Dubai Hotter 100
The glossip rag known on Dubai radio as "Acklan" (available at all Jumeirah hairdressers now) has yet again chosen 100 bores, has-beens and never-wases in a risibly titled "Hot 100" list. A tricky task indeed: limiting the Roll-Call of Shame to only 100 names - there are tens of thousands of similar dreary, trowel-make-upped wannabes out there.
Time then to present an alternative list. One hundred is boringly long to choose, so here are ten of Dubai's hottest people:
1. Lola LebCan
Lola defines hot. She also defines cool. Which is a paradox, but who cares?
2. Boys in blue
These guys are hot. They're hot because they work all day on building sites, in the hot sun. Very very hot. Possibly the hottest people in the sandlands. And they probably built your villa/apartment/palace.
3. Beach boyz
Who knows who these guys are? They're very probably some of the same boys above, enjoying the beach on their single day off per week. They wanted their photo taken, and they have far hotter, more genuine smiles than any of the frozen botoxed frights and smarmy slicked-backs in Acklan.
4. Dr Al Ka'abi
If only they were all like him. UAE labour minister Dr Al Ka'abi is an outstanding example of a politician committed to rooting out corruption and getting workers paid. They don't come much hotter than this.
5. Ibn Battuta
Love the mall, love the man. Without doubt the hottest-looking man in the UAE. Even being deceased, he's still infernos hotter than any of the dross in Acklan. Absolutely, utterly, smouldering.
6. Sharla Musaibh
Sharla is hot due to the immense warmth of her heart and the courage that burns in her. She has helped improve and even save the lives of countless dispossessed and oppressed sandlanders. Her work roasts the interior design, modelling and general media moronity of the Acklan posse.
7. Michael Faraday + friends
Not technically sandlanders, but certainly deserving of honourary citizenship. We would all be a lot hotter if it wasn't for these boffins and the invention of air conditioning. OBEs (Old Boring Expats) still remember with terror the "good" old days pre-A/C. Hot men with hot ideas.
8. Mohammed Alabbar
Hot-looking (no wonder they want him as a TV presenter), and extra-hot for putting the sandlands on the map with the world's tallest tower. Definitely a contender for the Hottest People list, at least until China builds an even bigger burj.
9. Life Pharmacy staff, DICC
First class customer service: if they don't have what you need, they'll deliver it from one of their other branches at no extra charge, within a couple of hours. All the men and women working at the DICC pharmacy are always polite, friendly, and incredibly nice. So hot, in fact, that they nearly make attending Dubai expos bearable. (But not quite. That would take intravenous morphine for the duration, followed by a six-month all-expenses-paid sabbatical in the Seychelles).
10. Men in RAK
Steamingly hot. No need to explain why.
Time then to present an alternative list. One hundred is boringly long to choose, so here are ten of Dubai's hottest people:
1. Lola LebCan
Lola defines hot. She also defines cool. Which is a paradox, but who cares?
2. Boys in blue
These guys are hot. They're hot because they work all day on building sites, in the hot sun. Very very hot. Possibly the hottest people in the sandlands. And they probably built your villa/apartment/palace.
3. Beach boyz
Who knows who these guys are? They're very probably some of the same boys above, enjoying the beach on their single day off per week. They wanted their photo taken, and they have far hotter, more genuine smiles than any of the frozen botoxed frights and smarmy slicked-backs in Acklan.
4. Dr Al Ka'abi
If only they were all like him. UAE labour minister Dr Al Ka'abi is an outstanding example of a politician committed to rooting out corruption and getting workers paid. They don't come much hotter than this.
5. Ibn Battuta
Love the mall, love the man. Without doubt the hottest-looking man in the UAE. Even being deceased, he's still infernos hotter than any of the dross in Acklan. Absolutely, utterly, smouldering.
6. Sharla Musaibh
Sharla is hot due to the immense warmth of her heart and the courage that burns in her. She has helped improve and even save the lives of countless dispossessed and oppressed sandlanders. Her work roasts the interior design, modelling and general media moronity of the Acklan posse.
7. Michael Faraday + friends
Not technically sandlanders, but certainly deserving of honourary citizenship. We would all be a lot hotter if it wasn't for these boffins and the invention of air conditioning. OBEs (Old Boring Expats) still remember with terror the "good" old days pre-A/C. Hot men with hot ideas.
8. Mohammed Alabbar
Hot-looking (no wonder they want him as a TV presenter), and extra-hot for putting the sandlands on the map with the world's tallest tower. Definitely a contender for the Hottest People list, at least until China builds an even bigger burj.
9. Life Pharmacy staff, DICC
First class customer service: if they don't have what you need, they'll deliver it from one of their other branches at no extra charge, within a couple of hours. All the men and women working at the DICC pharmacy are always polite, friendly, and incredibly nice. So hot, in fact, that they nearly make attending Dubai expos bearable. (But not quite. That would take intravenous morphine for the duration, followed by a six-month all-expenses-paid sabbatical in the Seychelles).
10. Men in RAK
Steamingly hot. No need to explain why.
Labels: celebrity, ibn battuta, labourers, lola lebcan, media, rak
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SOME CHANGES - NO MORE ANON COMMENTS
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Blogger is free to join, so it doesn't prevent anyone from commenting. It just means that you need to sign up, which will give you a recogniseable identity.
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You don't have to give your names: you can use nicknames and pseudonyms. Apologies to the many polite, pleasant anons - both the dissenters and the assenters - but it has become necessary. The next step would be comment moderation, and I really don't want to have to do that.
IT IS THE WESTS FAULT!
I am honestly surprised that neither Anon nor Balushi made the list.
Holy moley that last news article about the bangladeshi dude in RAK is scary.
Aklan- A mag about preeners read by preeners.
I would also include 'Delivery Boys (or men)' ..
These poor souls are the least paid, the most loaded with work, can't find a decent place to park, have to deal with traffic crap and the hot weather.
On top of all that, they always on the receiving end of extreme customer verbal abuse though its 99% not their fault that the order is late/wrong/missing or cold...
They are hot for always keeping their composure and staying cool..
and the laundry guys. how they manage to survive charging just 1 dirham for a shirt is amazing.
they're my hot pick. for working in steamy conditions and not increasing their prices when all about them are, delivering neatly laundered clothes - on time.
Why am i not on that list for simply just being 'hot'?
:(
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Gautam
Now this is one list I want to be on!!!! Perhaps I can qualify for SD's top 1025 next year.
I'm hoping SD gives us her take on this one:
Salon owner taken for a ride with a 'royal touch' -
Dr Alka Kalra, Managing Director of Eduscan who also owns the Cindrella Salons, was compelled to follow the young man's manager to a hotel suite to get a bill of Dh7000 settled. The bill was for decking up seven girls from head to toe, who were brought to pleasure the man during the night at Le Royal Meridien Hotel.
The story would have been better if the more commonly used phrase, ladies saloon, was used.
As if by magic!
I posted it literally nanoseconds before I saw your comment ;)
Abbar can come straight of the list. He is neither hot nor clever.
i see a video coming out....featuring playback by mims ..this is why im hot :P
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