The Cellar - View Single Post - 11/11/2003: De-faced products in Saudi Arabia

mrputter · 11-12-2003, 03:27 AM

<EM>> really? so the cap says</EM>

Yeah, really. They have Safeway there. I've been in 'em. And that blue crap (normally they use black pen with better coverage; this is an unusually crappy specimen) is all over EVERYTHING.

I remember when I was a kid, I used to get MAD magazines (I lived next country over in the United Arab Emirates; I don't think MAD gets into Saudi Arabia) with a good 25% of the pages blacked out.

As for mwbEEf and russotto:
You'd be surprised what the market is for hair colouring products, fancy lingerie, makeup, etc. is over there. Per capita, I'd say it's much higher than it would be here in North America. The women do all kinds of unbelievable things underneath the abaya. And no-one ever sees it; often not even the husbands (ESPECIALLY not the husbands in many cases) even though they'd be the only man ever allowed to see them without the abaya. Just one form of rebellion against the status quo.

11-12-2003, 03:27 AM	#18
mrputter Superior Inhabitant Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 71	<EM>> really? so the cap says</EM> Yeah, really. They have Safeway there. I've been in 'em. And that blue crap (normally they use black pen with better coverage; this is an unusually crappy specimen) is all over EVERYTHING. I remember when I was a kid, I used to get MAD magazines (I lived next country over in the United Arab Emirates; I don't think MAD gets into Saudi Arabia) with a good 25% of the pages blacked out. As for mwbEEf and russotto: You'd be surprised what the market is for hair colouring products, fancy lingerie, makeup, etc. is over there. Per capita, I'd say it's much higher than it would be here in North America. The women do all kinds of unbelievable things underneath the abaya. And no-one ever sees it; often not even the husbands (ESPECIALLY not the husbands in many cases) even though they'd be the only man ever allowed to see them without the abaya. Just one form of rebellion against the status quo.