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biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

Am now in Saudi........it's pants.
Just thought I'd share that with you all.

Cleopatra · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject:

Go (back) to where the chicks are as cheap as the beer - and the employers.

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

Bebsi · Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 958

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

Do you mean Bahrain?
Actually I've done a lot of 'time' in the Gulf and there's much to be said for cheap beer.
As for cheap chicks?Most I've met were generally English or American and hung around on Ladies' nights in 5 star hotel bars in the M.E.As the man asked an expat woman returning to the U.K.;'how does it feel to be ugly again?'
Cheap employers....c'mon love this is E.F.L.I always enjoy passing all my students and being relegated to the role of babysitter as is the case in virtually every job I've done out here.
We're here for the money....and yes I will go back, but only when I've got enough to really enjoy the delights that the progressive world offers for as long as I want to.
No beer ,cheap chicks,get out....methinks you've gone native.

mouse5 · Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 142

You're right. Problem is that most single guys here end up living like hermits. Let's face it, we're here for the money. I chose to come because I got sick of living on the breadline in Europe. I don't care what other teachers say, you don't come to KSA to "further your career".

As for "recreation". There's plenty of it around without having to go to Bahrain every weekend.

trapezius · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:07 am Post subject:

You must have been absent the day in primary school when they taught you to put a space after a comma or the end of a sentence, and a line break after a paragraph.

Then again, all you have to know that is to pick up any written material, even if a newspaper or a magazine. So, have you have been absent from life as well?

Lord have mercy on your past, present, and future students.

P.S. Why bother putting a space after each word even? Imean,isn'titmucheasiertotypelikethis?ImagineNEVERhavingtohitthatpeskyspacebaragain!!!HavefuninSaudi,andhopeyoucanpickupafew"spaces"aswellasbeersandchicks!!!

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

Ill strt wrting my txts in full 2 Trapezius.
Get a life.
You've gotta be American.

Cleopatra · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

A bulging wallet does seem to be these chaps' most attractive feature.
If only the airlines would introduce a separate section for fat, beery, male expats.
"Would you prefer a window or aisle seat, sir? Obnoxious or non-obnoxious?"

Cleopatra · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject:

running dog · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 37

Ladies (if that's what you are), a little more decorum please. Some of us are still slim and svelte enough to fit into a tailored tuxedo and come over as the dark celtic-type (think Pierce Brosnan meets George Clooney). It's just that we get so little opportunity to turn on the charm. Put any male long enough in the desert without access to female company and we're all liable to turn into the worst kind of Aussie bar-fly.

Cleopatra · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: