Anybody here like Dubai?

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12-12-2008, 02:37 PM
Slick

Anybody here like Dubai?

I foking hate Dubai. I'm sure there are some fans here, and I don't really care... I'm in UAE now and I have to go through here everytime I leave work, and stay for 1-2-3 days.

Airport sucks, people trying to cut you in all the god damn lines... You have to befend your position almost with violence. The Indian and whatever else nationality's stand WAY TOO FUCKING CLOSE and do not have ANY idea of personal space. I dont want to smell the breath of the guy behind me....

Hotels are REDICULOUSLY expensive, and try to fuck you everyway they can. Same with taxis.

Women/Prostitutes in the bars are fucking vultures and you cant even drink and relax. You are always swatting them away like flys. On top of that, they ask CRAZY prices. God it makes me laugh.

I just got a beer (Budwiser) from the hotel bar last night, and it was TEN FOKIN DOLLARS!!! What.... The.... Fuck....

The Hotel Internet connection Im using now is 20 god damn dollars per day!

End Rant, Thanks for reading, Have a nice day..
12-12-2008, 02:45 PM
MeMock

I never understand people that willingly go to places like Dubai for a holiday.

It is a desert! A city built for tourism not a place that was so beautiful people started to come and therefore grew into a city.
12-12-2008, 02:47 PM
Spin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slick

Airport sucks

You think so?

You ever been to the airport at Kuwait City?

Sharja?

Abu Dhabi?

You might think again. Especially Kuwait City.
12-12-2008, 02:50 PM
Texpat

I paid $10 for a can of Budweiser at a club in Tokyo 15 years ago. It was the cheapest thing they had.

Why do you stay there for 1-2-3 days? Doesn't your company pay a per diem based on local cost of living?
12-12-2008, 02:55 PM
Happyman

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slick

Airport sucks

You think so?

You ever been to the airport at Kuwait City?

Sharja?

Abu Dhabi?

You might think again. Especially Kuwait City.

Dubai was OK about 20 years ago when I used to work there !
Also Abu Dhabi - Centre Hotel in Sheik Hamdan Street had Blackthorn Cider on draft at about 1.5 gbp a pint - buy one get one free between 6 and 8 in the evening as well !
A pity things have changed .

:(:(:(:(:(
12-12-2008, 02:55 PM
Marmite the Dog

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spin

You ever been to the airport at Kuwait City?

Yep. Better than Heathrow.
12-12-2008, 02:59 PM
Slick

^^I got some friends that absolutely LOVE Dubai... All I can do is stare at them in utter amazement at there ignorance.

Oh, I got more complaints. I dont know about anyone else, but I get hasseld HARD by the customs/police pukes when I am going out of the airport. I have full sleeve tattoos on both arms, but I stay coverd when I exit the airport. Im also 25 years old. EVERY TIME I try to leave the Airport, I get picked out of the line and told to give them my passport. I have to go in some room off to the side and get a full search. I mean I have to take off my schoes, shirt, pants, EVERYTHING except my boxers. Then, when They see my tattoos, they start. They look in EVERYTHING I have. I mean EVERYTHING! Every pair of pants in my bag, every pocket of everything. Man, its very FUCKING uncomfortable standing in some room with 2 arab guys (one in a police outfit, and the other in the traditional white dress) in my boxers. What the Fuck?!?!?!??! Finally after about 1-1.5 hours of this shit they give me my passport and let me go... Cigarette is soo good after a Trans-Atlantic flight and a full search by Dubai Customs. Bastards...
12-12-2008, 03:04 PM
Slick

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slick

Airport sucks

You think so?

You ever been to the airport at Kuwait City?

Sharja?

Abu Dhabi?

You might think again. Especially Kuwait City.

Yeap I think so. I worked in Basra Iraq, and have to go through Kuwait sometimes. I NEVER get shit like I do in the Dubai Airport.

