You may be missing India, when you ......

Digital Drifter

Who/what is a jobsworth. a skim through Google didn't help

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Judi

Ah! A "Jobsworth" is someone who sticks to the rules of his job - usually against all reason and logic.

Someone who, when asked if you might park there for a couple of minutes/take a picture/ whatever .... will suck on his teeth and say " that's more than my job's worth".

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tigerwatcher

1.You consider your neighbours interfering busy-bodies because they have reported you to the Enviromental Health for fetchingly decorating the exterior of your house with ripe cow dung.
2.You vow to practise your spitting skills until you become proficient enough to wind down your window and hit a moving object at 20 yards.
3.You report your local bus driver because he will not let you on board with a four foot metal trunk,two sacks of aubergines and three crates of live chickens.
4.You decide to supplement your meagre finances by stopping "foreigners",silently thrusting into their hand a dog-eared piece of paper that says,"pliss giv munny I am duff and dump".
5.You become annoyed with other Europeans who ask"What is your good name and your profession?" and do not innocently accept your strait-faced reply"Sanjay Patel,retired cycle rickshaw wallah".

sirensongs

Yep - anyone who has a spare $1000 for the R/T airfare can buy me a vacation in the US. I think $400 will do it for Europe.

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sirensongs

But I DON'T have a cold and it's March in Andhra Pradesh. That is strictly your interjection, based on your attempt to rationalize idiotic behaviour.

The ice water and the headaches did not coincide, dumbass.

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It can't possibly be that, in fact, the questions are stupid...can it???
Far more likely that the IF was incapable of intellectual conversation in English.
Get real.

And you're right - I am not interested in "intellectual conversaton" with someone who rots their brain with Hindi movies 3 hours a day.

jivan

The last part is the only which I don't agree with. I'm an indian sometimes do watch a hindi movie (although most of them are shorter than 3 hrs.) but saying it rots the mind is a u'r interpretation. I do get to see lot of independant cinema (which I love) alongwith the commercial ones. And they do make sense.

nomad

and you call them your friend(s). did you come to india to feel superior?? or you are one of those who could not afford a holiday in Europe.

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iwanttogoback

It can't possibly be that, in fact, the questions are stupid...can it???
Far more likely that the IF was incapable of intellectual conversation in English.
Get real.

And you're right - I am not interested in "intellectual conversaton" with someone who rots their brain with Hindi movies 3 hours a day.[/quote]




did you really need to be so rude to somebody who was just trying to have a laugh?

lotus blossom

i agree. i watch a fair amount of hindi films, and find them fascinating. i prefer the serious ones, but some of the bollywood ones interest me too.

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emilii

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jgv

........I have spent my Sunday afternoon reading all of this thread from Page 17 and working backwards to the beginning.

Then decide the only thing I can eat for dinner will have to be Indian so I ring my fave Indian restuarant so I can go and get some takeaway yummy dahl!

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Digital Drifter

bu...but there are only 13 pages so far in this thread, as seen in my browser, firefox 1.5!

tigerwatcher

1.You begin to doubt the authenticity of your local Indian restaurant because you have never seen,in the back yard,the kitchen-wallah,squatting next to an open sewer,while washing 43 large tin plates in a small plastic bowl of green water.
2.You hop into a cab and say to the Asian driver"Bus station,chelo,jaldii" and he replies"Do what mate?".
3.You are nearly assaulted,in your local pub,by a stranger,who mis-understood when you say"You remind me of an old fakir I once knew."
4.You are arrested for having six people on your motorbike.Your plea,that the three year old sitting on the handlebars was wearing a baseball cap,is not accepted in mitigation.
5.You get annoyed when your barber refuses to allow you to sit in a chair ,on the pavement outside his shop,while being shaved

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gypsy

That list really made me laugh
What a tonic

aventura

*Every morning you go out and make a beautifull flowerdecoration on your doorstep (rangavalli)
*In the summer you try to wear your nice salwaar kameez on the streets......
* in your livingroom the walls are krishna blue and you dont have furniture like couches or chairs ( I really had this for two years after my indiatrip, only carpets and a low table, my friends and family really complained about this!)
*You sleep every night under you mosquitonet, just for the feeling..
* In shops you expect all the time that the shopkeeper comes to you and asks you in an unfriendly manner: What do you want!
* In your house you have an altar with ganesha and your favorite Guru
*you find your country so colourless and grey
* you daydream a lot about going back
* saying your mantra is a daily habit
* you always drink your water from the bottle indian style; so you don't touch it with your mouth!! ( a nice trick!)