No Arabic please with Iranian ATC
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My pet peeve is Americans using the phrase "my bad" to describe an error they have made.
I see that phrase so often now, and I thought it was coming from someplace back of beyond where they only have a fingerhold on the English language....
Oh.
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You're correct. Between the Indians and the Americans, I'm 'not knowing' which culture is the biggest blight on the English language.
Since when did a descriptive term, in this case 'bad', become a noun?
It's even more irritating than 'funner' (as in 'more fun') and 'winningest' (as in most successful').
Maybe that's progress, just not as we know it.
Keep 'doing the needful'.
TM
Since when did a descriptive term, in this case 'bad', become a noun?
It's even more irritating than 'funner' (as in 'more fun') and 'winningest' (as in most successful').
Maybe that's progress, just not as we know it.
Keep 'doing the needful'.
TM
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Good Day to you too...
The thread starer as well as the Iranian ATC guy in my humble opinion both missed the whole piont. The pilot was trying to be friendly and polite that's all. Only to be met by a rude controller who is self centered on the fact that he is not an Arab nor a Muslim. And a fellow pilot whom trying to be nice just gets on his nerves.
I live in a certain Arab country in the Middle East where the population are Muslims and Christians but guess what, we all greet each other with Salam Alikom. And we all say Inshalla. No one is offended.
But then again it may be the pilot's responsibility to check the cultural roots and different ethnic groups and divisions of every FIR he over flies before trying to greet them just in case a bouncy ATC gets his intial call.
I live in a certain Arab country in the Middle East where the population are Muslims and Christians but guess what, we all greet each other with Salam Alikom. And we all say Inshalla. No one is offended.
But then again it may be the pilot's responsibility to check the cultural roots and different ethnic groups and divisions of every FIR he over flies before trying to greet them just in case a bouncy ATC gets his intial call.
Last edited by msr001; 22nd Mar 2009 at 19:55. Reason: Just to make clear the the pilot's responsibility part is actually a joke!!
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Grow up and learn to respect others' religious beliefs.
Grow up and learn to respect others' religious beliefs.
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Originally Posted by nolimitholdem
Originally Posted by OMDB-PiLoT
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Grow up and learn to respect others' religious beliefs.
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My Bad
That's funny...I wonder if ebonics will find its way into standard RT phraseology.
ATC "XYZ9876, sqawk/ident, where u at homeee?"
Bro-Air "Whazzaaaaaaaaaaap, chillin at three faive ohhhh ma N!, we gott dis bitch trimmmmed!"
ATC "sloh yo ass down brutha, we be crazier than a mo-fo down heeah"
Bro-Air "why you always be on a brutha just cos he crusin n doin his thing, I oughta come round yo house n get all up in yo face"
ATC "Bring it awn beeatch"
It could happen!
Hustle On
ATC "XYZ9876, sqawk/ident, where u at homeee?"
Bro-Air "Whazzaaaaaaaaaaap, chillin at three faive ohhhh ma N!, we gott dis bitch trimmmmed!"
ATC "sloh yo ass down brutha, we be crazier than a mo-fo down heeah"
Bro-Air "why you always be on a brutha just cos he crusin n doin his thing, I oughta come round yo house n get all up in yo face"
ATC "Bring it awn beeatch"
It could happen!
Hustle On
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Grow up and learn to respect others' religious beliefs
Now I have to "respect" the guys who didn't manage to do that?
The ones who show their respect by calling me an unworthy infidel?
Sorry, but the best they can ask for is me tolerating it because I live here.
That generally goes for every other group who still believe in talking snakes and all the crap they been fed in childhood.
"religion is myth-information"
Is there a any place on this planet where people with a free mind can live without being patronized by any cults or sects?
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Muttley, you understood perfectly, thanks.
OMDB-pilot , if the first of your quotes is your idea of "asking", then it goes a long way to explaining why there is zero respect. Tolerated....barely. Respect? Never. THAT has to be earned, and shrill admonitions aren't the way to get it. It also has to be returned for it to last. But I don't expect you or most others in this region of the world to EVER understand that. Between the culture of entitlement that always accompanies wealth not earned, and the sheer regressiveness of so much of the mindset, no one is holding their breath waiting for change.
Peace in the Middle East, y'all.
Grow up and learn to respect others' religious beliefs.
If asking someone to respect a religion is lecturing for you then so be it.
Peace in the Middle East, y'all.
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Originally Posted by Muttley Crew
I got what you meant even if the 22yo cadets find it difficult, NoLimit. A pretty simple message:
"That" attitude + Demand for Respect = Comical...
They will just never get it, though, because the attitude is simply ingrained too deeply. It's cultural.
"That" attitude + Demand for Respect = Comical...
They will just never get it, though, because the attitude is simply ingrained too deeply. It's cultural.
BTW, you got your equation wrong.
Your Attitude + Disrespect for others' religious beliefs = Comical
Originally Posted by Schibulsky
"religion is myth-information"
Originally Posted by nolimitholdem
it goes a long way to explaining why there is zero respect. Tolerated....barely. Respect? Never. THAT has to be earned, and shrill admonitions aren't the way to get it. It also has to be returned for it to last. But I don't expect you or most others in this region of the world to EVER understand that. Between the culture of entitlement that always accompanies wealth not earned, and the sheer regressiveness of so much of the mindset, no one is holding their breath waiting for change.
PEACE!
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Atheism is the absence of belief in the existence of deities.
So there is no belief that I could force on others!
It's anyway not my mission to force anything on anybody...please just leave me alone with that hocus pocus...thanks...end of discussion from my side
So there is no belief that I could force on others!
It's anyway not my mission to force anything on anybody...please just leave me alone with that hocus pocus...thanks...end of discussion from my side
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What the...?
Reading through this thread I fail to see how did it turn (as a lot of other threads in the Middle East forum) to disscusing and as usual misinterpreting Islam.
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Originally Posted by Schibulsky
Atheism is the absence of belief in the existence of deities.
So there is no belief that I could force on others!
So there is no belief that I could force on others!
