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How not to go nuts in KSA?
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lcanupp1964



Joined: 12 Dec 2009
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, I have one!!! If you have over $150,000 US dollards - cash siting in a bank in your home city just waiting for you to start the next chapter in your life. Keeps me very sane and helps to put up with the stress that comes with living and working here. Laughing
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cmp45



Joined: 17 Aug 2004
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Location: KSA

PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lcanupp1964 wrote:
Hey, I have one!!! If you have over $150,000 US dollards - cash siting in a bank in your home city just waiting for you to start the next chapter in your life. Keeps me very sane and helps to put up with the stress that comes with living and working here. Laughing


Good one! Just don't get hit by a bus on the way to work tomorrow...knock on wood!
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scot47



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Having money in the bank is no talisman against going nuts. I can you show you lots of rich crazy foreigners in KSA.

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Ixchel



Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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Location: The 7th level of hell

PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scot47 wrote:
Having m oney in the bank is no talisman against going nuts. I can you show you lots of rich crazy foreigners in KSA.

Yeah but rich and crazy is better. I think you're then referred to as "eccentric."
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scot47



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The ones I am thinking of are 100% barking mad.
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niko martinez



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:57 am    Post subject: SCUBA Reply with quote

What about SCUBA diving? No one mentioned that here??
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scot47



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would take your interest in Scuba Diving as proof positive that you have gone mad. You are going to strap an air bottle on your back and go 100 meters down in the Red Sea ? Crackers !

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cmp45



Joined: 17 Aug 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Approximately 4 more weeks of teaching left for this school year...
anyone planning to teach over the summer? Laughing
How's 'al-cal'doing...???
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scot47



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Accept the inevitable and embrace your nuttiness.
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cmp45



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"embrace your nuttiness" Laughing
I like crunchy peanut butter. Does that count for embracing nuttiness?
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johnslat



Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This sums it up Very Happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s55QoIZScP4

Regards,
Sometimes nutty John
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Grendal



Joined: 13 Aug 2009
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Location: Lurking in the depths of the Faisaliah Tower underground parking.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't read Dave's while in Saudi. Very Happy

Grendal
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Charliedontsurf



Joined: 06 Jan 2013
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I arrived at work at 7am last month to find the entire school - staff, students, clerical staff, ancillary staff laid out in the main yard ....praying for rain. Rolling Eyes

It's moments like these that exercise my chuckle muscles and keep me plodding onward.
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cmp45



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Charliedontsurf wrote:
I arrived at work at 7am last month to find the entire school - staff, students, clerical staff, ancillary staff laid out in the main yard ....praying for rain. Rolling Eyes

It's moments like these that exercise my chuckle muscles and keep me plodding onward.


Looks like their prayers were answered...lots of rain today in Riyadh!
Never underestimate the power of prayer Razz
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scot47



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You see - being nasty to people who are nutty is simple NUTTISM !!!!
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