BIG_CHEESE:
i hear its 120 degrees over there. can you even breath in that heat?
wow... i guess i can respond to that. 120 becomes normal when you coming from a daily high of 110. that is what deployed soldiers in afganistan do. serving your country is just that... service.
i hear iraq is even hotter. the hottest that i've ever been was kuwait. friggin 135. no need to dry your hands. they dry in seconds on their own. leave a water bottle outside... even in the shade? you got instant soup in under 5 min. i left my tent and saw some young private on trash duty and i figured... what the hey... lemme help a brother out. and i grabbed the lid of the tent trashcan... big mistake! it was like grabbing that pizza pan for them sams club premade pizzas with your bare hands. i remember wearing gloves all summer long in afganistan... just to use my tools and actually be able to touch parts. what was i thinking with a trashcan lid. i is stoopid yo.
heck after that... the daily high of 100 doens't seem so bad. at least there arn't any mortars flying in to bamaville.
as far as dubai... i've seen the pictures (on my buddies cameras... they got to go on pass... me? i had to work!) dubai is like they say it is. according to them, it's very touristy and very nice and very fun. i hope i get to go someday.
and to comment on the why do it?/excess whatever point... i say this: it's an engineering feat. why build a building so tall that planes run into it? no i not talking about 9-11.... i talking about the many planes that run into the sears tower and the empire state bldg and also the world trade center when it existed. just imagine the final words exchanged in the cockpit. "uh sir... theres a wall directly in front of us..." "bullsh!t... how can there be a wall floating in the sky?" "uh sir?" bam! the end.
ballers ride around in escalades, playas have hot women all over then... engineers build cool sh!t. das just it.