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Valentines Day - Saudi style........
15:00 11Feb08 RTRS-No red roses for Saudi sweethearts on Valentines Day
RIYADH, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's religious police have banned red roses ahead of Valentine's Day, forcing couples in the conservative Muslim nation to think of new ways to show their love. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has ordered florists and gift shop owners in the capital Riyadh to remove any items coloured scarlet, which is widely seen as symbolising love, newspapers said. "They visited us last night," the Saudi Gazette quoted an unidentified florist as saying. It is not unusual for the Saudi vice squad to clamp down ahead of Valentine's Day, which it sees as encouraging relations between men and women outside of wedlock, the newspaper said. Saudi Arabia imposes an austere form of Sunni Islam which prevents unrelated men and women from mixing, bans women from driving and demands that women wear a headscarf and a cloak. Relations outside marriage are strictly banned and punishable by law. (Reporting by Souhail Karam; Editing by Giles Elgood) (([email protected], +966 1 463 2603; Reuters Messaging: [email protected])) Keywords: VALENTINE/SAUDI |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
i read this...good on em...i think red roses are tacky at the best of times, but they are a bleedin rip off on valentines day!
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Sounds the kind of Valentines I'll be having this year:o
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Valentines Day is the biggest conspiracy attacking the modern world schemed by Gulf Greetings in Deira City Centre...
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Confucius
(Post 5917396)
Valentines Day is the biggest conspiracy attacking the modern world schemed by Gulf Greetings in Deira City Centre...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Damn . . . . They'd banned the roses so he had to buy me gold instead . . :thumbsup:
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Nic1
(Post 5936383)
Damn . . . . They'd banned the roses so he had to buy me gold instead . . :thumbsup:
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Hadn't thought about diamonds . . . . . Will have to have words with him . . .
:) |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Nic1
(Post 5936769)
Hadn't thought about diamonds . . . . . Will have to have words with him . . .
:)
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936761)
gold and not diamonds...you poor deprived child...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by shakh your bootie
(Post 5936777)
That's another man's life you've just ruined, MM....
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936780)
err...the men in my life love me...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Actually, the initial comment was very tongue in cheek . . . Who cares if Saudi bans the sale of red roses on Valentines day ? But diamonds would be nice . . . .
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
You are all miserable b#stards!!
Valentines day is lovely!.....i bet you all run around telling children theres no santa too!!:p |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by shakh your bootie
(Post 5936795)
I'm talking about the detritus of poor beasts that you left howling along the road...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by MissDemeanor
(Post 5936802)
You are all miserable b#stards!!
Valentines day is lovely!.....i bet you all run around telling children theres no santa too!!:pat' MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936804)
don't be so rude about confucius...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936809)
valentines day is a load of crap...and yeah, if that's what it takes, then santa is dead...
MM, xx I love it!!:D |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by MissDemeanor
(Post 5936826)
Any excuse for me to get flowers and presents is fine by me!!!
I love it!!:D MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936829)
enforced lurve...or enforced fun...can't be doing with it...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
:lol:
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by MissDemeanor
(Post 5936837)
Things are enforced everyday in this house.The least he can do is buy me some appreciation!!!
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936866)
oh hell yeah...you just don't need to do it on one day a year...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by MissDemeanor
(Post 5936873)
I didnt say i did!!!.....this is a bonus.....and im not giving it up for anyone!!
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936882)
ok doll..i'm just the old valentines cynic..it's a lod of bollox...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by MissDemeanor
(Post 5936900)
Tell that to my new Gucci sunglasses!;)
MM,xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936924)
but, but...you don't need some stupid commerial day to get those...
MM,xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by MissDemeanor
(Post 5936929)
True..........but its a great plan B!!:D
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936934)
if you say so...it gives me palpitations...
MM, xx Its what comes after thats supposed to give you palpatations!! |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936924)
but, but...you don't need some stupid commerial day to get those...
MM,xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by shakh your bootie
(Post 5937002)
Oh, you can intellectualise any human festival or feast day out of existence if you're minded too, but how joyless is that?
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by MissDemeanor
(Post 5937056)
Thankyou.Someone with sense.!
But V Day offered a wonderful excuse for a totally kitsch party replete with red teddies, lip shaped cushions replete with chocolate kisses, pink food, pink punch and a lot of people getting merry and having fun. If you're gonna do it, do it with some heart'n'soul. What else is there in life, really? |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by shakh your bootie
(Post 5937101)
Oh, my dear. Sense is not a quality that people often attribute to me....
But V Day offered a wonderful excuse for a totally kitsch party replete with red teddies, lip shaped cushions replete with chocolate kisses, pink food, pink punch and a lot of people getting merry and having fun. If you're gonna do it, do it with some heart'n'soul. What else is there in life, really? |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by MissDemeanor
(Post 5937107)
I completely agree,and I will be sure to send you a valentine next year!!:D
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi be doing style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936882)
ok doll..i'm just the old valentines cynic..it's a lod of bollox...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936804)
don't be so rude about confucius...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Confucius
(Post 5937863)
Leave me out of your adventures,please...
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by shakh your bootie
(Post 5937990)
Would you then, sir, that the lady have no adventures whatsoever??? How now, a rat???
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Confucius
(Post 5938017)
In English,please...
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by shakh your bootie
(Post 5938025)
I spy you for a luddite, knave....
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Confucius
(Post 5938029)
Still no progress...How about in Arabic???
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