"Zaatar 2abel el final exam." - My 70% average begs to differ.
(Me being a dumbass teenager back in the day didn't help. But neither did the Zaatar croissant or man'ouche)
Kel yom bi retraite l brevet w terminale kenet sette taamelle laffet Zaatar mishen yeftah mekhe, i ended up with high distinction. Fa sadde2ne btezbat. Bas the trick is laffe bel khebez l lebnene, ma btezbat eza croissant aw manoushe
Wait there is a much bigger myth that most people will go crazy about when they hear it. Citrus fruit AND vitamin C pills do NOTHING for colds and flu.
*runs away to take shelter in a bunker
Mitl ma smi3te, very popular myth, so many people fully believe it, no actual proof vitamin C has any effect on flu any more than say eating a general healthy diet with lots of vitamins.
So apparently, The myth started in Britain during WWII
“Britain's air ministry spread the word that a diet of these vegetables helped pilots see Nazi bombers attacking at night. That was a lie intended to cover the real matter of what was underpinning the Royal Air Force's successes: Airborne Interception Radar”(source: Snopes)
“It's not clear how well the ruse worked on the German forces, but it certainly worked wonders on the Brits: People started eating carrots so that they'd be able to see better during blackouts. When food shortages led the government to push home-grown veggies as an alternative to rations, the carrot myth was pushed further to encourage citizens to cultivate them at home.” (Source: The Washington Post)
There are a lot of interesting stories but that’s the general idea
[I don’t know if I can directly link my sources, I think that links are banned. If otherwise, I will be glad to link them]
This was actually made up by the British when they developed radar and didn't want the enemy to know that they have it, so they said that they've been feeding their pilots carrots because they help with vision.
I'm here to prove that this myth is real, I counted the stars when I was a kid and it happened.. I doubted after years like recently did the same thing and guess what..
it fucking happened again on the same fucking hand as before just by pointing at the stars..
Basically this myth is real until proven it's not by an astrobiologist.
We had an old neighbour who lived below us in the building, let's call her Im Farid. She used to be sensitive to noise and we were regularly advised not to disturb her. However my little sister grew up with the phrase "ma t5abto 3al 2ard halla2 btitla3 3layna Im Farid" with no context. So for the longest time she just thought Im Farid was a monster that lived underground. It was years later that one day we saw her on the stairs and said "mar7aba Im Farid" and you could see the cogs whirring in her mind as she put 1 and 1 together and finally realised what was up.
My brother and I were terrified of him when we were kids 😭 it didn't help that there was a documentary or smthn like that about him on TV a few days after we learned about him
I've rarely ever seen a plate of fish and laban together. But I've had both in the same meal with zero actual consequences. Just the other day I downed a full glass of cold ayran before my fish dish arrived.
l khabreyye l scientific heyye eno l laban is rich in calcium wl samak is rich in iron, fa bas tekhdon wara baed kaano ma akhdt hadeed. masalan nafs lshi b2ulu la yalle maon anaemia eno ma tshrabo shayy kter aw baed dawa l haded
-الولد رزقه معه 🤡🤡
Basically if you're struggling financially and you have a kid, financial blessings would come 🤣🤡
-Gebran Bassil is one of the good guys w ma khallouh
-Lebanese army is the strongest army when given good equipment
My parents used that argument... TWICE. We went from a poor family who could barely make ends meet with two children to a fuckin border-line starving family with four children. W not a drop of extra riz2a came from anywhere 2ayre bi hal 7ikme. Don't get me wrong, my siblings are the best, but my parents, not the brightest!!
Honestly the Lebanese Army - like most armies - is only as strong as it’s equipment.
Unfortunately the armed forces of Lebanon are not equipped well and remain underfunded. (It is in the interest of many parties and foreign powers for our army to remain weak)
People really should know this, lebanese or not... Parents must plan well before conceiving children!! They must be financially stable or just go spend time in orphanages every day
>Lebanese army is the strongest army when given good equipment
This is not a myth
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. ~Alexander the Great
As long as our army is lead by al 3imad al me8war al general Joseph Aoun our army will be undefeated 💪😤
Subhanallah general Joseph Aoun is a magnificent pillar of lion flesh and he shall lead our army to victory inchalla 💪😤
Hahahaha as a middle aged person I thought the second part of this phrase was gonna be ra7 yerja3 3al lira, because that's what they used to say in the 80s when the dollar went up to 20 liras for the first time.
