Ben Crew

Living and loving the expat life, travelling around the world & being an armchair rugby fan (7’s, Sale Sharks, England and Wales)

[Ben Crew @BenCDXB]

@Dussyme Utah, Iowa both have four distinct letters. Ohio has for letters, but only three distinct.

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Is peeing in a swimming pool acceptable or not?

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@realDonaldTrump So how's your Middle East intervention going this time round, @realDonaldTrump? Over $31 billion spent in two weeks in Iran, and $45–75 billion on all your foreign interventions (IR, YE, VE, NG, SY, IQ, SO) that could have been spent reducing the largest US deficit in history...

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#Dubai #UAE #dubaiattack

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The Middle East isn’t a geopolitical chessboard

Dubai's where I met my wife
Where my children were born
Where I called home for 16 yrs

So when tensions rise, it’s not abstract,
It’s friends texting that they’re scared

Strength isn’t missiles, it's its leaders choosing peace

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Interesting how @realDonaldTrump is happy to call in the troops now, when he refused to do so on January 6th 2020 (when there was an actual attack on the Capitol in progress). Maybe he should have called the military up when it was actually required instead of for grandstanding.

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@elonmusk https://t.co/FvkxQclqsz
Just this @elonmusk. If everyone is serious about cutting down govt spending, start with the military

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So, @realDonaldTrump wants to cut down on Government expenditure. How about starting with the military? The US spends more than the next 9 countries combined https://t.co/cLaZwdotxO. If the US halved it's military budget it would save nearly $500billion, and STILL be the biggest!

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So, @realDonaldTrump wants to cut down on Government expenditure. How about starting with the military? The US spends more than the next 9 countries combined https://t.co/cLaZwdotxO. If the US halved it's military budget it would save nearly $500billion, and STILL be the biggest!

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@emirates Locking you Gold Skywards customers out of their accounts, with zero communication & no responses to emails, says a lot about how you value your customers!

If this is how you treat you Gold, I hate to think how badly you treat blue & silver! @EmiratesSupport

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@emirates Locking you Gold Skywards customers out of their accounts, with zero communication and not responding to emails or any other messages, says a lot about how you value your customers!
If this is how you treat you Gold, I hate to think how badly you treat blue & silver!

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@Marston1889 This is 6 year old news!

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Thank you #UPS for the great customer service. 1st you tell me that I have to be home all day today for a package, then at 5pm you say, "Nah, you now need to be home all day tomorrow instead", and lie to me about it ever being scheduled for today. And charge me for changing day!

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Come join us at he inaugral #RISK GCC evnt taking place on the 2nd & 3rd October in the DIFC. Thoroughly loking forward to attending a number of these session, particularly the eynote from Liz Denholme. https://t.co/Hb6Yoa5cLv

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@Etihad_Rail But it's not complete yet. For starters Jebel Ali and DIP aren't yet connected

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So Biden's administration at the GOP congress are at loggerheads over the debt ceiling. How about these to start with:
1000% federal tax on all firearms and ammunition
Allow negotiation on drug meds
Eliminate subsidies to massively profitable aviation, defense + oil & mining co's

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https://t.co/5oin1o1IqO

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https://t.co/ptuj8fdc90

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@joshgardner Interesting comment because @TomCurry98 wasn't even playing in this game, but his twin brother @BenCurry98 was

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Split up my 2 year old, 3 year old, my wife and I so we're all sitting completely separately. No apology. No explanation. No resolution. Come on @emirates what the hell is going on? You used to be great, not so much today

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I have to hand it to @emirates for taking the mantle for the worst handling of a cancelled flight. #EK413 last night cancelled, 2 hrs after sched departure, zero communication from @EmiratesSupport at the airport, and now they rebook us on a flight leaving at 5pm tonight, but...