{"id":34294,"date":"2014-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/34294\/37-things-people-in-beirut-love-to-talk-about"},"modified":"2023-05-08T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:39:12","slug":"37-things-people-in-beirut-love-to-talk-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/34294\/37-things-people-in-beirut-love-to-talk-about\/","title":{"rendered":"37 Things People in Beirut Love to Talk About"},"content":{"rendered":"1. The immense amount of traffic.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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2. How much they love that everything can be delivered.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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3. Electricity, or lack of it.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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4. How many times a day they have to yell. “takket il se3a.”<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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5. How their favorite channels keep getting cut.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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6. Shitty public transportation, namely the service<\/i>.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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7. The wade3.<\/i><\/b><\/big><\/big>

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8. How they t3awado<\/i> whenever a bomb goes off.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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9. The Internet.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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10. How everyone is so angry all the time.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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11. How Lebanese people are the smartest people in the world.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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12. Saudi tourists.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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13. Lack of Saudi tourists.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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14. How disgusting it is when it rains in Beirut.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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15. How disgusting it is when it\u2019s hot in Beirut.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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16. The heat.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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17. How much it costs to rent an apartment in Beirut.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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18. Where the sahra<\/i> is at tonight.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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19. Skybar.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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20. Haifa Wehbe and Maya Diab.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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21. Weddings.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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22. Beyonce.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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23. How much work they have.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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24. How they can\u2019t find any work at all.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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25. America.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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26. The gym, bro.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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27. Plastic surgery.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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28. How we live in a trilingual country.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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29. Mana2eesh.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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30. The Guinness World Book of Records.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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31. The fact that Shakira is 50% Lebanese. Also, let\u2019s not forget Selma Hayek. I think I\u2019ve heard a few Johnny Depp rumors, too. <\/b><\/big><\/big>

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32. AUB.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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33. How Lebanon is the “Paris of the Middle East.”<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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34. How much they want to leave.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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35. How much they want to come back.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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36. How much they miss Beirut.<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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37. Because Beirut is the most amazing city in the world!<\/b><\/big><\/big>

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