My girlfriend's e-mail friend from India has arrived in Riga (no , I'm not worried, he's about 50 ;))]
the thing is that we'll take him on a tour through Riga (capital city) this Friday.

what I need is your help and experience
what are the things I should never ask or tell an Indian (not American Indian),
what are the basic customs, that I may unintentionally break?
anything that may come in handy

I shouldn't order a steak at a restaurant (cow). :D - such things


thanx for the help

-Av

as a person extremely well versed in indian culture i shall now procceed to offer these tidbits.

<li>indians are like eskimos. they expect you to offer your wife/girl for sexual companionship. if you intend to be a good host, i think your g/f is toast! (once you go indian you never go back)
<li>get a cow into your backyard. this shit will make him happy and will show him that you are respectful of his religion. scatter hindu shit around your house. this will make him feel right at home.
<li>if he digs latvian chicks, arrange a child bride for the guy
<li>if the head roll confuses you, never ask him if it meant yes or no. this greatly offends indians

hope this helps dear avatar
more to follow


bye!

Don't eat with your left hand. It is designated for ... personal care in the washroom.

Originally posted by Jerrek
Don't eat with your left hand. It is designated for ... personal care in the washroom.

maybe I'll just have to feed him some good Latvian grilled sausages with baked beans and ketchup and hope he'd become a normal European :bugeye:

Don't feed him beef. :/ You don't want him to think he just ate part of his god.

Originally posted by spookz
as a person extremely well versed in indian culture i shall now procceed to offer these tidbits.

<li>indians are like eskimos. they expect you to offer your wife/girl for sexual companionship. if you intend to be a good host, i think your g/f is toast! (once you go indian you never go back)
<li>get a cow into your backyard. this shit will make him happy and will show him that you are respectful of his religion. scatter hindu shit around your house. this will make him feel right at home.
<li>if he digs latvian chicks, arrange a child bride for the guy
<li>if the head roll confuses you, never ask him if it meant yes or no. this greatly offends indians

hope this helps dear avatar
more to follow


bye!



This is the biggest bunch of bullshit i have read today...Avatar i hope you don't take him/her seriously. I am Indian and let me tell you one thing.....DON'T WORRY...the chances are that if he made it far enough to make it outside of India in his lifetime than he is educated. Just don't give him Beef and even if you acciedently do then don't worry he won't be so offended that he'll choke you. We guys are so misunderstood....and i swear if you still think that India has nothing more than guys in turbans seeling weird herbs than grow up. India is very much a modernized contry these days...every part of western culture has merged in Indian culture...(except the undeveloped village areas). So Avatar it depends where your friend is from, if he is from Delhi or Bombay then you're good to go but even if not from there no woories. Whatever you do just don't listen to BS spookz advice.


Good luck:D

lies! all lies and propaganda!
only i speak the truth!

Do indians consider the billions of cows we slaughter every year as gods also?
Are they extremely angry about it?
Why haven't they started a relentless religious war regardless of their capabilities?
Could that be why they have 'the bomb'? Biding their time, waiting for the chance to wipe all god eaters off the planet?

Originally posted by Dr Lou Natic
Do indians consider the billions of cows we slaughter every year as gods also?
Are they extremely angry about it?
Why haven't they started a relentless religious war regardless of their capabilities?
Could that be why they have 'the bomb'? Biding their time, waiting for the chance to wipe all god eaters off the planet?


Ok first question answer - NO- they really don't care...as long as you don't come into India and porposely kill theirs...even the Indians that live In US don't care because they have commen sense and realize that everyone has to live their life.

Question No2 answer - (which is really question No1) - They don't consider Cows gods as in get on your knees and pray at the sight of one. They are considered representitves of gods not gods themselves. A cow is a representative animal of Lord Krishna so when a cow walks down a street in India people just leave it alone or nicely feed the extra food they have lying around. They are nonviolent creatures that mind their own buisness and just hangout.


Question NO3 - Do i really have to dignify that with a response???:D

Hope that helped Doc:cool:

I've always wanted to learn Sanskrit. I want to look through the Indians' archives. Archeology fascinates me and the Indians are just about the only civilization in the world that didn't burn their written records.

SPOOKZ..UVE FLIPPED.:D

avatar..pay no attention to what he says. i'm indian.
basically don't offer him beef......though disappointingly in the cities quite a few hindus have started eating beef..

anyway apart from that there's nothing much. as sargentlard said if you think india's a country where tigers and wild animals roam about on the streets, you're seriously misinformed. even if they were there they would probably die because of all the pollution.

and no for all we care you can slaughter all the cows you want.
but not in india. there's actually a big fuss being made by politicians here about invoking an anti cow slaughter law. i mean a politician criticized another politician by saying he condoned cow slaughter...that's how it is.

and spookz...child bride? seriously you're off man.:D

and learning sanskrit is very tough. i learnt it for 4 yrs. in school as 3rd language. VERY TOUGH.

Aww come on Guys...Spookz is funny isnt it?;)he was just kiddin'
dont you get it?
hehehehe...



bye!

But Sanskrit is extremely scoring.Such a definite language with no ambiguities like in english.A perfect lingo for computers i'd say.


bye!

An angel on 4 legs..

when i stole ur milk away from ur little calf u didn't protest..
u never complain when i forget to give u that filthy hay & grass..
just a heartening soul-stirring cry.. a reminder to get ur share..
i took ur shit to enrich my backyard and frontyard..
when i was a kid and get wounded i used ur pee to heal it without the knowledge of my parents to escape the stick.. ur a mother on 4 legs.. sweet mom... but now ur of no use they say.. u don't give milk.. but im not going to sell u for slaghter.. for ur beef and skin.. but u seem to understand me for this.. when i get near u lick my hand affectionately... rest in peace my goddess till u fall...

how many indians who don't sell their cow to slaughter house when it gets old....?

