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My brother got me this bumper sticker as a gift and a joke of course.

!وظفك؟

I LOL’d!

To make more sense for non-Arabic speakers, the phrase ‘What the f**k’ (pronounced ‘Wath-tha-fuk’) translates to “Did he hire you?”

It comes from a joke that came out several years ago, where a dim-witted fellow (Dim-wit) walks out of a building where he was being interviewed for a job, as an angry dude (Angry-dude) walks in.

Dim-wit accidentally bumps into Angry dude. Angry-dude, being the angry dude that he is, cries out “God damnit!“. Dim-wit, thinking Angry-dude is saying “Gaddamit?”, (“Did you apply?” in Arabic) replies “Ah wallah Gaddamit!” (Yes, I applied!).

Baffled by Dim-wit’s idiotic response, Angry-dude bellows: “What the F**K!“. Now Dim-wit, thinking Angry-dude asked him “Did he hire you?”, responds: “La wallah ma wathafni, Allah yikhrib baito!” (No, he didn’t hire me. That jerk!)

So if you ever see a car roaming the streets of Dubai with the infamous ‘Did he hire you?‘ bumper sticker on, do say hello, it’s probably me.

And yes, of course, it’s from Jordan!

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