CULTURAL QA 02-2022-21 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 What are Kanyakumari words? A1 Indu Lives in Tamil Nadu, India(1999–present) Updated 4h Iwas born and brought up in Kanyakumari. So being a kk'ian, this question seemsvery interesting to me LikeMadurai and Coimbatore, Kanyakumari also has it's own slang 🧿.I realized that our Tamil slang is unique ( different ) only after moving to adifferent city for studies. My classmates used to tell me that my way ofspeaking is cute ( not boasting 🤫 ). Some of my professorsmisunderstood that I am a malayali (?). But now my slang has changedcompletely . Comingback to the question, The words Kanyakumari people use and other Tamilans don'tuse are Wesay small onion as chinna ulli ( சின்ன உள்ளி) whereasother Tamilans say vengayam .We say big onion as Ballari ( பல்லாரி) whereasother Tamilans say Periya vengayam We say papad as papadam ( பப்படம்) whereasother Tamilans say appalam. We saycockroach as paacha ( பாச்சா)whereasother Tamilans say karapan poochi Some more words we use on daily basis Adipozhi ( அடிபொழி) - Toappreciate something 🤩 Cheara ya irukku (செரயா இருக்கு ) - Ifwe get irritated 😤 We use makka ( மக்கா) / Lei(லேய்) whereas other Tamilansuse di / da OnceI went to a malayali supermarket in a foreign country to get some Indian foods,I saw Tapioca there and screamed with joy Marchini kizhangu ( மர்சினி கிழங்கு) …Everyone in the shop stared at me. The malayali shopkeeper told me that theysay it as kappa kizhanghu ( கப்பகிழங்கு) ,there was a Tirunelveli woman, she told me that they say it as maravallikizhangu ( மரவள்ளிகிழங்கு). I waslike Wesay, Lemon juice - Bonju ( போஞ்சு ) Jack fruit - chakka pazham ( சக்கா பழம் ) Theif - kallan ( கள்ளன் ) Sweat - visarpu ( விசர்ப்பு ) Meat - iraichi ( இறைச்சி ) Junk food - kalla pandam ( கள்ள பண்டம் ) Goli - Kalachi ( களச்சி) Onemore thing I noticed is, we say Paatu padi and other Tamilans say Paatu paadu In Kanyakumari people who are livingclose to Kerala border ( Kaliyakavilai, Marthandam ) speak very differently. Even I can'tunderstand them sometimes. My note- I had a colleague whileworking at Trivandrum, native Tiruvattar with a peculiar name Jayadevan Nair. He talked Kerala Malayalam and collegiate education at Nagerkovil and had his degree from University of Madras. Q2 How I transfer my SBI saving accountto other SBI branch? A2 State Bank of India (SBI) Instantly new,yet instantly recognizable.2y Customersas per their convenience may place a request for transfer of account at – HomeBranch (Transferor),· Transferee Branch (atthe branch where account is intended to be transferred). Furtherplease note that, now our customers’ can transfer Savings Account throughOnline SBI (our internet banking portal). Please follow the steps to transferaccount without visiting Branch: Logonto OnlineSBI (www.onlinesbi.com) with your Internet Banking Credentials.·Click on e-services TAB. Clickon Transfer of Savings Account. Enter the Branch Code where you want totransfer the account. In case you do not know the Branch Code, please click onBranch Locator option available and Type the Branch name. Thebranch code will be displayed.· Use the Branch code atappropriate box Clickon submit, enter the details and confirmthe same. OTPwill be sent to the registered Mobile number. Enter the OTP. A reference numberwill be generated, and account will be transferred. Q3 Is Indian railways changing forbetter? A3 Vinod Kumar Teaching S.St, GK,preparing NTSE aspirants (1999–present)5h Justthink of a single female travelling in Indian Railways along with a baby andshe has to go to the washroom, now what is to be done with the baby ? Can'tleave the baby alone on the seat/birth. Twooptions seems to be visible - Askthe person sitting next to take care of the baby till the women comes back fromthe washroom. That can be insecure/dangerous (if the person runs away with thechild or is not careful and the baby moves away in the train) Thebest option is to take the baby along with her in the washroom. But this one isalso problematic. In the fast moving train, the female will take care of herselfor will take care of the safety of the baby Nowthe Indian Railways has come up with the most appropriate arrangement - hasstarted installing the convertible baby seats in Indian toilets. These convertible babyseats have safety belts with it, so the baby can be seating safely on theconvertible baby seat while the women gets free(Indian Railway is Nationalproperty, do take proper care of its belongings) Q4 Do you really need laundry detergentin your washing machine? A4 Elizabeth Peters Answered Nov 18 Only if you want clean clothes. Laundry detergentremoves dirt, sweat, etc., and keeps it suspended in the water so those thingsdrain away through the wash and rinse cycles. 