Why qatar import everything!

panda
By panda

what's your opinion?

By bleu• 23 Jan 2009 00:47
bleu

edifis:

There are many things to notice

How he walks.

How he stands.

How he talks.

How he dresses.

How he looks.

His face.

His facial expressions.

There are details in each of those categories, and if you're observant enough, you can know his origins and Family/Tribe - Just by looking at him.

By edifis• 23 Jan 2009 00:34
edifis

How will I know whether a Qatari is a Qatari by looking at him?

By bleu• 23 Jan 2009 00:28
bleu

"lazy, uneducated, rich gits"...

Well, I've never met a Qatari with all 4 of those... you seem to be prejudiced.

By panda• 22 Jan 2009 23:39
panda

cuteydog, can you do what the these employees from third world are doing, you as united kingdom citizen?!!

By edifis• 22 Jan 2009 22:29
edifis

Alexa,Do you have a farmhouse in Doha?

By SBR• 22 Jan 2009 14:10
SBR

One of my friend brought me some vegetables grown in his farm near Al Khor. They are really nice..Particularly the Beets and Cauliflowers. Beleive me!!! They are yummy!!

By KellysHeroes• 22 Jan 2009 02:16
KellysHeroes

Barefoot Contessa is a good example :)

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By KellysHeroes• 22 Jan 2009 01:52
KellysHeroes

I had a classmate at highschol with tiny feet. At that time, the most prestiguous shoes shop was selling the boys' shoes for 1/2 the price of the men's shoes. He was teasing us all the time with his prestiguous shoes which we could not afford :((((((((((

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By KellysHeroes• 22 Jan 2009 01:17
KellysHeroes

The secret is revealed. That's why I often see you at The Baby Shop and Oshkosh B'gosh

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By panda• 22 Jan 2009 01:14
panda

so, go go to thailand :)

By panda• 22 Jan 2009 01:02
panda

get 2 birds by one stone that's great! But what's size is your shoes!! I'm afraid lol...JK no need to tell me

By panda• 22 Jan 2009 00:51
panda

PM, so we return back to my subject, if there is shoes manufactrers you get your shoes easily :P. btw, I prefer books than films.

By anonymous• 22 Jan 2009 00:45
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

That's your reality, panda.

By panda• 22 Jan 2009 00:43
panda

PM suggest you shoes shop it's much better :)

By panda• 22 Jan 2009 00:40
panda

physicist are the slaves of economists MD. that's the reality :/

By anonymous• 22 Jan 2009 00:40
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

Qatar imports fuel. Hi Hi.

By thexonic• 22 Jan 2009 00:39
Rating: 2/5
thexonic

Qatar doesnt import oil and gas :P

well cuz Qatar doesnt have too many natural resources. Hence it has to import most of the things.

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Lebanon... the love of my soul!

By anonymous• 22 Jan 2009 00:38
anonymous

I don't like economics. It's an immature science. Based on the irrational asumption that something like a "homo economicus" exists. Physics is better.

By bleu• 22 Jan 2009 00:36
Rating: 2/5
bleu

Freakonomics was a great book, loved it ( I have the one with the apple/orange cover, it's nicer than the other one :) )

If you liked Freakonomics and The Earth is Flat, you'll also like these Books:

Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and The Tipping Point, Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan, The Long Tail by Chris Anderson,

The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore, Fish! by Stephen Lundin, Trust us we're experts by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.

By anonymous• 22 Jan 2009 00:34
anonymous

But they will need a lot of energy to freeze them. That will eat up all the profit.

By qatarocean• 22 Jan 2009 00:32
qatarocean

Dead chicken we can export it. The profit is there. No body will know, the dead is frozen

By qatarocean• 22 Jan 2009 00:32
qatarocean

Dead chicken we can export it. The profit is there. No body will know, the dead is frozen

By Dracula• 22 Jan 2009 00:30
Dracula

without any taste!

wait...like plastic one?

By anonymous• 22 Jan 2009 00:29
anonymous

But then they grow old faster and die earlier. And they have to buy new chicken. So, where is the increased profit?

By edifis• 22 Jan 2009 00:26
edifis

Elsewhere they double the egg production by duping the chickens. They switch off the lights every 6 hours, and when they turn on the lights the hens believe its a new day and they lay an egg. Thats 2 mornings a day and 2 eggs a day.

By anonymous• 22 Jan 2009 00:21
anonymous

"Qatar can't produce even chicken and eggs." That's because they don't know which they need first, chicken or egg?

By heero_yuy2• 22 Jan 2009 00:20
heero_yuy2

But the investment from selling petroleum can.

