Anyway

I got it

I did get the joke and I laughed too.

Films are products of human minds with an underlying message. Some make us cry or fearful and some make us laugh. But they each communicate a point. 

I do confess that I am guilty of being the party pooper by going beyond our laughter by analyzing why sometimes we laugh at ourselves.

Yes I am sure it took many back to school or college days "in Iran". I rest my case :-)

I think David has a point here...

But he was out of context in his remark. We shouldn’t get defensive if one of us criticizing us. Man, you should’ve read Ahmad Kasravi's writings. Don’t you think Hedayat does the same thing? Don’t worry it empowers us. However I think David didn’t get the joke. I got a big kick out of this clip. It took me back to my college days in Iran. Very funny indeed! Thanks Party Girl!

I know it ALL!

Just give me a microphone, keyboared or just a .........pen !and...............something to hide behind it, I know EVERYTHING!

I can cook a "ghorme sabzi" and I can solve world poverty.

I know why gas price is so out of wack and I know how to save Perspolis.

I know how to make an academy award winning movie and I know how to shoe a horse.

I can "peyvand" G**z be SHAGHIGHEH !!!!!!

ALL it takes is a ............fake alias and a keyboard.

I have a solution and a recomendation for everything.

Just walk me to the stage and........S   I   T     B   A   C   K  ! 

Jamshid kheili bahali to namiri

What year did you graduate from High school?

This is not about you or I but statistics

Have you been in Tehran's traffic and seen how WE drive there? Given the power of a driving car,  we abuse each others rights constantly. The way each nation drives sometimes is a good indication of where they are when it comes to corruption and abuse of one another.

Actually societies just like individuals have general characteristics, cultures, habits etc. This does not mean that each individual has those traits but as a whole they do. 

Pakistiani's act differently than Swedish etc etc.. 

I too lived there. Statistically chance of a Scandinavian cheating without supervision is MUCH less than an Iranian. The kids see learn from their society and uncles and TV etc etc

Chance of a Japanese loitering in the street is much less than an Iranian or Arab or Mexican.

This does not apply to every single person but applies socially.  This is not a racial remark but an observation of a problem that has many sources which have nothing to do with race, gender, etc etc...

The problems have historical, political, educational, social, religious and other roots. The first step to cure a decease is to see its symptoms, recognizeit, acknowledge it , behonest and then cure it.

This absolutely has NOTHING to do with human rights, we all have certian right regardless of how we act! We individually and socially are each at a different levels of this path but have equal human rights.

Like I wrote in my last article, honesty is what we need first with ourselves and then with each other, that is if we want to get somewhere.

Unfair comments by David ET.

I guess he was angry with the system and instead directed his fury towards a nation as whole!!

Really...

Az ma'ast ke bar ma'ast

Az ma'ast ke bar ma'ast

Those were the days, my friend!

Do you remember the very popular saying in schools?

" TAGHALLOB TAVAAN GAR KONAD MARD RAA

  TO KHAR KON DABEER-E KHERAD MAND RAA "

Joking aside, WE owe a LOT to our teachers, My hats off to them.

David ET

A gross over-generalization, Mr. ET! Very unfair and very untrue. I am baffled hearing this statement from you, someone whom I have come to believe is genuinely interested in human rights. You do know that such over-generalization is really a way of stereotyping a whole nation? How would you react if you heard a non-Iranian call the entire Iranian nation as cheaters, as you just did? I would react in the same way as if I had heard that an entire ethnic group in the US is lazy or low in IQ. I would be appalled and indignant.

Self-loathing and self-deprecation do not achieve anything for Iranians, as self-congratulation doesn't. Can't we just believe that we are like everyone else in the world, human, some of us cheaters and some of us honest?

P.S. The guys in the clip were just a bunch of young guys, kidding around in a VERY exaggerated way, trying to be funny. I think they failed miserably on you!

True

We Iranians are very good at cheating others, each other and ourselves . 

It is called corruption which leads to the type of governments and societies that WE create.