Random Chat 8

OK, who is number 2?

I love double standards when it benefits me. I hate it when it benefits

- leftists
- LGBTs
- other foreigners
- NATO
- Jewish dual loyalists
- BLM
- Antifa
- Enemies of Israel
- pseudo-intellectuals
- abortion and trans freaks
- open-border morons

I will update this list later...

Yes, we know you are a bit chaotic.Don`t worry. All geniuses are.

One more time...

I love double standards when it benefits me. I hate it when it benefits others.

Dealing with clowns, morons, and leftist is so exhausting...

Women are simply stupid...If they had any brains they would not cry when the guy wants a prenup. That tells the guy that he hit a 10.



Millionaire Tells Gold Digger Girlfriend She Has To Sign A Prenup

I think The Arab Gulf Royalties would be second on the list, but id never live there!

The United Arab Emirates. Nice, but stressful; Dubai makes Manhattan feel like a village.

No it doesn't.

I just hope I don't get murderer in Poland, I hope it's safe out there I go to nightclubs and bars and smoke week i seek peace

It does. Have you been to Dubai?


Murder rates are very low.

Nightclubs generally are best avoided though.

Are they still building skyscrapers like mad? I have zero desire to w, but I'd like to fly into it at low altitude. I imagine it's pretty trippy to venture across miles upon miles of barren brown desert then all of a sudden come upon this vibrant jungle of skyscrapers.

Like crazy. Doha too.


The airport is in the city so you circle over it and get a view. From above is the best way to see the Palm Island which at ground level is just houses, a mall and a monorail.


It is. If you go to Al Ain (a desert city belonging to Abu Dhabi which has the best driving road in the world, snaking up a mountain) and arrive by car in Dubai, it's a shock. The coast is all smaller Emirates, some not very developed. Most have been majority Indian for 290 years.

The best bits of Dubai are away from the skyscrapers. Burh Dubai which is India but cleaner and Al Rigga which is the Philippines have a bit more character. It still feels swish to sip cocktails on a 50th floor rooftop bar with all the towers on one side and the lights on the Iranian coast twinkling on the other.

It's a shopping paradise/hell with several vast malls that have all the gimmicks. Worth seeing just for the experience.

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It doesn't


It doesn't and no, as I am a proud racist.
Well not really as I have a colored t.v. in my living room.

The first pic is Dubai Marina, a few miles down the main drag. I took that on Christmas Day a few years ago while I was waiting for a work visa for so where. The second one is from a nice bar taken during happy hour. You can see the Burj Khalifa from there.

Nice pics.

I might have to revise my level of desire to visit. I hear westerners go just to shop. Seems weird to me. Are prices significantly cheaper or is it just a status thing to say "yes, I bought this in Dubai"?

how do I become fruitful and multiply?

They do. The January sales are marketed as 'Dubai shopping festival'. Usually full of Dutch, Scandis and Germans in January.


A bit of both. More the three or four humongous malls that appeal to compulsive shoppers. I'm not sure if the prices are much cheaper (though there are some Gulf specific chains which are pretty good). For the fake designer stuff you need to go to the Indian districts.

It's mostly winter sun and cheap blingy luxury in the hotels that people go for. Mostly affluent boomers. It's a relatively easy place to be once you come to terms with the scale of it (took me about 20 or so visits plus a couple of long stays and most people there just for a weekend never really do). Most visitors (unless they've booked the wrong hotel) just stay in the same few square miles near the big road in the pic.

The russians there (there's seriously lots) tend to stay in the cheaper and seedier bits which at least have some character.

but the population in Duabi is stupid, I'd never live there

Mitosis or meiosis. You choose.

@jon357

Someday, I might just go to experience the spectacle (for lack of better term) of it.

It's worth it just to see.

There's a dark side though.

At first it's nice being waited on hand and foot, people in uniforms holding open doors for you, however they all share bits of partitioned off rooms and are doing it to send money back to their kids in Manila or Addis Ababa that they never get to see. They probably despise the tourists and rich expats.

And the russian mafia and not so discreet high class prostitution are both depressing too.


Which bit of the population?

@jon357

A one-day visit sounds about enough. I don't like being waited on hand and foot-I'd probably tip them not to wait on me. 😀

@AntV
They do fuss over you.

The Indian restaurants in the non-touristy bits are worth it. There are two types. One is more for Indian families (they do fuss over you a bit and the food is amazing and cheap compared to Europe) and the other type is where single men with good jobs go to eat their meals. I used to eat at one like that in Doha. About 3 or 4 dollars for the curry of the day (no choice), another dollar for unlimited second helpings and Indian bread included in the price. A bit dearer in Dubai but only a bit.

Plus they have a lot of American chain restaurants that you don't see in Europe, like Applebees etc. Probably not exotic if you're from there but interesting to go once if you're not. I used to like a burger place called Hardees which I think is a chain in America.

@jon357

No kidding, they have Applebee's and Hardee's. I ate many a Hardee's cheesburgers as a youngster-they were cheap but good.

My OH came to visit when I was there. I took him to an African nightclub (definitely not on the tourist trail) to hear the live Afrobeat music. We were the only white person there and prostitutes kept writing their name and phone number on bits of paper and throwing them at us.

We also went to a russian mafia restaurant hidden in a hotel. You were supposed to pay about 50 dollars for a buffet but the water was a Ukie so we could talk to him and just had a couple of drinks and watched the floor show. Professional dancers, costume changes, quite fancy. There was just us and a table of obvious gangsters and their molls there.

I assume the dancers were tipped heavily (or shagged by) the mafia since the cover charge for the buffet couldn't have covered the cost of the show.

@jon357

I think my desire to visit has tanked - it's back to zero. 😀

Interesting for those interested in such stuff:

Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in the Hebrew Bible, have finally been identified, a scholar says.

livescience.com/archaeology/long-lost-assyrian-military-camp-devastated-by-the-angel-of-the-lord-finally-found-scientist-claims

I was just telling you about Ashurbanipal III, recently!

Yes you were! I had you (and a couple others) in mind when I posted the link.

@AntV

What you posted about, is especially interesting.

Most people have this part of the history wrong.

They think that Israel and Judaea were friendly with each other, when in fact one had called the Assyrians to destroy the other.

Further, many earlier historians held to an interpretation, where the Assyrian punitive expedition was not entirely successful. Now, we know that it was, and for many years afterwards they paid tribute in thanks.

Apologies, I confused Sargon II and Sennacherib.