British Expats - Dry Night

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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)

- The Sand Pit (https://britishexpats.com/forum/sand-pit-116/)

- - Dry Night (https://britishexpats.com/forum/sand-pit-116/dry-night-695858/)

lionheart

Dec 5th 2010 6:21 am

Dry Night

As many of you will be aware, alcohol will not be served on Monday night in most UAE hotel bars. Drinking resumes at 6.30pm Tuesday apparently.

kittycat1

Dec 5th 2010 7:28 am

Re: Dry Night

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! sobs

NorthernLad

Dec 5th 2010 7:37 am

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Originally Posted by lionheart (Post 9021814)

As many of you will be aware, alcohol will not be served on Monday night in most UAE hotel bars. Drinking resumes at 6.30pm Tuesday apparently.

I thought it was only dry for religious holidays?

MataHari

Dec 5th 2010 9:58 am

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Originally Posted by NorthernLad (Post 9021898)

I thought it was only dry for religious holidays?

Islamic New Year sounds pretty religious...
anyway, it's dry for sure...

Jim Smith

Dec 5th 2010 10:05 am

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Originally Posted by NorthernLad (Post 9021898)

I thought it was only dry for religious holidays?

Islamic New Year is always a dry night!!

NorthernLad

Dec 5th 2010 10:05 am

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Originally Posted by MataHari (Post 9022062)

Islamic New Year sounds pretty religious...
anyway, it's dry for sure...

Why does it sound religious? All it marks is the start of the New Year in a calendar.

Blue Cat

Dec 5th 2010 10:06 am

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bit hippocritical considering they change the day of New Year and everyone will be back in work anyway :rolleyes:

kittycat1

Dec 5th 2010 10:07 am

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So baring in mind that tomorrow night is a nogo where's good tonight? I have a girlfriend over and we need to let our hair down!

MataHari

Dec 5th 2010 10:15 am

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Originally Posted by NorthernLad (Post 9022076)

Why does it sound religious? All it marks is the start of the New Year in a calendar.

cause it's called ISLAMIC New Year....or am I missing something here?

MataHari

Dec 5th 2010 10:16 am

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Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 9022077)

bit hippocritical considering they change the day of New Year and everyone will be back in work anyway :rolleyes:

they didn't change the New Year, they only changed the day off...the New Year is still on the Tuesday...

Blue Cat

Dec 5th 2010 10:19 am

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Originally Posted by MataHari (Post 9022097)

they didn't change the New Year, they only changed the day off...the New Year is still on the Tuesday...

and everyone is working so hardly a celebration :)

MataHari

Dec 5th 2010 10:26 am

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Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 9022102)

and everyone is working so hardly a celebration :)

well I am guessing they 'celebrated' this weekend, my point was that they have not actually moved the start of the New Year forward as such, so the rule of the dry night is still in place...

NorthernLad

Dec 5th 2010 10:27 am

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Originally Posted by MataHari (Post 9022096)

cause it's called ISLAMIC New Year....or am I missing something here?

Maybe I am missing something. It's hardly relevant now that it has been established it is a dry night.

But it is just New Year, start of the calender in Islam. Is New Year in the Gregorian calendar a religious event?

MataHari

Dec 5th 2010 10:30 am

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Originally Posted by NorthernLad (Post 9022115)

yes, well, apparently 'they' classify it as a religious thing, so that's what we are dealing with, it doesn't really matter what 'we' classify as religious or not...

Autonomy

Dec 5th 2010 11:09 am

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Originally Posted by MataHari (Post 9022121)

yes, well, apparently 'they' classify it as a religious thing, so that's what we are dealing with, it doesn't really matter what 'we' classify as religious or not...

my rule of thumb - if the moon is involved it'll be dry....

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