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    Saudi women to be allowed to drive...

    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

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    Hopefully the next step is an end to their barbaric capital punishment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker View Post
    Hopefully the next step is an end to their barbaric capital punishment.
    Long way to go, small steps and all that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker View Post
    Hopefully the next step is an end to their barbaric capital punishment.
    Could do with some of that in this country.

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    Re: Saudi women to be allowed to drive...

    I have a question.
    If they have never been allowed to drive.....................how come they can drive??????

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    Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
    I have a question.
    If they have never been allowed to drive.....................how come they can drive??????
    And who's going to do the cooking?

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    Re: Saudi women to be allowed to drive...

    Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
    Could do with some of that in this country.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
    And who's going to do the cooking?
    I will, if you like Cauliflower cheese?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R View Post
    I will, if you like Cauliflower cheese?
    It's ok, I self-identity as a Michelin starred chef, so it's all good

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    Re: Saudi women to be allowed to drive...

    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R View Post



    I will, if you like Cauliflower cheese?
    Is it halal?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
    It's ok, I self-identity as a Michelin starred chef, so it's all good


    Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
    Is it halal?
    Nope.

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    Re: Saudi women to be allowed to drive...

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    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

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    The world gone mad I tell you, MAD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
    Finally I learn of somewhere you've never been
    Getting on a plane at Budapest right now and flying to Baku :-P

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    Re: Saudi women to be allowed to drive...

    Say hello to the missus for me,

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    Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
    Say hello to the missus for me,
    I hope she has a mac and umbrella. It's chucking it down here in Baku.

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    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.
    My uncle wished he had stayed in his room.

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    Re: Saudi women to be allowed to drive...

    Quote Originally Posted by ninianclark View Post
    If you choose to live and work in Saudi - then you know what you are letting yourself in for.
    Anyone there - is there for their money not because its a nice place to live.
    It is a horrible place, with a horrible culture. Barbaric in the extreme.

    On the flip side - if the Saudi's had an 'arab spring' it would probably be catastrophic for the whole region. I dont think that will ever happen - so it will all just carry on - until the oil runs out - or more importantly we no longer need their oil .
    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.

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    Re: Saudi women to be allowed to drive...

    Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    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.
    swampy was your boss?

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