Picturing Jordan

Sharing Jordan with the world — one picture at a time.

Don’t WhatsApp and Drive

Billboard in Amman cautions against using your phone while driving

Billboard in Amman cautions against using your phone while driving

I can’t even read Arabic but I’m pretty sure that billboard is telling people to put their fucking phones down while driving. It’s like an epidemic here. I’ve never seen people look less at the road while driving than here in Amman.

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Eid Mubarak in Your Neighborhood Dumpster

Sheep carcass lazily discarded in neighborhood dumpster

Sheep carcass lazily discarded in neighborhood dumpster

As Muslims around the world are busy wishing each other a blessed Eid al-Adha, 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.

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No Noise Near the Noisy Mosque

Sign forbidding sound near mosque on Rainbow Street, Amman

Sign forbidding sound near mosque on Rainbow Street, Amman

The irony is rich with this one, because this mosque has a sound system from another planet. If I wasn’t worried about my personal safety I’d put up a sign right next to it saying: Please mute your mosque, there is a sleeping Alan 50m away.

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