Images of Dubai

[Arletta]

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

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

[herkhorse]

I wouldn't go there if you paid me.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by herkhorse

I wouldn't go there if you paid me.

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

[Alabama Stakes]

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

[NoChanceToDance]

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]

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 )... the thing is any city looks great in longshots and lit up at night. To me, anyway.

[my miss storm cat]

Slaves of Dubai:

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

[Arletta]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Slaves of Dubai:

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

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]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

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 )... the thing is any city looks great in longshots and lit up at night. To me, anyway.

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

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Slaves of Dubai:

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

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]

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

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]

Originally Posted by Arletta

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.

Originally Posted by Alabama Stakes

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

Originally Posted by Danzig

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.

Originally Posted by Danzig

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]

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

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