I have been watching a lot of Arabic TV lately. You can say it is a form of entertainment that forces me to speak Arabic. As my friend Lisa tells me, “Do you even know how to speak Arabic anymore? I never hear you say a word in Arabic.” Which is true, Arabic became my second language a long time ago. At times I am forced to only speak English with my parents, because I don’t know what the words are in Arabic. However, with satellite TV, I am forced to learn new words, new ideas, and an understanding of modern Arabic culture. Strangely, it has changed completely from what it was 10 or 20 years ago. Most of the good morals are still there, but the culture as a whole became a bit too loud.

My generation of Arabs in North America are split. They are either very traditional and follow the life of their parents from before they immigrated to these lands, or they are so westernized and have no idea what the Arabic culture is. However, there are the odd few like me that are in between. We take a bit of column A and a bit of column B, and we are stunned by the two extremes.

When you have too much time on your hand, you start exploring many realms in the culture. You try to understand what is the new norm and why, and if it can be applied in a very conservative and traditional society. Fakeness is what you end up with. I have never seen a society filled with professional actors. I think they spend too much time watching western movies and talk shows.

Speaking of talk shows, which I don’t even watch on TV here, although I heard Oprah is quite a rich talking celebrity, and Jerry Springer, Ellen, Tyra, etc, are quite popular too. However, in an open society, what they say is pretty normal. The western society is so open, that nothing that is said or ever mentioned is shocking. What I think I am getting at is what is spoken in the English language is not as shocking. Like my mother says, “Some things that are said in Arabic are so disgusting. Maybe because it is in Arabic. But in English, it is normal, doesn’t sound so bad.” It is true, when such words are said in Arabic in front of an Arabic audience, it is quite unbelievable. They said what? Are they allowed to say that in front of people? Are these words allowed to be spoken outside of one’s head?

Yes, there are many things in the Arab culture that are quite taboo. However, from an almost outsider hearing such words, which I did not know what they meant or heard of until I was 19 or 20 and hung out with many Arabs in University that didn’t care what they said, but I forced them to translate some words to me. Therefore, on TV, many Arabic talk shows have splurged from underground, and some issues that are openly discussed such as sex, pre-martial relationships, drugs, alcohol, etc, are quite HILARIOUS to hear in Arabic.

I am not joking. When I hear such things spoken about in Arabic I crack up laughing. Is this the way to explain some things? What are you people doing? Copy catting some western talk shows and translating it to Arabic? Hilarious! Well, why do I think that? Who the hell goes on TV and complains that he is too horny to do any work, any studying, any social activity, except sex? I heard that and I cracked up. I am like what the hell? Are you for real? You should not be going on a talk show to complain about that, you need a psychologist and some porn to calm you down, little man.

Then another girl, that had her faced covered, complained that her boyfriend has been cheating on her for the past 3 months, and still comes back to her like nothing happened. And she has been telling him to marry her before her parents find out the truth or she is dead meat. Boring. Typical Arabic story. My advice to the girl, leave him, and move out of the country because honour killings are only a 6 or 7 year prison sentence.

Then, I saw another more educational talk show, where the Doctor lady was talking more about sex and how it is so taboo in our society. Then she said this, which kind of cracked me up, “Arabs are not allowed to talk about sex or even mention a thought before marriage. Especially girls. However, when they get married, it is one of the main aspects of marriage that they are forced to do, especially in a male dominating society. Why is that still going on?” I cracked up obviously because I couldn’t believe these issues are still discussed in our society. I guess it is still an issue, but from what I see on TV, Arabs are way more open minded, and not all marry at 16, and are grandmas by 32. Life changed! I think these old doctors need to realize that too.

Arabs: funny, expressive, traditional, and will always be controlled by their mothers.

Oh, for a light entertainment of why I think the talk about sex in the Arab culture is so funny and hilarious, is due to such music videos that kids are watching now a days.

Blah blah.. there are more videos, but I got bored of searching for the obvious.

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Some people on Twitter asked me what in the world I am laughing at, and what is this site that made me fall on the floor laughing. The title of the site is enough to make anyone laugh. If you read a website’s title such as Crotchety Old Man Yells At Cars, then heck, you are in for a laugh and a half!

I can’t believe I spent over an hour on a website that wouldn’t stop cracking me up. The stories are hilarious. Who said old people are not funny? I am not sure if the guy is as old and crotchety as he says, but anyone who can make a simple pointless story beyond funny, and a must read, is on my A list of daily blog subscriptions. I need sarcastic sense of humour in my life, no? I really do need it since I spend half the day doing nothing productive. At least now I got a good humour site to follow.

