Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Only in Saudi



The photo taken from Dr. Cafe in AlKhobar Saudi.
This is one of the things that are special about our society ... Due to the misuse of some technologies by a minority, individuals feel safer and more respected in places that offer some restrictions about technology use.

If you can't read the sign is simply has three lines :

- thank you for not smoking.
- sorry, Photography prohibited.
- sorry, Bluetooth is prohibited.

many of non-saudis would appreciate the smoking restriction, can relate to the photography restriction but might wonder about the bluetooth use.
This is how it goes: Bluetooth is a technology that allows you to connect two devices wirelessly. While those devices are a mobile phone and a headset or a PDA in the rest of the world, in Saudi those two devices are 2 mobile photos that are used to exchange numbers between two parties, hopefully a guy and a girl, this act is called "targeem" which translate to "numbering" in English. In Saudi Culture it is the equivalant of using a pick up line on a girl.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

هههههههه

من جد حالة

شوف انا بالنسبة ليا ... مع موضوع منع التدخين

اما البقية ... فاش نسوي

Sulaiman said...

خصوصيات الشعب السعودي ايش نسوي يا ملياني