Comments on: Chennai!

By: I Agree

I Agree — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:13:56 +0000

Hey Anonymous Coward,

I agree with you 100%. It is a shame, pity, disgusting and ridiculous that a foreign language like english is allowed in chennai but not an Indian lamguage like Hindi.
This shows their patricotic spirit.
Also these tamilians don’t even have the courtesy or the manners to speak in a common language when they are in a group, even if the others do not know tamil.
They are totally stuck up with their roots, language, culture, blah blah and what not. they just don’t want to come out and see, look beyond. i think they are very conservative and narrow minded. they are experts in showing off their wealth during weddings.
What i find funny is during their weddings, they also display their educational qualitifcations besides their own names (on that board that they display outside the mandap)
God bless these people. Today the world is so progressive but look at these people. Here in the US, I feel like running away when I spot these women dressed wup in oily hair, in a plait, with the bindi on and in lo and behold in office wear (shirts and pants)…looks so disgusting….and then men with that udi on their foreheads trying to boast their culture
huh

By: tamilian

tamilian — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:04:36 +0000

ha ha ha !!!!!! if you feel chennai suck.then go back to home place. as simple as that.

we love tamil we speak tamil. that the way itis. we dont speak english properly either. who care you like chennai or not. because of this attitude you north indian are racially attacked in australia. there are many tamil living in austyralia but there is no incident of aussies attacking tamils. but you can see many north indian attacked brutally. answer is simple if you are in australia act like australian.

you people suck a big time

By: Sucharit Sarkar

Sucharit Sarkar — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:32:05 +0000

Man, you always have to normalize before taking statistics like this.

City (X) – Google hits for X sucks – Google hits for X rocks – ratio

kolkata – 45K – 1830K – 40
mumbai – 287K – 6910K – 24
delhi – 449K – 1690K – 3
chennai – 105K – 1820K – 17
bangalore – 140K – 616K – 4

I rest my case that Bangalore sucks big time. Apparent Delhi sucks even more, but I never ever lived in Delhi. On the other hand, look at Calcutta. I don’t want to brag, but just look at it.

By: Anshul

Anshul — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:09:25 +0000

Touche. But,

mumbai sucks
Results 1 – 10 of about 302,000 for mumbai sucks. (0.25 seconds)

delhi sucks
Results 1 – 10 of about 242,000 for delhi sucks. (0.24 seconds)

kolkata sucks
Results 1 – 10 of about 45,700 for kolkata sucks. (0.24 seconds)

patna sucks
Results 1 – 10 of about 9,820 for patna sucks. (0.23 seconds)

If at all anything, the number of google results just seem to be correlated to the popularity of the word “suck” in these cities. :P

By: tn

tn — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:53:24 +0000

in google

bangalore sucks

Results 1 – 10 of about 137,000 for bangalore sucks. (0.23 seconds)

By: sandeep

sandeep — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:44:03 +0000

in google

chennai sucks

Results 1 – 10 of about 112,000 for chennai sucks. (0.30 seconds)

By: nascent nuances

nascent nuances — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:15:25 +0000

well as for everyone who think that people here speak decent english…it just goes a long way to say how good ur english could ever get…tell me another place where the letter H is (proudly) called “hey-ich” and then completely not enunciate ‘h’ when it comes to promouncing a word that starts with a H – so “hungry” is called “aan-gary” here…n proudly so…Well kudos to you for screwing the language.. no wonder u guys dont speak anything other than tamil…u wouldnt be able to…coz wen u are told its not “hey-ich” but is ‘h’.. u squint…well that saya s lot…!!!

