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Originally posted by Saeed:
We had a account with a multi national international bank - one who is always in the news about giving themselves obscene bonuses.

A vice-president came over to our house pay his respect, as they usually do each time they are in town.

He made a comment when he saw some of my trophies, and the meeting room was surrounded by gun cabinets.

Tony has been here and knows what I mean.

He said it was very sad in this day and age that people actually enjoy "killing animals"!

As he was in my house, I did not want to be rude and tell him what I thought of him.

Next day we wrote to them to close our account.

Then the fun started

We were getting calls from all over the place, from president of this and vice president of that.

I refused to take any of their calls. Telling my manager that I had no wish to deal with a bank that employs an arrogant prick who had no decency to keep his personal dislikes to himself.

My manager wrote exactly what I said in his communication to them.

Ever since, any time one of their big shots is town, they call and ask for a meeting.

I have refused to meet any of them.

Thumbs up!

It's all about money, potential sponsors etc.
That's how it goes with these so called celebrities/heroes as some call them.
Just another fence stradler with his balls hung on barb wire

Awesome Saeed!!

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He said it was very sad in this day and age that people actually enjoy "killing animals"!

He must of missed the course of keeping ones mouth shut about clients whilst in their homes.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
We had a account with a multi national international bank - one who is always in the news about giving themselves obscene bonuses.

A vice-president came over to our house pay his respect, as they usually do each time they are in town.

He made a comment when he saw some of my trophies, and the meeting room was surrounded by gun cabinets.

Tony has been here and knows what I mean.

He said it was very sad in this day and age that people actually enjoy "killing animals"!

As he was in my house, I did not want to be rude and tell him what I thought of him.

Next day we wrote to them to close our account.

Then the fun started

We were getting calls from all over the place, from president of this and vice president of that.

I refused to take any of their calls. Telling my manager that I had no wish to deal with a bank that employs an arrogant prick who had no decency to keep his personal dislikes to himself.

My manager wrote exactly what I said in his communication to them.

Ever since, any time one of their big shots is town, they call and ask for a meeting.

I have refused to meet any of them.

I wonder how that Vice President faired after that

Hopefully he is unemployed. What an idiot.

classy way to deal with an Idiot

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Originally posted by Saeed:
We had a account with a multi national international bank - one who is always in the news about giving themselves obscene bonuses.

A vice-president came over to our house pay his respect, as they usually do each time they are in town.

He made a comment when he saw some of my trophies, and the meeting room was surrounded by gun cabinets.

Tony has been here and knows what I mean.

He said it was very sad in this day and age that people actually enjoy "killing animals"!

As he was in my house, I did not want to be rude and tell him what I thought of him.

Next day we wrote to them to close our account.

Then the fun started

We were getting calls from all over the place, from president of this and vice president of that.

I refused to take any of their calls. Telling my manager that I had no wish to deal with a bank that employs an arrogant prick who had no decency to keep his personal dislikes to himself.

My manager wrote exactly what I said in his communication to them.

Ever since, any time one of their big shots is town, they call and ask for a meeting.

I have refused to meet any of them.

Saeed, one word suffices to describe this former athlete's conduct: Gutless.

And another word to characterize your guest banker's behavior: Asinine.

And one more word for your response: Perfect.

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Originally posted by tendrams:

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Originally posted by Saeed:

I have refused to meet any of them.

Easy to do this when the bank wants your business. If the roles were reversed and you wanted something from the bank,
knowing that the representative was anti-hunting, I think most of us would be wise enough to meet at a neutral location.
Does that make someone a whimp or smart? Business needs to be business, and not personal, in both directions.

How true.

Saeed is speaking from a very unique & powerful financial position that he was privileged to be born into.
McGrath has no where near that kind of wealth,power or privilege....he is from a NSW rural country town and
still has his ambitions to consider.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I refused to take any of their calls. Telling my manager that I had no wish to deal with a bank that
employs an arrogant prick who had no decency to keep his personal dislikes to himself.

the mans entitled to his personal opinion and he expressed it..(is that allowed in UAE?)
just like you regularly do about your personal opinion dislikes concerning SCI and Mark Sullivan.

And I didnt think your were the kind of person to take a bank employees view so seriously.
I guess you felt you had to teach him a lesson about what happens when a money-leverage influential Emirati
happens to take personal offence.

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Originally posted by Trax:

quote:

Originally posted by Saeed:
I refused to take any of their calls. Telling my manager that I had no wish to deal with a bank that
employs an arrogant prick who had no decency to keep his personal dislikes to himself.

the mans entitled to his personal opinion and he expressed it..(is that allowed in UAE?)
just like you regularly do about your personal opinion dislikes concerning SCI and Mark Sullivan.

