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Originally posted by frances:
jane i need your help is it baked beans oof the heinz variety you are talking about?cos i dont know how my other half will cope havinga week off from baked beans lol he is terrible ands the same old dinners nearly day in and day out i cant believe there is a mcdonalds in luxor! i dont even like them can anyone tell me what foul is i have heard it mentioned but i dont know what it is!lol
11 weeks till i go on holiday from today!wohooo what do u mean the pizza is a bit ropey?as for chicken livers eughhhhh

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No it is not Heinz variety but the delicious Egyptian national dish called foul.

I think you better try some of Sharems ideas if you want British grub. What shame not to eat local though.

I am quite chuffed at that posting I started back a few months ago - typical Egyptian men's chat up lines.
I've just went back for a look, I started it last August 2003 and it was last added to in June 2004.

I went to the Kings Head Pub with my fiance 3 years ago and when he was at the bathroom, a few waiters tried and failed to chat me up. I wonder if it's just a challenge for them? something to do to fill in a gap in their day.

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Originally posted by wise_woman:
Luxorlover - I would love to live in Egypt permanently but as well as working full time, I am also a carer for every minute I am outside work.
Recently, when I have been to Egypt for well earned rest I've had to arrange for extra "home help" and visits.
There's no other family to speak off and it's a lot to expect from friends (who are unreliable and selfish anyhow).
I'm only 30 (stressing the word "only") and I still have a future ahead of me. For the past 30 years and at the moment, my duty is here.

I am quite chuffed at that posting I started back a few months ago - typical Egyptian men's chat up lines.
I've just went back for a look, I started it last August 2003 and it was last added to in June 2004.

I went to the Kings Head Pub with my fiance 3 years ago and when he was at the bathroom, a few waiters tried and failed to chat me up. I wonder if it's just a challenge for them? something to do to fill in a gap in their day.

Frances - please add on any chat up lines you receive when you are over there to my posting over on Share Your Egyptian Experiences board.

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I am really sorry that you have so much care in your life. At least Egypt is your chance to relax. I would love to meet you next time you are here. pop by na dhave a swim in the pool

Frances,
you will be chatted up at least once.
Even Margarita Pracatan on a bad day with 4 husbands in tow would still be on the receiving end of chat up lines over there.

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Originally posted by wise_woman:
Hi Jane,
I'd love to pop by and say hello should I ever get back to Luxor.

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You do that and have a chill with us. Sounds as though you need it

I cannot offer you a pool to swim in, but as I live in the middle of town now we can have a meal and a good old gossip. I have to admit to an act of plagiarism as I have stolen a lot of your chat up lines to eventually put in a leaflet for European women.

I understand how caring for others can be totally draining. It's very different from looking after your own children. I looked after my mother (did all he cleaning and washing on top of a full-time job and my own family) until she was so infirm that she had to go into a residential home. Even then i visited her every day. When i came to live in Egypt I was stricken with guilt about leaving her even though she was being well cared for.

When it was confirmed that I was sick myself,(not moaning - that's life ) it helped me make the decision to get on with my life. Being told I had MS (and later wide-spread osteo-arthritis), gave me a time line to work to and brought my own mortality home to me. When I first came here I thought that I might have five good years before I was confined to a wheel-chair. The challenge of a new life, despite its stress, had a marked effect on pushing the MS into remission. In the English winters my joints seize up and I have two sticks (no smart-aleks please - I still do not have a zimmer frame despite the recent birthday). But when I am in the dry heat of Egypt I am perfectly able to walk about without aid, except for getting up and down Luxor's ridiculously high kerbs.

I do hope that you manage to get to live you dream. I did. So it went pear- shaped. So What. I always said I would do the same thing again. He was /is gorgeous and it had its moments.

Please let me know if you manage to get back to Luxor. We are not of the same age but I am sure that we have many shared experiences and I would like to meet you.

What he says and what he means

Oh my god I am in love with you.
I think you have money

I have never loved a woman before
The last time it was a man

You are my first love
Of today

You have broken my heart
It is made of stone

I feel I have known you in another life
But I will not walk down the road with you in this one

You are my princess
My last love was a 'quean'.

You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen
I forgot to put my glasses on

You have beautiful eyes
Even though I have not seen them

You are Nefertari returned to Egypt
My friends think you look like a mummy.

