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The Russian chick in leather sucking down the bong hits at Plastik is too perfect for words.Originally posted by don View Post -
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The babe's dress at the Cavalli Club looks like it is of the highest quality :-)
Guess the seamstress from India was not happy with the pay and made the babe "pay for it" in looks. :pComment
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Originally posted by Jay View Post
She has pretty big lips I would say
http://archive.instituteartistmanage...om/id/00005488
With requisite hookah and a jeroboam of Champagne, a group of German businessmen celebrate their purchase of an Alaskan oil field at Plastik Beach Club, a playground touting itself as "exclusively for the filthy rich and aesthetically perfect." Public intoxication and displays of affection are jailable offenses in Dubai, but private clubs are quietly ignored by the authorities, often rendering them happy havens of vice. Plastik offers a helipad and a dock for its wealthy guests, many of them Russian; as the economy crumbles, they party on. One American expat says that while Dubai's promise has faded in the economic downturn, "people who dream of a better life dream of coming to Dubai. You can call it the American dream."
http://www.fastcompany.com/pics/look-decline-dubai#3
More Dubai pictures
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In case you've never been to Dubai, those "bongs" are hookahs, and they're widely used to smoke a variety of odd tobaccos or herbs, not drugs (at least not in public like that).Originally posted by Jay View PostComment
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Singapore looks like the natural beneficiary of the Dubai bust and the decline of NY and London.Comment
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I concur! Man we are missing the party!Originally posted by Jay View Post
You go from that one to the German dudes to the convoy of shit trucks to the slave labor and bingo bango you have a portrait of the 21st century.Comment
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You say debacle, I say another day in Richistan. Sure some on the margin playing with leverage go under. But the road goes on forever and the party never ends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhrczA1ru4Comment
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Oh, man, does this mean they are never building the crazy ferris wheel. Or the crazy theme park with 100 animatronic dinosaurs!!!
Go to the link and read the comments. the first one is priceless.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...a%3DN%26um%3D1Last edited by goadam1; December 01, 2009, 06:03 PM.Comment
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Never been there, but know enough to assume that was the case. Bong just sounded better than hookah.Originally posted by Sharky View PostComment
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It was my honeymoon...in Dubai. My brand, spanking new wife was entranced. Dubai looks as much like the incredible pictures as real life could. Of course we spent much of our time in bed. When she asked me why the trucks were doing driving past our hotel every night, I told her that was part of the Emirates environmental sand control. Dubai, I said with a knowing nod, is where we don't have to worry...about a thing.Last edited by don; December 01, 2009, 08:13 PM.Comment
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Originally posted by don View PostI got news for you Silvia...you don't have any rights. You never did...Dubai’s $330 Billion Deferred Buildings Impose Fees
April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Silvia Turrin paid two-thirds of the $520,000 purchase price of her Dubai apartment, only to learn that it won’t be finished until 2012, two years late. When she stopped payments to Emaar Properties PJSC, the developer hit her with late fees.
“We feel hopeless and we’re running out of options,” said Turrin, one of about 400 buyers in two nonexistent towers called 29 Boulevard. “It’s almost like we don’t have any rights.”...
...Turrin, a 32-year-old property consultant [:p], has been paying for a two-bedroom apartment on the fourth floor of Tower 1 at 29 Boulevard since 2007. She said Emaar offered her a 5 percent discount in return for signing a new contract with a later completion date or an alternative apartment in the Loft or Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper, at double the price...
...“Two years ago, many of those same customers were throwing checks over the rails at developers,” said Nomura’s Riley. “In effect, there was no paperwork or anything. A lot of buyers who decided to enter the market had no intention, capacity or capability to complete on the purchase.”...
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materialism, consumerism, and modernism all gone mad.Comment
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Oh, man, does this mean they are never building the crazy ferris wheel. Or the crazy theme park with 100 animatronic dinosaurs!!!
It's never been the same since we lost Michael....
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