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Don't bring your son on holiday to Dubai. Possession of drugs is a 4 Year automatic Jail sentence. Here in the UAE possession includes having Weed in your bloodstream, so passive inhaling becomes an issue especially IF something goes wrong, food poisoning. a Jellyfish sting you are screwed and into the Daily Fail.... Soooooo the issue is the Old Bill won't do anything so the answer is to book a holiday to Dubai then get an Ambulance chaser to sue them for harming your Human Rights to have a holiday. You win a zillion quid in compo, they can't afford any weed and you can save the rest of their stash for when I'm next over as my fee. Simples

Bit like the Wurzels #jealous See ya for Wet Sham

Dwight De Salisbury. Nah that don't work Lighthouse

Hmmm. Dubai is home to dodgy Witch Doctors these days trying to con people into giving them cash. Perhaps I could invest a tenner in a dodgy spell and chant it from my seat in The Chapel for this game... Knowing my luck all everyone would notice is a Dodgy Smell from my Saturday Night Chicken Patia down the Asia in Salisbury

I wonder how our mate Trev feels these days as he slides quietly into retirement having bought most of Mustique with his fees? Wonder what ever happened to the issues about the numbers when he finally walked out the door. Now, who was it that thought it might be a good idea to contact the top 20 Law Firms in the UK asking them to take a no win no fee case against PKF & their new partners? The kind of company that actually distributes outsource work to those top 20 Law Firms? Wonder how much the fees were to the injured party for all those phone calls? Wonder where that law suit is now? You know, the 3 million quid one? (Probably the value of the table) The one that seemed to get bumped by most law firms in Brum & The North East? Christ, it even got turned down by an Expat Lawyer in Qatar so it must have been a bad call. I'm sure there's ONE madman left in a small law firm who has a mate who is failing as a Barrister who would take the cast iron case on. I'm sure it was nowt to do with the PDT, as they'd have let it be known they were 3mil short in their era of transparency. After all the last emails on the subject were only a week old. Yeah I'm sure it was one of the great un-phoned unmentioned bidders that Trev ignored. PDT couldn't need the 3mil so obviously not them Obviously the 3mil cannot have been that important as we've heard nowt about it. Yep that one will fade away into the annals of rumours and speculation without a doubt

Totti is discussed on TMS. This is the Lounge where a serious discussion about Catholicism is taking place

Look Mikey. It's simples. You want to get somewhere in life, make a name for yourself then you simply have to get into golf. (Oh FFS Tokes/Bearsy not GOLF golf, that's MY job, I mean Golf Chicks) Look I had my moment way back in February of 2002 when I pulled this fit blonde chick under a Palm tree at the Emirates Course. I talked the talk I was on form and she said yes she'd love to have a tour of Dubai with me Sadly she ended by saying you were very good, well done but unfortunately my Fiance is just walking up.. Ho hum, still hurts that I never gave her my card for when she hit the hard times and a messy divorce But surely, I am the guru of the Links, there MUST be room for a guru of Golf WAGS I mean how did that muppet Dufner manage to pull THIS? So anyways think you should head off and report back on who in Golf has the fittest WAG http://www.playerwives.com/teams/miscellaneous-sports/golf/ Jonas Blixt doesn't count btw

Haven't watched an England friendly for about 8 years. Simply not worth farting around trying to find a feed or paying 8 quid a pint to watch garbage. This one is a deffo. The gang are gathering down the pub (and using Eric's discount card ) Would I feel the same if it was Clyne or Cork's first game? No, I'd try and get them on the telly or a stream. Think because it is SRL and what he has done to get there that makes this one worth the effort, perhaps the whole shared journey from L1 makes it much more. Think of us tomorrow. In the winter we have THE best bar in the world to watch Saints on the beach. This time of year it is half closed and has no air conditioning. It'll be around 40C and 85% humidity, but we'll be ready & waiting for SRL's 15 minutes of fame chasing hoofballs from whatever keeper comes on for the last few minutes

I think it's great that Fox is still at the club and short term cover for Shaw. It means that our #mavericksambaassassin gets an easy ride

