A few things I dislike most about this most holey of months:
1. No drinking during the day - not really a problem if you do your pub-crawling at night, a lot more problematic if you prefer water/juice/milk/coffee during the day
2. No eating during the day - what, no bacon!?
3. No sex during the day - not really a problem if your time in the sack happens after the sun goes down, otherwise very problematic
4. Not enough sleep - because I'm trying so hard to catch up on #1-3 at night
5. Weight gain - fasting yet gaining weight because eating sweet snacks and hunks of meat throughout the night isn't helpful
6. Fasting breath - during any other month your Muslim mates would hand you a mint, during Ramadan they're the ones hungering for a mint
7. Reminds me why I shouldn't have skipped Quranic studies class and hung around KFC with my mates during my teenage years - because it's embarassing to not have a clue why people are acting so holy (and expecting me to act so holy) in this holiest of months
8. Only lasts for a month - should run through every weekday so we all can have a convenient excuse for being unproductive, glassy-eyed, foul-breathed zombies at work and go home early
A little bit of humour to get us through this most irritating of months
Seriously, I wonder why no one in the mainstream media has spoken out against the negative effects of Islamic fasting. Dehydration, low blood sugar, headaches and inability to concentrate are annoying in the office, potentially life-threatening when you're driving or operating heavy machinery. Islamic fasting has no health value at all but no one dares to say that out loud in fear of upsetting the Muslim lobby.