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Good news for progress and common sense, if not road safety. Hopefully the times they are a changin', if we could just shake off the shackles of religion, stabilise the global population, deal with climate change...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-41408195
Hopefully the next step is an end to their barbaric capital punishment.
Long way to go, small steps and all that...Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker
Could do with some of that in this country.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker
I have a question.
If they have never been allowed to drive.....................how come they can drive?????? :shrug: :getscoat:
And who's going to do the cooking? :sherlock:Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
I will, if you like Cauliflower cheese?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
It's ok, I self-identity as a Michelin starred chef, so it's all good :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R
Is it halal?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R
:biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
I've never been to Saudi but my ex-boss went there frequently - and said that a lot of the professional class men spend far less time at work than they should as they have to taxi their women and children around the whole time. The decision may therefore be little to do with human rights, unfortunately.
Finally I learn of somewhere you've never been :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
The world gone mad I tell you, MAD
Getting on a plane at Budapest right now and flying to Baku :-PQuote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Say hello to the missus for me,
I hope she has a mac and umbrella. It's chucking it down here in Baku.Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
My uncle worked in Bahrain for a few years, often had to 'pop over' to Saudi.
His mate was driving, but stopped at a T-juction to wait for an army column to go past.
While he was stationary, a car ran into the back of his.
An officer lef the convoy, spoke to uncle's mate, then said he'd sort it.
Went to the driver behind, came back and said "it is your fault" !!?!!
"If you hadn't been in this country, he wouldn't have run into you!"
The other driver was a distant relative of the Saud family (Everybody is, out there)
Uncle's mate had to work unpaid for a couple of years to pay off his "debt".
Another time, he was in Saudi, he was waiting in his hotel room for his (local) driver, who was late.
Eventually, the driver came to his room instead of phoning, and told him to stay there and have a day off.
"don't be silly, I have work to do!"
After a bit more arguing, he went to the car park, where a digger had dug a large hole, and a dumper was waiting to unload a load of rocks.
A woman had been caught there there previous night with a married man.
The man had been sent away, but the woman was "a convicted adulteress" and was to be stoned at the place of "her offence" - and everyone present was to take part in the stoning. :yikes:
My uncle wished he had stayed in his room.
:thumbup: disgusting country that funds the majority of the terrorism we see, yet we have been selling them weapons and buying their oil forever. The sooner the oil runs out/loses its value the better.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninianclark
swampy was your boss?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie