Right.....

well

come back to the topic

Kick tinker, snessy, soniya, wk,IceMadan, and U'll see all the greenery on QL ;)

They all can't survive without Hindi chit chat

why dont everyone on here just let people have their little celebrations and the rest of us just go along with it, we all celebrate different things and we should respect that, so come on its christmas soon and we can all sing, last christmas and let them know its christmas time over and over again. fun time is for everyone and all of us can be happy together thats what ql is all about. so lets smile and be happy and lets sing, hope and glory until we cry, i know i will be happy be proud wear the union jack..

follow QL guide line no. 103, and never threat other QLer on main forum ;)

Fun??? No fun??

Now it's WARRRRRR, lol :-P

Good night

Thanks for all the participants

So many points discussed in different ways, but the end was peaceful :)

Hope no one will mind mid night chit chatters ;)

PS: Snessy, Tinker, Soniya, FS, WK, Ice M ....... Initially i took this post lightly, and was in mode of fun, nothing personal against Indians or Indians cultures.

I think I know by now what pushes your buttons so I'm not surprised by it. I just wish you could read the post more critically, rather than reactionary, so maybe you wouldn't get so worked up. Anyway, I have had my say. :)

tinker, you are right on all counts. And thank you for praising some of my comments /subjects :)

See, of course one does nor ONLY have to talk about Qatar, that would be terminally boring, ;). But if we could keep those manifold country specific threads a bit more restricted, I think all may be served.

The hijacking/language etc issue, well, I have no problem with a little chat or hijacking, I find it often livens up an otherwise boring/serious thread. BUT, here as everywhere else, we must apply common sense and curtesy, to not go overboard.

The love threads...lololol, annoying, YES, but at times highly entertaining and a good source to apply what I love...darkest sarcasm.....but, that's just me. ;)

I think you are being overly sensitive and emotional in a very unproductive manner.

their native dialect" frequently on the main forum, even if just for part of the post. To me this is rude and similar to when you are in a group with a common language between you but you choose to speak in a language that certain people don't know. I was raised to think this was rude. More importantly, this is distinctly against the forum rules so making excuses for it doesn't wash in my opinion.

I also hate the hijacking and chit chatting, which are also against the forum rules and I think those people should be warned and banned if they continue. It might be good just to have a thread for chit chatting that stays open all the time so the culprits will stop doing it on every thread they enter.

As for the Love threads, I hate them but unfortunately they are not against the rules. I wish there would be a forum opened for these pathetic lost souls so they would be put out of their misery.

tinker...as I said before...AND posted in the original thread starter....after mentioning A FEW nationalities there is an ETC.

This means there are more nationalities that are doing the same thing.

I also said , that some of the subjects posted are, indeed, very interesting, but it would be nice if things could be restrained just a bit, as we do actually live in Qatar.

IF you read my thread starter, you will be able to confirm what I just now repeated. :)

Who gives you the right to make fun of nomerci's name and launch a personal attack? Are you not taking this all a bit personally?

I have no problem. If it, Hindi, Urdu, Romanian, Portuguese or Pashto are on the main forum then it is a problem. But to be honest you never find Romanian or Portuguese on the main forum so that is why the OP is making her point about Hindi and Urdu.

nomerci... I wish so, as I am all for it and prefer it that way....:)

Sshisu oyiya,hoo, aa ouyituk, taa tui toon hha

Lui pa tu shu, shu oiuy ho ho,heeya.

It is not Indo-Pak, Nepali or Bengali, or Lanka language, but script for Vodafone Ad.

People chill salary week end.

happy, sometimes things actually are as simple as they appear to be.:)

Cryspy, read ur comment against few QLers at the first page...

Don't u think that it would be wise to KICK you out from QL too who just know how to spit out the venom??

The two "why's" have different connotations, if I am reading them right.

I am least bothered with what's been posted on QL..

I enjoy being here as long as TOPICS are worth for discussion..