By: Unknown Soul

Unknown Soul — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:01:30 +0000

Hi nascent nuances,
I completely agree whatever you have written. I have been suffering here for the past one year and believe me everymoment of my life i am trying to move out of this shithole place.
Let me speak something from my experience here in chennai :
Dressing – The least told is better. I have seen people coming to corporate environment wearing dirty shirt and that also not tugged in. Trousers are never ironed and moreover wearing chappals. This is still better, I have seen people wearing lungi or veshti to office and roaming arround barefeet. No sence of hygene. I thought may be cannot afford shoe because thiss city is fucking costly. But the day i saw a Tamil coming out of a TATA Safari, with clean white shirt, vesti and no shoes. It was the shocker of my life. I felt like I am in some alien world.
Culture- these people boast of culture, I have seen people dance and party and take out procession when someone dies. Is this what culture is? People may say that there are too many temples here and people are religious. I can say the 1 KM distance from my house to the main road, there are 5 temples. Isnt that too much? I dont think people are too much religious. People here build temples just to get rid of the sins. That proves people here are too much guilty.
Food – least told is the better. Who the hell on earth can survive the entire life on idli, dosa and pongals? I understand everyone cannot be non veg, but still in veg items also there are variety. But who will make these people understand? And above all on every item they have their topping of curry leaf. If you try to have some food which is not of tamil origin it is damn costly. Think wherever india will anyone pay in the range of Rs12-Rs16 for a single roti at a roadside shop.
Weather – Chennai has three weather. Hot, hotter and hottest. Nothing more than that. Here the rainy season is in Nov-Dec. And if rains for more than an hour the entire city is underwater. here i have seen people coming to office and wearing jacket because the office is air conditioned. The weather is so bad that anyone who is not from this place will get boils and burns on the skin.
Transport- The buses are over crouded and the conductors will not even tell you which route the bus will take. No taxis available here. Only option is call taxi who charge Rs100 for the first 5 kms, and that also non A/C. Auto drivers are the greatest cheat in the world i have seen. They charge approx Rs10 -15 per KM, which you can pay to book A/C innova/ tavera/qualis/sumo in other cities. So if you dont have a vehicle you are jacked. Moreover here people dont have any lane decipline. They cutlanes , drive in wrong side of the road and people say nothing. I have seen people riding triple on bikes at high speed without helmet.
Liquor – If anyone loves liquor, then chennai is definately not the place. as no standard brands available. even chilled beer is not available. People drink hot beer and brandy from road side shops and sleep on the footpath. All the liqur shops are run by the govt. The govt doesnt allow liquor brands which are not from here and so the shops sell all local raw spirits in the name of rum, vodka, whisky. These stores never sell at printed prices, but always above the printed price. There is no proper bar here, and bars are there in star hotels which most people cannot afford every weekend.
Movies – People here love watching movies of a 60+ here doing all logic defying stunts and dancing with heroines half or quarter of their age. If anyone goes to a multiplex most of the screens run local tamil movies. No english or hindi movies.
Language – There is no sweetness in the language and there is no punctuations also. People here are too proud of their language and is not ready to listen or understand any other language. If you speak any other language you are like an alien to them and your work will not be done.
Office – Finally i am coming to the reason why I am in chennai. I was transferred here by my company for a transition. Office runs completely on favouritism. If anyone is a tamil, he/she will get the best hikes, best projects, onsite, etc. If you are a non tamil, how ever hard work you do, they will find out mistakes and will say there is room for improvement. If there is team outing, non tamils are not invited as they are not tamils.

If anyone can counter any of the points mentioned above, please reply back so that I can write more about this fucked up place called chennai.
Who ever gave the metro status to this place should think again or this state got the status by bribing?

Waiting for the day to reclaim my life when I will be out of this shit pot.
Regards
Unknown Soul.

By: nascent nuances

nascent nuances — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:21:12 +0000

In all this conversation about Hindi and Tamil, and Tamil being the native language and all.. arent we forgetting something very basic ???… Hindi is the national language of our country.. as much as one should behave like a Roman would when in Rome, what happens when the Romans in consideration are not in sync with the dynamics of Rome…be it in Rome,or Paris, or Japan, or England…name one place where people dont just fail to but also make no attempt to learn or understand (deliberately or otherwise…!!!)the national language of the country…
I am here in chennai for about 3 weeks now, and will be here for another 3 weeks(pray that my work gets over sooner)…and well what do you think.. i agree CHENNAI SUCKS .. n big tym…

I agree with Forest to a large extent when he says that a person has no control over how he/she looks, but certainly has a lot of control over how he/she can look.People here are confined to a very streamlined way of thought and worse is that they believe that its the way the world should be, n all the more are not willing to walk an inch to adopt ot adapt to anything that might make a non-native a lill more comfortable…forget about the language,coz i am not sure wether chennai would have been a better place even if they spoke hindi or english that is understandable to a sane speaker…People here are not willing to believe that there can ever be any other way of life other than the one they live.. the dry, uncouth way…i might not understand japanese, or spanish (just like i dont understand a word of Tamil), but it certainly doesnt sound foul and uncouth (mind you, no disrespects to the language, but the way its spoken..it just drives u up the wall at times…most of the times rather…!!!)
The autowallas charge you exhorbitant amounts to travel trivial distances, so if you do not have your personal vehicle you are sure gonna have a tough time on the streets of chennai… they have no concept of taxis here…all they have is call taxis which again obviously charge you exhorbitant amounts…so for a common man the only convenient mode of transportation remains the busses, which again do not give you the option of shutting the windows if you think that there is too much heat or wind, because they have no window panes at all..
Well talk about food… naah.. really dont.. if i start i can go on and on and on…but what is the point…people here are still going to be what they are and are still going to take offense in what i say rather than taking it as feedback from a non-native…
Well for the sake of the city and for the sake of larger good of the country i hope this city turns a new leaf and starts welcoming people with open arms rather than shunning them away…

By: sandy

sandy — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:59:56 +0000

CHENNAI SUXS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: sandy

sandy — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:58:53 +0000

BANGALORE JUST ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

By: borguk

borguk — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:11:50 +0000

The first step towards correcting a problem is accepting it and that’s as much true for a city and a culture as much for a person. Chennai does suck and that won’t change till the people their accept that it does suck.