Naw we're stuck in the ooze .

Guess well have to wait a few more centuries for things to pick up.

By the Islamic calendar. Which might make the "shocked and offended" more understandable. No, not really, just joking...

(AH = "After Hijra.&quot

When I lived in Saudi Arabia, there was a rumor about a British Airways pilot who got perma-banned from the whole country. Because he made this after-flight announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have just landed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Please set your watches to the 14th century."

I always hoped that story was true.

Heh. Gonna have to remember that one.

I can't control my urges.

Also, who is Selena Gomez? I know the name, but that's about it. Was she a product of Disney?

That's some ankle.
Wuba-wuba!

Q: Why don't Baptists have sex standing up?

A: It might lead to dancing!

.... that the jury system here is also in some other century.

I stand behind nil deperandum's post as well. I can only assume that the jurors didn't look any further than his post---not even far enough to see what he was responding to, because THAT should offend everyone.

Oppressing women in the name of religion? OK. (Or even "beautiful," as one dishonest, vicious, odious individual once put it.)

Pointing it out? ZOMG YOU HORRIBLE BIGOTED ATHEIST!

God bless our alert nannies who watch over us and keep us in line.