Things to do in Baghdad while still alive

Post by **SplishSplash** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:58 pm

I wondered what i could do during the summer holidays.

I had a feeling that I should have been to some war-torn country in my life, so just out of interest, I googled up the prices for an airline ticket to Baghdad and back: € 600,-
Sounds reasonable.

I'm not afraid of dying, so what could I do there to earn big $$$?

I mean, there must be some rewarding activity for people willing to go into that hellhole, right?

Post by **Suave** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:04 pm

Post by **R00k** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:08 pm

You could find any commodity that our troops need, then find out who Halliburton is buying it from.

Then you can create your own company on paper and jump in as the middle man, charging Halliburton about twice what they were paying before. You get to pocket all the profit.

Post by **rep** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:09 pm

SplishSplash wrote:I'm not afraid of dying, so what could I do there to earn big $$$?

God, fuck off. Don't act hard on us.

You'll speak differently when you're abducted by US soldiers and brought into a room with a video camera and some black wall hanging with arabic writing on it. When you see the knife on the floor, you'll wish you were back home.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:10 pm

Edit: Directed at Rook

Yeah, I thought about that. But it requires a lot more money than I currently have.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:14 pm

Build a big armored box that rolls on wheels, and offer to ferry people to buy their groceries in it. The idea of not being shot at while getting food is pretty hot in Iraq right now.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:52 pm

I wouldn't usually do this but seeing as SplishSplash seems to want to nominate himself for a Darwin Award, here ya go...

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/internati ... aqjobs.htm

I'm sure you can find something high paying. Bye.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:54 pm

become a geologist. You'll get half a million per day in danger money

Post by **andyman** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:52 pm

Start a radio station

or do freelance security

Post by **eepberries** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:44 pm

Start a moderately successful undergound punk rock band that promotes communism in all its forms.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:52 pm

be a used car dealer.
they keep blowing up all the cars they have, so it seems like a lucrative opportunity.

Post by **FlamingTP** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:56 pm

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Post by **SplishSplash** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:08 am

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:I wouldn't usually do this but seeing as SplishSplash seems to want to nominate himself for a Darwin Award, here ya go...

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/internati ... aqjobs.htm

I'm sure you can find something high paying. Bye.

Yeah, ok, but I was looking for more original ideas.

Post by **megami** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:14 am

Sipping tea in a souk, visiting some former presidential palaces, and admiring Sumerian relics in the National Museum would be a few of the things I'd do.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:30 am

Splish will stick out like a thorn.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:30 am

A blue-eyed, blonde thorn.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:53 am

andyman wrote:or do freelance security

:icon14:

A guy came to talk to our class last year, he was doing exactly that. Earning like $200K for 1/2 year or something.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:10 am

I don't think anybody would take me seriously as a security guard.

Post by **CaseDogg** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:12 am

I would DIE laffing if you ended up on a beheading vid. :icon19: yeah just roll out there and see the sites bro. :icon14:

Post by **SplishSplash** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:21 am

I'm german. We don't get abducted, remember?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:25 am

SplishSplash wrote:I'm german. We don't get abducted, remember?

If you work in Iraq, that won't matter. The insurgants will see you as working with the enemy. The only difference may be that Germany may be willing to negotiate with your captors should you be taken hostage.

Post by **CaseDogg** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:32 am

Massive Quasars wrote:
SplishSplash wrote:I'm german. We don't get abducted, remember?
If you work in Iraq, that won't matter. The insurgants will see you as working with the enemy. The only difference may be that Germany may be willing to negotiate with your captors should you be taken hostage.

exactly. even still, i'll prey for your abduction, tourture and beheading. :icon14:

(splish, not you mq)

Post by **chopov** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:35 am

Arrange illegal car races on that Baghdad airport highway...

Post by **SplishSplash** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:56 am

Massive Quasars wrote:If you work in Iraq, that won't matter.

I'd wager that depends on who I'm working for.
(Besides, NO Germans have been abducted AT ALL yet.)

Post by **SplishSplash** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:58 am

CaseDogg wrote:exactly. even still, i'll prey for your abduction, tourture and beheading. :icon14:

I'll keep a german flag hangin' out my back side, but only on the left side, yeah that's the iraqi insurgents' side. Yo.

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