I've got to say that for me New York is one of the truly great cities of the world. The first time of visiting I found it a jaw-dropping exprience, the buzz of the place. It is a city with so much to see and do and an awesome sight on the eye but more than that it has a soul and character about it t...
I just knew a dirty-minded Brit would be the first to jump in and state what everyone else was probably thinking but didn't want to type in... and the smart money was defo on arnie to lead the way !
On my visits to New York the one thing I have always felt is safe. High-visibility policing and zero tolerance seem to work. Of course it has warts, doesn't any city, but the place has so much style and such a buzz about it that the wow factor grips most people who visit. As a bloke, you don't get a...
Any cases of abuse are appalling and it is right that when it does occur each is investigated and the guilty punished - which is what has happened with very public trials. However, the biggest tragedy in Iraq now is the daily slaughter of muslims by fellow muslim in the terrible pursuit of trying to...
The fact that Lionheart praises insurgents - who have killed many muslim men, women and children indiscriminately as well as troops of various nationalities and hacked off the heads of hostages - speaks volumes about his warped views. These people use terror against locals trying to go about their d...
Well, Michael Owen today got the all-clear so there's some hope. Rooney could still play some part... if he's a quick healer! So don't go writing off the three lions just yet.
Why? Sorry, but I just don't understand this. It's surely better to judge individuals on their merit and not whether they follow a particular creed. To me it just seems narrow-minded to shun a member of your own family because they happen to fall for someone outside of their own religion. A little t...
And the thing is these same blokes who think it's OK to harass women would be threatening to cut the nuts off any man who behaved in this way to females within their family circles. It's all about respect or rather lack of it.
There are a fair number of single young females in Dubai but they fall into two categories: 1 Those with a price on the heel of their shoes (altho the authorities like to pretend they don't actually exist because they don't feel it puts a very positive spin on Dubai). 2 Young professional women who ...
I read that once again Dubai's exploited, improverished army of workers has been taking action. Last Wednesday 2,500 construction workers smashed buses and windows in the Marina area demanding higher wages and better conditions. The response of a Labour Affairs official was interesting, telling them...
I really wouldn't have expected anyone to interpret "intrepid, tough, independent, free spirit sorts who have high standards" as being derogatory towards women. Quite the opposite in fact.
DK, don't you go leaving me in the middle of this... I think we're moving onto facials, pedicures, shoes and handbags next and I don't want to be left here on my own. All this was said by me in a very deep gruff voice, I might add
Cuddling, yes I'm talking about cuddling. Now let me say I do agree that people should respect others and their culture and behave with respect in another land but I nearly choked on my coffee to read a long comment piece in the Emirates Toady which covered a quarter of a page about how shocking it ...
What I find about Dubai is not may people refer to it with what I would call real affection. They like the opportunities and the lifestyle under the sun (for part of the year) but there doesn't seem to be a great deal of genuine warmth for the place. The words "fake" and "bubble"...
I'm going to try to do a right-througher.... which basically means watching a part - or all - of every game, whether live or in highlights. To do this I will need two things: 1 Matchsticks for the eyes 2 Some really inventive excuses for a few sickies from work. Some of the excuses I've come up with...
Sorry but I just don't believe Choco knows her 4-4-2 from her 007 :D . She obviously hasn't met a really classy, suave bloke who'd treat her to a Wagon Wheel, cold pork pie and a Bovril with a bag of cheese n onion crisps thrown in for good measure during half-time at the match. We footie types real...
Ahh Choco... the beach Speedo brigade :D ... I reckon if you ever had the misfortune of closer inspection you'd probably find that all the lunchbox comprised was a couple of shrivelled up old grapes and a tiny stick of limp celery :D Made me laugh altho I think you forgot to throw builder's bum into...
Sorry but when the action starts the real women will be nibbling on Nobby's nuts and carefully adjusting and checking the temperature gauge on the lager cooler :D . The clubs and bars without a screen will be filled with those blokes with the cauliflower ears, bust-up noses and odd shaped balls :D.
I'm afraid that like so many of the discussions between some of the strict followers of Islam and those who are not, it's a case of never the twain shall meet. Quite honestly I could read the Quran a thousand times and study Islam till the cows came home but I don't think I could ever get to grips w...
If I had my way these mobile phone sickos would be having to seek medical treatment themselves.... to extricate their camera phones from a rather delicate place. Ghouls is the word.
I don't know whether this has occured to anyone else at all. But if this is true, then perhaps all this would have been the very last thing he would have wanted. When someone suffers from cancer they tend to think of themselves as the "cancer patient" and others think of them as the "...