Anyone been to Dubai?

[Neck&Neck]

It’s big for organized crime too
Lots of international gangsters like to meet up there to talk business
I’ve never been, fuck that place

 

[Home_Slice]

I like to take my girlfriends there.

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And come home alone!

This made me laugh.

I don't quite get it but, still.

 

[Brofessor]

How much are plane tickets? Asking for a friend.

Also, are we supposed to feel bad for these Instagram thots? They are offered absurd sums of money to commit vile sexual/fetish acts, and they accept the offers and agree to do whatever because the money is too good. Oh nooooo.

 

[Fedorgasm]

This made me laugh.

I don't quite get it but, still.

I sell my girlfriends into sexual slavery.

I mean that's the joke.

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[William Huggins]

It’s big for organized crime too
Lots of international gangsters like to meet up there to talk business
I’ve never been, fuck that place

Live there do businesses out of their, you can turn up with cash and buy property........the list goes on........

 

[Koya]

Yes and everything you heard about the place is true.

I went out to party with a bunch of UFC fighters when they had an event in Abu Dhabi. The hotel bar/lounge was full of women.

Every single one of them was a prostitute.

Women in Dubai are either prostitute, married to a successful man or white collars who never see the light of day

 

[The_Renaissance]

Nope, and probably never will - the Emirate countries/states have no interest to me whatsoever. No history, no nature, no real sightseeing or culture, just fake new money type shit. If I had a long stopover flying somewhere else, I would venture into Dubai and spend a few hours there but no more than that.

 

[Goon Dog]

Main issue was massive dehydration as it is stupidly hot even at 4am and we're in full balaclava, full race suit, gloves, helmet etc.

I read this as "Full of baklava". I was impressed ...

 

[ezikel315]

Pretty much one of the worst places I've been. Have no desire to go back there at all.

 

[mozfonky]

I was watching a few documentary style clips on youtube of influencers in Dubai.

Holy shit!! (literally!)

Has anyone been there?

Seems those rich families recruit slaves from east Asia and work them to death to build the luxury infrastructure.

And the rich dudes are into "scat parties", apparently it's a big thing, they literally pay these instagram models to fly out and defecate on each other and do all manner of sick shit, then pay them huge quantities of money, lol.



This isn't an occasional thing, those "girls" are referred to as "companions" and it's a routine practice there.

I haven't but I don't think much from what I've heard. My buddy went there as a layover on his way to a construction/charity type of gig in Africa, he said it was oppressive which I told him about. He's also black and they think blacks are beneath them just like most of the world. He also said he didn't understand how they could build an entire city on a bed of sand.

My old muay thai trainer went to abu dhabi some 25 years ago to train some of the royal family. He told me 2 things that really made an impression, he took his shirt off which is perfectly normal in our gyms and so he was on the street and did it, got rushed by police with guns out. Also, I asked him what the poor were like and were they angry like our poor and he told me that the different classes just live their lives and accept their lot which sounded foreign at the time, which it is, but knowing that places have strictly defined social orders in other places, it's not surprising today.

 

[mozfonky]

Not intentionally.

But for me,

Mind = blown.

Fucking sick shit this fakers who preach virtue and morality engage in behind the scenes?

just the way it is, only they don't seem to know what's up, everyone else knows that the uber religious are always the most freaky.

 

[Home_Slice]

Pretty much one of the worst places I've been. Have no desire to go back there at all.

Details?

What was your experience such that this is your view of the place now?

It's the women that go to scat parties and get paid thousands that I find nauseating.

The hypocrisy, and the human slavery.

I know a girl who I thought was cool but turns out she's into that scene, got her own apartment there, drives a super car, all from doing sick with Emirati. I'd like to bash her fucking face in.

 

[mozfonky]

Details?

What was your experience such that this is your view of the place now?

It's the women that go to scat parties and get paid thousands that I find nauseating.

The hypocrisy, and the human slavery.

I know a girl who I thought was cool but turns out she's into that scene, got her own apartment there, drives a super car, all from doing sick with Emirati. I'd like to bash her fucking face in.

just sad and sick really. I watched a docu on youtube about prostitution in that part of the world, someone mentioned having a relative, like an aunt or something who admitted being in that line of business over there, got paid beyond her wildest dreams as she was the blond, wasp ideal that they love, but she committed suicide. The post mentioned she was a wonderful person, which, knowing the type, I had no doubts. That's the kind of shit that make me hate the entirety of humanity and life and get me to questioning all of it.

 

[Slapjit]

This is very good haanji am buying ticket now

 

[Spounman]

Yes and everything you heard about the place is true.

I went out to party with a bunch of UFC fighters when they had an event in Abu Dhabi. The hotel bar/lounge was full of women.

Every single one of them was a prostitute.

You mean there aren't hot party chicks (outside of prostitution) in the Middle East? No way, I would have never guessed that
The only time you'd ever catch me in the Middle East is to see Giza or Jerusalem.

