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After all it's your own kind who is abusing thoses labors not locals. and the new labor minister is doing all he can to improve his depatment and to thoses who dosent read the news paper he SETS in the customers services deskt TWIS a week to look into thoses problems HIM SELF and SOLVE it in the sp...

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Is the Jumeirah Beach Hotel big enough for Coisty these days?

Some size the last I saw him!

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First it was about how the country was "bleeding" money to the tune of 21 billion of some currency a year from people too many to count. Stick with the big picture, mate. UAE's no pauper. The $21bn is from the whole GCC, so the UAE's share is probably say about 20% of that. Yup, the count...

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The one place Dubai doesn't have (unless someone can tell me differently - pleeeaaassse!) - Abercrombie and Fitch.

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OK, coming from a country in which it pours it down most of the time it's been a shock to me as to just how bad driving in the rain is here. I know it's normally sunny 364 days of the year, but it's still no excuse for the utterely pathetic driving I've seen when it rains here. Having watched some m...

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Welcome to driving in Dubai. Hazard lights are the best, but, I ranted about this a while ago when we had fog, however, after looking at the FAQ's on Abu Dhabi police website, they actually tell you to put your hazard lights on! WTF. Yes, that was the other part of genius this morning, people drivi...

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It's very little to do with disposable cash. Disposable cash is only useful for a stock market to sustain stock prices above what they are worth - as happened last year. The reason the stock market hasn't recovered to last year's levels is that the stocks weren't worth that much. Stocks are prices e...

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Good timing, I came across this document a week or so ago researching something else

http://www.dhcc.ae/Admin/Content/File/C ... 006_II.pdf

Answers a lot of the questions you have above.

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I also got married but had been engaged for 4 years so about time some would say! I think as long as you put everything (rent, bills etc.) in your name it will largely go unnoticed for such a short space of time. The only issue would be that your girlfriend would have to come on her own work visa wh...

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In the UK, the PC morons have gone bananas. I even read a story in a UK tabloid called 'Ding Dong Merriyl Dubai' where they pointed out that people can celebrate Christmas in public and openly even in the UAE. Whereas in the UK all public christmas displays are being banned, even religious christma...

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I don't want American soldiers to die out of cruelty, or because they're all bad people who deserve it (which, maybe they are and do) I want them to die so they can't kill any Iraqi soldiers, guerrillas or civilians. I voted for I condemn coalition soldiers and want them to get their asses kicked b...

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It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. Therein lies the problems in of American democracy, b...

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Yes you can board too.

As for differences, not surprisingly, doing any sport when it's hot is extremely exhausting, and doing indoor sport is always in air conditioning so you also end up really dehydrated.

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Edit: I'll rewrite later, too much idiocy on here.

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I think what he might be trying to say is that unjust wars in oil rich states may be OK if the invading soldiers are a bit of alright

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Cricket = no (say goodbye to ashes) football = no rugby = no tennis = no movies = no cuisine = no good lookin wemen = no (name one) good lookin men = no (name one) economy = no (USA lend them money) military = no (they USA lap dog) scientist = no (name one) tourism = no england number one = in noth...

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Deniz always has great posts. However this theme, I don't like. IMHO Women should NOT be in the armed forces - war is the loathsome, unfortunate domain of men - women shouldn't have any place in it (except in rare circumstances like special operations of certain militant groups..) Female soldiers d...

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Scot, you don't get it do you? Iraq is refusing to be the colony of the US/UK. So why don't they take their oil and leave? Oh, but they're not there for the oil, they're there to spread democracy (hahaha). Well guess what? The democratic consensus says: Invaders Go Home. We don't want them to be a ...

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[quote="freza"]scot, The reality is that Iraqi on Iraqi bloodshed of this magnitude would not be happening if it weren't for the foreign invasion. [quote] Right now, no it wouldn't be the same. But the point is it would have come to a head at some point, whether when Saddam died or through...

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I was working with a well known real estate developer a few weeks back and they showed me a dossier of projects being built and yet to be announced. There was literally 500 photos of the model mock ups which are shown here, they have armies of Chinese workers building these models exactly to scale. ...

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I was working with a well known real estate developer a few weeks back and they showed me a dossier of projects being built and yet to be announced. There was literally 500 photos of the model mock ups which are shown here, they have armies of Chinese workers building these models exactly to scale....

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Balls, left the washing out

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Bleakus He is the richest bastard in Sweden who doesn't like foreigns and used to have a nazi background once in his life time, and he doesn't have so nice attitude towards labour issues, but then again; which capitalist does? =D Yeah, of course, cheap labour working in non-capitalist countries has...

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Thankyou England (and all the other nations who contribute to your cricket team), you've made my day.

All London bar staff should be given the day off to celebrate

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In all fairness, their are risks to be taken, and its not being to chicken for the roads, their is a fine line of safety and stupidity. The problem here is you have too many different cultural driving, from india/pakistani/emirates/lebanese/filipinos, bring there home driving here, it doesnt mix we...

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sauron wrote:My favourite is a gym called "Fatness Centre'' in Ras al Kheimah.

There's a "Butt Sweet House" in Abu Dhabi.

I thought that kind of thing was illegal here!!

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The only unanswered question is what triggered the big bang in the very first nanosecond. Various religions lay claim knowing the answer, scientists are working ever closer back to the moment and will probably disprove many religious theories in the future. Everything else from that moment can be ex...

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I think some of you guys can't tell the difference between England and the UK. Besides the Scots, Irish and Welsh all have far bigger chips on their shoulders. Saucer of milk for Chocoholic?? :cat: :toothy7: The UK as a whole has contributed significantly to this world through science, culture and ...

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Yes the UK has contributed to global endeavour. But the Scots, Welsh and Irish fought and got their own Governments, isn't about time the English had the same right? I mean the other 3 countries are busy going off and doing their own thing, why shouldn't we. We have our own parliaments but not full...

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Agree, you can get more for an investment company but depends what level you're at. 17k equates to say about 2400 pounds a month, your rent will take 1000 of that, your school fees another 400-500. Not a lot left! Bear in mind also that, depending what your wife does and wants to do out here, she ma...

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