Comments on: A New Set of Wheels http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Amitabh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/comment-page-2/#comment-131231 Amitabh Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:55:55 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4364#comment-131231 <p>Yes, the Brahmaputra too. Just checked.</p> Yes, the Brahmaputra too. Just checked.

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By: Amitabh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/comment-page-2/#comment-131229 Amitabh Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:52:53 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4364#comment-131229 <p>PG, are you really the same Pardesi Gori? Your posts are much better lately. Anyway, possibly the infrastructure might improve due to public demand once people actually HAVE the cars. But the bigger problem northern India (and Pakistan) face is the inevitable melting of the Himalayan glaciers (this has little directly to do with the cars, but everything to due with global warming). All the major northern rivers, including the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Ganga, Yamuna, and (maybe) the Brahmaputra, are glacier-fed. Once they dry up, the whole region will be a desert.</p> PG, are you really the same Pardesi Gori? Your posts are much better lately. Anyway, possibly the infrastructure might improve due to public demand once people actually HAVE the cars. But the bigger problem northern India (and Pakistan) face is the inevitable melting of the Himalayan glaciers (this has little directly to do with the cars, but everything to due with global warming). All the major northern rivers, including the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Ganga, Yamuna, and (maybe) the Brahmaputra, are glacier-fed. Once they dry up, the whole region will be a desert.

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By: Salil Maniktahla http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/comment-page-2/#comment-131218 Salil Maniktahla Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:32:06 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4364#comment-131218 <blockquote>Lol. Perhaps only in your twisted world Wit trumps Reason, and its better to be witty than to be right. Of course in a world run by such witty fools my arguments would be "lame" while your witticisms such as the ones below make you the "winner"</blockquote> <p>Nope. You're wrong.</p> <p>Ha ha!</p> <p>Oh, and also? You're wrong!</p> Lol. Perhaps only in your twisted world Wit trumps Reason, and its better to be witty than to be right. Of course in a world run by such witty fools my arguments would be “lame” while your witticisms such as the ones below make you the “winner”

Nope. You’re wrong.

Ha ha!

Oh, and also? You’re wrong!

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By: PG http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/comment-page-2/#comment-131208 PG Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:34:56 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4364#comment-131208 <p>The first thing I thought of is all of the people in India who are now buying motorcycles and mopeds because they cannot afford a car, will switch over to this low-budget car. That is really bad for the environment in small towns and villages across India where the roads/streets/gulleys are built for pedestrians only and rickshaws and think motorcycles at most.</p> <p>It immediately brings to mind the condition of the towns where I have resided where thin, winding gulleys are overtaken and backed up with traffic on festival occasions with cars from travellers/pilgrims/temple goers from Delhi. The whole town is turned upside down and even pedestrians cannont manuever their ways safely through the brick gulleys when these cars are beeping their horns madly and emitting toxic fumes. It makes festival times unbearable, really. What to speak of all the poor roaming cows who have scars on their bodies from these cars hitting into them due to lack of space.</p> <p>You end up trapped in a traffic jam of cars, motor-bikes, mopeds, bicycle rickshaws, motor rickshaws, tempos, pedestrians and cows and other assorted animals.</p> <p>So now even more cars are going to be added to this mess now that they are being made available at such a low cost?</p> <p>It used to be that the cars came into the town from outside areas. But this guarantees that the residents within the town will be trading in their mopeds for a cheap car. Bad, bad, bad for the environment and bad for the pedestrians and animals and bad for the roads that were made for pedestrians - not for wide vehicles like cars.</p> <p>Mess. Mess. Mess.</p> <p>First let their be an infrastructure in place for all this.</p> The first thing I thought of is all of the people in India who are now buying motorcycles and mopeds because they cannot afford a car, will switch over to this low-budget car. That is really bad for the environment in small towns and villages across India where the roads/streets/gulleys are built for pedestrians only and rickshaws and think motorcycles at most.