You are so different from all the other tourists
They did not give me so much money

Your hair is so soft
And so grey

I am sorry that I did not ring you for 4 months, business is not good and I had no money to phone you.
Another tourist came along and I forgot about you until now.

I lost your telephone number
My wife found it

My house telephone is broken and I cannot hear it ring
I was with another woman when you called

My mobile is broken
I switched it off

The camera phone fell into the toilet/Nile/canal and won't work any more. I had to throw it away
I sold it to Ahmed and now I want another one to sell to Mohammed

I cannot see you as my mother is ill
You came back without telling me and my girlfriend is here until Wednesday

I am sorry that I cannot see you today. My grandmother has died.
I have to get to the airport

I am sorry that I cannot see you today either, my best friend has been in a car crash
Another girlfriend arrived on the place that the last one left on.

I have been sick all week and cannot leave my home
I had to spend some time with my wife and children

Stay in a flat when you come here it will only cost 1,000 LE a week but it will give you freedom.
It was my uncle's flat but I could do with the money.

The tax on my house has not been paid for five years and unless it is paid by Friday, I will be evicted.
I want to take my family to Hurghada for a week.

I have never been with another woman since I met you,
It was another man.

I cannot have sex outside of marriage. My religion forbids it.
I will pray hard in Ramadan so that my God forgives this lie

I cannot have sex outside of marriage. My religion forbids it.
If I can get her to marry me, she will give me lots of money.

I have never enjoyed sex with a woman as much as I enjoy it with you.
And Gerda, and Doris and Natasha and Valerie and Sylvia and Mary et al.

I do not have sex with my Egyptian wife.
More than once a day.

I am clean. I never had sex without a condom.
What's a condom?

Meet my sister and mother.
Really my wife and mother-in-law.

I have lots of nieces and nephews
I have six children

This is my cousin who has nowhere else to live.
This is my wife.

Age is just a number
But my friends call you Jeddah. (Grandmother).

I think of you as a young girl
When I cannot see you

You may be older than me, but in bed you are eighteen.
But the boys think I have to get drunk before sex so that I think you are someone else.

It does not matter than you are too old to have children.
I already have six.

I respect you and your religion
But you must become a Moslem.

I think God wants us to be together
But your family don't.

Do not write to me at my home address; write to me at my brother's shop.
I don't want my wife to know about you.

I have not written to you because I cannot write in English.
I forgot who you were.

Egyptian women do not interest me
Because I have to keep them instead of them keeping me.

I am different from other Egyptian men
Some of them are honest

All the fingers on my hand are different. I am different from other men.
Some of them pray.

I am the only Egyptian you can trust
To take you money

They will tell you lies about me because they do not like to see people happy
I've been caught out.

I know you better than you know yourself
You asked me for a divorce.

Do not be worried. I like your body
I close my eyes and think of Shakira

You don't like to be happy
You have caught me out

For you I give my eyes
And take your purse

I am not interested in your money; it is you that I love
If you had been broke, you would not be in Egypt

I am ashamed to ask you but I need money for my mother's operation
Her operation is free but the house I am secretly building needs a bathroom.

I am sorry but the operation was not successful and needs doing again.
The house needs a kitchen.

If the operation is not done, she will die.
And some furniture.

I need some new glasses they cost LE 500.
They cost LE 200 but there is a woman at the Isis that I want to impress.

I do not love my Egyptian wife. I married her for children.
But I will stay with her forever.

I swear I am not married
I am a liar

I am not marrying you for a visa.
I am an even bigger liar.

I have to take another wife for children.
I fancy my 16-year-old cousin.

I am divorced from my wife.
I shipped her off to stay with my mother.

I will never divorce you
Not while you have money

My wife did something wrong and I divorced her.
She threw me out.

I will divorce my Egyptian wife if you want me to.
I shall send her to my mother's house at the end of the week.

I cannot afford to divorce my wife
I don't want to.

I am a virgin
Or I was until 200 tourists of various sexes seduced me.

I have never kissed another woman
It was a man

Egyptian women are not interested in sex
So I have had my daughters cut so that they will not be interested either.

