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EnglishDoYouSpeakIt
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 Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:42 am Post subject: Home Depot equivalent in Riyadh? |
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| I want to start some DIY projects but need things like lumber and nails and stuff. Is there a big box home improvement store in Riyadh? Any suggestions? Thanks! |
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jaffa
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scot47
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Readers from outside US would not know what "Home Depot" is. Why assume that we are all familiar with the way things are in the former colonies ?
Spell out what you want in simple words for us witless folk ! Some of us did not escape from Hanoverian tyranny when you did ! |
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cmp45
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Location: KSA
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: Home Depot equivalent in Riyadh? |
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| EnglishDoYouSpeakIt wrote: |
| I want to start some DIY projects but need things like lumber and nails and stuff. Is there a big box home improvement store in Riyadh? Any suggestions? Thanks! |
ca'mon Scot47!
You need to learn to develop your inference skills. You should be able to connect lumber, nails and stuff to hardware thus making the connection home improvement(Home Depot)=hardware store, even if you didn't know what DYI stood for you could still make a reasonable guess based on the information the OP provided. OR you could have just googled it 
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Not to mention that Scot always does the same thing with his occasional obscure UKian/Scotlandian references...
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scot47
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| But I LIKE complaining. Haven't you people seen Willie on the Simpsons ! I am he - minus the red beard ! |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:59 am Post subject: |
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The Newbies often don't know your cantankerous ways... though cmp45 is used to you by now. 
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cmp45
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| scot47 wrote: |
| But I LIKE complaining. Haven't you people seen Willie on the Simpsons ! I am he - minus the red beard ! |
You know about the Simpsons, but not Home Depot?  |
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scot47
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| They have the Simpsons everywhere - even in barbarous Turkey where they have been in the news recently. Home Depot is to be found only in the US |
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Canuck Gal
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Not true. We have Home Depot in Canada. |
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johnslat
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scot47
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Within the Labour Movement (or LABOR if you prefer) there was a joke. An International Union is an American Union with one branch in Canada. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| cmp45 wrote: |
| scot47 wrote: |
| But I LIKE complaining. Haven't you people seen Willie on the Simpsons ! I am he - minus the red beard ! |
You know about the Simpsons, but not Home Depot? |
The Simpsons were/are on TV all over the world. A mutual friend of Scot and me, who happened to be Irish, was a HUGE Simpsons fan and was shocked that I had never watched it.
And of course, in the Gulf, everyone has Sat TV which provides programs from all over the world.
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johnslat
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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If someone is a devotee of "The Simpsons," he/she should know about Homer Depot - oops, excuse me, Home Depot:
Homer: So why didn't you marry one of your crummy backup dancers?
Tabitha Vixx: They're day laborers. We pick them up in the Home Depot parking lot.
Home Depot: The commercial for "Dome Depot" is a parody of the store Home Depot.
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vashdown2
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| Yes, SACO. |
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