---------------------------------------------------------------------------
**** http://www.GOANET.org ****
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
My dear boró dotor & guys,
Since you chaps are digressing far from the topic above, ie toilet
& associated attributes, I post bellow a 6-month old article that
will solidarise with 'stinky' Goa...
SWEDISH DIPLOMATS IN DELHI FIND INDIANS DIRTY STOCKHOLM, WEDNESDAY, DEC 19
(IANS) -- The Swedish Embassy in Delhi in their annual, albeit classified,
report to the Swedish foreign ministry has, unequivocally, stated that "the
Indians' personal hygiene is very much neglected," reports, in a scoop, the
Swedish government's official gazette, Riksdag & Departmentet, R&D (Parliament
& Government) in their latest issue, Dec 17, on the eve of Mr Vayalar Ravi's,
the Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs, visit to Sweden. "Such reports are
sent in regularly by our embassies and consulates around the world on
conditions obtaining locally", a very close aid to Carl Bildt, the Swedish
minister for foreign affairs", told IANS, on sternest conditions of anonymity.
"However, it is very rare...I should say quite unprecedented, that such
undiplomatic language is used in diplomatic parlance. The reporting diplomat
must have, indeed, suffered very traumatizing and continuous experiences. Just
one or two offences would hardly cause such poignant reaction". R&D journalist,
Anders Orrenius, wrily comments: "Deplorable personal hygiene and
over-sweetened breakfast-flakes. When Swedish embassies report home concerning
conditions in stations-countries they tend to use something altogether
different from diplomatic idiom". Neighbouring Pakistan fares far better,
reports R&D, with only some objection to a local flora and nothing to report
offensively about the local fauna: "In Islamabad", reports an apparently
sore-tried Swedish envoy: "One suffers a high degree of allergy due to the
undue predominance of mullbery trees in the city". While Kabul, Bagdad and
Jerusalem top the list of dangerous places to be posted in, "Riyad scares the
s--t out of the Swedes with their horrendously poisonous snakes paying them
uninvited home-visits". According to R&D, "every year the Swedish foreign
ministry sends out a questionaire to their embassies to compile information
about the living conditions in the stations-areas around the world. Based on
thisgathered information the annual sanction of the respective perks is fixed".
"In all official matters", explains Anders Orrenius, "the diplomats tend to
paint as rosy a picture as they possibly can, of the country they are posted
to, but in this case they act totally the opposite. They spare no efforts to
highlight the negative aspects as exageratedly as possible in order to receive
the more inflated benefits. None other come even close to India. To travel
around the various distant cities is also often fraught with much misery: In
Cairo the taxis bleed them quite mercilessly while in Ciudad Mexico they pinch
their bottoms and breats with equal lack of mercy in the sardinishly packed
public conveyances. Materially, Algeria and Nigeria stand to lose a bit: While
in the former, their sole 1940-vintage golf course is most dismally maintained,
in the latter, the Swedes are warned that "travelling in this part of Africa
has an extremely limited recreations' value". In Khartoun the diplomats
complain of inedible fruit. China's offence is far too many cycles. The
Ougadogouan restaurants pose risk for stomach wellbeing. In Pristina the
garbage cans lack lids. In Honduras the breakfast cheese is recycled and,
manifesting their opulence in sugar, the breakfast flakes are far
over-sweetened... and, so on and on to Zimbanve, where Mugabe daily threatens
"our man there" with extinction but not with stink. The nearest, in offalctory
offensiveness, to India, lies Burkina Faso: There the poor Swedish envoys "are
quatered next the nation's largest garbage dump! Alfred de Tavares
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 08:56:13 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: Re: [Goanet] "Goa has become a Toilet" and
> comparing apples (revised)> > My responses to Gilbert are
> interspersed......jc> > > Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Jose
> baba,> 1: Your response to my post would suggest, you agree with the rest of
> my post.> > jc: FALSE. I do NOT normally read all your ramblings. Besides, I
> have> this bit at the back of my mind about your postings. I do not know>
> which of your written material is original and which is plagiarised.> So ...I
> skim through your posts. Please do not give me the credit of> reading your
> entire posting - I usually do NOT.> =>
_________________________________________________________________
Discover the new Windows Vista
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE
