CULTURAL QA 03-2024-08 Allthe below QA are from Quora DIGEST to me on 08-03-2024.
Selected quora answers generallyinteresting including jokes are included Still they neednot be 100% correct answers.I am only a compiler. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 80, on 08-03-2024. Q1 What isone marketing trick that only insiders know? A1 GopalkrishnaVishwanath,A great fan of social media. But I still have no Facebook account! 11h A customer approached a street hawker selling tendercoconuts and asked for onewith more water in it than flesh. The hawker picked a tender coconut from the heap andshook it and listened to the sloshing of the water inside it. He was notsatisfied. He then put it back. He picked another and repeatedhis act and was again not satisfied. He put it back. The third time he was happy with the coconut he hadpicked and shaken.He put it in plastic bag.He then hands it over and collectshis money. The customer then asked him how he identified the rightcoconut. The vendor says: That is no big deal. I pick any twoat random,, shake it, put it back and select the third coconut, shake it and put on a satisfiedexpression on my face and hand it over. It has always worked for me. Q2 What jokewill make one burst into laughter for at least 30 seconds? A2 Reily Crabtree,10h Three women dieand go to heaven. When they get there, St. Peter says: “We only have one rule here in heaven: don’t step on theducks!” So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there areducks all over the place. It is almost impossible not to step on a duck, andalthough they try their best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally steps on one. Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw. St.Peter chains them together and says: “Your punishment for stepping on a duck isto spend eternity chained tothis man!” The next day, the second woman accidentally steps on a duck andalong comes St. Peter, who doesn’t miss a thing. With him is another extremely ugly man. He chains themtogether with the same admonishment as for the first woman. The third womanhas observed all this and, not wanting to be chained for all eternity to an ugly man, isvery careful where she steps. She manages to gomonths without stepping on any ducks, but oneday St. Peter comes up to her with the most handsome man she has everlaid eyes on. He’s tall, long eyelashes, muscular, and thin. St. Peter chainsthem together without saying a word. The happy woman says: “I wonder what I did to deserve being chained to you forall of eternity?” The guy says: “I don’t know about you, but I stepped on a duck!” Q3 What isyour unbelievable lost & found story? A3 VijayaLakshmi,Have experience in life for 68 years. Updated 4y “Vijaya, I don’t find my Aadhaar Card in my purse. See if it is in your handbag”, myhusband said just an hour before we were going on a train journey. (Fornon-Indians, Aadhaar Card is an identification card, which has a uniqueidentification number on it. It is a very important card for any type ofidentification). “Why will it be in my handbag? You always keep it in your purse. Any how let me search it” I searched my handbag inside out taking out around 126 items from thehandbag. “No, it is notthere. There is not much time for the train. Take your PAN card instead (Permanent AccountNumber—for income tax) for this journey. We will search for it after returningfrom our journey” I said. After returning from the journey, I searched the entire housethoroughly for it, but couldn’t find it. My husband, as it is his usual habit, was postponingthe process of obtaining a new card, much to my frustration. Few months passed…..Then came the (good) fateful day! “trinnnnng” sounded the calling bell. I went to open the door. “Madam is this your book?”asked a young man handing a book to me. Yes, it was oursindeed! We had many such books in our library. But since thenumber of books increased to an unmanageable level, we donated many such books (just pulp fiction) to alocal library a few months back. “But we donated it to alibrary,” I said. “I am one ofthe members of that library. I brought this book to you because I found this ‘Aadhaar card’ inbetween the pages of this book” he removed the Aadhaar card from thebook and showed me. “My God it is my husband’s. Thank you for bringing it” I said happily. “I could traceyour house from the house address given in the card,” he said. “Thank you! You saved much of the hassle of getting a new one” I said. Meanwhile, my husband came there. I explained to himeverything. “Ah, now Iremember. In one of our train journeys, I took this book to read in the train. I used my Aadhaar card as abookmark. I forgot to take it out from the book, before putting it inthe book shelf. Few days after that journey we donated many books to library”,husband said coolly. “Sir hats off to your unique use ofAadhaar card,” said the smiling young man who was listening to ourconversation. I smiled awkwardly not knowing whether to laugh or cry. So that was my unbelievable lost & found story. Edit: People are suggesting to download e Aadhaarfrom the internet. But this incident happened 4–5 years back when there was nosuch facility. Moral of thestory: Don’t use your Aadhaar card as a bookmark!. Q4 Can you tell me something inspiring? A4 KartikShetty, Tech Lover, Gamer, Fitness Enthusiast Updated 3y CockroachTheory- A beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai. Once Sundar Pichai went to a restaurant. He ordered coffeeand started observing a bunch of ladies in front of him. At the restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on oneof the ladies in that group. She started screaming out of fear. With a panic-stricken face and trembling voice, shestarted jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of thecockroach. Her reaction wascontagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky. The ladyfinally managed to push the cockroach away but ...it landed onanother lady in the group. Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the groupto continue the drama. The waiter rushed forward to their rescue. In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter. The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed thebehaviour of the cockroach on his shirt. When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with hisfingers and threw it out of the restaurant. Sipping his coffee and watching the amusement, theantenna of his mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondering, was the cockroach responsiblefor their histrionic behaviour? If so,then why was the waiter not disturbed? He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos. It is not the cockroach, but the inability of thosepeople to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach, that disturbed theladies. Then he realized that "it is not the shouting of my father or my boss ormy wife that disturbs me, but it's my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting that disturbs me. It's not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbancecaused by the traffic jam that disturbs me. More than the problem, it's my reaction to theproblem that creates chaos in my life." Some things are in our control and others not. Thingsin our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whateverare our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation,command, and, in a word, whatever are not our own actions. Lessons learnt from the story:I understood I shouldnot react in life.I should always respond. The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded. Reactions are always instinctive whereas responsesare always well thought of. A beautiful way to understand............LIFE. A person who is happy is not because Everything isright in his Life. He is happy because his Attitude towards Everything in hisLife is Right..!! Between stimulus and response, there is a space. Inthat space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growthand our freedom. Next time you’re in a compromising situation,consider it an opportunity to grow this space. Information Source: The cockroach story narrated byGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai My note- I found this QA very interesting and included. Mr Rajaram, please do not think it is for you to react, but to respond. Q5 What aresome interesting facts? A5 AmitSingh,5h Ever wondered why there are revolving doors at theentrances of big buildings? Appears to be trouble during excessive movement ofpeople…isn’t it?? Well there is a reason for that bulky thing to getinstalled at the entrances. Revolving doorsallow better control of the inside temperature compared to the regular slidingor hinged doors. Opening a hinged or sliding door even for a briefperiod will result in tremendous amount of heat exchange between the internaland external temperatures, especially in extreme weather conditions. A revolving doorprevents this energy loss as there is never a point where the air can flow freely between inand out of the lobby. My note- Revolving door occupies more space. Many bankshad revolving doors in front. Now they have changed it to grilled gate which couldmove sideways, and locked in such a way only one person can enter/ leave the bank at atime. When public banking hours are over it is common to see in many banks the grilled gates are closed andstaff working inside even up to 8 PM on some days. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/6004138.1148496.1709884908610%40mail.yahoo.com.
