Story of Appreciation
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Today i read one story, that really inspired me. Here i am sharing with you. Have a look... One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company. He passed the first interview; the director did the last interview, made the last decision. The director discovered from the CV that the youth's academic achievements were excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never had a year when he did not score. The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarships in school?" the youth answered "none". The director asked, " Was it your father who paid for your school fees?" The youth answered, "My father passed away when I was one year old, it was my mother who paid for my school fees. The director asked, " Where did your mother work?" The youth answered, "My mother worked as clothes cleaner. The director requested the youth to show his hands. The youth showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect. The director asked, " Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?" The youth answered, "Never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books. Furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me. The director said, "I have a request. When you go back today, go and clean your mother's hands, and then see me tomorrow morning.* The youth felt that his chance of landing the job was high. When he went back, he happily requested his mother to let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange, happy but with mixed feelings, she showed her hands to the kid. The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly. His tear fell as he did that. It was the first time he noticed that his mother's hands were so wrinkled, and there were so many bruises in her hands. Some bruises were so painful that his mother shivered when they were cleaned with water. This was the first time the youth realized that it was this pair of hands that washed the clothes everyday to enable him to pay the school fee. The bruises in the mother's hands were the price that the mother had to pay for his graduation, academic excellence and his future. After finishing the cleaning of his mother hands, the youth quietly washed all the remaining clothes for his mother. That night, mother and son talked for a very long time. Next morning, the youth went to the director's office. The Director noticed the tears in the youth's eyes, asked: " Can you tell me what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?" The youth ans
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Non sequitur, mate.
Stereotype A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image; A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type
Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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Non sequitur, mate.
Stereotype A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image; A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type
Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
He may have looked at the OP's origin. Given that this is Indian, he may have thought that it would have been better recieved in that Forum. That is not stereotyping, merely expressing an opinion. And don't forget that the word stereotype exists for a reason! Because there are sterotypical trends, simply denying it does not make it go away!
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I voted you a 1 for the stereotyping. My first reaction to the new forum was that we would start having "Get lost in the Indian forum" messages. Unfortunately, I've been proved right.
Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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JFergulbops wrote:
lol thesauras freak
Real clever, from a guy who can't write. LOL is an abreviation so it shouild be in capitals and there is no stop at the end of your sentence. In a word - Fail.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
LOL is an abreviation
Isn't it an acronym, or possibly an initialism? If it is an abbreviation then it should not be capitalised because it is designed to still be read as laugh out loud and not Laugh Out Loud. That's what I think anyway.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Eswa wrote:
...but try and forward this story to as many as possible...
So essentially this is a very lazy attempt at spam?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
So essentially this is a very lazy attempt at spam?
Hardly lazy given the seemingly never endingness of it, though it could have been pasted. Definitely spam, that makes me throw up too.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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What a bucket load of 'Hallmarkised', vomitous, saccharined, anti-motivational, dire, repulsive sputum. Please, grow a pair and man up. It is this kind of hideous obsiquious drivel that is driving the world to boredom and depression as well as a decline in our species' ability to survive. Pass me a bucket whilst I puke the specious clap-trap into the Latrine of Crapulent Prose.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
What a bucket load of 'Hallmarkised', vomitous, saccharined, anti-motivational, dire, repulsive sputum. Please, grow a pair and man up. It is this kind of hideous obsiquious drivel that is driving the world to boredom and depression as well as a decline in our species' ability to survive. Pass me a bucket whilst I puke the specious clap-trap into the Latrine of Crapulent Prose.
I usually don't agree with you Dave but I have to on this one. Well said. :thumbsup:
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In one way, you're right. But here's the explanation: It is my understanding from reading posts of a similar type (all made by Indians) - that you like this sort of texts in India. There's nothing wrong with that. But a big part of western users will feel like upchucking (like DD). Luckily it was posted before lunch... ;) Therefor: Posting stuff like this in the lounge will often generate a rain of univotes, whereas it will generate 5-votes in GIT. Hence my suggestion - for the OP's own sake...
