Pulaski

You can edit your post for 120 minutes after you first make it (button bottom right of the post), or delete it entirely.

Irishbeekeeper

Well this one is not too relevant to the topic but I did find it funny

http://www.Break.com/video/arab-guy-slackline-prank-2886256

mikewot

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge. Did Darrow, in the course of his dreadful bombardment of Bryan, drop a few shells, incidentally, into measurably cleaner camps? Then let the garrisons of those camps look to their defenses. They are free to shoot back. But they can't disarm their enemy.
-- H L Mencken, "Aftermath" The Baltimore Evening Sun, (September 14, 1925)

Bahtatboy

I've long admired that. But I've never bothered to search or enquire about the Darrow and Bryan bit. Can someone enlighten me?

DXBtoDOH

Google the Snopes trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial

Summarises the disparate groups of Americans that continue to persist to this day.

Irishbeekeeper

and another one! :

Smuggler held with alcohol bottles in 12 pockets | GulfNews.com

the fact that they havent shown the face probably means its a local but I mean cmon man! Especially with them being on their toes these days why would you try this? And why just 12? I mean how much money could he have made off just 12?

Irishbeekeeper

aaand another one? I find this abhorrent!!

https://www.rt.com/news/318044-saudi...ed-wife-video/

Irishbeekeeper

wow! Seems to me like a bit of too much partying

http://youtu.be/KERPenDelYQ

DXBtoDOH

Looks like someone wasn't getting paid for her services.....

Irishbeekeeper

So they are going to charge him for consuming alcohol but they wont say anything to the hotel who sold him the alcohol?

Dubai visitor on trial for threating to blow up hotel | GulfNews.com

"Besides, how could he be serious about blowing up the room where he was physically present?"
I am sure any future wanna-be bombers will be going, 'umm....hellooooooooooooooo!'

DXBtoDOH

Because quite a few locals, including in the police, enjoy a drink or two at times. They don't want to risk turning this into a state where every likely looking Muslim is asked for a liquor license.

NorthernLad

'Qatar slavery museum aims to address modern exploitation'

Qatar slavery museum aims to address modern exploitation - Culture & Society - ArabianBusiness.com