And I didnt think your were the kind of person to take a bank employees view so seriously.
I guess you felt you had to teach him a lesson about what happens when a money-leverage influential Emirati
happens to take personal offence.

He made his choice, and I made mine.

That is called freedom of choice, in any country of the world.

remember SAEED,

McGrath is expected to behave and bark like a strained-dog by his heavyweight corporate bosses.
just like you expect & prefer bank employees to behave & speak in a preferred certain way.

You in effect are not really much different to the wealthy corporations who have a leash on McGrath.
In that you both have certain expectations from people.

McGrath says or does the 'wrong thing' he gets punished....Bank employee says or does the 'wrong thing' and he gets punished.
same-same.

Trax:

When invited into someone else's house, negative opinions are best kept to oneself; only a fool would think otherwise.

I would never invite a business association bank employee to my house.
and i don't mind people expressing their views in a civil manner whether it
be about hunting,abortion,meat VS vegetarian,fracking, Ukraine,etc,etc,
be it like or dislike of such, whether it be in my home or outside.

and like i said, Saeeds personal position of power, money,privilege and influence,
is comparable to very few other people that hunt.....Tentrams point is very valid.

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He made his choice, and I made mine.

That is called freedom of choice, in any country of the world.

SAEED,
Just wondering;.. if the bank employee in your house had instead somehow mentioned through conversation
that he was pro_Israel rather than Palestinian, ...would Saeed get angry and punish the bank for that as well...?
OR
IF the guy was from the US representing UAEs multi-billion military defence contracts with the US,
would you press to have the contract stopped simply bcause he said he didn't like hunting?
....ME ThinKs NOT.... ...cause just like McGrath the Emirati would 'wimp-out', so as not to jeoardise their own best interests.

Q./ What list of opinions on subjects do you tolerate without setting in motion a reprisal punishment,
and what list of ones don't you tolerate?

I guided this guy for a couple days a few years back, got him a great back wolf, he was supposed to send me pics but never did....

Adam

He probably got a BIG bonus!

Or, may be a new job!

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Originally posted by ozhunter:

quote:

Originally posted by Saeed:
We had a account with a multi national international bank - one who is always in the news about giving themselves obscene bonuses.

A vice-president came over to our house pay his respect, as they usually do each time they are in town.

He made a comment when he saw some of my trophies, and the meeting room was surrounded by gun cabinets.

Tony has been here and knows what I mean.

He said it was very sad in this day and age that people actually enjoy "killing animals"!

As he was in my house, I did not want to be rude and tell him what I thought of him.

Next day we wrote to them to close our account.

Then the fun started

We were getting calls from all over the place, from president of this and vice president of that.

I refused to take any of their calls. Telling my manager that I had no wish to deal with a bank that employs an arrogant prick who had no decency to keep his personal dislikes to himself.

My manager wrote exactly what I said in his communication to them.

Ever since, any time one of their big shots is town, they call and ask for a meeting.

I have refused to meet any of them.

I wonder how that Vice President faired after that

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by Trax:

quote:

Originally posted by Saeed:
I refused to take any of their calls. Telling my manager that I had no wish to deal with a bank that
employs an arrogant prick who had no decency to keep his personal dislikes to himself.

the mans entitled to his personal opinion and he expressed it..(is that allowed in UAE?)
just like you regularly do about your personal opinion dislikes concerning SCI and Mark Sullivan.

And I didnt think your were the kind of person to take a bank employees view so seriously.
I guess you felt you had to teach him a lesson about what happens when a money-leverage influential Emirati
happens to take personal offence.

He made his choice, and I made mine.

That is called freedom of choice, in any country of the world.

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Originally posted by Ovis Chaser:
I guided this guy for a couple days a few years back, got him a great back wolf, he was supposed to send me pics but never did....

Mmmm, I wonder why???

Theres a big difference between an extremely wealthy Emirati having yet another bank account to stuff their immense stockpiling wealth in
and then closing it down and just shifting the funds elsewhere,..cause it don't really effecte Emirati empire of wealth or income.
VS
a person like McGrath who's whole livelyhood as promoter of charities and lucrative sports comentary job
which are greatly effected by his words & actions in the public eye.

