DISCLAIMER

People often ask me what it's like being an expat in Dubai. Actually they don't but like the rest of this blog, let's just blindly assume people care what I think and go on from there. Dubai is beautiful, it's a sun-drenched tax-free paradise, with a wise and benevolent ruler. There is no real winter to speak of and the roads are beset with outrageous supercars. If your eyes ever tire of street level gawking, there are thousands of kilometres of sky scrapers to develop neck trauma to. Yes, in many ways it is paradise, but what is paradise without a little trouble? In the Wachowski (formerly) brothers movie trilogy: The Matrix, a sentient program called 'Agent Smith' describes the failure of our robot overlords to captivate and pacify human minds in a sensory-fed utopia: "Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your "perfect world". But I believe that, as a species human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So the perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from". And that's where we are with this blog: a long whimsical stare in to the bathroom mirror wondering what would have happened if you took the blue pill, intended as nothing more than a (sincerely respectful) bit of probing in to the more bizarre side of living in the UAE.

Thursday, 4 May 2017

Dubai Problems by HBO's 'The Game of Thrones' Cast

Game of Thrones impressions / impersonations,  Dubai problems - pretty self explanatory...  Voices by Miles Buckeridge, guest starring Lawrie Buckeridge

Dubai Celebrity Phone Jacker: Jon Snow, Peter Griffin, Captain Jack Sparrow and Golem impressions

Phone-jack. to seize control of a telephone conversation by farce esp. to divert it from reason and logic.

What's your favourite thing about living in Dubai?

There are many things we love about Dubai, but just in case you find yourself in need of remembering some of them, here are a few handily cataloged for you - with a sprinkling of international accents and an extra dose of Liam Neeson crammed in for good measure.

The Dubai Toilet - a Planet Earth Parody

The Dubai Toilet, a breath-holding documentary on the hidden under belly of Dubai toilets. Or restrooms as everybody else seems to bizarrely call them, or bathrooms, didn't find any baths during filming, or much rest come to think of it, anyway, here it is - in all it's shameful glory

Taxi Driver Impressions

Taxi Driver Impressions 

Published on 18 Apr 2017
All hail the Taxi Drivers, the unsung heroes of our roads - makes you wonder: how would other nationalities compare with our beloved Pakistani cabbies here in the UAE?
Disclaimer - Somebody pointed out to me that Mad Shadz did a very (very) similar video to this a while back, it's also extremely funny (link below). It's not a straight up rip off, I genuinely wasn't aware of his video before I made mine... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pID_RQcO1YM