Dubai debt plea sends fear around world

[DGuller]

I'm not a perfectionist.

I know.

I keep telling you, I wasn't in the mood.

[garbon]

I keep telling you, I wasn't in the mood.

I though it was: "I just want you to know that this never happens to me. I mean really, this never happens."

[Eddie Teach]

"It's not me, you're just not that attractive."

[DGuller]

I keep telling you, I wasn't in the mood.

I though it was: "I just want you to know that this never happens to me. I mean really, this never happens."

That too.  It takes a lot to kill my mood.

[The Larch]

You know, it strikes me as somewhat counter productive to root for a middle east economy that is working towards modernization to fail.  But hey, maybe they can all go to Switzerland and erect illegal minarets.

Modernizing and diversifying their economy is a great thing for them to do. Wasting hundreds of millions in vanity projects that are utterly unsustainable is folly and a sign of hubris. All while keeping a medieval law system incompatible with the XXIst century, totalitarian government structure, and a basically slave-like chaste to do the real work, which isn't really a nice thing to do.

[Warspite]

The UAE isn't totalitarian.

[The Larch]

The UAE isn't totalitarian.

Wrong choice of words, sorry. I'll swap that for absolutistic or authoritarian.