Love shack, baby love shack... "HEY! TURN THAT SHIT DOWN!"

Made a trip out to the beach (part of the less than 10% of the coastline that isn't owned by the royal family--and thus open to the public) for shits and giggles the other day. The picture above is of some of these "love shacks" that they have positioned along the beach. I assume they are for families so they can "disrobe" i.e. take off the abaya. However, when you get up close to these things they are dilapidated pieces of shit with gaps like 8 inches wide between boards which seems absolutely pointless. Oh well.
And this is the mosque across the road from the beach. Apparently Islamic code mandates that there must be a mosque within walking distance of any Muslim, and this one must serve the beach. What was funny was that this particular day (and every day, now) it was well over 120 outside with NO ONE around. Hell, look around the mosque. Do you see any buildings? Hell, ANY sign of civilization? Made me chuckle, that's all. I guess this would be like building a big church in the middle of the woods out in the middle of a boyscout camp that is only active one month out of the year.
Another good shot of the mosque with jack shit around.

And the sign at the beach (with one of the love shacks in the background.) I would like to note that this is about as far away as you can get from the city on the island (with the exception of one other place) and on a heavy traffic day only takes about 15 minutes to get here.

That explains why I didn't get drunk....

And another funny sign. Rachel noticed this while we were sitting at a red light--I've never seen anyone advertise for something quite like this. They don't tell you what it is, but they sure as hell let you know it doesn't contain alcohol. I assume it's supposed to be a fruity Zima type drink--sans alcohol. I wouldn't have guessed this contained booze to begin with if I saw it in a store (especially since you have to buy alcohol from the 'special' stores), but I'm sure glad the sign let me know that I wouldn't get buzzed from drinking Summer Freez.

Collage?

And this sign could start to explain why most Arabs seem to be dumb shits. All this time I was blaming the culture, the lack of proper parenting, etc when all along it appears the root of this problem exists in the educational system itself!

I hope this was just a typo. I'll laugh my ass off if that actually is the name of the college. This sign caught my eye as Rachel and I were driving around last weekend. Where ever there is construction happening, be it residential, commercial, whatever they have a sign like this explaining exactly what is being built. They're actually a good idea--I've driven past lots of things back in the states and wondered what the hell they were building. Here they tell you.

Good idea, bad spelling.