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It’s better if we stick to beating them at with flags in Champions League games because they have a much better national football team than us.

I wish we could still find apartments for only $100,000!

I was checking if the word “شعطة” has a specific meaning in the Arabic language but I couldn’t find it online. “شعطة” can be used for a person (مشعوط) which means he’s bit crazy and reckless and can be used with food to mean it’s hot or burning. I sometimes use it to describe a person but that’s about it. The only useful link I found was one that claims the word is an old forgotten Jordanian term.

Maybe we should ask Jammal Trust about it.

Someone is actually paying money to promote this page lol!

On a serious note, and since marijuana is a main source of income for some families and villages in Lebanon, I think the government should make some sort of agreement with these areas and make some money out of it and use it for medical purposes maybe or in restricted cafes. Unfortunately though, this is not the right time for such a move with all the armed groups present in Lebanon and the corruption and lack of security surrounding us.

Nevertheless, it wouldn’t hurt if a minister or MP makes a proposal regarding this issue to try and make the best out of it in the future.

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I don’t think we still do that in Beirut restaurants but they obviously still like it at Beirut Restaurant in New Jersey.

Picture taken from HumusForThought

This is as bad as the Halloween competition a Gemmayze pub once organized. I don’t know what they were thinking to dress like that.

Speaking of bad Halloween costumes, check out this list of people who need to be banned from celebrating Halloween.

Liquid Cocaine

Update: Matt Nash from NowLebanon was able to get ahold of Minister Abboud who clarified the matter and stated the below:

Asked if the shot is banned or not, Abboud replied: “No no no no, alcohol is not banned in this country, anything prepackaged and named after a drug is banned.” A little research revealed there is an energy drink called “Cocaine.” I haven’t been able to figure out whether or not the drink is being sold in Lebanon, but if it was being sold, it won’t be any more. So, fans of the shot, fear not, your local booze slinger can still serve them up. Happy Friday, folks.

This is probably the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. According to MTV and a couple of other websites, the Ministry Of Tourism has decided to ban the shot “Liquid Cocaine” and any product with references to narcotic plants. I tried looking for the law on some official website just to make sure and ended up finding it on The Presidency of the Council of Ministers website. The proposed law dates back to 2011 but apparently lacked funding.

I urge all bars to rename Liquid Cocaine to Liquid Chanklish and serve it from now on.

Good one!

Here’s a nice compilation of the ten silliest acts of censorship in Lebanon written by Matt Nash from NowLebanon. The Steven Spielberg “Tintin movie” censorship which we posted first about made it to the list.

1- The Untouchable Sayyed
2- Jews?? Ban!
3- Fayrouz banned from local radio for six months back in 1969
4- Honest Abes all
5- Censorsing a play about censorship
6- Help The Movie
7- Director Steven Spielberg and The Tintin movie
8- Spray Painting for some, not all
9- Legendary Singer Marcel Khalife
10- Flip-flop fiasco

As noted above, most politicians respond to criticism and mockery with individually targeted lawsuits which likely prompt authors/artists/etc. to self-censor in the future while leaving the “offensive” content in the public domain. But one of Lebanon’s “bosses” is simply beyond reproach: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is in a class by himself. Riots over a 2006 television show mocking him served as notice: leave the Sayyad alone

Check out the full article [Here].