Why? Well why are others bothered by the same thing? And avoid it...well, that would mean I should not even open QL....;)

:p no merci sorry i got carried away, however coming back to what you just said the issue is not that you mentioned the names of countries, the matter is why should u be bothered about which country's "people" is posting what on a public forum even if it annoys you?

smoke...personal attack...tsk, tsk, tsk....;)

I said...all the countries YOU people have been mentioning so far ETC....etc. means that there are others too. NON?

Read people, read and COMPREHEND!

well said Pilgram

Pilgram relax i was kidding about that in my comment. :P

cryspy dont hijack

Pilgram

the fame Biryani Hut has been closed --- Authentic source saeedkan :P

exactly. Why to hijack the threads. many have stopped. but there is still one know-all who wants to always start chit-chatting

Actually smoke I wasn't hijacking, simply giving my opinion on the original topic. I said (as you can read) that I don't mind the different topics, what bothers me is the hijacking. That's addressing the original topic. Talking about briyani huts and general chit chat is not.

Yes attention seekers and new members who dont know where to post what, may be coz they are still getting used to the site, trolls etc

This is all part and parcel of an online forum. Thats why we have mods and admins to take care of the mess. Lets leave them to do their job.

But i agree people sometimes dont really know how to use a forum properly, where to discuss, where to joke, and when to just turn a blind eye. We cant be expecting everyone to use a little common sense.

s_isale

even if one is member of that particular group, s/he will never give a rat a55.

lol Arien

many get banned because they got wound up....

no one can comment on it because they dont want to be members of that group :)

Not all Cryspy. yo know whom I meant

agreed smoke

as WK and Happygolucky said earlier

"If you post it in particular group, no one will bother to comment, and thats the reason attention seekers will always post on main forums."

Cryspy, QL has a section for posting religious topics, and in that a person can post his topics on Islam, Hinduism or Christianity to his/her hearts content.

If a religious topic has been posted in the mains it automatically gets removed or shifted to its rightful section...as and when the mods happen to see it.

I dont read religious topics.

from the original post. Please stay on topic!

should be renamed to "Asian Living in Qatar" but this is all about the majority of people in Qatar and at QL....

Ultimately, its People who rules.

RIGHT!!!

Arien

U know, why those are getting ban, its not about "Not following QL Guideline".

smoke

and how many topics do U really read on daily basis about bashing hinduism or christianity?

no one should be allowed on main forum, when it comes to post something about religion, either positive or negative.

and.. I guess usualy those who dont follow the QL guidlines are the ones get BANNED. lol

sure jack

i don't like any religion bashing on main forum.

Jacky you can say that that is already being followed truly madly deeply on QL. :P How many topics do you read about Hinduism or Buddhism

Similarly discussion of any other religion other than Islam is inappropriate in Qatar....

LMAO Smoke !

The Qatarliving Guidelines No. 420: Don't Do Drama...Don't cause trauma :)

Chillax Buddies !

its weekend.

by the way, if i am sure " This has been Posted and Discussed B4 " as well....

Cheerz !

I agree with SmokE.

A public forum where every ne is free to post will have what the majority seek..isnt it obvious?

The minority will have less..which is obvious too. Cant help it.

Pilgram NOW you are going off topic and hijacking...this thread is not about hijacking...its something else :p

PMSL ...

I don't mind the Indian topics, some are interesting, those that aren't I ignore. What I hate is the F-ing hijacking. If you want to talk about someone's Briyani hut start a F-ing thread about it, stop hijacking other peoples threads with your bloody nonsense and banter.

why do everyone gets defensive

Yes Flor, and we are still merely discussing the topic that she raised and i am still pointing out where she is wrong in telling people what they should and should not be posting. She has her right to voice her opinion and we have the right to do the same.

She does not violate any guidelines and neither does what she's referring to "All you people talk about is your local politics, Hindi movies , hindi festivals etc."

violate any guidelines

in your view, does the OP violated any guidelines in posting her thread? It's her view and she is entitled to it as you also entitled to question her motive. Right? I find nothing wrong in her thread. It is more of a reminder to me than a question of whether she is dictating something? This is just an exchange of views and we are all entitled to our individual views! Good morning!

If any Indian movie is released or about to release in Qatar.... then discussing that is not allowed?

By that rule ... all English Movies too should not be discussed .... only Qatari Movies should be discussed.

Flor everywhere we go we will find things that annoy us, when you switch on the tv majority of the channels are in Arabic true? So can say i dont want to see those channels on my tv screen?

I agree that the quality of topics have gone to the dogs and this has been long since...we cant stop people from posting what they like, everyday there are new members here who will post things that have been posted before, who all are we going to control?

If you see a title in English and inside its in some other language, if its posted in a group, who's fault is it that that topic is visible on the main forum? The people or the design of the site?

not post in the group forum rather than the main forum? (this was the discussion of HGL and WK above, I think so).

I understand your comment but you should also understand the view of the OP. I think she is not dictating but giving her preference for a common subject to be discussed in the main forum.

If you remember just recently, some complaint about many Qler opening thread that were titled in English but happened to be a group story. It is just the same like this in this line. Sometimes (and not all the times), it is annoying that the main board is flooded by threads either of no particular interest but also sometimes for a "particular country's" interest which leave the other "a little bit" annoyed by such posting.

I know you'll say that "if you don't like the post, don't comment or don't even open it". But isn't it also annoying saying that as a general defense?

Flor, if everyone were to think that way no one would be posting anything. My point being so WHAT if majority of the topics being posted here come from any particular region if it so happens to be that there's a majority of them on the site? No one's stopping the others from posting are they?

Talking in native language in main forum topics i agree is against the community guidelines but where does it say only talk about things happening in Qatar on Qatarliving.com? Is Nomerci dictating HER terms to her to follow coz she has a problem with it?

Oh Tinkerbell, I just reread your post, I've just realised although you addressed it to me, you weren't saying it about me.

Yeah yeah WK, you love my English slang ;-)

"to a certain degree"? She's not asking to kick somebody or anybody (although she implied that about me a long time ago) in her post. Look at it objectively!

Snessy you yourself are guilty.. You keep talking in your mother tongue :-P

Tinkerbell, my example just happened to be from yesterday's thread, by no means do I think only one nationality does this though. We're all guilty to some extent.

tinker

since U joined QL, its became hinglish most of the time on main forums.

No offense

My thinking!

TInker.....not one country. We were also there....dont know why? :P

that to a certain level, it's okay. As a responsible poster, we should always be vigilant in moderating ourselves.

Many other Qler made this complaint before and I really wonder why the OP is being singled-out in her view. Yes, the main board is for everyone, but please have the decency to moderate ourselves or chaos on board will just be intolerable! We should distinguished what is plain ranting and legitimate complaint based on existing community guidelines! Good morning people!

News about people's own countries is totally acceptable, in fact I quite enjoying reading them as I wouldn't know about them unless I read about it here on QL.

But...the particular thread that sparked this thread last night was on the main forum by an active QLer completely in Hindi. To top it off, this particular user uses Hindi in his posts at every given opportunity on the main forum. This is not about any language in particular, it should be the same rule for everyone - English only in the main forum, occasionally using the odd word is fine, just don't take the piss...

tinker there is nothing wrong with being lazy.. :)

By the way, read this thread from me :P

http://www.qatarliving.com/node/1268342

for the other complaint....NO COMMENT!

I thought Ql was for everyone to post and discuss issues....hmmm seems not. Didn't realise everyone had their turf marked out?

saeedkan no no I am kidding I really don't have time for it :) thank you anyway

a "battle royale". Lol!

Lol! That's the best thing that happened after the "exclusivity" rule was implemented!

Let's make it AsianLIvinginQatar.com...hehehehe(joke)

Chill guys..it's Thursday.

I'm so watching the clock so i could have my 2 days off :)

lol happy, yes I do :P

WK... and I am sure you know the reason why it goes to 200 posts on main forum and only 2 posts in the group...:)

I want to learn hindi and urdu anyone? for 4 years in qatar I can not understand what these people are saying :-/

dear no-sense-ci,

Tell me who made you the MOTHER of QL? As always you cant seem to mind your own business and open threads to seek attention.