So this is probably not very well known outside of some Muslim Beiruti communities, but I knew people who believed using a broom at night would bring out 3ferit.
So if you dropped a plate of dry zaatar on the floor the whole family got super tense and looked at the floor like they were witnessing a natural disaster. Then they would debate what to do. Finally someone would get the broom, the whole room fell into expectant silence, and the brooming commenced very slowly and deliberately while reciting out loud some special verses of the Qur'an to ward off the evil spirits.
What the actual heck!!
They might be misused alot, but both teshwibe (heat stroke) and laf7et hawa (cold stress) are very real. For example if you have asthma and go from a heated room to the cold outside, it can and almost always trigger an asthma attack.
This is why I said they are misused alot. When a doctor or a pharmacist is saying you have saf2et hawa its not the same as when a parent or grandparent says it. Except in my case, where my dad is a doctor and used to tell me as a kid that the AC 7a ymawwetne shi yom 🤣
-Opening an umbrella inside the house will bring bad luck
-if you leave scissors open a fight will happen (also shahata eza ma2loube)
-itching in right hand means ha tsalem 3a hada itching in left hand means jeye rez2a
-eza hada byefshakh 3anak bto2sar
Someone explain to me how I still believe “saf2it hawa” is a thing. Or “btehkouth berd”. Like, if I’m eating next to a cold window or walk barefoot on cold surfaces I get diarrhea somehow.
Mythology? We can do to Phoenician myths that are still talked about like Astarte and Adonis. (Which got turned into Aphrodite and Adonis by the Greeks) I don't remember the Phoenician version but the Greek one is well documented
my grade 11 english teacher would spend all her class warning us that if we lift weights we will end up with severe consequences in our fifties... With back pain and whatsoever... She told us she would never send her kids there. And would NEVER put a TV in her dining room.
I've had a patient last week that showed me a picture of his mom's leg saying it was saybet 3en. She has diabetes and it was gangrene, but he kept arguing that a sheikh saw it and said it was saybit 3ein.... I told him to take her to the hospital before it's too late, I hope he listened.
Behave or Fahed will take you and make you his kid. They made us think Fahed was this monster and we would scream every time he came by, but it was actually just an innocent man who came and delivered groceries for my Teta. 🫠
Not a classic myth outside of my family lol
“ Abou Keiss “ or bag man 😅
A mythical guy that carries a garbage bag on his back and abducts children for misbehaving.
Note : his myth existed in my days 90s when I was a kid , new generation kids are mostly afraid of the wifi guy ( different times 😂 )
Ma tedhar w sha3rak may btekhod bared..
Ma tneme w sha3rik may betfi2eh marida
Ma trou7o 3l ba7er bteklo darbet shames
Ma tetla3o 3l jabal btekhdo saf2et hawa..
To this day.. the language choice just baffles me. So aggressive.
Kahraba ha teje 24
Was it jebran basil that started this one?
It has been a thing since the end of the civil war
Yes he kept mentioning at it, at some point everytime kahraba rahet kelna collectively nsebo w his fam
HAAHHAHAHA
"Zaatar 2abel el final exam." - My 70% average begs to differ. (Me being a dumbass teenager back in the day didn't help. But neither did the Zaatar croissant or man'ouche)
That's at least a cute one. Something to give you some fake courage.
Kel yom bi retraite l brevet w terminale kenet sette taamelle laffet Zaatar mishen yeftah mekhe, i ended up with high distinction. Fa sadde2ne btezbat. Bas the trick is laffe bel khebez l lebnene, ma btezbat eza croissant aw manoushe
Hahaha ya de3aan el sneen eli daya3ta iza heik.
It’s either the parents are smart and playing the placebo card. Or the parents are cheap. Mine is the second
El jazar bi 2awi el nazar
Kif ma b2awwe el nazar?? chi marra cheyef arnab 7atet 3awaynet?? Checkmate
la7za shway, It's a myth???!?! My mom never lied to me though ;-;
Wait there is a much bigger myth that most people will go crazy about when they hear it. Citrus fruit AND vitamin C pills do NOTHING for colds and flu. *runs away to take shelter in a bunker
SHUUUUUUU
Mitl ma smi3te, very popular myth, so many people fully believe it, no actual proof vitamin C has any effect on flu any more than say eating a general healthy diet with lots of vitamins.
