Tunisian Staring Contest


Basically this is some sort of game that I came across in one of the squares in Tunisia. These two were sitting and just staring at each other. They were blinking but not moving at all. Apparently the ‘game’ can last for hours… The building behind them is a mosque and so they even keep playing through the call for prayers and all the people walking past them.

Anyone seen this game before?

Tunisia-08666.jpgTunisia-08669.jpgTunisia-08671.jpg

4 Comments Add yours

  1. Liza says:

    this is too funny! I could never participate…I’d start laughing right away LOL

    Liked by 1 person

    1. Funkstop says:

      That’s what I was thinking! The girl had the smirk look on her face the whole time.

      Like

  2. Faiza says:

    Never heard of it before outside of the usual staring contests that Junior Kindergarteners do. Those are fun of course.

    Wondering if the Tunisian version is live art?

    Liked by 1 person

    1. Funkstop says:

      hmmm.. good question. i asked a few people and the said it was ‘une jeu’ — seemed like a king of the court sort of deal with people waiting to take on the winner. but the camera guy was definitely associated somehow i think so maybe art as well

      Like

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s