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Miss Ann Thrope Feb 14th 2017 10:56 am

With grim inevitability
 
Cereal Killer Cafe opens in Dubai Mall | The National

And the founders are beardy twats from norn iron who actually sound more annoying even than they look...

Millhouse Feb 14th 2017 10:58 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 

Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope (Post 12179410)
Cereal Killer Cafe opens in Dubai Mall | The National

And the founders are beardy twats from norn iron who actually sound more annoying even than they look...

25dh for cereals. Starting to make Taqado look reasonable.

I wonder how long it will before they give into the temptation to cut portion sizes.

co durham boy Feb 14th 2017 12:11 pm

Re: With grim inevitability
 

Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope (Post 12179410)
Cereal Killer Cafe opens in Dubai Mall | The National

And the founders are beardy twats from norn iron who actually sound more annoying even than they look...

You have it in one . Hipster wannabes , they're a Shoreditch type who ride bamboo bicycles and wear 1950's Selvage Japanese denim which makes them look like they've shit themselves after a dozen pints of Wife Beater !

Great business here to sell to the gullible masses

scot47 Feb 14th 2017 2:30 pm

Re: With grim inevitability
 
A reminder of what Dubai has become.

Bahtatboy Feb 14th 2017 5:21 pm

Re: With grim inevitability
 

Originally Posted by scot47 (Post 12179601)
A reminder of what Dubai has become.

It was ever thus.

tintriangle Feb 15th 2017 4:35 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 

Originally Posted by co durham boy (Post 12179467)
You have it in one . Hipster wannabes , they're a Shoreditch type who ride bamboo bicycles and wear 1950's Selvage Japanese denim which makes them look like they've shit themselves after a dozen pints of Wife Beater !

Great business here to sell to the gullible masses

That made me smile this dull, cold and rainy morning-after-National-Sports-Day morning, though I did have to look up selvedge Jap denim.
Oh how I miss the side-show that is Dubai.

scrubbedexpat141 Feb 15th 2017 6:44 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 
Don't just sit here and moan, take action

They look like a pair of choppers but I wish I'd thought of it.

DXBtoDOH Feb 15th 2017 6:57 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 
I'm generally a let and live person but there's something about extreme hipsters that is infuriating. Being alternative just for the sake of being alternative means they all end up lemmings to one another and even more conformist in their own way than the people they mock and claim to despise, so the whole hipster rage against the machine / 'soul crushing' conformity rings hollow and pathetic.

scrubbedexpat141 Feb 15th 2017 7:01 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 

Originally Posted by DXBtoDOH (Post 12180301)
I'm generally a let and live person but there's something about extreme hipsters that is infuriating. Being alternative just for the sake of being alternative means they all end up lemmings to one another and even more conformist in their own way than the people they mock and claim to despise, so the whole hipster rage against the machine / 'soul crushing' conformity rings hollow and pathetic.

I want to know who is making the money from all of those Anonymous masks too. Fools protest and fight the man, wearing a symbol of pure capitalism. :rofl:

UKCityGent Feb 15th 2017 7:20 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 
I am thinking of opening up a water café - tap water from different countries, flavoured water, organic (??) water perhaps, ZamZam water !!

DXBtoDOH Feb 15th 2017 7:29 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 
Someone's already beat you :)

https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2...en-minneapolis

I also remember reading recently about a venue to open in London soon.

When I was in France last it struck me how the carbonated water really did vary from restaurant to restaurant, depending on the source. Some I liked very much, others less so. And there are subtle differences between various waters. But a water bar? There's something so Marie Antoinette about it :unsure:


Originally Posted by UKCityGent (Post 12180316)
I am thinking of opening up a water café - tap water from different countries, flavoured water, organic (??) water perhaps, ZamZam water !!


Bahtatboy Feb 15th 2017 8:24 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 
I seem to recall some top-end restaurants in Saudi selling water from around the world, up to $100 or so a bottle. Still, for a nation that went nuts about red mercury from Singer sewing machines, what do you expect?

Dorothy Feb 15th 2017 10:32 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 

Originally Posted by UKCityGent (Post 12180316)
I am thinking of opening up a water café - tap water from different countries, flavoured water, organic (??) water perhaps, ZamZam water !!

Don't forget to market the calorie reduced water.

DXBtoDOH Feb 15th 2017 11:08 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 
Sadly that would sell really well around here :unsure:


Originally Posted by Dorothy (Post 12180443)
Don't forget to market the calorie reduced water.


UKCityGent Feb 15th 2017 11:30 am

Re: With grim inevitability
 
Since I have been beaten to the post in regards to a Water café - Ive undertaken some research and come up with another solution.


Sadly not a café - but "Sands of the World" - featuring beach sand, coloured sand, history of sand, and Im sure we can rustle up a sand sandwich (I cant remember a whole afternoon of tom foolery !!)


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