2nd answer-Pat Hege,Department Manager at Lowe's HomeImprovement Answered Apr 18, 2019 Laundrydetergent is made to float the dirt out of clothes, if you don’t want to use detergent, then I don’t see areason for washing them. Laundry detergent suspends dirt into thewater, and rinsing clothing takes all that dirt out and down the drain. Ialways use a national brand of detergent, it works much better, plus you do nothave to use as much as the bottle tells you to. If you only useabout half of what it calls for you get the same cleaning and no soap residueon clothing. My note-Among Brahmins there areoccasions likeKartha to wash the cloth worn during funeral and wear after washing and drying for the next ten days untouched by othersduring the functions. Soap is not used for the washing. Q5 Do Japanese people typically makerice fresh for every meal or do they make large batches every day or two sothat it can be eaten cold or reheated later? A5 Eiji Takano（高野 英二）Lived in Japan(1942–1995)Fri Inmy childhood the electric rice cooker was not invented yet. My mother cookedrice with an iron pot and she transferred the cooked rice into a wooden ricekeeper every morning. It's called お櫃（おひつ）"o-hitsu"(pictured). It absorbed the excessive moisture and also prevented to make ricedry. We ate the ricefor the lunch and dinner from the container. Thesedays Japanese electric rice cookers have "keep warm" function and we don't need to worry about itsquality for at least 30 hours. So we don't use such a wooden ricekeeper anymore. Q6 What causes a laptop fan to run moreoften as the laptop gets older? Is this true, btw? How varies or depends andwhy? A6 Joseph Reinemann Computer Scientist+ Author of Rarely Read Books Feb 12 Becausethis is what it probably looks like inside your laptop's cooling system: Theneed to keep the cooling system compact means that they're all but optimizedfor dust accumulation. Asthe dust builds up it restricts airflow, which causes temperatures to rise.When temperatures rise, your computer ramps up fan speeds to pull in more freshair to the cooler. Ifyou regularly clean dust out of your laptop, you likely won't have this issue. My note- It appears opening and cleaningfans iscomplicated in Laptops. We have to clean daily bottom also before switching ONcomputer. For old computer a fan board is supplied.It is connected to USB and once computer is switched ON, these fans cool theprocessor to certain extent. I am having such a board with me purchased for oldlaptop. Present day Laptops doesnot get heated more. Q7 Why are residential streets so wide? A7 Steven Haddock Lives in Toronto, ON(1959–present) Fri Really,really bad planning. There was “theory” and then there was “reality”. The “theory” was that making streets widerwould make them safer.In early suburbs built from the 1920s to the 1940s, streets were quite narrowand had people parking on them so there wasn’t a lot of room to actually drive. Inthe 1950s forward, suburbs moved away from fixed transit links (trains &streetcars) to flexible transportation links (cars) which meant you could buildfurther away from those links. Cars could be parked on the property, keeping them largely off the street(which was reinforced with short term parking laws meaning you couldn’t parkovernight on the street). More space also meant that you could make the roadwider so there would be less of a chance of a collision. Did this make streets safer? Of course not. Theproblem was that people tend to ignore speed limits in urban areas and simplydrive at the speed they’re comfortable with. New road design in places like theNetherlands takes this into account. If you want drivers to slow down, you narrow the streetand put up obstacles near the street, like trees. Butwide unobstructed streets have the opposite effect. They encourage people tospeed up. Those old congested streets were a pain to drive on, but people drovecarefully as a result. Not only that, it makes them harder to cross,particularly at intersections which are also wide. Wide streets allow trafficto come from both direction (older streets were often one way). Widestreets are great for cars, but not for pedestrians and cyclists who now haveto deal with faster traffic. “Culde sacs” posed another problem - they needed a massive surface at the dead endfor emergency vehicles, like fire trucks, to turn around. The same was true ofcurves which also had to be made wider. This was not a problem on older streets- they were straight so all a fire engine had to do was go to the other end toa larger street. Wider streets also turned out to be amassive waste of land. They also created a water drainage problem as all the rainthat fell on them had to be diverted to sewers. As such, when you finally moveonto that “wide street” you find your bad neighbours often turn it into thelocal racing speedway. Nothing breaks the still of the night like a car revvingup to maximum RPMs to go one block. Q8 In Saudi Arabia, how much land isdesert? A8 Areej Musaed Administrative Analystat Air and Missile Defense (2020–present)Updated 3h SaudiArabia is a very large country—the size of all the countries in Western Europetogether.Most of Saudi Arabia’s land is a desert, however, the country is quite diversein geography and climate (because of its large size). The country constitutesof the following: The southern region is green andmountainous(enjoys