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avellana
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 Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject: Mr. Minger Free Zones? |
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Is the Middle East a good place for one who is trying to avoid sad old mingers on a wife hunt? 
I'd like to work alongside normal people who don�t have perverted racial preferences and illusions of grandeur. |
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Pollux
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you ever thought of working in Antarctica? |
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Cleopatra
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Is the Middle East a good place for one who is trying to avoid sad old mingers on a wife hunt? |
First the good news. The answer to your question is yes. This is beacuse a) the local women are totally off-limits, despite what you may see implied on a certain other thread on this page; and b) because "available" single expat women are so greatly outnumbered by single expat males that the Gulf is without any doubt a women's market.
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| I'd like to work alongside normal people who don�t have perverted racial preferences and illusions of grandeur. |
Now for the bad news: you won't find the type of colleagues you're looking for in the Gulf. |
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avellana
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:19 pm Post subject: South Pollux |
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Dear Pollux,
Thanks for the advice about Antarctica I found some amazing EFL vacancies at the Research Station. There are a few opportunities each summer to teach scientists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador. The going rate is $3500 a month, free flights, 4 times a year and free accommodation, plus 6 weeks� holiday. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Only 6 weeks holiday... forget it!!
And the salary is pretty paltry for the living conditions... would have to be over $5000 for consideration...
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Pollux
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, but probably not many perverted colleagues with illusions of grandeur. |
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Bebsi
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| Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, but probably not many perverted colleagues with illusions of grandeur. |
Probably not many...or any...colleagues, full stop!!  |
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Tarka_littleotter
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At least out in Antarctica the bits they all think with will have pretty much frozen  |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 6:49 am Post subject: minging |
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| What pray tell is 'minger' ? Someone who minges ? |
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Cleopatra
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| In my experience, the word "minger" (the "ng" pronounced as in "singer") refers to a physically unattractive member of either gender. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| Never heard that though there is a word 'minging' in Scots which means 'dirty'. |
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Cleopatra
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Pollux
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veiledsentiments
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Personally I have never heard the term, but then there is little reason to learn the more obscure UKish slang. Besides I could figure it out from context... just to show my students that the concept often works!! 
I had tagged it mentally as meaning 'loser' - the potbellied bald guy... slobbery drunk at the end of the bar...
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Pollux
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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...proposing marriage to the young, beautiful, exotic TEFL teacher who just popped into the “Last Call Inn” for a quick tequila shot between her yoga class and a light lunch consisting of salad, yogurt, and mineral water. 
BTW, the word 'c.o.c.k.t.a.i.l' returns a *beep*  |
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