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£15million launch party for the opening of £1.5billion Hotel Atlantis in Dubai.

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gantz85

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Darklord said:
Yeah. They should have stayed a dust bowl mining oil until it ran out and the whole country went bankrupt. What they did was smart. Made an ultra luxury holiday location where they will get billion and billions from tourism.

By the way, the hotels there are so good they are 7 star, not 5.:lol

How are hotel stars given out though? Is there some sort of agreement what grants an extra star?
 

Kola

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Darklord said:
Yeah. They should have stayed a dust bowl mining oil until it ran out and the whole country went bankrupt. What they did was smart. Made an ultra luxury holiday location where they will get billion and billions from tourism.

Doesn't change the fact that the way they use their money is disgusting. In the neighbouring states people are dying of hunger and those Dubians are spending millions on fireworks.
 

GCX

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Darklord said:
Yeah. They should have stayed a dust bowl mining oil until it ran out and the whole country went bankrupt. What they did was smart. Made an ultra luxury holiday location where they will get billion and billions from tourism.
Yeah, what a fantastic strategy! Let's forget all those poor unimportant people that die in hunger and spend country's whole budget to fund a tourist resort!
 

marwan

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perfectchaos007 said:
Then after the warning it's lashes and jail time if you get caught again. At least thats how it is in Kuwait. Same thing goes with alcohol posession. If you are caught with alcohol at ANY time, you get lashes. Americans love their booze.


you said it, Kuwait is NOT UAE and alcohol is legal in the UAE unlike kuwait or saudi. and no they don't lash you in the UAE, every country there is different, just because it's the same region doesn't mean the same rules apply to all countries. Alcohol is even allowed during ramadan in the UAE(unfortunately).

you can buy alcohol from super markets(alcohol has it's own section), or even a drive-thru sort of places and you can order alcohol drinks in restaurants and hotels.

know your stuff before posting dear!
 

jax (old)

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dubai and the middle east is a monetary sinkhole that is only going to ruin the world. The desert and oceans will reclaim the land back from this fake economy when the oil runs out.
 

jorma

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perfectchaos007 said:
Then after the warning it's lashes and jail time if you get caught again. At least thats how it is in Kuwait. Same thing goes with alcohol posession. If you are caught with alcohol at ANY time, you get lashes. Americans love their booze.

Yea. Also, if you are a tourist in the US you are likely to be kidnapped or extorted by the police. At least that's how it is in Mexico City!
 

Prine

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speculawyer said:
You can have sex on the beach . . . and then get thrown in jail.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27201467/

If your having sex on the beach where kids freely walk by you should be thrown into Prison. Have some self control and find a room. Respect the laws of the country.

But wait, people that have never visited the place talk like they live there!

Jax said:
dubai and the middle east is a monetary sinkhole that is only going to ruin the world. The desert and oceans will reclaim the land back from this fake economy when the oil runs out.

Look at your own government and your own country before moving onto others. Especially of you talk about ruining the world.
 
Kola said:
Doesn't change the fact that the way they use their money is disgusting. In the neighbouring states people are dying of hunger and those Dubians are spending millions on fireworks.

Dont forget the poor people in Dubai itself. Lots of the imported workers from asia and africa are poor and are treated like dirt and forced to live in overcrowded shacks.

The World never see's where these guys live though...

when you see Sheik Muhammed bin Rashid Al Makhtoum spending $500m on race horses it makes you say WTF!!. He spends $500m on damn race horses while in palestine, Chechyna, africa etc people are struggling to eat.

I know that Dubai does send money help the poor but at the same time when you see the millions it spends on luxary it just annoys me.
 

demon

I don't mean to alarm you but you have dogs on your face
The whole city just reeks of empty luxury to me. They can throw as much money at the place as they want, it still won't change the fact that it's a cultural wasteland with no history in the middle of the fucking desert. There are a million places in the world where I want to visit, and none of them are because they have brand new 7-star hotels and the most expensive skyscrapers the world has ever seen.
 

Prine

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kobashi100 said:
Dont forget the poor people in Dubai itself. Lots of the imported workers from asia and africa are poor and are treated like dirt and forced to live in overcrowded shacks.

The World never see's where these guys live though...

This unfortunately true :( Though they are taking steps to improve that.
 

