34 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Being born into the Muslim faith does not mean you have to be observant. I have been to many bars in Muscat and seen locals drinking at professional levels. Just as I was born into the Christian faith but am not a believer, it is entirely feasible that, if these guys are Muslims, the faith they were born into means little to them.  

Indeed, though certainly within their home countries/communities, even if not being particularly obvservant, adherence to the daylight fasting during Ramadan is usually the norm.   I worked/lived for 3 years in Qatar, so am familiar with their practices.

25 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Very well deduced, but so what?

I'm keeping track of all the violent incidents and mysterious deaths involving alcohol.

 

13 hours ago, cheapcanuck said:

When ever someone uses this in a sentence, it shows that they are a racist. 

 Calling everybody and everything racists just to shut them up... You are the bad one here..

10 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

True, but non-observance and open renunciation are not necessarily the same.

The point is that they can't renounce it or they would be put to death. ????

13 hours ago, cheapcanuck said:

15 hours ago, Mavideol said:

don't want to sound racist

When ever someone uses this in a sentence, it shows that they are a racist. 

Whenever someone responds with this tired old trope it shows the best argument then can usually muster is the lame playground " No,YOU are !"

Looks like the tourists copped a good hammering

14 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

39 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Very well deduced, but so what?

I'm keeping track of all the violent incidents and mysterious deaths involving alcohol.

Oh, right, good for you.   You're aware of them all and the specifics of the intoxication, then, are you?    

15 hours ago, connda said:

Quite a few Christians and non-Muslims in both of those countries. 

As well as hypocrites.

2 hours ago, Bim Smith said:

Because what is defined as racist now people are careful in what they say. If you're saying you have no prejudice bone in your body, that would make you a liar

"" Yes , but it's the good kind of prejudice "'

 

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Racist, off-topic, troll posts and replies reported and removed.  Continue and face a suspension.

 

14 hours ago, cheapcanuck said:

When ever someone uses this in a sentence, it shows that they are a racist. 

All right!  We got some new ethnic groups to hate on.

1 hour ago, Thailand said:

I remember the Saudi's pouring over the bridge to Bahrain for the booze and Rusdian girls.

The fun started when they all returned on the Friday.
If you wanted a bootle of real stuff to celebrate you asked a Saudi mate. Mind you, cost was £75 back in the day.

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

when they were asked to queue properly.

A little hypocritical coming from a Thai. IMO

15 hours ago, connda said:

Quite a few Christians and non-Muslims in both of those countries. 

but the two named Mohamed will not get their 22 virgins when they die. 

They missed the most important part of the story ... are the kebabs any good at that joint?

14 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

alcohol

Yes if it was cannabis related every news media would jump on the evils of weed. Now its ok as alcohol is an ok drug.

16 hours ago, Mavideol said:

that's a "big" surprise as usually citizens from these countries are muslims and muslims don't (are not supposed) to drink alcohol as for unruly that's normal behavior for the majority of them but don't want to sound racist or prejudice only talking (unfortunately) by personal experience

Nope

 

Had many muslim friends in KL, many of which would publicly talk about how hungry and thirsty they were during Ramadan, and were feasting away at lunch time with curtains drawn. Peer pressure is a bit part of it

12 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Yet, you so successfully achieved the opposite !!!....  

 

 

IF it was Aussies, Brits, Israelis, Iranians, Sweedish, Chinese etc... there would always be the poster gloating after a healthy dose of confirmation bias.... 

 

 

 

 

If you have skin, your are racist. All of you. No exceptions. It's just a matter of degree.

I thought most of the staff at that particular kabab counter were Arabs, probably belonging to the (we run all kabab stands) Syrian mafia.   

17 hours ago, Mavideol said:

that's a "big" surprise as usually citizens from these countries are muslims and muslims don't (are not supposed) to drink alcohol as for unruly that's normal behavior for the majority of them but don't want to sound racist or prejudice only talking (unfortunately) by personal experience

Not all Muslim Nations are teetotal Egypt/Turkey/Oman/Malaysia/Indonesia/Jordan and Bahrain to name some that i have worked in 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

A little hypocritical coming from a Thai. IMO

foreign staff

Looked more like handbags at dawn 

Completed tossers the lot of them getting Thailand  Tourism a bad name ????

19 hours ago, Mavideol said:

that's a "big" surprise as usually citizens from these countries are muslims and muslims don't (are not supposed) to drink alcohol as for unruly that's normal behavior for the majority of them but don't want to sound racist or prejudice only talking (unfortunately) by personal experience

U R absolutely right but how did they manage to guess 2 different nationalities are involved?

4 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Some posters need to read the actual report in the link, not just the OP's different version of it.

 Never let the facts/truth get in the way of a good story. 

 

  Mark Twain, Orson Welles, R Murdoch 

From my experiences in those parts of the world, queuing is definitely not a thing. This was probably the trigger point.

Good  Muslim boys out on sauce, who would believe it especially during Ramalamadingdong our whatever the morons call it. 

16 hours ago, Enoon said:

Muslims on holiday are a very different thing to Muslims at home, with religious "authorities" looking over their shoulders.

 

It's a good thing that they get drunk (and do other "un-Muslim" stuff) in relative freedom.

 

Hopefully they take the "message" home with them and spread the "cancer" of it among their oppressed fellows.

 

 

BS...????????????

7 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Oh, right, good for you.   You're aware of them all and the specifics of the intoxication, then, are you? 

no, not all the specifics.

it's not a phd, just informal research.

just horsing around. 

6 hours ago, robblok said:

Yes if it was cannabis related every news media would jump on the evils of weed. Now its ok as alcohol is an ok drug.

good point. alcohol never gets a bad rap in the media compared to cannabis

Ramadan or slaparam ?  thai's love a bit of sport, sling em in the clink !