ayy JOONAMS
Hope we made the early week a little more bearable for you guys with a little humor on the tumbLOLr (tumble here). As for myself, I’ve been putting this song on REPEAT…mourning over the fun/careless summer I never had #firstworldproblems #momoneymoproblems
hit play if you feel like your summer was unjustly cut short, too.
Do you know what’s great about speaking another language a.k.a Persian/Farsi?
The sh!t talking.
Yes, we’re all guilty of being mean in our mother tongue. It’s a privilege we use and abuse.
And its not just Iranians– anyone with the advantage of a second language can and does do it. I swear my nail lady is always talking smack about me in a voice that’s barely above a whisper. However, for my friends and I- Farsi doesn’t cut it anymore.
In California: Talk Shit, Get Hit. Especially if its in Persian. The chance that someone in the room understands you is more than 50%, and the chance that you’re talking about a Persian is even higher.
So when all else fails, we use acronyms. And this was a long-winded introduction for our most meaningful one yet:
