Can last person out of Dubai switch of the lights ?
Can last person out of Dubai switch of the lights ?
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Exige77

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6,523 posts

220 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/mar...

Seems from this article many people are just driving to the airport, leaving (abandoning) their car by the terminal and just flying home.

Bizzare !

Any one here have experience of this ?

Ex77

Martial Arts Man

6,703 posts

215 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Exige77 said:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/mar...

Seems from this article many people are just driving to the airport, leaving (abandoning) their car by the terminal and just flying home.

Bizzare !

Any one here have experience of this ?

Ex77
I couldn't believe this when I read it.......crazy huh!

Whilst on the subject, I wonder who funded that Piers Morgan Dubai love-in on tv the other week....??

Steamer

14,172 posts

242 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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LINK said:
Some had used-to-the-limit credit cards in the glove box. Others had notes of apology attached to the windscreen.
....the apology letter bit tickled me... "sorry I'm a greedy fk - off to do some more spending elsewhere..."

okgo

42,071 posts

227 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Mad indeed..

I should think we will get asterix along soon with the inside view..Not good though!

whitechief

4,432 posts

224 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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This story has been done before, except last time it was Ireland....

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-natio...

Eric Mc

125,606 posts

294 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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What are the differences between the financial situation in Ireland and Iceland?


















One letter and six months.

Nobody You Know

8,422 posts

222 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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I know I should be sympathetic and not gloat, I also realise that some Brit's people have lost everythinhg over there......

.....but really, fk the UAE, fk Dubai. The country has contributed nothing to the world except oil and they do that through a cartel. bks to them.

collateral

7,238 posts

247 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Free Mercs with the keys left in y'say?

scratchchin

Negative Creep

26,041 posts

256 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Oh dear, and my sister is moving out there in August!

Romanymagic

3,298 posts

248 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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collateral said:
Free Mercs with the keys left in y'say?

scratchchin
It's a new park and ride scheme evidently!

Eric Mc

125,606 posts

294 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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It;s the Dubai equivalent of Amsterdam's free bike scheme.

pano amo

814 posts

265 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Nobody You Know said:
I know I should be sympathetic and not gloat, I also realise that some Brit's people have lost everythinhg over there......

.....but really, fk the UAE, fk Dubai. The country has contributed nothing to the world except oil and they do that through a cartel. bks to them.
Yea fk em! But for me its more about the excessive excess of the place and the sheer arrogance of it all. To me its just a blingers paradise.

ianash

3,286 posts

212 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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collateral said:
Free Mercs with the keys left in y'say?

scratchchin
They chop of your hand for stealing and your visa for fornication.

Edited by ianash on Wednesday 11th February 17:42

R5GTTGAZ

7,897 posts

249 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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ianash said:
collateral said:
Free Mercs with the keys left in y'say?

scratchchin
They chop of your hand for stealing.
Free automatic Merc with the keys in y'say?

Marquis_Rex

7,377 posts

268 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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Negative Creep said:
Oh dear, and my sister is moving out there in August!
Is she in the market for a cheap car?
idea

Apparently she wont need to even rent from the airport laugh

MK4 Slowride

10,028 posts

237 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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R5GTTGAZ said:
ianash said:
collateral said:
Free Mercs with the keys left in y'say?

scratchchin
They chop of your hand for stealing.
Free automatic Merc with the keys in y'say?
Yeah I know shame isn't it. Now if they were BMW auto's with the keys in a 6 cylinders+ I. AM. THERE. DUDES.

Snoggledog

9,253 posts

246 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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bks... And there was me looking for work out there!

elster

17,517 posts

239 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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It is a shame they can't be made accountable for the huge debts they have run up. Scumbags.

Fittster

20,120 posts

242 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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ianash said:
collateral said:
Free Mercs with the keys left in y'say?

scratchchin
They chop of your hand for stealing.
So make sure you steal an automatic.

Hmm, I missed the wagon for this joke by some time by the looks of it

Edited by Fittster on Wednesday 11th February 17:50

ianash

3,286 posts

212 months

Wednesday 11th February 2009
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elster said:
It is a shame they can't be made accountable for the huge debts they have run up. Scumbags.
This is beginning to sound like a banking thread, God help us.