Comments on: Cricket: Farewell, My Aloo

By: vivek

vivek — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:43:10 +0000

I was there at the aloo incident! I remember the heckler, long hair and leather jacket.

Dhoni?

By: Ennis

Ennis — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:36:29 +0000

The fact that there are blogs written outside the US in which you can find extensive posts analyzing the merits of the 3-4 defense and the Red Wings' chances of winning the Stanley Cup is indicative of the sort of influence which American culture has on the tastes of people living in other countries,

Canada or Scandanavia probably. Honestly, I don't think there are that many blogs inside the USA that care about hockey any more ...

By: SA

SA — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:08:03 +0000

Sweeeeeet! I was there at the aloo incident! I remember the heckler, long hair and leather jacket.

By: Speedy

Speedy — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:17:36 +0000

Vivek,

Cultural ignorance is present in some places...but Hari originally tsk-tsked because he expected "more mature and extensive" cricket coverage-- from an admitted neophyte cricket fan in a country where hardly anyone plays cricket. When someone called him on it, he played the "Ugly American" card.

Speedy

By: vivek

vivek — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:58:26 +0000

Speedy (#97), not really sure where you're going with that one... Hari's bit o' snark said that Americans take pride in their ignorance of the rest of the world (I disagree with him that SOME Americans are the only ones in the world guilty of this - plenty of such cases from other countries as well) - you know, 'cuz Americans don't NEED to, and that's what makes America great.

The fact that there are blogs written outside the US in which you can find extensive posts analyzing the merits of the 3-4 defense and the Red Wings' chances of winning the Stanley Cup is indicative of the sort of influence which American culture has on the tastes of people living in other countries, which supports what Hari was saying, in an around-sort-of-way.

It's all about power.

By: Speedy

Speedy — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:33:57 +0000

In the panoply of nations and national cultures, its only Americans that take pride, indeed nationalistic pride as shown in the comment above, in their ignorance of the rest of the world.

Right, that's why in all the blogs written outside the US there are extensive posts analyzing the merits of the 3-4 defense and the Red Wings chances of winning the Stanley Cup. Smug, self-righteous idiot.

Speedy

By: Jeet

Jeet — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:33:27 +0000

stop complainin my brownies..we have a battle at hand...India vs Srilanka Chaminda!! Tendu!!!!! Dada!!

whos with me?

By: Red Snapper

Red Snapper — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:22:23 +0000

Given that Sepia Mutiny maintains a uniquely open and friendly atmosphere, with new people commenting all the time, and a growing readership, accusations of turning into a closed community are laughable and silly.

By: SM Intern

SM Intern — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:29:39 +0000

So, basically is this what SM has come to: unless we coo over the authors we are being ungrateful or disrespectful?

No one said you should coo, but it would be nice if people weren't assholes. There's a vast middle ground to be inhabited. If people ARE cooing, it's to balance out the toxic presence of assholery.

Also, did you miss this?

No matter how hard I try, there are complaints. And that sucks. And no, this isn't call for Shodan or Red Snapper or anyone else to try and soothe my feelings. They get it. So does Manju. A few of you persistently and consistently don't and to be frank, that's rather ungrateful. Would you come to a dinner party where I was showing off my new Thai cooking skills and bitch about how the food should be better? No? Exactly.

Or maybe it's just more fun for you to have something to complain about?

By: moved to comment

moved to comment — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:24:25 +0000

Seriously, SM Mods, why not move to Craigslist style community based moderation? You guys could hunker in the bunker, and intervene only when a comment got flagged a certain number of times.