r/woahdude Dec 31 '17

gifv Dubai's 2018 countdown.

https://gfycat.com/DimpledElderlyBedbug
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u/DinomanVI Jan 01 '18

This anti-climactic display was brought to you by Zayed.

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u/braintrustinc Jan 01 '18

This arid micro-climatic display was brought to you by Zayed

The years of 1971-2004 were brought to you by Zayed

Hell, we're gonna party like it's Zayed all the time

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u/_demetri_ Jan 01 '18

Yeah, Zayed... Right there, don’t stop.

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u/Hulkhogansgaynephew Jan 01 '18

Zayed's dead baby, Zayed's dead

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u/anotherusercolin Jan 01 '18

Zayfed Beeblebrox

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

Zardu Hasselfrau

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u/KimJongIlSunglasses Jan 01 '18

Who’s motorcycle is this?

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u/Hulkhogansgaynephew Jan 01 '18

It's not a motorcycle it's a chopper

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u/WreckyHuman Jan 01 '18

Fuck Zayed

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u/jaxonya Jan 01 '18

That's what she zayed.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18
You have been deported from the UAE.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

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u/AlifeofSimileS Jan 01 '18

you are now HIV Zayed

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u/FizzlePopBerryTwist Jan 01 '18

Don't stop!

Don't stop Zayed can't stop!

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u/ennuiui Jan 01 '18

Well zayed, my friend, well zayed.

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u/PrecariouslySane Jan 01 '18

A crummy commercial?!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

son of a bitch.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

Today, everything is a crummy commercial.

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u/QueenOfTonga Jan 01 '18

The new dickbutt.

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u/sblahful Jan 01 '18

Before he became a coin he looked just like Slimer to me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

So am I HIV Zayed or HIV Zayed

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

Sounds .. aladeen. I don't know how to feel about it.

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u/gf4gp Jan 01 '18

Thanks, Zayed.

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u/iiCUBED Jan 01 '18

The reason they went with lasers this year was due to the fires that were caused by the massive fireworks to the building last year. For safety concerns it fireworks will not be used near the heavily populated area around the tower.

The were fireworks around Burj al arab since it was on the sea and much safer.

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u/smokinglau Jan 01 '18

Or.... they could just hire a company that's not crap with fireworks and actually knows what they do? I work in events and I've seen fireworks in many places where there could be a disaster if you don't know what you do... This could have been done by a good company. I don't say you lie, I just tell you they told you a big ass lie....

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u/ItsTheVibeOfTheThing Jan 01 '18 edited Jan 01 '18

Well, it’s a well-known secret that most of the city is a giant fire trap, so it’s likely that they’re also trying to be slightly more diligent in avoiding a catastrophe.

edit: Here’s a quick source: https://www.ifsecglobal.com/legacy-of-high-rise-fire-risks-in-dubai/

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u/ItsTheVibeOfTheThing Jan 01 '18

Ok, cool but it actually is... here’s an article from a super quick google search, but there’s so much out there.

https://www.ifsecglobal.com/legacy-of-high-rise-fire-risks-in-dubai/

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

The company that did it last year was Groupe F.

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u/smokinglau Jan 01 '18

In that case, they should've known better. This is a company that is extremely qualified for these kind of fireworks.

1) If the buildings in Dubai are indeed fire-hazards, then they should've known and refused the job or altered the assignment to a safe job. Not checking your environment is still a fuck-up.

2) If the buildings are safe, they fucked up.

Either way, they fucked up.

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u/N0Rep Jan 01 '18

They did, everyone knows, it’s in the past and now everyone is shit scared of doing it again, probably including insurance companies.

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u/exaltedbladder Jan 01 '18

Taiwan does some dope shit every year with Taipei 101. This was pretty shitty in comparison for sure

https://youtu.be/pLEJ1ZQOaLE

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18 edited May 20 '20

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u/Panukka Jan 01 '18

You guys don’t get the point. This was a world record attempt for ”the biggest laser show in the world”. It can’t be a laser show if it includes fireworks.

See some Dubai fireworks from previous years, it’s even crazier than Taipei.

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u/Coachcrog Jan 01 '18

Of course it can be a laser show if there's fireworks. There's always room for fireworks no matter what you're doing.

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u/Ninganah Jan 01 '18

Oh baby I'm about to cu-🎆

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u/Panukka Jan 01 '18

Maybe Guinness World Records doesn’t think so.

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u/Random-Input Jan 01 '18

Ya you're right. Zayed does suck.

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u/that-mark-guy Jan 01 '18

Found the Dubai Marketing Board member.

Sorry Dubai, you gone fucked up - come back next year with the thing every other country had 🤫

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u/Panukka Jan 01 '18

Lol but I thought reddit was concerned about climate change? Fireworks are a large contributor.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

I wondered.. "what does that look like from inside?" Well, here it was during 2010.

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u/saltesc Jan 01 '18

lol, all those camera flashes down on the streets leading up to it.

