When will we discuss routes/livery etc?

Let them call the Police Rlangham. It’s probably someone playing a prank or an email sent to the wrong person.

Fantastic Southwest shots BJ, where is it from?

I certainly will go further with that “little comment” as you put it. The people who used to shout at me (and there were many of them) almost always seemed to have long beards and wore thobes as opposed to say Egyptians or Jordanians most of whom I met or worked with tended to wear western style clothes. This meant they were almost invariably Saudis. I will give you another example – one day I was stopped at a road block by twelve armed policemen who asked for my papers.They were really p***** off although I don’t know why. When they spoke to me in English I replied in Arabic. The greatest hostility seemed to come from the three bearded members of the group. One of them asked me if as I spoke Arabic was I also Muslimeen? I replied again in Arabic that No I was a Christian – he then flung the papers back at me in the car and said “Big Problem” and motioned with his thumb for me to go. You seem intrigued why I mentioned “Beard” but I fully understand the reasons for wearing a long beard, particularly so amongst the Saudis but the reason for my annoyance is that I went to Saudi arabia in 1998 with a lot of goodwill towards the culture and people. I studied for a degree in Arabic at my own expense and time and as I say I have spent many years in Muslim culture but that last spell in Saudi has changed my mind about the way I view the Middle East. I come from Ireland which has no axe to grind with the middle east. When I was there there was a terrible slaughter of hostages in Khobar including a Swede and Filippino who were murdered for no other reason than they were not muslims. On TV, the room they were murdered in looked like someone had thrown buckets of blood all over it, it was even on the ceiling. I lived in the middle of this nonsense for five years so perhaps you will forgive me if I have offended you in some way.

I understand what you’re getting at.

We experienced the same kind of hostility at Mumbai Airport, where the security are just looking for an excuse to manhandle someone.

These people also shouted, and did not speak in a calm way at all, which seriously angered me back then. Of course you can’t even speak back to them, their police stations aren’t very kind.

Anyway, which part of Saudi Arabia/Jordan/Egypt did you stay in? That could explain it.

Well mate having spent a very large portion of my life living amongst muslims in the middle east and africa I can tell you that before I left Saudi Arabia (after five years there) I couldn’t cross the road from my house to buy some milk without having some bearded cretin either :
a) try and run me down – as happened on a number of occasions.
b) shout one of two things at me – either
Fack yew!
or
Go home
I decided on the second option in the end and I couldn’t wait to see the back of the place or the people in it.

That is intriguing.

Did you experience this from a wide variety of people, or just one individual?

“Bearded cretin.”

I am not bearded, but please do not go any further with that little comment.

Thanks.

Nice report, mate. 🙂
What’s the B733 like? I’ll be travelling on my first 737 next year on a trip from college.

That World MD11… could it possibly have been this DC10?
http://www.ringwayreports.co.uk/N49082_SH_231005.JPG

Money isn’t everything.

Oh, but then again… women wouldn’t know that. :rolleyes:

Take a look at item 6 on the code of conduct – there is banter, and there is sexism. Had you posted this with a 😀 or a :diablo: maybe the comment would have been appreciated as humour. However you didn’t, and consequently it wasn’t.

Spiders and anything similar don’t scare me, just annoy me. I hate them. And daddy long legs, why do they even exist? They’re just retarded spider that bounce around here and there. Look at their name.. daddy long legs. What the hell?

The dark scares me, that’s for sure.