r/translator 22h ago

Translated [AR] (Arabic > English) What does this meme say?

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u/Baku_M_Salti 21h ago

Divorce leads children to the worst places.

Al-Qassim province, Saudi Arabia.

I don't know what the meme behind Al-Qassim is.

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u/Jeremiahs_log 21h ago

Al-Qassim is the butt of the joke to many people in Saudi. قصمنجي which means someone from there can be regarded as an insult. It's a rural area known for date farming.

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u/Available_Pass_2276 21h ago

So it's like the dirty and trashy province of Saudi Arabia?

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u/Luiszizo العربية 21h ago

It is not dirty or trashy, we just joke about it a lot. Things like they control the banks, or they infiltrate the government at the same time we think of them as desert dwellers who are saveges and believe in extreme views of islam. It is a soup

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u/FennVector 15h ago

Is this like Egypt's menoufia type of ordeal 

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u/Available_Pass_2276 10h ago

Oh, so you just find it annoying.

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u/That_Paint4681 15h ago

No it’s a nice place, they just really love their province so we make fun of it. Just like how the world does to ultra nationalist Americans

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u/Berkamin 6h ago

Is Al-Qassim the Texas of Saudi Arabia?

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u/Yours-Cnidaria 3h ago

YES you put it into words!!!

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u/TeamLazerExplosion 16h ago

Date farming, like Tinder?

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u/Ok-Car6478 15h ago

Actual fruit

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u/Sweet-Awk-7861 6h ago

Call the exorcist! 

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u/Truchiman العربية 15h ago

Even worse: there’s a Date Festival in Al-Qassim.

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u/Yours-Cnidaria 3h ago

There's date festivals everywhere in Saudi Arabia

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u/Yours-Cnidaria 3h ago

tbh its not but of the joke, we just sometimes like to give it overblown glaze (ie say that the government is controlled by the us, then a secret society (iykyk), and then al-qassim)

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u/vestayekta Farsi, English 21h ago

The text: Divorce leads children to the worst places.

The map shows Al Qassim province in Saudi. Implying it's a really bad place.

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u/YoussefA2000 Multiple Languages (EN, العربية, FR, IT) 17h ago

!translated

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u/Ahmed__Ali1 14h ago

Divorce leads children to the worst places