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by Faithfree » Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:26 am
Apparently top of the list is the letter combination "USA".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7995865.stm
Saudis ban 'lewd' number plates
Saudi Arabia has banned vehicle number plates which are seen as "offensive" in English when Arabic letters are given in the Latin alphabet, reports say.
Saudi newspaper al-Watan said the banned words included "sex" and "ass", but the list was topped by "USA".
Al-Watan said 90,000 existing plates were to be replaced.
Personalised plates are popular with wealthy young Saudis. One plate recently sold at auction for 6m riyals ($1.2m), the newspaper reported.
Newer Saudi plates include three Arabic letters that are also shown in the Latin alphabet.
The growing fashion is for car owners to buy personalised "vanity" plates that deliberately read "nut", "but", "bad", or "bar" in English.
The latter presumably has been deemed offensive as it relates to alcohol, which is banned in the Islamic kingdom, the AFP news agency reports.
The first on the list, for unexplained reasons, is the combination "USA".
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by charlou » Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:54 am
Talk about oppressive nannyism.
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by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:22 am
I saw this one today. BAR was the one that made me laugh - how fucking seditious and lewd is that!!
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by Psi Wavefunction » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:50 am
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:57 am
Why isn't HOC on the list.
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by Psi Wavefunction » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:59 am
Gawdzilla wrote:Why isn't HOC on the list.
Or TAF? Or RDF?
How about GOD?
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:10 pm
Psi Wavefunction wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Why isn't HOC on the list.
Or TAF? Or RDF?
How about GOD?
Or even
OBC?
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by Pappa » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:41 pm
They do that here too. You can't have SEX or FUK, etc.
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by Hermit » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:24 pm
The Saudi government is way behind the times. Soon after personalised number plates became available in the Australian state of New South Wales the proud owner of a Mini Cooper S bought a set of plates that read "6ULDV8". Once the government worked out what it stood for, it made him return them. That made me wonder what he got for a replacement. "PD0", perhaps?
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by Faithfree » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:29 pm
Seraph wrote:........... "6ULDV8"............
I presume he was a Kiwi.
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