Need we all remind you that QL is a public forum and anyone and everyone is free to post as and what they like and thats the bottom line. No one is stopping anyone of the "others" from posting about their culture, talk about english/german movies are we?

If your point is about people talking in their own language in main forums then yes your thread could have made some sense, but that is not the case here.

If majority of the active people on a forum belong to a particular region what does your common sense (that you seem to be distributing to people freely)tell you?

You want to know more about whats happening in Qatar pick up a newspaper perhaps, you want to discuss something happening in Qatar post a thread on it.

What is unacceptable is you thinking you can just run your mouth about something YOU personally do not like to see on QL and are the same level as any one of those individuals that you despise A EXPAT.

I post a thread on a topic in Indian group, it gets 2 responses.. From me and soniya :P

Post it in the main forum and same users who are member of Indian group also will take it to 200 posts.. Weird..

threads! Whetehr the topic itself or the use of the vernacular, it falls in one category, (very) annoying threads! Lol!

many dont want to be considered in the group cliches.

Oryx, not to mention those long copy paste threads that they don't even bother to paste the link where they got it from, as if they penned the whole article themselves!

Dear Oryx

"And strange last time i was in England I didn't see many lepers begging on the street or people living in big slum areas..."

This is becouse you british for 300 years stole all the wealth from India! and made your british london rich. So you should be thank ful for India and its people becouse they have a culture where always "ATTITI DEVO BHAVA" ie A guest is god and treat him like god and they thought a western guest should be treated with respect. Poor Indias did not know that these westerners are theives in the name of guest.

Tinker

any plan for weekend?

There were a couple of threads which really shouldn't have been on the main forum but problem is nobody realises the use of the Groups created except the Romanians who post the relevant threads in QLRG. Everyone else posts anything anywhere.

UK guys posts a lot of links relating to UK, Indians post a lot of stuff related to India is there any differnce between the two?

There are many who post good morning and good afternoon threads even though there is a specific thread already created for greetings. no complaints about that either??

Pick and choose to criticise a certain group does no good.

Let's not argue .. It's Thursday :O)

Just tell me whether you think that the thread yesterday was within the spirits / guidelines of QL ?

Tinker - yes

the love threads

the copy and paste threads

the spam threads

lol Abhineet... you got this thread into some weekend frenzy now...:)

thank you how enlightening....so if India etc were that advanced and we were so backward how were we able to take these civil societies....?

And strange last time i was in England I didn't see many lepers begging on the street or people living in big slum areas......

And while we are at it what about the glorious past of countries like Mexico and Peru?

yes they have glorious past and they are masters of slave trade. They built their glorious past by building colonies and distroying cultures and traditions world wide. it is a shame on humanity such people exists if you read the history.

When you westerners were nomads living incaves india has mastered the fines of civil society. Your lot of mordern day inventions are already know or conceptualized by indias long long back

England, France, Spain etc doesn't have a 'glorious past'??

its all a conspiracy theory??? ok fine thanks for telling me

And what culture and ways should we be accepting??? its a multiracial country not India.

Qatar needs indian experienced labour to survive. And indians as big group here. If you have problem with Indians then why are you giving visa to Indians? You can completely stop that. Why GCC companies are going to India and begging people to come and work in here?

It is time to accept that you need indians to survive,then you should have the goodness to accept their culture and ways and respect them. after all indian culture has glorius past which any western or arab culture doesnt.

WK Malayalam is a Hindi language. Infact it is the chief Hindi language in Gelf.

Middle English:

Old English:

Wrong edifis.. It's Malayalam :(

Whoo needs inklish? Now the main language in Gelf iis going to be hindi.

shukrun Ya habibi

Khattak, i knew it, xxxpat will never mind

Just asking...

Adey must be older than me to speak Middle English. But here's a dictionary:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/

And no apology necessary mate. :)

You should apologize CrySpy...NOW

xxxpat

i just saw adey were posting in some old version of english, which i hardly find in my syllabus ;)

btw, i was just clarifying a single word to Gazal, and that must not be offensive.

