Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Conversations at a Poker Table


Being an ardent fan of Online poker, I spend a lot of time playing poker. The advantage of online poker is that you meet a lot of people, from different cultures, living different lives altogether. The fact that there is tension in the society can be sensed in some of these conversations. It shows that being a Muslim is not easy and neither being a Christian or Jew in Pakistan any easy thing. I came along one such conversation, which bordered on me being a Muslim, Indian and so on and ended on poker skills
I had fun, hope u will have fun reading it. The guy I talked to is Joshua Williams






Joshua Williams: ur gonna loose shahid
Shahid Mukadam: its ok
Joshua Williams: dont u watch the news?
Shahid Mukadam: winning is not everything
Shahid Mukadam: wats in the news
Joshua Williams: terrorist always loose
Shahid Mukadam: lol
Shahid Mukadam: i come from the land of gandhi
Joshua Williams: bs
Shahid Mukadam: someone who has taught me
Shahid Mukadam: to respect evryone i meet
Joshua Williams: lmao
Joshua Williams: and blow them the f u c k up?
Shahid Mukadam: i pity someone who doesnt even know gandhi
Joshua Williams: lmao
Joshua Williams: i know who he is
Joshua Williams: in america they educate us
Shahid Mukadam: we indians are much more educated than you
Shahid Mukadam: even take ur jobs
Joshua Williams: lmfao
Joshua Williams: ur indian ?
Joshua Williams: no my friend
Shahid Mukadam: ask barrack obama about it
Shahid Mukadam: lol
Shahid Mukadam: poor americans
Shahid Mukadam: well george w bush fooled all of u into believing tht u r under attack
Shahid Mukadam: cant sympathise with u more
Joshua Williams: lolz ok my friend indians are scared of everything
Shahid Mukadam: tell me who are americans
Shahid Mukadam: u come from different places
Shahid Mukadam: u aint even a real american
Shahid Mukadam: no culture of ur own
Shahid Mukadam: all borrowed
Joshua Williams: lmfao
Joshua Williams: ur ignorance amazes me
Shahid Mukadam: ha
Shahid Mukadam: urs also
Shahid Mukadam: coz when i keep sayin i am from the land of gandhi
Shahid Mukadam: u ask if i am indian
Shahid Mukadam: lol
Shahid Mukadam: and u say they educate u
Shahid Mukadam: a bigger lol
Joshua Williams: lolz
Joshua Williams: everyone is from a different place
Joshua Williams: no one originated in one place except for ?
Shahid Mukadam: indians
Joshua Williams: do you know?
Shahid Mukadam: meesoppotamians
Shahid Mukadam: and greek
Joshua Williams: jews
Shahid Mukadam: our harrappa civilization and the mesopotamian civilization are the oldest
Shahid Mukadam: jews
Shahid Mukadam: /
Shahid Mukadam: i beg to differ bro
Shahid Mukadam: the real jews who are in the arab peninsula
Shahid Mukadam: most of them have turned to christianity or islam
Shahid Mukadam: u jews
Shahid Mukadam: are converted ones
Shahid Mukadam: ask ur history teacher
Shahid Mukadam: lol
Joshua Williams: lolz u might be right about that im not a jew though
Shahid Mukadam: see and regarding the thing u initially referred me to as a terrorist
Shahid Mukadam: i would really like to educate u on onething
Joshua Williams: u can try
Shahid Mukadam: the current terrorist attacks happening by so called muslims
Shahid Mukadam: is by a certain sect of arabs
Shahid Mukadam: who happen to be muslims
Joshua Williams: but i will always stereotype its a natural instinct
Shahid Mukadam: so there is a diff
Shahid Mukadam: good for yu
Joshua Williams: dont act like ur different
Shahid Mukadam: it will only show what ur intellect level is
Shahid Mukadam: i have studied enough about religions to stereotype anyone
Joshua Williams: not rascist my friend just looking out for me
Shahid Mukadam: i dont call christians terrorist coz hitler was one of them
Joshua Williams: lmao
Joshua Williams: hitler
Joshua Williams: he was not a christian
Joshua Williams: he claimed to be one
Shahid Mukadam: lol
Joshua Williams: theres a difference bud
Shahid Mukadam: thts precisely wat i told u
Shahid Mukadam: the terrorists claim to be muslims
Shahid Mukadam: see lemme tell ya something
Shahid Mukadam: u americans only know a few things
Shahid Mukadam: u are told only what certain leaders at the top want u to kow
Joshua Williams: the thing is i stereotype germans too
Joshua Williams: i stereo type my president
Shahid Mukadam: finding an easy way out of this conversation
Shahid Mukadam: ?
Shahid Mukadam: i will let you have it
Joshua Williams: lolz
Joshua Williams: not quite
Joshua Williams: i was making a point
Shahid Mukadam: i dont think its a worthy point...cant expect someone who stereotypes everything to think straight
Joshua Williams: now that ive talked to u though i know ur far from what i said earlier but i will still stereotype the next person who looks like a terrorist including kkk members
Joshua Williams: and so on
Joshua Williams: but it looks like americans are good at poker
Joshua Williams: lolz
Shahid Mukadam: i wasnt paying attention
Joshua Williams: looks like this is the end
Shahid Mukadam: maybe
Joshua Williams: ur a smart guy
Joshua Williams: very intelligent
Shahid Mukadam: come on where did ur stereotyping go
Joshua Williams: so again im sorry for the name calling
Joshua Williams: lolz
Shahid Mukadam: u supposed to say tht indians are  intelligent

2 comments:

Rakesh Vanamali said...

Awesome Shahid! I'm amazed of how well U dealt with a fool, which by all means is one of the most difficult tasks to do!

Hats off to ur being logical, with conciseness and curt! Truly appreciate this dude! A very fitting answer to each retort!

Seema Syed said...

I appreciate your boldness. You never deterred to back off and gave him a punch he deserved. Well, my friend, especially on the poker table when you are playing online, they hit you pyschologically diverting your attention and focus, be a little careful with such nuts if you are playing for real.