Only in Lebanon

Signs you'll only see in Lebanon!

In Lebanon we tend to translate political beliefs, idiocricy and silly propaganda into our billboards, billboards that are supposed to ambush us by telling us that a car with the current year model is only 10'000$, which contains beneath it in a very very small font "Excluding VAT, Excluding Registration, Excluding Gear, Excluding Wheels..."

Anyway, I got three signs for you! I was at the Housing thingie applying to get a loan for a house, and I saw a sign that said: "Please don't turn off your cigarettes on the floor". I thought I was reading it wrong expecting something like "Please don't smoke". I am so retro.

Another funny one coupled with "Sex, Unisex":



No comment really, it is all thanks to Aoun that "partnership" is back to Lebanon.

And finally, something that REALLY reminds me of the time when Emile Lahoud, the most hated guy in Lebanon for the past 9 years. New billboards Thanking General Michel Suleiman, our upcoming president.



It is just amazing how Lebanese forget, get so excited, so happy over anything slightly positive, clinging to an atom of hope, thinking that everything in just 2 days can make the country better. It does give this vibes, it really does, but we're just repeating history if we keep doing the same mistakes, the same reactions and the same way of thinking. Silly us.

How to get rich in Lebanon

The story goes that to get rich in your country you have to follow the trend, what's in, what's the thing that everybody digs. For example, in the US, real estate is pretty much in, buy a property in an area that is going to bloom in the near future, and when the time comes, just sell it, or lease it... Same goes pretty much to UK. I guess if we want to say Columbia, drug dealing is the trend. What about Italy? let's not go there.

So I recently discovered a way to get rich in Lebanon. It's not really a secret, clues and signs are all around us, on the media, on the internet, everywhere.

Okay okay, I can see you're getting impatient here. Have you seen billboards? For example selling tissues, with blood on them saying use X tissue to wipe the tragedies of war. Or the so many ads on TV, for example X bank's ad, trying to spread awareness. They really changed my mind, I am going to change my bank now, because this bank loves Lebanon? Loving Lebanon should have nothing to do with a product, you don't say! On that note, I only buy tissues that are smooth, and deal with banks that are secure, have higher interest and better services.

Anyway, what I am going to do to get rich is, take a picture all sad and agonized under Lebanese war ruins and destruction, and then you can please send me a dollar in order to get yourself a copy of that sensible and awareness picture.

Let us be a part of this propaganda, aren't we already?