[QUOTE]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Texpat

I paid $10 for a can of Budweiser at a club in Tokyo 15 years ago. It was the cheapest thing they had.

Why do you stay there for 1-2-3 days? Doesn't your company pay a per diem based on local cost of living?

Yeah they pay for the hotel and food, but beers and taxis are on me. When I fly out of Iraq, I have to stay in Dubai for a day or 2 and wait for my commercial flight. and its the same on the way back. I have to sit here and wait for the Charter to Bagdad.
12-12-2008, 03:06 PM
Rural Surin

Isn't that where Michael Jackson ran off to?
12-12-2008, 03:10 PM
Slick

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slick

Airport sucks

You think so?

You ever been to the airport at Kuwait City?

Sharja?

Abu Dhabi?

You might think again. Especially Kuwait City.

Wtf Sharja has an airport? Abu Dhabi has an airport? Sharja is even more boring than Dubai... No hotel bars...
12-12-2008, 03:16 PM
MeMock

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spin

You ever been to the airport at Kuwait City?

Yep. Better than Heathrow.

Happy birthday Marmers.
12-12-2008, 03:20 PM
Fabian

Quote:

Isn't that where Michael Jackson ran off to?

What, Baghdad?
12-12-2008, 03:22 PM
Fabian

Quote:

Originally Posted by MeMock

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spin

You ever been to the airport at Kuwait City?

Yep. Better than Heathrow.

Happy birthday Marmers.

Is that true? Happy birthday!
12-12-2008, 03:23 PM
Spin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slick

Wtf Sharja has an airport? Abu Dhabi has an airport? Sharja is even more boring than Dubai... No hotel bars...

I'm just talking about airports here. I'm not interested in the cities or whether I can get a beer or a blowjob.

Dubai airport has possibly the best duty free in the world. Its a busy airport, lots of people sleeping rough in the public areas. Its not ideal but i'd rather be holed up there for 4 hours than that Kuwait.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Yep. Better than Heathrow.

Quite bizzare, I wonder if there actually two airports in Kuwait city and i have been to the shit hole and you to a spangly new one?:)
12-12-2008, 03:26 PM
Rural Surin

Happy B-day Marms!!!!:)
12-12-2008, 03:31 PM
Marmite the Dog

Quote:

Originally Posted by MeMock

Happy birthday Marmers.

Are you stalking me?
12-12-2008, 03:32 PM
Marmite the Dog

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fabian

Is that true?

No. Bugger off.
12-12-2008, 03:34 PM
keda

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slick

I foking hate Dubai. I'm sure there are some fans here, and I don't really care... I'm in UAE now and I have to go through here everytime I leave work, and stay for 1-2-3 days.

Airport sucks, people trying to cut you in all the god damn lines... You have to befend your position almost with violence. The Indian and whatever else nationality's stand WAY TOO FUCKING CLOSE and do not have ANY idea of personal space. I dont want to smell the breath of the guy behind me....

Hotels are REDICULOUSLY expensive, and try to fuck you everyway they can. Same with taxis.

Women/Prostitutes in the bars are fucking vultures and you cant even drink and relax. You are always swatting them away like flys. On top of that, they ask CRAZY prices. God it makes me laugh.

I just got a beer (Budwiser) from the hotel bar last night, and it was TEN FOKIN DOLLARS!!! What.... The.... Fuck....

The Hotel Internet connection Im using now is 20 god damn dollars per day!

End Rant, Thanks for reading, Have a nice day..

Sorry to hear about your trauma...try paying in Zimbabwean $ and with a few thousand real $ you could buy the country.
12-12-2008, 03:34 PM
Slick

[quote=Spin;874752]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slick

Wtf Sharja has an airport? Abu Dhabi has an airport? Sharja is even more boring than Dubai... No hotel bars...

Quote:

I'm just talking about airports here. I'm not interested in the cities or whether I can get a beer or a blowjob.