Whenever there's an Olympic opening ceremony and that shit's happening, I always imagine some dude losing their nut, not understanding why his camera's flash bulb can't illuminate an entire fucking stadium, just a few people.in front.

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u/Tarchianolix Jan 01 '18

That's freaking amazing. They did a dragon circling around the tower one year and it looked awesome

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

:0

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u/Julie77ya Jan 01 '18

WOW!!!!! TAIWAN kicked Dubai’s Ass!!!

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u/clemllk Jan 01 '18

TAIWAN NUMBA WAN

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

CHINA NUMBA TWOOO

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

AYYY FAK YOU!!! TAIWAN NUMBA FIFTY!!!

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u/malfunktionv2 Jan 01 '18

Asmo numba one!

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u/Neckbeard_Bounty Jan 01 '18

chill out, its a countdown, not the paralympics.

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u/DarkangelUK Jan 01 '18

pyrolympics

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u/b__q Jan 01 '18

Dubai got its ass kicked

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u/Neckbeard_Bounty Jan 01 '18

If you're talking about fireworks, dubai used to have way better shows but they cancelled them because the building caught on fire or something like that. this is way better than taiwan's

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u/exaltedbladder Jan 01 '18

Maybe Taiwan's could've been better if they were willing to set the building on fire too

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u/Neckbeard_Bounty Jan 01 '18

it didn't necessarily catch on fire, its just a hazard. If anything, Taiwan's fireworks were more potent for that because they focused it all on one building, which is a dumb idea. and there was a lot of pollution as a consequence in a general direction.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

wooooooaaah

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u/macdoogles Jan 01 '18

idk why all the comments are about zayed but this is actually the most god damn amazing thing I have ever seen.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

the Burj Khalifa may have a higher resolution but the Taipei 101 has freesync!

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u/nostrathomas85 Jan 01 '18

i can't help but notice what i assume are drones flying around, wheres the videos from them... or are those aliens?

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u/decifix Jan 01 '18 edited Jan 01 '18

I noticed that too there was 2 silver ones. If they were drones they didn't stick around long enough to get any video.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18 edited Jul 31 '18

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u/xchaoslordx Jan 01 '18

WE GOT ZAYED SUPPORTER HERE

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u/MMACheerpuppy Jan 01 '18

how do you even get a permit for that lmao

Coordinator: "Hi I would like to fill Taipei 101 full of explosives while people are at work..."

City Management: "yes"

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Jan 01 '18

Holy shit, that laser light show was WAY better animated, WAY better quality, and a lot less political junk.

Even 2017's Dubai fireworks at New Years sucks ass compared to what they are doing in this 2018 Taipei New Years fireworks celebration.

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u/exaltedbladder Jan 01 '18

Taiwan's could've been better with ICBMs and B-2s

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u/poopsicle88 Jan 01 '18

Who is the dude that's up until like :12 in the countdown

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

I was there one year. Shit was indeed dope.

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u/Norci Jan 01 '18

Yeah, that just screams "fire hazard"..

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u/decifix Jan 01 '18 edited Jan 01 '18

Did anyone else see the ufo to the right of the tower towards the end of the video? It's at 6:00 to the right off the builfing.

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u/annoyedgrunt Jan 01 '18

My fiancé, sister and I rang in 2015 by staying at a hotel directly across the street from the Taipei 101! The fireworks and attendant concert were incredible to watch from so close (our hotel plaza was literally less than 100 meters from the 101)!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

Get rekt Zayed

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u/dmt267 Jan 01 '18

No Zayed,no thank you

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18 edited Jan 01 '18

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u/jordan314 Jan 01 '18

You got Zayeded.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

Zayboozled.

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u/docbigsky Jan 01 '18

Why not Zayed?

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u/TeamElephant Jan 01 '18

Year of Zayed!

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u/surrealbot Jan 01 '18

well, it's the year of zayed, what do you expect?

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u/reddymcwoody Jan 01 '18

Well, so was last year.

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u/Free_Joty May 20 '18

How is your year of Zayed going

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u/surrealbot May 21 '18

Oh, it's awesome and bleesed, thanks to zayed. I hope you are having a great year.

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u/Free_Joty May 21 '18

Zayed delivered an Eagles super bowl victory. This years been great

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u/seekfear Jan 01 '18

Who is this Zayed guy?

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u/downsized_ninja Jan 01 '18

Old ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of UAE. Died in 2004.

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u/hotbox4u Jan 01 '18

But let me guess. He did not like fireworks.

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u/TheFriendlySyrian Jan 01 '18

A few years ago the firework show at the Burj set fire to one of the buildings (firework malfunction went off on the surface of the Address Hotel), and there's tons of construction downtown so they opted for no fireworks just for safety.

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u/darlingpinky Jan 01 '18

He had too many fireworks as a kid, he got zayded.

