Nirmalya Dutta

55) DO NOT INVITE: Why Trump offboarded Tulsi Gabbard timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/do-no…

Like all Indian mothers, my mater too has a fair share of complaints, but at the top of them was my dropping out of engineering school. Now, like most folks from the Indian middle class, a term as bogus as the Holy Roman Empire and income tax returns, we grew up with the notion that getting into engineering school and doing an MBA was the sure-shot way out of penury. Sadly, some of us are never meant to take the tried-and-tested route, and one can blame a lot of people, including yours truly, for not finishing engineering school, but the one I hold most dearly responsible is Pep Guardiola. It was the night before an important exam when Guardiola’s Barcelona faced off against Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United in the 2009 UEFA Champions League final in Rome, which we watched in a packed common room in college. At that time, Cristiano Ronaldo was the world’s best player, and United had won in Europe the previous season and were looking to become the first team to win back-to-back Champions Leagues in the new format. But Guardiola and his band of merry, menacing imps, including a young lad named Lionel Messi, had other ideas, as they proceeded to dismantle Sir Alex’s European and English champions in a way that made one truly comprehend the basic thesis of Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction. Those were heady days, when United used to win the league at a canter, and it was shocking for everyone to see Messrs Rooney, Ronaldo and Co given the runaround like they were a Sunday league team. Guardiola’s Barcelona added a new layer of paint to Cruyff’s Sistine Chapel of Total Football that day, which wouldn’t just become the USP of sportswashing authoritarian regimes around the world but also left me in a state of trauma that made me question my own raison d’être and eventually led to me missing my exams and never becoming an engineer. Now, obviously, one is exaggerating for effect, but what Messi and Co did that day truly elevated Pep Guardiola’s legend in the hallowed halls of footballing legacy.

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There are stupid people in the US that make dumb comments all the time. Left unsaid: One of them is my president.

India calls America out for Trump’s racist comments and Rubio calls Americans stupid. President Trump amplified a post last month referring to India as a “hellhole.” So when Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited New Delhi, he was confronted directly about remarks viewed as offensive toward Indians coming from the United States. Rubio responded: “Every country in the world has stupid people who say dumb things.” The State Department initially posted the exchange online, but later removed it after people pointed out that Rubio’s answer appeared to indirectly characterize Trump’s comments as “dumb.”

@vish0890 Rs 100 rent.

@NonsensicalNemo What’s the allure in living in a place like this?

LOL one of my relatives lived in a place like this where they paid Rs 100 rent. They finally had to vacate it a couple of years ago becaues even the previous regime deemed it unsafe to live in.

Did they get it from China?

That's Telugu folks are so quick on the update. They are born Reddy

That intern/sub-editor is most probably hardcore Bollywood fan who is doing her dream job.

@TweetinderKaul @MandarSawant184 Of course you are. We all are.

@MandarSawant184 Son of two doctors who were in a govt hospital all their lives. I assume you will call me privileged too.

Are you an army brat or the son of an IAS/ IPS ?

This piece misses three tthings: 1) Fergie didn't win under the shadow of FFP. Yes Fergie spent but that's because United earned that money. And yet he still had to operate with Glazers suckling the life out of the club's finances. 2) Fergie took a team that was second-from-bottom and made them serial winners. Guardiola managed a team with unlimited funds. 3) Beyond the Premier League, Fergie broke the Scottish Celtic-Rangers with Aberdeen. He won the European Cup Winners Cup with them. Pep has only managed clubs which are the best team in the land. espn.in/football/story…

Reporter: “would you like to change into your uniform first before we take pic-“ Cops in perfect unison: “NOPE”

@IndusThink @adityajakki @Kiranhyd @BharatPacific Haha ok

@adityajakki @NonsensicalNemo @Kiranhyd @BharatPacific If @NonsensicalNemo joins then hell yes!

😂 I am seated

@IndusThink @Kiranhyd @adityajakki A way to exorcise your inner Macaulay. nonsensicalnemo.substack.com/p/random-musin…

@Kiranhyd @adityajakki @NonsensicalNemo Let me ask a better question: what is Bhojpuri music babua?

To borrow lines from Bappida: Khaini bina chain kahan rey.

खैनी स्वीडिश वे ऑफ लाइफ़ है।

@IndusThink @adityajakki Oh god. The last thing I needed to see in this heat.

@adityajakki I don’t like this song but our WENA term maxxer @NonsensicalNemo might

My man tripping up Little Rubio.

LOL. Why is PB's account handled by an edgelord?