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scot47
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| You will have to read my memoirs. |
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LPKSA
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2014 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| All the alcoholics I see form their little circles, which are destructive to the living environment. They try to get you to join their circle, to buy their friends through alcohol, because they are possibly insecure? I have seen enough. Drinking, everyone is doing it. Making those who choose not to do so and outcast; a lot of the alcoholics I see are doing it. Right, it's cool... when you're 18. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Report them to the Mutawah ! |
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cnthaiksarok
Joined: 29 Jun 2012
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Location: between a rock and a sandy place
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| scot47 wrote: |
| Report them to the Mutawah ! |
Fade In:
Muttawah ambling up a marble staircase as he shifts in his thobe and paws low towards the hem to yank it up closer to his knees.
He finally reaches the massive entrance and finds a fashionable green rope serving as a pull cord.
The doorbell sounds-out loudly like a muffled passage of the Holy Qu'ran and the mattawah sighs with delight and giggles at himself while realizing he had been slightly worried about this unannounced visit pre-departure.
Now, he takes the soothing words echoing through the passageways to his left and right as an auspicious sign and settling his spine, prepares to gush with happy greetings.
The door swings inside revealing a cavern of ornate walls and gaudy furniture.
A tall, brutish, impossibly hairy male who looks like he just crawled out of three days and nights in the deepest of the emptiest quarters appears donning a Sudanese thobe and a sword strapped to his back.
Mattawah: "As-Sallam-Alaykum, Sabahu-Al-Kaiyr."
Only the sound of a deep exhalation by the giant...and a look of slight boredom as the last of the prayer-like door-calls fizzles out leaving only silence.
Mattawah: (changing his tactic to urgent) "I need to tell the prince about some infidels drinking spirits on one of his compounds!"
Bodyguard: (face reaching out and down with a full flexing neck extending it further until his eyebrows are scraping the edge of the muttawah's once perfectly positioned agal) and in an extremely rude manner the monster bellows out:
"THE PRINCE IS BUSY!"
(door slams)
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jaffa
Joined: 25 Oct 2012
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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There's a Saudi drunkard - shrivelled, distorted, red face, has trouble walking in a straight line - who lives in my neighourhood and staggers over to the mosque while shouting stuff. He's a local legend. I'm praying he gets hold of the microphone before I leave.
Westerners ...? Too many to count. One guy got wasted on Sid, went up to sunbathe on the roof, fell asleep, came down burnt to a crisp and dead as a dodo.
Another guy bladdered at 7am, picking fights on the streets of al-Ahsa, who got put in a straitjacket and deported in an ambulance.
The Bahrain International Hotel in Manama is a popular sightseeing spot offering an alternative view of what the mainlanders get up to at the weekend. |
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LPKSA
Joined: 02 Mar 2014
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| jaffa wrote: |
Westerners ...? Too many to count. One guy got wasted on Sid, went up to sunbathe on the roof, fell asleep, came down burnt to a crisp and dead as a dodo.
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Wait, so he went sunbathing on the roof, passed out and came down burnt and dead? Was he carried down? I'm confused? That's ridiculous. |
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nomad soul
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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Location: The real world
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 4:10 am Post subject: |
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| jaffa wrote: |
| There's a Saudi drunkard - shrivelled, distorted, red face, has trouble walking in a straight line - who lives in my neighourhood and staggers over to the mosque while shouting stuff. He's a local legend. I'm praying he gets hold of the microphone before I leave. |
What you label as drunk may instead be a case of mental illness and not substance abuse. |
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plumpy nut
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 5:28 am Post subject: |
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| jaffa wrote: |
One guy got wasted on Sid, went up to sunbathe on the roof, fell asleep, came down burnt to a crisp and dead as a dodo.
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Was the guy actually dead or is this just poetic license? My God what a horrible way to die! |
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Cletus
Joined: 30 Apr 2014
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Location: Qassim
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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True story. An old roommate I had years back in KSA said he accepted a position as a means to sober up. He lasted less than a month and when he was told visiting Bahrain every weekend had to stop, he went crazy.
At first it was funny. I mean walking around the compound in his boxers and smoking was amusing. I thought seeing an overweight Brit making a fool of himself was akin to Monty Python to me. After several week of this, I grew tired of him and became hopeful he would stop but it continued and got worse.
Finally, when he screamed at our Saudi military support commander, things went south fast. All I remember was one day he was living in a room on the second floor of our apartment and the next day there wasn't anything of his to be found.
It's been three years and I have not heard from him. I would ask if anyone has seen a drunk overweight Brit wearing AC/DC underwear, could you tell him hello for me. |
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Grendal
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
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Location: Lurking in the depths of the Faisaliah Tower underground parking.
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| plumpy nut wrote: |
| jaffa wrote: |
One guy got wasted on Sid, went up to sunbathe on the roof, fell asleep, came down burnt to a crisp and dead as a dodo.
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Was the guy actually dead or is this just poetic license? My God what a horrible way to die! |
I believe I heard this legend when working in Al Ahsa in 2009. It will become a myth soon.
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2buckets
Joined: 14 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Saudis come to Dubai, arrive at hotel, immediately go to the bar, (have their luggage sent up to room), get on a stool in the bar, and proceed to drink until they literally fall off the stool. Hotel staff carry him up to his room. |
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jaffa
Joined: 25 Oct 2012
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| plumpy nut wrote: |
| Was the guy actually dead or is this just poetic license? My God what a horrible way to die! |
He was carried down by an ambulance crew. When the Aramco guys found him, they said he was just about conscious and mumbling. Imagine that. No surprise that story did the rounds, Grendal.
Nomad Soul, he's a boozer. Kind of like a movie caricature of one.
One of the few things I enjoy here is sobriety - sleep well, wake up fresh, look ok, enjoy a variety of teas and do a lot of exercise. Whenever on holiday boozing becomes a very enjoyable pastime but I know plenty who are straight off to Bahrain every weekend. |
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CANDLES
Joined: 01 Nov 2011
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Location: Wandering aimlessly.....
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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It happens also in women's only compound. Come back drunk and then pick fights or jump in the pool, either fully clothed or half naked!
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cmp45
Joined: 17 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 9:53 am Post subject: |
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| CANDLES wrote: |
It happens also in women's only compound. Come back drunk and then pick fights or jump in the pool, either fully clothed or half naked!
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It's a mad mad mad world! |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Some of the posters here may have led a sheltered life before ending up in KSA. |
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