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Durex launches an on-demand condom service in Dubai

Because sometimes you’re about to get it on with your super hot rich babe and you realize you’re out of condoms. No problem… if you’re in Dubai, you can use the Durex SOS iPhone app to have condoms delivered to your door within an hour.

posted 05 February, 2013
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Check out the first 360 degree panorama from atop the tallest building in the world

If you were at the very top of the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, this is what it would look like right before you lost your balance and plunged to your death.

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posted 29 January, 2013
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Who had the tallest New Year’s Eve fireworks display? Dubai, of course.

That’s a shitload of fireworks on a skyscraper that’s mostly empty.

posted 02 January, 2013
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Photos of Dubai before the oil boom

Before Dubai was flush with oil money, before they were determined to turn the city into a real-life Tomorrowland, Dubai and the UAE was just another tiny Arabian desert country with a small population living in a very similar manner that they had been for hundreds of years.

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Guess who wants to build a giant underwater hotel of the future? Dubai, of course.

Just when you think that Dubai and the UAE are surely running out of money and they’ve built all the crazy, over the top shit they can build, they come up with something else. Like this amazing futuristic underwater hotel of the future.

Crazy New Year’s fireworks display on the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai

When you’ve got the world’s tallest building, you’ve got half a vertical mile of fucking awesome fireworks you can use in your New Year’s Eve celebration.

posted 01 January, 2012
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What happens when you flush a toilet in the tallest building in the world?

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is currently the world’s tallest building at 2,723 feet, which is cool and all, but the problem is that Dubai may have a whole lot of oil money, but they haven’t apparently spent that money on sewage infrastructure. Which is bad when you have toilets half a mile in the sky.

posted 09 November, 2011
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Robot camel jockeys have illegal stun guns inside them….

Camel racing is pretty big in parts of the Arab world, and the camel jockeying used to be done by little kids, since they don’t weigh a whole lot. But then, after it came to light that most of these kids were being horribly abused, and not having many tiny Latin Americans at their disposal to jockey, they turned to remote controlled robot jockeys. Which is all fine and well, except now the camel racing world is in an uproar over the use of tasers in the robots to make the camels go faster. Call it Robo-Camel-Don’t-Tase-Me-Brobotgate if you will.

Several men that sold the taser camel jockey bots have been arrested, but is it the end of the controversy? What if someone’s using ROBOT CAMELS?

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Remember those manmade islands in Dubai in the shape of a world map? Yeah, now they’re sinking.

Several years ago, when Dubai among others were in the height of their “Let’s see how fast we can spend every penny of our oil money” frenzy, one of the things they built was a huge chain of manmade islands in the shape of a world map, in the hopes they could sell this brand new real estate and turn it into a top-notch resort. Well… so far, only one of the islands has been rented and the chances are low for anyone else considering that the islands are sinking.