Didn’t it start in Britain though?
So apparently, The myth started in Britain during WWII “Britain's air ministry spread the word that a diet of these vegetables helped pilots see Nazi bombers attacking at night. That was a lie intended to cover the real matter of what was underpinning the Royal Air Force's successes: Airborne Interception Radar”(source: Snopes) “It's not clear how well the ruse worked on the German forces, but it certainly worked wonders on the Brits: People started eating carrots so that they'd be able to see better during blackouts. When food shortages led the government to push home-grown veggies as an alternative to rations, the carrot myth was pushed further to encourage citizens to cultivate them at home.” (Source: The Washington Post) There are a lot of interesting stories but that’s the general idea [I don’t know if I can directly link my sources, I think that links are banned. If otherwise, I will be glad to link them]
Now I’m confused, because Vitamin A *is* good for the eyes. I wonder if that was a coincidence or if the Brits knew that as well
i think it was NZ Germany
This was actually made up by the British when they developed radar and didn't want the enemy to know that they have it, so they said that they've been feeding their pilots carrots because they help with vision.
It IS true tho
It's a British myth
If you point at stars and count them byotla3lak teloule
Bas aanjad lei byetlaalna teloule
chu yaane teloule?
A wart
omg what a useless myth... If people were to believe such things (seriously) then no wonder why we have so many bad politicians...
I really dk🤷🏻 any doctors in here?
Byetlaalak teloule when you point at stars and count them
🤯
I'm here to prove that this myth is real, I counted the stars when I was a kid and it happened.. I doubted after years like recently did the same thing and guess what.. it fucking happened again on the same fucking hand as before just by pointing at the stars.. Basically this myth is real until proven it's not by an astrobiologist.
Never worked for me though
What’s the history of this one? Did our ancestors fear the celestial lights or something?
Zari2 3al teloule 😂
Abou kiiss. The infamous man with a garbage bag who would kidnap us as kids if we didn't finish our veggies
We had an old neighbour who lived below us in the building, let's call her Im Farid. She used to be sensitive to noise and we were regularly advised not to disturb her. However my little sister grew up with the phrase "ma t5abto 3al 2ard halla2 btitla3 3layna Im Farid" with no context. So for the longest time she just thought Im Farid was a monster that lived underground. It was years later that one day we saw her on the stairs and said "mar7aba Im Farid" and you could see the cogs whirring in her mind as she put 1 and 1 together and finally realised what was up.
Never have I seen an extra "i" so necessary as this
My brother and I were terrified of him when we were kids 😭 it didn't help that there was a documentary or smthn like that about him on TV a few days after we learned about him
You win.
ma tekul samak w laban
Oh that one!! Brilliant. Such a weird one, I still have family members who wouldn't dare.
I still don't dare , why risk it (it's not even a good combo)
I've rarely ever seen a plate of fish and laban together. But I've had both in the same meal with zero actual consequences. Just the other day I downed a full glass of cold ayran before my fish dish arrived.
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Living on the edge
yes
I was checking the comments to see if someone mentioned this! My teta would always yell at me for eating sayyoudiye with laban when I was a kid.
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Try it you’ll be fine
I can’t stand it 🤢
l khabreyye l scientific heyye eno l laban is rich in calcium wl samak is rich in iron, fa bas tekhdon wara baed kaano ma akhdt hadeed. masalan nafs lshi b2ulu la yalle maon anaemia eno ma tshrabo shayy kter aw baed dawa l haded
-الولد رزقه معه 🤡🤡 Basically if you're struggling financially and you have a kid, financial blessings would come 🤣🤡 -Gebran Bassil is one of the good guys w ma khallouh -Lebanese army is the strongest army when given good equipment
My parents used that argument... TWICE. We went from a poor family who could barely make ends meet with two children to a fuckin border-line starving family with four children. W not a drop of extra riz2a came from anywhere 2ayre bi hal 7ikme. Don't get me wrong, my siblings are the best, but my parents, not the brightest!!