There has to be some kind of virus around tonight...!!!!

Not English, as far as I know. Or were you just trying to make the point cryspy?

Thanks God

i'm a single line chatter in Mid night ;)

:P

Guilty as charged for that thread yesterday :P

Yes

but seems like not a lot as you are right that most topics would not be of interest to non-Indians or non-Paks, not to mention that if you don't know urdu or hindi you will not understand many of the remarks posted. I spoke about the hijacking before and pointed out that there is a certain group, from a certain geographical region that use the forum like their chat room and all hell broke loose for me daring to mention it. Certain posters seem to live for qatarliving (and I know one who doesn't work and lives at home with his mum so has countless time on his hands to post inane one-liners) and they feel compelled to hijack and flirt at every turn.

A lot of the females are no better. Last night, I signed off because some interesting threads turned to an OTT flirtation between one female and several male posters with her discussing wet dreams. FFS!

It does seem that the whole site is not nearly as balanced as it was before but there's not a whole lot that can be done other than to find other sites (which I have begun doing). You might want to look around nomerci, and find something that is not so "one-sided".

Cryspy, D.C?

saeed is habby now, sure if he'll sleep tonight :D

good night saeed.

Just because someone writes in English is that sufficient to be considered as following the giudelines of the main forum.. I hate people turning every thread into their love story or their personal chit chat... and if the posting in once own language is far and wide, the other is the story rolled out on every other thread... should I also bring up a thread for that, because I dont appreciate it.

I think Indians are the majority in Qatar, yet I find so many posts about foreign people and their culture in QL! In other words... I am amazed by the number of posts in QL which has nothing to do with India and its people! This has become my pet peeve now!

All Indians please post more and make yourself more visible on QL.....just like you are on the streets, office buildings,souks, groceries etc.

good day...I'll have a great night ahead...:)

Babel Fish!!! Drat!!!

saeed, that and common sense will do a great deal!

Post in whatever you like.. I have a Babel Fish to aid me ..... :O)

whyte....yes, I know...but now they are MINE!! You can't have them!!!!!!! ;)

saeed,generally I have no problem with any of it. BUT, having all this,and it is mostly about a certain region,happening in a forum called Qatar living is not quite right is it?

As I said, I know, as it is abvious, that most active users are from those regions,still, maybe they can post about things that actually concern Qatar too?

And being stared at is not nice no matter who does it....in this case it was certain people, simply because they are present in this area.Not my fault,non?

Also I have no problem with people talking in their language, albeit not in the main forum, as it is rude to do so when others can't understand. It's manners, nothing more, nothing less.

Middle English:

Whan that the Knyght had thus his tale ytoold,

In al the route ne was ther yong ne oold

That he ne seyde it was a noble storie,

And worthy for to drawen to memorie;

And namely the gentils everichon.

Oure Hooste lough, and swoor, "So moot I gon,

This gooth aright; unbokeled is the male,

Lat se now who shal telle another tale,

For trewely the game is wel bigonne.

Now telleth on, sir Monk, if that ye konne

Somwhat to quite with the Knyghtes tale.

adey - 'bending the QL quidelines for the last 5 years'

nomerci I am sooooo jealous of you.. You got more stalkers than me now :(

Saeed, you have no intention to sleep early today...:)

wk

have mercy on me :P

saeed

i've always problem with ur Biryani hut offer, never got it once :((

Cryspy you want me to dig up your comments in Pashto?? ;)

Totally agree Nomerci, it hacks me right off! It's bad enough clicking on a topic with the title in English to find out it's for a particular group, but for it to be on the main forum is a waste of everyone's time!

Cryspy...I can't speak Hindi so not sure where you've got my name from!

