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From Immy to Irony

Nadeem F Paracha November 22, 2007

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#1 Posted by Dash_Dot on November 23, 2007 3:25:09 am
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#2 Posted by Skeptical on November 23, 2007 3:27:05 am
bhai dash dot what have you actually posted
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#3 Posted by Dash_Dot on November 23, 2007 3:27:20 am
a nie artical from you after a long long time....

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#4 Posted by Dash_Dot on November 23, 2007 3:28:08 am
t5his damn pice of software is crap...i mean it seems to be editing out chowk icons....had this laughin icon from UP.....
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#5 Posted by Dash_Dot on November 23, 2007 3:28:41 am
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#6 Posted by Skeptical on November 23, 2007 3:39:02 am
Re: # 3
What was so nice about it!!!!
Its rambling of a man apparently obsessed with Imran Khan....
Whom he thinks is a media construct.....
I wonder why that mere "media construct" is so important that Mr paracha talks about him in every article of his...
Personal vendetta overrides everything else....
Apparently the article shows "irony" that rightwing Mr Imran was beaten by the propenents of the Islamic system....
But really Mr NFP seems to be taking a delight in what has happened.....
That Imran Khan was beaten.....
When his last article appeared I had asked this "champion" of down trodden some questions....asked him to explain contradictions...
It seems they have been ignored.....
Irony is not what happened to Imran...
Greater Irony is transformation of Mr NFP himself from a fire brand radical anti corporate journalist of yester years into corporate jingle writing "journalist" of today...
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#7 Posted by Dash_Dot on November 23, 2007 3:55:44 am
here is a transformation which might be of interest

fire_brand_revolutionary TO Conservative TO liberal TO meet_my_maker

12-30 years penny_less_time

30-50 years make_ends_meet,roof_on_head-time

50-70 years been_there_done_that_time, Children_could_turn_out_to_be_queer_live_with_time


70+ I do_not_care_for_this_world_Lord_take_me_to_you_with_little_pain_time

NFP is somewhere in this transfromation
that is the nice thing skippy!

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#8 Posted by Dash_Dot on November 23, 2007 3:59:36 am
damn chowk once more...they do not allow what should be allowed for instance those greater than symbols -use then and find out how CHOWK chews up the interact.....
the below should have been a pretty cool diagram...but


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#9 Posted by Dash_Dot on November 23, 2007 3:59:36 am
damn chowk once more...they do not allow what should be allowed for instance those greater than symbols -use then and find out how CHOWK chews up the interact.....
the below should have been a pretty cool diagram...but


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#10 Posted by Dash_Dot on November 23, 2007 4:00:10 am
twice...and I didnot send it twice (that interact number 8)......

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#11 Posted by Skeptical on November 23, 2007 4:15:27 am
that transformation is not that transformation....
it is a transformation which has not originated out of "realities" of life....
realities that dampen the sheer idealism...
those are excusable....
there is a difference between greed and need
greed makes you write jingles while talking against corporate “culture”...
but you need to retain fame while making money....
so you keep on talking about “plight” of down trodden and “un civil” masses while driving brand new VTIs…
while Imran’s ideology has been described as “ Of course, Anushave. My struggle is for a progressive democratic Islami jirga system with full women's rights anti-American modern education revolution emancipation free media liberal judicial tribal area heroism hijab and teetar ka shikaar!”
Mr NFP’s ideology will be described as “Of course, everyone my struggle is for an emergency where all rights have usurped, it benefits the down trodden and my yuppy VTI driving lifestyle at the same time. I hate corporate and I think the best way to demolish corporate sector is to write jingles for them….. After all they are so terrible that people stop buying the product after they see them.. Journalism should not be free because it is not airing my views…. I am for down trodden and I love them and that is why I married into upper class so that don trodden can be saved from this catastrophe”
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#12 Posted by Skeptical on November 23, 2007 4:17:14 am
Bhai Dash Dot...
that transformation is not that transformation....
it is a transformation which has not originated out of "realities" of life....
realities that dampen the sheer idealism...
those are excusable....
there is a difference between greed and need
greed makes you write jingles while talking against corporate “culture”...
but you need to retain fame while making money....
so you keep on talking about “plight” of down trodden and “un civil” masses while driving brand new VTIs…
while Imran’s ideology has been described as “ Of course, Anushave. My struggle is for a progressive democratic Islami jirga system with full women's rights anti-American modern education revolution emancipation free media liberal judicial tribal area heroism hijab and teetar ka shikaar!”
Mr NFP’s ideology will be described as “Of course, everyone my struggle is for an emergency where all rights have usurped, it benefits the down trodden and my yuppy VTI driving lifestyle at the same time. I hate corporate and I think the best way to demolish corporate sector is to write jingles for them….. After all they are so terrible that people stop buying the product after they see them.. Journalism should not be free because it is not airing my views…. I am for down trodden and I love them and that is why I married into upper class so that don trodden can be saved from this catastrophe”

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#13 Posted by rf786 on November 23, 2007 6:27:21 am
NFP,

Good article, keep it up. And how's the jingle business? From what I gather here at Chowk, its a roaring success.
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#14 Posted by hamidm2 on November 23, 2007 6:43:05 am


nfp mian,

..... this piece of satire or whatever was rather half-ass and lame .... kind of like this emergency ......

.......this 'emergency' deserves silly and impotent opponents like the pathetic big khan, the suo moto judge, the senile old queen of england and masadi .......

...... i know you can do much better, but it is hard to take this circus seriously enough to be really funny ........


sheikh rashid zindabad!
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#15 Posted by Afrin on November 23, 2007 7:06:46 am
Khool! Can anyone explain what does "Ms. Fashionista Democrata of Instapo" stand for?
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#16 Posted by Dash_Dot on November 23, 2007 7:08:30 am
Re: # 15

Fashionista Democrata of Instapo = FDI =Foreign Direct Investment
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