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

By qatarocean• 22 Jan 2009 00:19
qatarocean

I hope Qatar keeps on importing specially food otherwise, we all have to leave soon then. Imagine, now you can't find Qatari chicken eggs in the market. Qatar can't produce even chicken and eggs. What about the rest. Actually lot of manpower hours are wasted in breaking construction. Look at saudia they are producing nearly everything. Food can be produced in Qatar. Not everything like Sony TV which is not compulsory for daily life. We can't live without daily requirements. Qatar Produce More. LOL. Qatar is not thinking about economic sanctions, huh

By anonymous• 22 Jan 2009 00:16
anonymous

Absolutely not, edifis. Clay is red, oil is black. Do you think I am colorblind? Even if, it also smells differently.

By edifis• 22 Jan 2009 00:13
edifis

MD you must be confusing Pet'r oil with clay.

By anonymous• 22 Jan 2009 00:11
anonymous

didn't work, salax. But I tried, you know, for the monkeys.

By anonymous• 22 Jan 2009 00:06
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

Salax, I brought some sacks of sand from the desert and mixed it with the clay I found in 50 cm depth in the garden, It's all local.

By panda• 21 Jan 2009 23:59
panda

at least food satisfaction, who knows that the oil and gas will have the same value in the future, maybe another energy will be discovered. this is only my point of view maybe i'm wrong.

By anonymous• 21 Jan 2009 23:58
anonymous

There are, edifis. But they're actually made by Indians.

By anonymous• 21 Jan 2009 23:57
anonymous

that's right, bleu. But it also creates interdependence. And that can sometimes hurt as the example of Russia's stop of gas delivery to Western Europe shows.

By edifis• 21 Jan 2009 23:55
edifis

Are there any 32' TV "made in Qatar"?

By bleu• 21 Jan 2009 23:54
Rating: 3/5
bleu

I just want to say it's more cost-effective to import things, building a car factory or electronics factory (TVs ...etc.) doesn't make sense.

Would you buy a "Made in Qatar" 32" TV at QR12,000, or get that 52" Sony at the same price?

And the market here is so tiny! If it's not a viable export, or can't find a big local market, it's not worth it to manufacture it here.

You should read Thomas Friedman's book "The World is Flat", this stuff is just one page of the introduction to the preface of the book :) .

By anonymous• 21 Jan 2009 23:50
anonymous

behind, edifis, not 'in'. The car workshops have a lot of waste water which tomatoes love. They grow like hell. Especially when they get some coolant.

By edifis• 21 Jan 2009 23:47
edifis

Why grow tomatoes in Car workshop?

By panda• 21 Jan 2009 23:45
panda

Drac, I understand what you mean and I agree with you but this is only for a short term, for long term speaking they should make a program for a new generations.

By anonymous• 21 Jan 2009 23:41
anonymous

They grow in my backyard, salax. In the Industrial Area they grow behind every car workshop, naturally. I haven't seen artificially grown tomatoes so far. Do they 'grow' in IT shops?

By Dracula• 21 Jan 2009 23:40
Rating: 4/5
Dracula

Compared with some other oil- and gas- rich countries in the Gulf region of the Middle East, the Qataris have definitely been the least "glamorous" in their spending and acquisition attitude.

When you are sitting on the 2nd largest natural gas reserves in the world , as the Qataris are, then you can obviously afford the best that is on offer.

By panda• 21 Jan 2009 23:39
panda

the gas is not eternel cuteydog, qatar should think about other resources like tourism, agriculture etc...

for example, the EAU, they can stop producing oil and gas coz they invested their money in many things like i said above.

By edifis• 21 Jan 2009 23:37
edifis

Panda I have no reason to be upset. It doesn't concern me in any way.But Qatar do import most goods. Thats because they don't manufacture any thing.

By heero_yuy2• 21 Jan 2009 23:33
heero_yuy2

Countries import what is to their advantage

Even tomatoes?

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

By panda• 21 Jan 2009 23:31
panda

cuteguy, car manufacturers? where that i wanna buy one car.

go to any mall and check the manufacturers of all product, it's very rare to find a product made in qatar isn't it?

edifis, yes ur upset!

By edifis• 21 Jan 2009 23:24
edifis

No Panda I am not. And I am not upset.

By panda• 21 Jan 2009 23:22
panda

Do not worry, India will not loose his market here, coz everything is from india maybe you are an importer that why you are upset huh!

By edifis• 21 Jan 2009 23:20
edifis

Wait wait, Do Qatar import every thing? Certainly not gas!

By edifis• 21 Jan 2009 23:18
edifis

You are welcome Panda.

By panda• 21 Jan 2009 23:14
panda

thank you edifis for your silly answer

By edifis• 21 Jan 2009 23:12
edifis

What a silly question!! The silliest one I ever heard.

By heero_yuy2• 21 Jan 2009 23:04
heero_yuy2

The national flags are not imported...or...

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

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