 

[Romulas]

You mean there aren't hot party chicks (outside of prostitution) in the Middle East? No way, I would have never guessed that
The only time you'd ever catch me in the Middle East is to see Giza or Jerusalem.

Lulz, there was Eastern European prostitutes everywhere and we were warned not to speak with any Arab women by the UFCs hotel.

Dubai is a cool place to see for 2 days but totally devoid of anything but grossly manufactured culture, experiences and opulence.

Abu Dhabi was a way better though. Less fake and very nice. The people were lovely.

 

[Jesus X]

I don't get how they don't have a sewer system with their money and slaves they could get one built. They could hire the best engineers on earth.

 

[ezikel315]

Details?

What was your experience such that this is your view of the place now?

It's the women that go to scat parties and get paid thousands that I find nauseating.

The hypocrisy, and the human slavery.

I know a girl who I thought was cool but turns out she's into that scene, got her own apartment there, drives a super car, all from doing sick with Emirati. I'd like to bash her fucking face in.

A lot of details incoming. I knew going in I probably wouldn't like it but I tried to keep an open mind. One week in it realized I hated it more than I expected.

I wasn't "in the know" about these parties but you hear about them. It's made all the more hypocritical especially considering it's a strict muslim theocracy. They make a big show of respect for the sheik, for god and spirituality but it's a place absolutely devoid of spirituality or soul. It's a spirituality bankrupt place. It's cutthroat capitalism and untethered consumerism in bed with a theocratic dictatorship.

Women have to cover themselves up, especially if they are arab or look like they could be arab. You gotta be careful about kissing your girl in public. Yet you see cards for prostitution scattered all over the streets including places where there are tourists with kids. People advertise glamorous yacht parties with hot chicks. Everything is about material wealth and showing it off. Everything there is "the most expensive" "the biggest" "the fanciest" bullshit. No substance, just flash. They use literal slave labor yet show off the fact the cops have police lambos and rich douchebags can own jaguars as pets.

It's also a place that attracts a certain type of people. I met a guy who's lived there for many years and he said it's difficult to make real friends because everybody just wants to get something out of you. He said almost everybody he knows is in debt trying to show off a certain lifestyle. I also developed a general dislike for arab guys from being there. All of them supposedly pious muslims who drink, cheat on their wives, and just so fucking desperate to show off how cool and rich they are. And because the government provides Emiratis with everything, people are extremely lazy and foreigners do all the work.

Despite it being expensive and ostensibly fancy, things are poor quality. New buildings start to show cracks very fast. It's what you get for using slave labor I guess. You get 3rd world country quality for 1st world prices. Dubai tries to dazzle you with fancy buildings but look a bit closer and you'll see how cheaply things are made. I lived in Vietnam for a bit after Dubai and I felt things in Vietnam were better built and designed and things actually worked better despite it being many times cheaper.

It's also a very poorly and weirdly designed city. You can tell they didn't plan it with people living there in mind. It doesn't feel like any other city I've been to where you get a sense of energy, vibe, life but it just feels lifeless. It feels kind of like disney world or las vegas in a way. The arab aesthetic seems to me a kid's idea of what rich people like.

Driving there is an extremely frustrating experience and there isn't much in the way of public transit.

I can say you'd probably have fun there for a short time if you have money, like being in externally glamorous environments, and don't care about the hypocrisy. There are things to do, but I'd rather do those same things in a place that has more soul and culture that's also cheaper. There's better parties in say, Thailand where it's much cheaper with less oppressive rules. Like why would you spend all that money so you can snowboard in a building in the middle of a desert? I'd rather spend that money in a place that actually has good snowboarding.

I did enjoy finally having authentic middle eastern food in the middle east, but if middle eastern/arab culture or islam is your thing, you'd be better off going somewhere else. Even other cities within the UAE are better but I'd avoid the UAE entirely. It's difficult to get a sense of culture in a place where 90% of the population aren't locals and most of them are slaves from Pakistan and the Philippines.

I'm repeating myself but basically Dubai offers fucking nothing that any other place in the world can offer for better and likely cheaper. Culture, nature, food, activities, even parties and hedonistic pleasure, are all better and cheaper in a lot of other places. One thing that gets lauded a lot is the lack of crime in Dubai, which is true, but I also been to much better places with the same level of safety (pretty much most of east and south east asia). The feeling I got was that the entire society was held together by a thin thread. With the majority of the population being foreign male laborers who are being treated like shit, if things go wrong, shit can get out of hand fast. Even their military is made up of foreign contractors because they don't have enough of their own citizens. It's a joke of a country.

The only upside about Dubai is if you're a rich person who wants to set up a business without having to pay taxes and to hide your wealth from your own government. Or you're a hot chick who wants to make a quick buck fucking camels or whatever.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

I don't get how they don't have a sewer system with their money and slaves they could get one built. They could hire the best engineers on earth.

They just want their slaves to pick up their shit by the truckload every day as a reminder.

 

[Travis Alexander]

Yes. It is a fucking amazing place. I was just out there a couple months ago ripping super cars through the desert for a luxury car rally.