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Minutes after I posted my first post on ÃœberDesi, my GTalk popped up announcing a message from X. Regular readers might know X from here.
12:23 AM
X: wats this uberdesi?
some nri focussed blog?
At this point, I am fuming. Well, I am fuming because, I know where that question is coming from and the mindset. This is one assumption that I’ll back myself on, any day! So I don’t respond immediately. Luckily my phone rings and I talk for sometime and hang up. Then I decide to get this over with.
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7 minutes later…… |
12:30 AM me: sorry.. was on the phone
X: ooh ok
12:31 AM me: errr.. you make it sound like it is shit…
X: not really
well it just seems very nriish
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That’s when I got really pissed. Now, if it was an innocent enough question that I was asked in the first place, that last answer from X should have been an emphatic No (as opposed to the insincere “not really”). So I said,
12:32 AM me: if you think so, mebbe it is…
X, I know you will probably read this. And based on this conversation I pasted here, you’ll know that I am referring to you and you alone. The thing is, you should shut up with all the trash talk till you get done with whatever it is you are doing outside India and show us you are capable of doing the opposite of what you seem to think that people like me do.
This might sound like the classic argumentatum ad hominem, but I have nothing personal against you. I don’t normally get worked up over things, but some reason your “holier than thou” attitude sickens me. So I will tell you what one of my blog-idols once told me - GROW UP!
ÜberDesi
Me
March 9th, 2007 at 11:33 amlight theesko anantha….
..”X” yaaru nu nee solla poradhu illa..adha vidu….yaaru onnoda blog idol?
capriciously_me
March 9th, 2007 at 12:03 pmdude….u shud have sent ur tulip foto for that intro man…tch! missed opportunity…
Raapi http://www.raapi.blogspot.com
March 9th, 2007 at 1:06 pmI seriously don’t find it wrong.
The name “UBERDESI” in itself welcoming such thoughts.Whether the person you referred to really had that ‘Holier than thou’ thoughts or not,the title begs for such condescending attitude because of its comparing trait attached to its name.
WTF is UBERDESI? A desi who is UBER or greater or bigger?..
Now comes the question..UBER than whom?
Its not a universal phrase like Akbar the Great that one can associate Desi the UBER..
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
March 9th, 2007 at 3:07 pmRaapi: That’s exactly what I said. That I wouldn’t find it wrong either, except that I know who asked me the question. I guess that did it more for me. And as for your questioning on what makes them “Uber”, I think you should take a step back and call it humor. Cool down machi! And frankly I don’t think anything “begs” for condescension unless personal mindset calls for it. That’s all I can say here. Let’s take this offline.
CM: Aaatha.. That only less! They had enough dirt on me! So, control your emosun!
Me: Definitely not you!
Santosh http://uberdesi.com
March 9th, 2007 at 3:27 pmJust for the record we are not a desi supremacist site
Santosh http://uberdesi.com
March 9th, 2007 at 3:34 pmTo answer the question uberdesi is a broadly humor-based website where we discuss anything under the sun. We don’t proclaim to be a #1 blog although we hope to be that one day.
About the “uber” in uberdesi.com from our FAQ site:
Q. What does the “uber†in uberdesi.com stand for?
A. Uber is a German word. Karthik came up with the term uber desi and as you probably guessed Karthik is not of German descent. His only claim to anything remotely German is the car he drives and the fact that he visited Germany recently. Maybe he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, who knows?
Getting back to the point, uber probably means super but not all the time. We user uber more in a sense of super / very . Uber desi = Very desi/ Super Desi. Get it? I know. That’s really clever of us. The meaning really oscillates between super, very, super cool, awesome and/or (insert superlative adjective) here.
Feel free to drop by and check out our work and of course Anantha’s.
Primalsoup http://bonniebluebutler.blogspot.com/
March 9th, 2007 at 11:09 pmAiyooo, all you evil NRI types! Aren’t there enough and more things dividing us already?!
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
March 10th, 2007 at 12:50 amSoupie: why tension.. less tension more fun! he he… Over scene podadha! Jokes apart, see it like I did. I mean, thats exactly what I was saying that after all we are the same kind.
Santosh:
mlc
March 11th, 2007 at 11:41 amcool anantha! neenga ‘uberdesi’ le irukardhu-kosaramaavadhu andha site-a gumbaloda(ME, me and namba venki) visit pannuvoam!! goodluck!asaththunga!!
VC http://poop-v2.blogspot.com
March 11th, 2007 at 2:11 pmwhy tensioning!!!!
Deepa http://lordlabak.blogspot.com
March 11th, 2007 at 9:33 pmAndha last line of uberdesi intro ezudhinadhu neeya pa thambi?:-)
superstarksa http://superstarksa.com
March 11th, 2007 at 9:40 pmDeepa: Endha last line, yakkow? Please specify.
VC: Ya, I felt that afterward
mlc: Gumbaloda varuveenga seri, Govinda poduveengala?
mlc
March 11th, 2007 at 11:44 pmanantha, “goyinda” podardhu paththi VC kittey training yeduthundu varoam.
p.s. ippo aduthadhu, motta adichindu vara sollaadheenga pls!!
uber desi dot com http://uberdesi.com/blog
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