Well, everybody is different... I dont give a shit about a blowjob, but a beer I want after 4 months in IQ. Just sayin, You cant even have a beer and enjoy it cause if all the buzzards in the bar...

Quote:

Dubai airport has possibly the best duty free in the world. Its a busy airport, lots of people sleeping rough in the public areas. Its not ideal but i'd rather be holed up there for 4 hours than that Kuwait.

Agreed, Dubai have a great Duty Free, but I dont really care about shopping and carrying more shit than I already have.
12-12-2008, 04:01 PM
Mr Pot

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spin

You ever been to the airport at Kuwait City?

I still have nightmares about that shithole - Amman wasn't much better either
12-12-2008, 04:14 PM
kingwilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by MeMock

Happy birthday Marmers.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Quote: Originally Posted by Fabian Is that true? No. Bugger off.

yup, tis true.

Happy birthday Marmers. ya grumpy old git
12-12-2008, 04:27 PM
MeMock

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Quote:

Originally Posted by MeMock

Happy birthday Marmers.

Are you stalking me?

If I say yes do I get a week in the slammer?
12-12-2008, 04:54 PM
sabang

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Isn't that where Michael Jackson ran off to?

Thats Bahrein.

Been to Dubai maybe five times. I didn't mind the place, and was jealous of their fuel burning gas guzzlers and dirt cheap petrol- but HK, where I lived, was much more my style.
12-12-2008, 07:13 PM
BalconiesR4drinkinon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slick

^^I got some friends that absolutely LOVE Dubai... All I can do is stare at them in utter amazement at there ignorance.

Oh, I got more complaints. I dont know about anyone else, but I get hasseld HARD by the customs/police pukes when I am going out of the airport. I have full sleeve tattoos on both arms, but I stay coverd when I exit the airport. Im also 25 years old. EVERY TIME I try to leave the Airport, I get picked out of the line and told to give them my passport. I have to go in some room off to the side and get a full search. I mean I have to take off my schoes, shirt, pants, EVERYTHING except my boxers. Then, when They see my tattoos, they start. They look in EVERYTHING I have. I mean EVERYTHING! Every pair of pants in my bag, every pocket of everything. Man, its very FUCKING uncomfortable standing in some room with 2 arab guys (one in a police outfit, and the other in the traditional white dress) in my boxers. What the Fuck?!?!?!??! Finally after about 1-1.5 hours of this shit they give me my passport and let me go... Cigarette is soo good after a Trans-Atlantic flight and a full search by Dubai Customs. Bastards...

Why what's your tattoos of?
12-12-2008, 07:36 PM
panama hat

The airport is great, the city excellent for that part of the world etc . . . I'm surprised you're complaining after working in Iraq.

Dubai was part of my patch (EMEA) when I was based in Paris and it certainly was the best place around the territory aside from Seth Efrika. You should try Lagos, Cairo, Nairobi etc . . .

Can't share your dislike
12-12-2008, 08:43 PM
Slick

Quote:

Originally Posted by BalconiesR4drinkinon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slick

^^I got some friends that absolutely LOVE Dubai... All I can do is stare at them in utter amazement at there ignorance.

Oh, I got more complaints. I dont know about anyone else, but I get hasseld HARD by the customs/police pukes when I am going out of the airport. I have full sleeve tattoos on both arms, but I stay coverd when I exit the airport. Im also 25 years old. EVERY TIME I try to leave the Airport, I get picked out of the line and told to give them my passport. I have to go in some room off to the side and get a full search. I mean I have to take off my schoes, shirt, pants, EVERYTHING except my boxers. Then, when They see my tattoos, they start. They look in EVERYTHING I have. I mean EVERYTHING! Every pair of pants in my bag, every pocket of everything. Man, its very FUCKING uncomfortable standing in some room with 2 arab guys (one in a police outfit, and the other in the traditional white dress) in my boxers. What the Fuck?!?!?!??! Finally after about 1-1.5 hours of this shit they give me my passport and let me go... Cigarette is soo good after a Trans-Atlantic flight and a full search by Dubai Customs. Bastards...

