To start on a disappointing note for Spielperg fans this blog is not about aliens!!! But then what is it about...read on:
Some people have a way with the words. Our GM is one of them. He is bestowed with the lucidity of usage of words and the way he uses them seems to be directly picked out of some bestseller, the only difference being they are his words. But this blog is not about him either ;-)
This piece is about cultures and people. I recently had an encounter of first kind with some Irish people. This was my first instance of such a prolonged interaction with the people from the west. Though they are as human as we are, certain traits which they had were too funny to ignore and certainly needed a blog. Read this and no prizes for guessing which character is not Indian.
Instance 1:
"What the f#$k have you done to your machine?
Sorry?
I mean why did you restart the system? Where did you see that step?
Release notes...
Release notes!!Oh you must be kidding!!!Developers are God, do you think they care about release notes...that bloody doc is as old as me. Use the goddamn doc I gave you."
Instance 2:
"We use a lot of "ish" in Ireland for our timings. As in if we plan to meet someone at 9:30, we would say we will meet 9:30ish. But it is strange to see that Indians also have a very informal "ish" which though they do not mention is pretty evident from the way they turn up for formal trainings as well.
Hehehe...on this note we shall take a break for 10 minutes and should return back 11:15 iisssssssssssssss....hehehe"
Instance 3:
"She seems to have hollow legs!!
There is some problem with her legs??
No...I mean she can drink a lot and with all that alcohol not having any effect, we just deduced that she must be having hollow legs!!"
Instance 4:
"How urgent are top priority bugs?"
"Well critical bugs need to be resolved yesterday"
Instance 5:
"I tell you if you fix this I will buy you a beer"
"No I don't drink. Thank you"
Instance 6:
"Since most of the servers we have there are doing nothing but SFA...well you must have guessed it...just call it Sweet Fanny Adams ;-)"
