What's on your mind? (BC Version) - Page 96

oronnya · #**2376** February 11, 2012, 02:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Dilscoop
Came home and downloaded sh*tload of bluerays. Time to eat my avocado shrimp salad and watch one of these. Which one should I watch? In Time, Drive, Apollo 18, Cowboys and Aliens, Final Destination 5, Raise of the Planet Ape, or Mission Impossible?

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Apollo 18 !!!

Dilscoop · #**2377** February 11, 2012, 03:33 AM

I watched MI. TC= badass.

shaad · #**2378** February 11, 2012, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by F6_Turbo
Something is being done...but not enough. As with most things, our politicians are pussies when it comes to making tough decisions.

In this particular instance, it was basically hundreds of students from a local madrassa who paraded around, chanted anti-minority slogans, then ransacked a couple of mandirs. If it was me, I would have kicked the turd out of these mini Bin Ladens, but I'm not in power. RAB and Police were/are deployed - but you can't provide security for a community in this manner - it simply doesn't work.

At the very least, even after the fact, the government should find/arrest/try the individuals responsible for ransacking the mandirs, and sentence them to prison under our existing laws. People should know that they can't get off scot-free for criminal activities.

The "sanitized" version suggests that this all arose from Muslims in a mosque forbidding Hindus from using drums in an annual (i.e. once-in-a-year) procession. Given that the mosques are perfectly fine with using microphones/loudspeakers to announce azaan five times a day, the sheer hypocrisy of this act completely floors me.

F6_Turbo · #**2379** February 11, 2012, 11:21 AM

I don't know anymore...we take one step forward, and two backwards. It's been the story of this country.

We make Taslima Nasreen an international figure, left alone, I'm not sure even her own family would have read all her books, yet now she is someone that gets brought up every time someones wants to point out the shortcomings of this country.

Way too many self inflicted wounds

HereWeGo · #**2380** February 11, 2012, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by F6_Turbo
I don't know anymore...we take one step forward, and two backwards. It's been the story of this country.

We make Taslima Nasreen an international figure, left alone, I'm not sure even her own family would have read all her books, yet now she is someone that gets brought up every time someones wants to point out the shortcomings of this country.

Way too many self inflicted wounds

The way Bangladeshi politics work, if a police does anything to these effed up fundamentalists , the next day you will see colored posters with some bloodied picture of bearded bin laden wanna be's with the headline of how AL is a hindu/Raw/Indian agent.... Now the trend is noticable even on social forums like FB and stuff....... at the end of the day the minority suffers...

lamisa · #**2381** February 11, 2012, 11:37 AM

starting university from tomorrow!!!

shaad · #**2382** February 11, 2012, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by F6_Turbo
I don't know anymore...we take one step forward, and two backwards. It's been the story of this country.

We make Taslima Nasreen an international figure, left alone, I'm not sure even her own family would have read all her books, yet now she is someone that gets brought up every time someones wants to point out the shortcomings of this country.

Way too many self inflicted wounds

Ekhono haal chhero naa, F6. This might be very subjective, given that my more recent views are based largely on annual visits to Bangladesh -- but I remember the 70's and early 80's, and how relatively secular we were as a people then (yes, we had many other problems, but religious strife wasn't one of them), as well as the mid-80's to the mid-90's when religion started encroaching into our public sphere. However, the impression that I have been getting since the late-90's is that people (especially young people) are gradually reverting back to the notion that religion belongs in the private, and not public sphere -- a feeling probably spurred on by overreaching on the part of Jamaat and acts like the 2005 bomb incident by JMB. Yes, there will always be morons who can be egged on by vitriolic rhetoric, and probably some 500-Taka notes, to indulge in reprehensible acts against our minorities, but I don't believe they are representative of most Bangladeshis.

What is important, though, is that the administration makes it quite clear to the public and these miscreants, that such acts will not go unpunished.

