World's New Tallest Building

[Rider]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

I have no fear of heights so I'd do it! Those guys make BANK!!!

So do crack dealers, and it's not any less hazardous.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Rider

That place is really different from the last time I was there(1993). I don't even recognize the skyline. It's a cool city and they are very "western" tolerant so jokes about crashing planes into their buildings is really not funny. They do have a ton of money, their police cars are Mercedes Benz. They are also one of the very few places in the middle east you can drink alcohol.

Okay, I totally apologize about my very inappropriate joke... Besides, "we" don't have to do anything to them, I'm sure that the Muslim extremists have them squarely in their sights as traitors, infidels and blasphemers! Heck, they probably hate them more than they hate us!

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Rider

So do crack dealers, and it's not any less hazardous.

Aw come on, when was the last time you heard of a crane operator dying on the job? If you want to worry about someone, worry about the monkeys that have to stand on the steel and "catch/attach" the new girders. Now THAT'S man's work there buddy!!!

[Rider]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Okay, I totally apologize about my very inappropriate joke... Besides, "we" don't have to do anything to them, I'm sure that the Muslim extremists have them squarely in their sights as traitors, infidels and blasphemers! Heck, they probably hate them more than they hate us!

Hey I'm just saying they are not like other Islamic countries. Most people don't know how "westernized" they have become. Just trying to educate Tigs, not laying the smack down on you or anything.

[Rider]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Aw come on, when was the last time you heard of a crane operator dying on the job? If you want to worry about someone, worry about the monkeys that have to stand on the steel and "catch/attach" the new girders. Now THAT'S man's work there buddy!!!

When was the last time you heard of a crack dealer dying on the job? Not because it doesn't happen, it's because it's not news worthy, but that's an entirely different subject..

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Rider

Hey I'm just saying they are not like other Islamic countries. Most people don't know how "westernized" they have become. Just trying to educate Tigs, not laying the smack down on you or anything.

Oh I'm not taking it that way at all! Now that I can sleep regular and ain't sick all the time, my demeanor is 100% better!!! I'm actually fully versed in the Middle East and am always trying to learn more, know your enemy I always say. Heck, I took Russian back when I was stationed in Europe during the Cold War!

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Rider

When was the last time you heard of a crack dealer dying on the job? Not because it doesn't happen, it's because it's not news worthy, but that's an entirely different subject..

Um just this week... I'll see if I can find the story. Our local news covers it every time someone is shot/killed. Apparently, loss of life is more "news worthy" here than it is there...

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Rider

Hey I'm just saying they are not like other Islamic countries. Most people don't know how "westernized" they have become. Just trying to educate Tigs, not laying the smack down on you or anything.

They are actually pretty two faced about that, tourists don't really see it because that's their new oil, but it's there. My parents got a more accurate view living there for a few years. They have strange laws, most accidents are always a tourists fault because you were there in their country, they have eased up on this one more. My parents had their house broken into by locals and basically were told tough shit. If the robbers wouldn't have left when the alarm went off and my dad would of confronted them and hit them with the baseball bat he had to protect them, he would of went to jail because he is a foreigner and they are locals. The locals break into the houses where my dad and mom lived a lot during christmas because it was a compound for the oil company and everyone (foreigners because the locals pretty much don't work and contract all that shit out) usually went home for christmas holidays, but my dad and mom were home that season when it happened. It's a weird place, they allow the tourists a little more freedom because they are greedy sons a bitches. The Russians really fuck with them there. The russian women basically wear nothing and it drives em fucking crazy.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Um just this week... I'll see if I can find the story. Our local news covers it every time someone is shot/killed. Apparently, loss of life is more "news worthy" here than it is there...

With around 800 homicides a year the city picks and chooses which are reported. Most of the crack dealer shootings arent news worthy unless theres some collateral damage. hell most of the shootings/murders that come through our ER or kings county arent newsorthy unless its a cop.

Tom

[CasterTroy]

Originally Posted by tommymac

With around 800 homicides a year the city picks and chooses which are reported. Most of the crack dealer shootings arent news worthy unless theres some collateral damage. hell most of the shootings/murders that come through our ER or kings county arent newsorthy unless its a cop.

Tom

Damn

They're just above reporting the general obits every night here