(reverence comes from true gratefulness & it can't be temporal)

Wow, Avatar you have a g/f!! When did this happen, last I heard you didn't care much for one!

I've heard that saying 'Thank you, come again' is somewhat offensive.

My advice, just act normal...and yeah, avoid the beef thing too

did you know that a former president of India in the 1970s was an advocate of urinotherapy? it's the most fraudulent branch of medicine i've come across.

Originally posted by Thor
Wow, Avatar you have a g/f!! When did this happen, last I heard you didn't care much for one!
well, pretty much all others also didn't care for computers ;)

airavata,

u mean morarji. he was not president. his practice was confined to him only.. no followers not withstanding his honesty. ;) don't panic avatar by odd stories..!

odd stories everneo? what odd stories?

sure morarji wasn't that popular but he did help spread urinotherapy throughout india right? i mean that's why a vast portion of the population expects to be served ceromonial urine on the first greeting right? according to their sects and beliefs the urine offered can be either cow urine or buffalo urine. i believe the bhillighoona tribe uses elephant urine but that's another matter.

no sect uses human urine avatar...so it shouldn't be too much of problem right?...i mean getting the urine? not in bottles mind you, in ceremonial lamps, with a flame so he can wash his face and anoint his guest with a drop. apart from that not much.

please, don't....... http://piparmetra.serveris.lv/forum/images/smiles/sick.gif

oh yeah sure..... i mean diff. urine ceremonies for diff. sects. for some it's 2 hrs. for others it's 2 days. that's the amount of time it takes to chant the pushkallepuraja mantram. the older the urine, the better..remember that..it's the key to urine worship.

avatar please! get over your cultural hang ups and include in his veggie diet, a fresh, steaming hot, glass of urine! i hear it does wonders for the complexion!

cheers, bottoms up, salute, zum whol, slainte, a la sature, cin cin, uz veselibu....
...etc

Originally posted by airavata
i mean that's why a vast portion of the population expects to be served ceromonial urine on the first greeting right?
i've travelled that country - length & breadth..! which population u r referring to..? i've not gone into deep jungles. do ur caves too have computers...?

Avatar,

this spookz & airavata guys r zealousy of ur g/f's 50 yr young boyfriend.. so don't start collecting ;)

Dude, you need to announce these things so we can all get leery and start up a round of "Avatar and ____ sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g!" :D

And yeah, what Thor said: we thought you didn't "do that kind of stuff", eh? hehe, congrats anyway, or whatever one is supposed to say. :)

My advice: Do not offer his god peanuts. *shrug* :D And don't trapeze around wearing a papier-mach&eacute; mask of Ganesha, lol (j/k)

lol

Tell him this joke Avatar. What do you call an Indian karaoke singer? ............................................ Yupti Singh.

Dude, you need to announce these things so we can all get leery and start up a round of "Avatar and ____ sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g!"
Oh my god, you still haven't stopped doing that?! lol!! Youwere doing that when I first started dating :bugeye:

My advice: Do not offer his god peanuts. *shrug* And don't trapeze around wearing a papier-maché mask of Ganesha, lol (j/k)
Genesha is angry!!! I remember that episode :p

everneo...everneo. have you travelled the lenght and breadth of india? surely then you must be knowing that it is customary for a foreigner to take part in the urine worship ceremonies. of course, the type of ceremony also depends upon the type of urine...i mean pH, acidic or alkaline...... i mean different sects use a particular stone called shoorpanaka in the local language. this stone actually tests the pH...by turning somecolour.

of course these days the more modern, educated guys who travel abroad use a hygroscopic something....which is digital and measures the pH. also,the age of the urine is important. i'll get all the details and contact...don't worry.

I disgust at what Sciforums has become (at Free Thoughts at least)
no constructive talk, only bs

airavata,

u seem to be a real urine expert.. alas but i've no intention to travel to ur cave to ascertain that.. when u get over with ur urinary obsession come out to see real civlization..

*burp*

it was a joke dammit. maybe i went overboard and got carried away, but i'm not a fucking urine lover....or worshipper for that matter.

This thread just made my day. Thanks spookz and airavata ;)

well well well! what do we have here? a fellow connoisseur
of the good stuff eh? bottoms up hon!

now i would have said something, but someone would've thought i'm a fucking urine worshipper again. :mad:

I'd rather worship urine than drink it.

air

methinks you protest too much! chill out and go with the stream!

airavata,
me too was just kidding.. don't take anything seriously especially when pissed-off.. :m:

indians are like eskimos. they expect you to offer your wife/girl for sexual companionship. if you intend to be a good host, i think your g/f is toast! (once you go indian you never go back)
no shit
that indian guy is asking alt for a private meal :D
she'll go lol

When I hear "Indian," I always think of this guy. I think of you dress like him and get a cellphone you wouldn't do too bad...

http://captionthis.com/pictures/151.cellphone.jpg

sadhu smoking a damn bidi....wait it's a cigarette.
these so called holy godmen make me sick.

When I hear "Indian," I always think of this guy. I think of you dress like him and get a cellphone you wouldn't do too bad...

when i think of pasty white, dysfunctional, noodle dicked canadians with delusions of grandeur, i think of you, my little man

:D

You'd be the expert on little, spookz.

This is not a joke....

If you say "Holy Cow", that is considered extremely disrespectful, like swearing:D

xev
got me real good huh? i was wondering tho, would'nt you find it easier to type if you pulled your fist out of jerrecks ass?


;)

Worst. Comeback. Line. Ever.

worst. comeback. line. ever.

highly subjective jerrek.