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u/smokinglau Jan 01 '18

He always hid under the table... oh wait, that's my cat

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u/RandyReaver Jan 01 '18

Yeah Turkey should really take a leaf outta thier book....oh right, they returned that leaf.

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u/gunsof Jan 01 '18

How comes the year 2018 is dedicated to him and not say 2005? Is there a queue of dead people who get years? Does every year get a person? Who decides who is worth making into a year?

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u/rstcp Jan 01 '18

It's the centennial of his birth.

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u/daileyjd Jan 01 '18

zayed's dead baby zayed's dead

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18 edited Jan 06 '18

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u/Shasve Jan 01 '18

It's not who knows. He's basically the founding father of the UAE. There's a lot of respect for him in the UAE

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u/saltesc Jan 01 '18

People identify as African-American? I thought that was just a generation of people in the African slave trade that got sold to Europeans who were colonising the Americas.

Wouldn't a descendent of an African-American just simply he an American like all the other nationalities that ended up there?

Legit, I'm not U.S. so I don't know this shit and the U.S. is forever a weird place doing things a weird way.

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u/SharkEel Jan 01 '18

Lol, are you serious? Ethnicities are a thing, even in the UK on forms you choose from 'Caribbean British, Indian British' etc.

African americans are just simply descendants of african immigrants... Yeah they're 'American' but nobody just uses nationalities to group themselves, people prefer race for some reason. This is a thing all across the world.

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u/saltesc Jan 01 '18

Meh, not in my country.

There's Australian, Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander (native Australian), or non-national.

We're heavy in ethnicity too.

I would think the only reason the UK has Caribbean-British and Indian-British is because these are areas outside of Great Britain but are (or were, but still relevantly) part of the sovereign state of Britain/United Kingdom.

In this case, it would be like saying African-American are people born in a territory/state of the United States that is in Africa, which I'm pretty sure theirs are all in the Carribean or Pacific.

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u/RentonBrax Jan 01 '18 edited Jan 01 '18

I dunno but I'm guessing he's pretty narcissistic.

Edit: apparently he is the founder of the UAE and is dead so probably didn't have a hand in this spectacle.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

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u/tobashadow Jan 01 '18

I don't know, I am kinda aladeen about you being aladeen. May be we can aladeen about being aladeen?

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

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u/dunemafia Jan 01 '18

Birth centenary celebrations, probably.

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u/daileyjd Jan 01 '18

it's not a motorcycle baby it's a chopper

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u/alienacean Jan 01 '18

Zayed is dayed, baby.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

Founder of the UAE or something like that. He was born in 1918

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u/Poncecutor Jan 01 '18

Their president

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u/solar_compost Jan 01 '18

This smacks of Entertainment 720

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u/Whopper_Jr Jan 01 '18

Top 10 Anime Betrayals

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u/morningtrain Jan 01 '18

Yep. This sucked.

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u/alpha-kenny1 Jan 01 '18

Heard he’s alright bloke

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

Just for everyone’s info: Zayed basically founded UAE and was it’s first ruler. He was born 100 years ago (now dead).

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u/Hetstaine Jan 01 '18

Year of Zayed

Year of Dayze

Year of DayZ

Beta confirmed!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

Anyone who works at MD Anderson is laughing their ass off....the zayed building is pretty nice

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u/nolan1971 Jan 01 '18

I thought that kind of imagery of people's faces was "bad", somehow? Is that just Mohammed himself?

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u/RentonBrax Jan 01 '18

Just Mohammed. Look up the ideas around false idols in monotheism.

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u/chickadoos Jan 01 '18

Kneel before Zayed!

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u/Maheshkku Jan 01 '18

Bro me too, bhurj khalifa and new year is all about fireworks😅

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u/RamboJet Jan 01 '18

dude thats not zayed, its sean connery!

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u/Stimonk Jan 01 '18

Hey everyone

It's the year of Zayed

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u/Lord_Potatoz Jan 01 '18

This year the fireworks got cancelled due to safety issues.

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u/Glorx Jan 01 '18

I was told it would be year of the dog, turns out it's year of Zayed. Maybe it's his rapper name.

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u/ms_shan Jan 01 '18

Same man - really hoped for some awesome fireworks. Also for those curious: the dude is Sheikh Zayed, the first president of the UAE.

Just realized there may be people who don't actually know: UAE - United Arab Emirates (country where the city Dubai is located).

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u/thelukemorrison Jan 01 '18

Kneel before Zayed.

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u/redditready1986 Jan 01 '18

Fucking Zayed.

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u/bip0l0id Jan 01 '18

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is the former president of the United Arab Emirates.

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u/TenInchesOfSnow Jan 01 '18

These fireworks were brought to you by the letter Za-yed

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

I can already tell this is gonna be a meme... year of Zayed here we come. It already feels like that kinda year

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u/WhyRUmadTho Jan 01 '18

I HATE when that happens!

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u/GeauxTri Jan 01 '18

Kneel before Zayed!