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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
April 10, 2014
Ten convo start-ups that should be banned from party circuits.
What rent do you pay for this place…that is your icebreaker entering someone’s home. Did you leave Common Courtesy at home?
So, what do you think Jay is getting…as in his pay packet…no, I don’t think it is that much…and these are good friends miserable he may have got a good deal.
Don’t take this personally…why not, you mean it personally, I’ll take it any way I damn well please.
You won’t mind if I say something…same as above, if it is offensive, I will mind.
The third one…it is for your own good. Yeah sure, and you are the expert on my good, be a pet and go concentrate on your good.
Migoodness, what have you done to yourself, look at you, you have become so heavy/skinny/haggard/old/
Where have you been, long time no see…that is one sentiment no one says with even a shred of honesty, it is meaningless, has no content and indicates your complete lack of interest in that person. If you want to insult at least insult with style.
So, what’s new? How come this utterly inane question has survived the test of time and still ranks as a leader in erudite and intelligent conversation. What’s new????????????????
Arriving two hours late and actually relating the saga why you didn’t come on time and believing everyone is riveted by the rendition…no one cares, you are rude, so be it.
Walking in on a crowd while talking on the mobile, waving at everyone, carry on talking, grinning foolishly and mouthing ‘imporrtantttt’ and then talking some more after which those held at ransom are told what that ‘important’ call was about…we do not care.
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
If my call is so important to them, why don’t they answer it for 22 minutes?
How come when I want to, but something specific online is the only item out of stock.
When I get into a queue or lane going fast, the moment I get in, it becomes the slowest and refuses to budge.
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