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Dubai-bye Charlie Brooker on Dubai

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Posted 30 November 2009 - 03:29 AM

UK folks, your national treasure has weighed in with another priceless piece, this time on the Dubai crash.

It contains the single best description of Las Vegas (his point of comparison) I've ever seen:

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In Las Vegas the grimy engine that paid for each new chunk of mega-casino was there in plain sight at street level: woozy drunks thumbing coins into slots 24 hours a day. Hundreds of thousands of them, slumped semi-conscious in rows like dozing cattle hooked up to milking machines. Ching ching ching, slurp slurp slurp. It was like watching a gigantic crystal spider increasing in size as it coldly sapped the husks of its victims. Ugly, but at least it made sense.

Where were the coin slots in Dubai?

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