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eK
Posts: 8531
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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Yes please!
The 4,467-square-foot court sits near the top of the 1,053 foot tower that was built on a man-made island in the Arab Gulf. It took almost three years to build the island before work even began on the sail-shaped building, which was designed by architect Thomas Wills Wright, according to the hotel's Web site. Linky-Poo. http://images.ausimages.com/upload/2005-02-23/dubai_tennis_ft.jpg |
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scooby
Posts: 2401
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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holy crap
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| #1 09:39pm 23/02/05 |
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spidz
Posts: 8307
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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thats the same platform tiger was hitting golf balls off.
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| #2 09:51pm 23/02/05 |
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HeardY
Posts: 11593
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
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wholey f*** that's cool!
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| #3 09:54pm 23/02/05 |
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fpot
Posts: 10941
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
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shotgun not fetching the ball ROFLZ
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| #4 09:54pm 23/02/05 |
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Snakeman
Posts: 213
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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So I guess they keep turning it into something new ??? I guess its not there for good ???
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| #5 09:54pm 23/02/05 |
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ravn0s
Posts: 2439
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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swimming pool next
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| #6 09:58pm 23/02/05 |
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spidz
Posts: 8310
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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i think they're planning a rave on it next, but they're not going to put barriers on the sides.
something about natural selection? |
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| #7 10:01pm 23/02/05 |
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scuzzy
Posts: 10963
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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There has been the odd one or two show about that hotel on discovery channel, and the plans they have for developing the surrounding area are completely amazing.
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| #8 10:17pm 23/02/05 |
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ravn0s
Posts: 2440
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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^ like?
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| #9 10:21pm 23/02/05 |
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mission
Posts: 2051
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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Amazing stuff!
That hotel is sweet :) |
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| #10 10:24pm 23/02/05 |
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epi.
Posts: 5349
Location: Wynnum, Queensland
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fwoar thats awesome
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| #11 10:38pm 23/02/05 |
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scuzzy
Posts: 10965
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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^ like?just lots of wackey s*** like http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=12224 and http://www.dubailand.ae/ http://www.exn.ca/ontv/episode.asp?episode=43104685&TZ=0 <- this was the TV show A multi-billion-dollar vacation city is being carved out of the deserts of Dubai; bringing the sea inland was a monumental feat of engineering.http://www.firstclasstravel.de/construction_in_dubai.htm last edited by scuzzy at 22:52:46 23/Feb/05 |
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Deadly-Fly
Posts: 2869
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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Notice how the two guys playing are both close to the net. Can't say I blame them.
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| #13 10:52pm 23/02/05 |
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Billy Hardball
Posts: 3949
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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A ten metre diving board over a dive pool would be awesome!
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| #14 10:56pm 23/02/05 |
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HERMITech
Posts: 1907
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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shotgun not fetching the ball ROFLZ Bags not flying the plane into it.... |
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existence`
Posts: 5109
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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if i was up there, i would take the hugest supply of rocks and eggs
and a car or 2 just for kicks |
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nF
Posts: 9402
Location: Wynnum, Queensland
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The hotel Burj Al Arab is a perfect example of the decadent and immoral arab culture.
In a world where hundreds thousands of americans are illiterate, homeless and starving, we see this enormous structure built at a cost of billions of dollars, of which could have helped feed and educate the poor americans for years. Truely, it disgusts me. |
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Morax
Posts: 1475
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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In a world where hundreds thousands of americans are illiterate, homeless and starving, we see this enormous structure built at a cost of billions of dollars, of which could have helped feed and educate the poor americans for years.If it disgusts you so much, why don't you go out and make a billion dollars, then give it to the poor americans? I'm sure if they wanted it bad enough they could get it too. |
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Erik-the-Red
Posts: 1765
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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i think he broke your sarcasm detector
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r_mazing
Posts: 604
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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will be on sports tonight soon for anyone interested
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hef
Posts: 1293
Location: Queensland
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thats f***en cool
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| #21 12:41am 24/02/05 |
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hef
Posts: 1294
Location: Queensland
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better quality pics can be found here: http://www.efunk.net/pcforum/viewtopic.php?t=2893
last edited by hef at 01:09:40 24/Feb/05 |
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Tuco
Posts: 104
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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how much if a pansy is agassi in that last photo.
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Booyah
Posts: 2817
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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That view is truely unbelievable.
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trog
AGN Admin
Posts: 16310
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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Hey those pictures in hefs post are awesome. How the f*** is there no safety rail or anything! I guess there'd be no running charges across court to try and save a winner.
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| #25 10:04am 24/02/05 |
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eK
Posts: 8536
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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How the f*** is there no safety rail or anything! I guess there'd be no running charges across court to try and save a winner.It used to be a helipad, and im pretty sure they're changing it back into it after this tennis gig is done, so i'd assume it's probably pretty expensive to put some form of big guard rails around it. It'd kinda ruin the coolness a bit as well. |
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HERMITech
Posts: 1918
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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how much if a pansy is agassi in that last photo. I'd have troubles even crawling up to the edge of the damned thing.... |
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| #27 03:50pm 24/02/05 |
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Spook
Posts: 11889
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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morax loses
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parabol
Posts: 901
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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It looks like we have a QGL venue!!
trog, how much would public insurance cost at that altitude? |
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ravn0s
Posts: 2445
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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^lolz
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