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I've seen it all now - "Women are responsible for earthquakes!"

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fiveisanawfullybignumber · 20/04/2010 15:52

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8631775.stm
I've truly seen it all now.
This man is supposedly an inteligent man, he leads a country for goodness sake.
Now, I'm a religious person, but saying this in the name of religion is foolish and wrong I think????

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BunnyLebowski · 20/04/2010 15:54

Well he's clearly not an intelligent man. What a freaking idiot.

Stories like this just make me hate religion more and more.

abride · 20/04/2010 15:57

I actually caused the Iceland volcano. Sorry about that.

wizbitwaffle · 20/04/2010 15:58

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 20/04/2010 15:59

actually, I think you will find it was me. I needed a bit of a distraction last week and so have I know have one.

padraig · 20/04/2010 16:01

Is cleric what you call a comedian in the Middle East?

abride · 20/04/2010 16:04

No, it was me! But if we have a fight about it we will probably cause another natural disaster.

omaoma · 20/04/2010 16:05

ah, the old women leading men astray gambit... in my less liberal moments I wonder why, if the sight of women is such a sinful distraction, they decided to veil the women instead of blindfold all the men? the men could stay indoors in sort of, I dunno, 'harems' and do all their work and socialising safely secreted indoors; the women could go about and do everything they needed to freely, and when the men need to go somewhere else, on goes the blindfold and their wives lead or drive them wherever they want to go. problem sorted.

omaoma · 20/04/2010 16:06

come to think of it, if you blinded all the men at birth that would solve the problem as well. women could be their amenuenses for work. and the men would avoid an awful lot of other 'distractions' if they couldn't read, think how holy their lives would be.

[burns in hell emoticon]

padraig · 20/04/2010 16:07

In fairness homosexuals made priests molest girls in Chile.

MadamDeathstare · 20/04/2010 16:09

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Mouseface · 20/04/2010 16:10

Wakes up and bangs head on lap top in disbelief at what this prat is going on about!!! Idiot.

MrsRedford · 20/04/2010 16:11

@padraig

I am speechless. This is so ridiculous I don't even know where to start.

LittleMissHissyFit · 20/04/2010 16:12

I saw this too and was going to post it...

Sadly these 'men' actually believe themselves. It's part of the oppression culture women are subjected to. All shored up with a great slab of religion to act as a deterrent to anyone who thinks about speaking up.

IMHO and experience, they are all as bonkers as it gets....

So if anyone happens to be a seismologist, or volcanologist, trying to get to the bottom of what cause these natural phenomena....

You can stop now..... It was me.... woops! My bra strap slipped and there it was....

Mark my words, we'll be carrying the can for Tornados and Hurricanes next....

LittleMissHissyFit · 20/04/2010 16:15

My DH used to say that the edict is that Women cover so Men don't look.

I used to counter with How about Men don't look, so Women can get on with life and don't have to cover????

Argh, DON'T get me started....

JustMyTwoPenceWorth · 20/04/2010 16:15

I'm sorry, but that is so ludicrous that all I could do was laugh at him.

SirBoobAlot · 20/04/2010 16:21

Actually I think he has a totally valid point. I mean when you consider every aspect of his statement, he is quite right.

Nope, can't even make a joke argument go any further than that. Its just pure bollocks.

JustMyTwoPenceWorth · 20/04/2010 16:22

Me running down the stairs may be mistaken for an earthquake.

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fiveisanawfullybignumber · 20/04/2010 16:23

Having a DS who is studying Geology should make for interesting dinner table conversation tonight.
What an idiot this man is, he's making his whole country look even more laughable.
Although it's a worry that this country may have nuclear power soon. Will he decide to bomb western nations and their promiscuous women just to save his country??

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Shodan · 20/04/2010 16:24

Actually I'll think you'll find it was I who caused the earthquake- I was running on the treadmill at the gym and my bottom was flolloping around enough to start a quake....

JackBauer · 20/04/2010 16:24

Well I have been sitting here trying to make a volcano explode but I think I am getting it wrong.

DD2 farted though...

Shodan · 20/04/2010 16:25

Gah. Obviously meant volcano in first part of sentence.

EarthMotherImNot · 20/04/2010 16:26

Brings new meaning to "did the earth move for you darling"

Shodan · 20/04/2010 16:27

Have just been put in mind of Harry Enfield's sketch- Women- Know Your Limits.

Pretty high, then, given that we can set off volcanos, earthquakes etc......

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fiveisanawfullybignumber · 20/04/2010 16:28

Whoa, I've made it to the discussions of the day box!
Or should that be the crazy man in Iran???

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SpringyThingy · 20/04/2010 16:28

Well, I live near the international seismological centre and each time I wander by, showing off my...hair (?) the seismograph goes all over the place, s'true, honest