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Comment on Is Egypt Racist? Part 1 by kingzula

kingzula — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:57:00 +0000

you said you your black that doesn’t mean your not Egyptian. were you born in Egypt

Comment on Hey! Cairo’s new government…It’s the little things by Sulayman

Sulayman — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:50:00 +0000

Wicked post by the way

Comment on Hey! Cairo’s new government…It’s the little things by Sulayman

Sulayman — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:33:00 +0000

‘Sort the little things and the big things will be ok’, that is a paraphrase of what Jesus said, you know the guy, features quite alot in the Bible.

Comment on My very own Egyptian – from a male doctor by IrishAlexandrian

IrishAlexandrian — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:29:00 +0000

Congratulations on the arrival of your new clan member! Government offices of any kind are an adventure!

Comment on I’m back…..Beefed! by IrishAlexandrian

IrishAlexandrian — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:13:00 +0000

just catching up on all your posts! I’m glad you beat the hacker and have reclaimed your rightful place in cyber space!

Comment on Is that a woman smoking? by Lana Sami

Lana Sami — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:39:00 +0000

very nice

Comment on Egypt’s Foreign Locals by Matthew Thompson

Matthew Thompson — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:34:00 +0000

Egyptians would think you’re Sudanese (southern), because you’re dark. Egyptians knew I was American because I was lighter skinned, green eyes and most importantly because I wore shorts. I have a feeling some thought I was Egyptian.

If they would have asked me what I am, I would have said, “black.” I would NOT have said even Americans or California as it reeks of insecurity. It’s a misnomer to say you’re British when British = white. American, however, never was a race. I could say I was American, but black is more fitting.

Comment on Egypt’s Foreign Locals by Matthew Thompson

Matthew Thompson — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:11:00 +0000

This is a pathetic post, with a homophobic remark thrown in. As a black American that visited Egypt last year for three months, I can tell you how they treat Africans. Egyptians in Egyptian don’t think highly of Africans like you Sam which is why you probably have to tell people you’re from London (if that’s true). I never had to tell people I was American. I carry myself fine and I don’t brag about being in a country that is clearly sick of Africans (please see the English/whites’ responses to the riots not too long ago and the women complaining about immigrants in England).

I see nothing but a self loather writing here, using supposed English citizenship to get ahead.

Comment on My very own Egyptian – from a male doctor by Pregnancy week by week

Pregnancy week by week — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:24:00 +0000

I think all women doctors are not rubbish with pregnancy. Some of them may be like that. But more of them so kind with pregnancy women.

Comment on Hey! Cairo’s new government…It’s the little things by Fulaan ibn Fulaan

Fulaan ibn Fulaan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:31:00 +0000

I dunno I’d settle for smaller things – like banning all taxi drivers and microbus drivers from smoking whilst they have customers, or actualy enforcing the law that taxi drivers can not refuse to take customers to destionations within Cairo (kinda like the law with black cabs in London) – opposed to the usual ‘la wallah.’

Small things like when the al-Azhar faculty building states it is forbidden to smoke in this building as it has been declared hard – that all the employees actually follow that and do not sit their chain smoking all day long. I almost has a physical fight with a student who decided the appropriate location to light up was in the back of our 350 person lecture theatre – he argued that he was by the window so that it was fine to smoke there.

Or having anyone who is caught talking on their mobile phone whilst driving having aforementioned phone removed from their person and crushed in front of them – even more so when they are doing their classic idiotic move of reversing on a side road (no lights naturally) without checking in any of the mirrors whilst gabbing to their friends on the phone and almost running you and your small children down.

There used to be an instant (well payable same day) fine of 1,000 EGP if you drove the wrong way down a road – that needs to be enforced again – it vanished after the revolution. and now you need to look all directions whilst crossing the road in case some manic is zooming at you the wrong way (it happened to me yesterday.)

How about no double, triple or quadruple parking, and parking actually means pulling up withing 30cm of the ‘kerb’ opposed to randomly pulling up in the middle of the road to do your shopping because you are too lazy to actually find a parking space?

I think I would gladly pay someone 1000 EGP if they commandered a bulldozer and after Friday prayers ‘cleared’ the roads around Souq al-Sayarat of all the cheapskates who are unwilling to pay 15 EGP to actually enter the half empty Souq to sell their cars, but instead decided to block the road so no traffic can pass (I don’t even drive in Cairo because of this.)

As for the litter, I think if the guys who pull up to the communal bins and empty the rubbish onto the ground around the bins whilst looking for recyclables do not bother to put the rubbish back into the bins after they have finished – maybe THEY should be emptied back into the bins afterwards as a reminder of where the rubbish should go.

As for medical – I gave up and just question the doctor about every drug on the prescription and look at the NICE guidelines (google it) for what they reccomend treatments should be so you can ensure that they are not using their usual shotgun approach to try and fix you.