Pfft. That puddle-jumper doesn't hold a candle to ours, eh lovey?
What do you mean "ours?"
I wonder how many Muslim families per year could be fed, clothed and housed for the cost of the bathroom fixtures.
Is there "something wrong with this picture?" Why are Americans to blame for this? Oh, wait.......I know. I know. We keep on buying their oil. Trouble with that is that if we stopped, China, India and the rest of the world requiring the liquid gold would keep these people in 24K gold faucets anyway.
Well, to be fair, Brunei is a small Island to the north of Indonesia or Malaysia, so, technically not located in ME..
It is on the island of Borneo, and has about 350,000 people and boatloads of oil and valuable forests. I don't think there are much in the way of discontented masses there. Back to the drawing boards.
This is one plane that won't be crashed into the skyscrapers of Malaysia.
One of these days I'll post a pic of his cottage here in Las Vegas.
Pardon me, but did you notice the exotic ceilings on that private jet? Did the reporter get to see the secret liquor cabinets stashed high with every conceivable liquor and the finest wines? Did he see the Sultan's er, uh, er team of 'dancing girls?' . . . Oh, well. Waaaahtever.
No big deal.
Hell, when I flew KC-135 tankers in SAC, they were every bit as well-appointed.
Oh yes........and monkeys DO fly out of my butt.
"Do you suppose that displays of personal self-indulgence on this scale might have anything to do with "Muslim rage?" I don't know what the unemployment rate is in Brunei, but elsewhere in the Middle East it is very high, while the Sultan, and "folks" like Saddam, Uday, Qusay, the few thousand members of the Saudi royal family....live in the lap of luxury."
Why can't the same be said about the concentration of wealth in this country? Perhaps it's not as extreme, but isn't it possible that it soon could be? Would it be logical to expect the lower and middle (if there still is one) classes to respond with the same "rage"?
Well, I don't know much about the bloke.
But if it's his money, he should be able to spend it as he likes.
Have you ever seen the interior of Burj al-Arab in Dubai? The Muslim vision of "opulence," when backed up by wads of $$$, can produce some truly ghastly stuff.
How can something so expensive look so horrid.
If someone wants 24-K gold bathroom fixtures, why not? If I had the money, I'd do it, too, and I could care less if people think it's "personal opulance" or self-indulgence... It would be MY money, MY bathroom, and no one else's business...
You sound like a liberal bemoaning this...
Cool plane. I wonder if that could be done to a Boeing 777-200LR. Then you would have a real plane.