Saeed is in position that way few people are in....yet Saeed is just in different pecking order to McGrath.
The Emerati as whole are still in a pecking order make no mistake about that. Theres proof to that by the
way they still deal with the US in major contracts, and thats despite how many things the US does that SAEED
takes offence to or does not agree with.
One could say the UAE wimps-out on things so as not to jeopardise their ambition of getting something from someone
who has something they really want or need. ......but we should remember ,they are only human like McGrath.
In effect, when the stakes are high enough for the Emirati , they will behave just like McGrath.

Im rather confident you could walk into an Emirati household with hunting trophies on the wall, tell them you don't like hunting,
and still find them willing to sign multi-Billion$ contracts with your Co. to supply them with vital national defence technology and hardware.
...Hence everything is relative in this world.

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Originally posted by Bakes:
I just posted this in the Aussie forum and was going to post a link here. This bloke even knocked back a donation to his foundation by the guys at Australian Hunting Net because they are hunters. To use the strongest words, Fuck him!

His (wife's) foundation used to get half a page free ad in the back of the SSAA mag IIRC.

He should have told them to go away.

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Originally posted by KMG Hunting Safaris:
Saeed, the only thing I can fault you on, is that you should have stopped him mid sentence, and shown him the door immediately.

That would have been rude, and Saeed did mention the man was a guest in his house .... yes, it sucks to be hospitable ..

BTW, this isn't the only time the Australian "media" have tried to crucify athletes who like shooting.

Any Aussies remember those swimmers who went to Vegas and fired full-auto weapons and put up photos on Facebook?

The wankers had conniptions about that too, including Swimming Australia ...

Glenn should turn in his man sack.

Every time a hunter rolls over to these brainless bunny huggers puts hunting deeper into the quick sand!

I say tell them to buy a pistol and stick it in their ear and pull the trigger to make room for a brain that works!

........................................................... ...........

It all seems really simple to me: McGrath isn't a hunter. He's an opportunist who went hunting and now doesn't hunt because it's bad for his "image"!
He's a damn pussy-loser in my book!
Zeke

What a coward and an embarrassment

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
Saeed, one word suffices to describe this former athlete's conduct: Gutless.

And another word to characterize your guest banker's behavior: Asinine.

And one more word for your response: Perfect.

+100

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Originally posted by larryshores:
Hopefully he is unemployed. What an idiot.

Saeed,

That was hilarious. Well done. KMG, your recommendation would have been rude, appropriate perhaps, but rude. Not the best approach.

Saeed effectively and politely took a big ding out of this person's career, if not ended it with his current employer.

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I hunt, not to kill, but in order not to have played golf

That's my next T shirt

A good article about Glen McGrath

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/...i6unxq-1227236051097

And of course Australia does not allow the import of elephant trophies.

So after all this hooha Glenn cannot show a trophy.

Used to respect him as a fast bowler and still do. But that about stops there now.

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Originally posted by Trax:

the mans entitled to his personal opinion and he expressed it..(is that allowed in UAE?)
just like you regularly do about your personal opinion dislikes concerning SCI and Mark Sullivan.

And I didnt think your were the kind of person to take a bank employees view so seriously.
I guess you felt you had to teach him a lesson about what happens when a money-leverage influential Emirati
happens to take personal offence.

Sorry for quoting TRAX so any portion of his post shows here!

Trax, the person or any person is allowed his/her personal opinion, when in his OWN home or in public! However this person was not in the public, or in his own home but in the home of his host, Saeed! There is a very big difference here, one does not insult a person in his own home if he has even the slightest pinch of decorum! My little friend that joker would have hit the road in short order if he had been in my home and made such a statement about my choice of hunting and/or guns!

When Saeed makes his opinion on MS or SCI, he is speaking in his own home not yours, or mine! Unlike Saeed you may be typing in your own home, but you are being read in Saeed's home! If I were Saeed you would be tossed out the door as well for calling him down in his home .

http://africaunauthorised.com/?p=1881

Well written blog by Hannes Wessels

So where was this image taken? Who did McGrath hunt with in Zimbabwe?

Hannes has a way of putting things.

Matt, it was take at Mwanja camp Chewore during September/October 08. Zambia in the background

Looks like a great buffalo. Wish Glen would write a hunt report......

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Originally posted by Thierry Labat:
Looks like a great buffalo. Wish Glen would write a hunt report......

Hahahaha!

Thierry, you must be kidding!

This idiot has made himself look such a fool by swinging like a blood yoyo!

At the same time we have members here who won't post a hunt report because they are scared someone might say something they don't like!

Go figure!

Saeed,

Look at the vitriol by a tosser journalist on Glen McGrath/hunting in Sydney's biggest newspaper......

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/th...20150225-13oror.html