Day: April 14, 2007

Caught doing WHAT?

Whilst returning from a day at the circuit he penned at Sakhir to his hotel in the capital Manama, the German engineer was stopped by police on a motorway for exceeding the 100kph speed limit by 50kph, according to the Swiss newspaper Blick. Apparently Tilke was taken to the police station for no less than …

Distributing money with reckless abandon

Is the main modus operandi of this parliament, and further solidifies the opinion of not only their uselessness, but also their one-track mindedness which lost its compass. We read this in this morning’s papers: مكافآت للأئمة والمؤذنين تتراوح بين ألفين Ùˆ5 آلاف دينار مكافآت للأئمة والمؤذنين تتراوح بين ألفين Ùˆ5 آلاف دينار وافقت لجنة الشؤون …

What’s an “imbecile”?

I went looking, just in case my own understanding of the term is lacking somewhat, and this is one of the definitions (with plenty of synonyms) offered by UrbanDictionary.com: imbecile idiot moron retard stupid fool cretin dolt dumbass blockhead simpleton jackass dimwit dumb dunce retarded donkey ignoramus dope dummy half-wit jerk loser numskull tard ass …