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Sep 1st, 2003, 00:03
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| Maha Infrequent Member  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Gurgaon
Posts: 1,505
| - When every week you go around visiting all the indian shops in 25km radius, most of the time without buying anything. (yes you did it last week) - When you hate having tea made of tea bags (dip-dip chai), and hunt for a chai wallah - When you pick up pre-cooked Indian stuff from Tesco's and sainsbury, inspite of knowing that they taste horrible - invite friends over for indian dinner to try out the reciepies you downloaded. - Steal up 2 days old 'Times of India' or India Today from an indian restaurant. - You say namaste the moment you see an Indian face. - when you think its waste of money, buying toilet rolls - When cake looks like burfi and sandwich like vada-pav - When any heavy sounding motocycles sounds like Enfield enuf for time being...Its difficult for me to write on this as I'm already in India. More on the way.....
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Sep 1st, 2003, 01:18
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| 100 % head-wobble  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Belgium
Posts: 139
| ---you'll have to tell the local indian restaurant to make your meal 'extra' spicy . ---you get served a not-so-cold beer ---you're on the toilet, and there's no toilet paper |
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Sep 1st, 2003, 03:04
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Northern California
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Sep 1st, 2003, 06:02
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| Lord of Kalinjar  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: the real surf city
Posts: 2,646
 | when your wife has an errand for you to do and you reply- "send the boy!"
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Sep 1st, 2003, 11:30
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| Member  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Yangon, MYANMAR
Posts: 4,126
| When you spend half the day at LP's "Indian sub continent" branch of the TT and the other half here!
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Sep 1st, 2003, 13:50
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| Member  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: South of England.
Posts: 12,304
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....walk around the market looking for the rope to light your ciggy. | |
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Sep 1st, 2003, 19:31
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| kitchen guru  Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: universe
Posts: 344
| when your door bell rings and you always think it s the room boy bringing you some chai |
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Sep 1st, 2003, 20:25
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| You look, No Problem!  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Berlin, Germany
Posts: 241
| -When you demand to know why you can’t buy any biddies -When you are constantly converting your western prices into rupees and freaking on how much money things cost. -Put up a REAL old rusty ceiling fan with one nail and a piece of gum, turn it on to purify and sleep like a rock under it all night -When you start the day off with masala anything... |
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Sep 1st, 2003, 20:49
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Munich - Germany
Posts: 109
| - when you searching for neonlamps over your bed in european hotels, - when you go to the cinema 2 times a week just to see "Kabhie Kushi, Kabhie Gham" - when you hang around in your local asian food market to touch all the indian spice packets; and buy your fourth haldi-packet (just in case of an haldi-emergency!) - when you walk very very slowly behind indian employees in your business company. Just for to hear this wonderful english and the melody - when you get depressed if you don't have the time to cook dhal at least one time a week and - when you have a small guilty conscience because you maybe thinking of a holiday NOT in India...  want more?  |
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Sep 2nd, 2003, 04:30
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| Honorary Mod  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: McLaren Vale, South Australia
Posts: 1,219
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Yes we want more Angelika go for your life mate! rab | |
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Sep 2nd, 2003, 20:23
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| Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: South of England.
Posts: 12,304
| ...go without lunch to get 15 minutes on indiamike.com.  From a big-headed, hungry steve.  |
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Sep 2nd, 2003, 22:01
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| Just a dude..  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: USofA
Posts: 58
| * At local McDonalds, you ask for McDosa. * You roll down the window and ask for directions. * Add garam masala to your Thanksgiving turkey. * You inhale exhaust fumes and it feels good. * At the local Irish or Italian pub you think about the Indian flag. * You smile at strangers and ask "Wat is your good name, sir". * At home, when you are alone, you eat with your hands. |
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Sep 3rd, 2003, 01:20
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| Member  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: U.K
Posts: 28
| *At home get an old smelly vest to clean the floor with and then use it to wipe the table and then flick it over your shoulder. *Find an old bike tyre and run along the road pushing it with a stick. *Grow your thumb nail really long and paint it with red varnish. *Wear a lungi and old white vest while out in town. |
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Sep 3rd, 2003, 01:42
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Southampton UK
Posts: 1,866
| The UK experience! Say "Sat Shri Akal" to the old Sikh guy taking his dog for a walk down the back alley. When driving try and merge in at speed at a roundabout. Bargain at your local Asian shop. That's Ok, they don't have prices on anything anyway. Patiently wait in your car while two Indians in their cars have a conversation in the street blocking all traffic! |
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Sep 3rd, 2003, 03:11
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| Member  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Posts: 15
| You may be missing India when:- - you get evicted from a UK train because you were enjoying the novelty of watching your pee splatter onto the "moving" track below. - you request medicine for mild heat rash at your local chemist and wonder why they don't stock Lindane cream.  - you go to your local bank to cash a cheque and barge to the front of the queue because you're a girl, insist that you can only do business with the manager, then fill in every paper form you can find and surrender your all your identity documents to the bank. |
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