It started with this video from Australia spreading on Facebook and now people want to imitate it and some as going as far as using the ceiling to dance upside down.
We earlier had Tirashrash and Jenno Notto, please don’t make this trend!
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Driving In and Out of Beirut – Near Death Experiences Everyday
This video is ~7 minutes of pure horror to anybody into traffic management. A Lebanese YouTuber (Nash Suleiman) recorded his journey in and out of Beirut (from and to Choueifat as it shows) and documented the violations people and himself do everyday.
This video also incidentally proves that relying on the new traffic law alone to reduce road accidents is utter bullshit. As Nash mentioned at the end, safer roads is a responsibility that each and everyone of us has to bear.
Menna W Jerr’s Nady Abou Chabke Does it Again!
If I were Nady Abou Chabke I would have apologized for copying Wissam Kamal’s joke 2 weeks ago and simply carried on with my upcoming episodes of Menna w Jerr. But for some reason he decided to make it worse and copied a whole segment from an Egyptian show this time!
Watch this video courtesy of Elie Iskandar and judge for yourself!
On a serious note, this is great material for Elie Sleiman to feature on his “Radar” segment on Menna W Jerr!
Update:
Nady appeared on April 10 episode of Menna w Jerr and apologized for his mistake.
Cat Kicker John Saad Gets a Dose of El 3ama!
You probably have all seen those aweful videos of a guy called John Saad kicking cats just for the fun of it. And it’s quite frustrating that there’s little to be done with such people in the absence of a law that ctiminalizes these acts.
But in the age of social media, viral videos naming and shaming such dumb fucks can sometimes do justice to the poor animals. Case in point, El 3ama’s comment about it!
Hayda el video Fashit Khele2 la elna kelna.
#el3amaPosted by El 3ama on Friday, March 17, 2017
Add to that Google’s power to quickly index webpages mentioning John Saad’s name, and BAM! you’re guaranteed visits from potential employer googling the name of John Saad (oops just mentioned it again) for background checking, only for them to find out that *wait for it* John Saad is a cat kicker! 😉
WTF Ad of The Day: Yeh! Frozen Yogurt
I have to admit, this is both genius and cringy at the same time! I’m guessing it started as an internal joke among their employees and somebody just decided to post it on their instagram! (they later removed it)
via Anis Tabet
Update:
And here’s another one they posted more than a year ago! (via Gino Raidy)
Fishermen in Tripoli Caught Huge Inedible Sunfish and Sold it to The People!
Fishermen from Tripoli caught a huge Ocean Sunfish weighing more than 1000Kg this morning and people got outraged about it since it is a threatened specie of fish that feeds on jellyfish and poses absolutely no danger to divers.
In my humble opinion, I believe it is the authorities who should be blamed about such things because it seems like they allow anybody to go fish anything they encounter in the sea. It is true the Ocean Sunfish can be mistaken for a shark sometimes due to its dorsal fin, but fishermen should be educated enough about the species that should not be caught, and should also learn how to differentiate one from the other before given permission to work.
Aside from being endangered or not, fishermen should refrain from killing inedible species, and even if they did by mistake then they should get rid of it instead of selling it in the market, which unfortunately is not the case with this Sunfish! According to Wikipedia, it is not yet confirmed whether the Ocean Sunfish has some poisonous organs or not, so I wouldn’t take a chance trying to eat it. However, several photos on Facebook showed the fish being cut and sold at some fish market in Tripoli.
This is basically similar to witnessing a donkey or a sick cow being killed at the Karantina Slaughterhouse… I doubt such thing would go unnoticed and so should be trading this fish.
I just hope no one gets poisoned from consuming it, and I also the authorities invest a little more into educating the fishermen in order to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future.
Photos via Michel Bariche
Update:
As per the below memo, Governor of North Lebanon Judge Ramzi Nohra ordered the confiscation of this fish meat due to it being poisonous, in addition to ban killing such endangered species. Such memos and decisions are definitely better late than never!
via Animal Animals Lebanon FB Page.
OTV Prank Show Hits A New Low
Lebanese TV stations produce all sorts of bad shows, but OTV proved hands down that it can easily outperform all other channels!
I just learned today about their “Haddeh Albak” prank show featuring a psycho man who pulls the silliest jokes on people and tries to make it exciting by threatening their life in the process. In one of last month’s episodes he literally humiliated a poor Syrian guy by stopping him in the middle of a Kart circuit and stripping him to his underwear. He then put a flag in his boxer and made him run around aimlessly.
Anyway I hope their management realizes how wrong that prank was and cancels the show altogether.
The Authorities Just Noticed Amhaz, Sa7 El Nom!
The owner of Amhaz cell shops, Kamel Amhaz, was arrested two days ago for illegaly smuggling more than 1.5 million phones with an approximate value of $45 million since the year 2000. And just like everytime a significant figure is put behind bars, some supporters blocked some roads near Beirut airport and in Baalbeck to protest his arrest.
However, while the protests are justified at a time where people hit the streets for the silliest reasons, the timing of the arrest is totally unacceptable. I know it’s always better late than never, but how on earth can the authorities wait more than 16 years to arrest such guy while everybody knew everything about his illegal business during the past years! Hell even I wrote a couple of times about getting smartphones from his shops. And it isn’t like Amhaz was operating from secret places, his shops are well know and one of them is even at a mall in Beirut.
Seriously, how can you brag about such accomplishment in the media and not lose credibility?!
On a lighter note, I wish getting people in jail was a simple as writing about them!
5 Songs That Brought Music in Lebanon to an All Time Low This Summer
If we’re gonna remember this summer for something other than the garbage scattered everywhere around the country, then it’s definitely for the low quality music that was produced for celebrity wannabes to get their 5 minutes of fame.
Here’s a quick list I compiled from what I have lately seen on YouTube. I’m pretty sure there’s more but I think 5 are enough to avoid any damage for your eyes and ears.
1- Tarek Al-Atrash – Merzabbi
What does Merzabbi mean? And why did somebody feel the urge to write a song about it?
2. Rola Yamout – Ana Rola
I honestly never paid attention to the music. This is actually the kind of videos that help you identify whether you are an ass or boobs man.
3. Rima Dib – Ya Wad Ya T2il
Nothing. Zero. Cero. Null.
4. Myriam Klink – Baddi Walle3 Albak Nar
Falls in the same category as #2. It can also be used during self loving time as well… you know self loving… w heik.
5. Hadi Azrak – Jenno Notto
Tirachrach is so 2011! No wedding was complete this season without this one playing at least once during the party.
Lebanon Ranked 3rd Worldwide in Pollution Index
It’s good to know that all the effort we have been putting over the past year in piling up the garbage on our streets and then disposing them in the most unhealthy landfills has finally paid off! According to Numbeo Lebanon is now ranked 3rd worldwide in their pollution index right behind Afghanistan and Ghana.
And it isn’t like we have been trailing way back in the previous years, back in 2013 we were ranked just 13th but we eventually did some serious work and almost made our way to the top.
photo via Al Jazeera
Update:
I didn’t notice this when I first shared the chart, but it’s worth noting that the figures are based on the perception of Numbeo website visitors and therefore the ranking is unreliable. Mustapha wrote about the whole thing on his blog and I recommend you check it out.