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Cleopatra · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject:

Dear Abba,

Irony is all vey well and good when - at the very least - you have a perfect command of the language you are attempting to be ironic in. Rather than trying to be witty, do go back and tell me where I mentioned 'the Saudis porters'.[/quote]

007 · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject:

bje · Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 527

Van Norden · Joined: 23 Oct 2004 Posts: 409

Cleo, hope I wasn't out of line with my 'darling' quip? Just having a bit of fun with the language. I'm not Sir Humphrey with his "my dear lady" I can assure you.

As for the issue at hand, I recommend you do as Dubya did - use the google! Stacks of examples of the mutts arresting and detaining people. Usually women and the poor. Disgraceful stuff.

I think we can all agree that the muttawa 'police' moral behaviour in KSA and that they have arrested and detained people in the past and are probably still doing it today (whether accompanied by the real cops or not makes little difference.)

Cleopatra · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject:

007 · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

007 · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject:

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

dmb... this could very well be a generational difference between you and Cleo. Not to mention that what is acceptable in a pub is not what is acceptable in a professional situation. I would expect comments like that in a bar, but if I got it from a supervisor or fellow teacher, I would consider him to have shown himself to be a sexist boor. On a public board such as this, it is often - if not usually - the male posters attempt to denigrate the female poster.

And 007...

Give it up, your own words hang you whenever you post. No outside judge would waste his or her time. You obviously have a very strange definition of 'democracy.'

VS

bje · Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 527

The_Prodiigy · Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 252

bje - try to understand the timeline of the postings on this topic. It helps,

bje · Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 527

ALPH · Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 87

here we go again. Right, let's put the Posters in perspective. Anytime ( read: Everytime ), Cleo manages to talk herself into a corner, Bje mysteriously shows us to defend her blunders. Now Bje, who passes 'herself' off as a 'bloke', has a 'girlfriend' and is Almighty waspish about any perceived slur on the Female posters, is none other than Cleo herself. Oh where is your manhood, Bje .. i mean, Cleo

And finally, to complete the round, we have -
Veiled sentiments with : - QUOTE - Give it up, your own words hang you whenever you post. No outside judge would waste his or her time. You obviously have a very strange definition of 'democracy.' UNQUOTE

All very well for the Unveiled One, ('inside judge') to chatter on about DEMOCRACY given she has the Power to shut down / rip Threads that challenge her and her friends on these boards out of existence. But hey, you gotta respect these women. And the bloke. I know i do.

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

Cleo wrote:
if you listen to the hatchet faced Aussie nurses who think it's a badge of honour to cause a scene every time they're asked to cover their heads.

Why is this acceptable language? Why couldn't you have just written Australian nurses? Why the derrogatory remarks?

Now if a man had written this people would have been up in arms about it. Why is it acceptable for you to slander females this way?