Do not spit on me and then get offended when I take offense to being spit upon, 'kay? It is just bad form.
Just because there is a point B (your fingers) and a point C (papers, plastic grocery bags, etc.) between Point A (your mouth) and Point D (me) does not mean you did not just try to spit on me.
Licking your fingers to more easily separate anything you are about to hand to me is rude,
With oil prices hitting new high every day, many Americans are starting to re-consider their SUV, Hummers, and other oil-thirsty cars. Some Indians find another way to solve this problem. The Financial Times has a very interesting article on how the current rising food and energy prices give a second life to traditional transportation “vehicles”.
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In lieu of a strong American military presence in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, it seems Indian "combat camels" will be sent to assist the joint United Nations/African Union peacekeeping force. No, I'm not kidding- from the AP;India plans to send combat-trained camels to solve the transport headache facing a fledgling UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region, officers here say.India's Border Security Force (BSF) said it received a request last week from the United Nations to send the specially schooled animals to the troubled African region."In principle the BSF has agreed to the request and will wait for the UN to approach it through the ministry of home affairs," said the chief of India's elite 200,000-member frontier force, A. K. Mitra.Last week the head of the UN department of peacekeeping operations, said they may fail to protect civilians in Darfur without the required air mobility and firepower.American forces continue to police a civil wa
Two 90 year old Black women are sitting in front of a nursing home one day, smoking cigarettes, when it started to rain.The first woman pulls a condom out of her purse, snips of the tip of it and pulls it over her cigarette and finishes smoking.The second woman looks at her and asks her "What are you doing?"The first woman says "I'm keeping my cigarette dry." The second woman then says "I should try that."The next day the second woman goes to the pharmacy and says "I need a box of condoms!" The pharmacists looks at her and thinks"This woman is 90 years old, what the heck does she need condoms for" but he decides "Oh well I guess I'll sell them to her anyways." He then asks the woman "What brand would you like madam?"The old woman replies "Doesn't matter to me....as long as they fit a CAMEL!!"
The title might sound bizarre, even I would have thought the same thing until this morning when I read this:
Pet Camel Kills Australian Woman
This is quite shocking although if you exclude the “killing” bit or any other sort of injuries that would have been suffered if things were slightly different, this can be funny. I personally haven’t heard of anything similar in the gulf or anywhere else where there is a large camel population. There are a lot of camel jokes and this incident makes even the most ridiculous of them true.
This might be a one off incident or it could be more, but people, beware of pet camels!!!
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I think I've heard enough camel jokes in the past few days to last me a lifetime. Since some of you are so interested in those creatures, I guess I am now a bit of an expert and can write a whole article about them, huh?I don't know about the others in our tour group, but Ranie and I had never been in the desert before, since there were none in the Philippines or Singapore.Exploring the desert resort on foot.After arriving at this resort about two hours from Baotou (inner Mongolia) we were kicking the sand and remarking that desert sand looked just like beach sand, when we noticed two queues not far away. One was for "One-hour camel ride", and the other queue was for "Half-hour camel ride". I distinctly remember saying something like "not interested in either of them!" and "why isn't there a five-minute camel ride? Half-hour is still too long!" I saw a fake camel, and asked Vivien to take a pic of me on it cos I'd like to show people back home that I rode one. Hehe! Little did I r
Drive through the desert towards Saudi Arabia and past a load of oil and gas installations and you'll eventually get to Sealine Hotel and Beach Resort. (Don't give up when you think you are in the middle of nowhere!)Although this is also a hotel, Sealine resort is open to guests for a fee of 25 riyals ($7) in the week, 50 ($14) on the weekend (Friday + Saturday). In addition to swimming pools, there is horse riding, camel riding, jet ski-ing, windsurfing and quads for hire. There are also two bouncy castles for the kids. The buffet is a little on the pricy side at 150 riyals ($40), the poolside food is cheaper but limited in range. On Friday afternoons Qataris descend in droves to speed up and down the dunes - be careful driving home on this day as the (surviving) locals return all fired up. Overall, well worth a trip - it kept my two year old entertained for the day!Address: PO Box 50255, Mesaieed, QatarTel: +974 476 5299 Fax: +974 476 5298 Getting there: Drive past Al Wakra and Mes
The desolate Gobi is home to the world's only wild camels - the bactrian camels. Little more than a thousand of these two-humped nomads remain, roaming the deserts between China and Mongolia.
Two females and their month old calves have joined forces to be safer from predators such as wolves. The females are shedding their thick winter coats. The summer ahead will be short, but intensely hot.
Camels are superbly adapted to the desert. Bushy eyebrows and double lashes protect their eyes from sand, and they can clamp their noses tight to keep out dust. Soft padded soles stop their feet sinking into sand.
Camels can go for up to ten days without water. Their humps hold reserves of fat to sustain them while they wander the desert in search of food.
Wikipedia has this to add on camels "according to most forms of Christianity, the Magi were the first religious figures to worship Christ, and for this reason the story of the Magi is particularly respected and popular among many Christians.
Camels In New York Originally uploaded by midweekpost. Although the price of a pack of Camels in New York is probably close to the price of three actual camels I still think it's far cooler to see a pack of actual live camels rather than the one's I can smoke.On my jog to my morning workout (gasp!) I came across these camels in Rockefeller Plaza. Now... I know people say that not much really phases New Yorkers but come on, three camels on Wednesday at 30 Rock in 37 degree weather? That's got to mean something. Regardless, people still looked more interested in finding their morning bagel and coffee than these desert mules. I'm sure they'll show up in an upcoming episode of the actual show '30 Rock' or some Conan skit since the stage backdoors are right about here.p.s. I was half tempted to walk up to one and hug it with all my might to see how the trainer would react. Not well I suppose, but it sure would have rocked.
Like I mentioned in one of my previous posts, we Indians take the definition of a word to a whole new level. 'Specially political terms. This time, secularism gets a whole new definition. Adding a simple prefix pseudo to it, Secularism in India is defined to perfection.First, the Madras high court made a good move by banning slaughter of camels in the name of religion by Muslims. "The interim injunction granted by the honourable court is that no animals (camels) should be slaughtered during Bakrid or for any religious purpose. The reason is that this will spread diseases like anthrax to the native cattle and also it brings some bacteria that will affect the humans"Then rather surprisingly, the next day, the ban was vacated! Reason: "There is no law in the state against the slaughter of animals. Besides, under sections 296 and 298 of the Chennai Corporation Act, the Corporation Commissioner could authorise the slaughter of animals even in places other than abattoirs."And no one bothers
In my UAE Part 3 update about "Up and coming Ras al-Khaimah," I noted that you would be reading about roaming goats and camels in the future. Well, I am delivering on my promise today, finally!
In Ras al-Khaimah (RAK), there is a lot of desert and open areas. Near the mountains bordering Oman, about 10 minutes away by car from Devante's parents house, we saw some roaming camels! I have never
