You know you're Tunisian if...

[Tunisia216 2]

I just thought these were funny - I got a good laugh and they are just about all true I tried to add English explanations behind the ones that I understood

Yes, you are Tunisian when…

1.You have 5 o'clock morning cravings for lablabi (or bambalouni) –Chick peas-

2.You have watched at least once in your life a full episode of Guadaluppe or Manuela –Spanish Opera-

3.If you're from "banlieue", everything else is province, and you despise them –Suburbs-

4.If you're not from banlieue, you despise banlieue but secretly wish you lived there

5.Not supporting the same football team is the underlying reason you can't stand your brother in law

6.You begin your sentences by the "z***" word

7.You end your sentences by the "z***" word

8.You regularly have phone calls from some aunt trying to fix you up with some very good "wild or bent 3ayla" -a boy or a girl-

9.You made your first "melyoun" when you passed your "bac" -$1000-

10.You are familiar with street poetry: "chbih elfraise mal a l'aise, chbih ellouze membouze…" HAHA

11.You would kill for a mloukhia abroad –Tunisian Dish-

12.You hate "tounes" –Capital-

13.You love "tounes"

14.You automatically start whispering when you speak about anything remotely related to politics

15.You could -seriously- start a fight to be the one to pay for the bill

16.You have an 80% debt rate but still manage to buy the last Mercedes

17.If you're a girl; Gucci, Dolce and Salvatore are the reasons you go to work in the morning

18.If you're a girl you turn blond at one point or another

19.If you're a girl you can't have your nails done without "couloirs"

20.Someone threatened you with a chleka at one point or another –Flip flop/shibshib-

21.You put tuna on pizza and pasta

22.You waited 10 years before seeing your first banana

23.You think you don't need a visa to go to Marseilles

24.You think Bouga Sider is the greatest invention after A/C –Soda/Boga-

25.You know the old guy with a cat in Sidi Bou

26.You can pull off a white suit and a mashmoum –Jasmine bouquet-

27.Purple is your color

28.You only know one avenue: 7 November

29.Cats understand it when you say "kssss"

30.You manifest Happiness by the 2 words "mouch norrmal" –abnormal-

31.Your mother always says she's a "beldia" –from the country side-

32.You know what's an LNA

33.You know at least 10 jokes on Hairdressers

34.You're a "house music terrorist" i.e. u ONLY listen to house music

35.You're alcoholic or became one at some point if you left Tounes

36.If you live abroad, you have a bottle of water in the bathroom...

37.You Never EVER change the places you go out to i.e.: calypso in the summer, grand bleu in the winter ok… spoon

38.Shouting is just the way you speak

39.You eat harissa with about everything

40.While being open-minded, tolerant etc… you are fundamentally convinced nothing, NOTHING equals being a Tounsi, Tounsia

41.You can't wait to leave 'tounes'

42.You can't wait to come back to 'tounes"

Hassilou mella nahna…

You are TUNISIAN if you...

1. If you spend half the day in the café, smoking shisha, and playing "Rami"

2. If you've gone through this situation at least once: You go to any public/government office to ask for an important paper, and they tell you Arja3 godwa!!! means "Come back tomorrow!"

3. For the guys: If you tease every hot girl you see in the street.

4. If cursing is like breathing for you. You cant stop it.

5. If you give a beep [ usually called an "appelle" ] to the person you wanna talk to, and then wait for him to call you back.

6. If "sa7fa lablabi wi sandwich kafteji" are your favorite fast foods.

7. If you say "Ya7 bani" when youre surprised. In English that means, "Holy f***!!"

8. You cant have a meal without "khobz" (bread)

9. You congratulate someone [ Mabrouk!!! ] if he or she got a visa for Europe or the States.

10. Use the term "donkey" to insult people: "Ya Bhim" or "Ya Hmar"

11. Say "inshaAllah" as a nice way of saying no.

12. Traffic lights and signs make colorful decorations for street.

13. Your relatives alone could populate a small city.

14. When you are talking to your parents on your cell phone and your non-Arab friends are around, they always think your arguing, when in reality you are having a nice conversation.

15. You put olive oil in and on everything you eat.

16. Your grandma always asks you when she can dance at your wedding. "Waktech nafr7ou bik?" *"When will we celebrate you?" *

17. If you say "Y3aychek" to say Thanks [ it literally means "May God make you live longer" ]

18. If you wanna go to a place which is not significantly far, and you stop a taxi, the taxi driver's response is most likely to be something like, "Mechi nochrob 9ahwti... same7ni!" [ "I'm off to drink some coffee now, sorry!" ]

19. The yellow bus, "el car essafra" is a very convenient place for flirting and hooking up.

20. Weddings usually last a week or more "Sab3a yem wou sab3a lyeli," as we put it. [ Henna el kbira, Henna essghira, katben ezdek, soulamiya, el Hammam] (henna/harkous painting, going to the hammam (bath house)

21. If you're girl and your mother is having constant visits from a friend of hers whom you don't really know, they're most likely hooking you up with someone.

22. You'd better have 5 or 10 bucks in your pocket in case you have to get going when you get pulled over. No time to discuss with the "boulis!" (police)

23. People are never happy with what you've achieved: if you graduated from high school [ el bac ] they'll tell you, "El 3oqba lil maitrise" [ We can't wait for the Bachelor's degree ], and when you get that, they say, "El 3oqba lil doctorat" [ Can't wait for the Doctorate's degree ], and when you get that, they say, "3oqba lil 3ars" [ Marriage ], and when you get married "Inchallah kima nchoufou a3ndek" [ Hopefully all your kids are like you ] etc..

24. If you start talking to a Tunisian friend about your friends you will definitely find a mutual friend [ Eh oui! Tunis sghira! ]

25. Your other Arab friends make fun of your dialect and say that your language is not Arabic since you use [ lets say ] 20f your words in French.

26. If HARISSA is present in all your meals!!

[Henia 11]

Funny Ash! And I think many of these apply to ME and NA too!

[Tunisia216 2]

I thought the same thing.... Jihed was dying laughing because they are all so true!

Funny Ash! And I think many of these apply to ME and NA too!