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where ma likkka at?

lol if i land in Dubai i wouldn’t leave

If you are in Dubai .. you can’t leave, stuck in traffic somewhere.

7amdilla 3assalama 🙂

oh, and welcome back! 😀

I always get so angry when I have to come back to Kuwait. The first that that gets me is the smell.

Michael, I’ve never seen you say a good word on anything dude. Attacking Kuwait, attacking forum members – wtf dude?

Relax, if life is that shit, why don’t you just change it and make it better!? You’re just coming off as pretty bitter!

I’ve said positive things about Kuwait and Kuwaitis in the past, just very rarely. These “people” (person, in this case) I generally attack embody the hypocritical behaviors and attitudes I’ve come associate and loathe about Kuwait.

What if I were attacking holla, calling him a useless, whining sandnigger who’s been handed everything, but is rejecting his own culture and people? Would that be okay, even though he’s got a stunning rack? How about calling cajie an uppity Indian who should know his place in Kuwait as a worker, and that if he doesn’t like that attitude Kuwaitis have towards him or how Kuwaitis are screwing up a place he decided to move to and call his home, he should GTFO, even though he, and others like him, contribute more to the actual development of Kuwait’s private sector than any of the myriad Marina Mall brats floating around Kuwait? It’s Kuwaitis like Holla and Marzouq, and expats like Cajie and Mark that are the future of Kuwait. Not those little layabouts who’ll use their daddy’s wasta to get them a job where they do nothing except sit there and look pretty, then talk about “Oh how tragic the situation of the month is!” but never do a goddamn thing other than send money (which means nothing to them, since they never do anything for it) or stage some pathetic little protest to show how “indie” and “hip” they are. They also take everything they’ve been given for granted and as their right.

That, Toxy, is why I’m bitter about Kuwait. Unfortunately, whenever any of Kuwaits real flaws are pointed out, it’s always, “If you don’t like it, GTFO.”

Yeah, well, at least he pretends outwardly to be a productive member of society.

Also, I’m trying to butter him up so he’ll screw around with your AC 😉

“It’s Kuwaitis like Holla and Marzouq, and expats like Cajie and Mark that are the future of Kuwait”

holla is the future, errrrrrrrr 🙁

Well Michael, as you well know, I’m hardly someone who goes around defending the long standing ‘irritations’ of Kuwait. However, I prefer to do it in a more calculated, ‘articulate’ way. (Excuse the jest)…

Lashing out at everything and everyone will only get you a reputation of being a bitter old man – whereby you will only ever be met by snide comments like GTFO.

There are better, more politically correct ways to ‘attack a regime.’ Take Moocherex for example, an expat, who for the most part, uses cynical humour to get his point across – without the need to be directly offensive.

Rgarding what you wrote, for the most part, I concur. But, by virtue – is how this country operates. But let’s try not to get too caught up with the Western Traditions which have been in existance for many hundreds of years and compare them to the Arab world.

Kuwait is still a relativey ‘new’ country where people are still relatively unexposed. 40-50 years ago many people were still living in tents in the desert and didn’t have the money or riches which they have access to nowadays.

What you see here, with regards to seemingly obscene behaviour – occurs frequently in the US too, it’s just that perhaps you are not exposed to it.

I took a class with a poor, impoverished black kid from the Ghetto at College. He could barely string a coherent sentance together – yet he had a god given talent of being a brilliant athlete. Everyone knew why the kid was even in college – and it wasn’t for his brains.

2 years later, that same kid, signed an $8m contract to play in the NFL. Guess what he did when he got a hold of all that money? Hint: acted like a spoilt kid in a candy store (a la Kuwait).

It’s the same dynamics but a different context…..try to look at little further than your own back garden – life is only as shit as you make it.

Oh yeah, and when do you think, “That’s just the way Kuwait is.” will stop being an acceptable answer for the way things here fail to function. Water shortages? Electrical outages? “That’s just the way Kuwait is.” fails to cut it.

Noone here wants to seem to want real answers, because it disrupts their own little personal world and makes them feel uncomfortable.

welcome back man!

well said mike. i’ve lived and worked in the US and i would say the GTFO mentality is just as bad or even worse.
if everybody was satisfied with the way things are in the world , no change would ever come about.

Mark did you see something special there?

Don’t feel bad boys and girls. In England, everyone complains about England. They did a survey 2 years ago, and more than 50% of the population said they’d emigrate if they thought they could.
Bitching about where you are is part of life. Some things drive me maaaaaad about Kuwait, but at the end of the day I get paid way too much to care. I live in Thailand, and trust me – there’s a million things to bitch about there too. But it’s still the best country I’ve ever lived in.
A while back I did a post about the best things about Kuwait… There are some. OK, not many, but it’s a small country so what do you expect. Of course there’s not going to be any broadway shows or cut-price latest technology. Or manners.
But come on… it’s not like we’re in Afghanistan filling water bottles from a pipe in the street.
There’s no place like home, but the grass always looks greener on the other side (or for Kuwait, the sand always looks less litter-strewn…)

Welcome Back Mark..
Sorry im kinda late..

I think I started this mess…
sorry Mark :>

btw…there is a destinctive smell about this place. I smell too in the morning especially. If we are thinking about the same smell….then that can’t be a good thing, I guess.

micheal i can smell u over here!! ;p