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Traders Hotel doesn't serve wine, it serves delicious "grape beverages"

(Stein) Runar Bergheim — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:58:26 +0000

Alcohol isn’t too healthy nor is it entirely in line with Islamic faith. It is therefore not to be marvelled at that alcohol commercials are kept discrete in the United Arab Emirates.

However, some of the attempts at discretion would perhaps have been better left untried. The one above I find to assume a naivity on the part of the viewer that simply doesn’t exist in the world anymore.

Useful 100 years later too

(Stein) Runar Bergheim — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:29:41 +0000

“38 Vintage Conversation Rules | The Art of Manliness” http://feedly.com/k/11zdIIA

On my tailor's shelf in Abu Dhabi

(Stein) Runar Bergheim — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:45:27 +0000

And what is more, my tailor is Santa. In fact, there are so many Santas in his area that he is Santa A.

…and that is why we call it the green turtle

(Stein) Runar Bergheim — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:14:27 +0000

“Many people ask us why we call the green turtle the green turtle. And we always tell them that we call the green turtle the green turtle because the green turtle is … green”

— quote from a tour-guide at the Ras al Jinz Turtle Reserve

I have a hard time to believe that they get that question from “many people”, but the frequency with which the words “green” and “turtle” occurs in the answer is uniquely high.

Bohr’s definition of experts…

(Stein) Runar Bergheim — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:06:35 +0000

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

— Niels Bohr

What’s in a name?

(Stein) Runar Bergheim — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:45:36 +0000

I have always been amazed by the enormous selection of seemingly identical bread/proteine combos sold by literally every hole-in-the-wall shop in the United Arab Emirates. The food photos are all identical; most probably from a clip-art library. The names of the monstrosities do however show some minor variations – the “Club Random” being one of my favorites…

After all, who wouldn’t want one.

Music, Art and Karate – now that's what I call Harmony!

(Stein) Runar Bergheim — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:18:03 +0000

Harmony Music Art and Karate Training Center, Al Khuwair, Muscat

It would be entirely wrong to blame Omanis for their lack of entrepreneurial spirit. Their grouping of business offers leaves a few questions unanswered though…

Satan plays the Accordion

(Stein) Runar Bergheim — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:10:39 +0000

Satan playing Lambada, (from the New Strait Times of Malaysia, 4th of June 2012)

Neither the instrument nor the repertoire came as a shock. That she was an Asian man came as a surprise though, I had always thought of her as an American.

Tough times for the police in Oman

(Stein) Runar Bergheim — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:59:00 +0000

Today the Times of Oman informed its readers about the scary level of technical sophistication shown by cutting-edge criminals in the Omani capital…

… An ROP* official said that criminal techniques have evolved, and in this case, the intruders wore gloves. …

* = Royal Omani Police

Photos of ghosts

(Stein) Runar Bergheim — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:35:49 +0000

I don’t don’t believe in ghosts? I mean, I don’t believe in them during broad daylight when everything is clear to the eye. After sleeping alone in a large, old, haunted, wooden-building during a storm night some years back, I am no longer sure that I can say the same during night! I could hear sounds, which were probably produced by the wind and the creaking wood, but which gave me a chill nevertheless!

I StumbledUpon (the only way to surf the web) a site on famous ghost photos today, go have a look at photos that haven’t been explained to date:

Famous Ghost Photos