Earlier in the month I posted about the interesting Universal Store I found in Muthana Complex and yesterday night the owner of the store commented on the post clearing up some details. Here is his comment:
Hi everyone
Firstly, thanks for all comments that I have seen here from you guys, I was really shocked when I found out that someone posted the store on their website, I got the site address from a note which I found in the store when I was there to check up on some work.
I wanted to clear up a fact, we are not connected to Universal Studio which is located in the states (The famous movie maker), our name is diffrent but the logo is similar with some changes, so we are far away from the courts 🙂 we chose this name and logo because our work and products are related to the movies and everyone knows UNIVERSAL STUDIO = movies so we wanted to have an emotional link with the customers first, and maybe you will not believe me if I tell you that even with this emotional link we chose there are still some people which don’t know if these products or figures are for movies characters!
Besides that we have a direct connection and we are an authorized distributor for Sideshow Collectibles & Sideshow Weta, the company which made all Lord Of The Ring movies items and costumes (we still not fake! 🙂 ) www.sideshowtoy.com
About the prices, we dont find ourselves expensive when it comes to most of our items. Our prices are somewhat similar to the main company prices, add on that they are COLLECTIBLES! which means they have limited quantity worldwide and whenever they are out of stock you will find the items triple the price on eBay!
The store is small I agree because we found that we cannot go for a bigger one because this kind of store are only for movies fans and thats means a small market. We also cant import all items which we decided to import before at this time because we are waiting for our one year work result and the right time to improve all our products lines, and soon we will offer a free catalog on DVD disk which is made by the original company SIDESHOW TOYS.
Finally, sorry for my long post, its only to give some information about the original post and to correct some ideas, and thanks for you all guys again.
Best Regards
Universal Store Company
57 replies on “Information on the Universal Store”
First, I would like to apologize for my comments,if my comments offended you.
Second, mabrook on the store and I wish you success.
Third, your “emotional link” had me fooled or didnt work as expected by you.
I think a name/logo change would be appropriate since the Universal logo is an internationally recognized logo and name.
Thank you for your post 😀
think a name/logo change would be appropriate since the Universal logo is an internationally recognized logo and name.
TweeZ- what a stupid thing to say. Do you know which country we are in. Get a life.
hahah this is hilarious. poor guy got spooked and wrote this big letter. he should relax at least he got the logo and stuff right and it looks decent unlike pull michel salon or whatever, and the millions of bad rip offs around kuwait.
Mark why i think your blog make you famous in kuwait and for that reason you still live here!!
every time you post about store, you must get contacted by the manager?
no offensive but that good anyway 🙂
sorry but i didnt understand what u just said..
tj, even though we are in Kuwait and people seem to get away with almost anything, that does not mean I can’t let other people realize that a minor mistake could possibly turn huge. I know what you mean, but please, dont tell me what I’m saying is stupid or to get a life. If you dont like what I said then fine, at least I’m not insulting anyone with my comments.
What always seems to stop me in my tracks is how its possible for so many people in Kuwait to own and operate businesses when they can’t even put a gramatically sound English letter together. Great idea for a store in Kuwait. Dude does identify a niche however the emotional link is such a load.
it’s not just in Kuwait bud, it’s everywhere. You got money, then you’re in business.
I have to disagree with you. If you have money you may attempt to operate a business, but if your press release looks anything like this guys you probably won’t get very far. I think what he’s doing is great, but it still says something about you when you can’t put a gramatically proper letter together.
in the US you would need a hellva lot of cash to keep a shitty business alive and eventually you would be out. the small business market there is ultra-competitive.
kuwait is like this happy business fairyland with no real competitive marketplace. any shitty lil shop here can afford to stay open as long as it can barely break even and can survive on its braindead clientel that prefer generic shawerma place #34457 as opposed to the one right next to it.
M: Keep in mind this man has opened a business in a county where English is not the native language. Who’s to say that he can’t “put a grammatically proper letter together” in Arabic? I think your comments on his writing skills were quite harsh, and it seems as though you had no logical reason to make them except to obviously make fun of him.