Matt Prior probably chirped him some advice

Wow good day to choose to work from home. First hour was amazing to watch New Ball, Bresnan Broad & Swann fighting back to give a New Hope (good movie title that) An afternoon of oh krap need to go do some work maybe that will help lurching towards despair. Followed by Sod it off to the Pub for Quiz night. And woosh, hard to answer questions about TV Cartoon Villains when Warner is batting. But let's face it, England have been poor. Cook is out of sorts compared to his old self Root now looks like a rabbit in Headlights Trott - FFS stop trying to be interesting and entertaining. We loved you just the way you were (drop him from ODI's??) How can he have a higher strike rate than KP FFS? KP is KP, no problem with that Belly the Red Cape clashes with his hair & he needs that curl on his forehead and Lois Lane to interview him to make it all real Bairstow close to growing Roots problem Prior well keep this up with the bat mate and then Bairstow gets the gloves to make him the next Alec Stewart Bresnan Thank God he remembered he WAS in the team to bowl (and thank God it wasn't Onions coming out to bat last night) But still must pick Tremlett for the Oval unless.. Broad Streaky I like that, a streaky player keep having one streak a series and we'll be fine Swanny #worried, not at his best last two games surwly he should be taking 25 wickets a game on these pitches Anderson - who? Jimmy mate, it's a 5 test series, not one. Seriously what is wrong with the ex superman. Hell yeah I know Hollywood likes reboots but from hero to zero in 8 innings? Maybe keep Bresnan in and replace with Tremlett for the Oval? Send him back to the County to remember how to take wickets Seriously, we have been ropey. We've beaten a poor Aussie Team who at least showed some guts in the last two tests. Need some work before we go out there. Top order is NOT good enough at the moment to whip the buggers on home turf. Oh want a smirk? Some of the best Tweets from today eg http://www.espncricinfo.com/thestands/content/story/661911.html

OK anyone passing through Dubai, the local gang will be out on Wednesday at Barasti at Mina Seyahi in the Marina area to watch the game from around 22:15 local time. Would post this on overseas thread BUT EVEN THOUGH I PAID A WEEK AGO I'VE NOT BEEN RESET AS A FULL MEMBER YET GRANTY! Still get a smile on my face reading the interviews, seeing the photos, and TBF I've been getting a lot of positive vibes from other club's fans about Rickie - great for football, is a better player than many think, hope he shows up those arrogant c()cks in the England squad etc. Will it be a Hollywood quality fairy tale in a couple of days time or will we have to watch one of their CGI nightmares? Like others on here, first England game I've looked forward to for a long time!

One of my 3 posts FFS Granty I paid DAYS ago! So Stephen Fry has leapt into the battle in Russia on the Gay platform. You lot have freedom of speech, so nothing to see here move along. Mind you, I'm REALLY waiting to see how the PC brigade cope with the World Cup in Qatar in a few years time. Let's see how the Gay Rights demands stand up when faced with VERY strongly held Religious & Cultural beliefs. Will the first "Protester" to step into the fray be labelled a Racist? Oh the minefields. But you know what? The thing that ****es the planet off more than anything else is being lectured to by "The Enlightened West" Look, Gay Rights in Russia is an issue for the Russians to resolve. (Christ they have a ZILLION worse issues to resolve regarding personal freedom & rights still). Rewind 30 odd years, how the hell would the Brits have felt about being lectured on THEIR internal morals and laws by some Johnny Foreigner. You want to help Stephen? Then STFU and get on a plane and start working in country to change hearts and minds. It has taken a long time in the UK & US, so don't think some attention seeking rant is going to affect anything. My rants never affect anything and neither do yours. We both always manage to end up looking stupid

Wow, just wow. This has actually brought a tear to my eye, something I never thought would happen. Congratulations on both great bits of news to Rickie. Think this could mean an early trip down the pub for the Dubai Saints Massive on Wednesday!

