Hope for your sake Mrs Tony9 doesn't read your posts. There again it's about to turn rush hour into gridlock come June 2018.
thejazzpianoma,
Sep 28, 5:27am
Not necessarily, are they allowed to travel unsupervised yet? It will likely make no difference if not as a male chaperone will still be required and I don't see him being driven by a lady. So the gesture may be symbolic only.
sr2,
Sep 28, 6:00am
It sounds like he did?
Saudi is a crazy mixture of unbelievably decadent western style material wealth combined with a prehistoric interpretation of Islam. Women are still virtualy powerless (their word is worth 50% of that of a male in a court of law) and rape victims are still often charged with having extramarital sex!
sw20,
Sep 28, 6:03am
Nail on the head.
sw20,
Sep 28, 6:12am
Written permission from your husband to drive the car on your own.
Gosh what a wonderful country we trade with.
tony9,
Sep 28, 6:37am
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
countrypete,
Sep 28, 7:06am
Aaahh. Will they be allowed to parallel park?
muzz67,
Sep 28, 7:15am
Pussies! Bet you all have to get permission from yer Mrs's to use the car! (I do too. )
mojo49,
Sep 28, 7:28am
Nah, no matter how loud she screams out from the boot I just drive on regardless.
tony9,
Sep 28, 6:50pm
No, certainly not - it is never finished.
But, sometimes I have to borrow hers.
mrfxit,
Sep 28, 6:56pm
A whole lot of symbolic laws in the right direction are a whole lot better then none at all.
At a minimum, any specific law can be challenged in the court systems & as the number of challenges grow, so does the attitude spread that it can be challenged. Each challenge that succeeds a bit further in the system before being crushed, gives more hope & a higher progress rate.
Staunch ppl need to be either slammed hard or slowly tricked in to doing things properly. Considering they are super staunch when it comes to protecting male rights over female, it's either war or whats happening now.
mrfxit,
Sep 28, 6:59pm
Women drivers over there will have to be extra careful to not be seen in any way to causing an accident or at least extra careful to have male witness's on their side.
Could do with some of that here. (The extra careful bit)
the-lada-dude,
Sep 28, 7:03pm
yeah Mccully looks pretty sheepish too me !
mrfxit,
Sep 28, 7:08pm
Yea last time I heard that, she traded the car for a model with no boot
sr2,
Sep 28, 7:58pm
LOL, I've just got used to having an 'optional airbag' in the passenger seat!
mrfxit,
Sep 28, 9:35pm
I prefer the term "portable airbag"
socram,
Sep 28, 9:59pm
Twin airbags on most.
rob_man,
Sep 28, 10:15pm
Maybe Tony's missus isn't allowed on the internet.
zak410,
Sep 28, 10:24pm
The Saudi ambassador to Washington said on Tuesday women would not need their guardians’ permission to get a license, nor to have a guardian in the car when driving.
LMAO yea bunch of crazy buggers, it's what too much money can do to a petrol head
gman35,
Sep 29, 3:22am
Saudi Arabia wasn't dangerous enough already ?
laurelanne,
Sep 29, 3:26am
Exactly gman35. I hope Arab women aren't as dagerous at driving as they are with an AK47.
sr2,
Sep 29, 4:49am
LOL; just saw a leading Saudi Islamic Cleric on TV3 pointing out it was not a good idea for women to be allowed to drive because they "only had half a brain".
I only just managed to stop the ever lovely Mrs sr2 throwing a pot-plant through my brand-new 64" LED Telly!
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