Ronnie Biggs

The blonde one in ABBA actually married her stalker, so there's a happy ending in there for everyone (except he ended up going mad and stockpiling her poo.)

scrubbedexpat141

Go on......

Dorothy

Thanks. Now I have to explain to the people at work what I'm laughing at.

The Dean

"....stockpiling her poo...."?? Where did he get it from??

"Oh, don't use the toilet, darling.......... just do it in a bucket, would you....?"

Ronnie Biggs

They lived in a log cabin in Sweden without proper drainage which is (it seems) the ideal location for poo stockpiling.

There's a little piece at the bottom of this link....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserve...tures.review27

kittycat1

Ronnie- you have set off my gag reflex!

Any idea why he found her poo so precious?

Ronnie Biggs

I don't know. Maybe it was just really nice poo? He also used to put her bath water in a jar apparently. He was just an old-fashioned romantic at heart.

Dumbo

From poor new posters to stockpiling poo, yes I can see why you are all moaning about new posters .

I would be happy to stalk anyone just let me know.

The Dean

OK............. new words to 'Waterloo' anyone?

TGFKASE

It would seem that this thread has started to veer towards a similar thread I posted on some time ago.

There has definitely been a change on the Bored. Whilst there was always an edge to many threads, there is much more of a 'us and them' feel within the Bored nowadays. Almost a case of if you aren't with us, your against us...

The fact is that the Bored appears to have become something akin to a soap opera. If you haven't kept up with every post, you have missed all the inside jokes that appear and quickly lose the will to continue...

Or, if you dare to try and jump in and join them, very quickly those who appear to have the thickest skins take the utmost offence and someone from outside 'the gang' having a pop....

Discuss...

goonerseba

im a new-ish poster and take this thread as personal insult....

when i was a lad.....i used to ave to go up tit lane to the verrrry top just get a loaf of me da's favoreete.....

would hum the tune but forget how it goes...

new posters rock !.....

TGFKASE

Put t'Hovis back in 't'bag, lad...

Its not a pop at you.

Its a pop at the ones that have been around for 12 - 18 months.

The ones who came out when the place was falling apart in the vain hope that the streets were still paved with gold, that the advice they received from the dearly departed ex-posters on the Bored was just the 'older generation' trying to keep it all for themselves and the ones who are still there, trying to persuade themsleves that their studio apartment in Disco Gardens and 5 year old Pajero is still way better than the shit existence they left behind in the UK...

Ok, so some people made a decision to live in Dubai.

The problem with that is, it is very hard to admit you ****ed up...

I, along with many other posters on here, was moved through work to Dubai and, for my part, onwards to Bangkok. Did I have a choice? To a degree, if you can count Baku, Alaska or Bangkok as a choice, most recently. The last choice was Port Harcourt, Cairo or Dubai... The defence rests...

Do we therefore necessarily hide behind our decisions in a cloud of self denial, making on we love it in Dubai and wouldn't dream of living anywhere else, or do we make the most of a situation, be fair to our fellow man, assist when required and await the day when you can pack your shit and move on to another intriguing part of the world....

I, I am glad to say, am of the latter.

Dumbo

What about posters who have ben here for 4+ years but only posted on here for 12-18 months, are we ok? I really would like to know if I meet with your approval, thank you, sir. Thank you. :bowing:

Meow

I'd like to think that most of us do just that, but we still have a lack of tolerance for total idiocy. And in my particular case no tolerance whatsoever for an idiot who thought it was acceptable to hurl abuse at me purely because I'd corrected his geographical errors. To be fair, I started this thread to have a moan about that as it pissed me off.

If you have found this forum, then you can surely find some other really basic information? This site has tons of info, so just reading a few threads before posting helps. Even entering Dubai/UAE/etc into google turns up heaps of useful info and then you can ask about specifics. And usually get good, honest answers.

scrubbedexpat141

I think you paint two pictures when there are probably more.

The latter is what you say you are, fine.

The former is;

1. have been around for 12 - 18 months
2.came out when the place was falling apart in the vain hope that the streets were still paved with gold
3.studio apartment in Disco Gardens and 5 year old Pajero is still way better than the shit existence they left behind in the UK...
4. making on we love it in Dubai and wouldn't dream of living anywhere else,

I think those four points that make the 'former' in your opinion are pretty brash.

1. I came here a year ago
2. The place has been falling apart since 2008. I never assumed there were streets of gold.
3. The apartment and car I have are not as you describe but certainly not a villa on the palm and 3 ferraris. My existence in the UK was not shit, my job was, on relflection, a bit better than the one I do here. I just earn a lot more here comparatively.
4. I don't want to live in Dubai forever, I want to move on like you to Asia in the future, but not yet.

People aren't easily cast into the two groups you describe, yes I tick a couple of the boxes (can't change when I moved here or that I have a 1bed apt and an Explorer) but not everyone comes here running away from a shit life in the UK thinking Dubai is the be all, end all and place for them for life.

But hey, that's my opinion and not me being an argumentative tosser (like normal). Just think it's not particularly fair to generalise to that extent.