It immediately brings to mind the condition of the towns where I have resided where thin, winding gulleys are overtaken and backed up with traffic on festival occasions with cars from travellers/pilgrims/temple goers from Delhi. The whole town is turned upside down and even pedestrians cannont manuever their ways safely through the brick gulleys when these cars are beeping their horns madly and emitting toxic fumes. It makes festival times unbearable, really. What to speak of all the poor roaming cows who have scars on their bodies from these cars hitting into them due to lack of space.

You end up trapped in a traffic jam of cars, motor-bikes, mopeds, bicycle rickshaws, motor rickshaws, tempos, pedestrians and cows and other assorted animals.

So now even more cars are going to be added to this mess now that they are being made available at such a low cost?

It used to be that the cars came into the town from outside areas. But this guarantees that the residents within the town will be trading in their mopeds for a cheap car. Bad, bad, bad for the environment and bad for the pedestrians and animals and bad for the roads that were made for pedestrians – not for wide vehicles like cars.

Mess. Mess. Mess.

First let their be an infrastructure in place for all this.

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By: Amitabh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/comment-page-2/#comment-131205 Amitabh Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:10:19 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4364#comment-131205 <p>Prema, I don't think anyone believes that but you.</p> Prema, I don’t think anyone believes that but you.

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By: Prema http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/comment-page-2/#comment-131203 Prema Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:54:09 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4364#comment-131203 <blockquote>Lame. Lame lame lame lame lame. Not even witty. Just lame. But you seem to think you're "winning," and that's inexcusable in my book, because you're stupid.</blockquote> <p>Lol. Perhaps only in your twisted world Wit trumps Reason, and its better to be witty than to be right. Of course in a world run by such witty fools my arguments would be "lame" while your witticisms such as the ones below make you the "winner":</p> <blockquote>you will single handedly bring electric cars to India, and they will be hybrid electric gasoline nookyoolar cars that run on steam, Jolt Cola and sheer Prema gumption, and will never provoke stupid emotional reactions just because you think they're fun. The electric PremaMobile (nicknamed the "Preemie") will be produced by Tata Corporation, and will only cost Rs. 4200, and will have free XM satellite radio right next to the toaster oven, which will serve as a "generator" because you said so. It will seat four and will not need to obey traffic signals or laws of physics, it will just cruise along purely on the power of your overuse of the word "irrational." I wonder if it will make Korean boyfriends jealous enough to buy them, though? I dunno, I'll write MSNBC and see if they can tell me.</blockquote> <p>This is so petty and pathetic. In a rational world such "witty" outbursts identify a sore loser.</p> Lame. Lame lame lame lame lame. Not even witty. Just lame. But you seem to think you’re “winning,” and that’s inexcusable in my book, because you’re stupid.

Lol. Perhaps only in your twisted world Wit trumps Reason, and its better to be witty than to be right. Of course in a world run by such witty fools my arguments would be “lame” while your witticisms such as the ones below make you the “winner”:

you will single handedly bring electric cars to India, and they will be hybrid electric gasoline nookyoolar cars that run on steam, Jolt Cola and sheer Prema gumption, and will never provoke stupid emotional reactions just because you think they’re fun. The electric PremaMobile (nicknamed the “Preemie”) will be produced by Tata Corporation, and will only cost Rs. 4200, and will have free XM satellite radio right next to the toaster oven, which will serve as a “generator” because you said so. It will seat four and will not need to obey traffic signals or laws of physics, it will just cruise along purely on the power of your overuse of the word “irrational.” I wonder if it will make Korean boyfriends jealous enough to buy them, though? I dunno, I’ll write MSNBC and see if they can tell me.

This is so petty and pathetic. In a rational world such “witty” outbursts identify a sore loser.

