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on how dubai is basically a slave-built and slave maintained nation. i'd love to just see helicopters, fighter jets dropping bombs and SWAT teams and soldiers with m16's and armor piercing weapons going in there and shooting all the slave drivers and freeing the slaves, kicking out all of the westerners and letting the slaves have all the resources and land. i guess it's my inner-american speaking. |
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The water quality got worse and worse. The guests started to spot raw sewage, condoms, and used sanitary towels floating in the sea. So the hotel ordered its own water analyses from a professional company. "They told us it was full of fecal matter and bacteria 'too numerous to count'. I had to start telling guests not to go in the water, and since they'd come on a beach holiday, as you can imagine, they were pretty pissed off." She began to make angry posts on the expat discussion forums – and people began to figure out what was happening. Dubai had expanded so fast its sewage treatment facilities couldn't keep up. The sewage disposal trucks had to queue for three or four days at the treatment plants – so instead, they were simply drilling open the manholes and dumping the untreated sewage down them, so it flowed straight to the sea. wow. you might imagine what it's like running along the shore and jumping into a huge wave - and a turd collides with your face like an asteroid |
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At night, in the dusk, I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrape together what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits. They down it in one ferocious gulp. "It helps you to feel numb", Sohinal says through a stinging throat. In the distance, the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands, oblivious. that part really got to me... |
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Guys, people in different places live in different ways. It's all relative. You're just showing your prejudice and lack of self awarenes by criticizing a culture you don't understand. There are homeless people suffering and condoms floating in the water in America too. |
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^that's the exact statement the article is referencing as crap. 'you just don't understand; that's the culture here' not sure how you can call america's poor and homeless tantamount to what i just read in the article. hexane, nice seeing you again. |
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You big numpty, I was trying to preempt the cultural relativists by satirizing their likely response. Now you've taken the bait and it's all over. Everything is ashes. Bobby died of AIDS. Jim ODed. And Don is into vampirism. |
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theres not much to say about dubai except Piers Morgan likes it. |
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:) |
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firstly, do you really expect people on a message board dedicated to electronic music to instantly intuit that you are expressing an opinion that is actually counter to your own views? next time maybe try a little hyperbole or some other obvious device so we know where you're comin' from, should we be interested. secondly, numpty? fun fact: "origin of the species" is banned in the UAE. along with the gentle weed. coincidence? |
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I'm sorry, I keep forgetting that people here are a few VCOs short of a modular unit. |
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better, but still needs work. |
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You are a sinner. Do you like ice cream? |
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yes, we like it very much! i like chocolate chip cookie dough, without the chocolate chips. |
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You... you.... double sinner *shakes with rage* |
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I'm glad I wasn't wrong in my assumption that Elusive really is Frisbee Golf. Coming next, Monoid actually is that tiresome. |
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so......just out of curiosity, what exactly is supposed to be the bright side of Dubai? |
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it's pretty high |
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dubai is basically a slave-built and slave maintained nation. you never heard about the tomatoes harvested by beaten men and raped women that work from 5 am to 5 pm onto our very same slavery-free countries and that come right on our salads, right? |
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the builders of dubai are the world's best acrobats btw |
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*cough* |
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Italy, 2010 |
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Dubai is product of oil power and human misunderstanding of cultural values. |
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It's also very tacky. |
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Thats why I and other people, I think, dont even wonder about "slavery" in Dubai. |
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