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Old Sep 3rd 2010, 5:27 am
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Default Re: Don't give out your mobile number!

Originally Posted by Big Jake
C'mon.. The "men" on FaceBook are self-absorbed nerds who think that the rest of us care about what they're doing every 3 minutes. It's nothin but a bunch of attention starved "guys" screaming "look at me... look at me!" all day long, and they've somehow convinced themselves that their lives are infinitely interesting. It's incredibly vain, and Vanity is a very feminine trait.

In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own attractiveness to others

It's great for women though.. A preening female is attractive, while a preening male is nothing short of disgusting.. And if I told my friends to "catch up with me on Facebook", they'd laugh, and then when they discovered I was serious, they'd all gang up and kick the dog Sh@# out of me.

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Old Sep 3rd 2010, 6:57 am
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Default Re: Don't give out your mobile number!

Originally Posted by Big Jake
C'mon.. The "men" on FaceBook are self-absorbed nerds who think that the rest of us care about what they're doing every 3 minutes. It's nothin but a bunch of attention starved "guys" screaming "look at me... look at me!" all day long, and they've somehow convinced themselves that their lives are infinitely interesting. It's incredibly vain, and Vanity is a very feminine trait.

In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own attractiveness to others

It's great for women though.. A preening female is attractive, while a preening male is nothing short of disgusting.. And if I told my friends to "catch up with me on Facebook", they'd laugh, and then when they discovered I was serious, they'd all gang up and kick the dog Sh@# out of me.


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Jeez, you sound like a complete dickhead. Your 'friends' should kick the shite out of you for that. Also sounds as if you've never actually looked on Facebook - the site you describe is nothing like the one I know.
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Default Re: Don't give out your mobile number!

Originally Posted by Big Jake
C'mon.. The "men" on FaceBook are self-absorbed nerds who think that the rest of us care about what they're doing every 3 minutes. It's nothin but a bunch of attention starved "guys" screaming "look at me... look at me!" all day long, and they've somehow convinced themselves that their lives are infinitely interesting. It's incredibly vain, and Vanity is a very feminine trait.

In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own attractiveness to others

It's great for women though.. A preening female is attractive, while a preening male is nothing short of disgusting.. And if I told my friends to "catch up with me on Facebook", they'd laugh, and then when they discovered I was serious, they'd all gang up and kick the dog Sh@# out of me.


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You haven't got any friends have you, therefore negating the need for Facebook.....
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Old Sep 3rd 2010, 9:56 pm
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Default Re: Don't give out your mobile number!

Originally Posted by Big Jake
Your ears are lying to you.

It's just that I don't do MySpace, my brothers don't do it, my father doesn't do it, my sons don't do it, my extended family doesn't do it, our dogs don't do it, my friends don't do it, in fact no males I know do it. Thats where i'm coming from.

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150 million men out there would disagree with you.
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Originally Posted by Avarice
understandable but if someones going to live in a place like this they need to understand the (frequently ridiculous) UAE law and process. U leave a note on a local womans car after following her home your playing with fire...
To be honest I would question the intelligence and social awareness of any man who follows a woman home and pins a note to her car regardless of the country.

My girlfriend was followed two days straight as she walked from the mall to her friend's house in AD...blacked out windows of course and a dodgy looking bloke who kept winding down his windows to stare at her. I don't get it, she was wearing jeans and a long t-shirt on both occassions....do these men have anything close to a proper upbringing that includes basic respect for people's, and especially women's privacy?
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Old Sep 9th 2010, 4:22 pm
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Default Re: Don't give out your mobile number!

Originally Posted by Norm_uk
To be honest I would question the intelligence and social awareness of any man who follows a woman home and pins a note to her car regardless of the country.

My girlfriend was followed two days straight as she walked from the mall to her friend's house in AD...blacked out windows of course and a dodgy looking bloke who kept winding down his windows to stare at her. I don't get it, she was wearing jeans and a long t-shirt on both occassions....do these men have anything close to a proper upbringing that includes basic respect for people's, and especially women's privacy?
yeah this kinda thing has always been happenin since i came in 2000 guys circling the block and coming back round for a look again n again etc, its disgusting, was it abu dhabi mall by any chance? this used to happen to my ex everytime she left work at ad mall a few years ago she actually confrontyted them once and needless to say it was a waste of time.....
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Old Sep 9th 2010, 10:46 pm
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Default Re: Don't give out your mobile number!

Originally Posted by Avarice
yeah this kinda thing has always been happenin since i came in 2000 guys circling the block and coming back round for a look again n again etc, its disgusting, was it abu dhabi mall by any chance? this used to happen to my ex everytime she left work at ad mall a few years ago she actually confrontyted them once and needless to say it was a waste of time.....
It was indeed outside Abu Dhabi mall...

I don't think the police are any good here in these matters. Given women get harassed and raped all the time then prosecuted for things like sex outside marriage (just thinking about this makes my blood boil) while the offenders often get light and meaningless sentances.

Not the best place for a young woman unless she's escorted everywhere (which is what I pretty much have to do for my gf now as even waiting for a taxi outside the mall seems to be an invitation for harassment...must be those baggy jeans - they do show a lot of ankle )

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For a woman anyway, coming here is like going halfway back to the stone ages. They never know when some local is going to grab them by the hair and drag them into their cave.
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Default Re: Don't give out your mobile number!

Originally Posted by Loaf n Jug
For a woman anyway, coming here is like going halfway back to the stone ages. They never know when some local is going to grab them by the hair and drag them into their cave.
Having said that I do believe there is a small percentage of western women that actually like that
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Old Sep 10th 2010, 5:42 pm
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Bullcrap

Try making a scene and telling the police that a guy has been following you etc.

He won't be doing it again for a loooong trime.
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Old Sep 12th 2010, 4:34 am
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Default Re: Don't give out your mobile number!

Originally Posted by mission
I may not agree with every word 'Big' Jake wrote but I still wanted to Karma his spiwit ... and I find there are no posts to Karma ... c'mon Big Jake post something innocuous so I can

Now, excuse me, I need to twitter what my latest stools looked like.
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Old Sep 12th 2010, 9:10 am
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Default Re: Don't give out your mobile number!

Originally Posted by Loaf n Jug
Having said that I do believe there is a small percentage of western women that actually like that
Indeed but that would be within a consensual environment...I very much doubt any woman, western or otherwise likes being harassed by complete strangers when engaged in every day activities like walking to the mall or doing the grocery shopping.

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Old Sep 12th 2010, 10:44 am
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Originally Posted by Arlington Park
My wifes a blonde so arab guys would just drool over her...They never seen anything like her. Thats why i'd never bring her here
Strange, you don't come over as the caring sort.
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Old Sep 12th 2010, 12:52 pm
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Originally Posted by Arlington Park
My wifes a blonde so arab guys would just drool over her...They never seen anything like her. Thats why i'd never bring her here
Exactly- there are no blonde arabs
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