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    <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-09-15T14:10:48&#43;03:00">Thu Sep 15, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in 

<i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;<a href="/tags/whatsapp" rel="tag">WhatsApp</a>, <a href="/tags/driving" rel="tag">Driving</a>, <a href="/tags/amman" rel="tag">Amman</a>

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<p>I can&rsquo;t even read Arabic but I&rsquo;m pretty sure that billboard is telling people to <em>put their fucking phones down while driving</em>. It&rsquo;s like an epidemic here. I&rsquo;ve never seen people look less at the road while driving than here in Amman.</p>

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    <h2 class="blog-post-title"><a href="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/eid-mubarak-neighborhood-dumpster/">Eid Mubarak in Your Neighborhood Dumpster</a></h2>
    <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-09-14T09:36:00&#43;03:00">Wed Sep 14, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in 

<i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;<a href="/tags/eid" rel="tag">Eid</a>, <a href="/tags/sheep" rel="tag">Sheep</a>, <a href="/tags/amman" rel="tag">Amman</a>

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<p>As Muslims around the world are busy wishing each other a blessed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha">Eid al-Adha</a>, some poor bastard has to clean up this lazily discarded sheep carcass from my local dumpster (note the entrails spilled below). Keep it classy, Jordan.</p>

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    <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-09-07T19:32:36&#43;03:00">Wed Sep 07, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in 

<i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;<a href="/tags/mosque" rel="tag">Mosque</a>, <a href="/tags/noise" rel="tag">Noise</a>, <a href="/tags/amman" rel="tag">Amman</a>

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<p>The irony is rich with this one, because this mosque has a sound system from another planet. If I wasn&rsquo;t worried about my personal safety I&rsquo;d put up a sign right next to it saying: <em>Please mute your mosque, there is a sleeping Alan 50m away</em>.</p>

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