Saudi women to be allowed to drive...

[elytillidie]

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

[The Bob Banker Spanker]

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

[elytillidie]

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

Long way to go, small steps and all that...

[J R Hartley]

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

Could do with some of that in this country.

[xsnaggle]

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

[Wales-Bales]

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?

[Mrs Steve R]

Could do with some of that in this country.

And who's going to do the cooking?

I will, if you like Cauliflower cheese?

[Wales-Bales]

I will, if you like Cauliflower cheese?

It's ok, I self-identity as a Michelin starred chef, so it's all good

[xsnaggle]

I will, if you like Cauliflower cheese?

Is it halal?

[Mrs Steve R]

It's ok, I self-identity as a Michelin starred chef, so it's all good

Is it halal?

Nope.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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.

[Wales-Bales]

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

[BlueArmy 86]

The world gone mad I tell you, MAD

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Finally I learn of somewhere you've never been

Getting on a plane at Budapest right now and flying to Baku :-P

[xsnaggle]

Say hello to the missus for me,

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Say hello to the missus for me,

I hope she has a mac and umbrella. It's chucking it down here in Baku.

[bobh]

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.

[Croesy Blue]

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.

[Feedback]

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?