Please add any that I have left out

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how about these:

I fell in love with you the first time i saw you.
(the first time i saw your amex gold card)

I do not want Egyptian wife.
(No Egyptian man within 200 miles would ever let me marry his daughter)

You are my only true love.
(You are the richest woman i have met)

i have not even been to Egypt yet and i have learnt from you lot already

WOW £800 for one week, thats rather alot unless you are planning on buying some very expensive souveniers. Im sure you wont need that much spending money, even eating out in local restaurants (and there are some fab ones) its so inexpensive. And dinning in the hotels isnt expensive either. Look after ya money

800 (no pound sign on this keyboard) should be enough to pay for the whole holiday not just for spending money. Eating out is cheap. Best steak at Maxime's will cost you around 2 pounds sterling at the present exchange rate. Getting half chicken with salad and rice etc will cost about 1.50. That will leave you so much for souvenirs that you hardly be able to walk under the weight. One thing about those though - remember that if you go with a tout or a calleche man he will get at least 50% of what you spend in commission (up to 75% if it is for papyrus).

Also, change your money when you get here. Not in England.

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Originally posted by Luxorlover:
Put the torch in the bag anyway as you will need it in some areas of Karnak and in the tombs of the Nobles.

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It's a FLASHLIGHT, people!!

I just love our British cousins.

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Originally posted by frances:
three weeks on monday!!!i cant wait!

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Originally posted by Luxorlover:
As I am already here, am I allowed to gloat?

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lol,

location U.K
lol,

Luxor Lover has lived in Egypt for 7 years. Recently she has started having 3 months in Egypt and 3 months in the UK. I can assure you that she is living here and I have seen her house.

Kenzie was right - the profile said UK because that was where I was when I joined ES. (I work in England during the summer months). I am in Eguypt at the moment.

This is just for you. So you think you are hard to understand eh? Huh you are a piece of cake compared to the North East of Scotland. I should know I come from there and the blank expressions on peoples faces tells me to slow down and speak clearly. I feel as if I am talking to idiots at times, it is like talking to the bairns honestly.

We are now living in Hurghada so if you fancy 'chatting' sometimes please feel free.

If I lived in Cairo I might feel differently, but I would rather be ill in the good old UK where there is someone to look after me than in my local hospital where if I did not have someone to bring me food and water from outside, I would starve

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Originally posted by Luxorlover:
Most of the European women I know have gone home for the birth of their babies. I am not knocking the Egyptian health system as they have given up leaching so I am told

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My son is an adrenalin junkey too and is about to climb another 8,000 metre peak in Tibet (which has freaked me out totally and given me more grey hairs than I deserve). I will also forgive and pray each day that he comes down from that mountain with all his limbs intact.

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Originally posted by Luxorlover:
Newcomer: He was lucky. I have no doubt that he will risk his foot again - and as he is your brother you will forgive him.

My son is an adrenalin junkey too and is about to climb another 8,000 metre peak in Tibet (which has freaked me out totally and given me more grey hairs than I deserve). I will also forgive and pray each day that he comes down from that mountain with all his limbs intact.

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I wonder where your son gets it from !!!
Do hope he is safe though.
Penny

He is an adult and master of his own destiny but as he is my son, to me he will always be five years old. I shall age ten years for every day that he is on that mountain. I have never got used to it.

When they talk about "the death zone", where the oxygen is so low, I want to scream "come down, come down" - but instead I bite my tongue and pray .

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Originally posted by bomba:
Wise_Woman,

This is just for you. So you think you are hard to understand eh? Huh you are a piece of cake compared to the North East of Scotland. I should know I come from there and the blank expressions on peoples faces tells me to slow down and speak clearly. I feel as if I am talking to idiots at times, it is like talking to the bairns honestly.

We are now living in Hurghada so if you fancy 'chatting' sometimes please feel free.

By the way I was actually born and dumped in Glasgow and never ever wanted to visit the place. Boy am I glad I did. The warmest kindest people in the U.K. The absolute best shops. We were looking for somewhere to go and have a coffee and a piece of cake and I asked a woman on the street. Instead of just giving directions she actually took us and showed us. Bless her.

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Hi Bomba,
your posting made me laugh. I sometimes feel like I'm from the planet Zorg when I open my weegie mouth and talk.
Do the locals in Hurghada understand you well enough? and the tourists?