Colorful NW Frontier footage

[Smokeyrone]

VERY colorful.   

Yes, it's modern, but interesting and entertaining.  I like melodrama in all forms.  (My daughter calls me a "drama queen"  )

They exhibit much flare, and panache, I'll tell you what!

[Elprez]

Excellent stuff!  Bizarre 

Macho. and yet enormously camp at the same time.

Thanks.

[Plynkes]

I remember watching this. That chap presenting it, Sanjeev Bhaskar, is an English comedian, Smokey. He's quite famous over here. I like him (especially The Kumars - wish they'd bring that back). The documentary was a good series. Sad, too. He went to his family's former village in Pakistan - they were forced to flee to India at partition. Perhaps surprisingly the locals were very welcoming and helpful when he tried to find his family home.


Nerdish nitpickety point of order: That's the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah in the Punjab. Hundreds of miles from the North West Frontier. 

[Smokeyrone]

I know, I needed a catchy title.    

When you say "Punjab", people go "what?", when you say "NW Frontier", they say "This must be interesting"

 

[Lowtardog]

I know, I needed a catchy title.    

When you say "Punjab", people go "what?", when you say "NW Frontier", they say "This must be interesting"

 

The lads form the UK will know Punjab as a lot of UK Indians are from the Punjab

[Hammers]

I remember watching this. That chap presenting it, Sanjeev Bhaskar, is an English comedian, Smokey. He's quite famous over here. I like him (especially The Kumars - wish they'd bring that back). The documentary was a good series. Sad, too. He went to his family's former village in Pakistan - they were forced to flee to India at partition. Perhaps surprisingly the locals were very welcoming and helpful when he tried to find his family home.


Nerdish nitpickety point of order: That's the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah in the Punjab. Hundreds of miles from the North West Frontier. 

What regimental uniforms are those fellows sporting?

[Plynkes]

Border Security Force and Pakistan Rangers. Both are paramilitary, and were formed post-independence.

[Aaron]

Well, with those hats you certainly can't miss the border!

[Sterling Moose]

Last time I saw a wafer that big it was sticking out of a knickerbocker glory.

[Smokeyrone]

Last time I saw a wafer that big it was sticking out of a knickerbocker glory.

OK, what is a  a "wafer"  and  "knickerbocker glory". 

 

[Plynkes]

Knickerbocker Glory with wafer:


The wafer is the thing protruding from the top. Now do you see where he's coming from?

[Wirelizard]

OK, what is a  a "wafer"  and  "knickerbocker glory". 

 

Nations seperated by a common language indeed. 

That'd be an "ice cream sundae" in North America; the bit sticking out beside the cherry might be a wafer here in Canada, not sure. Evidently not in Smoky's part of those breakaway colonies. 

Lots of Punjabi East Indians in this part of Canada too, actually.

[Will Bailie]

I first saw this on Michael Palin's "Himalaya"




which is a great series for anyone interested in this part of the world - lots of ideas for colonial and pulp gamers, as MP travels from the Khyber Pass to the Bay of Bengal via Peshawar, Amritsar, Annapurna, Lhasa, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Bhutan and a host of other places in and adjacent to the mighty Himalayas.

And, in Smokey's defence, India's NW frontier did shift a bit with partition.  Pakistan's NW frontier is still in the same place as the old Imperial one, though!

[Sterling Moose]

Nations seperated by a common language indeed.

Very true.  I've lived in Canada for 5 years now and the language differences are small but noticeable.  Many 'British' place names are pronounced the way they were in the UK eons ago.  Also my fellow Canadians are keen to stress that they are NOT Americans but will happily use Americanisms such as 'Suspenders' (Braces), 'Pants' (Trousers) and many others.  Penmanship is also not a strength with the 'U' being regularly dropped from colour, armour etc and the reverse of the 'R' and 'E" in words like Centre.

I am not knocking my fellow Canadians, but it's nice to be able to call someone a 'skiving turd' and get away with it because they have no idea what it means!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skive
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=turd    

For those interested in the history of ice cream:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_glory

 

[Smokeyrone]

Well, I never would have guessed ice cream sundae, LOL!

I thought an armour is the wooden cabinet my TV and stereo sits in?

 

Well, even in South Florida, we know where the "Crease" is, and what a "Two Line pass" is, so we are not that primitive!