Ehm, not to belittle the tragedy and the obvious cry for help, I just couldn’t help but burst out laughing when I read that last paragraph! This is a girl who attempted suicide who has had her stomach pumped and rather than try to understand the problem so they can resolve it, their idea of a solution is to take her to a police station to sign a pledge to not attempt suicide again! Yes folks, …
Conning the con man
آسيوي يستأجر Ùندقاً بـ 27 Ø£Ù„ÙØ§Ù‹ بشيك مرتجع أمر رئيس النيابة العامة Ùهد بونوÙÙ„ أمس (السبت) Ø¨ØØ¨Ø³ متهم آسيوي، وهو وكيل Ù„Ø£ØØ¯ الخليجيين، استأجر Ø£ØØ¯ الÙنادق بشيكات مقدمة، وعند ØÙ„ول موعد الاستØÙ‚اق تبين أن تلك الشيكات مرتجعة، وتبلغ قيمة الشيك 27 أل٠دينار، وهو عبارة عن قيمة إيجار الÙندق لمدة شهر ÙˆØ§ØØ¯. وتتلخص القضية ÙÙŠ أن Ø£ØØ¯ الخليجيين استأجر الÙندق من مالكه، واتÙÙ‚ Ø§Ù„Ø·Ø±ÙØ§Ù† على تقديم المستأجر إلى المؤجر شيكات مقدمة لمدة معينة، إلا أنه وعند …
Transporting humans
A few months ago, the Ministry of Labour meekly suggested that workers should be transported in covered vehicles, they meant buses I assume, which should be adequately air conditioned. So canny businessmen slapped on some plywood boards around the back of 6-wheel trucks and shoved all their labourers in there. That should have been enough – as far as those businessmen are concerned – to provide a safe, covered and as it was open to the …
3-for-1, Saidi latest brainfart
Yep, our effervescent Deputy Dawg™ is encouraging his fellow MPs to get it on: An Islamist lawmaker has urged his male peers to take four wives, three Bahraini women and one foreigner, in order to help address the issue of the high number of spinsters in the country. I’m not sure if he’s also including the lone female MP into the sphere of his advice of course, probably not as with his low opinion of women …
Math skills are good to have
For instance, when someone tells you that Bahrain will receive a “flood of 100,000 fans” for the forthcoming F1 (people, not those devices which circulate the air), and you know that the maximum capacity of that venue is 45,000 that means that either someone seriously miscalculated the popularity of that sport and undervalued the capacity of the BIC, or a GDN reporter added a zero inadvertently to that figure quoted in that article, or it could …
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