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    benjaminalloverGabrielle Bluestone
    7/27/15 10:41am

    For reference;

    So much for the public beach. Nothing is truly public if a rich enough person wants to commandeer it.

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      BurnItAllToTheGroundbenjaminallover
      7/27/15 10:47am

      I’ll be honest with you. That’s a shit beach. The elevator may be the nicest part about it when it’s done.

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      Armageddon T. Thunderbirdbenjaminallover
      7/27/15 10:48am
      GIF

      The public has a rather messy answer for out of control rich.

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    gramercypoliceGabrielle Bluestone
    7/27/15 10:55am

    I know Riyadh itself is kind of landlocked, but if you spend 50 weeks a year in Saudi Arabia anyway, why would you vacation at the beach? He should hike part of the Pacific Coast Trail or take one of those tours down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

    Wait, I know: Next year, let’s get him to vacation in the Hamptons, just to piss off everybody in the Hamptons!

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      youjustkeepthinkingbutchgramercypolice
      7/27/15 11:01am

      He wouldn’t even make it on to the Asshole Spectrum out in the Hamptons in the summer. In fact, he would be sitting there, his face slack, as True Assholes showed him how it’s DONE.

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      gramercypoliceyoujustkeepthinkingbutch
      7/27/15 11:04am

      Well, that might help make him better at fighting ISIS.

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    AssFault on the Highway to HellGabrielle Bluestone
    7/27/15 10:40am

    They came to Seattle for looong time in 2006-7 and took up a whole floor of the hotel in the building where I worked. Aside from spending tons of money and tipping area service professionals very well, we hardly noticed them.

    The President of China, however, was there for two days and caused such a disturbance with his detail that we couldn’t even work. We cleaned every square inch of the shop just to have something to do, then we went home early. None of our customers were allowed through security so his visit actually cost us money.

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      PyrethrynAssFault on the Highway to Hell
      7/27/15 11:37am

      I worked at a nice(r) hotel in Bellevue during that time, in room service. I guess one of the Saudi princes had cancer and was getting treatment at UW, so a bunch of brothers and sisters (prince and princesses) each took over the top floors of a number of hotels. Drivers, cooks, maids, attendants, security, etc. They actually took out a few walls and did some light remodeling. It was pretty interesting talking to the attendants and security. The main lady (princess, probably around 65) looked insufferable and entitled. And they all tipped well, too.

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      AssFault on the Highway to HellPyrethryn
      7/27/15 11:41am

      This was in DT Seattle, same exact situation at the old-as-the-hills-hotel in the building where I worked! Wow. I guess they like to have options!

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    Jerry-NetherlandGabrielle Bluestone
    7/27/15 10:43am

    The French known what to do with this sort of king....

    GIF
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      festivusaziliJerry-Netherland
      7/27/15 10:48am

      History of the World is the most underrated Mel Brooks movie. Deosn’t get nearly enough love.

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      Jerry-Netherlandfestivusazili
      7/27/15 10:53am

      Bea Arthur! “Did you bullshit last week? Did you try to bullshit last week?”

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    stacyinbeanGabrielle Bluestone
    7/27/15 10:37am

    That is some serious facial hair grooming.

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      ReburnsABurningReturnsstacyinbean
      7/27/15 10:42am

      You don’t have an attendant for each hair follicle on your body as well?

      I suppose the next thing you are going to tell me is that you wipe yourself.

      How gauche.

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      Jerry-Netherlandstacyinbean
      7/27/15 10:49am

      Lifetime supply....

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    Armageddon T. ThunderbirdGabrielle Bluestone
    7/27/15 10:41am

    Beach elevator is an appropriately Saudi level of opulence.

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      StenchofaburnerArmageddon T. Thunderbird
      7/27/15 10:46am

      I read about it last week and I’m enjoying the hell out of this situation because Saudi Royalty are so tacky and the French (especially the kind that vacation the riviera in the summer) are such fucking snobs, this is like the perfect storm of awfulness.

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      Zsa Zsa GaborgArmageddon T. Thunderbird
      7/27/15 10:52am

      It’s also the title of Vampire Weekend’s next album!

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    ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDGabrielle Bluestone
    7/27/15 10:39am

    Typically doesn’t end well when royalty acts like a buch of assholes in France...

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      stacyinbeanGabrielle Bluestone
      7/27/15 11:04am

      Look at this fucking villa.

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        Morris Minorstacyinbean
        7/27/15 5:31pm

        The article says a kilometer of public beach will be cordoned off. Is there more beach out of frame?

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        stacyinbeanMorris Minor
        7/27/15 5:33pm

        From Google Earth it looks like there is another whole section right down the road.

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      VectoriousGabrielle Bluestone
      7/27/15 10:58am
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        UncleCCClaudiusGabrielle Bluestone
        7/27/15 11:06am

        It’s a horrible little beach and the villa itself looks like a 1930’s Hollywood apartment building. Of course it’s probably encrusted with gold and has sea turtle shell floors inside. If they had any sense the Saudi’s would bring some of their own sand to spiff the dump up.

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