Roi

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Darklord said:
Yeah. They should have stayed a dust bowl mining oil until it ran out and the whole country went bankrupt. What they did was smart. Made an ultra luxury holiday location where they will get billion and billions from tourism.

By the way, the hotels there are so good they are 7 star, not 5.:lol

That doesn't exist.
 

Darklord

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Kola said:
Doesn't change the fact that the way they use their money is disgusting. In the neighbouring states people are dying of hunger and those Dubians are spending millions on fireworks.

It's there money. Why do they have to help other countries who they aren't even allies with and probably wouldn't even use it on there people anyway? Who will they give millions to? Iran? Yeah, great they'd spend it on weapons. Saudi Arabia? Ultra rich already. Oman? Well enough off. Qatar? Rich again.

Saying they should give money away is a load of shit. Might as well ask America instead of bailing out another bank for $25 BILLION, why not give it to a 3rd world country?

UAE give money, you can't expect them to stop all events because of it.

Roi said:
That doesn't exist.

It does. Several hotels there are 7 star.
 

GCX

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Darklord said:
It's there money. Why do they have to help other countries who they aren't even allies with and probably wouldn't even use it on there people anyway? Who will they give millions to? Iran? Yeah, great they'd spend it on weapons. Saudi Arabia? Ultra rich already. Oman? Well enough off. Qatar? Rich again.
He's talking about states, not countries. Dubai is just one of the 7 states/emirates of UAE.
 

phalestine

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Darklord said:
It does. Several hotels there are 7 star.

Are you sure? I think there is only one 7 star hotel in the world ATM, I know there are some under construction in china, india, Iran and Pakistan.
 

Darklord

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iby.h said:
Are you sure? I think there is only one 7 star hotel in the world ATM, I know there are some under construction in china, india, Iran and Pakistan.

I'm pretty sure there are several. My parents are going there next year and have a hotel guide book.

He's talking about states, not countries. Dubai is just one of the 7 states/emirates of UAE.

Most, if not all of the UAE states are crazy rich. One of them is even building a spaceport.

What should be said is, rather than spending that on fireworks why not put it towards better laborers wages but you know, that's the way things are. It won't change from one firework display.

ChrisGoldstein said:
All that cool shit they got there and you can't even have fun, what's the point.

There's not even prostitution?

A British guy was was jailed for four years after they found 0.003g of weed on his shoe...
 

Rocksteady33

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Who cares about culture if the place is fun. Jesus, some of you need to lighten up. Does Vegas have culture? No but people go there because it's a fucking blast to just let loose for awhile and have fun in a place you can't find anywhere else in the world. Maybe Dubai is trying to do the same thing? I don't go to Florida to go look at the culture, I go for the beaches the bitches and the booze, probably the same reason I'd go here.
 
Rocksteady33 said:
Who cares about culture if the place is fun. Jesus, some of you need to lighten up. Does Vegas have culture? No but people go there because it's a fucking blast to just let loose for awhile and have fun in a place you can't find anywhere else in the world. Maybe Dubai is trying to do the same thing? I don't go to Florida to go look at the culture, I go for the beaches the bitches and the booze, probably the same reason I'd go here.

The difference being that Las Vegas is American.
 
I like what is going on in Dubai. Its a visual architectural playground.

South Koreans are taking on construction of a city from the ground up. Not the same scale as Dubai but still pretty crazy, and yes they are doing in on dredged land much like the palms.

http://www.songdo.com/
 

Manager

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Zilch said:
When non-Americans look at the USA, is this sort of excess what they see?

In what? Weight problems? Carbon-dioxide waste? Naive politicians?
Not infrastructure right? :lol

Also if I remember it correctly, Kylie Minogue got £2.5m of those moneys for a one-hour concert.
 

black_13

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Man the amount of sheer jealousy just over flows in this thread. Just because they are out doing every other city in the world and aren't located in America or Europe.

Your talking about poor people in the neighboring countries? Since when did any goverment care about those? And how is different from the shit you buy that's made it China? You refuse to pay high prices and child labours in China are getting 20cents a day because of that. Dont complain about Dubia then.

In 10 years it'll be the number one travel destination and place to live, but of course probably most of you complaining won't even be able to afford to go there in the first place so you'll just stick to your wrong facts and how its got no culture. Give me a break.
 