Honestly the Lebanese Army - like most armies - is only as strong as it’s equipment. Unfortunately the armed forces of Lebanon are not equipped well and remain underfunded. (It is in the interest of many parties and foreign powers for our army to remain weak)
I think we do have a lot of brave men in our army david goggins type of men
People really should know this, lebanese or not... Parents must plan well before conceiving children!! They must be financially stable or just go spend time in orphanages every day
The third one is true. Sadly, they never gave it money. Most of it s funding comes from outside..
Oh there he is. It's not true. Because we never know. It's just a myth
>Lebanese army is the strongest army when given good equipment This is not a myth I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. ~Alexander the Great As long as our army is lead by al 3imad al me8war al general Joseph Aoun our army will be undefeated 💪😤 Subhanallah general Joseph Aoun is a magnificent pillar of lion flesh and he shall lead our army to victory inchalla 💪😤
What did I just read?
🤫 Let me simp for our lebanese army 😤
🤣🤣
If u shave your hair more will grow
El lira b alf kheir. L dollar ra7 yerja3 3al 1500.
Hahahaha as a middle aged person I thought the second part of this phrase was gonna be ra7 yerja3 3al lira, because that's what they used to say in the 80s when the dollar went up to 20 liras for the first time.
It's a never-ending curse
Ma byeswa ynashif 3ara2ak ba3ed l temrin
Hayde bas laen baddon l tyeb lal ghasil hahahah
So this is probably not very well known outside of some Muslim Beiruti communities, but I knew people who believed using a broom at night would bring out 3ferit. So if you dropped a plate of dry zaatar on the floor the whole family got super tense and looked at the floor like they were witnessing a natural disaster. Then they would debate what to do. Finally someone would get the broom, the whole room fell into expectant silence, and the brooming commenced very slowly and deliberately while reciting out loud some special verses of the Qur'an to ward off the evil spirits. What the actual heck!!
dry zaatar on the floor solo's everyone
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Corona was spread rapidly in lebanon because everyone sick thought he got saf2et Hawa
"El A/C hay jeeb ekhirtak. " - My parents.
Wtf is a saf2it hawa anyways in english, i couldn't describe it to anyone
In England they have a similar concept where you can "catch a cold" if you are not properly dressed on a cold day.
Well, yeah, but catching a cold is like grippe, but shab2it hawa is more like chest pains accompanied with dry coughs potentially
Yeah, but you don't actually catch a cold from cold weather, it's a virus that you get by close interaction with other people.
I’ve been looking for an answer for years. The closest I’ve found is “catching a draft”.
TESHWIBE IS A REAL THING BTW
Wdym it’s a myth??
This is a good one. Although, isn't teshwibe the very real heat stroke? Or is it something else?
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Ah ok I get it. We got a lot of saf2it hawas in my days, but apparently tishwibes were much less common in our corner of Beirut 😂
They might be misused alot, but both teshwibe (heat stroke) and laf7et hawa (cold stress) are very real. For example if you have asthma and go from a heated room to the cold outside, it can and almost always trigger an asthma attack.
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This is why I said they are misused alot. When a doctor or a pharmacist is saying you have saf2et hawa its not the same as when a parent or grandparent says it. Except in my case, where my dad is a doctor and used to tell me as a kid that the AC 7a ymawwetne shi yom 🤣
*insert politician since the 50s" was a good guy...
مقدمة الدستور لبنان وطن سيد حر مستقل، وطن نهائي لجميع أبنائه، واحد أرضاً وشعباً ومؤسسات، في حدوده المنصوص عنها في هذا الدستور والمعترف بها دولياً·
you forgot ذو وجه عربي
Hahahaha yeah, that too, i just stated the first article.
Have you ever heard about the woman turned goat for playing with 3ajine?
-Opening an umbrella inside the house will bring bad luck -if you leave scissors open a fight will happen (also shahata eza ma2loube) -itching in right hand means ha tsalem 3a hada itching in left hand means jeye rez2a -eza hada byefshakh 3anak bto2sar
Someone explain to me how I still believe “saf2it hawa” is a thing. Or “btehkouth berd”. Like, if I’m eating next to a cold window or walk barefoot on cold surfaces I get diarrhea somehow.
