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  1. 13-04-2009, 12:48 PM #1
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    Saudis ban 'lewd' number plates

    Saudis ban 'lewd' number plates


    Some 90,000 plates with the banned letters will reportedly be replaced

    Saudi Arabia has banned vehicle number plates which are seen as "offensive" in English when Arabic letters are given in the Latin alphabet, reports say.
    Saudi newspaper al-Watan said the banned words included "sex" and "ass", but the list was topped by "USA".

    Al-Watan said 90,000 existing plates were to be replaced.

    Personalised plates are popular with wealthy young Saudis. One plate recently sold at auction for 6m riyals ($1.2m), the newspaper reported.

    Newer Saudi plates include three Arabic letters that are also shown in the Latin alphabet.

    The growing fashion is for car owners to buy personalised "vanity" plates that deliberately read "nut", "but", "bad", or "bar" in English.

    The latter presumably has been deemed offensive as it relates to alcohol, which is banned in the Islamic kingdom, the AFP news agency reports.

    The first on the list, for unexplained reasons, is the combination "USA".

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  2. 13-04-2009, 01:53 PM #2
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    The Saudi oil reserves are dwindling. Wont be too much longer before the whole 5,000 family of Saudi royal dictators pack up and move to Florida. The extreme Muslim doctrine the Saudi royal dictators have used to subdue the masses will be a ticking time bomb for the Middle East (and indeed the west) in years to come. Once the Saudi reserves of cheap good quality oil dry up and the massive Iraqi reserves come on line, the US and the rest of the west will have little use for this strip of desert. What the Saudi peasants do then with all the military hardware the west has given them will be interesting.
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  3. 13-04-2009, 08:55 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda View Post
    The Saudi oil reserves are dwindling. Wont be too much longer before the whole 5,000 family of Saudi royal dictators pack up and move to Florida. The extreme Muslim doctrine the Saudi royal dictators have used to subdue the masses will be a ticking time bomb for the Middle East (and indeed the west) in years to come.
    Yeah, Saudi has been considered on the edge since at least 1989 when I was a student and we studied, KSA. An important piece of real estate to the west and US, in particular.
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  4. 13-04-2009, 10:05 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by dirtydog View Post
    The first on the list, for unexplained reasons, is the combination "USA".
    That's because the Saudis are our friends, and thus .... hmmm..., never mind...
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