1.You have 5 o’clock morning cravings for lablabi (or bambalouni?)
2.You have watched at least once in your life a full episode of Guadaluppe or Manuela
3.If you’re from “banlieue”, everything else is province, and you despise them
4.If you’re not from banlieue, you despise banlieue but secretly wish you lived there
5.Not supporting the same football team is the underlying reason you can’t stand your brother in law
6.You begin your sentences by the “z***” word
7.You end your sentences by the “z***” word
8.You regularly have phone calls from some aunt trying to fix you up with some very good “wild or bent 3ayla”
9.You made your first “melyoun” when you passed your “bac”
10.You are familiar with street poetry: “chbih elfraise mal a l’aise, chbih ellouze membouze…”
11.You would kill for a mloukhia abroad
12.You hate "tounes"
13.You love "tounes"
14.You automatically start whispering when you speak about anything remotely related to politics
15.You could -seriously- start a fight to be the one to pay for the bill
16.You have an 80% debt rate but still manage to buy the last Mercedes
17.If you're a girl; Gucci, Dolce and Salvatore are the reasons you go to work in the morning
18.If you're a girl you turn blond at one point or another
19.If you're a girl you can't have your nails done without "couloirs"
20.Someone threatened you with a chleka at one point or another
21.You put tuna on pizza and pasta
22.You waited 10 years before seeing your first banana
23.You think you don't need a visa to go to Marseilles
24.You think Bouga Sider is the greatest invention after A/C
25.You know the old guy with a cat in Sidi Bou
26.You can pull off a white suit and a mashmoum
27.Purple is your color ;)
28.You only know one avenue: 7 November
29.Cats understand it when you say “kssss”
30.You manifest Happiness by the 2 words “mouch norrmal”
31.Your mother always says she’s a "beldia"
32.You know what's an LNA
33.You know at least 10 jokes on Libyans and Hairdressers
34.You're a "house music terrorist" i.e. u ONLY listen to house music
35.You're alcoholic
36.If you live abroad, you have a bottle of water in the bathroom...
37.You Never EVER change the places you go out to i.e.: calypso in the summer, grand bleu in the winter ok… spoon
38.Shouting is just the way you speak
39.You eat harissa with about everything
40.While being open-minded, tolerant etc… you are fundamentally convinced nothing, NOTHING equals being a Tounsi, Tounsia
41.You can’t wait to leave ‘tounes’
42.You can’t wait to come back to ‘tounes”
Hassilou mella nahna…
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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recoucou, je suis d'accord avec toi...sur quelques points pas tous, et je trouve ta description des touns très amusante, j'espére qu'on se résume pas qu'a ça!! désolée de pas t'écrire en anglais, je me la pette pas assez pour le faire, encore bonne soirée!!!
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