Hola: I love the fact that “any shitty lil shop here” can survive in Kuwait, and I hope I NEVER see the day when all the big capitalist conglomerates totally stomp out the small businessmen this country still appreciates. Your comment is quite surprising to me – that you think Kuwait is living in a business fairtale just because the small businessman still has the opportunity to survive. Who said it’s all about competition and making a profit? I think the US is the last place Kuwait should try to emulate when it comes to economic issues! And “brain dead clientele”? If you prefer a generic brand over something like, say, Starbucks you’re brain dead? Maybe I’m misinterpreting your comment, but that’s the way I’m reading it.
3adil K! Fee Kuwaiti? Infa3 😀
Well said K! I would like to see an American write a letter in Arabic!!! I thought his letter was very polite, if not grammatically perfect. As for generic brands – I agree. Why should I get an ‘anything-but-coffee’ coffee from Starbucks when I can get delicious Turkish coffee blend from my local ‘ma67ana’?! I am all for the small businessman, and while I do believe in the copyright law, I find it illogical to try to enforce it in a country that does not make the slightest effort to educate its people about it. How can you expect something from someone if they have no clue what it is??? The concept of ownership of ideas is not stressed in the government schools here, is it? Plagiarism is alive and well and no one teaches them any different. So until that changes, you cannot blame people or ridicule them. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my two cents on the matter 🙂
down with the haters!
K- kuwaiti business is ruled by only a few major players so it’s not like kuwait isn’t a corporate franchise shithole. you know all the reugluar families. they can also directly affect your small business and shut you down if they want to.
the fact that small businesses can thrive here is not due to originality or exceution, it’s due to the lack of proper regulations and government corruption. the fact is kuwait is comfy right now bc these things can go unnoticed. when the economy expands, competition will increase and there will be less room for these silly businesses and you will see a lot shut down. you thing having a million shops that sell the same shit is good for the economy?
like i said small businesses in the US often fail but why? bc they enter an already overstaturated market that does not forgive laziness and non-originality. remaining businesses work REALLY hard to insure QUALITY and innovation. these things are near-unheard of in kuwait even in big companies. kuwait is still struggling in customer service for chrissake.
Alright, lets clarify, lets not put me and Holla in the same boat. Dude is just down right rude; I’d like to think I’m just critical. I’m not by any means trying to make fun of the business owner, as a matter of fact, I said it once and I’ll say it again, I think his business idea is great (and its people like him that bring in more than the tried, tested and true are the ones that make a difference to the culture), however you can’t deny the fact that the majority of business communications in Kuwait happens in English (check out every agency breif, or business plan). Otherwise he wouldn’t have sent in his email to this blog. You also can’t deny that English is indeed the primary business language universally and based on this, a business owner/operator should have some form of a firm grasp of the langauge if anything at least just for external communications such as this.
As for Holla, K I fully agree with you. Be it that the business arena is skewed or not, you have to hand it down to the fact that pretty much just about anyone does have the opportunity to start up a business be it something as small as a barbershop down the street, or a big furniture chain, and it truely does have a chance at survival, which in most countries isn’t the case especially North America, and the least that I could say here is at least the gov’t doesn’t have their hands in your backpocket constantly. I beleive THIS is what keeps good competition, prices down and most importantly the power in the consumers hands rather the conglomorates.
k and noname are right on!! you both have got it exactly right.
if you read my original comment, i don’t actually blame the guy i kinda just feel sorry for him getting all spooked.
he should take advantage of kuwait being a business sandbox and just milk it to the ground like everybody else that pretends to love kuwait bc they make money here.
