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Anonymous
Tell me all that you know about Dubai. NOW!
>> Anonymous
i think the picture explains it all
>> Anonymous
Dubai facts:
-Made it rich off of oil
-Is actually one big hotel
-Build more Hotels
-Hotels?
-HOOOOOOOOOOTEEEEEEEEEEEEELS!!!!!!!!!!
-HOOOOOOOOOOTEEEEEEEEEEEEELS!!!!!!!!!!
>> Anonymous
anything else?
>> Anonymous
the arabs did wtc
>> Anonymous
>>6730
Did I mention Hotels?

Oh the Palm Islands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Islands

They have lots of hotels on them too
>> Anonymous
Dubai isn't a country, it's an office block

No culture, little nightlife, all tax havens, no unions, no old people (government kicks you out when you reach 55 or soemething close)

dubai is the resort-state you travel to when you don't really want to leave your western country
>> TonyK
Fake city with no culture at all :D
>> Anonymous
The manual labor was done by Indians. I mean them red dot Indians not them woo-woo Indians.
>> Anonymous
>>6725
>>6769
>>6774

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>> Anonymous
>>6722
It has the only 7-star hotel in the world and all sorts of other crazy infrastructure. Aren't they building and underwater hotel?
Also, every day: hot and sunny.
>> Anonymous
what if i were to, say, import a thousand tons of afghani heroin and distribute it to the locals.. would that create any sort of nightlife?
>> Anonymous
>>6789
>>6789

Only the kind where everybody is stealing everybody else's VCR
>> Anonymous
don't ever go there if you've even looked at drugs once in your lifetime.
>> Anonymous
>>6781

star rating system is perfectly meaningless beyond 5 stars

dubai builds a blimp hotel that can go anywhere in the world

OMG WORLD'S FIRST *EIGHT STAR* HOTEL ZOMGASM

unless seven stars means you get five big tittied blondes yanking at your belt buckle, it's an empty claim
>> Anonymous
>dubai is the resort-state you travel to when you don't really want to leave your western country
Dubai is a job you go to for twelve months then come back and buy a mansion.
>> Anonymous
>>6849
lol

Of course, they'd be wearing burkhas, make Saddam Hussein's corpse look telegenic by comparison, and weigh 150 kg each.
>> Anonymous
dubai is a place that all the maligned durka durkas can point to, to try and prove they're not culturally backwards.

but it doesn't much work.
>> Anonymous
>>6844
Seriously, listen to this man. If I remember the story right, a British man recently got thrown in jail because airport security found an amount of pot equal to less than a grain of sugar on the bottom of his shoe.
>> Anonymous
If you do go to Dubai, make sure any prescription drugs you have before aren't illegal there. Pain killers, sleeping pills etc. are all cause for being denied entry, jail etc.
>> Anonymous
Dubai- the only non-lethal muslim country
>> Anonymous
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A UK man was arrested while changing flights in Dubai.
He got 4 years in prison for having a piece of pot smaller than a grain of sugar in the threads of his shoes.
They use Electron Scanning machines to see what the chemical composition of you and your stuff is...and if it comes up with anything illegal justice is swift and merciless.

DON'T GO THERE ANON. Looking at 4chan in Dubai will get your ass killed.
>> Anonymous
Muslims are living in the year 600ad.

try and deny it, but if you ever visited or lived in the Middle East you know it is true.
>> Anonymous
>>7057
turkey says hi
>> Anonymous
>>7064
turkey isn't muslim, it's a secular country with a predominantly muslim population, nice try.
>> Anonymous
dubai is where you get gang raped and get AIDS.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1680682,00.html
>> Anonymous
>>7068
And even there you can get thrown in jail for petty ofenses or for things like "insulting Turkishness".

All muslim countries are shitholes. The only exception might be Lebanon.
>> Anonymous
>>7070
to go into jail for insulting turkishness, it needs to be published in paper etc, not to mention no one has actually gone to jail with that, but it aroused a lot of controversy when someone who was tried for that got killed by a retarded nationalist kid, and now it's getting removed.
>> Anonymous
>>7072
>only exception
>lebanon
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
>> Anonymous
>>7074
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7212452.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4535476.stm
>> Anonymous
>>7076
Orhan Pamuk did not recieve any sort of sentence, and the first refers to insulting ataturk, not turkishness - they are different things covered by different laws, the article is misleading.

Though I agree that is limiting, these aren't things you need to fucking worry over if you are a tourist or just someone who doesn't publish stuff.