Rocksteady33 said:
Who cares about culture if the place is fun. Jesus, some of you need to lighten up. Does Vegas have culture? No but people go there because it's a fucking blast to just let loose for awhile and have fun in a place you can't find anywhere else in the world. Maybe Dubai is trying to do the same thing? I don't go to Florida to go look at the culture, I go for the beaches the bitches and the booze, probably the same reason I'd go here.
Beaches aside, you're shit out of luck if you want that stuff in Dubai.

Also, let's not forget what's funding all of the new buildings in Dubai and that's money from the oil they sell to the rest of the world (the USA especially).
 

YakiSOBA

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How come suicide terrorists don't attack Dubai? Isn't that one of the things they are against, how wasteful American's splurge cash on what seems like useless things to the terrorists?
 

marwan

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black_13 said:
Man the amount of sheer jealousy just over flows in this thread. Just because they are out doing every other city in the world and aren't located in America or Europe.

Your talking about poor people in the neighboring countries? Since when did any goverment care about those? And how is different from the shit you buy that's made it China? You refuse to pay high prices and child labours in China are getting 20cents a day because of that. Dont complain about Dubia then.

In 10 years it'll be the number one travel destination and place to live, but of course probably most of you complaining won't even be able to afford to go there in the first place so you'll just stick to your wrong facts and how its got no culture. Give me a break.

thank you very much!

and regarding that fucking moron having sex on beach in Dubai....HE NEED TO GO TO JAIL! that's like saying fuck you to the entire culture of the country and disobeying the law! give me one country where you can have sex in public? in the U.S or U.K your ass would end up fined or jailed! gimme a break!

if you don't like Dubai THEN DON'T GO THERE, CUZ THEY DON'T NEED PEOPLE LIKE YOU THERE TO BEGIN WITH!!! I SUGGEST YOU GO BACK TO YOUR TRAILER AND EAT BAKED BEANS AND EGGS INSTEAD!
 

Atrus

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I'd point out that the major crime the British couple was sentenced for was sex outside marriage rather than their indecent behaviour offense. One charge is acceptable, the other is not.

That being said, Dubai should be given credit for trying to elevate itself from other self-destructive nations in the region and to try and build for itself a post-oil economy. Not that it isn't a country with its own issues, but at least it is and wants to be a part of the civilized world than many others steeped in fundamentalism.
 

Baraka in the White House

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Atrus said:
I'd point out that the major crime the British couple was sentenced for was sex outside marriage rather than their indecent behaviour offense. One charge is acceptable, the other is not.

That being said, Dubai should be given credit for trying to elevate itself from other self-destructive nations in the region and to try and build for itself a post-oil economy. Not that it isn't a country with its own issues, but at least it's is and wants to be a part of the civilized world than many others steeped in fundamentalism.

This is the best way to look at it. I'd much rather have Dubai splurge on stupid shit than investing that considerable fortune in trying to kill the rest of us.
 

marwan

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Atrus said:
I'd point out that the major crime the British couple was sentenced for was sex outside marriage rather than their indecent behaviour offense. One charge is acceptable, the other is not.
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wrong. they had sex on the beach and were warned several times till the police caught them...then somehow they got married. i read this in he newspaper and a British colleague of mine at work told me the same thing.
 
Warm Machine said:
I like what is going on in Dubai. Its a visual architectural playground.

South Koreans are taking on construction of a city from the ground up. Not the same scale as Dubai but still pretty crazy, and yes they are doing in on dredged land much like the palms.

http://www.songdo.com/
That website is just frighteningly eerie. It would be weird living in a city developed/ manufactured by a corporation.
 

Atrus

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marwan said:
wrong. they had sex on the beach and were warned several times till the police caught them...then somehow they got married. i read this in he newspaper and a British colleague of mine at work told me the same thing.

They 'somehow got married' to avoid the charge of having sex outside of marriage. It's one of the things they tried to get that charge dropped on. They were too intoxicated and not of sound mind, she had a mental breakdown, they were actually quickly married prior to that etc. It's part of the legal strategies they employed.

They were charged with three offenses. Public drunkeness, public indecency and sex outside of marriage. The last is what they were staunchly trying to avoid.
 
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