Humor

God suffers a crippling bout of existential dread

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The Onion reports … “God Freaks Self Out By Lying Awake Contemplating Own Immortality” Lets get it right from the start … it is satire … OK … (the fact that you really do need to spell that out at times can indeed be a truly scary observation), so anyway, here is a brief snippet … Read more

Finally … a cure for Cancer has been discovered.

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The Saudi Gazette has announced the exciting news that a cure for Cancer has been discovered by Dr. Faten Abdel-Rahman Khorshid. She … yes, it’s a woman and not a man who has made … “one of the Kingdom’s greatest national achievements in the field of science“. This is truly exciting stuff, and it is fantastic … Read more

“Staff very unfriendly”

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If you run a Hotel then it means that you will indeed meet all sorts of people, some of course will be very nice and a true delight to meet, others will be complete twats. One such example of the latter category involves a review on Trip Advisor for the following hotel … A Mr … Read more

Satire: Saudi clerics “running out of day-to-day things to ban”

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The fact that I need to add the word “Satire” to the title tells you that it is in fact very challenging to deploy Satire within a Saudi context. In fact, the pronouncements and actions of the various clerics make it almost impossible to discern the line between the things that are satire and the … Read more