look at what happened tot he stockmarket to prove my point. who got hurt the most? hahahahahaah
holla: “the fact that small businesses can thrive here is…due to the lack of proper regulations and government corruption.” I don’t entirely agree with this. Yes, corruption does exist, but it does everywhere in the world. That’s not why small businesses can thrive. They can thrive because, thankfully, not everyone in this country has been seduced by big business. It was a sad day when they shut down our neighborhood bakalas…and I sincerely hope it doesn’t start a trend. “When the economy expands, competition will increase and there will be less room for these silly businesses and you will see a lot shut down. you thing having a million shops that sell the same shit is good for the economy?” Absolutely! Why are they “silly businesses”? Obviously they exist and survive because they get business – people go to them – and if, as you said earlier, some are only making enough money to break even, so be it. Again, not everybody’s obsessed about making a huge profit. Some people are happy just doing their job and satisfying a need. Maybe bakalas weren’t making millions – most were probably just breaking even. But they satisfied a local need and many people, myself included, felt they were a part of our neighborhood. How annoying is it now that everytime you wanna get a can of Coke you have to drive to the coop, find parking, wait in line, etc. Maybe bakalas and tailors and barber shops or this Universal store aren’t bolstering Kuwait’s economy, but so what? They aren’t draining it either. Yes, a disproportionately large number of business are owned by the same small number of families, and Kuwait has a major franchise market (I take offense to the use of the term “shithole”), but at least it’s been able to strike a balance. At least these small “silly” businesses can still survive. And you know what, I’ve been proud over the past couple of years to see new kinds of small businesses emerging in Kuwait. Businesses like Choowy Goowy, and Burger Boutique, and Edo. Homegrown places being opened by young Kuwaitis who are sick of the franchise monopolies. Small business doesn’t just mean shawarma places and this Universal store.
M: I wasn’t putting you in the same category as holla – I was just commenting to you both! 🙂 Your comment about this guy finding a niche in the market is true – what he’s done is creative and maybe it’s not perfect, but hey, at least he’s trying! As for his English, sure, English might be the universal language in business, but I didn’t think it was that bad. He got his point across, didn’t he? That’s all that matters. The are a lot of people in Kuwait who are fluent in English, but when it comes to writing, their grammar isn’t perfect. And that’s fine. Communication, especially in business, is about getting your point across. It doesn’t have to be about getting your point across in a perfectly fluent sentence. As for the rest of your reply to my comment, right on! “…at least the gov’t doesn’t have their hands in your backpocket constantly. I beleive THIS is what keeps good competition, prices down and most importantly the power in the consumers hands rather the conglomorates.” Amen to that. And let’s hope it stays there.
noname: Well put, especially about the lack of education. Why are people complaining about what they think are shitty little businesses when there are much bigger fish to fry in this country – like our school system! You hit the nail right on the head. THAT is what is ultimately damaging our economy in the long run. Poor education, combined with mundane and useless government jobs where you have 10 people doing the job of one. Can anyone say “drain on the economy”???
Holy crap that was a long comment. Sorry Mark!
TweeZ: ee, fee! 🙂
K- i understand what you are trying to say bc you are comming at it from a humane view, but the truth is as kuwait economy expands there will be less and less of this small bueiness type stuff simpley bc a mature economy has no place for things like repeat small businesses.
what i am suggesting is since that kwuaiti economy is realtively young, to put strong regulations to minimise repeat businesses to insure it has a good START. remember all over the world they used to have this golden age of small businesses, look at the the US for instance, they used to be the same with a completely open economy then everybody and their dog immigrated over there and opened up baba’s kwik e mart and shit upon the economy so hard and now are forced to shut down bc of increased regulations. this is what will happen in kuwait eventually and already is to the small extent. all these silly businesses are looking for SHORT term personal gain and not looking to in anayway enrich the economy as a whole-this is a grave mistake. this will lead to terrible results in the long run where big corps will surive economical slumps bc they have so much money but small businesses will be forced out of the marketplace.
what i am trying to say is that ppl in kuwait do not think about the long term and they are just so greedy they just want to make fast money by openeing just ANYTHING. this will catch up to them in the long term just like it did with any other mature economy.
this problem with shortsighteness and extreme greed stems from the kuwaiti social system. it’s not a suprise to evalute kuwaiti economy when you understand that it stems from deep social issues. when the mentality is forced to change (and trust me it will when profits go down) you will see the economy change.
