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Kuwait-New and Improved?

 
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These days life in Kuwait is...
unbelievably exciting and "fun"-WOW! I Love it here!
25%
 25%  [ 2 ]
not overly exciting, but not bad either
37%
 37%  [ 3 ]
not so great-fairly depressing
37%
 37%  [ 3 ]
hell on earth
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
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Gnocchiman



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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2004 3:31 am    Post subject: Kuwait-New and Improved? Reply with quote
This comes from a conversation I had with some friends who still live there. They say that Kuwait is now a lot more "fun". I find it hard to believe, so I thought I should poll the experts.
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Bindair Dundat



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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2004 6:06 am    Post subject: Re: Kuwait-New and Improved? Reply with quote
Gnocchiman wrote:
This comes from a conversation I had with some friends who still live there. They say that Kuwait is now a lot more "fun". I find it hard to believe, so I thought I should poll the experts.


The only people I knew who ever thought Q8 was fun were the hard-drinking, all-night-partying types.
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Gnocchiman



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PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2004 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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The only people I knew who ever thought Q8 was fun were the hard-drinking, all-night-partying types.


I know! Me too. But these friends are not at all the hard-drinking partying types. That's what has me so darn confused!

Have Kuwaitis lost their "superiority complex?" Has the Al Sabah family turned into a bunch of body snatchers who have taken control of my friends? Is pork now available in places more respectable than the back of Korean lingerie stores? Or, now that Bindair Dundat brought it up, have my dear friends finally given up and are now hitting the homemade "wine" a little too hard? Or...and this is a stretch...has Q8 actually changed for the better? Please, experts, speak!
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Stephen Jones



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PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2004 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I do know that they finally allowed non-alcoholic beer a few years ago.

It was surreal to buy contraband alcohol-free Barbican smuggled in from Saudi at double the price.
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veiledsentiments



Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2004 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi Mr Gnocch,

It sounds to me like your friends may have just lucked into a batch of like-minded people. Something that can happen anywhere now and again. (and then just when things are going well, half of them leave for greener pastures in another country)

A friend of mine who has lived there for many years now is talking the opposite line. She is getting fed up with what she sees as a major decline in lifestyle.

VS
(somehow with the Gulf currently awash in $41 per barrel petrodollars, I have problems seeing the Kuwaitis losing their superiority complex, but perhaps I am just overly pessimistic Wink )
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Bindair Dundat



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PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2004 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gnocchiman wrote:
But these friends are not at all the hard-drinking partying types. That's what has me so darn confused!


I'd like to know just what these people are up to that is so darned much fun. Maybe it's time to send someone to investigate.

VS? How about you?

BD
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PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2004 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
aaaarrrrrgggghhhh.... not that.... anything but that... oh please, no... excuse me while I go slash my wrists.... Shocked Shocked Shocked

VS
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Gnocchiman



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PostPosted: Sat May 15, 2004 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
VS,

Please don't do anything rash! I'm Sure Bindair was joking!!! Take a couple deep breaths...there there...nobody is sending you back to that place...everything is going to be okay....

Maybe my friends just got a hold of some of Stephen's Barbican alcohol free beer that went bad-fermented or something. Cool

VS Wrote:
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A friend of mine who has lived there for many years now is talking the opposite line. She is getting fed up with what she sees as a major decline in lifestyle.
Wow... now I'm really confused...It can get worse????? Shocked
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PostPosted: Sat May 15, 2004 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Whew -- I made myself a cup of hot chocolate and now I am fine.

VS

On a slightly more serious note, I have friends that enjoyed their time in Kuwait. The Gulf is the type of place where you have to create your own 'fun.' My negativity towards the place is about 50% a terrible job situation and 50% hating the Kuwaiti bureaucracy. I guess I was spoiled by the ease of dealing with the Mogamma in Egypt. (a joke that will only be understood by those of us who lived in Egypt. Smile )
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