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Old Mar 22nd 2011 | 10:58 pm
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Originally Posted by The Dean
It's a pity that the former Group Treasurer of a well-known Dubai government entity isn't a member of The Bored. He'd be able to give us some spine-chilling insights into all of this...........
Fraud , Robbery and embezzlement on a grand scale , everyone got conned or misled in some shape or form. No wonder the arse fell out of it.
 
Old Mar 22nd 2011 | 11:01 pm
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Originally Posted by co durham boy
We did a lot of work on the Lagoons a few years ago , there was a proposed 120 towers to go up on that project.........

They must have been dropping Acid at Sama....!
and I was days away from setting up right alongside you
 
Old Mar 22nd 2011 | 11:07 pm
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and I was days away from setting up right alongside you
That would have been both of us chasing more lost money....
 
Old Mar 22nd 2011 | 11:16 pm
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Originally Posted by Meow
Remember all the hoardings for Bawadi, on the road past ranches towards Bab al Shams?

A mystery why no one wanted 20 hotels up there...

bawadi was a particularly insane one. lets have a full on las vegas strip with absolutely no reason to go there apart from the fact its like las vegas only shit
 
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Originally Posted by shiva
bawadi was a particularly insane one. lets have a full on las vegas strip with absolutely no reason to go there apart from the fact its like las vegas only shit
I thought was Dubai as a whole?
 
Old Mar 22nd 2011 | 11:19 pm
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Originally Posted by shiva
bawadi was a particularly insane one. lets have a full on las vegas strip with absolutely no reason to go there apart from the fact its like las vegas only shit
... without the gambling.
 
Old Mar 22nd 2011 | 11:28 pm
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Originally Posted by EmiratesMillhouse
... without the gambling.
.....and the coke
 
Old Mar 22nd 2011 | 11:34 pm
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.....and the coke
So annoying that many places only stock Pepsi...
 
Old Mar 22nd 2011 | 11:35 pm
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But there are probably as many hookers in Dubai...
 
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Originally Posted by Meow
So annoying that many places only stock Pepsi...
why is that...it's driving me nuts, i don't know of anywhere now that sells diet coke, it's always pepsi!

coming back to projects shelved...wasn't there meant to be an ipod shaped one or a mobile phone building...?

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Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
why is that...it's driving me nuts, i don't know of anywhere now that sells diet coke, it's always pepsi!

coming back to projects shelved...wasn't there meant to be an ipod shaped one or a mobile phone building...?

MM, xx
I know that Pepsi has 80%+ of the Market in the ME.
 
Old Mar 22nd 2011 | 11:40 pm
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I buy diet coke in most places....?

It's the small mosque shops that are the most unpredictable and less likely to have diet coke.

As for the popularity of pepsi, apparently it goes back to that the first coke bottling plant in the ME was in Israel and Pepsi was in Saudi.....

Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
why is that...it's driving me nuts, i don't know of anywhere now that sells diet coke, it's always pepsi!

coming back to projects shelved...wasn't there meant to be an ipod shaped one or a mobile phone building...?

MM, xx
 
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Originally Posted by Ethos83
I buy diet coke in most places....?

It's the small mosque shops that are the most unpredictable and less likely to have diet coke.

As for the popularity of pepsi, apparently it goes back to that the first coke bottling plant in the ME was in Israel and Pepsi was in Saudi.....
oh no, sorry, meant in bars and restaurants...can't remember the last time i had a diet coke when out...i'm fully stocked up in my own fridge!

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Old Mar 23rd 2011 | 12:08 am
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Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
oh no, sorry, meant in bars and restaurants...can't remember the last time i had a diet coke when out...i'm fully stocked up in my own fridge!

MM, xx
they do Coke in Aussies...
 
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Did that dinosaur theme park thingy ever get off the ground? Dubai Golf City is another one. Over 500 villas and multistorey apartment towers were to be built. The showroom containing a room-sized model of the complex is still there but nothing else.
 


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