Why what's your tattoos of?

Nothing bad really, I just have alot and I guess I look like a "suspect"... Cause as soon as I take off my shirt, they go into overdrive and really start searching everything.

https://teakdoor.com/images/smilies1/You_Rock_Emoticon.gif
12-12-2008, 08:51 PM
Slick

Quote:

Originally Posted by panama hat

The airport is great, the city excellent for that part of the world etc . . . I'm surprised you're complaining after working in Iraq.

Dubai was part of my patch (EMEA) when I was based in Paris and it certainly was the best place around the territory aside from Seth Efrika. You should try Lagos, Cairo, Nairobi etc . . .

Can't share your dislike

To each their own. I just really hate paying X10 the normal value for anything, then add to that the customs crap. I just really dont enjoy it... Nothing really special about the place what so ever...
12-12-2008, 09:05 PM
jandajoy

Slick, if you're so pissed off with your life, change it. Stop fokin whinging like a child and do some thing about it. You're 25. Trust me, it's going to get worse. Adapt and improvise, mate.

Or shut the fuck up.
12-12-2008, 09:16 PM
Slick

Quote:

Originally Posted by jandajoy

Slick, if you're so pissed off with your life, change it. Stop fokin whinging like a child and do some thing about it. You're 25. Trust me, it's going to get worse. Adapt and improvise, mate.

Or shut the fuck up.

Im not your mate, mate.

Whining <--- correct spelling.

Have a nice day :mid:
12-12-2008, 09:20 PM
jandajoy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slick

Im not your mate, mate. Whining <--- correct spelling. Have a nice day

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
12-12-2008, 09:25 PM
Slick

^^ :)
12-12-2008, 10:02 PM
Larn

A friend going in through Heathrow the other week was stopped and questioned by some type of anti terror cops. First time in years he’d been stopped entering the UK.

They wanted to know why he’d been in the Middle East and why he was arriving in the UK. They said he fitted a profile, youngish, fit etc they were looking for.

Dubai may be doing the same, no need to get your knickers in a twist. Personally I don’t mind transiting through Dubai.
12-12-2008, 10:53 PM
EmperorTud

Quote:

Originally Posted by Larn

They said he fitted a profile, youngish, fit etc they were looking for.

White? British? Christian?
12-12-2008, 11:05 PM
Gallowspole

Quote:

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Quote:

Originally Posted by Larn

They said he fitted a profile, youngish, fit etc they were looking for.

White? British? Christian?

Where? Entering England? You're kidding, aren't you?
12-12-2008, 11:44 PM
Larn

Yepp it was the UK at Heathrow.

He was telling us about it a couple of days ago when he got back from holidays. He couldn’t believe it. He’s not the type to exaggerate. I’ve known him for nearly 20 years working in the Middle East.

White born and bred Brit male traveling alone, clean cut, fit, early 40’s into boxing. He flies home for holidays 3 or 4 times a year as he’s done for as long as I’ve known him. He’s never had customs problems. And a christian.

They pulled him aside, held him for a while, quizzed him, went through all his clothes and baggage, told him he was pulled as he fitted the profile they were looking for and then let him go.
13-12-2008, 01:06 AM
Deck Ape

I got "profiled" a few years ago by immigration at LAX. The Bushies :yerman: were trying to bust sex tourists. Two cops pulled me into a back room and started asking me a bunch of shit. . "did you sleep with any prostitutes while you were in Thailand?" Why heavens no.... what makes you ask?

Took them almost three hours to look at my laptop and all my bootleg movies. The assholes wouldn't believe I'm married and live on a goddamn farm!
13-12-2008, 05:04 AM
attaboy

I bet the customs agents are gay.

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