Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Trending in Saudi Arabia

We baldies don’t want shampoo.

You can’t make this stuff up. Over the weekend, “We baldies don’t want shampoo” trended in Saudi Arabia. I got no idea who started it or why, but however it got started, many agreed it was a good idea. Shampoo is downright dangerous.

Others saw it not so much about safety, more like a civil rights issue:

But @figas_44 thought there are more important issues:

Several tweeters posted video of a bald man receiving a present:

@Hananbagazi offered some advice:

This young lady has my eternal gratitude:

But perhaps this guy had the best idea:

 

Michael Isenberg writes about the Muslim world, medieval and modern. His forthcoming novel, The Thread of Reason, is a murder mystery that takes place in Baghdad in the year 1092. It depicts the war for the Muslim soul between those who seek to enforce shari’a strictly, persecute Jews and Christians, and stamp out "un-Islamic" science, and those who wink at a few sins, tolerate their non-Muslim neighbors, and write science books instead of burning them.

No comments:

Post a Comment