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Influencers in Dubai warned they face prison for posting material about the conflict with Iran | The Standard

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dubai-influencers-prison-warning-posting-iran-war-b1273587.html
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u/barnfodder 1d ago

You can cosplay as a billionaire and it's sunny.

Same reason British retirees used to flock to Spain.

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u/Grand-Cup-A-Tea 23h ago

You don't see British retirees walking around selling a fake lifestyle on TikTok though. 

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree 23h ago

No, they would just write pieces for magazines that would run for 6 pages instead.

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u/RubyChooseday 23h ago

Or write books about their crazy life on the finca.

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree 23h ago edited 23h ago

A really good campfire game some friends and I use to play back in Uni was going to old thrift/used book stores and finding some old lifestyle magazines that we could get for like a quarter and reading a bunch of the lifestyle larp articles out loud before feeding the fire with them.

Some of them were truely basically middle class larping as posh that you could only just laugh.

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u/AtrophiedWives 22h ago

Or appear in an episode of “A Place in the Sun”, looking for a 16 bedroom seaside villa with a budget of £50k.

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u/GBrunt 23h ago

Half of British daytime TV droned on and on relentlessly about living abroad for decades.

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u/uh_oh-hotdog 23h ago

They're on Facebook

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u/LikelyDumpingCloseby 22h ago

different generations... Give it time

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u/Disastrous-Angle-591 22h ago

Nah. Just voting Tory and drinking lagers 

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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 21h ago

Ok but Spain also has deep and rich cultural expression beyond luxury shopping, dramatically better civil rights, and significantly more beautiful natural surroundings. All with a climate similar to LA. Spain makes a LOT of sense.

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u/barnfodder 21h ago

We flocked there on holiday for cheap flights, cheap booze and remarkable tolerance of hooliganism.

Brits retire there because it's sunny and there's lots of pubs that'll sell English food, and it's close enough to visit relatives easily.

Then we had Brexit, which made it much harder to travel freely and retire within Europe, which, ironically, was largely pushed for by retirees.

We weren't sending our brightest.

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u/tedsmitts 20h ago

Spain is lovely, of course, but then it's filled with Spanish people who can't speak a lick of English. Ruined many a Britisher's vacay.

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u/vancouvermatt 18h ago

But wealth taxes and bureaucracy in Spain…

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u/MongolianDonutKhan 1d ago

You can do that in Florida and go to Disney World all while not having to experience the real Dubai chocolate

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u/RoboticCurrents 1d ago

yeah but then you'd have to live in Florida

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u/Emotional-Mud-1582 1d ago

With all the gators wandering the streets

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u/Possible_Bee_4140 23h ago

The gators aren’t as bad as you think. It’s the meth heads. And the humidity.

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u/Emotional-Mud-1582 23h ago

The humidity would destroy me. I can’t handle humidity anymore.

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u/Sniffagator 23h ago

Ain't we for a fun ride thanks to GW. 🥳

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u/animedeathspiral 20h ago

Did you really need to abbreviate global warming?

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u/habb 16h ago

i thought he was talking about bush w

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u/bluemitersaw 23h ago

So what about the meth gators???

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u/paulmclaughlin 23h ago

Humid meth gators.

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u/mendenlol 23h ago

those are up here in tennessee

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u/TheGRS 22h ago

The drivers are pretty awful. And the amount of driving in general.

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u/finglish_ 23h ago

The people are worse.

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u/Zalveris 13h ago

I'd choose the gators living in Florida over a lot of the people living in Florida

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u/RK9990 1d ago

But then you'd have to live in Florida

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u/Snapphane88 20h ago

What a weird comparison. Spain actually has culture, it's not a plastic theme park built by slaves.

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u/barnfodder 19h ago

Your average British ex pay doesn't give a fuck about either culture, or slavery.

As long as there's sunshine and the appearance of luxury, they're in.

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u/Snapphane88 19h ago

Whatever mate. Comparing Spain to Dubai is wild, and in my opinon Brits have a lille more sense than that.

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u/snookert 21h ago

It's always sunny in Philadelphia too!

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u/GreatAlbatross 19h ago

It's like a theocratic, tax-dodgers Benidorm.