English guys English so that everyone can extract the essence out of it....

happygolucky

mid night chit chatters never bothered anyone, we are excluded ;)

[BYE!]

then bear them walking around with usual chit chat

Has anybody stopped anyone from posting what she/he wants to discuss...be it their country, any other country or just something that fascinates them...I think no one...right...:)

BTW... I do not support posting in a language other than english on the main forum though at times I have also done that.

cryspy, nobody needs to be kicked.

saeed, it does not matter. Don't worry about it. He had many and will have many more.

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Someone got links :P

drmana...and I was just getting into the swing of things over there...ah well!;)

no problem saeed...but you see, he had so many ID's he probably can't remember them.....lol

Proved yet again that if anything happens anywhere..... Pakistan would be mentioned. Bravo!!!

Hurray!.....threads deleted by MODs.....MODs now please do us a favor and ban users who had been given final warning for this language thing earlier, you know who I mean ;-)

I'm wondering though are the posters trying to make some kind of point here...have I missed something? anyways QL "main forum" is for everyone and there are "groups" for those specific posts. why spoil a good thing,folks? Be fair and play by the rules please, whatever grievances you may have.

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drmana, lighten up.....really, no reason to be upset. It will all be ok again sooner than later. :)

u will have to rewind QL I m gone ... Allright .... Right and Left uuuuuuuf so much drama

Here we go again......

saeedkan

U want her in biryani hut..........lol

plzzzzzzzz

no more invitation to there, no one will join U :P

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saeed, just some old, bitter stalkers. Nothing to worry about. :)

they are petty , like you said, bitter too at times.

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saeed, it is a my former username. Gaga seems to be very excited to having found out about it......;)

arien, facts are always What?

lol cant differ dotty

Arien, once i was knocked out by Paki's, most of the time left alone by Indians, never find an Afghan soul mate on QL, so thought to put my finger everywhere on main forum ;)

nomercy Facts are always..

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cryspy you are multi coloured dude ;)

Indian blood, Afghan born, Paki hearted ..u see lol

It is quite monotonous when posting comments in local languages or discussing purely localized topics unless it is a genuine one. I am not pointing fingers to anyone. No offense. Hope you all get my point.

arien, I think not. I also find your response petty.

tcom, I don't think that any Western people have been shunned or intimidated. I think they simply do not find QL interesting enough anymore to post.

Arien

some times i feel left alone among them :((

crime

once i was a part of Troll gang on QL, and believe me, it has its own charm ;)

minority complex :(

oh dear.....gaga is back! lol

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Right...

Love MUST be shared cryspy. :)

nom

i don't believe on sharing :P

Cryspy...no worries, I luv you too!

nom

U must follow the rules by urself,

Rule No. 209, and U seem not aware of that, let me post it again.

- Never show ur luvly feelings on main forum, they look better behind the curtains ;)

And to recap, as I already said in my thread starter....it can be very interesting,IF and WHEN it is kept to a certain limit.

I do realize that most active posters on QL are from the above mentioned area, never the less, this IS Qatar.

I am sure there are places where continuous posts about above mentioned areas, concerns ,politics ,culture etc .are welcome and appropriate, but as it is at this time , I find it inappropriate.

Flan, I love you too, but you know that, non? ;)

I like your profile pic mana - perfect for Halloween ;)

Seems like a certain person can post a (absolutely not) Funny on the main forum in his native language and get away with that and much more! Are the Mods blind? How much more do we have to read in non-English on the main forum or put up with hijack after hijack? Hello??? How about actually reinforcing rules and doing something about this?

Right...

flan

feel free to show ur love inside boundary walls, this is Qatar living.

Bloody Indians

I have no problems with the topics. They are free to post whatever they like. I do have issues with the hijacking and the use of "non english" in the main forums. The guidelines are clear, but people ignore them just to show off..

example:

http://www.qatarliving.com/node/1412108

Festivals well...if Halloween can be discussed then why not other festivals as long as discussion is in English...But whole thread in language other than English in main forum shouldn't be allowed.

I love you nomerci..

You forgot the love/relations

Culprits are only few specific people who had been warned before...hope MODs do their job this time as I remember few of them being given final warning for the same few days back.

Most western have shunned or been intimated to be away from QL.