most expensive Christmas tree ever?

[ajitpd]

Arab hotel unveils 'most expensive Christmas tree ever'

http://www.montrealgazette.com/trav...ensive+Christmas+tree+ever/3987557/story.html

When Western governments and institutes in the West, suffering from acute case of political correctness, are at odds with the Christmas and are attempting to replace it with "holidays" or "season", a Muslim country displays 'most expensive Christmas tree ever'. Is it irony or what?

Don't forget it is an Arab country which, according to WikiLeaksed cabals, is is one of the prominent financiers of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 

[lurkingdirk]

What an excellent use of money! I hope whoever made the decision to get this tree goes bankrupt and has to rely on the charity of others. (On the charity of others who know (s)he spent 11 million on a Christmas tree.)

 

[Ace Bandage]

A hotel fire would be awesome. Loss of tree, jewels, and hundreds of Emirati people. Seems like a win, win, win to me...

 

[Spleen]

Misleading. Draping a tree in jewellery doesn't make the tree expensive really. The jewellery was just borrowed from somewhere else, and it will go back there after the tree is taken down.

That's like me sticking a diamond in my shit and calling it "the worlds most expensive shit".

In other news, the Tate Britains tree is far more striking;