Was there something else you wanted to fail on?
>> Anonymous
>>7078
Enjoy getting raped in jail for carrying as little as one gram of hashish. (And yes, it still happens today)
>> Anonymous
>>7080
why are you carrying around hasish?

besides I'm not sure about the legality, but no one gives a fuck about using marijuana etc. even though it's illegal, which I expect is the same with most countries.
>> Anonymous
dubai: towers over sand, camels and oil
>> Anonymous
I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THEIR 200-story Burj Dubai is built!
It will look sooooooo awesome getting blown up like the WTC.
Muslims can never have nice things.

Someone should do a 'shop with some planes hitting the Burj Dubai and a Lolcat saying "Oh Pleeze"
>> Dr. Slek !anDj5ae5Ow
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>>6725
>> Anonymous
>>6853
how do you pull that off?
>> Anonymous
>>6853
what kind of job teaching English or what?
>> Anonymous
>>7178
Extracting oil and then selling it to the US.
>> Anonymous
>>7059
I thought you were joking.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=512815&in_page_
id=1770&ito=1490

How the fuck can they give someone four years for something that could occur just from stepping in the wrong place?
>> Anonymous
>>7194
Muslims
>> Anonymous
>>7197
how is the lack of /n/ treating you?
>> Anonymous
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>>7194
>>Good on these authorities for actually enforcing the law of the land, I have no pity for the suspects and criminals whom they have caught, some ignorant, some stupid and some simply brazen. It seems that suspect "profiling" is alive, well and working effectively in some parts of the world.
>>It's a shame that our own establishment is so weak by comparison.
>>- Perfectly Fair, Edinburgh, Scotland

RRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEE
>> Anonymous
>>7188

Um.

Didn't Dubai start building up it's Tourism sector because they were almost OUT of oil? Are you thinking of Abu Dhabi, The Other Emirate?
>> Anonymous
>>8164
Oh my god...


The Middle East is going to turn into a giant Dubai when it runs out of oil and terrorists?
>> Anonymous
>>8167

Scary shit if you ask me, but Abu Dhabi says it has other plans, and Saudis are never going to be keen on having anything but Saudis in their land.

Further north? Who knows?

My point was that if you're moving to Dubai under pretenses of finding and selling oil, then I have a statue to sell you.
>> Anonymous
The government is controlled by Muslims, I wouldn't go there.
>> svenska
less than 6% of Duabi's GDP comes from oil, and they'll be out by 2020.
>> Anonymous
>>8174
exactly right, hence the water parks and shopping centres and hotels and gimmicky islands. using oil wealth to create a market for tourism to take over once the oil runs out.
>> Anonymous
>>7178
Actually yeah, that's one way. If you're degree-qualified and have like at least three years' experience in TESOL, you can start off on something like US$130,000 a year.
>> Anonymous
>>8271

>create a market for tourism

Who the FUCK wants to go to Dubai for a vacation?
>> Anonymous
>>8319
mmm vacation, no. 3day stopover, very yes.
>> Anonymous
I stayed for a while, it was okay.

A mass of shopping malls with no people in them, and hot hot weather.

Don't think I'll go back.
>> Anonymous
place is an investment hub; it's sole purpose is to soak up global capital from other countries and cities also trying to soak it up (read: every post-industrial country and city there is)

the only reason people go there or do anything there is for finance
>> CapitalistBastard !!f/pELCnjRD0
>>8337

>the only reason people go there or do anything there is for finance

Islamic Finance, LOL.

You apparently don't know about Islam's prohibitions against "usury".
>> Anonymous
>>8338
hypocrisy? from religious people?

OMG ALERT THE PRESS! BREAKING NEWS WEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOO
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>> Anonymous
>>You apparently don't know about Islam's prohibitions against "usury".

an excellent idea. frankly i wish i could take advantage of islamic banking.
>> Anonymous
You know, that place interests me. I mean, mcdonaldish, repressive and all (see the houses on the Palm), but if someone said "ok, guys, we're gonna make that fishing sand town with vanishing oil into a world-class finance/mall hub in a fistful of years" I would lol a lot.
Except, that with Dubai, they did it.
>> Anonymous
>>8338
you know that stuff was forbidden for chrisfags too in the middle ages

that didn't stop them, did it?

in b4 jews
>> Anonymous
how are the hookers in dubai?
if theres so many hotels and business men going in and out every day there must be some good hookers.
>> Anonymous
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>WEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOO
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>> Anonymous
>>8629
OH GOD I LOLED