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Yesssssss!!!

Go waste more money arabs! As soon you run out of oil you will have to trade your stuff and sit in the sand at the market every day.
You will get used to that again!

i remember this

Ha. Was wondering if I have been sleep-posting since I didn't recognize the topic at all at first. First time that a spammer has revived my thread. Wonder how that project is going. Let's see if Google has anything to offer about it.

ed. Apparently no news.

Macbeth wrote:

I don't understand why wealthy Americans and Euros like Dubai so much. If I were rich, the middle east would the absolute last place I would want to visit let alone live.

i don't really know any euros that "like" dubai. it has a pretty bad + tacky rep here. although saying that i know plenty of posh european people with family connections and homes there. 21st century colonialism sorta thing.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

I don't understand why wealthy Americans and Euros like Dubai so much. If I were rich, the middle east would the absolute last place I would want to visit let alone live.

Whats the point of Las Vegas? Seems stupid to build a city in the middle of the desert.

I guess Dubai has nice hotels, guaranteed good weather at the right times and little crime.

At least in Vegas they aren't Islamic hardlines that throw people in prison for having a microscopic amount of pot on their shoe or for kissing in public.

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Whats the point of Las Vegas? Seems stupid to build a city in the middle of the desert.

I guess Dubai has nice hotels, guaranteed good weather at the right times and little crime.

At least in Vegas they aren't Islamic hardlines that throw people in prison for having a microscopic amount of pot on their shoe or for kissing in public.

at least you can drink and gamble. it's like macau, there's really nothing besides the casino's... you just end up being inside for the whole trip.

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

if you think the people with power/money in dubai are not smoking weed and doing cocaine in their private nightclubs, you are really delusional. that hot chick i had an on/off thing with whose (white) family are from dubai gets to go to the 'right' sort of clubs/events all the time. the young, rich, and beautiful will party as they want, no matter where they are. like repressive and prohibitive societies everywhere, generally the moralizing and harsh penalties are only meted out to the lower classes and disadvantaged. it's no different in america. macbeth for some reason prefers christian morality and black people being sent to jail for minor drug offences to dubai's islamic brand of inequality.

Uday Hussain got his fix of coke and booze and he doesnt afraid of anything (except for his papa).

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

uday was classic arabic decadence. the real classical motherfuckers get back on an opium thing. trying to make out these places are drug free zones is really silly. they have traditions stretching back thousands of years. my favourite is the popular myth about the hashashins.

smoke hash before riding into battle sounds like a good idea, most ANA soldiers are following their ancient heroes!

hashashin chant

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

At least in Vegas they aren't Islamic hardlines that throw people in prison for having a microscopic amount of pot on their shoe or for kissing in public.

That sign is like 20 years old. Medical marijuana is legal and easy to get in NV if you're a resident. Not prosecuted for if you're a tourist.

it's a movie still from 'fear and loathing in las vegas'. keep up ken.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

At least in Vegas they aren't Islamic hardlines that throw people in prison for having a microscopic amount of pot on their shoe or for kissing in public.

That sign is like 20 years old. Medical marijuana is legal and easy to get in NV if you're a resident. Not prosecuted for if you're a tourist.

20 years old and retarded.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Keep up to you trying to use a movie still as a retort to macbeth? Or you were just reminding us how good that movie was and there was no context for your post? Ok

no i was reminding him that dubai and islam aren't the only places to enforce ridiculous and draconian drug laws. 20 years ago in LV is not that long ago. and there are still many states in the US that have harsh penalties for pretty harmless possession. not to mention the legal apparatus that puts so many (nominally black) people in jail for the most minor counts of possession - three strikes rule, etc. it was meant to be a short visual signifier for the fact that america ain't the land of reasonability and moderation when it comes to drugs, either. dubai's islamism is america's prohibitive christian morality.

but thanks for being willfully obtuse, ken. you've been a wonderful audience for this dumbshit explanation. i've been your host! til next time...