holla: All I can say is that I hope I never reach the day when I believe that economics CAN’T be approached from a humane perspective. That business ISN’T personal. I haven’t heard a comment as definitively and blindly capitalist (capitalist in the worst possible way) as what you’ve said, in a long time. I sincerely hope more Kuwaitis don’t share your opinion. About small businesses “shitting” on the economy. About people in Kuwait being essentially greedy and short-sighted. Yes, there is a tremendous amount of short-sightedness in planning and things like that in Kuwait, yes, there are a large number of greedy people who are only interested in making a buck. But I’m glad that I am also able to see the positive our country has to offer too. Seeing the positive in it is what motivates me to devote my entire life to trying to change and fix it.
K: this is the way things have progressed before, it’s not like i am speculating on pure negativity, i am just being REALISTIC and speculating based on how other economies have progressed.
kuwait is NOT going to be the first business/social utopia that you so much dream about. it’s not now and will be even less so in the future as things get a lot more strict in an economical sense. it’s just the way the world works my friend and the way it works in kuwait is even more fucked up than other places. don’t bother with what little positive kuwait has to offer, it will be forced to fix itself when it starts running out of money and the people? well they will either leave or be forced to adapt too.
you know i am not being overly negative or pulling this out of my arse bc ‘omg q8 sux d00d’. look at all the excess money the western world had in the 80’s and look at how silly they were spending bc they thought the economy would never slump. look at them now. even the 90’s dot com boom has gone to hell. the problem with positivity in business is that it makes you lose track of DETAILS. details in a true business are life or death. the word ‘detail’ and ‘kuwait’ do not go in the same sentence together.
you want to fix kuwait? be fucking realistic for one time in your life and start fixing the fucking potholes in the road before you build another fucking gigantic mall with no bathrooms and 2 parking spots. it’s a fucking joke and it’s nto even funny the 10000000th time it gets repeated.
That’s funny – you started out this discussion shitting on the small businesses, now you’re shitting on the big businesses and gigantic shopping malls. Don’t really seem to have a coherent argument here, do you? I actually feel sorry for you, for how cynical you are. Sure, Kuwait has millions of problems – politically, economically, and socially – and I am usually the first to admit to that and even point them out. But the difference is, I’m not a cynical person – I look for the positive and focus my attention and energy on those and work from there to keep improving it. The reasons Kuwait has as many problems as it does are twofold: 1) there are people who just don’t see the problems and love the fact that Kuwait is turning into one big stripmall, and just go with it, and 2) there are people like yourself, who are so full of cynicism and negativity and disdain – you not only add to the problem, you actually make things worse because you see the negative and just bitch and moan about it and do nothing. Sad. And on that note, I am going to end my side to this discussion because it is going nowhere and I have better things to do with my time. Actually, I’ll say one more thing. If you hate the place so much, and think “omg q8 sux d00d”, why don’t you just leave?
I am amazed at the need for such profanity when addressing a debate about such a serious issue. One who uses it immediately shows that what they are saying has no merit.
Holla’s comments seem to be contradictory. The one point that I can see coming out of a rather convaluted argument is that he wants Kuwait to continue going towards a big business only situation, where only millionaires can compete. I am not sure what his opinion on small business is. He seems to think they are all terrible, which I disagree with.
As for the future of Kuwait… I hope to God it is not left in the hands of such cynical men. I hope that people like K, who seems to have a balanced, studied view of the status quo, rather than a hysterical reaction using the typical negative rhetoric that we hear so often, I hope such people will be in charge of Kuwait’s future…
I, too, am proud of the small, creative, innovative business people in Kuwait. I hope they continue to thrive. I also hope that the Kuwaiti people continue to become less tolerant of larger franchise businesses – because a lot of the time they have the WORST customer service and treat their staff terribly and do not put money back into their businesses.
I will end with a small example… I never bought anything that was one month away from expiration from a baqala.
