“Angelo, you are so not a typical Kuwaiti”.
Honestly, I have been hearing this sentence since the day I was born. Through my life, this sentence is always used in both negative and positive lights. For example, one friend of mine was so angry that I’m not good at playing football that he yelled “What kind of Kuwaiti who doesn’t know how to play a freaking football?” And another friend of mine was impressed that I read books for pleasure and she has said once “Wow Angelo, you read books? That is so not what a Kuwaiti would do”.
So, as you can see, being called untypical Kuwaiti guy can have its ups and downs. Thus, I have derived a list (based on my experiences) on what it takes for a person to be qualified as a typical Kuwait person. Please note that this post isn’t intended to be serious, or offensive for that matter. It’s for your pleasure only!
1. You are good at playing football but lack the footballer’s body
2. You love playing “Kout Bo Setah” but hate playing Uno
3. Your Playstation 2 can only play Winning Eleven
4. You eat with your bare hands…even when dine in a restaurant.
5. Your idea of “dating” is to chase girls around at “The Love Street”
6. You don’t read books for pleasure
7. Your taste in western music is based on the current, generated hype
8. You fart in front of your friends
9. You make the “KAAAK Laugh” at the movies
10. Beirut, London, and Bangkok are your ideal vacation spots
11. Your average cell phone bill is beyond 100KD
12. You cannot live without an “European Satellite Dish”.
13. You watch football more than an English man would normally watch
14. Your idea of liberalism is to drink and have sex but not to eat pork
15. You consider Stallone, Van Damme, and Segal as your favorite actors
16. Most of your jokes are based on Kuwaiti comedy plays
17. You cannot joke with your friends unless you cuss
18. Your cell phone is filled with jokes and pornographic text messages
19. You cannot accept girls as your friends or as colleagues
20. You always accept girls as your girlfriends
21. High school is your favorite period of your life
22. You smoke in the non-smoking areas
23. You think a dishdasha creates a true man
24. You want your wife to be an exact replica of your mother
25. You show (or pose) your muscles in your facebook and Hi5 accounts
26. You use famous football players and movie stars as your online avatars
27. Your English vocabulary is based on Rap music
28. You consider Gulf Road as a Formula-1 track
29. Your only use of English is when you use the “IRC language”
30. You cannot live without having a loan or a mortgage
Now, if you satisfy at least 10 conditions from the provided list then consider yourself a typical Kuwaiti man. Honestly, I can add more than 30 conditions but I had to stop at some point. Again, I hope you take this post as it’s originally intended. After all, I am a Kuwaiti and damn proud to be one.
February 29, 2008 at 10:24 am
There are the good and the bad of many things..
Im a few on the list.. but there are many good things that aren’t listed!
February 29, 2008 at 12:03 pm
some apply to me
i guess i’m a typical kuwaiti man lol
February 29, 2008 at 12:18 pm
lol so true =))
February 29, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Sadly im not a typical kuwaiti guy based on ur criteria
only 4 things apply on me!
February 29, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Cool . I knew all of them except number 21 .
February 29, 2008 at 2:18 pm
23. So true man! i have some customers who act totally different when they are in whites ..
February 29, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Oh my god! i hate that list! i hope i dont end up with “something” like that.
February 29, 2008 at 4:06 pm
lol eee wallah all of them apply on most Kuwaiti guys
February 29, 2008 at 5:47 pm
maybe your not a typical kuwaiti…but you sure do mix with alot of typical kuwaities coz you know what makes a typical kuwaiti
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i tried to see myself as one of the points..but none of them describe me…so i guess am 100% not typical…wohoooo
March 2, 2008 at 10:08 am
I personally think that the word “typical kuwaiti” is used negatively most of the time. Even in the list, none of the above mentioned things are positive. Like for example, Kuwaiti men are always chivalrous. When a woman walks into a place and there are no seats, Kuwaiti men ifizoon min their seats! As opposed to non-kuwaiti men. Which I can state through experience. Now, back to the list, I would like: 11, 13, 23, and 28 to be part of my husbands personality. Ya 7alat il dishdasha 3al rayal bas!
March 2, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Very nice list, each line reminds me of a different person and occasion.
March 6, 2008 at 4:53 am
LooooL - none of the men in my family (the ones I like atleast) would be considered typical Kuwaiti’s by your standards… some of the guys I know… mmmmaybe… but the guys in my family read.. A LOT!!
March 10, 2008 at 10:41 am
@Marzouq
Yes, I wanted to add the positive things but completely forgot and went with the negatives. I’ll make sure to post a new list with the positives…that I promise.
@nQ
And you should be proud of that.
@Sushi
Awesome
@ZaMaHReeR
Welcome to the untypical Kuwaiti men bandwagon
@Greyshorts
Then I guess that one depends on individual experience
@Grey
I know what you mean buddy
@Skinny
LOL then make sure to follow this list and ask the men you will merry if he’s a typical Kuwaiti or not.
@Pearls
Glad someone sees as what I see
@Spiky
Oh yeah…I’m constantly surrounded with typical Kuwaitis and yet I love them so very much.
@Adorra
It seems my attempt to creates a balanced list has failed. I’ll make sure to post a newer list with more positives and what makes Kuwaitis in general very special.
@The M Code
Then I guess you are pretty much surrounded with typical Kuwaitis same as moi
@Hamitaf
Kudos to your family then. Reading FTW
March 18, 2008 at 12:10 am
so true! yet, i miss kuwait.
March 18, 2008 at 10:27 pm
@Forsoothesayer
Same here wallah. Cannot wait to return to K-Town this summer.
March 22, 2008 at 7:02 pm
looool……you know my favorite one in the list is the idea of dating is chasing girls in “love street”….actually anything “typical” makes me mad…..though, my favorite English word is “cliche”
yahh. and i’m not typical ….just for consideration….or am I?
March 22, 2008 at 10:46 pm
@Aziz
Oh God, you are so not typical. Hell, I think I’m more typical than you
December 2, 2008 at 10:03 am
Heh Typical kuwaitis are everywhere, you also forgot to say that most of them smoke.