You know you're an Arab when…
- You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it's normal.
- You are standing next to the largest suitcases at the Airport.
- You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
- You say bye 17 times on the phone.
- Your parents don’t realize that phone connection to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades and still scream at the top of their lungs when making long distance calls.
- Your relatives alone could populate a small city.
- You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the light on".
- You've had a shoe thrown at you by your mother.
- When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover they know one of your uncles back home.
- You do all the housework and cooking if you are female
- You refer to your dad's friends as 3amo.
- You still came back home to live with your parents after you graduate.
- You have an endless supply of pistachios, dates, and pumpkin seeds. . .
- Your parents say you're becoming Americanized anytime you get into trouble.
- You curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic.
- You have at least thirty cousins.
- You teach Westerners swearwords in your Arabic.
- Your parents want you to become a doctor or engineer.
- You use your forehead and eyebrows to point something out. . .
- Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day.
- You can spot an Arab a mile away and they have spotted you because they keep staring.
- You are proud to be an Arab.
- A visa is not a credit card.
- You flip out any time someone mistakes you for Mexican or Indian.
- Your hide everything from your parents.
- You go back to your parents’ country and people treat you like a member of the royal family.
- You went to a university as far away from home as possible.
- You have been told to not walk barefoot on the floor in order to avoid a cold.
- When you FLY BACK home you find 20 people waiting for you at the airport.
- You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
- You pronounce your p’s like b’s (bolice and bebsi)
- You ask your dad a simple question and he tells you a story of how he had to walk miles just to get to school.
- Your dad swears at you with words that affect himself.
- You only walk on the streets in groups of seven or more people and talk really really loud in Arabic together.
- If you are an Arab girl, you give the look of death to another Arab girl who looks better than you.

I recognized some of those in my honey!!

Me too!!!

But drinking 6 cups of tea...... we Russians do that too (everybody calls me russian here, even though I'm not, so ... whatever ). In fact, I just wanted to make some more tea - that's how we stay warm.

And "open the light"! That takes me back to Morocco! Where did you find that?

My family does pretty much everything on this list...lol

Oh My GAWD!!! What is with THAT!?!?!? When we talk on the phone, I make sure to tell my fiance that I have to go a GOOD 10 minutes before I really need to go because it takes that long to get him to hang up! I swear, it's like trying to pry a leach off my ###. (Not that I've ever REALLY had to do that.)

Sample closing of our conversations:

me: "Well i gotta go now...."

him: "OK.....have a good night sweetie..."

me: "You too."

him: "Tos bah al-akhair...."

me: "Yeah....back at you."

him: "Goodnight...."

me: "ok"

him: "Sweet dreams"

me: "ok"

him: "I'll call you tomorrow"

me: "ok"

him: "ahabitch"

me: "Can I go now?"

him: "sure....you have a good night"

me: "seriously...I gotta go.....bye"

him: "ma'a al-salama"

him: "I love you"

him: "sweet dreams"

(I hung up at bye)

(yeah, he's probably still talking to himself)

Damn girl you got that Iraqi accent down pat!

Thanx...I try....LOL

That's too funny!

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Yay!!!!!! Unlocked! Thanks Captain!

I think all of VJ is Arab!

wow my family does all the above you are too good

haha thanks! I can't take credit for it because I didn't write it! I got it off the net somewhere.

Methinks the above were pilfered from "you know you're a desi" list.

You know you are an Arab....

1) You strap on an explosive belt, packed with nails and look for some civilians to blow up.

2) You refuse to speak out against the horror your brothers and sisters are committing around the world because secretly you approve, and your silence is dripping in blood.

Yes, I am prepared for the attacks that will come because of this post but it is time to end this nonsense. If the terrorists are such a small part of the Arab population and don't have the support of the mainstream, then please tells us why they are so successful and there are no protests against the radicals like when some newspaper draws a cartoon.

You know you are a troll when you use a fake ID to post your heinousness because you don't have the guts to post in your familiar ID.

Maybe you should be less concerned with the messenger and more concerned with the message.

well this messenger lives in a small dark box

sorry double post...but i'll add turn on the lights and read a newspaper

The message is crap, especially coming from this particular messenger.

Maybe you should educate yourself. This thread is joke thread, not intended to be anything else. If you want to debate matters then create one yourself. If you think the solution to any of the problems in the Middle East lies here in VJ, then you are sadly mistaken. You are nothing but a racist troll, get a life.

