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Things to do in Baghdad while still alive

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:58 pm
by SplishSplash
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?

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:04 pm
by Suave
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:08 pm
by R00k
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.

Re: Things to do in Baghdad while still alive

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:09 pm
by rep
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.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:10 pm
by SplishSplash
Edit: Directed at Rook

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

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:14 pm
by R00k
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.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:52 pm
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
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.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:54 pm
by phantasmagoria
become a geologist. You'll get half a million per day in danger money

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:52 pm
by andyman
Start a radio station

or do freelance security

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:44 pm
by eepberries
Start a moderately successful undergound punk rock band that promotes communism in all its forms.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:52 pm
by Dr_Watson
be a used car dealer.
they keep blowing up all the cars they have, so it seems like a lucrative opportunity.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:56 pm
by FlamingTP
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:08 am
by SplishSplash
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.

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:14 am
by megami
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.

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:30 am
by Massive Quasars
Splish will stick out like a thorn.

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:30 am
by Massive Quasars
A blue-eyed, blonde thorn.

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:53 am
by Guest
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.

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:10 am
by SplishSplash
I don't think anybody would take me seriously as a security guard.

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:12 am
by CaseDogg
I would DIE laffing if you ended up on a beheading vid. :icon19: yeah just roll out there and see the sites bro. :icon14:

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:21 am
by SplishSplash
I'm german. We don't get abducted, remember?

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:25 am
by Massive Quasars
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.

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:32 am
by CaseDogg
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)

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:35 am
by chopov
Arrange illegal car races on that Baghdad airport highway...

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:56 am
by SplishSplash
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.)

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:58 am
by SplishSplash
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.