Anyone wanting to fly into Asia/Australasia/SA at a date in the future should go to Airline web sites such as Emirates, Gulf Air, Qatar, Cathay, Etihad & Royal Brunei & sign up for their Special Offer alerts. You will get spam from them BUT, as an example in July down here Emirates had local special offers (book before 4th Aug fly up to 3rd Dec) where their ticket prices were up to 40% cheaper than they are now. Ditto Etihad. Using Travel Agents and on line skyscanner type services are fine but the airlines themselves put the regular promotions out at random times. We had to make a number of trips into Poland this year for our wedding. The direct cost into Warsaw was around $1000. We waited on promotions and Lufthansa launched a Bi-Weekly 24 hour Tuesday Sale. Bingo, we got the flights for $500 Likewise, all the agents here (& Skyscanner) were quoting around 850 quid to get back to UK between now and Christmas (coming for the Wet Sham game & Domestic stuff) biff a 48 hour Emirates sale and got the ticket for 520 quid. IF you are going into Dehli or even one of the other Cities in India, then Middle East Airlines have HUNDREDS of flights to many destinations with (usually) decent connections Gulf Air & Bahrain airport are by far the worst but they are often the cheapest and they do get you there. Anyways direct to the websites is nearly always the best way AFTER using the online search engines to narrow down the routings.

Wow first time I've ever been able to watch Hants on TV over here. What a GREAT game of cricket. What a day to give up glue sniffing etc. Hell, even Mrs DP was biting her nails and screaming at the telly for the last couple of overs (#omgthepolishareunderstandingcricket) Bloody schedulers tho. Emirates had a sale that ended yesterday, yesterday a ticket to Brum was affordable, today it's over 900 quid. Sod that will watch in the pub with the dubaisaints either side of our game

SteveGrant@currynights Saintsweb hits 12,492 users online tonight with 4,723 posts on our matchday thread vs Hull. Just been bought out by Microsoft #solongsuckers

What a bad week for my paypal to remember it needed to have the new credit card info entered. Bit like Tokes needing the right info to enter his cruising zone. This had Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much potential. Meanwhile as I only have 3 bloody posts a day, Amy Pond or the new chick in Dr Who (finally catching up) Personally I'd settle for both, if I had to choose one then the newbie would get it same way Tokes did when he went out for a stroll in his speedos. Oh and we need a striker Oh and Guly wants his Clothing line to take off he needs to start selling a Red & White striped T Shirt PDQ Anything else? Oh yeah just re-watched Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. Really? How good is that movie? Oh and Defiance is becoming a Space Western in the not as good as Firefly tradition Oh yeah and it's Ramadan, I'm BORED and can't even post on here and missed out on helping tommi not get ripped off in the Lounge Yeah that's about it until Granty wakes up and checks his bonk account. Oh and no Tokes, nice try but the Bear never did that. (Eric told me it's a subscription web site, the Pikey would NEVER afford that. You're more busted than one of those speedo wearers having had an accident with a Prize winning Marrow)

Lolz sorry tommi, Paypal snafu means all I can see on here at the moment are ads for Filipina singles. Think they have me confused with that other Asian based Phil. And um yes, this place is rip off central these days, rents in the big malls are so high that the prices are more than UK on most items these days. (We do our non-food type shopping when WE travel!) Even Duty Free is now a rip off (I bought a Canon EOS in April & saved 15% buying it in a Dubai E-Tailer Times Square rather than DDF or a big Mall) But fwiw, you didn't ask about Golf or Golf equipment so I actually would have had no idea where to send you Anyways next time PM me (IF the paypal goes through today with the new card number in!) or PM Eric. Maybe catch you at Barasti for a Saints match!

Luke Shaw ‏@Luke_shaw3 1h ? ah krap OK he posted a thumbs down smiley

We'd become the darlings of Twitter with USA Soccer Guy if we signed Clint that's for sure #globalbrand

Oh, and just remember it is RAMADAN. So until 9th Aug don't go staggering down the street snogging the GF or some pick up in a Bikini

There have been events at Sharm so you should be careful. In the same way you should be careful in Las Ramblas in Barcelona. Don't walk round wearing Union Jack swimmers and don't give it large, then you'll be fine. there is a huge security cordon around the Tourist resorts in Egypt these days. IF anything is going to happen it will be to a US target.... like an Embassy or Consulate or a Marriott......

Or just sign the right piece of the jigsaw for the team we have. At whatever cost