Happy Ramadan and Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Day!

[flutterbyz]

Today is the first day of Ramadan, and I've decided to do it. So, this means I wake up at 4:30 or so to eat breakfast, then don't eat, drink, swear, brush my teeth, or get angry until after 7 or so at night. This goes on for the next 30 days or so (til Oct. 22?). (The times change daily, so that's why there are so many "or so"s) Most of the

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[ameinias]

Cigarette butts everywhere really bugs me. If you live in an urban center in canada, there are trash cans EVERYWHERE, and cigarette cans at the entrances of most public buildings for expressly such a purpose! It takes maybe have a second to stop it out and pick it up again. Seriously, people!

I don't know anything about ramadan, but that's a weird combination of things to diet from. brushing your teeth is off limits? I also find "get angry" weird and impossible (and probably extremely unhealthy for most people.) Although lately I've been refining myself in the fine, fine, bad art of turing off fustration within a few seconds of it hitting, out of nessessity to get things done, but this tends to leave me with fustration temper tantrums every few weeks.

[flutterbyz]

Exactly!! And how many of them even bother to stamp it out, too? I see so many who just launch it off in no particular direction.

for the long and exhaustive version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan. The short version goes like this: allowing anything to pass down your esophagus is not allowed between dawn and dusk (so you can brush your teeth, just don't swallow of it), and you must also try your best to keep your patience with everything (despite your dizziness from lack of food and dehydration headache) and in general be more of a good person than normal. It sort of gives you an appreciation for people who have to go through living like that every day because of poverty and bad working conditions.

Sort of keeping your nose to the grindstone kind of thing? Yeah, I can see why that would explode every so often, but also why it's sort of necessary.