Ravage please admit that your comment was not in very good taste though you did try to make it look less bad by coming up with this google search thing :) There was no need to bring 'smell' into this discussion and I am not surprised that Some1 took offence to your reply. You could have come up with some other example.
My brother who lives in America once told me how the Americans make fun of British people having a bad breath....and believe you me they are spot on there about the Brits, sadly that is very true :) though again I would not like to say that everyone....But I would not go around telling them this. Somethings really are better left unsaid
it is meant to be provocative without going to the point of a personal attack, and i substantiated my post with the google search from the outset. in the past the bad breath of british people has been discussed without a hissy fit and a mod induced edit.
it is merely to draw attention to the hypocricy of some posters here. they gloss over the valid points of posters here about double standards on security concerns by saying "perception is everything", reality isnt what matters. well if thats the case be ready to be judged on the perceptions others have of you.
i showed with the exact same google searches, substituting Indians for Pakistanies gives a 90 fold increase in the number of results for the statement X has bad smell (or X is not fragrant if that makes you feel better some1). That is a matter of perception surely.. infact literally. Is that everything then?
The idea is not to show any particular trait about Indians, but the inane stupidity of the "perception is all that matters" comment.
ravage are you ____?
Some1 is telling you how the outside might feel. The same is true of your google search. Some1 never said it was reality, but how the world works on perception sometimes. Get with it, and try to grow some brain cells. Its obvious that you are twisting his words to suit your argument even though you are making the exact same point he is making.
I hope Asia Cup is a success with no major security incidents. If that happens, PCB will have a strong case to push the perception out of the picture that "Pakistan is not a safe place to play sports..." ager phir bhee Aus and Eng players nai boycott kia tu it will be safe to assume that they are into games and not sports !
you’re on to something here. Ponting’s ‘perception’ might be based on his google search on Pakistanis are terrorists (3 million); I tried replacing it with Indians and found (1.2 million of which if we do the deep dive we’ll probably find 1.15M is from the writings of Janab, Moonshiner and a few others in GS)
^ i agree with your analysis. the notion that pakistanies are terrorists has similar validity as the idea that indians are not fragrant, which was the point of my example. Although I guess, just based on the numbers (1:3 vs 1:90) the proportion of the latter perception is much stronger.
its your call whether you want that perception to be all that matters :)
