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Arletta 03-11-2014 05:52 AM

Images of Dubai
 
What a place! I would love to go there some day.

http://www.weather.com/travel/images...fatni-20140220

herkhorse 03-11-2014 06:48 AM

I wouldn't go there if you paid me.

Danzig 03-11-2014 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by herkhorse (Post 969158)
I wouldn't go there if you paid me.

neither would i. all expenses paid, and per diem, i wouldn't go.

Alabama Stakes 03-11-2014 10:22 AM

They just started flying non stop to Dubai from Boston. I wonder what the marijuana laws are like over there ?

NoChanceToDance 04-01-2014 07:15 PM

It's an amazing place, well worth a visit (especially when the races are on). Just got back yesterday after another fantastic trip for a few days.

my miss storm cat 04-03-2014 09:49 AM

I'm in the Herkie and Danzig club. Wouldn't go if you paid me.

Alabama this might help to answer your question...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-amnesty.html

As far as what L posted (hey sistah :D )... the thing is any city looks great in longshots and lit up at night. To me, anyway. :)

my miss storm cat 04-04-2014 10:00 AM

Slaves of Dubai:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU

Arletta 04-04-2014 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat (Post 971846)

I had forgotten about this.. I have changed my mind about wanting to go. F*ck Dubai and their "City of Gold".

Thanks for bringing this back to my attention Gioia.

Alabama Stakes 04-04-2014 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat (Post 971758)
I'm in the Herkie and Danzig club. Wouldn't go if you paid me.

Alabama this might help to answer your question...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-amnesty.html

As far as what L posted (hey sistah :D )... the thing is any city looks great in longshots and lit up at night. To me, anyway. :)

**** that. I'll stick with Saratoga

Danzig 04-04-2014 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat (Post 971846)


watched a show about that damned place. it discussed the people that come there to make all this money they're promised...they jump at the chance to make a better life for themselves, and their families, since dubai knows full well that third world countries have lots of poor people to take advantage of.

they arrive, passport taken. money paid a fraction of what they were promised. they can't leave, because they have no money and no passport. they can't get help, because the govt doesn't care. it's disgusting. human trafficking on a grand scale....
and then there are the expats who move there, 'hire' household help, and brag about how great it is to have domestic help....that's paid a pittance, work for long hours, with no days off, beaten, abused and worse.

absolutely disgusting. you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.

Danzig 04-04-2014 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance (Post 971653)
It's an amazing place, well worth a visit (especially when the races are on). Just got back yesterday after another fantastic trip for a few days.

it is not an amazing place. it is hell on earth for many...

my miss storm cat 04-04-2014 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arletta (Post 971850)
I had forgotten about this.. I have changed my mind about wanting to go. F*ck Dubai and their "City of Gold".

Thanks for bringing this back to my attention Gioia.

I totally understand as I have obviously completely changed my views on this too. :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alabama Stakes (Post 971852)
**** that. I'll stick with Saratoga

:tro:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danzig (Post 971853)
watched a show about that damned place. it discussed the people that come there to make all this money they're promised...they jump at the chance to make a better life for themselves, and their families, since dubai knows full well that third world countries have lots of poor people to take advantage of.

they arrive, passport taken. money paid a fraction of what they were promised. they can't leave, because they have no money and no passport. they can't get help, because the govt doesn't care. it's disgusting. human trafficking on a grand scale....
and then there are the expats who move there, 'hire' household help, and brag about how great it is to have domestic help....that's paid a pittance, work for long hours, with no days off, beaten, abused and worse.

absolutely disgusting. you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.

:tro:
Quote:

Originally Posted by Danzig (Post 971854)
it is not an amazing place. it is hell on earth for many...

Yes. I feel stupid cause it took me so long to see this but it IS.

Those poor nameless and faceless people who are stuck there...

It's criminal.

my miss storm cat 04-26-2014 10:13 AM

:rolleyes:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/24/travel...lopment-dubai/

I guess this is what you can do when you have unlimited slave labor...


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