COMYAC, is how I am gonna abbreviate the site from now on, and he may not like it, but do I care? He is not a normal guy as he claims to be, and a bit, how do I say this, a master of sarcastic exaggerations. For example, he starts off some of his posts saying, “The staff at Crotchety Old Man World Wide Headquarters and Discount House of Worship …” When I read that, I cracked up, and I had to continue reading the rest of the post.

The best part of his site is that he reiterates old posts that he likes. The posts are hilarious! Seriously, how many of you can make a hospital stay a comedic point in your life? Or remembering your old highschool days as a nobody, but then claiming that you were one of the most popular guys, just because?

I wish I can make my stories more interesting by exaggerating a bit, which I sort of do now. However, I got to work on it some more, and I am going to get some comedic tips from COMYAC. I think you should too! Isn’t laughter great and attractive! :kiss:

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Lately, many people have been landing on my site looking for work. Or looking for a way to find work. I guess many people have the same problem. Well, duh. That’s obvious with the crappy economy.

Maybe I should try to be more comforting to the masses. For those unemployed IT people, and there are many you, start a blog. Complain enough about the world and economy, and blame the world leaders you voted for. Afterwords, curse the day you completed your higher recognizable education and your work experience for many years, and have as many people as possible read it. Maybe then, we can all find each other and start a clan of unemployed bloggers. Maybe someone will hire us to complain some more!

Doesn’t life suck? It’s Thursday, March 12, 2009. And we live in a technology based world, and there are no jobs, and more and more people are loosing their jobs.

Time for a long vacation and stop worrying about work. There are NONE! It’s all fake job advertisements or jobs where they want every single type of skill, and pay you in 1950′s currency value.

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No no, not a Visa to another country, but the blasphemous credit card! I am trying not to use my savings at all, and only use my credit card. OSAP is killing me, so I try to only use credit card for emergencies. It sucks not having an income and paying bills. I see my savings slowly decreasing and it is giving me a bad migraine. Thank God I am going to get a cheque from the government soon for the taxes they owe me. That’s like a month’s salary worth.

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Anyways, if you see some weird posts advertising something, then yes, I am advertising something. Like duh! I have finally decided that it is about time to make money from writing reviews. It is a lot more profitable than selling ads on my site. Can you imagine that I get over 1200 unique visitors a day, and over 3000 page views, but I have been getting barely a dollar for it a day?

Ad network companies are going broke! I think advertisers are not paying them much of anything, and they end up paying publishers pennies a day. It is sad, but the horrible economy is effecting internet marketing. So, what can I do? I write!

Reviewing other websites is not so bad. Writing a 200 word post for some hefty change that can buy me some electronic device that I have been craving for lately, (yes, I am a nerd) is a lot easier and profitable. I don’t know how many of you have done it before, but I had to really think about it, because I didn’t want my site to be an advertising site. I worked too hard for it to gain an audience to turn it into such a thing. Therefore, I came up with a solution. I write reviews and relate them to myself. I think it makes a lot more sense than making some gibberish up. That’s my tip for the day, and I think it will help out a lot of bloggers out there. Especially the unemployed type ones like my self.

Lately, many people have been emailing me to tell me that they were searching for something totally irrelevant to my site, but ended up on my site because it was on the first page on Google, and they congratulated me for being on the top. When I read those emails, I rose up from my chair, did a funky Arabic belly dance, held my hands up high, and shouted, “Greatness! That’s what I want.” I guess when you are writing for over 3 years about anything and everything, then you slowly reach the top of things. :up:

Therefore, you can easily pinpoint out the advertisement posts that I have written. Whispering: They are categorized as advertisement. Shssh.. Also, if anyone wants me to review their site, and give an honest well written opinion, then tell me. I don’t know if you want to be ripped apart, but any publicity is good publicity! I promise I won’t be evil or a horrible conceited arrogant person like some of you have voted the other day.

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I found this amazing site that sells latest premium and sold out Concert Tickets. The cool part is that the site automatically picks out the location that you live in or nearby your area. It also shows you the latest concerts to date via feeds in the area you live in. You can customize the RSS feed type that you want to receive, and not worry about getting every type of ticket via rss. For those that don’t know how to use RSS, then don’t worry. There is always that magical sign up via email button to get you all the latest concert dates and locations.

I guess for those picky music lovers, the genre is the most important, and that’s why that feature is emphasized. You can chose R&B, Rap, Hip Hop, Pop, Jazz, etc. That’s exactly what I love! Categorize it baby! For each concert that you choose, a brief description is provided for each concert, time, location, and phone number. Maybe it is time for you to check out different genres and get great Concert Tickets quickly and easily.

Finally, and most importantly, the Concert Tickets prices. The prices are up to date, and an image of the the stadium’s seating area is provided. If you missed it in one city, then there are alternative locations to choose easily and quickly.

I think it is time for me to go to a concert. Life is tiring and I need reasonably priced live entertainment.

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