Tuesday, July 01, 2008

6 Divorces over a soap opera - and counting!

Six couples across the Arab world have reportedly divorced because of a Turkish soap opera, currently playing across the region - under the name 'Noor' and dubbed in Lebanese, bekhatrak - on prime time on a popular Arab television satellite network (MBC 4).
(automatic translation of source article here).

It goes like this: the lead actor - Turkish model Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ (Muhannad in the series) is hot; his female fans are melting for his on-screen romanticism (especially that the woman playing is wife is barely palatable...); and the comparison is, of course, never in favour of their real-life fat, balding and stinky husbands, who end up feeling like idiots when the comparison is made. Misplaced jealousy and petty people end up divorced..

My favourite one is the woman who replaced her husband's photo on the dresser with that of Tatlıtuğ.. Yeah, her husband divorced her but the sex fantasy must have been oh so worth it :-P

Some people are incredible. I think they should impose a pre-marital IQ test to weed out the complete idiots and the television-insecure..

4 comments:

Billie said...

Ahh he is pretty. I hadn't realized that the Muhannad phenomenon had gone quite this far - thanks for sharing. I need someone to explain to me why everyone seems to find poor Noor so repulsive to look at though.

Mohamed said...

Naaaaah... not repulsive. As a matter of fact, I find her quite plesant.
She's just, well, very normal -- which further fuels the fantasies of some of the female audience: "if she can land HIM, I sure can!"

Think.. hmm... Billy Bob Thornton dating Angelina Jolie. If he can do it..

Anonymous said...

Again, the bomb shelter claim…AHH.
This one makes me so pissed off I just have to explain it (long comment, sorry).
So just to make it clear one and for all:

The government of Israel does not, and never has, built bomb shelters for ANYONE in Israel.
Up to 15 years ago, it was the responsibility of the local authorities (chosen in separate elections by the locals, and who receive local taxes directly from the citizens), to build bomb shelters (in addition to child care, building roads, etc').
Of course, in many Arab towns the people simply do not pay their local taxes, and the local authorities are always broke. Hence - poor services, and usually no bomb shelters (not least because local authorities in Arab towns found them redundant).

Since the early 1990’s (after the gulf war), public bomb shelters were deemed inefficient, and replaced with in-home shelters (‘safe rooms’), which are built by the home owner, AT HIS OWN EXPENSE (I just finished building one - it cost me about 100,000NIS). Any new house or renovation of an old one requires a safe room built according to exact standards, if you want a legal building permit.

The responsibility to enforce the building permits belongs the local authority (guess what - enforcement of those in Arab towns is again lacking) - and people simply ignore the rules.

Nest time you imply The Israeli government is discriminating against the Israeli-Palestinians regarding this or that, please make sure you have your facts right….

Anonymous said...

Sorry;
I posted the comment above on the wrong post, It was intended for the post on Um-El-Pahem...