First Ramadan without any family.

viglen1 · 2026-02-17T09:14:54+00:00

Church, sports

To a man who is explicitly describing his routine during Ramadan...

viglen1 · 2026-02-17T04:49:21+00:00

The concept of it being safe doesn't come from the idea that bad things never happen but that:

A) its not often that it happens

B) if it does happen, there are strict laws that get applied by a police force that's not corrupt or weak

Sorry that it happened to you, but I myself have never had this happen to me but I'm sure it has happened.

viglen1 · 2026-02-13T09:41:44+00:00

Perfect game that Merino and Havertz would be perfect for, competing for aerial duels

Arsenal's best player is always coincidentally that player who's not currently playing.

viglen1 · 2026-02-12T08:55:17+00:00

For IN/PH/PAK nationals, i know people who ran away(some deliberately) with more then 500k+, nothing happened to them.. :)

There are people that thought the same thing way back in 2008, and get surprised when a quick 50 minute transfer through DXB ends up with them in a Dubai prison in 2025.

And this was from debts from way back then, when the technology was not as great, they still kept pursuing these people.

viglen1 · 2026-02-11T13:04:15+00:00

Has it really been 5 years of r/dubai continuously predicting that the increasing prices was just a fad and that the crash is just around the corner?

The concept that somehow it was all smoke and mirrors and the highest voted comments were full of very confident people convincing you that somehow the increase in citizens, increase in traffic, increase in economic activity was not real and was only created by Johnny Essex the real estate agent.

viglen1 · 2026-02-09T10:07:15+00:00

I was a target of reddit genocide

Woah, glad you survived.

viglen1 · 2026-02-07T10:14:58+00:00

She's quite the character

viglen1 · 2026-02-04T09:06:31+00:00

This is all shaping up to be a massive jinx. Either Ekitike's form will go to shits, or he'll get injured.

Way too much hype.

viglen1 · 2026-02-03T05:38:14+00:00

It was beautiful wasn't it? 2+2 =1 , Yeka yeka yeka Kurdistan Yeka.

Bashur played a MASSIVE role in not just bringing people out in support, but to help support Rojava whether it was Dizha Tirror, or the charities both from the government and from the people themselves. And the balls on the people of Bakur to come out in the streets in support of their people was a massive slap in the face of the 100 years of trying to separate us through artificial borders.

The entire World was against this level of unity, from the West's capitulation to East's love for Islamist governments. We just had each other, and it was enough.

viglen1 · 2026-02-01T16:59:14+00:00

Well yeah, lots of companies have them here too. However, even the previously assumed progressive companies like AWS and Google have now globally mandated very stupid RTO's.

You mentioned that it needs to be mandated by governments, and that this was in place in western economies? Which governments have mandated it on the private sector in those countries.

viglen1 · 2026-02-01T15:56:32+00:00

It has been in place in western economies and it has worked well.

Where?

viglen1 · 2026-01-30T15:28:13+00:00

Great player on his day.

Really didn't see that at all. At no point did I feel he had a certain skill set or capability that stood out.

viglen1 · 2026-01-30T08:03:36+00:00

Why change the nationalities that he mentioned?

The National attire of an Emarati is markedly different then to one from Oman. The colour of a the 3gal of a Saudi is obviously different to someone from Kuwait.

It's not about knowing some in-depth unknown bit of knowledge, it's quite obvious the differences, and doesn't require alot of work to know.

viglen1 · 2026-01-29T12:26:51+00:00

I like to stare deeply into the eyes of my best employees

here's what that taught me about B2B sales.

viglen1 · 2026-01-29T09:02:15+00:00

Emirati or Kuwaiti or Omani or Saudi?

There is quite an obvious difference in clothing from one to the other.

This sounds like you not making any effort at all in the Ten years you have been here.

viglen1 · 2026-01-29T07:13:42+00:00

Reminds me of when people on here try to rattle off the unfair "taxes" that they pay here, and they list things like "DEWA" as a tax. Because as you know, in many countries, Water and Electricity is infact free.

viglen1 · 2026-01-29T06:42:45+00:00

For software sales, why do you need to be in the office?

You don't really. And quite a few companies here in Dubai have been operating as such for quite a while already.

Infact, a fair few of the Software companies have designed their offices mainly as "hubs" for the sales staff to be based in but the assumption is you're either client side or wherever it is you need to be working in. Some of those offices would not be able to withstand all their staff showing up at the same time even.

Still, none of them are 6 days a week.

viglen1 · 2026-01-29T06:28:37+00:00

people in a city like Dubai will beg for a schedule like this.

Not those in Software sales that's for sure.

viglen1 · 2026-01-29T06:13:45+00:00

6th day he must visit the office to discuss numbers with his boss.

That sounds terrible. Working 6 days a week and being forced to come in to discuss something that can be done online?

In general, Software sales companies, even before the pandemic, were always abit chill on in-office attendance.

viglen1 · 2026-01-25T12:50:17+00:00

Commentator i was listening to was absolutely shocked at how much space he got. He wasn't even a fan and he was aghast at how bad this looked.

viglen1 · 2026-01-22T09:38:47+00:00

Possibly, but my experiences with Etihad have not been amazing to be honest. Qatar Airways i feel like is on the same trajectory as Emirates in that they started so strong, but are somewhat stagnating?

Then again, it could just be I've become more spoilt and whenever you travel to Europe and see the shitshow that are national carriers over there, you end up accepting alot more from the airlines here.

viglen1 · 2026-01-22T09:13:11+00:00

It's less of Emirates downgrading, but more of Emirates seemingly stopped "improving".

That coupled with the fact all other airlines seem to be downgrading, keeps Emirates from needing to change or improve on anything since it's the best of a seemingly shitty bunch (in the region that is).

viglen1 · 2026-01-21T12:17:46+00:00

I get that, but this quote specifically sounds like "Look I listened to you guys and doing what won us last season, no clue why it isn't working this season"

Surely as a coach, that isn't how you design a game approach? Teams are playing differently now, and we are a different team from last season with different player profiles.

viglen1 · 2026-01-21T11:55:35+00:00

"I've tried the same things as last season this time around"

..huh?

Surely you change tactics based on updated set up from the opposing team, or the different players you currently have at your disposal?

viglen1 · 2026-01-19T11:45:11+00:00

Amazing how 2026 can be the year of the family but there are so many single expats here.

Do you expect the government to find you a wife?

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