I dont get it?
awww no name did i hurt your lil virgin ears with the TRUTH and added profanity? hehehe that’s kinda funny considering that you probably love 2pac and eminem and think they are geniuses dispite all the profanity they spew.
let’s put it this way: there is more room for the word “fuck” in business than the word “love”. your cuntry is in the hands of a greedy few families that will happily abandon this place if there was no money left in it. the royal family dumped this place during the invasion for fuck’s sake. have you ever heard of a captain abandoning his ship/plane while it’s going down? shows you how much they give a fuck.
grow the fuck up and start fixing the small shit in your country instead of dreaming about the future and paying someone else to build your country for you. kuwait was built on the blood, sweat and tears of foreigners who come here to make a living. you don’t see many of them starting stupid worthless businesses like the lazy kuwaitis that do bc they are sick of waking up at 8am to go to work.
oh BTW, the stuff i am talkign about is ALREADY happening. The wishful bullshit you spew is just that.
Keep on dreaming while you look around you and you are surrounded by big business taking over and building huge towers and malls while you are driving around for 30mins looking for a parking spot on a non paved road in salmiya and all the ancillary workers are rioting over working conditions in khaitan or whatever far from the equally shitty kuwaiti inner suburb you live in where you are safe to have these stupid fantasy dreams.
being realistic about what you have and being content with it is ok, but imaginning stupid shit to keep lying to yourself is pretty pathetic.
Wow, holla, you sure have a lot of anger in you. Throughout the course of this discussion, you haven’t come off as intelligent or educated, you have just come off as utterly pathetic. I wrote a reply to you yesterday but for some reason it didn’t get posted here, and I was about to rewrite it but now I’m not even going to bother. Your cynicism, animosity, and hatred are not even worthy of a response anymore. Whereas earlier in this discussion I felt I disagreed with you and thought it worthwhile to engage in this conversation, now I just feel sorry for you. Especially since you have made yourself out to be quite a loser here, one with absolutely no coherent argument or point. The one thing I will say is this: if you hate Kuwait so much, GET THE FUCK OUT!! It is the presence of specimen like you that have made our country have as many problems as it does.
I am amazed at how many things you assume about people you have never met or spoken to. I am proud to actually contribute something to this country. I work full time (and by that I mean actually work, not just sit around and complain – my job is from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.). In addition to my full-time job, I own a small business that has been up and running and thriving in Kuwait since the early 80’s (I work there in the evenings after my job). I also spend time doing things for other causes like cancer research and the environment. I also support a good many struggling manual worker by subsidising their salaries. I believe, however small it may seem to you, that people like me make a difference. Now, do you think you could take a moment away from your profanity and empty accusations to tell us all what you contribute to our society? It seems you know everything little thing that is wrong, so I, too, will make assumptions about you – I assume you are doing something to fix these problems? Since you think you are better than the big name families and the royal family in that you would never abandon Kuwait – then I assume you are doing something to help. What is it?
I think he is a doctor.
My previous replies have not posted on here yet for some reason but at this point I’m not gonna even bother re-writing them (I’m actually not even sure this comment is gonna get through). Noname: you don’t even need to dignify this pathetic excuse for existence with a logical reply. He’s just a waste of space in my books (and a waste of our national resources and services). Tweez, he could NEVER be a doctor because doctors are humane and this guy has already made it explicit to us that he does not believe in humanity. It’s all about the cold, hard cash. Sad, isn’t it?
I think he is a teacher.
sorry, arabic teacher…they dont care about humanity.
Tweez: LOOOOOOOOOOOL!!! Yes, he is an Arabic teacher at one of those shitty English schools that only takes students that have been expelled from all the other private schools in Kuwait. That is why he is so angry and frustrated.
it was just a wild guess, I swear.
ooooh man yall lucky mark is deleting some of my more abrasive comments or your fragile lil eyes would have been thoroughly raped. i’ll stop now heh.
ok, so are you an Arabic teacher?
actually i answered that in one of the deleted posts tweez.
i find it hilarious that yall think i am prob some disgruntled massri teacher working in an english school that is jealous of kuwait or something. shows how disconnected yall are from reality.
most of the arabi expats here are so pussy-whipped by kuwait anyway that they wouldn’t dare post the stuff i do.
im sorry man, but you kinda gave the impression. So, what do you do?
