A rooster taking a walk in a Salmiya neighborhood

This was taken this morning in Salmiya not in some rural area.

I kid you not!  I have nothing against urban chicken farming, but this is surreal.  Thankfully the rooster or chickens did not cross the road or I would have had to ask them why.

I am afraid of chickens.

Don’t worry we have air conditioning

I was browsing jobs on Bayt.com and found a listing that had this

I kid you not!

Paulo Coelho on men and women and why they like each other

Paulo Coelho one of my favorite authors has a two very interesting and funny posts on why men love women and why women believe that men love them.

Why women believe that we love them

Because sometimes they complain about things that we feel too, such as colds and rheumatic pains, and then we understand that they are people just like us.

Because while our armies invade other countries, they remain firm in their private and inexplicable war to put an end to all the cockroaches in the world.

Why we love men

Because they never dreamed of torturing themselves wearing high heels.

Because they always eat everything on their plate, and don’t feel guilty about it.

The Copper Years

Peanuts

Is this real life?

David just had oral surgery and is wondering if this is real life? I feel so sad for the little guy, but it’s hilarious.

via ParentDish

Unleash Your Inner Child

“Genius is
no
more than
childhood recaptured at
will, childhood
equipped now with
man’s physical means to
express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
When was the last time you skipped or hopped?  When was the last time you giggled like a 2 year old?  Jumped up and down until you felt dizzy?

This site has lots of ways to unleash your inner child.  Here are some examples:

Waskilly Wabbit
Say “aah-eeee-ahh-eee” with a deep voice, but relax your face and shake your head back and forth hard and fast so that your cheeks flap. Sounds like Elmer Fudd when he’s trying to shake off the dizzyness that comes from being hit on the head. Try this next time you get flattened by a falling anvil, see if it helps.

Dry your tongue!
Get a clean cloth or paper towel. Stick out your tongue, then dry it thoroughly with the cloth. Keep sticking it out so it will air-dry a bit more. Now challenge your friends to feel your dry tongue surface. Weird and creepy. Grab the hands of an unsuspecting passersby, and force them up against your warm dry tongue.

Zen Fluid Dynamics
Sit in a sunbeam in a dimly-lit room. Light a stick of incense, hold it vertically, then move it upwards and stop suddenly, with a jerk. A perfect smoke-ring will be launched from the burning tip. Move the incense upwards, then suddenly jerk downwards, then repeat. You can launch fast smoke-rings through the center of slow ones, create side-by side rows, etc. In a draft-free room they persist for ages, and soon the air will be full of huge grey thin circles. Contemplate the silent Chaos.

Change the Channel

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Part of the Change the Channel Initiative

These are sad days, the situation in Gaza keeps getting worse, people are being killed, starvation and other catastrophes are hitting the world hard.

You have two options, you can either glue your pretty little eyes to the TV, drive your blood pressure up Mount Everest or you can do something about it.

  • Donate to help the people in Gaza.  Jad has a very thoughtful post on that issue.
  • Pray for them, yourself and anyone who needs it.  Prayer is meditative and has a calming effect.
  • Turn the TV off.  Get out of the house and do one good deed.
  • Take a walk.  Fresh air is good for the lungs and the mood.
  • Send an email to a friend.  Pour out all of your feelings, sending it or not is up to you.
  • Buy flowers.  Keep them or give them to someone else.
  • Smile at random strangers (you can smile without being creepy).
  • Remember Ahmad Helmy’s show “Man Sayarba7 elBonBon?).  Play TV presenter and rattle the kids.
  • Bake a cake.
  • Invite a friend over for coffee.
  • Play games with friends.  Football or scrabble, whatever your style the company is sure to make it better.
  • Read up on history, understanding the current situation by looking back in our own history makes everything so much clearer.
  • Taste something completely new.
  • Buy some crayons and draw a self portrait, it’s very therapeutic.
  • Still got the TV itch?  Check out the telesales channels, the “get married” channels or the food channel.

9 reasons to think Positively

Couldn’t help myself, I enjoy contradicting myself.

  1. It annoys the pessimists
  2. When you get a “half-empty” glass, you can always find a smaller glass.
  3. Nobody likes a negative person, even the negative people themselves.
  4. It makes people curious, they have this need to find a reason why you are so positive and will either end up being jealous or thinking you are seriously lucky.
  5. It should attract positive events, but even if it doesn’t you will be thinking positively so it doesn’t really matter you can always think positively about the bad things that happen.
  6. It’s the “in” thing to do.
  7. You’re already tried negative thinking and that works perfectly by attracting negative events.  Now you should try positive thinking to prove if the negative events follow you either way or not.
  8. I can’t think of anymore but you are a positive thinker now so you can positively imagine I came up with 9.

9 Reasons not to think positively

Rain Clouds

Rain Clouds

This is totally for fun.  Positive thinking is the next best thing to chocolate.  From the book Are ya Bovvered?, 500 reasons not to give a shit.

  1. Positive people are annoying as hell.  When something really shitty has happened and you just want to wallow in your own worthlessness, they always trot out platitudes like “there’s plenty more fish in the sea” or “it just wasn’t meant to be” or “maybe it’s for the best”.  Arrrgghhh.
  2. It’s pseudo mind-fooling crap which helps sad losers tolerate their miserable pointless lives.
  3. If you think the worst, you can never be disappointed.
  4. Why should someone starving in Africa think positively – exactly – proving that it’s a decadent upyour- arse Western way of dealing with the world when life gets too comfortable.
  5. Thinking the best of people gets you screwed over every time.
  6. Shit happens, regardless of whether you are thinking happy thoughts; life really sucks most of the time – deal with it.
  7. X-Factor auditions: Ten thousand wannabe twats who are living proof that thinking positively about your worse than meagre abilities
    1. makes you look a twat
    2. wastes everybody else’s time
    3. turns you into fodder for exploitation TV culture.
  8. Maybe if Americans weren’t so goddam smiley smug positive all the time they would look around them and realize that they’ve destabilized the Middle East, they are stopping the rest of the world from saving the planet, their president is a complete retard and everybody hates them.
  9. Behind every cloud the sun is shining – yeah, but you can’t see it because there a friggin’ great cloud in the way.

Cheap Apartment in Cairo

You know those ads next to your gmail emails.  They sometimes come up with the funniest things.  So here you are folks 4 cheap apartments (I am not sure why anyone would go out and buy 4) in Cairo for less than 1 million.  Just in case you don’t have a million dirhams (around 1.5 million Egyptian Pounds) you can always buy cheap shoes and bags and call your friends cheap to brag about it.