17 Types Of People Everyone Has In Their Lebanese Friend Group

Lebanese friend groups are a chaotic bundle of quirky personalities, subjective and borderline offensive humor, and weird but normalized tendencies. If you are part of a Lebanese friend group, we’re ready to bet that you share most of your days and your nights with some of these characters.

The fitness freak

This person is always butting heads with the party animals of the group – telling them they need to change their ways and suggesting that they switch their usual Black Label on the rocks with a vodka soda – that is, if they really insist on drinking every night of the week.

The one who’s never on time

This is the friend who you tell to meet you in Mar Mikhael at 7 PM when you know you won’t be there before 9 PM, because they’ll show up 2 hours late anyway. They’re also always ‘on the way’.

The inappropriate joker

You’re always nervous about introducing this friend to new people, because the second they meet someone they’ll throw in a quirky joke that can either immediately offend or impress, depending on the audience.

The advice-giver

Level-headed enough to give the perfect advice for any given situation, but also reckless enough to be a part of your group of friends. The advice-giver Lebanese friend will lead the same belligerent lifestyle as his peers, but for some reason has his shit together enough to fool people into thinking that he is The Don of good reason and has all the secrets to leading a happy, healthy life.

The drunkard

Always stinking of alcohol and cigarettes, this is the friend who always insists you meet after work for ‘lunch’ in Badaro but ends up being wasted by 7 PM.

The sketchy one

Never responds in the group chat, never tells you where they are when you call them, always has strange ‘things to do’ outside of Beirut – and despite your better judgement, you love them for all of their sketchy behavior.

The ‘serious’ businessman

This is the friend of yours who always wears a blazer and has a new idea for an amazing startup every day of the week, but still takes money from Papi for the table charge at Discotek on Fridays.

The hot mess

This girl is best friends with the drunkard in your group, and everyone thinks they should just marry each other and live their unorganized lives together and live sloppily ever after.

The villager

Always in the day3a, you can only make plans with this person once every two weeks. They’re the fastest person to respond in the group chat though, because they’re always bored off their faces while sitting with the family in the village house.

The FOMO king

This person simply cannot contemplate missing out on a social activity around Beirut. They will constantly peer-pressure the rest of the group telling them that they need to go to brunch at SUD in Beirut immediately followed by the day party in Faraya, but will never offer a reasonable way that everyone can manage to be in two places at one time. Usually hungover and always on edge, this person is a stressful friend to have.

The Beirut hippie

Lives in a fancy sky-rise apartment in Beirut equipped with at least two housekeepers who iron her hippie-chic ragged clothing every day of the week. This girl dresses to give the impression that she’s a hippie, but she really spent $600 at Beirut’s finest boutiques to make her look complete. She’ll insist that you don’t go anywhere that’s overrated or overpriced, so when you make plans with her you always end up at a cafe like Kalei in Mar Mikhael where you’ll spend $10 on a cup of black coffee.

The socialite

Convinced that they know everything about the upscale Lebanese life, this person is always dressed to the nines in hopes that they’ll show up in the background of someone else’s Instagram story.

The lazy one

Always suggests to do a ‘house thing’ instead of going out, this person absolutely hates Beirut’s nightlife. So you keep this person on standby every day of the week for when you’re not quite feeling like seeing and being seen – and when you’d rather sit on a couch to order Nabilnet and Roadsters.

The gossip king and queen

Most of their conversations will revolve around people. They may or may not know these people. But, these people will have big Lebanese family names who everyone knows, so they’re always happy to listen to the latest shitshows caused by the biggest families in the country. The gossip king/queen duo love the fact that they provide their friend group with classified information, but really they only gather their information off of heavy Instagram stalking of social media Influencers.

The social media addict

Constantly on their phone, this person will document every second of their every day life on Instagram, and Snapchat. They even uploaded a WhatsApp story once. You thought they were cool when you met them, so you introduced them to your friends. Now everyone hates them and will not accept to hang out with them anymore, but it got super awkward after the whole friend group followed them on Instagram before they realized that they’d reject them long-term. So you all unfollow and hope that you won’t be the inspiration for them to post an Insta-pic of a deep quote about fake friends.

The friend who’s phone resembles their life:

The friend who’s nickname has become their real name

Most typically this will be their family name – and if anyone calls them by their first name no one will understand who they’re referring to.