IN
1)Taking a whole trail of obnoxious, ugly, badly behaved, uber cheap kids by the bulk to late night affairs - weddings, mehndis, musical evenings!!! yes!! (I mean what are the parents thinking?)
OUT
1)Going by the invite
IN
2)Twitches and facial/body ticks! of all kinds and forms!! I am amazed at the variety of ways men move their lips, nose, cheeks when they are uncomfortable or making a point or in the spotlight. Then there are horrendous ways of moving a shoulder every 5 seconds (you can set your watch by it, I swear) or shaking legs in a funny way.
OUT
2)Behaving gracefully and keeping all obviously obnoxious facial and bodily contractions private.
IN
3)Patent words people use which in Urdu we call by the fabulous title of one's 'takiya kalam' literally meaning 'pillow talk'. Such as - Behar Hal, Khair hai (really) you know, errr (no). I know hmmm, (absolutely not). UFFF, TOBAH, acha to and or just some bad words if you're really lucky.
OUT
3)Respect for language and its pronunciations - such as, calling law LAA,
IN
4)Botox, to the max, lip-plumpers, line fillers, laser, hair-extensions, in other words, plastic surgeons and high end dermatologists and back to the chimp land faces.
OUT
4)Natural looking women, naturally ageing women and of course naturally relaxed women
IN
5)Falling in-love. With other people's wives and husbands.
OUT
5)marital fidelity and loyalty huh? what's that? name of a disease???
IN
6)Hating. One's own wife/husband.
OUT
6)Loving one's own family.
IN
7)Aggression is the new politeness. Assertiveness, impatience, indifference, disregard of other people's feelings and emotions and shutting the other person up is the new conversation ice-builder!
OUT
7)Graciousness, politeness, what we call Rakh Rakhao in Urdu.
IN
8)Valentine mania?
OUT
8)True Love
IN
9)Lying blatantly and calling it diplomacy huh?
OUT
9)Truth, veracity
IN
10) Imran Khan and his PTI.
OUT
10)Zulfiqar Mirza and his antics
IN
11)Aitizaz Ahsan and 200 page long defence of the PM.
OUT
11)Hussain Haqqani and Ijaz Mansur and BB messages.
IN
12)IMMUNITY - the presidential kind
OUT
12)Pervaiz Musharraf and his comeback
IN
13)Obvious cohort between the ace lawyer and the Chief Adjudicator.
OUT
13)Obvious tension between the ace lawyer and the Chief Adjudicator in court.
IN
14)Political Tsunami
OUT
14)Radio and televised broadcasts
IN
15)Atrium mall
OUT
15)Cineplex
IN
16)Dolmen Mall
OUT
16)Park towers
IN
17)Sherry Rehman
OUT
17)Hussain Haqqani
IN
18)Women
OUT
18)Men!
1)Taking a whole trail of obnoxious, ugly, badly behaved, uber cheap kids by the bulk to late night affairs - weddings, mehndis, musical evenings!!! yes!! (I mean what are the parents thinking?)
OUT
1)Going by the invite
IN
2)Twitches and facial/body ticks! of all kinds and forms!! I am amazed at the variety of ways men move their lips, nose, cheeks when they are uncomfortable or making a point or in the spotlight. Then there are horrendous ways of moving a shoulder every 5 seconds (you can set your watch by it, I swear) or shaking legs in a funny way.
OUT
2)Behaving gracefully and keeping all obviously obnoxious facial and bodily contractions private.
IN
3)Patent words people use which in Urdu we call by the fabulous title of one's 'takiya kalam' literally meaning 'pillow talk'. Such as - Behar Hal, Khair hai (really) you know, errr (no). I know hmmm, (absolutely not). UFFF, TOBAH, acha to and or just some bad words if you're really lucky.
OUT
3)Respect for language and its pronunciations - such as, calling law LAA,
IN
4)Botox, to the max, lip-plumpers, line fillers, laser, hair-extensions, in other words, plastic surgeons and high end dermatologists and back to the chimp land faces.
OUT
4)Natural looking women, naturally ageing women and of course naturally relaxed women
IN
5)Falling in-love. With other people's wives and husbands.
OUT
5)marital fidelity and loyalty huh? what's that? name of a disease???
IN
6)Hating. One's own wife/husband.
OUT
6)Loving one's own family.
IN
7)Aggression is the new politeness. Assertiveness, impatience, indifference, disregard of other people's feelings and emotions and shutting the other person up is the new conversation ice-builder!
OUT
7)Graciousness, politeness, what we call Rakh Rakhao in Urdu.
IN
8)Valentine mania?
OUT
8)True Love
IN
9)Lying blatantly and calling it diplomacy huh?
OUT
9)Truth, veracity
IN
10) Imran Khan and his PTI.
OUT
10)Zulfiqar Mirza and his antics
IN
11)Aitizaz Ahsan and 200 page long defence of the PM.
OUT
11)Hussain Haqqani and Ijaz Mansur and BB messages.
IN
12)IMMUNITY - the presidential kind
OUT
12)Pervaiz Musharraf and his comeback
IN
13)Obvious cohort between the ace lawyer and the Chief Adjudicator.
OUT
13)Obvious tension between the ace lawyer and the Chief Adjudicator in court.
IN
14)Political Tsunami
OUT
14)Radio and televised broadcasts
IN
15)Atrium mall
OUT
15)Cineplex
IN
16)Dolmen Mall
OUT
16)Park towers
IN
17)Sherry Rehman
OUT
17)Hussain Haqqani
IN
18)Women
OUT
18)Men!
I had a good laugh on few of them, however don't agree with a few though!
ReplyDeleteRaheel