Off to Dubai!

Pash

I get to go to Dubai at xmas to setup some cisco routers. Lot's of sand and warm weather, ill miss the british winter....not!

Well its Qatar first and then dubai. But lots of nice sun

jbaello

Dubai seems to be another capitalist, well that's a good thing more jobs

sprkymrk

Congrats!

I wonder if the techy citizens of Dubai are going "Dog gone !@#$ outsourcing all our tech jobs, and those Brits have such a horrible accent! 'I say good chap, have you given rebooting a go?'". :P

Lee H

Hey spymrk


I am british and my accent is not horrible, lol

Our opinion of you yanks is not good so i dont blame you if ya dont like us

Lee H

sprkymrk

Lee H wrote:

Hey spymrk


I am british and my accent is not horrible, lol

Our opinion of you yanks is not good so i dont blame you if ya dont like us

Lee H

No Lee, I am just kidding. I really appreciate my brothers overseas. I'd love to visit some day too. I was just kidding around, I hope you didn't take it wrong and I do apologize for any offence.

Actually, your (as in UK) accent isn't near as bad as some of the southern accents they have here in South Carolina!

networker050184

Hey congrats! From what I hear Dubai is awesome. My uncle went there for some contract work (not IT). They set him up in a five star hotel and everything free of charge. He loved it so much he ended up taking a job there and staying for about a year.

Kasor

You are so lucky... Enjoy the 5 to 6 stars hotel. Take photos and record your tour.

have fun

JDMurray

Lee H wrote:

Our opinion of you yanks is not good so i dont blame you if ya dont like us

Oh please, you Brits love us Yanks! It's our Tony-Blair-Snogging-President that you chaps find dodgy.

Pash

sprkymrk wrote:

Congrats!

I wonder if the techy citizens of Dubai are going "Dog gone !@#$ outsourcing all our tech jobs, and those Brits have such a horrible accent! 'I say good chap, have you given rebooting a go?'". :P

Haha! "What What tally ho old boy". But seriously, you yanks love the accent ;D

And thanks all, I will document my trip, middle east is huge for IT development now, its nice my company is getting a lot of outsource work there

sprkymrk

Pash wrote:

And thanks all, I will document my trip, middle east is huge for IT development now, its nice my company is getting a lot of outsource work there

Take me with you...pleeeeease?
Actually, one of these days you may run into Keatron over there. He travels a lot, and I believe he has taught security classes and done some some consulting over there.

garv221

Pash wrote:

I get to go to Dubai at xmas to setup some cisco routers. Lot's of sand and warm weather, ill miss the british winter....not!

Well its Qatar first and then dubai. But lots of nice sun

Huge developments out there.

christenm123

Sounds like one heck of a job to me. Hope you get paid well and have fun.

Pash

Cheers guys,

JDMurray wrote:

Lee H wrote:

Our opinion of you yanks is not good so i dont blame you if ya dont like us

Oh please, you Brits love us Yanks! It's our Tony-Blair-Snogging-President that you chaps find dodgy.

Funnily enough, even though i do my fair share of slating you guys, i do like the yanks. I had my best holiday (vacation to you guys) ever on the east coast before before 9/11, visited new york, washington, Philli and even went north to niagra falls and crossed the border for a day(buffalo iirc). Everyone so damn friendly and helpful, couldnt pick faults. Loved it!

Darthn3ss

Pash wrote:

Cheers guys,

JDMurray wrote:

Lee H wrote:

Our opinion of you yanks is not good so i dont blame you if ya dont like us

Oh please, you Brits love us Yanks! It's our Tony-Blair-Snogging-President that you chaps find dodgy.

Funnily enough, even though i do my fair share of slating you guys, i do like the yanks. I had my best holiday (vacation to you guys) ever on the east coast before before 9/11, visited new york, washington, Philli and even went north to niagra falls and crossed the border for a day(buffalo iirc). Everyone so damn friendly and helpful, couldnt pick faults. Loved it!

i'd like a vacation out of here for a while. wanna trade?

but seriously, it seems that people like to blame the entire American population for our president's actions.. sure, they (not i) voted them in, but i don't think anyone knew the mess of crap he planned to start.

I wasn't old enough to vote for either election.

snadam

I love british accents too, but only on a lady


Either way, Dubai sounds cool. maybe if I lived closer, I would be interested in visiting.


BTW, what does 'dubyah'/Politics have anything to do with Pash going to Dubai?

Webmaster

it seems that people like to blame the entire American population for our president's actions..

Let's not go there and stop the "putting all Americans in one jar" (I had to make that up because I don't know the English nor the American expression).

Seriously no politics.

There's only one president here and you can't vote about it. (that's a joke people, well, except for the voting part )


And, I guess nobody watched the movie Triggermen...

For the record: British is not an accent, they are the ones actually speaking English. Brits from Wales, London and other areas in the UK have different accents, but what some refer to as perhaps 'posh' is actually the English language, without an accent. Technically Americans speak English with an accent. If you go to a highshool, college or university to study "English" (outside the US, e.g. in Europe) it's taught including to what you guys are referring to as an 'accent'. If you leave it out in oral exam, e.g. speak with an American accent instead of English, you fail. Maybe they lightened up on that issue but it doesn't change the facts.

Schluep

The large majority of people believe that anyone speaking their same language in another dialect have the accent and they are speaking "normally." Normal language is simply what you were raised with and nothing more.

I think what is truly amazing is how much a language can change just by isolating a large group of people for a while. It is even more amazing that when a person moves to another region with a different dialect they will pick much of it up if they stay there long enough. Even in Pittsburgh here we have our own dialect that is different than the rest of the Country. I hear someone different say the word "yins" almost every day yet I have not heard it once traveling (which I was doing a lot for a while all over the U.S.). I was in Denver and asked the concierge at my hotel where I could get some gum bands and she had no idea what I was talking about, yet I have never once heard the word "rubber band" used in Pittsburgh. If even something that small is so drastically different in one single Country picture what happens when you put Oceans and large land masses between people who rank horses as their fastest means of transportation.

One of our company's liaisons goes to southern West Virginia for a week to attend some meetings and talks with their accent for about 2 days after she gets back.

I am amazed our languages are not more different than they are all things considered. It took months for people to come from Britain to the various colonies in North and Central America and very few people went back and forth.

Webmaster

Forgot to reply to the actual topic...

It sounds like a great opportunity, especially in that period. One of our former moderators, 2lazybutsmart, worked (or still does) there for years and it's certainly not a bad place to be.

Pash

Truth be told im nervous as hell, no way near enough cisco exposure over the last 10 months. Gonna have to recap and track back loads, but hey thats the only way to stay fresh right?

Netstudent

Man you are so lucky. Soak it up man. Those are great life experiences. See the world!

ladiesman217

hey guys do u know the movie "pink panther" ?

british accent is good... just dont buy "hamburger"! make it Pizza

peace to everyone...im just kidding.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iUCDhvbQFmU

Pash

ladiesman217 wrote:

hey guys do u know the movie "pink panther" ?

british accent is good... just dont buy "hamburger"! make it Pizza

peace to everyone...im just kidding.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iUCDhvbQFmU

Not everyone asks for a burger like that, especially after a few pints on the way home from the pub...beleive me.

sprkymrk

ladiesman217 wrote:

hey guys do u know the movie "pink panther" ?

british accent is good... just dont buy "hamburger"! make it Pizza

peace to everyone...im just kidding.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iUCDhvbQFmU

Inspector Clouseau was French, not British.