Irishman treats Indian migrant to day out at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi.

Nice gesture and fair play to the guy, i doubt he did it just to get likes on facebook so it seems a bit churlish to be slamming him for sharing the events of his day with his family and friends.

The whole story as reported in that link just seems a bit off though, its making the taxi driver out to be some sort of pauper. Could be completely wrong here but I would have thought any taxi driver in Abu Dhabi would be making a pretty decent living regardless of his or her nationality. I suspect the site are taking a fun story and making into a rich westerner helps poor foreigner without having a clue whether that is the case or not.

Just as an aside as someone who once went completely busto as in zero income / savings etc you do often come across family, friends & even strangers who are intent on doing nice things for you such as bringing you for big meals or nights out etc. As wonderful as these gestures are believe me the broke person in question would prefer the money you are going to spend on them all day every day as they can still stick to their budget and the cash allows them to perhaps one day drag themselves out of the **** storm they find themselves in.

arayess wrote: »

ah will you stop you moan bag.

It's a decent story and if more people in the UAE treated the poorer folk there like this it would be a better place.

No one is aguing with that.

Maybe if a few people were less quick to jump for the insult, the internet would be a nicer place.

He did a really nice thing and while you slag off the facebook element you should consider that FB is for family and friends somebody else chose to share this to a wider audience.

And you know this because?

I've 220 friends on fb - if I did something nice and posted about it I'd say 50people would read it and they'd be close family/friends rather broadcasting it worldwide.

Funny how it got on Breakingnews.

humanji wrote: »

No it doesn't. It really, really doesn't. If breaking news paid him to do it, then it still doesn't matter for the taxi driver. And he's the one the story is about.

It really really really does - see what I did there

RedemptionZ wrote: »

FFS will you come off it. I'd say that trip and act of goodwill will stick with the Indian fella for the rest of his life. Have you ever done something like that? I'll hold my hands up and say I haven't.

I know a lot of people who fish for likes on Facebook. They usually put up some terriblely recycled joke or have a video of them doing whatever stupid dance/ice bucket etc. craze is in fashion. This guy went out of his way to help a poor Indian man have a day out that unfortunately would never be possible normally then posted a few pictures on Facebook.

Yeah what a monster, he needs to have a long hard look at himself...

As a matter of fact I have done plenty of decent things in my time, although more pragmatic. When my friends and I were travelling, we used to make a point of taking our host/guide/driver for a nice meal as a way of saying thank you. We didn't intrude on the occasion by taking pictures, posting on facebook, keeping a running commentary on twitter, or fishing for a mention on buzzfeed. The thought of someone doing that is quite disgusting to me actually.

In this case, I don't believe the guy in question was deliberately trying to cash in by posting what he thought was a harmless update on treating someone to a nice time. I wasn't referring to him specifically, but to fb posts in general.
But there are an awful lot of people who do have an ulterior motive. I could tell you a story about two chancers I know who convinced everyone on fb to sponsor their charity trip to Africa. I found out afterwards they were living it up in a 5 star hotel for most of it, partying every night, and for half a day visited a slum with a cheap food package they picked up for ten euros locally. Guess which pictures were posted all over their facebook to make sure everyone saw that they were doing 'charity work' ™?

humanji wrote: »

Nope, my attitude is that going out of your way to insinuate that there must be ulterior motives to a minor act is bizarre. It's so insanely irrelevant that it begs the question why do people need to do it?

Again, the story isn't that someone did something. It's that someone had something done for them. People seem unwilling to focus on that because they want to tear into someone on the off-chance that they didn't do it for 100% altruistic reasons.

Look, believe whatever you want to believe. Some people like living in a happy bubble, others deal in reality. Experience and observation has taught me a lot about human nature.

humanji wrote: »

Yeah, nothing except try and focus on the wrong part of the story, for some reason.

Well for future reference, if someone does something nice for me (I'm not suggesting that you wre about to) - don't feel free to plaster all over FaceBook.

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

No one is aguing with that.

Maybe if a few people were less quick to jump for the insult, the internet would be a nicer place.

And you know this because?

Funny how it got on Breakingnews.

I apologise for calling you a moanbag.
You are grumpy though

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

some craic with the hoore all day. I decided to bring him along for the laugh. He was great entertainment!I bought him some pizza on the way home. He was delighted with the day out

He sounds like he's talking about a 5 year old child. Bring him along for the laugh? It's another man, not a pet for entertainment.

or a fella he considers a friend now.
no need to carry on the formality with somebody who is a friend.

Seems to me the bloke did not want to go in on his own.....