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Dubai is in some ways like a huge-ass vegas, in terms of excess and indoors attractions.

It's expensive to fly there (from the US) and stay in a decent place, but worth a trip to look around, while it lasts.

How dare you call Texas tacky, good sir. BALDERDASH and POPPYCOCK!

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If you, or anyone you know, goes to Dubai don't hold hands or get raped.

Woman goes to jail for having sex--because she was raped.
http://www.kippreport.com/2010/01/dubai-sex-and-the-law/?bnr=

Warning to Brits going to Dubai.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1271718/Dont-drink-sex-dance-Dubai-travel-advice-list-Brits-jail.html

Boise, you would love this hair raising article about Dubai:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html

There is something really wrong about Dubai. Too much money. It screams greed, inequality and exploitation. I wouldn't go there even if I could. The sea will reclaim the Islands, the buildings will return to the sand. I look forward to it.

>> ^Jinx:

There is something really wrong about Dubai. Too much money. It screams greed, inequality and exploitation. I wouldn't go there even if I could. The sea will reclaim the Islands, the buildings will return to the sand. I look forward to it.


Replace the word "Dubai" with "The US" and you're now speaking for pretty much the rest of the world...

>> ^garmachi:

>> ^Jinx:
There is something really wrong about Dubai. Too much money. It screams greed, inequality and exploitation. I wouldn't go there even if I could. The sea will reclaim the Islands, the buildings will return to the sand. I look forward to it.

Replace the word "Dubai" with "The US" and you're now speaking for pretty much the rest of the world...


Yeah but in our defense we don't use slavery to build our extravagant buildings.

Like the US Capital and the White House?>> ^Yogi:

>> ^garmachi:
>> ^Jinx:
There is something really wrong about Dubai. Too much money. It screams greed, inequality and exploitation. I wouldn't go there even if I could. The sea will reclaim the Islands, the buildings will return to the sand. I look forward to it.

Replace the word "Dubai" with "The US" and you're now speaking for pretty much the rest of the world...

Yeah but in our defense we don't use slavery to build our extravagant buildings.

Oh, SNAP!

I think what I find especialy repulsive about such places is that they have no humility. Its a giant phallus of a city, where wealth and power is flaunted as if it were something sacred. There is no shame in Dubai.

I've only been to San Antonio in the States. It wasn't too bad tbh, I certainly expected much worse from Texas. The US has its problems, but its far from the worst. I felt more discomfort in Mexico driving out of gated community into basically a slum 15 minutes down the road, or spending a month in Mexico City after a couple of Months in the south close to Guatemala.

>> ^longde:

Like the US Capital and the White House?>> ^Yogi:
>> ^garmachi:
>> ^Jinx:
There is something really wrong about Dubai. Too much money. It screams greed, inequality and exploitation. I wouldn't go there even if I could. The sea will reclaim the Islands, the buildings will return to the sand. I look forward to it.

Replace the word "Dubai" with "The US" and you're now speaking for pretty much the rest of the world...

Yeah but in our defense we don't use slavery to build our extravagant buildings.



Well again in Dubai this has happened not that long ago.

>> ^Jinx:

I think what I find especialy repulsive about such places is that they have no humility. Its a giant phallus of a city, where wealth and power is flaunted as if it were something sacred. There is no shame in Dubai.
I've only been to San Antonio in the States. It wasn't too bad tbh, I certainly expected much worse from Texas. The US has its problems, but its far from the worst. I felt more discomfort in Mexico driving out of gated community into basically a slum 15 minutes down the road, or spending a month in Mexico City after a couple of Months in the south close to Guatemala.


I told a friend about driving through Texas and looking over across the border at little shack villages and such. He told me that they build those there on purpose to make us feel sorry for them. Yeah...yeah I know.

Despite their wealth, Dubai's academic test scores are far lower than Europe and Asia.

Once the oil runs out, they won't be able to pay other people to run their country any more.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^garmachi:
>> ^Jinx:
There is something really wrong about Dubai. Too much money. It screams greed, inequality and exploitation. I wouldn't go there even if I could. The sea will reclaim the Islands, the buildings will return to the sand. I look forward to it.

Replace the word "Dubai" with "The US" and you're now speaking for pretty much the rest of the world...

Yeah but in our defense we don't use slavery to build our extravagant buildings... ANYMORE.


Fixed that for ya...

Dubai made me intensely uncomfortable while I was there.