Monty Pigeon
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Looks like they've had a bit of a shower.
Weather in Dubai
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Monty Pigeon
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A morality play in two scenes:
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Sam Handwich
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Ha, nicely segue'd to the roller owner.
Space Hopper
Winger
I just got back from Dubai where a sheikh offered me 30 camels for my wife.
I usually smoke Marlboro but couldn't resist an offer like that.
I usually smoke Marlboro but couldn't resist an offer like that.
Did she go with him willingly, or did you Mecca?
In Kuwait they have rain collection towers.
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In 1965, the government of Kuwait commissioned the Swedish engineering company of VBB (since 1997 Sweco) to develop and implement a plan for a modern water-supply system for Kuwait City. The company built five groups of water towers, 31 in total, designed by its chief architect Sune Lindström, called "the mushroom towers".
For a sixth site, the Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed, wanted a more spectacular design. This last group, known as Kuwait Towers, consists of three towers, two of which also serve as water towers. Water from the Desalination facility is pumped up to the tower.
These thirty-three towers have together a standard capacity of 102,000 cubic meters of water. "The Water Towers" (The Kuwait Tower and the Kuwait Water Towers) were awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1980)
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Darlo1973
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Dubai roads are lethal when it rains. Mix water with a lot of sand and you have a slippery mess. The drains aren't designed to cope so everywhere floods quickly, car tyres are designed for dry roads and drivers don't know how to drive in the wet.
At least it usually dries out quickly so the best way to cope is to stay inside.
Or it is …. have you ever known the U.K. to be as wet and windy?More proof the world isn't warming up..
In theory it’s the same in the U.K. if it rains after a dry spell (although not sand there is dust etc.), and people here tend to be shite at driving.
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bomber
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I assumed he was being sarcastic.....
The Great Soprendo
Striker
You could have stopped after 'drive'
imagine being in an ev in all that watta with all that electric beneath you.
Modern EVs are so great that they don’t conduct electricity, or something.
They’re improving all of the time etc.
wouldn't surprise me if some have a built in propeller so they can skiddaddle before they get fried alive.