It's not really that surprising seeing who it came from.

This one shouldn't hope for an Oscar anytime soon. Can't even fake an online persona!

Blah Blah Blah....I'm definately not here to defend anyone but I have to make the point that murder and mass killing happens ALL OVER the world and is committed by a SLEW of races. HIstory is riddled with nastiness and no culture is innocent. To recognize a very slim few:

- VIETNAM (Since this is the country in your profile) For the years 1945 to 1956 the Vietnamese communists "VIET-CONG" murdered 642,000 to 922,000 people

-CHINA 38,702,000 people murdered by the Chinese communists in the last century

- RUSSIA (USSR) 61,911,000 people murdered prior to the fall of the Soviet Union

- GERMANY (Nazis) Responsible for murdering 17,000,000 - including 6 million Jews (Oh wait - but they did it humanely with gas chanbers, firing squads and brick ovens not suicide belts - how thoughtful of them.)

- JAPAN From the invasion of China in 1937 to the end of World War II, the Japanese military regime murdered nearly 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, mostlyChinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese

- BRITAIN (The British have been trying to ethnically clense the World throughout history) Millions of Irish, Scottish, Mid-Eaterners, Africans, etc... have been innocently slain by English hands.

- United States of America (We're no angel either) Stealing Africans from their home country and selling them into slavery, murdering millions of Native American Indians or forcing them to live on reservations....


But honestly, must I go on? No one came here for a history lesson. The bottom line - Genocidal mass murders throughout the world are like assholes EVERYBODY'S GOT AT LEAST ONE! This particular snippet in history just happens to be shining on the Middle East and Arab world.

Well, it was to be expected considering the limited imagination racists possess. It's best that we ignore such outbursts as if they didn't happen.

I will go back to lurk mode now.

Ok, so who's the troll? I miss all the excitement while I'm at work.

I do have to say that that post was in pretty bad taste. I found the original topic amusing.

Maybe this is why Ewok closed it the other day? Predicting that something like this would be posted?

Dear God wayyyyyyyyyyyy too funny!!!!

I am the one who tells my husband... hey Im not done talking to you yet! LOL


Wendy

It's sad that you took a really great internal reflection that was really quite funny and had to turn it into some scummy way for you too prove your ignorance! Seems to me, it's people like you that are the real terrorists!! Get a life!!

Except for the Arabic--it sounds like my British Grandparents! Way too funny! The tea! Geez they drank at least 10 cups and I hate to admit it-but I am the one who has the hard time saying goodbye on the phone (okay-maybe not THAT bad-but pretty bad!)

The only unique to Arabs are:

1. You curse at your teachers or strangers in Arabic
2. You teach Westerners swearwords in your Arabic
3. You are proud to be an Arab
4. You talk really really loud in Arabic together (with others in a group)

All other qualities are "borrowed" from other lists (desi, Pinoy, etc.) and combined.

Well I think this is a funny post. My husband has a lot of these qualities, but then again I see these in myself also.

double post....

Janine: When you going to Maroc? Soon I think, no? Bring us back some pics ok!

edited:O ye duh I see it now in your signature... Ooo Tanger... I have been there...nice!

Your mom threw a shoe at you too?!?!

and called him a persian

Well sorry but that is not gonna stop me from posting anything. If the trolls want to come for a feeding that's fine.

Cool with me...just an observation.

WHO'JA THINK ORIGINATED THAT NASTINESS, EH--desis only!

I think this trend is stupid and I hope they lock it, however what you said is the dumbest thing I ever heard. This is the worse thing I have every seen on here and you r comments has nothing to do with the culture of the Arab community, which is what I am assuming the trend is about. No one approves of the behavior of a select few and if you understood the history of the people and the position that are in, you would understand somethings better. I am a service member and I have been to a combat zone and most of the time you only see 2% of the population on 100% of the news.

Geez, you must be completely lacking in humour--it was SUPPOSED to be a "joke-thread" in the first place (I seem to have gotten closer to it in spirit than you, anyway--and I'm considered fairly "dry").


IMO, you and ilvasian both should go elsewhere--as the Vietnamese is rather bigoted, while you are baked harder than a brick.


Geez, you must be completely lacking in humour--it was SUPPOSED to be a "joke-thread" in the first place (I seem to have gotten closer to it in spirit than you, anyway--and I'm considered fairly "dry").


