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Old May 30th 2007, 4:04 am
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A rather eye popping "solution" to the segregation of male and female workers...

In his fatwa, Dr Atiya, the head of al-Azhar's Department of Hadith, said such teachings could equally apply to adults.

He said that if a woman fed a male colleague "directly from her breast" at least five times they would establish a family bond and thus be allowed to be alone together at work.


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The more you think about it, the worse it gets
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they must have got that idea from Bitty in Little Britain
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Originally Posted by Autonomy
A rather eye popping "solution" to the segregation of male and female workers...

In his fatwa, Dr Atiya, the head of al-Azhar's Department of Hadith, said such teachings could equally apply to adults.

He said that if a woman fed a male colleague "directly from her breast" at least five times they would establish a family bond and thus be allowed to be alone together at work.


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I can believe that. I was talking with some Arabs when I was in Doha and they talked about how a woman often breast-feeds other woman's children, and this creates a family tie, making the child being fed the sibling of the woman's own children. Or something.
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Originally Posted by Autonomy
A rather eye popping "solution" to the segregation of male and female workers...

In his fatwa, Dr Atiya, the head of al-Azhar's Department of Hadith, said such teachings could equally apply to adults.

He said that if a woman fed a male colleague "directly from her breast" at least five times they would establish a family bond and thus be allowed to be alone together at work.


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I'm applying for a job in that company...And it should damn have at least 7 leggy blondes...
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Default Re: How to get around that tricky man / woman work thing...

Originally Posted by Autonomy
A rather eye popping "solution" to the segregation of male and female workers...

In his fatwa, Dr Atiya, the head of al-Azhar's Department of Hadith, said such teachings could equally apply to adults.

He said that if a woman fed a male colleague "directly from her breast" at least five times they would establish a family bond and thus be allowed to be alone together at work.


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Two issues that I see:

1. The woman needs to be lactacting - most working women aren't

2. So far as I recall, the breastfeeding needs to take place before the man is 18 months/3 years or something. I'm sure I saw a limit (or maybe that was just the interpretation on another mad mullah site)

Other than that a great idea.
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Originally Posted by secretdubai
Two issues that I see:

1. The woman needs to be lactacting - most working women aren't
I once saw a film at university called 'Milk Maids', the women were lactating but certainly were not pregnant.

Was very strange.
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Originally Posted by NorthernLad
I once saw a film at university called 'Milk Maids', the women were lactating but certainly were not pregnant.

Was very strange.
you don't lactate when pregnant, it kicks in about 24 hours afterwards and you can breast feed for years - most people I would imgaine won't bother after about the age of 6 months but some do go on until toddler age.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8orUaCJ0GY
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Originally Posted by Blue Cat
you don't lactate when pregnant, it kicks in about 24 hours afterwards and you can breast feed for years - most people I would imgaine won't bother after about the age of 6 months but some do go on until toddler age.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8orUaCJ0GY
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Anyone tried camels milk?
What do you think?

I usually serve it to my unsuspecting guests from the uk
I tell them afterwards ..of course
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Originally Posted by twinkle-star
Anyone tried camels milk?
What do you think?

I usually serve it to my unsuspecting guests from the uk
I tell them afterwards ..of course
Try to give them goats milk.................. they will not bother u again
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Originally Posted by twinkle-star
Anyone tried camels milk?
What do you think?

I usually serve it to my unsuspecting guests from the uk
I tell them afterwards ..of course
camel's milk is vile!
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Originally Posted by SAMS
Try to give them goats milk.................. they will not bother u again
Great idea ...Thanks!!!
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