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Queen of Sheba
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| Bebsi wrote: |
| Abba, I was being tongue-in-cheek about hiring fewer as opposed to less foreign drivers. |
Who gives a fack as long as everyone gets the message?
Sir Facks-a-lot, in order to prevent a further fack, be reminded that I responded because your original fack was with me.
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| Cissy..sissy...who really gives a fack as we all get the message!! |
That's ironic, so you can give a fack, yet others should look the other way when it comes to your posts? Your tactics are counterproductive to keeping the truce we had going. Ah well, fack on, I know you will! |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:36 am Post subject: |
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Oh darn... just when you two were starting to play nice!! 
(wait dmb... I'm coming with you...)
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Stephen Jones
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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They tried, but unfortunately it did not succeed 100%, for the following reasons (according to a TV documentary about Saudisation of taxi drivers):
1. Not enough Saudi Drivers to cover-up all foreigner drivers. |
This is arrant nonsense. In Khobar or Jubail you will see loads of Saudis in their own cars waiting for passengers.
The reason is that the limousine companies would have to follow the law if they hired Saudis. And the law says a taxi-driver, whatever his nationality, must work 48 hours a week and be paid a minimum salary of SR1,600
Of course almost no limousine company does this. Instead the driver pays the limousine company for hire of the taxi and then needs to make the money up.
And as nearly all limousine companies belong to minor royals, the law is not enforced.
The second point is true, but I still maintain banning foreign taxi drivers is the way to go. I rather suspect that faced with the prospect of his wife being driven by a fellow Saudi the average Saudi male would suddenly call for changes in the law and pack his wife off to driving school pronto. |
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Babba
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Stephen Jones wrote: |
| [ ....In Khobar or Jubail you will see loads of Saudis in their own cars waiting for passengers. |
Most of these Saudi drivers are not proper taxi drivers. Most of them use their own private cars to earn extra money (black market). Most of them have already a government job, and use the free time in afternoon and evening to work as a taxi drivers, and are not licensed, and the government knows about this, and does not interfere. Others Saudis, hire cars from private companies and use it as a taxi driver to get extra money (e,g King abdulAziz Airport to jeddah or Makkah, etc).
The worst case is during Ramadan and Hajj period, were you will find loads of Saudi and foreign drivers using their private cars (or hired one) to work as a taxi driver (black market), where the price of ticket in Hajj , for one person, reaches SR50 and SR100 (in Makkah, normal one outside Hajj period is SR3 and SR5 ???). |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| 3 SR or 5 SR-get real |
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Bebsi
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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QoS,
You're just facking jealous of me cos I could drive around like crazy in KSA without restraint, while you are forbidden to engage in the unholy act!!!!
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Queen of Sheba
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| That may be. Oh well fack it! |
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dmb
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." |
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| That may be. Oh well fack it! |
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Queen of Sheba
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't change the status of women driving in KSA, dmb fack. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Queen of Sheba wrote: |
| I can't change the status of women driving in KSA, dmb fack. |
But I reckon if Bebsi and Cleo got together they would be a formidable force. With a little bit of wasta they could make a difference.  |
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Queen of Sheba
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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Not likely unless Bebsi and Cleo are actually well connected Mutawas from Qassim.
Where are you anyway, Istanbul? That railway was stopped over a hundred years ago to keep Ibrahim Pasha from coming into KSA, so what�s wrong with your train of thought? |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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dmb has a train of thought?
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dmb
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| Not that I am aware of. |
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Queen of Sheba
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| That explains everything except...why the circus gave him up in the first place. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| Are you suggesting that TEFL is NOT the circus? |
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