I am all for finding a way to laugh through a bad situation, but there is a time and a place for the jokes and a time and place for seriousness...don't you think??
2007-11-09 13:51:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Lebanon
Like the song says, "I'm the guy who laughs at a funeral" we sometimes use this as a way to defuse the tension we feel. If we let it get to us, any situation we are in for that matter, many of us may just crack. There are many serious problems not just there but all over. When will it end? Never, so we have to do something to deal with it, otherwise the hopelessness of everything will overwhelm us all. We use laughter or joking about bad situations to help us through them, so we can face the next hopeless situation that will follow on its heels.
2007-11-10 01:27:25 · answer #1 · answered by Shari 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is an arabic phrase that says ' the worse things when they happen, ánd you lose it all, it makes you laugh'
growing up in lebanon, was not an easy thing, almost every single family lost a beloved because of the war, I ad to go to school walking through tanks and dead bodies, after all the pain, the shock, the agony, you can let yur soul fade, or be a lebanese, u find smthg that makes u smile n laugh no matter h ugly life is.
in the middle of the war, when it was raining rockets, decemeber 31st, 12:00 all cannons used to shut up, and u can hear music, people celebrating a new year, with all hope and faith its gona be a good one.
thats the spirit lebanese have....
long live lebanon , home sweet home
2007-11-10 01:11:20 · answer #2 · answered by lord 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
let's get realistic here. our troubles border so much on the comical.
Anyone who takes a step backward and looks at the current situation and its absurdity will surely find it worth the laugh.
We have managed to divide the country, a new presidential election is due next week and our stubborn politicians can't meet or compromise to make it happen and yet you stop and wonder what is it exactly that they are disagreeing about?
ah yes, " I'm more Lebanese than you"..." No way! I'm more Lebanese than you"
" I'll bring the whole damn country down to prove to you that i am more Lebanese than you."
as if this isn't funny, if it wasn't real people's lives at stake here it would even be hilarious.
2007-11-10 02:41:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I agree even thou i am not labanonian i still say this is not a joke this is serious,so stop smiling about and turn it into a seriuos satutation.if u lived there what would you do.image little kids diein and million pepl getin killed just image.no time 4 laughs.time to get down to bussiness.
2007-11-09 22:20:07 · answer #4 · answered by one ummah 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you know that lebanon was once the Monte Carlo of the Middle East. It was beautiful and cosmopolitan. The only place i knew where taxi drivers had Mercedes
2007-11-09 21:55:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
aaahh thats life....
i hear all kinds of stuff about palestine and its problems
yesterday i was carrying a box in school i had to drop of in a classroom, like ten people came by and asked me "is that a bomb hahaha???? CRAZY ARAB SUICIDE BOMBER ALLAHU AKBAR ALLAHU AKBAR!!" (they werent arabs or muslims lol. they were my friends and they were joking :P )
but still,
its not just lebanon,
even the most morose and serious issues are mocked,
its not a good thing to get used to,
but there is nothing we can do about it
so we might as well...
2007-11-10 00:03:43 · answer #6 · answered by ABANDONED 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If ur are american u would know that our goverment is neo con/zionist who only knows how to destroy other countries.
Lebanon i think wasa good place but due to israels atks and stuff things aint that good but guess what when we have ron paul as our president we will liberate palestine!!
2007-11-09 23:17:10 · answer #7 · answered by BUSH/ISRAEL =warcriminal 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