I recently got hired as a reporter for a local newspaper. My job is to research and uncover the underbelly of kuwait and write about it to the deaf masses, continually pushing the envelope.
i also do computer work on the side for a mate’s PC shop, not for profit but for free and the pure amusment i get from teaching these monkeys a thing or two about easy stuff. my friend shares my thoughts about business in kuwait and his shop doing so well alhamdullilah hahahaa.
cool, which newspaper? I wanna read your articles. I think you have a lot of interesting stuff to say about Kuwait. I’d like to know more about this country.
We didn’t say you were jealous of Kuwait. I just said you were bitter and angry – in general, in life. It’s just that your excessive animosity against Kuwait seems to beg some underlying reason for your hatred. I ask, once again, if you hate this country so much and can’t find a single thing positive to say about it, then, seriously, why are you here? Since it’s obvious you’d be happier someplace else, why not just leave? What’s holding you to the place? Could it be the fact that you have a job here that you wouldn’t be able to get anywhere else? Heh…surprise, surprise.
Better tell your friend to watch out because, according to your prediction, his useless, silly – sorry, “shitty” – little “PC shop” is going to get shut down one day and be replaced by a big corporate franchise like Best Buy.
i don’t hate kuwait, i just don’t really love it and honestly i don’t have to. i know that’s such a tough concept for the primitive nationalistic arab mind to understand. there are some things you can’t choose in life like which country/religion/family you are born in but bc you are human and have such an advanced brain (ha ha) you can choose to NOT like it if it doesn’t work for you. also doesn’t mean you can temporarily put up with shit you don’t like. amazing concept isn’t it?
btw i already tried leaving here for good but unfortunately kuwait isn’t poor enough or in war for me to seek asylum or any other legal immigration venue. it’s not so simple to leave but i guess most ppl here wouldn’t even know where to begin on that, that’s why they are here and not anywhere else. i’ll be looking for other ways to leave here in the future don’t worry about it.
oh and my friend knows this that’s why i said he shares my ideas regarding business. he’s just shitting on the economy to make a quick buck like most everyone else here. can you not read what i wrote mate? i doubt his shop will even stay open till next year but he doesn’t really care too much.
K- i could get paid a hella lot more in countries where they actually respect freedom of speech. the fact that i work is here is bc i live here.
however since you mention it, it is true my last job being a lazy IT guy in the hukkuma i couldn’t get anywhere else. that’s actually REALLY sad. in the end i had to get out bc i was feeling so useless working a cushy dead end job. getting paid to be a lazy POS kuwaiti slob is your idea of heaven? hahahah thanks for shooting yourself in the foot.
i can say positive things about kuwait….shawerma is cheap here and like ummm gas is cheap here uhhh heh this is hard heh.
“getting paid to be a lazy POS kuwaiti slob is your idea of heaven? hahahah thanks for shooting yourself in the foot.” Uhh…where did you get that from? I haven’t mentioned anything about working in the government sector. I like how you pull things out of your ass. Like I mentioned before, nothing you said here has followed any sort of a logical, coherent, or intelligent argument. And what I’ve said here has nothing to do with being nationalistic. I can identify 1001 problems with Kuwait and I am usually the first to admit that. The difference is, I add value to this country by doing something with my life to help make a difference. All you do is complain, and, by my standards, people who just sit and complain are nothing but part of the problem. Let’s hope you finally take this new opportunity you have on the newspaper to write something constructive and interesting (and educated) and not just whine like you have here. You might thing you sound all radical and cool – really you just sound adolescent and pathetic.
umm you sure seem to understand enough of my argument to be against it so i don’t know how i am suddenly not making sense to you.
i guessing you started learning english first when you started university through ESL? i guess my stuff is jsut too advanced for ya, that’s cool i’ll jsut keep swearing and you’ll eventually get my point heh.
