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Hod
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| Wake up and smell the kaowa halib, hod. Sorry, I'm behind the times here. When's Ramadam over? |
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Mark Loyd
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| Hod, is this your first Ramadan? I made the same mistake in my first Gulf Ramadan. �, too ran out of beer. I was much better prepared for the second one though. I still had some left at the end! Learn from your mistakes. |
all 18 months of it |
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SandyMcIvor
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:15 am Post subject: |
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| Hod wrote: |
| When's Ramadam over? |
The end of Ramadan (Eid Al-Fitr) is 3 November 2005. |
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Hod
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Is it getting earlier every year or something? If my calculations are correct, it'll start being twice a year by 2037. |
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Stephen Jones
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| Is it getting earlier every year or something? |
The Islamic year is based on twelve lunar months so it is a dozen days shorter than the Gregorian year, and so Ramadan goes back every year.
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| If my calculations are correct, it'll start being twice a year by 2037 |
.It's never going to be twice in an Islamic year. There will however be one year every thirty-four years or so when Eid Al-Fitr will occur twice in one Gregorian year. The last time this happened was in the year 2000. |
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Hod
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Is it that time again? Have to admit, my Rammers alarm clock never went off this year.
Living in Bavaria, I reckon it�s bang on that this year�s Rammers coincides with Oktoberfest. Both festivals are way overrated, cause people to do daft things whilst wearing even dafter clothes and once it�s dark eat, drink and vomit. Enjoy. |
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Jetgirly
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| I'm back in Canada and it's my first year teaching in the public school system. I'm teaching in a fairly upscale part of town where most of the students are, oddly, bussed in from the poorest part of town. It's quite... interesting. Our school has a huge Muslim student body (I'd guess that about 50-60% of the students are Muslim) and somehow school administration managed to plan a back to school barbecue on the first day of classes... which was also the first day of Ramadan! Very awkward... I'm hearing a lot of students complaining about feeling tired and having unexplained aches and pains. It must be tough for these kids; I feel bad. |
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Hod
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London today
Sunrise: 04:42
Sunset: 21:19
When I was in Morocco, a few non-Muslim female colleagues did sympathy fasts. I only know because I had to cover for them when they called in sick from doing so.
Anyone up for an 18-hour sympathy fast here in the UK? |
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Unrung School Bell
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| I love living in a free land where where nobody cares if it's Ramadan! |
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scot47
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Hod has only now learned that the Muslims use a lunar calendar ? Did he learn nothing in all his time in the Land of the Believer ?
Tut-tut ! |
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