Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! ITS RANT TIME!!!

My brain still wasen't quite awake when I switched on the news this morning, but I hear that a young couple had recieved jail sentances of three months each, for having sex on a beach in Dubai!!!
Please copy and past to read the full story!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7673046.stm

When will people realise when you travel to another country you are subject to thier laws!!! and thier customs, and behave appropriatly!!! It realy p***es me off!!!!!!! A tiny little reserch on the part of the traveler is all it will take to make sure they do not cause offence to the "different" culture they are visiting, but people dont bother and to quote one of my clients (who I refused to book btw) "When I am on holiday I just do what I like!!!" But on Holiday and any kind of travel to a different culture the traveler must respect that certain lines are not crossed and remember they are a GUEST of the country they are visiting!!! In my opinion, people who dont follow these rules, should have their passports confiscated!!! Because lets face it!!! Just a few Britians behaving terribly in different countires gives the impressions to the locals that ALL UK national behave this way!...What makes this case worse is that the woman worked in Dubai and should have known better...afterall you would not have sex in full view of people on Blackpool beach would you?
In nearly all middle east and far east countries it is even wrong for couples of different sexes to even hold hands in public even if they are married!!! Let alone have sex!! Topless bathing is even illeagal in some places (I dont know why certain woman have to do this anyway as I just think its excibitionist and not everyone wants to see their tits anyway!!)....There is always uproar and indeed fear with holiday makers when they read in the paper that yet another poor young woman has been raped in Goa, India!!! It dosent surprize me!!! I have seen first hand westen women topless bathing, walking about in skimpy swimwear and genrally bearing every bit of flesh possible, even while eating in restruants! Now think about this for a second...In India, women are very modest, and would never dream of bearing thier bodies in this way! So the men in India are simply not used to seeing this ammount of female flesh, and they go onto sexual overload! BTW I just picked India as an example but this applies to all middle east and far east countries!....Even ME!!!! modest, descreat little old me!!! While on holiday in Kerala in southen India, Derek and I were sunbathing benith a large parasol on a deserted beach. I was wearing a FULL bathing costume and a Sarong which I was using to cover myself when I sat up...but....when I turned on my tummy and glaced up into the rocks behind the beach I caught sight of a man watching me, while fiddling, suspiciously with his Lungi!!!! (a Lungi is a cloth worn my men in southen India a bit like a tucked up short Sarong, for those who dont know)...I nudged Derek and hissed....
"There is a chap, hiding in the rocks, watching us and it looks like he is....." I couldent bring myself to say it....Derek got up and began to march to the place where the guy was hiding, where he promptly ran off...Derek came back to me and we settled down again thinking he had gone, but no, seconds later he was back!!!!!!!!! Eventually it got so bad we had to pack up and make our way back to the hotel!!!!
So the message here is "When in Rome, do as the Romans do"...and I ended up with a collection of Sari's and choli tops only to get told off by an old man at an elephant festival for smoking..."You look like beautiful Kerala lady!!! but smoking makes you look ugly!!"...Now in Nepal its perfectly acceptable for a woman to smoke (usually a pipe) and drink too!!! So I really felt at home there!! LOL!
Also this applies in reverse!
Why when people from other cultures choose to make their home in the UK, do they not adopt British culture? Such as basic things like learning our language! and I am talking about immergration here, not holidays...Here in Norhtampton, just walking about in the town its very rare to here English spoken, and I kid you not!!!!!! Your more likely to hear easten European language!!...If I choose to live in a different country, I would adopt all aspects of their culture including the language, and indeed because of my many visits to Indoniesia, I have learnt a lot of Bhasa Indoniesian (although I am in no way fluent) While on a travel agaent educational visit with collegues to Bali, as soon as I got there I began talking to the locals in Bahasa much to the amazement of my fellow travel agents, who, once they heard me, wanted to speek it themselves and asked me to teach them basics!!
Ok...back to these daft gits in Dubai...
In my opinion they should have recieved at least a year in prison, and be forced to take lessons in do's and dont's in the Emmerates!!! This is just my opinion so don't judge me too harshly on it!
Behaviour like theirs a: reflects badly on the British people...and b: makes themselves look hopelessly ignorant toward culture!!
They are to be deported back to the UK when their sentances are up...and when they are back here they should loose their privlidge of holding a UK passport for life! Afterall a passport is the most important document you are ever likely to posess...and holding a passport is a PRIVLEDGE, that gives you the chance to see the world!
Such silly buggers like these two make me sick...and indeed embarraced to be English!

Sorry *climbs off soap box* rant over............