesture, and he moved.
Fantastic, Made my day. That would only happen to me in Dubai!
Brilliant isnt it. I use to live in shj up until a month ago in a small building almost middle of town-Rolla. I would often seen bentleys, Porsches and Range Rovers parked in the dirt lot around my building.
Only in the UAE baby only in the UAE
BlueOrb
"Only in the UAE baby only in the UAE"
That somes it up perfectly.
Isn't it great!!!! :D
And yes, funny how the thread is going....maybe it will turn into a "Let's not moan about the UAE...some things are v.cool" thread....or perhaps not.
Your starter for 10 - How cool is it to hang around in 5 star hotels having a night out, every week, and NOT feel like you shouldn't really be there?!
Misery Called Life
- BlueOrb wrote:
I actually find the whole "more money than taste" thing great!
In the UK, outside of London, you're lucky to see a Porsche. Here, you see every car you could think of. And top-spec at that.
Got home last night to find a Maybach limo parked in my parking space, with the chauffeur polishing the windcreen. Honked my horn, made a "I'm parking there, so shift it mate!" sort of gesture, and he moved.
Fantastic, Made my day. That would only happen to me in Dubai!
Haa well a similar thing happened to me a couple of days back. I enter my parkin only to find a gleaming black bentley with a number plate 1 in my space. I suppose the plate was RAK or Ajman. There was nobody in the car no chaff, nobody. But that's ok, cuz I'm ain't calling the cops in for a one digit number plate. No problemo mate, I'll just back up and fine me another space.
I guess you can only smile when sumtin like that happens :D
BlueOrb
Nah, call the cops. Or block him in. What's the worst that could happen...........?
Second thoughts, yeah.......let him stay. Back up and park in the disabled spot :D
desertdudeshj
You need to find to find out who he was visiting in your building and make good friends with him/her LOL :D
Misery Called Life
- BlueOrb wrote:
Nah, call the cops. Or block him in. What's the worst that could happen...........?
Second thoughts, yeah.......let him stay. Back up and park in the disabled spot :D
C'mon dude that's asking for trouble.
It's like calling in the cops to move out the chief of police. :lol:
This time I chose better safe than sorry! :lol: