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• 1. Joujouba | January 31st, 2010 at 4:03 am

  Chou khass the pubs and restaurants to close because of that incident.
  Seriously, Lebanese are such drama queens.
  Life IS though. People die. Every day. Kids, they starve. Wives, they’re beaten to death. Misery is amongst us, we should live with it rather than paralyzing everything at each mishappening : it is weakness.
  You will tell me I have no heart but please have some perspective.
  If you wanna do a good deed, give 5 bucks to Haiti relief and go to a pub nevertheless.

• 2. Tareq | January 31st, 2010 at 11:28 am

  Joujouba you have a point but the other view is not wrong or drama, in a Lebanese town like Batroun there is still a sense of community and tradition, they did not want to party while one family was going through such tragedy in public.

• 3. Nassif | January 31st, 2010 at 1:37 pm

  Sad story

• 4. sf- | January 31st, 2010 at 2:19 pm

  jujuba nonsence….
  akid lezem ysakro…its not an ordinary incident..like tareq said there’s a sence of community that lebanese people has always been known for that and makes that people special…but however it turns that we are loosing our identity and tradition…
  too bad

• 5. roch | January 31st, 2010 at 4:44 pm

  Joujouba,

  Lebanon have seen recently dramatic events in which the lebanese christians are not used to. When chiite youngsters were killed during the 2006 war, their mothers were shouting “Fida el Sayyed”
  they seemed to be proud of that death

  I think such behaviours created in the lebanese christians mentality an opposite reaction
  now we as cristians want to live the sadness of death to the extreme

  Its not something i would agree on in normal circumstances
  but today i am glad they closed pubs for such an event
  i would like to see all places in lebanon closed when a mourning is nearby in town

• 6. Joujouba | January 31st, 2010 at 11:03 pm

  I highly disagree with you all.
  If anything, every day were you paralyze the economy costs 95 000 000$ – it is a loss of productivity.
  Mourning does not have to mean to close down a town. Who said it does. You can grief in intimacy and choose not to go out yourself if the pain is too strong.
  Please have some perspective – no moral value says that we have to paralyze to show respect. This is typical Lebanese Drama Queen attitude that has to stop some day.

• 7. roch | February 1st, 2010 at 10:16 am

  Joujouba,

  We didnt say to close down the whole country nor closing down DT

  Closing the pubs on a street wont hurt the economy, actually it might help reduce the imports, since other then salaries, all the money spent in pubs goes to electricity and foreign liquor producers.
  Unless you drink Almaza and Arak in your pubs.

• 8. Tareq | February 1st, 2010 at 10:36 am

  Joujouba started with a good point that Lebanese should not paralyze their economy at every occasion, something I agree with, but then he portrayed Batroun’s solidarity or sense of community as Lebanese drama queen behavior, which I don’t agree with, and now he is being a drama queen about his original good point, which makes him typically Lebanese by his own definition

  Let’s stop paralyzing our economy yes and let’s stop being drama queens yes, but if a village somewhere wants to show solidarity with one of its families why make such a bid deal out of it, not everything in life is measured in dollars and cents.

• 9. sniper | February 1st, 2010 at 6:49 pm

  ALbert Assal, allah yir7am trabak ya eidami you will be missed and remain in our hearts forever.

  Rest in Peace our friend, rest in peace.

  Joujouba, boukra tib2a wassi ma 7ada bisakir 3a dawrak. 7aram el economy bass ma 7aram el ness.

• 10. Dera | February 3rd, 2010 at 3:26 pm

  The finding of the black box solves all the disputes on the incident. Afterall symptoms are pointing @ the evil action of terrorists.

• 11. Joujouba | February 4th, 2010 at 2:05 am

  sniper: RIP to the dead, but people die every day and life is very though indeed. Ysakkir chi will not bring me back or be an additional respect. Mourning the dead is a perfectly normal and natural thing to do. Closing the schools if people die is definitely not.

  Tareq> just mentioning you to make you feel good about yourself . You good boy.

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