Egyptians are greedy bastards.

Sir Neil · Post by **Sir Neil** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:44 am

Turns out Haji attacked our hotel with AKs and a car bomb and our hosts didn't invite us to the counterattack.

A brisk little gunfight would have been a lot more fun than lying around the hotel room watching the Powerpuff Girls in Arabic. They were eating the broccoli aliens.

Klingons would never be so thoughtless: may'Daq ja HDI' Suvwl' juppu'Daj lonbe'!

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:38 am

what the hell?

Sir Neil · Post by **Sir Neil** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:30 am

Yeah, watching those little sweeties embrace cannibalism as a crime-fighting tool was pretty disturbing.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:43 am

I more meant the hotel bit ;P Had a close call?

Sir Neil · Post by **Sir Neil** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:14 am

Nah. Didn't even find out about it until I saw a "hostile fire" bonus on my pay stub and WTF'd a squad leader.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:00 am

Wish I got a bonus every time my life was in danger at my last job, I was almost killed on several occasions due to exposure to various poisonous gasses.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:59 pm

what the hell was that klingon line?

And I take it you work some kind of security detail?

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:05 pm

I don't like Egypt. They shoot Dafur refugees.

Sir Neil · Post by **Sir Neil** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:18 pm

I'm a US military policeman, Prak. "When you go into battle, don't abandon your friends."

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My civilian jobs never paid for danger, either, Count. Oh, but I do have an amusing anecdote I can share: We took out the hotel's power system using our X-Boxes. Twice. Lights, elevators, everything.

Of course, we had to get new X-Boxes afterward...

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Sigma, I don't like Egypt either. The water and half the food is poisonous, mosquitoes and flies are everywhere, and you can get a better view of the pyramids on the Discovery Channel.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:17 am

Sir_Neil at [unixtime wrote:1197587937[/unixtime]]I'm a US military policeman, Prak. "When you go into battle, don't abandon your friends."

ah, ok. wasn't aware we had military personel in egypt... not surprised though.

My civilian jobs never paid for danger, either, Count. Oh, but I do have an amusing anecdote I can share: We took out the hotel's power system using our X-Boxes. Twice. Lights, elevators, everything.

Of course, we had to get new X-Boxes afterward...

lol.

Sigma, I don't like Egypt either. The water and half the food is poisonous, mosquitoes and flies are everywhere, and you can get a better view of the pyramids on the Discovery Channel.

y'know, the pyramids were the only reason I ever wanted to see egypt, but the fact that I couldn't just randomly wander around them, I have no desire to go. And this other stuff... yeah, remind to never go to egypt.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:48 am

Egypt is pretty good imho, the pyramids are the elast intresting part easily. Things like the temple of luxor are good.

Mosquitoes and flies are seasonal.. go during winter. i was there nov/dec and it was peachy.

Food wise, it's another bloody nation that doesn't really understand food safety. However I got much more sick from food poisoning in thailand.

All the usual caveats apply, but remember it's not about good restaurants, its about *busy* ones.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:18 am

I got sick in Puerto Rico 13 years ago. Fuck, that was a filthy city. They had the 'poor' districts walled off from the 'tourist' areas by concrete barriers, yet I could see buildings and entire blocks just half a mile away that looked like something out of an Iraqi warzone.

Sir Neil · Post by **Sir Neil** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:53 am

cthulhu wrote:go during winter. i was there nov/dec and it was peachy.

I was in Ireland on Veteran's Day, and took a camel to the pyramids on Thanksgiving. Even four stories up, if we opened a window mosquitoes would be there to greet us.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:30 am

Global warming.

shau · Post by **shau** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:51 pm

Sir Neil wrote:
I was in Ireland on Veteran's Day, and took a camel to the pyramids on Thanksgiving. Even four stories up, if we opened a window mosquitoes would be there to greet us

That is quite a long camel ride.

MrWaeseL · Post by **MrWaeseL** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:01 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7160057.stm

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:02 am

Good luck enforcing that one.

Fwib · Post by **Fwib** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:01 pm

MrWaeseL at [unixtime wrote:1198724486[/unixtime]]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7160057.stm

When I saw the name of this thread a few days ago, I thought that that was what it was about.

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