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scot47
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 Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:15 am Post subject: Tylos |
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| Ah. Bahrain ! The Tylos and Gulf Gate await us as we sit in Saudi dreaming of cold beer and gin and tonic. |
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kaw
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Better stock up - seems as if the hotels won't be serving anything stronger than 7-up during ramadan.... |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, and I hear the hookers refrain from hooking in the Holy Month. |
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kaw
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| Logic will say that lack of alcohol in the bars will mean lack of US MArines and Saudis = lack of 'ladies of the night'.......... we shall see....well I won't as am off on my hols - at last. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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Being of a Scottish Presbyterian background I use neither ardent spirits nor the harlots of Bahrain.
Well not any more. Well not very much. And certainly NOT in Ramadan ! |
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kaw
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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The question is would a Scot ever dig into their pockets in the first place?  |
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dmb
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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| kaw wrote: |
| The question is would a Scot ever dig into their pockets in the first place? |
When you say their I assume you mean somebody English. So of course a Scot would always delve into a Englishman's pocket if a drink was on offer. I'll have a Guiness.  |
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veiledsentiments
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Ah... so it requires an analysis learned in your Pragmatics and/or Sociolinguistics courses in order to get beyond surface structure to the real meaning...
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kaw
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry looks like you've missed out with Ramadan starting today and all that - oh well only a month to go. I'll be thinking of you when I'm sitting on a beach being force fed exotic alocholic beverages. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:59 am Post subject: Re: Tylos |
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| scot47 wrote: |
| Ah. Bahrain ! The Tylos and Gulf Gate await us as we sit in Saudi dreaming of cold beer and gin and tonic. |
Get a job with BAE and then you can stay at a decent hotel. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:08 am Post subject: |
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They do not employ aged and infirm people.
And they are a bunch of milit@rists ! |
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mistral
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: Weekends on Bahrain |
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| thrifty wrote: |
| scot47 wrote: |
| Ah. Bahrain ! The Tylos and Gulf Gate await us as we sit in Saudi dreaming of cold beer and gin and tonic. |
Get a job with BAE and then you can stay at a decent hotel. |
Weekend on Bahrain. You can choose between:
Staying in luxury hotels and having to spend the week at BAE babysitting airforce cadets
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Staying in budget hotels and spending the week at a lower paid but probably more rewarding job, ie. have a life.
Get a life. You're not going to live forever. |
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scot47
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Mistral thanks for pointing out that the $$$$'s at the end of the month are NOT the only factor. Has anyone EVER met ANYONE who had ANYTHING positive to say about BAE ?
Apart from the obscene salaries that is ! |
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scot47
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One of my colleagues has been praising the facilties at the Youth Hostel in Manama.
Am I in the wrong job ? I mean at MY age they are telling me to go and overnight in a Youth Hostel ? |
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veiledsentiments
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Sounds like advice from someone who is into extreme savings... even when I was college age, the hostel scene would not have appealed.
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