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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

During my recent stay in hospital I was surprised to see that out of the 500+ channels on the sat tv there were no less than 4 devoted EXCLUSIVELY to camels.

Well, why not ? I have been in societies where males are obsessed with cars or football. An interest in camels is probably quite harmless.

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

Not really any different than a channel devoted to car racing.. Laughing

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With Malice Toward None · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 250

And quite environment-friendly, too. Not the camels, though. Our local zoo has put up a board which says, 'The camel bites' and he looks mean, really. But camel racing has its flop side, they use young children smuggled in illegally from Asian countries, much like the flesh trade,as jockeys. And who knows they are not smearing chilli paste on the poor camel's orifices?

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

With Malice Toward None · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 250

Any way, I believe automobile racing, rallies and stuff like that are the worst challenges to continued human (and other more innocent) inhabitation on earth. It promotes the most vulgar display of wealth, senseless spending, aggressive behaviour in young minds and affords the caligulas of the automobile industry unlimited splurging. If we do a count world over of young people permanently decapacitated by foolhardy ambitions of becoming the swiftest, you can see it's worse than WW II.

freesoul · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:51 am Post subject:

What is recently happening these days in UAE is that the VIPs are painstakingly trying to revive their heritage and sort of modernise it and make it presentable to their young generation. You can see now on UAE TVs a Nabati ( Bidwen Poetry) competition. Sword-in-the-air competition, Shooting competition, Camel racing and camel beauty pageant shows on TV. Basically, this is what constituted the Gulf man identity just a couple of decade ago.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=&section=theuae&xfile=data/theuae/2010/February/theuae_February101.xml

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/515922-dubai-crown-prince-buys-camel-for-record-27mn

The concept of having a ' royal blood' camel is very common in the gulf. Owning Camels (or the Desert Boat as named by Arabs) is very deeply rooted in the sentiment of the Arabs in the gulf and elsewhere.

With Malice Toward None · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 250

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

With Malice Toward None · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 250

trapezius · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:21 pm Post subject:

^ Completely irrelevant.

I thoroughly refuted what you said about auto racing. And if you have nothing to add, we are done!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I feel closer to the would-be-bedouins with their Camel TV than to the airheads who are into Formula 1 !

trapezius · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:07 pm Post subject:

I am not into F1, but I am not going to let it be maligned without reason.

And Scot dude, of course you feel closer to the bedouins and their camels... you can't even drive in this country! Wink

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Correction - I CHOOSE not to drive in this country !