As it is Saturday afternoon, I’m going to post something, I ought to have posted sometime ago.
As you know there are some Spanish expatriates in Saudi Arabia who are blogging. One of them, Equisese, wrote about an incident which happened in his office. I’m going to translate his post about the “tile that makes you sin” (it’s not a joke):
I have just lived, some minutes ago, one of the most surrealist and shocking adventures of all my life here in Saudi Arabia. I was working in the office when the office assistant has come to mi office to tell me that there were two Saudis there who wanted to see me for information. This is not normal here, the questions normally come by fax/e-mail. Today all of my bosses were out, so I had to receive them. These two freaks enter till the end of my office, so I have to let them in the meeting room. After my presentations in a very bad Arab, I take into account that they do not understand English, so the office’s secretary, who is an Egyptian, and speaks Arab fluently, comes over to see what’s’ happening.
They began to speak and I see how they pull a tile from a plastic bad and they paint something on with a pen. As I do not understand anything, I conclude they are builders/architects who are just complaining about a faulty consigment. When the Egyptian begins translating to me what they were saying, I couldn’t believe my ears: those guys were complaining about the tiles which were used for their bathroom. One day while one the guys was sat in the toilet he saw in the lines that the tile forms, the figure of a woman and of a man. The gentleman has gone to the Saudi Standards Association to say that how on earth this was permitted and, in the offices of SASO, they have sent them to my office. The man was very angry and said that “he did not want to see men and women in the walls each time he was having a shit (sic)”. The poor man spent some time pointing at the figures he was supposedly seeing in the tile. And as we were totally unable to see them, he just wrote in the tile “Woman’s photo, Man’s photo”.
Conclusiones (from Equisese):
- In this country there are people who are really insane.
- In this country the people are not busy enough.
- In this building, security is very faulty, leaving two people with no identification enter it, and with a plastic bag in one hand.
- Spain is trying to pervert the great Saudi nation with porn tiles.
Now for the photo of the alleged porn tile:
You can read more here, here and here.
There is another very good point though: the tile had been in the bathroom for ten years!!! So why does he complain now? Did he really see the bodies? Or did he just want a change in the tiles of all the bathroom -as he asked-?
This Saudis are foolish!! (or not).
Excuse me for replying in Spanish, my English is not as good as yours:
Es acojonante (aunque reconozco que me he reído). Como empiecen con esas, no van a poder poner azulejos ni baldosas en ninguna parte, ni tampoco fotos de paisajes o paredes de roca o cosas así. Porque yo al menos saco muchas veces formas humanas en cualquier parte (supongo que es algún tipo de necesidad antropomórfica), rostros o cosas así. De hecho, casualmente en los azulejos del suelo de mi baño veo rostros de perfil todos los días.
Vamos, que es otra muestra más del fanatismo de esa gente….
What – you mean you DON’T see the disgusting man and woman etching in the tile?! 😉
Make sure it is not a royal LV!!
phestar: hehehe. Perdonado por escribir en español. 🙂
Pero ten cuidado con los azulejos de tu baño, las rocas y demás que, por lo que veo, también son muy pecaminosos.
David Drake: oops, no, I don’t see anything. What’s the punishment for that? Must be because I am an infidel…
Mike:
You must be referring to the cartoon of the Spanish Crown Prince and wife. Well, the problem is that El Jueves did not want to publish the Mohammed Cartoons because of fear of violence against the paper. But printed a cartoon of Child Jesus smoking marihuana/hashisch and has printed also several ones against ETA victims, for example.
Never had this paper being kidnapped because of the cartoons it had actually printed. The Royal House has denied it asked for the measure. The Stated General Prosecutor has acknowledged it asked for it.
I ask myself why this measure and why it has happened now.
What kind of drugs are they on?!
How ridiculous!