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
My first reaction to the new forum was that we would start having "Get lost in the Indian forum" messages
Actually, I have always been against opening the Indian forum, because I didn't like the way it separates users in two or more camps. But now that it is there, and you have the opportunity of directing a post towards the people that will appreciate it the most, why not use it?
1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
I realize your original post was not said with malice, my apologies for jumping the gun. I've seen some nasty comments like "Where's the 'Move to the Indian forum' button?" that really piss me off.
Johnny J. wrote:
that you like this sort of texts in India
Not all of us do :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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I realize your original post was not said with malice, my apologies for jumping the gun. I've seen some nasty comments like "Where's the 'Move to the Indian forum' button?" that really piss me off.
Johnny J. wrote:
that you like this sort of texts in India
Not all of us do :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
No problem... thanks! :thumbsup:
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Not all of us do
I know...
1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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I realize your original post was not said with malice, my apologies for jumping the gun. I've seen some nasty comments like "Where's the 'Move to the Indian forum' button?" that really piss me off.
Johnny J. wrote:
that you like this sort of texts in India
Not all of us do :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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So in what way is a gargoyle synonymous with a freak? You're out on a limb here trying to rescue what little honour you have left... ;P :cool:
1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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So you're satisfied being a thesaurus grotesque? :) OK, if you apply it to yourself then I'll buy it, otherwise I will still maintain that the term "a thesaurus grotesque" makes little or no sense at all... :-\
1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Grotesque isn't used much as a noun now, but it still is one (because of legacy texts that contain it being used so).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Nonsense. Look at some of the work by Quentin Matsys. He painted Grotesques. Here is a picture of one.[^]
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
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A grotesque is what hangs off a cathedral. It is like a Gargoyle, only it does not act at a rainwater remover. Perhaps a dictionary would help you... See under the Noun terms[^] or maybe a Picture[^].
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
Pictures always make it so much easier :)
As barmey as a sack of badgers Dude, if I knew what I was doing in life, I'd be rich, retired, dating a supermodel and laughing at the rest of you from the sidelines.
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In one way, you're right. But here's the explanation: It is my understanding from reading posts of a similar type (all made by Indians) - that you like this sort of texts in India. There's nothing wrong with that. But a big part of western users will feel like upchucking (like DD). Luckily it was posted before lunch... ;) Therefor: Posting stuff like this in the lounge will often generate a rain of univotes, whereas it will generate 5-votes in GIT. Hence my suggestion - for the OP's own sake...
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
My first reaction to the new forum was that we would start having "Get lost in the Indian forum" messages
Actually, I have always been against opening the Indian forum, because I didn't like the way it separates users in two or more camps. But now that it is there, and you have the opportunity of directing a post towards the people that will appreciate it the most, why not use it?
1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
Johnny J. wrote:
Actually, I have always been against opening the Indian forum
Me too. There shouldn't be separate fora for different programming languages, movie watchers, book readers, sports fans, people of certain ages or places, or Barbie lovers, either. There should be one, and only one, Internet forum, where everyone posts messages about anything and from any perspective. Wading through 750,000,000,000 messages a day is not too high a price to pay for togetherness.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Johnny J. wrote:
Actually, I have always been against opening the Indian forum
Me too. There shouldn't be separate fora for different programming languages, movie watchers, book readers, sports fans, people of certain ages or places, or Barbie lovers, either. There should be one, and only one, Internet forum, where everyone posts messages about anything and from any perspective. Wading through 750,000,000,000 messages a day is not too high a price to pay for togetherness.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Sorry - haven't got time to play with you today...
1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Nonsense. Look at some of the work by Quentin Matsys. He painted Grotesques. Here is a picture of one.[^]
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
Look at some of the work by Quentin Matsys.
Correction:
Mark Wallace wrote:
Grotesque isn't used much as a noun now, but it still is one (because of legacy texts that contain it being used so, and paintings of them).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
