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Well, if your father is reasonably wealthy and his love interest isn't fickle, then sometimes this kind of marriage works out and ends up happily ever after & I've seen it happen. The man has a trophy wife and the girl gets her social status raised. I think your father needs to get legal advice ...

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I don't know if this affects any members. If you do have a car that you want to scrap, you need to know what it's worth so you know how much to ask for. I got rid of an old fiat coupe recently that I didn't think was worth fixing. I have no idea what a scrap car is worth. I called a guy who left his...

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I had a drama with Du actually when they transfered my internet connection to a different address then wouldn't fix it because they said their operations department didn't have a work order to transfer it back. It took about 20 phone calls to get that straightened out. Logic and courtesy doesn't see...

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There are two sure things in life - death and taxes. You don't have to be a productive member of society to pay taxes.

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Let me qualify by saying that picking the currency markets is very difficult and if I could do it accurately, I'd be rich beyond imagination (which I'm not). A useful indicator to what currencies are doing in the future (probably the most important indicator) is the relative interest rates between t...

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I think a lot of people would like to see Bert and Ernie get married. Even in open minded Western countries most homosexuals feel the need to hide their orientation and lead secret lives as society just doesn't accept their orientation. It's not going to happen as Sesame St is too conservative for t...

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Do the authorities hand women over to their relatives for punishment?

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When you say Natural Gas, presumably you mean LPG (ie comes in cylinders) as very few places have natural gas connected in this country. I think you will find that LPG and electricity are both cheaper in Dubai than in most places. I think it costs about 80AED to get a cylinder delivered to my home. ...

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Yes it's probably a central tank.

DEWA meter your electricity and water and charge for consumption - so you will save a little money if you turn off stuff when you're not using it.

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I have known narcissistic people over my life. Their defining trait is that they love attention but have no empathy for others. It means nothing to betray someone's trust or cause someone pain. They usually don't enjoy the suffering they cause others, they simply don't care. These people aren't all ...

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I have known Muslims who take magic very seriously, particularly when I was in South East Asia. Some believed that performing magicians were in league with the devil.

When I came to Dubai I was surprised to see a magician performing in a shopping mall. I guess they are ok with that here.

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And Blue Shift what you are most probably talking about is Black Magic. I guess it would be the Subcontinetal equivalent of African and Caribbean Voodo. Yeah, there are mystics in every corner of the Subcontinent who are offering all kinds of supernatural services. But even in this enlightened age,...

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What difference does it make if they charge per piece or per bag? Why is giving you a rate per piece a deal breaker for you? I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but laundry services normally charge 1AED to clean a pair of socks. If you go there with an odd number of socks in your laundry bag, t...

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Shafique, you are asserting your freedom of conscience but this freedom is not guaranteed. The idea that scriptures are symbolic rather than literal is a very old idea. Trouble is that if scriptures are not literally true, that is another way of saying they are false and that upsets some people. I d...

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There are a million reasons why a man would not want to have sex with a woman. Who knows - better discuss it with him.

It seems unlikely that it's about race. It could be he has commitment issues. Having an affair with a married women is a relationship with a built in expiry.

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So Shafique is saying why should it matter if he believes in talking ants or not as there is no code of moral behaviour that derives from the literal truth of the existence of talking ants. So nobody says, "I'm going to do some act because ants spoke, but if ants never spoke I'd do something di...

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That would probably depend on whether it was still running and could pass a roadworthy inspection.

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The deadline has had a few false starts. I remember about a year ago, a colleague of mine couldn't register his car in Abu Dhabi because they insisted that he had to have an ID card, but they reversed that policy as soon as they brought it in. That was really bad luck on his part that he wanted to r...

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There are some real maniacs on the road here. It seems that almost everyone who lives here long enough has someone try to run them off the road or else deliberatly collide with them. I find it bizzare that if someone intentionally puts other peoples lives in danger, and someone else flips them off, ...

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This just underscores the importance of avoiding confrontations with locals. There seem to be a few locals like UAE kid who would love to pick a fight with a foreigner then expect the legal system to protect them.

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That's pretty tall. It must be hard to find women who meet all those requirements.

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The reality may not be so simple. He maintains he didn't commit plagiarism. quote: 'It's clearly not plagiarism or churnalism – but was it an error in another way? Yes' http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/29/johann-hari-apologises-interview-quotes. The way he describes it, he mixed in quotes fr...

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There are all kinds of people in the world.

Most people don't get pleasure from seeing another person in trouble, but some do.

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Looks like a total beat up to me.

They don't have gloves or head protection because they are grappling, not boxing. I did something similar when I joined a judo club as a kid.

Of course you have to read the whole article to get the facts.

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Judo is also a free form combat sport which kids can compete in. I expect you dislike combat sports in general BM. That's nothing unusual some people find combat sports distasteful. I dislike bullying in any form. I don't want my kids to bully other kids and I don't want them to be bullied either. C...

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Who buys physical gold in this day and age?
You can invest in derivatives with leveraged returns and you don't need to buy a safe to keep it in.

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It sure seems dangerous. When ever I see a car drifting out of it's lane, it's a good bet the driver is on the phone.

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Bora Bora wrote:Talking about massages, when I was driving home the other day (Al Qasis area) I saw a shop sign:

Gang Massage.

The idea of a gang massage creates certain images.

I wonder what they really mean.

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I would never consider renting a car in Dubai again. There are to many crooked operators and scams by rental agents. There may be some honest ones out there, but there are some major crooks as well who seem to operate with impunity. Just take taxis everywhere which might even be cheaper than a renta...

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ok I get it now, mg per 100 ml. The units had me confused.

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