Trivia of “Potty-Parity”

Gill, I actually enjoyed your change of pace. But in some way this is leaving me feeling a tad awkward. Perhaps it is because I always saw you as this really serious science guy. Cheers.

Re: # 17

Ye jealous??.

Its not a matter of taste. your science essays are like some college paper.

these 2 articles (esp the partition one) came from your heart. i value originality and unique over everything else. there was a connection between the reader and the author.

i think cayenne likes you.

PEEPING TOM!!.

drlokraj:

Thanks for your post. I had read a few essays by Dr. Wazir Agha long time back. He used to edit a Urdu magazine, I`m forgetting its name. Then I couldn`t keep up with my reading of Urdu literature for several reasons, mostly becaue I was living overseas and acxcess to Urdu litertaure was not easy. Another reason was that I was engrossed in my professional research which took most of my time. With regards,

Mohammad Gill

Gill stay away from satrire and stick to what you do best even though in parts i must say I did enjoy this. Thought provoking it was certainly not like most of your writings here.

harimau,

my dear overdosed on testostherone man, why must you think that just because i mentioned courtesy that i`ve gone ``ballistic``? but if you must know, PMS is over and done with, i thank the lord every day that i am who i am (in other words, no penis envy! :) ), and as far as solidarity with amrita goes, i don`t really know what transpired between the two of you to have wrote what you did, but i honestly and minus ballistically wanted to know why a mature person like you who feels free to say whatever he very well pleases and to hell with all else would not grant others, no matter how much you disagree with them ideologically, the same courtesy? i really don`t see most of them wondering whether you`ll shut up for good. there`s really no need to be offensive here, some of us do mean well, even if you don`t believe it. :)

no hard feelings (and therefore no penis envy?! yes, that was rather besharam of me, apologies!!)

--ana

Ref ana #4

What happened? Solidarity with a soul sister? Penis envy? Just plain PMS? What caused you to go ballistic?

Anyway, here is some light-hearted news item. You might derive satisfaction that the victim was a male.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/03/toilet.lawsuit.ap/index.html

Lawsuit claims exploding toilet burned man
Friday, June 3, 2005 Posted: 1430 GMT (2230 HKT)

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia (AP) -- A man who says he was severely burned when a portable toilet exploded after he sat down and lit a cigarette is suing a general contractor and a coal company, accusing them of negligence.

John Jenkins, 53, and his wife, Ramona Jenkins, 35, of Brave, Pennsylvania, filed the suite Tuesday in county circuit court seeking $10 million in damages from Chisler Inc. and Eastern Associated Coal Corp.

The lawsuit claims Jenkins` face, neck, arms, torso and legs were severely burned last July after the cigarette ignited methane gas leaking from a pipe underneath the toilet unit.

``When I struck the lighter, the whole thing just detonated -- the whole top blew off,`` said Jenkins, a methane power plant operator with North West Fuels Development Inc. ``I can`t tell you if it blew me out the door or if I jumped out.``

Eastern Associated owns the Blacksville property where the explosion occurred. Jenkins alleges that heavy equipment from Chisler Inc. ran over the pipelines before the explosion, causing the methane gas leak.

A call to the Charleston office of Peabody Energy, the parent company of Eastern Associated Coal, was not returned.

A man who answered the phone at Chisler`s office in Fairview said the company would have no comment.

Its a good breather Gill saab.
Reminds of Dr. Wazir Agha`s inshaiyaas.
New Beginning was incidently your first article I read on chowk and liked it a lot.
Literature and science can go side by side perfectly.
This article reminds the book ``Men are from Mars and women are from Venus``
Hope to share more of your light hearted divertion.
Cheers

Nass:
People have different tastes. kaurasach liked only two of my articles, Potty-Parity and New Beginning. He feels bored by science articles.
I take time to write on some general topics also, thinking I might not be overdoing writing only on scientific and technological topics. I don`t need a great deal of effort in writing such light articles. For example, I completed the ``Potty..`` article in about three hours. Compared with this, I usually take a couple of weeks for writing an article on science.
On the whole, it was okay. The Potty article provided me some light-hearted diversion.

Mohammad Gill

Goll sahib, you are one of my favourite writers on chowk but puleeeez, what on earth was this? Stop hanging around ladies` washrooms looking for science. :)

Pardesi:
Thanks for empathizing. She has a cell phone and moreover it`s no longer a serious problem. I am out of my difficult financial times.
Sometimes when I need to talk with her on some important thing and she is on telephone, it becomes something of a dilemma. A couple of times I had to interrupt her conversation. But life is good.
Mohammad Gill

Gill sahib, buy her cell phone with 1500 (or more) minutes. Solved my problem :).

(Enter the lion)

(Loud and widespread sounds of boos and jeers)

Lion: Grrrr…(Human translation (HT): my comments on this work)

(Loud booming voice from the back: who asked for it?)

Lion: Roar…(HT: First, it lacks sufficient focus (from NYC ordinance to South Asian context to personal domestic phone calling patterns))

Lion: Roar, roar…(HT: Second, it contains insufficient statistical data to back up most of its claims)

Lion: Roar, roar, roar…(HT: Third, it uses highly anecdotal data (e.g., “One of my wife’s cousins…”) to draw sweeping conclusions (“Woman! Thy name is social conversation”))

Chowk censor (CS) (interrupting): Lion, do you have anything specific to point out? (to himself) Perhaps that will make him go away.

Lion: Grrr, ROAR… (HT: [For example, it was said that the men generally act quite matter-of-factly when they pay a visit to the restroom. They do their thing and walk out. At times, many of them do not even care to wash their hands after their act.]…)

CS: Lion, do you have any data of your own?

Lion: Roar! (HT follows below)

	Men and women who wash hands after the ``act``	Men and women who don`t wash hands after the ``act``
As claimed (in phone survey)	95%	5%
Actual	68%	32%
Source: Environment, Health and Safety Online website

CS: And your point, lion?

Lion: Grrr… (HT: Don’t trust people when they tell you about bathroom stuff.)

CS: I see.

Lion: Grrrr… (HT: And now….)

CS (jumping in): Stop, lion! Not here!

Lion: (looks quizzically)

CS: You do that only to mark your territory! This ain’t it!

Lion: (Limps away with a painful expression)

(Exit the lion. Loud sounds of cheering)

Sounds from the den: zzzzzzzz….

... and I guessed from reading the title that this article was going to be about parity non-conservation and the Potts model and such-like stuff. Chowk never ceases to surprise ...

harimau,

some people here offer coffee or tea to the more vitriolic, needlessly condescending folk here. would offering you a laxative help? would it shut you up ``once and for all.``?! i really don`t see her or most of the people here wanting you to do that once and for all, more`s the pity for you if you can`t extend that same courtesy! :)

regards,
ana