Fellow Jordanian tweeps are tweeting (spontaneously) the “Top 50 reasons living in Jordan Rocks”. Thought I’d post it up just as a mental break from all the cynicism and the daily realities that can make you forget how great Jordan really is…
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With you as source of news, Jordan does not need mainstream media. Interesting presentation.
#Top50JO . .. #1 reason – KING ABDULLAH II is our KING, rest is just conversation.
#Top50JO . .. #1 reason – KING ABDULLAH II is our KING, rest is just conversation… fellow Jordanians follow me on twitter IamHKJ.. account dedicated to His Majesty.
hmmm… the image is refusing to load! kinda ironic!
Jordanians are the reason living in Jordan rocks.
People always have something nice to say per all kinds of situations.
Jordanian men are the most handsome on earth!
#Top50Jo, has the highest number of people complaining yet those same people are the one who makes you laugh so hard everyday make it their jokes or sarcasm
Grandma’s tell stories better than Paulo Coelho! And most of them are real.
If you fall, trip, , or stumble in a public place, you’ll be amazed at the number of hands extended to you.
Summer night, a third-floor balcony on a hill in Al Salt, a breeze of air is so intense with emotions you could fall in love with the Hunch Back of Noter dam if he came calling!
People are whip-smart, and amusingly sarcastic.
Our King is one of very few royal figures around the earth who writes down peoples’ complaints himself, lest his ministers fail to take action about them! That never happens anywhere else!
You grow up with a tree outside your widow, and when you’re all grown, your dad tells you he grew up with it too.
6 AM, sun still yawning, and a look outside the window shows you a rainbow of colored birds.
12 Midnight, policemen walk the allies in twos.
Marveling at the weird guy with the beard roaming Wast el Balad in a coat in July, but never daring to talk to him!
Making up stories about people from Malaka (Malcha) practicing witchcraft!
Miss Samiha Khreis is Jordanian.
You can get Dead Sea mud for free!
The longest flights of stairs in the open air, to help you lose weight
If you’re not in the mood for a long drive, you can have a picnic on the road side
El salteyye mix some Prozac powder with their argeeleh head for a mood booster.
Ghazal Shawerma, crowd occupy 2 of 3 lanes on Abdallh Ghoshe street every Thursday night!
You see tin roofs with multiple satellite dishes, fagr w gillet kaf ma biseer.
If someone asks you for a favor, you can answer both yes and no by one phrase :Inshallah!
We kiss our elderly’s hands out of respect. And their homes are among us.
Jordanian husbands are the best at home. They came up with the slogan: arnab mabsoot wala asad za3lan.
From now on, if you’re opposing the gov., and blogging about it, all you have to do is say: El ghada bokra 3enna ya shabab, jeertallah
If someone dies, you don’t know how so many people knew about it and managed to show up at the funeral prayer in less than an hour. And suddenly, you have two hundred cousins!
Jordanian women are just as beautiful after fifties as they were in their thirties.
We never sit with our feet facing someone’s face. It’s ill manners.
If you’re a girl, nobody forces you to wear a veil, and nobody forces you to take it off either!
We use proverbs to sugarcoat insults
I saw this with my own eyes :
Taxi drivers can move the stock exchange index!
On second thought: Taxi drivers own the streets!
You don’t have to memorize the names of circles. They’re numbered!
When the world forgets about Palestine, we remind them.
More than half the adult population are diabetic, but never say no to Knafeh Na3meh
Kids on the street selling gum can narrate to you the political history of the region.
If you’re a stranger, you can always count on a taxi driver to take you through the longest route.
i cant see the pic. error
cant see the pic .. also .. none of my business but hend u know u could have put all ur reasons in one comment
@boog3e @Tero: strange…mine always laods
@hend: you need to get on twitter
im just guessing but maybe u have to be logged on twitter to see it o_0
@mo: thought of that. i signed out of everything and it still loads perfectly for me. anyways i included a link for those who cant see it
sorry but a waste of time , thought its a serious post..
lol, something is really not working right here (I mean, the way the top 50 reasons are supposed to be listed on twitter), because as it stands this moment, the top 50 reasons living in Jordan rocks are actually one reason, which is:
“Filming our #Top50Jo Saturday Jan 30, at Wild Jordan RSVP here: http://twtvite.com/d3fkgo #Top50JoTweetup #twtvite”
Bad use of twitter tags?