Driving along the Kuala Lumpur roads, I noticed these rather inappropriate (well, I think they are NSFW) symbologies on the roadside. Like rows and rows of it, like they own the road or something. Of course, it turned out to be an advert for a bank.
Wikipedia describes the Al-Rajhi Bank as:
And another thing - in Arabic, “al” means “the”. So, when we say “The Al-Rajhi Bank”, we are effectively saying “The The Rajhi Bank”. Perhaps if they translate that back into Arabic, it could become something like, “Al The Al-Rajhi Bank”. And so on and so forth. Hmm... foreign languages.
Wikipedia describes the Al-Rajhi Bank as:
the world's largest Islamic bank, and a major investor in Saudi Arabia's business worldSo, what exactly is a phallus doing on the logo of such an auspicious financial institute? I wonder what the people who approved the logo were thinking! Maybe the initial plan was to develop this into a sperm bank?
And another thing - in Arabic, “al” means “the”. So, when we say “The Al-Rajhi Bank”, we are effectively saying “The The Rajhi Bank”. Perhaps if they translate that back into Arabic, it could become something like, “Al The Al-Rajhi Bank”. And so on and so forth. Hmm... foreign languages.
1 comments:
Exactly my thoughts, especially on the phallic logo.
Must be one dick of a bank. Or a bank run by Arab dicks. Or bank for dicks.
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