Secret Dubai

Intrigue and Adventure in the United Arab Emirates


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Miscellany

Desert doggerel




Our favourite things

YouTube and MySpace and Orkut and Flickr
BoingBoing and Vonage and UAEprison
Friendsreunited and Metacafe
Please keep the evil corruption away!

Girls in bikinis with bits that are rudey
Ladies of Lesbos and good friends of Judy
The Empire of Zion and poor pussycats
Save us from moral perversion like that!

When the road roars, when the rent soars
When we're feeling shit
We simply remember the sites that are blocked
And then we don't mind a bit

Sites inconsistent to UAE values
Sites that could threaten the delicate family
Sites that let girls and boys flirt and hook up
These are few of the things that are blocked

Religious discussion and mags that are foxy
Sites that explain how to get round the proxy
Internet phonecalls and expatriates
We really cannot be confronted with that!

When the Palm sinks, when Modhesh winks
When we could slit our throats
We simply remember that everything's blocked
And then we sit back and gloat


Originally posted 27th July 2006
in response to Etisalat blocking YouTube







Fabric of society

Dark dawn of Gitex

Week in limericks

Boys in blue

Our favourite things

Sun sonnet

Beating the rap

Driving song

Song of sandlands

Betty boycotts butter

Bridge gridlock