CULTURAL QA 03-2024-27A Allthe below QA are from QUORA DIGEST tome on 27-03-2024. SelectedQuora answers by scholars generally interesting are included. Still they need not be 100%correct answers.Few jokes are included. Compiled and posted by R Gopalakrishnan, 80, on 27-3-2024 Q1 Can you tell a joke about St. Peter facing difficulty? A1 Rebecca C. 6mo On their way to get married, a young Catholic couplewas involved in a fatal car accident. They are now in Heaven. The couple found themselves sitting outside thePearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting they began to wonder; could they possiblyget married in Heaven? When St. Peterarrived, they asked him if they could get married in Heaven. St. Peter said, "I don't know. This is the first time anyone hasasked. Let me go find out," and he left. The couple sat and waited for an answer... for acouple of months. While they waited, they discussed the pros and cons.If they were allowed to get married in Heaven, should they get married, whatwith the eternal aspect of it all? "What if it doesn't work? Are we stuck in Heaventogether forever?" Yet another month passed before St. Peter finallyreturned, looking somewhat bedraggled. "Yes," he informed the couple, "Youcan get married in Heaven." "Great!" said the couple. "But we were just wondering; what if thingsdon't work out? Could we also get a divorce in Heaven?" St. Peter, red-faced with anger, slammed hisclipboard on the ground. "What's wrong?" asked the frightenedcouple. "OH, COME ON!" St. Peter shouted. "It took me3 months to find a priest up here! Do you have ANY idea how long it'll take tofind a lawyer?! Q2 Islife unfair to honest people? A2 ManishRaj Sharma,CEO and Chief Training Analyst at MRS Training Services(2013–present)Sat Wife beats husband everyday, keepsquiet for his son who witnessed the act daily Ajit said, “We got married around nine years back. My wife quarrels and assaults meover trivial matters without any reason. She beats me with whatever shecan find, including home appliances such as pipes or the cricket bat of ourkid. She wants the flat tobe made in her name. I am a teacher and I respect women. I have nevertaken the law in my hands and have never retaliated. We have an eight-year-old kid and I have toleratedthis only for him. But the torture has now increased. It has been goingon for the past few years. My wife has burnt some of my clothes and has alsoripped a few others with scissors.” Yadav also alleged that he was abused by Suman’s elder brother. In a police complaint, the troubled principal,alleged that his wife has been attacking him with a pan, stick and cricket bat.The distraught principal gotCCTV cameras installed in the house to collect the evidence. In one ofthe videos doing rounds in the social media, the woman can be seen beating theprincipal with a cricket bat as their son looked on. He has approached the court for protection andpresented the footage of the incident. The court has ordered him to provide security. The principal– Ajit Singh Yadav had tied knot withSuman, a resident of Sonipat, Haryana after falling in love with her sevenyears back. Initially, their life was peaceful but after sometime the violence started. With frequent violence, Ajit Singh has sufferedseveral injuries and has been seeking medical help to cure them. Singh says he was putting up with the violencekeeping in mind the dignity of a teacher’s profession. “But now I have taken refuge in the court as my wife has crossed all thelimits .” “I have never raised my hand on Suman and have nevertaken law in my hands. I am a teacher. If the teacher raises his hand on awoman and takes the law into his own hands, then it is against Indian cultureand his position. Q3 Whatis the saddest truth about life? A3 YahiyaAli,7h People areselfish. They need you only when they have a need. Obviously looks and money matters. You might be verygood at things, but still, you got to have good looks and money for people torespect you. People only reciprocate to what you do to them. Noone really just gives everything without expectations. No one is permanent in life. Not even family, you onlygot to save yourself. Everybody in life gets replaced. No one has apermanent spot in your life. You have to beon the driving seat to set a balance for yourself. All that people want is that youshouldn’t be ahead of them in anything. They always want you at their back. They can’t tolerateyour success. Even our family’s love is not unconditional. Ask anunemployed. (Exceptional) It is not really necessary that you will earn whatyou give. It is just categorized that some are introverts andextroverts. Deep down,everyone is introvert. No one can literally hold the crowd all the time.Everyone needs their space. If you are really close to someone, despite that, toomuch interference ends with nothing. All the social workers helping the poor on theirregular basis don’t get credits and a famous face helping them a day gets theattention and love from people. Why? Just because he is so ‘generous’? The world is adhered to trust only. ‘Trust’ isunderrated nowadays. Everything gets stolen in this world except for thebooks (Credits to Ayushmann Khurrana’s post). Knowledge can’t be stolen. Giveit a shot otherwise. ;) We have forgotten to respect our parents. So, pleasetake some time and reward them, make them feel special for a moment or maketheir all the moments special. You need to be on the top spot or on the lowest.Average ones go unnoticed. Not everyone who motivates you