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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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				 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    
 
I think you're just playin for a fight    | 
			 
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		veiledsentiments
 
  
  Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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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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	  | 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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