CULTURAL QA 04-2024-20A All theBELOW QA are from Quora digest to me on 20-04-2024.
Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers .Compiled andposted by R. Gopala krishnan, on 20-04-2024 Q1 How old are you and how do you feelabout your age, aging, your future? A1 Ken Saladin, Professor of biology,emeritus 1y Here’s atoast to guys like Nick Schön. Me, a coupleweeks shy of 73 and feeling about the same as Nick describes himself. So many ofmy high-school graduation peers, and friends and colleagues younger than I byten years or more, look so much older. I see on Facebook pictures of women Iused to passionately yearn for when we were high-school classmates, and theylook like my grandmother now. My inner age is still about 48. In calendaryears, though, I would say that on the whole, my 60s were my best decade inoverall health, productivity, and life satisfaction. My future?Well, I have lived enough. I will enjoy what’s left and the privileges of age,material comfort, and retirement, but I’m prepared to go without fear or regretwhenever the time comes. I expect and hope for no conscious life after that;all that will remain of me is my reputation, other people’s memories, somelegacies I’ve created for posterity, and a paltry few physical things that noone will want. Doesn’t bother me at all. I long ago achieved a somewhat Zenlikesense of nonattachment to things. When I’vehad a long, busy, productive day and I go to bed weary with endeavor, all Iwant is release from it all—solid sleep, not even caring about whether I haveany nice dreams during the night or wake up the next morning to a new day’sagenda. That’s how I feel about my final sleep. All I want then is release andoblivion—no more worries; no more obligations and to-do lists; no more sense ofpast, present, and future; no new agenda waiting for me “on the other side.” Q2 What is a funny story that happened dueto language barrier? A2 Trevor, Mortgage Associate at ConcordMortgage Group Ltd (2006–present)22h My sistermarried an Australian so a bunch of Australians flew up to attend the wedding. As adigression, both my parents grew up on farms and I always thought it would befun to farm. At thewedding rehearsal, for some reason I started talking about farming with thisAustralian fellow. We had quitea lengthy conversation about Australian farming techniques. I was surprised to learnthat they used helicopters! I reasoned that this must be the case because it issuch a dry place, maybe they need lots of space for cattle to feed and in orderto round them up they must need helicopters. Finally, atthe very end of the conversation, something finally clicked and we were able tofigure it out. I wastalking the whole time about farming. He wastalking about practices of firemen. Q3 What is one fact that you know is truebut still blows your mind? A3 Shivani Kulkarni, Studied at BusinessManagement39m Ok so thisis interesting. One common sight we all see in India is “Horn Ok Please”written on back of many trucks. The reason behind this is interesting. DuringWorld War 2 there were shortages of diesel all over the world and not suprisingit affected India too. So the people in our country started using “KEROSENE”.So the “OK” in Horn Ok Please is - “ON KEROSENE”. So it reads like “HornPlease, On Kerosene”. So that people behind can maintain a certain distancefrom the trucks. This fact still blows up my mind. Q4 What is the most amazing or shockingthing you know that most people don't? A4 Sanyukta, electro alien angel2y Pythagorasdrowned a student to death because the student proved the existence ofirrational numbers which contradicted Pythagoras and his cult's beliefs. AncientRomans would put sandals on the hands of sleeping people then tickle their faceso they would slap themselves. A guy diedfrom asphyxiation eating a pear. The pear tree was put on trial, found guiltyof murder, and destroyed. In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared withhoney to attract flies away from the pharaoh. The shortestwar occurred between Zanzibar and the British empire, lasting around 45minutes. During theCold War, there was an idea to drop XL condoms labelled Medium onto the Sovietsto make them think we were anatomically superior and be more afraid of fightingus. Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Freud, and Tito wereall living in the same area of Vienna in 1913. In 1895, theentire state of Ohio had only 2 cars. Both cars still managed to smash intoeach other. Q5 What's the best excuse for being lateyou've ever heard? A5 Gary Pennington,6h This wasfrom a young lad who worked directly under my supervision. He turned up latefor work everyday, usually it was about 15 minutes or so. I wasn’t reallybothered to be honest, but orders from on high (HR) had me bringing him in fora brief verbal warning as it had gone on for a couple of months. I sat himdown and we talked about the reasons behind his lateness everyday. The lad washonest and he had no problem in telling me the reason why he was late wasbecause his Mum didn’t get him up on time in the morning. Yeah,really… Afterexplaining the fact that it wasn’t up to his Mum to get him to work on time,our chat literally flew over his head. He continued to be late everyday afterit. I decided touse a bit of ‘kidology’ to make it right. This lad’s Mum was his emergencycontact, so I phoned her. After a chat explaining about his lateness everyday,his verbal warning and possible written warning incoming, she agreed to help meout. She went around the house and changed all her clocks to show the time tobe 20 minutes later than the actual time it was. Consequently,the very next morning, he turned up 5 minutes early and he couldn’t understandwhy. After a weekof this, HR was off his back and they thought the situation had been resolved.I had actually applied for a role elsewhere and had already accepted it, so wasmoving on anyway. It was up tomy replacement to deal with the issue now but it reasonably patched a hole forme and kept this lad in work for a while longer. He no longerworks there now. I can’t think why! -- 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/1489465970.1040472.1713627551511%40mail.yahoo.com.