What do you have against "joke" threads? If you're into post-boosting, you can just play along with them (there are lots to choose from, especially in "Off Topic").

No! Get out of town!

Ha !

Ilvasian U R just talking BS Its not the right place to post something u have against arabian people no one stopping u to do the same things in an arabic country . but u know what u might just be affected from the American war in vietnam and did u ask yr self if the terrorisme started there and beleive that your country is the first one started that because American people they want to make Vietnam as a civil country , and they dont want that but if you can look at the history u will find that the Arabian started the civilization a long time ago and theres a highly educated , and at least they descover the number - 0 -so i am just so sure when u talked about cartoon in a news paper , the Cartoon and drawing is an art which u dont knowa S about art except how to get the rice done from the farms.
I had to go down to your level so i can make u understand , and next time if u have something to say about arabian people say with all my respect and ask for permission other wise nobody will hear you , and the horror you talked about let me tell u that yr self live in a horror , So have some courage and have some respect to arabian withpout arabian u wont be driving cars now , u wont have bread , i know that u are not eating bread but only rice bread we all know that , Or if you are an american having a fiancee in Vietnam then u r not looking for a wife as much as u r looking for a houskeeper with meals in the time and bread prepared........
So let me tell u that the way how u talked about arabian is what makes arabian hates people like you and if you call yr self belong to civilization then u so wrong about that other wise u wont be talking like that .

back to the history

can you translate that previous message above for me?

sure thing... its "uhhh....ohh my"

So of course here comes the string of attacks, that is what I would expect from people incapable of any rational thought process, all they know is how to strike out in anger and violence (hmm, that kind of sounds familiar). So let’s see what people wrote,

“No one approves of the behavior of a select few and if you understood the history of the people and the position that are in, you would understand somethings better.”

What do we have here besides poor grammar? So because people don’t understand history, that makes civilian slaughter and suicide bombing missions acceptable.

How about this insightful comment,

“Blah Blah Blah....I'm definately not here to defend anyone but I have to make the point that murder and mass killing happens ALL OVER the world and is committed by a SLEW of races. HIstory is riddled with nastiness and no culture is innocent. To recognize a very slim few:

- VIETNAM (Since this is the country in your profile) For the years 1945 to 1956 the Vietnamese communists "VIET-CONG" murdered 642,000 to 922,000 people

-CHINA 38,702,000 people murdered by the Chinese communists in the last century

- RUSSIA (USSR) 61,911,000 people murdered prior to the fall of the Soviet Union

- GERMANY (Nazis) Responsible for murdering 17,000,000 - including 6 million Jews (Oh wait - but they did it humanely with gas chanbers, firing squads and brick ovens not suicide belts - how thoughtful of them.)

- JAPAN From the invasion of China in 1937 to the end of World War II, the Japanese military regime murdered nearly 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, mostlyChinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese

- BRITAIN (The British have been trying to ethnically clense the World throughout history) Millions of Irish, Scottish, Mid-Eaterners, Africans, etc... have been innocently slain by English hands.

- United States of America (We're no angel either) Stealing Africans from their home country and selling them into slavery, murdering millions of Native American Indians or forcing them to live on reservations....


But honestly, must I go on? No one came here for a history lesson. The bottom line - Genocidal mass murders throughout the world are like assholes EVERYBODY'S GOT AT LEAST ONE! This particular snippet in history just happens to be shining on the Middle East and Arab world.”

You left out several recent atrocities, especially in Africa and Bosnia but what is most disturbing about this posting is it seems to say; well others have done the same so it must be all right. So that is good reason to sit back and ignore what is happening?

I starting to quote this poster,

“the Cartoon and drawing is an art which u dont knowa S about art except how to get the rice done from the farms.”


I then stopped because taking shots at this illiterate nitwit is really no challenge. Say what you want, try your best to somehow justify what people are doing in your name. I cartoon I was referring to was the caricature of Mohammed that brought out thousands to the street, burning effigies and screaming Death to infidels. The truth is that if your countrymen continue to use death and carnage and you sit by and do nothing, you become a willing participant. You can attack what I am saying for the next year, if you are not spending just as much energy denouncing me as the next human bomb, you are just as guilty and deserve the exact same punishment as the people planning, executing, funding, harboring and SUPPORTING this behavior. Shalom.

actually, quite a few were sold by opposing tribes