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By: Salil Maniktahla http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/comment-page-2/#comment-131043 Salil Maniktahla Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:21:52 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4364#comment-131043 <p>Lame. Lame lame lame lame lame.</p> <p>Not even witty. Just lame. But you seem to think you're "winning," and that's inexcusable in my book, because you're stupid.</p> <blockquote>I proposed electric cars with portable multi-purpose generators. </blockquote> <p>No, you didn't.</p> <blockquote>Both were laughably ignorant and irrational objections.</blockquote> <p>No, they weren't.</p> <blockquote>Instead of being intellectually honest and acknowledging your errors, you chose to go on a childish personal attack.</blockquote> <p>No, I didn't.</p> <blockquote>Grow up already; its not about me or you. </blockquote> <p>Nope. I won't.</p> Lame. Lame lame lame lame lame.

Not even witty. Just lame. But you seem to think you’re “winning,” and that’s inexcusable in my book, because you’re stupid.

I proposed electric cars with portable multi-purpose generators.

No, you didn’t.

Both were laughably ignorant and irrational objections.

No, they weren’t.

Instead of being intellectually honest and acknowledging your errors, you chose to go on a childish personal attack.

No, I didn’t.

Grow up already; its not about me or you.

Nope. I won’t.

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By: Prema http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/comment-page-1/#comment-131008 Prema Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:01:07 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4364#comment-131008 <blockquote>I don't even know what you're arguing about anymore</blockquote> <p>Lesson: irrationality leads to mental confusion. It is the root cause of backwardness.</p> <p>I proposed electric cars with portable multi-purpose generators. You argued that generators are too loud, that electric cars are not energy-efficient. Both were laughably ignorant and irrational objections. Instead of being intellectually honest and acknowledging your errors, you chose to go on a childish personal attack. Grow up already; its not about me or you.</p> I don’t even know what you’re arguing about anymore

Lesson: irrationality leads to mental confusion. It is the root cause of backwardness.

I proposed electric cars with portable multi-purpose generators. You argued that generators are too loud, that electric cars are not energy-efficient. Both were laughably ignorant and irrational objections. Instead of being intellectually honest and acknowledging your errors, you chose to go on a childish personal attack. Grow up already; its not about me or you.

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By: Amitabh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/comment-page-1/#comment-130965 Amitabh Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:07:24 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4364#comment-130965 <p>Salil ne chakk ditte phatte!</p> Salil ne chakk ditte phatte!

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By: Salil Maniktahla http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/20/a_new_set_of_wh/comment-page-1/#comment-130925 Salil Maniktahla Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:04:19 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4364#comment-130925 <p>Oh holy crap.</p> <p>Forget it. Whatever. You win. I don't even know what you're arguing about anymore. Clearly, you will single handedly bring electric cars to India, and they will be hybrid electric gasoline nookyoolar cars that run on steam, Jolt Cola and sheer Prema gumption, and will never provoke stupid emotional reactions just because you think they're fun. The electric PremaMobile (nicknamed the "Preemie") will be produced by Tata Corporation, and will only cost Rs. 4200, and will have free XM satellite radio right next to the toaster oven, which will serve as a "generator" because you said so. It will seat four and will not need to obey traffic signals or laws of physics, it will just cruise along purely on the power of your overuse of the word "irrational."</p> <p>I wonder if it will make Korean boyfriends jealous enough to buy them, though? I dunno, I'll write MSNBC and see if they can tell me.</p> Oh holy crap.

Forget it. Whatever. You win. I don’t even know what you’re arguing about anymore. Clearly, you will single handedly bring electric cars to India, and they will be hybrid electric gasoline nookyoolar cars that run on steam, Jolt Cola and sheer Prema gumption, and will never provoke stupid emotional reactions just because you think they’re fun. The electric PremaMobile (nicknamed the “Preemie”) will be produced by Tata Corporation, and will only cost Rs. 4200, and will have free XM satellite radio right next to the toaster oven, which will serve as a “generator” because you said so. It will seat four and will not need to obey traffic signals or laws of physics, it will just cruise along purely on the power of your overuse of the word “irrational.”

I wonder if it will make Korean boyfriends jealous enough to buy them, though? I dunno, I’ll write MSNBC and see if they can tell me.

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