good weather in summer, ranging from 18–25 degrees). The west coast offers white-sandbeaches by theRed Sea. The northwestern region is full ofvalleys andmountains with unique formations. Q9 What animal has a tail that it can'tcontrol? A9 Everything Animals Answered by JasonSarasti Thu Anyonewho has ever kept certain species of lizards as pets knows the constant anxiety that comeswith the prospect of caudal autonomy. Forthose who don’t know, caudal autonomy is the ability for certainlizards to break off their tails in order to escape from predators. Manylizards have evolved specialized vertebrae in their tails that are designed todetach fairly easily from the preceding ones, so that if the lizard is ever caught bya predator by its tail, it can snap a portion of it off and flee, while thepredator is left distracted with the wriggling caudal remains. Unfortunately,the special vertebrae in a lizard’s tail aren’t able to differentiate between asituation when a predator has gotten hold of it, and an instance where the tailhas only gently tapped against an inanimate surface, and this unfortunate lackof awareness is the bane of many in the reptile husbandry community. The fearof our beloved pets dropping their tail is an ever-present one for those whokeep many species of lizards. Thereis a tiny, albeit meagre silver lining. Dropping the tail does not hurt the lizard. Andmost can regrow the portion of the tail that they’ve lost, however the regrowntail will be cartilaginous rather than bony, and it will never be as long or aspointy as the original. Instead, it’ll probably be a bit discoloured and blunt. Q10 What is the missing link between humansand apes? A10 Claire Jordan Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Feb 10 There isn’t one. Humans are a type of ape. Ifyou mean the missing link betwen us and the chimps and bonobos, our closestrelatives, there isn’t one of those either. We have the remains of thousands of individuals of dozensof species who fit between us and our split from the chimps. Theproblem is only working out which are our direct ancestors and which ourcousins - especially as many of them appear to have interbred. Q11 What is the recommended detergent tohand wash clothes? A11 Chukka Vishwavaram, Managing Director AnsweredSep 17, 2016 Normaldaily wear clothes : Surf excel liquid detergent. For chiffons, wool anddelicates : Godrej ezee liquid detergent. For silk: Any mild protein shampoo. Fordelicate coloured clothes: Ariel colour protect powder detergent. One can evenuse vinegar as it locks colours, if this powder cannot be found. All these are for people livingin India. 2ND ANSWER-Sally Shelden AnsweredJan 29, 2020 Inthe US the go to for hand washing clothes would be Woolite. In a pinch just useyou dish soap. 3RD ANSWER- Super Wash, DryCleaning ServiceAmsterdam Answered Dec 7, 2020 Milddetergent is preferred for hand-washing. Presumably, these are clothes that youwant to be careful with, so it makes sense to use a gentle detergent. Wooliteis a home run, along with any other detergents geared toward delicates. In apinch, even baby shampoo is a good option. My note-I think the answers are about “Hand wash Programme” in washing machines. Q12 Why are billionaires like Bill Gates,Jeff Bezos, and others buying farmland? A12 Gopalkrishna Vishwanath The only Realinvestment I have trusted in my life is Real Estate8h Theseare my thoughts. The communists are not going to like this answer. Farmland is a dwindling resource. Itcan’t be created. Itcan only be used. Land can be much more productively used when there is a largecontiguous area owned by one person with resources than if it is parcelled outinto small plots owned by several people. Rich people like Bezos and Gates willbe able to make better and more productive use of farmland by investing inautomated agriculture, irrigation,creating solar farms, and investing in better storage facilities thanindividual farmers working on small plots of land. They can make the land yieldmuch more per acre than small farmers. They may have plans for this. Everything gets out dated, includingtechnology. Food will always be in demand. If you can control the means to producefood, you have great power. Paper wealth like currency or stocks can vanish.Not land. It is a solid asset. One day I envisage people like Ambaniand Adani in India buying huge tracts of farmland. As long as they don’tmisuse the land for setting up industries or housing and use it to make theland yield more food, I believe it would be a good idea to let them buy it. In any case children of many farmers, thesedays are not keen on agriculture anymore.Even if they adopt agriculture as a profession they will not be able to matchthe big buyers who will invest massively in improving productivity andautomating/mechanizing farming practices. Wemay see fewer cases of suicides by farmers. All the above QA are from Quora website on 20-02- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 21-02-2022 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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