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Saudi Arabia - Daring to Criticise

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  • #52
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,140 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    LDN_Irish wrote: »
    Lies! They paved the way for IS with their politically correct (probably feminist) pro Islamic invasion of Iraq. *eye roll*
    what are you on about. the invasian of iraq was about oil. but your sort will always blame this mythical non existant political correctness for everything

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words.



  • #53
    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    end of the road wrote: »
    what are you on about. the invasian of iraq was about oil. but your sort will always blame this mythical non existant political correctness for everything

    Calling the Iraq invasion pro-Islamic, politically correct and probably feminist was too subtle? Really?


  • #54
    fatknacker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    Yous are always moaning about western feminists not doing anything about women in the middle east.
    Then this chick tries it out and yous criticism her anyway because she's a feminist.


  • #55
    daheff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,902 ✭✭✭daheff


    In fairness to the Saudis, they are right to tell Sweden to apologies. That is their culture (for better or worse). I don't agree with a lot of what they do, but they also don't agree with how we behave. I haven't heard the Saudis telling Sweden how to treat their people.


    The western world isn't so happy to have the Muslims come over and tell us how to point our morale compass...so why should the western world be allowed to do the same with the Arab world?


  • #56
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    fatknacker wrote: »
    Yous are always moaning about western feminists not doing anything about women in the middle east.
    Then this chick tries it out and yous criticism her anyway because she's a feminist.

    Strong language and moral conscience works wonders against oceans of oil and guns.



    "Hmm...we'll take the oil instead, thank you very much Sweden"


  • #57
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    The greatest con is The West passing itself off as some sort of barometer of morality....
    Amazing how morality goes out the window when it comes to money


  • #58
    Jamsiek
    Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    cisk wrote: »
    i would rather be in Iran than any of the gulf states any day.

    Not all the gulf states are repressive, I have been to the UAE and Oman and had a great time there.


  • #59
    MathDebater
    Registered Users Posts: 958 ✭✭✭MathDebater


    Jamsiek wrote: »
    Not all the gulf states are repressive, I have been to the UAE and Oman and had a great time there.

    The labourers from south east Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Africa might not share your enthusiasm for the place.


  • #60
    chughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    Alexis Sanchez wrote: »
    Ironically, they were knocked out by Sweden in '94.

    They were also in our group in 2002.
    I well remember them in our group in 2002. In my view they were no great sheikhs........


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  • #61
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    MathDebater wrote: »
    The labourers from south east Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Africa might not share your enthusiasm for the place.

    I was talking to a friend of mine who worked as a quantity surveyor for a big Italian Construction Company in Saudi, a good middle of the road type fellah with no real strong opinions on anything-but he actually asked his Company to move him back to europe,even though on Little more than half the wages because he just couldn't keep going to work knowing what he did,seeing what he saw-he just couldn't be a part of it any longer.

    I would probably just drink more and try to forget-just to keep the fat paycheck coming in, so fair play to the man IMO.


  • #62
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    crockholm wrote: »
    I was talking to a friend of mine who worked as a quantity surveyor for a big Italian Construction Company in Saudi, a good middle of the road type fellah with no real strong opinions on anything-but he actually asked his Company to move him back to europe,even though on Little more than half the wages because he just couldn't keep going to work knowing what he did,seeing what he saw-he just couldn't be a part of it any longer.

    I would probably just drink more and try to forget-just to keep the fat paycheck coming in, so fair play to the man IMO.

    Saudi Arabia is a dry country (pun not intended), unless you're near one of the borders (or the big bridge they built to the den of debauchery that is Bahrain) the only thing you'll likely have access to is the local version of poitín, called siddique, and that stuff'll make you blind.


  • #63
    The Strawman Argument
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    Tugboats wrote: »
    Great bunch of lads. They were great in USA 94
    I liked their bit in the opening ceremony :D


    Any time I ever read about the legal system in Saudi Arabia, I wind up saying "f*ck no, really?!" very loudly over and over. Always somehow manage to have something a bit worse than I'd've ever considered them having.


  • #64
    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    It annoys me so much that Sweden apologised to them. Gives out the message that Sweden were in the wrong.


  • #65
    Thundercats Ho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,580 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »
    Saudi Arabia is a dry country (pun not intended), unless you're near one of the borders (or the big bridge they built to the den of debauchery that is Bahrain) the only thing you'll likely have access to is the local version of poitín, called siddique, and that stuff'll make you blind.

    Plenty of home brewed wine and cider while i was there, and i wasn't living in a compound. If you go to Salwa compound you can get pints of lager and other drinks.
    There was no bother getting Smirnoff or Johnny Walker either.
    Then there were the events in the DQ, where you could get cans of Guinness or Carlsberg, and shots of whiskey etc. I was just at the Irish embassy do, but the others were similar i believe.

    Honestly, I drank more in Saudi than I do at home.

    Plenty of money, but I hated the disparity. 5 months was enough for me.


  • #66
    MathDebater
    Registered Users Posts: 958 ✭✭✭MathDebater


    crockholm wrote: »
    I was talking to a friend of mine who worked as a quantity surveyor for a big Italian Construction Company in Saudi, a good middle of the road type fellah with no real strong opinions on anything-but he actually asked his Company to move him back to europe,even though on Little more than half the wages because he just couldn't keep going to work knowing what he did,seeing what he saw-he just couldn't be a part of it any longer.

    I would probably just drink more and try to forget-just to keep the fat paycheck coming in, so fair play to the man IMO.

    Fair play to him for standing up for his principles. Wages out there are obscene. As you say, most would turn a blind eye and continue to collect their lucrative paychecks.


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