{"id":57190,"date":"2019-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=57190"},"modified":"2023-05-23T10:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T10:23:57","slug":"25-lebanese-habits-we-need-to-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/57190\/25-lebanese-habits-we-need-to-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Lebanese Habits We Need To Give Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we do have our positives as a population, there are some habits that we need to let go off to progress as individuals, and they&#8217;re pretty simple. <\/p>\n<p>  Here are 25 Lebanese habits we need to give up, did we miss any?<\/p>\n<p>  <b>1. Making people wait for us<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Will we ever show up on time?<\/p>\n<p>  <b>2. Pointing out if someone has lost or gained weight<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/Dc0MtbBpdkrjG\/giphy.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>3. Raging war on anyone who disagrees with us politically<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ty4F0p6.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>4. Defending every argument against Lebanon with <i>30 d2i2a men el jabal lal baher<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>5. Not waiting for traffic lights to drive or even cross the street<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>6. Talking loudly on the phone<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Especially with our relatives who live abroad. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>7. Standing for 45 minutes on the door when our guests are leaving<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>8. Celebrating all possible occasions with fireworks and gunshots<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.giphy.com\/media\/3o6wraf3EMOKbJGkcE\/200_d.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>9. Threatening to leave the country everyday<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  But never actually following up on it..<\/p>\n<p>  <b>10. Clapping when the airplane lands<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media0.giphy.com\/media\/5ZcoyTgFnMEp2\/giphy.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>11. Clapping at the end of a movie<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>12. Trying to break world records with <i>akbar sahen hommos<\/i> and <i>akbar jat tabboule<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>13. Fighting with someone and then cursing their mother and sister<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/3o7qDXXQGogA2NxI6k\/giphy.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>14. Honking the car when we\u2019re at a red light or stuck in traffic<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>15. Driving behind an ambulance to try and escape the traffic<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbs.gfycat.com\/ArtisticEthicalHousefly-size_restricted.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>16. Spending ridiculously large amounts of money that we DON\u2019T have<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media0.giphy.com\/media\/xTpyIL239mskU\/200.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>17. Spending all our money on weddings that no one will remember a week later<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  And then living in debt for the rest of our marriage. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>18. Going to weddings only to have something to gossip about later<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.tenor.com\/images\/f8f0a6adea019e07ccb9f35f2826d3e7\/tenor.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>19. Thinking that the university we attend or the car we drive makes us better\/less than others<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  LAU, LU or LIU&#8230; It really doesn&#8217;t matter. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>20. Overfeeding our guests and anyone eating at our house<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  We have no concept of the word <i>shbe3et<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>21. Making plenty of food for a small group of people<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Good thing our mothers force us to eat the leftovers. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>22. Smoking cigarettes or <i>argileh<\/i> indoors<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/3oEjHWTuLfI3CFidUY\/giphy.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>23. Fixating on one travel destination and having every Lebanese go there at once<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  It&#8217;s like the entire Lebanese population agrees to meet up in one country.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>24. Throwing our trash out of our car windows<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/26FLbdnqSIk5ddfJm\/giphy.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>25. Walking in the middle of the road instead of on the sidewalk<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  We can&#8217;t be blamed for this one though, we have no decent sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p> 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we do have our positives as a population, there are some habits that we need to let go off to progress as individuals, and they&#8217;re pretty simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":625201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-57190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[180],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>25 Lebanese Habits We Need To Give Up<\/title>\n<meta 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