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Gujju,never mind Contrarian.

Nevertheless, WE will eff Gujju. Moving on:

1. You say "town " and expect everyone to know that this means south, say south of Churchgate.


2. You speak in a dialect of Hindi which only WE understand.



3. Your door has more than three locks.



4. Rs 500 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.



5. Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life.



6. You spend more time each month traveling than you spend at home.



7. You call an 8' x 10' clustered room a Hall.



8. You're paying Rs 10,000 for a 1 room flat, the size of walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."



9. You have train friends, a species unique only in Bombay.



10. Cabbies and bus conductors think you are from Mars if you call the roads by their desi name, they are more familiar with Warden Road, Peddar � Road, Altamount Road.



11. Stock market quotes are the only other thing besides cricket which you follow passionately.



12. The first thing that you read is the "Bombay Times" supplement.



13. You take fashion seriously. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.



14. Hookers, beggars and the homeless are invisible.



15. You compare Bombay to New York instead of any other cities of India.



16. The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.



17. You insist on calling CST as VT, and Sahar and Santacruz airports instead of Chatra... Int. Airport.



18. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.



19. Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.



20. Being truly alone makes you nervous.



21. You love wading through knee deep mucky water in the monsoons, and actually call it ''romantic'.



22. Only in Bombay , you would get Chinese Dosa and Jain Chicken.



23. You always argue with Delhites that Mumbai is way better than Delhi



24. You still refer to the city as Bombay.



25. When you love bragging about the filmstars and cricketers you've seen



26. When most of your freinds have underworld connections



27. Every three months you look at your street and say "Why're the digging the road again?"



28. "Change" is "Chillar", "Ditching" is a "Kalti" and "Trouble" is "Jhol".



29. "Gheun Tak" is your life ideology.



30. You have been shoo'd away from Marine Drive at 3am by the cops because of an "Unlawful gathering of persons"



31. You actually pay for your rickshaws by the meter.



32. You actually think 30Rs for a Sada Dosa is pretty reasonable.



33. when you spent 6 hours of your day in school and another 3 hours in tuitions.



34. if you ever went to fashion street, got a pair of cheap jeans and had them tagged as a name brand.



35. if you played cricket matches against another building for 5 rupee bets.



36. if you lost tons of MRF rubber balls.



37. when u call cops ;kaka' and they let u go if u show of ur marathi speaking skills



38. amitabh bachans house is a landmark



39. You have been to matheran or mahabaleshwar during the summer vacations



40. You see men (not gay apparently) holding hands and walking in the street.



41. The note to coin changing machine at Churchgate station is idolized.



42. During cricket season all the roads are blocked because people in the streets are looking at television screens in display windows.



43. Automatic vending machines have a sales person sitting next to it just to help you.



44. There are more movie tickets being sold in black than at the ticket office.



45. It takes longer to get off from your house to the station than from one end of Mumbai to another by train.



46. Every cab and rickshaw driver makes small talk with you.



47. You see Herd of people walking at four in the morning to Siddhi Vinayak temple.



48. 'Bun Maska' and 'vada pav' is the staple diet of most collegians.



49. HORN OK PLEASE is written on every truck, tempo and heavy motor vehicle.



50. You cant drive for more than 10 mins without abusing someone.

Goa Holi
- This is where the Russian, Isreali, Irani non-Army, EU, etc.armies furlough.


My Ppl.'s
-just in case

(c) "Shera Di Kaum" (Full video song) Speedy Singhs Feat. "Akshay Kumar", "RDB", "Ludacris" - YouTube
 
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Yes, that is Kerala.

Most of the Saudis who go to India, goes there. My family has been there twice.
Ah.. I see. I have never gone to Kerala. But I did not know it was popular in the Middle East.

So far, Al-Qaida and their affiliates had shown no interests in attacking India.

Saudi Arabia's policy shift toward India helps nab terror suspects - The Washington Post

You're used to hear these kind of tones all the time though :) ..

Saudi terrorists should come home and we will handle them.
He was joking mate.
 
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For totally un-related and unaccountable reasons, I saw this pic


and drifted off to 70-80's Bollywood. Internet logic at work. Bollywood star galaxy came to mind. Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh, Yusuf Dilip Kumar Khan, Raj Kapoor from a gen. ago too.

Long story short, SRK has delivered about a dozen ... hold on ... $ Billion hits. 1 man industry! Dozen more stars, and they keep making them. Bollywood mega- Factory churns out 1 man industries. like SRK worth Pak. Rs. 1020 Cr.'s; as I keep saying, a $ goes some 10-25 times far in India, even farther in Pakistan. Just 1 SRK is
  • Rs. 10 x 1020 to 25 x 1020 = Rs. 10200 to 25500 Cr.'s :woot: min.
Amir, Salman, Akshay, Shahid Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Karishma, Abhishek, and others consistently deliver $ mega million, even $ Billion Bollywood hits. Then the endorsements, ads, appearances.

Conclusion:
  • Indians should thank Pakistan for 'exporting' artistic talent.
    Indians should be grateful for the $ mega Lahori talent infusion.
    The Bollywood star galaxy of today is all grown up and something else.
After Bombay High, Bollywood, Beaches and Bi*ches, Mumbai gets another slick item:


When people compare business they completely forget factors that has changed. Rupee devaluation, inflation, multiplexs, affordability of common Man. 200 crorer in 2004 is not same in 2014.
 
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Are you mad.?:cuckoo:

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When people compare business they completely forget factors that has changed. Rupee devaluation, inflation, multiplexs, affordability of common Man. 200 crorer in 2004 is not same in 2014.

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Point being?

I was talking Bollywood economy of perhaps $ Trillion in PPP terms of course.
From Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor times, Bombay enabled this industry to boom beyond belief. Organically, naturally. The state kept an arm's length thankfully.
But Pakistani and specially Lahore and Karachi contribution never comes up.

Seen another way, Pakistani state's discouragement meant even nascent competition from Lahore & Karachi got squelched. Pakistan could have easily garnered 1/2 of Bollywood. $ 500-750 Billion, even $ Trillion in Pakistani PPP.
The talent was there, but the target market was the same. N. India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Africa, the Arab St., the Commie block and E. Asia.

A Yousuf Khan( Dilip Kumar), Raj Kapoor, Parikshit Sawhney, Mithun Charaborty, Amitabh Bachan or SRK blockbuster from Lahore or Karachi would be acceptable as one from Bombay.
 
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