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Originally Posted by HereWeGo
The way Bangladeshi politics work, if a police does anything to these effed up fundamentalists , the next day you will see colored posters with some bloodied picture of bearded bin laden wanna be's with the headline of how AL is a hindu/Raw/Indian agent.... Now the trend is noticable even on social forums like FB and stuff....... at the end of the day the minority suffers...

HWG, I agree. But propaganda can be countered (it's not as if AL won't be labelled a Hindu/RAW/Indian agent even if they don't respond), and examples need to be set. This is not an act that these bigots can be allowed to believe that they can get away with.

shaad · #**2383** February 11, 2012, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by lamisa
starting university from tomorrow!!!

Kothai? And do you have any inclinations towards particular majors?

Dilscoop · #**2384** February 11, 2012, 12:29 PM

http://deals.t-mobile.com/vday-free-phones

So I should go after the galaxy then? I should just do it online... but I wanna feel the phone before I get one.

Dilscoop · #**2385** February 11, 2012, 12:45 PM

Amaze or Galaxy S2??!

Ajfar · #**2386** February 11, 2012, 08:09 PM

S2!!!! I wish I hadn't bought the sensation otherwise I would def get S 2 when it came out.

Dilscoop · #**2387** February 11, 2012, 08:48 PM

If I switched to T-mobile, got a new line and kept the same number, a free phone wouldn't have been worth it. And I'd have to pay cancelation fees as well.

AT&T said I can upgrade to GS2 in 45 days!!!

Zeeshan · #**2388** February 11, 2012, 10:15 PM

Whitney Houston has passed away at 48. RIP.

Dilscoop · #**2389** February 12, 2012, 01:53 AM

When does the iPhone 5 comes out? Should I wait for that? GS2 comes with 4GLTE but iPhone 5 won't which is sad!

Naimul_Hd · #**2390** February 12, 2012, 05:54 AM

A very good and simple message and yet we forget every time talking with others. Thought i'd share this message...

nadim 98 · #**2391** February 12, 2012, 06:10 AM

wasted 4 hours of sleeping time on sunday

Rifat · #**2392** February 12, 2012, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Naimul_Hd
A very good and simple message and yet we forget every time talking with others. Thought i'd share this message...

Alhamdulillah! I was there

Great lecture!

lamisa · #**2393** February 12, 2012, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by shaad
Kothai? And do you have any inclinations towards particular majors?

IBA. i am studying Business Administration

Ajfar · #**2394** February 12, 2012, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Naimul_Hd
A very good and simple message and yet we forget every time talking with others. Thought i'd share this message...

+1.

Thanks for sharing.

Ajfar · #**2395** February 12, 2012, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeeshan
Whitney Houston has passed away at 48. RIP.

Tmahmud · #**2396** February 12, 2012, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by lamisa
IBA. i am studying Business Administration

IBA! Kudos Lamisa!

Lamisa and Shaad er chotto convo pore amar pile of undone assessments er kotha mone porlo (procrastination mode switched on).

In the tune of Hasan...
Eto koshto keno poralekhay?

shaad · #**2397** February 12, 2012, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by lamisa
IBA. i am studying Business Administration

Good choice, Lamisa. Best wishes for your continuing education.

Zeeshan · #**2398** February 12, 2012, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by shaad
Good choice, Lamisa. Best wishes for your continuing education.

..which may run to mechanics of flipping sandwiches.

shaad · #**2399** February 12, 2012, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeeshan
Whitney Houston has passed away at 48. RIP.

Sad. She had one of the more interesting R&B/Gospel voices (self-assured and confident) of our generation.

And her rendition of the American national anthem was one of the best that I've heard.

shaad · #**2400** February 12, 2012, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeeshan
..which may run to mechanics of flipping sandwiches.

Be nice, Zeeshan. The state of affairs in Bangladesh isn't quite like that in the US. There's a strong optimistic and entrepreneurial bent among the student body. So there's no reason why Lamisa can't use her Business Administration degree to take advantage of that.