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Al-Mansoor
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Sheikh N Bake
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Al-Mansoor,
Well, my location says Santa Fe, NM. Of course, with a location such as Sheik N Bake has, I can see how some confusion might result.
I left Saudi in 2003, having spent nineteen years there working for the IPA in Jeddah ( four years) and Riyadh (fifteen years.)
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I am in Saudi, Qassim. One presumptuous newbie here had the gall to suggest I didn't actually live here, in a post some weeks ago. And that as an American I shouldn't read US embassy warnings! Well..I've been on Dave's for about a decade, and people who know me know I don't make up things like that just to make a point. Newbies should keep silly thoughts to themselves until THEY are trusted. |
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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Location: Shhh...don't talk to me...I'm playin' dead...
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Merry Christmas, everyone...
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Al-Mansoor
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Sheikh N Bake wrote: |
I am in Saudi, Qassim. One presumptuous newbie here had the gall to suggest I didn't actually live here, in a post some weeks ago. And that as an American I shouldn't read US embassy warnings! Well..I've been on Dave's for about a decade, and people who know me know I don't make up things like that just to make a point. Newbies should keep silly thoughts to themselves until THEY are trusted. |
I am told there are teaching vacancies in Qassim. How does it compare to the likes of Jeddah? |
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lcanupp1964
Joined: 12 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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I am "using creative ways" to write this message from within the hidden kingdom.
Another possible reason that the site is being blocked is all the bad press PMU has been getting on this site recently.
I'm embarrassed for the short-sighted and reactive approach. I feel pity towards the people that think this is the only solution (besides honestly trying to fix things).
Just one more way I feel alone and isolated in this place. At least the pay is good.
I feel like Charlie Brown who woke up on Christmas morning and found a rock in his stocking.
Welcome to China Jr. |
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isabel
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| Saudi is doing what facist states can do. The funny thing is, I am sure they are just being ostriches. They don't have to look at what is being posted and read in the rest of the world and what will keep any reasonably intelligent person from ever going to the Kingdom for work. In facrt, the blocking of Dave's will definitely prove what the various threads have been saying all along. And Dave would be foolish to allow recruiters and other to advertise positions in the Kingdom so long as his site is being blocked. |
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veiledsentiments
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I do believe that would be called "cutting off one's nose to spite one's face"
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
I do believe that would be called "cutting off one's nose to spite one's face"
VS |
Either that or one "being hoisted by one's own petard"...militarily speaking...
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celticbutterfly
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:19 am Post subject: |
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| Just hope the little bearded fascists from a certain next door country don't cotton on to this and block the site, too..... |
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isabel
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| The right thing for dave to do would be to cut off all advertising from the Kingdom so long as the website is blocked. |
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Sheikh N Bake
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:04 am Post subject: |
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| Never Ceased To Be Amazed wrote: |
Merry Christmas, everyone...
NCTBA |
Arrggghhh! Christmas is evil. Did ye not know this? This is what certain quarters of immigrants in Europe have been saying. Well that's what you get when you allow 5 or 10% of your country's population to come from certain regions! Please don't let this happen in my own country, please please. |
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Sheikh N Bake
Joined: 26 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:09 am Post subject: |
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| Al-Mansoor wrote: |
| Sheikh N Bake wrote: |
I am in Saudi, Qassim. One presumptuous newbie here had the gall to suggest I didn't actually live here, in a post some weeks ago. And that as an American I shouldn't read US embassy warnings! Well..I've been on Dave's for about a decade, and people who know me know I don't make up things like that just to make a point. Newbies should keep silly thoughts to themselves until THEY are trusted. |
I am told there are teaching vacancies in Qassim. How does it compare to the likes of Jeddah? |
Qassim is dreary, ugly, scrubby and Buraidah is a hellish place. Onaizah is a bit better, friendlier and more road-friendly. Qassim and Buraidah feature the worst driving I've ever seen anywhere, and I've driven almost everywhere.
It's not worth it to come here unless you are a strict practicing Muslim and/or your salary is really impressive. You won't get the big bucks at Qassim University, I can guarantee you; and the military base where I work is not hiring EFL people at the moment. |
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Al-Mansoor
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Sheikh N Bake wrote: |
Qassim is dreary, ugly, scrubby and Buraidah is a hellish place. Onaizah is a bit better, friendlier and more road-friendly. Qassim and Buraidah feature the worst driving I've ever seen anywhere, and I've driven almost everywhere.
It's not worth it to come here unless you are a strict practicing Muslim and/or your salary is really impressive. You won't get the big bucks at Qassim University, I can guarantee you; and the military base where I work is not hiring EFL people at the moment. |
Thanks for the info ya Sheikh! |
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veiledsentiments
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| isabel wrote: |
| The right thing for dave to do would be to cut off all advertising from the Kingdom so long as the website is blocked. |
As we said above... ad revenues are what keeps this place up and running... as long as the check clears what does he care if the forums are blocked for those who don't care to get around it with a proxy? 
It seems to be moot now that we have one person who just got on without a proxy.
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Al-Mansoor
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe the posters can donate to poor old Dave  |
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