Porn Education/I love Kuwait

Totally unrelated, but equally amusing...

School warned for showing porn to students

KUWAIT CITY : Department of the Private Education has sent an official warning to a foreign private school for showing some of its students a video containing pornographic material under the pretext of sex education, reports Arrouiah daily.
According to sources, this step by the department had received mixed responses from MPs. While some parliamentarians have demanded the closure of the school, others have approved of the action taken by the department, calling it “adequate and satisfactory”.

Let me begin my unabashed criticism of the above article/actual incident by providing a definition of "pornography" (albeit according to the first online dictionary I could find):

• Main Entry: por·nog·ra·phy
• Function: noun
• Etymology: Greek pornographos, adjective, writing about prostitutes, from pornē prostitute + graphein to write; akin to Greek pernanai to sell, poros journey — more at fare, carve
• Date: 1858

1 : the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement
2 : material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement
3 : the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction pornography of violence>

From this definition we can deduce that a sex education video depicting actual intercourse (such videos exist, of course, in many countries around the globe), cannot be classed as "pornography" because ultimately, their main intention is to educate - and any sexual excitement resulting from the videos is unintentional.

Our friends at the Arab Times, and perhaps the powers that be, may not have spent two minutes on google like I did, and of course may not have found such an explicit (pun intended) definition for porn, and, of course, they jumped all over it like it was Michael Jackson's satan-worship memorial at Marina Beach.

I think the Arab Times should open an investigative reporting department. Oh, wait, they already have one.

In other news:

Most serious traffic violations committed by residents

KUWAIT CITY : According to recent statistics, the most serious traffic violations are committed by resident expatriates, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
In a report published by the General Traffic Department, it was seen that 16,603 traffic violations were cited to expatriates in the month of July, while Kuwaiti citizens were issued 5,765 citations.
Security sources added the department would continue its ongoing efforts to bring down the rate of traffic law violations in the country.

This article can be labeled "just plain ridiculous" based on the following facts (yeah, I'm in that kind of mood today):

According to the 2007 national census, the population of Kuwait was estimated to be anywhere in the region of 3 - 3.5 million. Let's compromise and presume that its 3.25 million.

In addition, the census states that approximately 68.4 % of the population are expatriates. Although, in my opinion that figure is a gross underestimate. But whatever, let's play along.

(Getting my calculator out).

That means that 2.223 million are expatriates, and 1.277 million are Kuwaiti. Are you following me?

Naturally, expat traffic violations will exceed Kuwaiti traffic violations simply because expats constitute almost 70 % of the population.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing Kuwaitis and supporting expats, nor am I doing the opposite; I think anyone who fucks around on the road should be given a ticket. However, I think that there is absolutely no good reason for the Arab Times to publish such a useless article. It's not even interesting, like, say an article that states that 72 % of Hardees customers are Kuwaiti. Who gives a shit?

AND, if you do want to mention such useless facts, tell the whole story. One day, not too long ago, I cracked my windscreen. On my way to Shuwaikh, I got 2 tickets for the same cracked windscreen, because apparently I'm not allowed to drive around with one. I even showed the second cop my first ticket, and all I got was a lousy "Mali shughol".

What's the deal, yo?

Also, check out the title of the article. It says that the "most serious" traffic violations are committed by expatriates - then it goes on to give the total number of violations committed by expatriates and Kuwaitis in the month of July. Are there only the "serious" violations, or just the regular ones? Can anyone else see the dumbass ambiguity?