TheShed

So I have some friends over for a few days and I noticed that Sunday 2nd is New Year. Does this make Saturday 1st dry.

scrubbedexpat141

I think it is, normally it is isn't it?

Either way, Auto once shared this website, which always makes me chuckle; Is it a dry night?

Irishbeekeeper

Well thats the start of Muharram and 9th and 10th of Muharram are (I think) dry nights
but having said that, this area is predominantly Sunni
the 1st probably isnt dry

iggle

Why do Sunni and Shia don't get a long?

jam25mack

Also, after the non dry Ramadan this year... who knows whats going to be the chat for future public hols...

Brains1983

was thinking the same when out for the old firm game a couple of weeks ago, but alas, shutters up at 6pm

Millhouse

It's Ali's fault.

But one thing they will all agree on... is you.

co durham boy

I'd put the shutters up if i had to watch Jock football as well

Irishbeekeeper

Well in all fairness, no one blames Ali. Even the Sunnis hold him in very high regard. If you boil it down to the basics then it was the Qurra people who were responsible for it to start with. The people from that region (modern day iraq, syria, levant area etc) have always been mischievous in nature. I am not being racist by any means. I am just basing the observation based on statistics. It is in their blood to cause mischief. Not all of them obviously but again, stats and facts do support a lot of observations.
Guess what the Qurra people are called these days?
I remember doing a very through indepth detail of the Battle of Karbala a very very long time ago and there was this one guys name which kept on popping up again and again as the main 'behind the scene' instigator. Ill try and find it again mate.

p.s. check out the part about what the color red denotes in Bahrain's flag

Irishbeekeeper

On an individual basis they all do mate
90% of them do infact

but the ones that dont are both towards the extreme right side of their relative spectrums I guess

and I think for laymans terms the answer is 'they kill some of ours and we kill some of theirs' and that was the start of the vicious cycle innit
violence will always beget more violence

mission

I'm a Shia and I could go into depth on this but I just couldn't be a r s e d - I expect REDSHARK to come wading in calling me a kafir

Autonomy

No. Not really racist or stereotypical or any such thing... Dude?

PS The night before Hiriji will be dry. Don't care what Ali says.

PPS The average bar dweller will need a hand to work this one out "Well thats the start of Muharram and 9th and 10th of Muharram are (I think) dry nights
but having said that, this area is predominantly Sunni
the 1st probably isnt dry"

Thx Bi

IKnowNothing

Well i learned something new today.

Irishbeekeeper

yeah well honestly I wasnt trying to be nor am I one but I knew how that would read the moment I wrote it...and yet I still wrote it as I strongly believe people in different parts of the world have different types of tendencies etc
Is that racist?

Btw read the Modern times section of this article to get to where I am coming from mate :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khawarij

DXBtoDOH

After living in the Gulf it's hard to argue with you.

Call it racism if you want (Auto?) but I call it a pragmatic understanding of how various cultural groups have a culturally ingrained approach towards many things in life (business, religion, culture, whatnot).

I guess the question is now whether generations (spanning hundreds and even thousands of years) of a certain type of cultural understanding can affect your own neurosis and the wiring of people's brains, easily transmitting the same sentiments to the next generation, not just culturally but even through genetics. In other words, is there a genetic predisposition to have certain attitudes and beliefs and behaviours? And can that genetic predisposition be strengthened over multiple generations so it manifests itself in certain cultural groups?

The term "in the blood" has been around for millennia. Perhaps our ancestors weren't as ignorant as we like to think them.

Ok, maybe not a question for a Thursday afternoon and I have a flight coming up soon.