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All Woman crew fly into Saudi Arabia...

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    tomwaterford
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    Should they not have researched this before flying there??


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    Nomis21
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    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Should they not have researched this before flying there??

    :D:D:D:D:D


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    Stigura
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    In before AH is not a news dump .....


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    keeponhurling
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    Funny that Saudi Arabia has one of the highest traffic accident rates per capita in the world.


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    fatknacker
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    keeponhurling wrote: »
    Funny that Saudi Arabia has one of the highest traffic accident rates per capita in the world.

    Is it funny because no one ever expects young men to be **** drivers yet women somehow cop more stick for it anyway?


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    ArtSmart
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    Women even have the right to vote in Saudi Arabia - since last year!

    Still tricky to buy a coffee or go for a swim, or be without a male chaperone or buy a Barbie doll or...


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    Junkyard Tom
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    It's one thing flying a plane there but are they able to reverse park it?


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    osarusan
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    Misleading OP.


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    Victor
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    ArtSmart wrote: »
    Women even have the right to vote in Saudi Arabia - since last year!
    There are 31 million people in Saudi Arabia. In the 2015 election, about 700,000 voted.

    In the 2015 election, participation was:
    82% of the 132,000 female registered voters - less than 1% of women.
    44% of the 1.35m male registered voters - less than 4% of men.


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    pickarooney
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    Who do they even vote for? Isn't it a hereditary dictatorship?


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    Victor
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Who do they even vote for? Isn't it a hereditary dictatorship?
    Councils.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Saudi_Arabia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_municipal_elections,_2015


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    Nomis21
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    osarusan wrote: »
    Misleading OP.

    Why So?

    Women in Saudi Arabia are subject to arrest for driving in the Kingdom.


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    osarusan
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    Nomis21 wrote: »
    Why So?

    Women in Saudi Arabia are subject to arrest for driving in the Kingdom.

    Made it sound like the pilots wanted to drive somewhere but couldn't.


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    razorblunt
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    Landed in Saudi Arabia, supposed to be in Madrid.

    They got lost and brazened it out.
    I had to check and make sure one wasn't my wife.


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    seamus
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    keeponhurling wrote: »
    Funny that Saudi Arabia has one of the highest traffic accident rates per capita in the world.
    But completely unsurprising when you see the footage on youtube of guys sandal skating at 100km/h.

    A mix of too much money and too little regard for safety is the reason their accident rates are so high. To a certain extent people don't really give a sh1t about getting into accidents because they can just throw money at the problem to make it go away.


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    Menas
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    There are more countries than saudi arabia where travelers cannot just hop in a rental car and drive. Try hiring a car outside of Beijing for example!


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    padraig.od
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    Nomis21 wrote: »
    But are not allowed to drive a car from the airport!

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35816887

    its their culture, you racist


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    Nomis21
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    padraig.od wrote: »
    its their culture, you racist

    You think forbidding women to drive is a cultural issue?

    It is a misogynist issue.

    If it was in the Koran that would be a different story.


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    Muahahaha
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    seamus wrote: »
    But completely unsurprising when you see the footage on youtube of guys sandal skating at 100km/h.

    A mix of too much money and too little regard for safety is the reason their accident rates are so high. To a certain extent people don't really give a sh1t about getting into accidents because they can just throw money at the problem to make it go away.


    Thats pretty much it, give an 18 year old a supercar and you're going to have a crash.

    I remember being stuck in Doha, Qatar on a stop over a few years back. The main shopping centre had a written off Lambo and Ferrari outside the pedestrian entrance to act as a road safety warning/shock to the local teenagers


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