The Anti-"Match Thread" Thread | Imaginary vs Nonexistent | Fictitious Stadium | February 30, -2015

[PCP_1]

Was watching True Detective and there was this scene where Rusty walks by this Church announcement thing (after this whole anti religion monologue) with the scrabble-esque letters supposing to say "God is working for you" but instead due to some missing letters it said "God is working you".

Quite a delightful and witty way to relay the whole anti religious theme of the episode.

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[PCP_1]

A bird went straight into the window of our homosexual neighbours who are vacationing in Teneriffa while I was vigilantly smoking. And died, ofcourse.

On a positive note we have a very playful squirrel here. Or Psycho.



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[Nostalgic]

So, I was recently interviewed on the section of this forum that shares its name with a chirping insect, and I was asked a follow-up question about my favorite English and Punjabi words. I haven't answered that question, because I wasn't quite sure what my favorite words were. It just occurred to me, that the Urdu and Punjabi word must be "dheet."

Now, dheet isn't just stubbornness. It is stubbornness, elevated, till it is stratospheric. Stellar.

Like when, instead of going to bed because it is 2AM on a work night, one watches the denouement of a facile contest taking place half way around the world, not because said denouement is likely to play out to one's liking, but because one is dheet.

I had a teacher once, during the time of my youth when my classmates and I were paragons of such stubbornness. The teacher would shake his head and say, "izzat aani jaani cheez hai, insaan ko dheet hona chahiye."

I wonder if he was being sarcastic.

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

So, I was recently interviewed on the section of this forum that shares its name with a chirping insect, and I was asked a follow-up question about my favorite English and Punjabi words. I haven't answered that question, because I wasn't quite sure what my favorite words were. It just occurred to me, that the Urdu and Punjabi word must be "dheet."

Now, dheet isn't just stubbornness. It is stubbornness, elevated, till it is stratospheric. Stellar.

Like when, instead of going to bed because it is 2AM on a work night, one watches the denouement of a facile contest taking place half way around the world, not because said denouement is likely to play out to one's liking, but because one is dheet.

I had a teacher once, during the time of my youth when my classmates and I were paragons of such stubbornness. The teacher would shake his head and say, "izzat aani jaani cheez hai, insaan ko dheet hona chahiye."

I wonder if he was being sarcastic.

Tu inna dheet ain kay tainu chittar vi pay raye hon tay teray dand nahi under honday

A phrase that I listened to a lot while growing up )

 

[SULTAN]

dheet is also used as "dheet mitti"

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

My feelings right now


Main nay poocha kay kal shab kahan thay
Pehlay sharmaaaye phir hans kay bolaaay
Baat aisi kyun tum poochtay ho
Jo bataaanay kay qabil nahi hai

 

[Nostalgic]

The Anti-"Match Thread" Thread | Imaginary vs Nonexistent | Fictitious Stadiu...

I had to go to the seamy side of town yesterday.

Normally I do not venture out of the well-heeled suburbs inhabited by the likes of yours truly, so yesterday was an anomaly. But that is a story for another day.

I drove through the rough neighborhoods, with their dilapidated houses, potholed streets, shirtless, tattooed men idling at the street corners, the telltale hints of drug traffic and crime in the air. My eyes were drawn to a car.

The car had seen better days... twenty years ago. The paint had chipped, exposing the inexorable march of rust across the chassis. The windscreen was pockmarked by pebbles, and the front end had caved in, courtesy some collision long ago that has never been repaired.

Now, such vehicles may not be too out of place in such neighborhoods, but this car had... rims.

The tires may have lost all their tread, and the alignment was off, but the rims were big, new, muscular, their polished chrome radiating, catching and reflecting the glint of the winter sunshine. They were the sort of rims one would find in brand-new muscle cars at the showroom.

It was such an incongruous sight. Those rims screamed fast and furious. One could picture those rims hurtling through the streets at high speed, swinging through obstructions, thriving on the highway. Yet there they were, bogged down by the vehicle that sported them.

I would've liked a word with the owner. Did he feel the rims were hard done by, seeing as they deserved a vehicle better suited to them? Did he marvel at the rims every time he looked at them, ignoring the sorry state of the rest of the car? If those rims could talk, what would they say?

 

[Nostalgic]

The Anti-"Match Thread" Thread | Imaginary vs Nonexistent | Fictitious Stadium | February 30, -2015

There's really no earthly reason to bump this thread, I just felt like it. Also I was talking to [MENTION=138463]Slog[/MENTION] about my presence on (Anti) Match Threads.

I was reading my last post about the shining chrome rims on a dilapidated car, and it reminded me of the mention of the wheel in Sufi parables.

The spinning wheel, the venerable charkha, is a frequent metaphor in Sufi-influenced poetry, representing serial time. The wheel is in perpetual spin, say Baba Bulleh Shah and Co., and remains so until suddenly, it isn't. If we picture ourselves, and all of the rest of creation as part of this celestial wheel, we will come to the realization that being at the apex at any one point in time amounts to very little, if when the spin ceases, we find ourselves at the nadir, skidding along next to the ground, collapsed under all that weight.

For instance, if midway through a turn, we are, say, a 103 degrees above someone else, the tables may well turn in a few days.

Just a thought. Those 16th century babas knew what they were talking about.

 

[Nostalgic]

The recent exchange of posts with [MENTION=2071]saadibaba[/MENTION] on the latest Vital Signs-Junoon thread reminded me of three years or so ago, when we were consumed by existential questions such as whether or not to go buy meat from a store operated by people originally from a country that consumes more than its fair share of fish, how Cirque Du Soleil has nothing on the Lucky Irani Circus and it’s notorious Maut Ka Kuunwaan, and whether I should move to Colorado.

All these discussions took place on this very thread. There is absolutely no other reason to bump it.

 

[waqar goraya]

There might not be any other reason. But the thread was created after a crushing Pakistani defeat.

Today's loss was horrific too but in reality i was amazed at Pakistan's ability to amaze. They always outshine themselves in better outcomes or the worst ones. The win at Lord's was not expected neither the abysmal loss at Leeds.

Nevertheless, there is no heartache, more because i passed by teenage a long time ago but also due to the fact that even 1-1 result from this side was not expected.

 

[Nostalgic]

There might not be any other reason. But the thread was created after a crushing Pakistani defeat.

Today's loss was horrific too but in reality i was amazed at Pakistan's ability to amaze. They always outshine themselves in better outcomes or the worst ones. The win at Lord's was not expected neither the abysmal loss at Leeds.

Nevertheless, there is no heartache, more because i passed by teenage a long time ago but also due to the fact that even 1-1 result from this side was not expected.

All who enter this thread take a solemn vow to speak only in parables, hints, and the occasional innuendo. Therefore, I have no clue what you’re talking about. Was there a match? This week? At Leeds, of all places?

 

[waqar goraya]

All who enter this thread take a solemn vow to speak only in parables, hints, and the occasional innuendo. Therefore, I have no clue what you’re talking about. Was there a match? This week? At Leeds, of all places?

But i did not enter this thread for the first time, just that i took a very long break. In the meantime i have lost the purpose of this thread and my life. I can no more distinguish between real and imaginary either.
Now, were you asking about a sport where we mostly have a mis-match? In that case i won't be able to help you further because it was indeed forgettable.

 

[Nostalgic]

Now, were you asking about a sport where we mostly have a mis-match? In that case i won't be able to help you further because it was indeed forgettable.

In the words of Confederate General, sorry, Attorney General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, “I do not recall.”