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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tibe still working: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Questionmarks: [qb] Don’t ask me why we discussed this subject, the Egyptian taxidriver and me, speeding through a hot summernight from Cairo International Airport to my hotel. But the question how many times a week Western people are doing ‘it’, ans how many times the Egyptians. I think it’s a taboo between journalists to bring up taxidrivers when you want to write about the third world. I think they are right, because if you have to speak English with them, and your observations are limited to them. “Bush..very bad. Obama…maybebad, maybe not very bad” . In the newspaper this would be “Skepticism about Obama dominates Arab world”. That’s a DON’T. But if you are talking with taxidrivers in their own language- which I am able to do, after an inhuman amount of study-the story changes. The middle of the night in Cairo is the only time without traffic-jams, and a ride from the airport to my hotel takes for about half an hour. Enough time for an animated exchange about….politics? Mwah, then you will hear the same as you will hear in Holland, what has stayed in his mind after his memory filtered what the media offered. Football! As the expressions says: Is football a matter of life and death? No, but it is very important. And then it takes only a little step to talk about the act, which -untill now- humanity derives from. Just like me, the taxidriver was in his thirties. Elementary dressed, so: poor, no beard,so unless he should be a real creep who has learned on terroristtraining not to be conspicuous, an average muslim ( I almost wrote: moderate muslim as if a normal muslim should be someone who has moderated his backwardness- that I am not a Nazi doesn’t make me a moderate white either?). Okay. The taxidriver wanted to know if it’s true that wij, in the West, are doing ‘it’every day. For a moment there was only silence in the taxi, when that should be possible in a city with twenty million people, packed together and closed in by a dark desert. I did as if my Arabic wasn’t good enough for an answer, and then I asked: But how many times people are doing ‘it’ in Egypt? Every Thursday.  We almost arrived at the hotel, and after I payed, he wanted to know one thing more. He clearly was kind of embarrassed. He held his hands on shoulder-height, waved his hand to everything what was below his shoulders and asked: ‘Is it true, that people in the West… if you… completely naked????’ I nodded Yes en he shivered out of disgustion. But almost immediately he controlled himself because he knew: you have to respect other cultures. That gentleman from Hulanda cannot help it… © Flying Dutchman [/qb][/QUOTE]Its thursday every night then at casa Tibe :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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