i am not worrying too much about your worthless opinion of me. opinions are like arseholes everybody has one. ppl much more important than yourself think highly enough of me enough to hire me to express myself, and that’s what counts. i am getting paid to write so obviously i making sense to someone who can speak proper english and isn’t offended by swear words like a 95 year old nun. my thoughts are only ‘cool’ and ‘radical’ in such a primitive country like kuwait. your ignorance makes me about 10000x more special than i really am, thank you for proving my point. i love it when i am right 😀
holla – You keep changing your mind about things! Your problem is that you are not making a sinlge argument that you then do not go on to contradict. I do not understand where you get this arrogance and belief that you are better and more intelligent than everyone here. I carry two Master’s degrees from Ivy League universities in the US. I grew up tri-lingual. I do not work for the government. And if English is your first lanaguage, I would get grammar lessons pronto! K does not make a single error in her comments, whereas yours are rife with inconsistencies (both linguistic and content-based). You would not get a job anywhere else in the world, except maybe with the Fox news network or another such tabloid-esque “news” establishment. You lack all of the essentials for reporting: a knowledge of grammatical conventions and an ability to apply them; an ability to write based on fact rather than hype; the ability to recognize that you do not know it all and a desire to seek knowledge always. Forget trying for a visa buddy. As an American (I am American/Kuwaiti), I can tell you, we don’t want you!
(Note to more intelligent life forms – This is why I sometimes hate blogging; it gives losers a God complex when they compare themselves to other losers and think they are hot stuff by comparison. When you compare crap to crap, it is still crap – it’s just that it might be more fresh.)
The comment above was directed at holla.
Noname: Thank you for the compliment about my writing, but why do you assume I’m a she? About blogging – yes you’re right – it does give so many people a God complex and a sense of worth, which is kind of sad because that means they don’t get that kind of validation in real life. “When you compare crap to crap, it is still crap – it’s just that it might be more fresh.” So so true. So many people in Kuwaiti blogworld spend all their time making fun of everyone and everything in Kuwait and elsewhere, and do so purely to try and make themselves seem so much “cooler” in comparison. They’re not criticizing or critiquing Kuwait to be constructive and engage in useful dialogue – thta kind of critique is actually beneficial to this country – but most are just whining to show how much “better” (they think) they are. It’s sad…because there are so many of them out there. Like you said, it’s all still crap. But on the flip side, there are some very worthwhile Kuwaiti bloggers who do know how to participate in intelligent (and intelligible) discussions.
Hmmm…my previous comment to holla seems to have disappeared. Oh well. Maybe it’ll come back.
k – I went back and reread my comment and I wanted to clarify: I did not mean you when I said crap… I was talking about holla comparing himself to losers in the blog world! You sound like an intelligent person (I said ‘she’ before just because I am a ‘she’ and just assumed you were, for no apparent reason!)
oh wow ivy league yank ultra-nerd noname i am thoroughly impressed. i wouldn’t apply to your other POS country either sorry mate. just make sure your beloved sandnigger country doesn’t get a hold of your western passport. they are cracking down on that kind of thing now.
this an informal blog so obviously i don’t take the time to run my comments through MS word spellcheck and cut and paste it on to here to make myself look so intelligent like you prob do.
ok guys, this is getting outta hand. Where’s the love?!
holla – You are a sad specimen. You need a spellchecker and a cut and paste job on your brain (or lack thereof). You are so arrogant to believe everyone is inferior to you. No, we do not need spellchecks. Yes, we went to school. Yes, we have brains. No, you are not worth a dime. “Sandnigger” is a racial slur – yet more proof of your vulgarity. I have figued out that you have used it to mask your worthlessness. Go take a flying leap.
tweez – I think the love disappeared when this creature could not handle a debate and masked his insecurities with profanity and personal attacks. And so I waste no love on him. And after this, I will waste no more time on him either.
Mark – It is a sad day when people like holla use your blog to air their hate and hot air. I am all for blogging and discussions they spark. It is just hard to stomach some of the comments you get from pathetic, uneducated people. Too bad you can’t choose your audience. You would get more serious and less vulgar commentary.