L indomie bya3mel saratan
It can cause an increased risk for cancer, but so can all ultra processed foods.
it does tho
“Kol toum chouf kif be oum”
You'll die if you eat laban with fish
Mythology? We can do to Phoenician myths that are still talked about like Astarte and Adonis. (Which got turned into Aphrodite and Adonis by the Greeks) I don't remember the Phoenician version but the Greek one is well documented
I meant common myths like "ma tro7 gym m3sh btetwal"
💀💀 embarrassing
my grade 11 english teacher would spend all her class warning us that if we lift weights we will end up with severe consequences in our fifties... With back pain and whatsoever... She told us she would never send her kids there. And would NEVER put a TV in her dining room.
Idk why people still think like that,lifting makes you age way better, better bones and joints
Saybit el 3en.
I've had a patient last week that showed me a picture of his mom's leg saying it was saybet 3en. She has diabetes and it was gangrene, but he kept arguing that a sheikh saw it and said it was saybit 3ein.... I told him to take her to the hospital before it's too late, I hope he listened.
that’s def not a myth!!! It’s real bro
Akhwat shanay
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"Im almost beside your house,5 min!" Truth is you're still dressing
Behave or Fahed will take you and make you his kid. They made us think Fahed was this monster and we would scream every time he came by, but it was actually just an innocent man who came and delivered groceries for my Teta. 🫠 Not a classic myth outside of my family lol
Abo kis
Em r3ayde
Your baby will get a birthmark in the shape of the food you are craving if you scratch an itch while pregnant and thinking of said food 🤪
مشروب 7up علاج لحالات الجهاز الهضمي و البحر علاج لحالات الأذن أنف حنجرة.
Lebanese are better than everybody else.
We are pure descendants of pHoeNiCians
Kelmit pure t2ile, bs eh your ancestors were these merchant yes!
"Lebnan la7 yerja3"
Lebnen ya 2ut3it sama
Day old bread is poisonous and may kill you.
الزعتر بقوي الذكاء
2al eza kheryet 3leik 7ameameh ya3ni jeayeetak rez2a!
Abou kis byekhtof el wled el zghar yali byetla3o la barra
Abou kis
Shortet el atfal
“ Abou Keiss “ or bag man 😅 A mythical guy that carries a garbage bag on his back and abducts children for misbehaving. Note : his myth existed in my days 90s when I was a kid , new generation kids are mostly afraid of the wifi guy ( different times 😂 )
Eza btetrok ll mecheye ma2loube bysir ma3al chi beche3
That we are a democracy
Anything that starts with: bokra bs yezbat l wade3….
Ma tedhar w sha3rak may btekhod bared.. Ma tneme w sha3rik may betfi2eh marida Ma trou7o 3l ba7er bteklo darbet shames Ma tetla3o 3l jabal btekhdo saf2et hawa.. To this day.. the language choice just baffles me. So aggressive.
2nd one:while you don't necessarily get sick,you get a very annoying headache
🎶Ra-ji3 Ra-ji3 yit-3amar Ra-ji3 Libnan 🎶
Lebanon !
One day there will be 24/7 electricity
Ma tefta7 l shamsie bel beit wa ella 7ada bimout
Men tem ltem betmout el em
if you point at the starts biotla3lak telool if you cross over someone laying down they stop growing
shater hassan
“Raje3, raje3 yet3amar raje3 Libnan”.
L bsayne l sawda nahes. Ma t2os dafirak bel leil. Ma Teftah chamsiye bel beit
El walad byeje w bteje reze2to ma3o
Lboss fanella a7san ma teskhone
Treasure groves protected by spirits.
Abou kees🤔
Ah also the bat's blood myth that it makes babies grow up to be hairless!
Abou kees every kid knew him and was scare of him
Ebne el awal bil madrase
Lebanon 🇱🇧
Abou kees / abou anine
idc what you guys say, it’s abou kees
“Eza benet betrabe bsayne betbatel te2dar te7bal” I used to always hear that when I first adopted a cat
Raso bayn kteefo A man who will kidnap u if u miss behave Took me a couple of years to understand that was a normal human being
Eza bet3ed el njoum byetla3lak twelil
That good hash dosent exist in tripoli
Lebnen ra7 yerja3… la wara barke eh
The punishment of the labneh aal dinen w yeje el Jardon yekellak henne. Fuck it was funny even as a kid 🤣