You Are Tunisian If...
1) If you spend half the day in the café, smoking chicha and playing "Rami" (a popular card game)
2) If you've gone through this situation at least once " You go to an office to ask for an important paper, and they tell you: Arja' ghodwa!!! (come back tomorrow)"
3) If you tease every hot girl you see in the street.
4) If cursing is like breathing for you. You can't stop it.
5) If you give a beep to the person you wanna talk to, and then wait for him to call you back.
6) If "sahfa lablabi & sandwich kaftaji" are your favorite fast food.
7) If you say "mouch normal !" when you're surprised.
8) you can't have a meal without "khobz" (bread)
9) You congratulate someone (Aya Inshallah Mabrouk!!!) if he or she got a visa for Europe or the States
10) Use donkeys to insult ? "ya Bhimm"
11) Say "inshallah" as a nice way of saying NO ?
12) Traffic lights and signs colorful are decorations for the streets.
13) Your relatives alone could populate a small city.
14) When you are talking to your parents on your cell phone and your non Arab friends are around, they always think your arguing with them, when in reality you are having a nice conversation
15) You put olive oil in and on everything.
16) Your grandma always asks you when she can dance at your wedding. "waktech nafrhou bik".
17) If you say "y'aychek" to say Thanks.
18) If you start talking to someone about your friends you will definitely find a friend or more in common with.
19) The yellow bus "el car essafra" is a very convenient place for flirting and hooking up.
20) Weddings usually last a week or more (henna kbira, henna sghira, katben esdek, soulamiya, el Hammam...)
21) If you're a girl and your mother is having constant visits from a friend of hers whom you don't really know, you're most likely to fall in an arranged marriage.
22) People are never happy with what you've achieved; if you Graduated from high school (el bac) they'll tell you "el 3aqba lil maitrise" (Bachelor degree), and when you get that "el 3aqba lil doctorat" (Doctorate), and when you get that "3aqba lil 3ers" (Marriage), and when you get married "Inshallah kima nchoufou 3andek" (Children), etc
23) Your other Arab friends make fun of your dialect and say that your language is not Arabic since you use (let's say) only 30% of your words in French.
24) If HARISSA is present in all your meals !!!
[Via: MBJ]
9 Things I Hate About Everyone Bored? The Top Ten Worst Phobias To Have How to Tell If You Are Management Material Common Sounds In A Programming EnvironmentIt couldn't be s.o else, MBJ :)
It was a chat in a cafe or shilling ? ;)
dude if read this, when we will celebrate ur blogging bapteme experience!
You forgot the 100% tunisian word "barcha" (very much, alot, etc);P
Posted by: Hannibal at April 20, 2007 02:13 AM25) you ask everyone who studies abroad what car he is going to purchase
26) you can't queue. You just CAN'T!
27) your first question to a fellow Tunisian you meet for the first time is: "but where in Tunisia are you originally from?????"
28) you MUST bring your mother in at some point in ANY conversation
29) you complain all the time that you don't have money
30) you can't stand the bad habits of your fellow Tunisians when you are at home but miss them a lot when you move abroad!
:)
Posted by: Tarek at April 20, 2007 09:41 AMTarek's point 27 is incredibly true. Once they find out you are Tunisian, they try to know your region first, if they visited it, then the street, your family, ... No privacy, we are Tunisians after all.
My standard answer now is "from Tunis"
- what, you were born and lived in Tunis?
- yes
- your origin is from Tunis?
- Yes.
- So you are Beldi?
- No, from Tunis.
Good to know it's not only my husband, especially 5, 7, 8, 10!!!
Posted by: momo at April 21, 2007 04:57 PMMuch of the habbits you've pointed is right: some are funny some are awful. But some are totally false. Anyway it's good to speak about tunisian people, specially in a "positiving" way, so that tunisians begin to generalizing reporting information about their countriy or the people without "complex", because I think we generally speak about each other in a negative way or with scepticism. Anyway bissléma
Posted by: @mel at July 5, 2007 02:03 PMMuch of the habbits you've pointed are right: some are funny some are awful. But some are totally false. Anyway it's good to speak about tunisian people, specially in a "positiving" way, so that tunisians begin to generalizing reporting information about their countriy or the people without "complex", because I think we generally speak about each other in a negative way or with scepticism. Anyway bissléma
Posted by: @mel at July 5, 2007 02:04 PMits all tru how do u know all this info . where u from ?
Posted by: wissem at October 18, 2007 12:10 PM