1. You already know what your having for dinner – Bariis or Baasta (Rice or Spaghetti)
2. You Eat bananas with every meal (Usually Bariis or Baasta), and your probably eating one as you are reading this.
3. You have more than 5 siblings and another 10 relatives in one House!
4. You love eating Canjeera
5. Your mother invites people you’ve never seen before to your house, and she tells you its your Eda, Atheer, or Inn-Atheer (Aunt, Uncle, Or Cousin)
6. You know which tribe you are, and so quick to tell any other Somali person,
7. Every Somali you know is some how related to you
8. You know 10 Mohammed’s in and you probably have Mohamed, Ahmed, Hassan and Abdisomething in one of your three names.
9. You have 100’s of cousins you’ve never met, but its cool, cause you can basically visit any country and have a relative to stay with...
10. You bite your batteries or put it in the freezer thinking it will magically recharge!
11. You got your ass wooped by your Hooyo(mom) or Aabo(dad), and they’d always hit you with the closest Dacas(sandles) or stick!!
12. You are a somali woman if you crash weddings, and as soon as you get in there you ask ppl who’s the bride & groom.
13. When Your with a person of the opposite sex, u gotta hide from any Somali man/woman cause you know soon as they get home, the news will some how filter...
14. You celebrate your birthday on January 1…
15. Your Skinny or Fat, because theres no in-between for Somalis .
16. You call a towel, ‘Toowal’,
17. You say ‘Sigis’ instead of 6
18. Your planning to get married before the age of 24
19. You know your somali when your hooyo(mom) screams on long distance phone calls.
20. You know your somali when you hang curtains infront of doorways.
21. You know your somali when you re-use cooking saleed.
22. You know your Somali lady when you got 5 brothers ready to fuck up any fool that try to holla at you
23. You know you’re Somali when your hoyoo(mom) is the kitchen drinking shah(tea) gossiping....
24. You know your Somali when you leave your money at home, cause you know soon as you hit a restaurant with your friends they all gonna ask for money...
25. You Know Your Somali living abroad when everyone in your house 18 or under is getting government aid..and hALF of THEm WORK!!
26. You Know your Somali when you say close the lights instead of turn off the lights.
27. You Know your Somali when the back of ur TV remote control has some sort of Tape on it.
28. You know your Somali when every other word out of ur mouth is ‘wallahi’
29. You know you're Somali when...your mom & 10 of her friends/neighbours carpool together to go visit a sick person in the hospital....Then get mad at the hospital staff when told there can only be 2 visitors at a time in the room - the rest need to wait.
30. You know you somali if you say "surely you are another one" when amazed by a person!! (direct translation of "Kukale baad tahay"
31. You know you're Somali...if you pride yourself on being the "Somali"....
32. You know you're Somali...if you try to support Somali run businesses (just because they're your ppl, even if you can get a better service elsewhere)

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