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veiledsentiments
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| Shookran wrote: |
| I made it very clear that my comment on stinky Pakistani taxis was not meant to be taken as racist, but you sound deliberately provocative to me. |
And "stinky Pakistani taxis" isn't deliberately provocative? It is certainly racist. Perhaps you needed to consider the housing and lack of water in the slave quarters where these workers are forced to live.
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scot47
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| I may be in a minority but I refuse to join this "Fordist" cult which puts the internal combustion engine at the centre of our lives. |
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nomad soul
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I preferred getting around Jeddah via magic flying carpet myself... 
It was also how many of my female students said they'd like to travel. |
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scot47
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| There is a dispute in theological circles. is the flying carpet "halal" ? |
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Spelunker
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:42 pm Post subject: re: flying carpet... |
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Only as long as El Al has not used it previously?  Is alcohol halal, or a bacon sarnie?  |
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scot47
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I detest the use of the word "sarnie". It is an attempt to render a substandard dialectal variation for "sandwich" respectable.. More appropriate for the unspeakable BBC Radio 2 than for a forum like this !
Civilised folk in any case eat bacon rolls. |
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bigdurian
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| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| scot47 wrote: |
| I may be in a minority but I refuse to join this "Fordist" cult which puts the internal combustion engine at the centre of our lives. |
Yes you may. I presume you travel by plane, ship, taxi, when need must, so why the hatred for the car? |
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bigdurian
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
| Shookran wrote: |
| I made it very clear that my comment on stinky Pakistani taxis was not meant to be taken as racist, but you sound deliberately provocative to me. |
And "stinky Pakistani taxis" isn't deliberately provocative? It is certainly racist. Perhaps you needed to consider the housing and lack of water in the slave quarters where these workers are forced to live.
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I always thought prejudice was discrimination for no reason.
But I have to say, that a large proportion of Pakistani taxis, which were interestingly enough, the safest option in Riyadh, compared to the Saudi taxis, were quite often the smelliest taxis at the same time.
A Saudi taxi would often smell very nice, what with the oud and such. Racist or realist?
You decide?
And the idea that anyone doesn't have access to running water in a city life Riyadh, is laughable. And yes, I have been to poor areas. Areas where some of our knowledgeable western women, without doubt, wouldn't like to venture. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2016 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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I do not hate the automobile. I refuse to make it central to my life. In some societies, the car had become the dominant life-form !
Fordism is BAD ! |
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Grendal
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| Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2016 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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| scot47 wrote: |
| I may be in a minority but I refuse to join this "Fordist" cult which puts the internal combustion engine at the centre of our lives. |
I'm all for the external combustion engine.  |
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efldr
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| I can't actually believe all the folk who have lived in Saudi without a car! Have you not enjoyed the greasy Kabsa drive-through experience? And how do ever cat-call the silky-sheikhas hanging on the corner of the hyper-malls? Oh man...what about the sand-drifting and street races with your shemagh on back-to-front? Even worse...how do your store your chilled non-alcoholic beer back from LuLus?? Just the thought of your deprivation kills me. Yala habibi |
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