Purveyor of Dank Memes
Posted 31 March 2014 - 10:01 PM
I am off to Kolkata for two weeks. I'm sitting in the business class lounge waiting to board my flight and I'm pretty excited.
I'll be attending literary events, eating street food, getting my hair cut and buying a tailor made suit. If you guys have any questions about Kolkata or India in general post them here and I'll get back to you with my findings.
Any recommendations about what else I should do with my time?
I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime...
Oh my GAWD!! so gay.
Posted 01 April 2014 - 01:01 AM
Miyamoto Puppet
Posted 01 April 2014 - 05:11 AM
I wish I had some suggestions. I've always wanted to go exploring the asian countryside, in any part of the continent. Are you trapped in the city?
The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead.
-Mr. Peanutbutter
Spazzifras
Posted 01 April 2014 - 05:20 AM
<3
Posted 01 April 2014 - 08:25 AM
Have fun. I'm jealous of all the neat places you go to.
Purveyor of Dank Memes
Posted 01 April 2014 - 11:47 AM
/> I looked up a few places to go and I would like the know about the South Park Cemetery. I know it sounds creepy, but apparentlyit's and calming. Apparently they do ask for an official donation. So heads up there.
I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime...
Purveyor of Dank Memes
Posted 01 April 2014 - 11:47 AM
/> I looked up a few places to go and I would like the know about the South Park Cemetery. I know it sounds creepy, but apparentlyit's and calming. Apparently they do ask for an official donation. So heads up there.
I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime...
Purveyor of Dank Memes
Posted 01 April 2014 - 11:48 AM
/> I looked up a few places to go and I would like the know about the South Park Cemetery. I know it sounds creepy, but apparentlyit's and calming. Apparently they do ask for an official donation. So heads up there.
I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime...
Watch for slow moving objects
Posted 01 April 2014 - 01:34 PM
Old flash signature has been revived for nostalgic purposes. Too bad RpgWizard hasn't been revived. :\
Spazzifras
Posted 01 April 2014 - 03:15 PM
My notifications blew up.
Knows Nothing
Posted 01 April 2014 - 09:31 PM
Or, to put it more politely, "Neener neener."
-all my friends that came with are drinking out in the car
--forever alone
+\- joke's on them i'm too drunk to drive
Purveyor of Dank Memes
Posted 02 April 2014 - 03:20 AM
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Welcome to Kolkata, bitches.
Spent the morning desperately hunting down the essentials when travelling (sandals, sunglasses, travel adapters and cigarettes) before eating some street food (Momo! It's like Dim Sum), getting lost and bemusing locals with my broken Hindi. Never did manage to find any sandals or sunglasses.
Kolkata is hot, smoggy and littered with half-formed concrete towers that look like they've been 3d printed in the middle of a swamp and then forgotten. I like it.
Going to go to a reception for my girlfriend's thingybob tonight. Meet some literary types. Hopefully smoke some shisha. Then tomorrow while my girlfriend is doing her thing I'll sneak off to the cemetery to take some pictures with the proper camera rather than off my phone.
I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime...
Purveyor of Dank Memes
Posted 02 April 2014 - 03:23 AM
And holy shit I just blew my nose and there was a lot of black gunk up there. Smog is fun.
I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime...
Spazzifras
Posted 02 April 2014 - 06:00 AM
And holy shit I just blew my nose and there was a lot of black gunk up there. Smog is fun.
Wow...
Watch for slow moving objects
Posted 02 April 2014 - 06:05 AM
Old flash signature has been revived for nostalgic purposes. Too bad RpgWizard hasn't been revived. :\
<3
Posted 02 April 2014 - 07:08 AM
Bean, is this just your sly way in telling us you have a girlfriend?
wizard astronaut
Posted 02 April 2014 - 09:26 AM
are there any daedra-worship-level hindus there like this guy?
you awaken in the intestinal tract of satan. you must defeat the hydra to escape. your only weapon is righteous anger.
Oh my GAWD!! so gay.
Posted 02 April 2014 - 09:34 AM
Purveyor of Dank Memes
Posted 02 April 2014 - 09:49 AM
You should ride their insane train system, I hear you have to attack people for a spot on it.
Also you should eat some of their spicy food I hear it's the hottest in the world.
I rode the trains 7 years ago when I first visited India, they're good fun and more than a little bit crazy. I travelled from Mumbai to Delhi in shitty class, which was a great experience for me; unfortunately the girl I was with got groped by some seedy guys as she was seated in a different carriage to me. I also travelled first class from Delhi to Jaipur, which was absolutely spiffing. They gave me free chai and a newspaper to read and I had a butler to carry my things.
Indian food is a bit spicy, even things that have no right to be spicy in the first place. Supposedly Indian cuisine is spicy because before refrigeration all their meat would go off and they'd use spices to hide the rank taste. I'm not sure if that's true or not, or whether it's just classic colonial British bullshit to put down the locals, I'll have to find out. In my experience Thai food is spicier when you're in that part of the world - hottest prawn dishes I've ever eaten. Indonesia has the hottest chilli in the world that I've eaten, and their food is probably hotter than Indian too in my experience. I hear Central American chillis are the spiciest though.
I wish I had some suggestions. I've always wanted to go exploring the asian countryside, in any part of the continent. Are you trapped in the city?
Yeah, unfortunately because I'm only here for two weeks and my girlfriend is here for work I won't get the chance to leave Kolkata, which is a bit of a bummer but Kolkata actually seems like a really interesting city and it'll be good to be able to spend all of my time getting to know it well rather than being rushed from place to place.
Bean, is this just your sly way in telling us you have a girlfriend?
Yeah, we've actually been together for a few months, which might be why I'm posting less. Not that she doesn't support my MonkeyPro endeavours - she came and watched the Member of the Year Awards with me as one of our first dates :)
Tomorrow I'm going to try and visit the cemetery while she does some work stuff, and then I think we're going to check out some trendy streets full of art fags (she's writing an article about Kolkata's resurgent literary scene). Any more suggestions about what to see and photograph would be great. The cemetery already seems like a great suggestion.
I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime...
Spazzifras
Posted 02 April 2014 - 09:53 AM
Tomorrow I'm going to try and visit the cemetery while she does some work stuff, and then I think we're going to check out some trendy streets full of art fags (she's writing an article about Kolkata's resurgent literary scene). Any more suggestions about what to see and photograph would be great. The cemetery already seems like a great suggestion.
I feel like I'm a part of the trip now!
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