Roller Coaster in the Mall

[Martin Hash]

The biggest malls I've ever seen are in Malaysia. For example, I'm staying in a one-star flophouse across from the Kuala Lumpur Times Square mall; 11 floors, deep-fried Japanese crab, smoked duck sushi, Kenny Roger's Roaster, Bowling alley, a 7-Eleven on every floor, and there's are a roller coaster on the sides of the 5th Floor level of the atrium. It promotes itself as Malaysia's largest indoor roller coaster, implying there are others...

Times Square Mall Kuala Lumpur 1.JPG

The mall has over 1000 shops, endless escalators, and one of the marble staircases is designed to look like the keys of a piano, so-much-so that when you walk down, notes play according to electronic eyes on each step, in scale, so that going up raises in pitch, and going down sounds like an 8-year old practicing lessons. When you get to the bottom, the floor tiles are pressure-sensitive splotch-art. Cartoony, 15-foot high characters adorn the garage entryways. The food court is massive. Everyplace was decorated for Chinese New Year, and somebody is obviously spraying fruity air-freshener in bathrooms when no one is looking. Plus, lots-n-lots of women wearing hijabs.

Times Square Mall Kuala Lumpur 4.JPG

[de officiis]

Where is James Kunstler when we need him?

[Speaker to Animals]

That could be Michigan.

[Montegriffo]

Time to ban the habit before western civilisation falls....

[Zlaxer]

Big difference Monte....one is voluntary , one will get killed if they don't.....

[Montegriffo]

Big difference Monte....one is voluntary , one will get killed if they don't.....

Both radical faiths who believe in modesty.
I have travelled in Muslim countries and you may be shocked to learn that women are not killed for showing their hair or ankles. You are mistaking extremes for the norm. In Jerusalem a woman is as likely to be shouted at by an orthodox Jew as a Muslim for showing too much skin.
Lets just say all religions are out of date with their moralising attitudes towards women and try to stop being so hypocritical about it.

[Zlaxer]

Big difference Monte....one is voluntary , one will get killed if they don't.....

Both radical faiths who believe in modesty.
I have travelled in Muslim countries and you may be shocked to learn that women are not killed for showing their hair or ankles. You are mistaking extremes for the norm. In Jerusalem a woman is as likely to be shouted at by an orthodox Jew as a Muslim for showing too much skin.
Lets just say all religions are out of date with their moralising attitudes towards women and try to stop being so hypocritical about it.

Lolz....you really go to great lengths to defend the indefensible.....want me to start posting all the vids from Saudi Arabia? Whens the last time a Western government executed a women for allowing herself to be raped?

[Montegriffo]

Big difference Monte....one is voluntary , one will get killed if they don't.....

Both radical faiths who believe in modesty.
I have travelled in Muslim countries and you may be shocked to learn that women are not killed for showing their hair or ankles. You are mistaking extremes for the norm. In Jerusalem a woman is as likely to be shouted at by an orthodox Jew as a Muslim for showing too much skin.
Lets just say all religions are out of date with their moralising attitudes towards women and try to stop being so hypocritical about it.

Lolz....you really go to great lengths to defend the indefensible.....want me to start posting all the vids from Saudi Arabia? Whens the last time a Western government executed a women for allowing herself to be raped?

Again you are using the extreme to make your point. Saudi Arabia is not the norm when it comes to Muslims any more than the Lords Resistance Army is the norm when it comes to Christianity.
And don't strawman me, I'm not defending any abhorrent act in the name of any faith just pointing out you shouldn't tar everyone with the same brush when it comes to the acts of fundamentalists. Muslims come in many guises from moderates to extremists and it is dishonest to try and say they all throw gays off rooftops.

[DrYouth]

Cool post Marty...

How long is this crazy holiday of yours?

[skankhunt42]

Both radical faiths who believe in modesty.
I have travelled in Muslim countries and you may be shocked to learn that women are not killed for showing their hair or ankles. You are mistaking extremes for the norm. In Jerusalem a woman is as likely to be shouted at by an orthodox Jew as a Muslim for showing too much skin.
Lets just say all religions are out of date with their moralising attitudes towards women and try to stop being so hypocritical about it.

Lolz....you really go to great lengths to defend the indefensible.....want me to start posting all the vids from Saudi Arabia? Whens the last time a Western government executed a women for allowing herself to be raped?

Again you are using the extreme to make your point. Saudi Arabia is not the norm when it comes to Muslims any more than the Lords Resistance Army is the norm when it comes to Christianity.
And don't strawman me, I'm not defending any abhorrent act in the name of any faith just pointing out you shouldn't tar everyone with the same brush when it comes to the acts of fundamentalists. Muslims come in many guises from moderates to extremists and it is dishonest to try and say they all throw gays off rooftops.

Would you rather live in a culture that is majority Muslim or something else? If you picked "Something else" then why are you so hell bent on defending a backwards ideology? Sure, some Muslims might not be as passionate as others about their religion, but if they are still practicing, then they are practicing something that does not work in western culture if it's a majority of the population. If someone wants to practice being a Muslim, let them stay in a Muslim majority nation. Funny how many flee those wonderful bastions.