for being positive,implement those ideas in their lives too. You know spreading thoughts is easierthan owing it for yourself. People do whatthey find easy, ‘Pulling down who are on success lines’. Q4 Whatis one thing that you have regretted saying to someone? A4 VijayaLakshmi, Retired Finance manager at Coal India Limited (A Maharatna Company) Updated5y Not me, but my husband. Yesterday, we were traveling in a train toBhubaneswar.I heard my husband jokingly ask someone, “Are you a marketing manager?” I was standing at a distance and did not know to whomhe was speaking to. I thought he was asking someone about his profession. My husband is extremely extroverted, and does nothesitate to crack jokes even on a person whom he sees for the first time. Finally, we settled down in our seats. One couple were sitting by the window, and havingtheir lunch. In A/C three tier compartment, there’s a foldingplank on window side, to eat food.Both of us thought of having our lunch, afterthey finished their lunch, sitting there. After they finished their lunch, husband askedpolitely, “Will you pleasecome to this side for a few minutes, so that we will have lunch there?” To that, the gentleman said “Theseare our seats. You are constantly disturbing me” Both of us were surprised withhis behavior.We had our lunch sitting in our seats. Husband tried tohave a conversation with them, but he was replying in monosyllables with aserious face. He might be a silent person we thought.But husbandcould not keep quiet very long. “I think youare a silent person. Hope I am not disturbing you with my talk” To which he replied “No I am not a silent person. But I am hurt when somebodycracks jokes about my food.” “Who crackedjokes about your food?” I asked. “He (looking towards my husband)said I am a ‘marketing manager’ when I bought four packets of lunch for both ofus. Since morning we ate nothing. That’s why I bought a little bit moreto eat. It is not good onhis part to joke like that when we are just about to eat our food” We were shocked. “But I did not say it about yourfood packets. I did not even notice them. I saw that leather bag you are carrying and joked likethat. Yes I should not have said like that even about the bag” “I don't likesome strangers cracking jokes about me. I thought you were commenting about myfood” “I am sorry for hurting you”, husband said holding his hand. He smiled.Both became friends very soon and startedtalking about many things. The person opened up and said why he felt bad.Husband apologized without any ill feeling. “I regret joking that way with astranger” husband said to me when we were alone. So kids, what lesson did you learn today? Profile photo for Alexey Tereshchenko Q5 Whyis North Korea so fascinating? A5 AlexeyTereshchenko, Freelance Translator (2000–present) Updated 5y In North Korea, it is very chic to have a fridge athome.Do you know why? Because itcannot be used to store food. The condition of North Koreans has been improving fora dozen years already, especially since the much-maligned Kim Jong Un came topower. Unlike 1990s, no one dies of hunger. Moreover,rice ceased to be a luxury accessible only for a tiny Pyongyang elite.However, as the new prosperity is largely business-driven, the disparity ofincome also grows very quickly. The prosperous,especially the children of the prosperous, want to show off their wealth. It means eating in therestaurants where a dinner can cost up to $15–20 (official yearly salary of auniversity professor). It means having one’s own motorbike (having a car for aNorth Korean is still not unlike having a private jet for an American). Itmeans having foreign-made clothes or accessories. Ri Sol-ju, the Korean FirstLady, often carries a Dior bag in public, something that previously would beunheard of. Being a little fat also shows you are prosperous. Few years ago,it was prestigious to have a personal computer. Pyongyang teens from rich families used to carry avisible USB drive so that others would understand that the kid has a realcomputer at home. However, it is not anymore prestigious now because there aretoo many computers in North Korea. For the lastyears, one of the most prestigious things in North Korea is a fridge. They are not much of use inthe capital and absolutely useless outside Pyongyang becauseof electric energy shortages. Some people would use their fridges tostore books or CDs. However, it is what makes fridges popular. Having a fridgemeans you can afford to buy useless things. According to North Koreanbusinessmen, a prosperous person nowadays has to have a fridge at home. EDIT: I was asked to provide the source link for myanswer.It is an article in Russian Что такое престижное потребление в СевернойКорее The author is Andrei Lankov, a Russian-born specialist on Korea who currentlyteaches in Seoul and previously had taught Korean language, history andculture at the Australian National University. According to Wikipedia, he haswritten a column for the English-language daily The Korea Times for 15 yearsand also for Bloomberg News and Al Jazeera English. He is one of thebest specialists on North Korea. EDIT 2, almost two years later. A comment by NiclasSjögren: I was in NorthKorea in Octobre 2018. We did not have any electric shortages. Not inPyongyang, Wonsan, Masik Ryong or Kaesong. So I would say that having a frigde might be useful in 2019.Improvement is fast right now in the DPRK. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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