MisterrSingh

Stabbing up family and blood relatives for jameen is fine, though. We are walking contradictions.

You sound like those black women who seethe and shame black men for marrying out of their community because black guys don't want to deal with the mess that is hateful black women. Saying that, diaspora Sikh guys are clowns, tbf.

This seems to be getting worse with the passage of time. It's absolutely shameful. A complete lack of respect. They treat the gurdwara like a glorified community centre.

Good lad. I'd tell him to build up his body a bit once he gets a little older, and eat well, none of that roadman fried chicken and chips tatti.

Tyrants in this janam have amazing karams from previous janams. Or that's the Punjabi explanation I've heard all my life. As an explanation, it doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

At least he's not doing bhangra.

I remember this happening to me when I was a kid.

In a few years, there will be Western Sikhs who'll defend this ^^^ as a natural and necessary component of progressiveness. Once something begins to be spoken of in an accepting manner, no matter how heinous, certain Sikh sheep won't hesitate to cheerlead for its perpetuation as a norm. The Slippery Slope was never a fallacy.

There's that pathological desire to always be seen as hero / Jedi. If the Gujjus were shouting slogans about Sikhs, any watching Muslims would be sniggering to themselves and NOT getting involved. We're a bunch of umbrella wielding langar dispensers.

UK news channels are going to be unbearable for at least 3 months (One month of mourning; one month of Charlie boy's coronation, and another month of looking to the future). It'll be Xmas until some semblance of normal coverage returns.

You can't really measure someone's sense of religious sincerity based on how they look. Even baptism isn't entirely an accurate indication of someone's inner state. Grown men aren't going to start lopping off hair and removing turbans because they don't measure up to some arbitrarily defined guidelines on what a "good" Sikh should be. If anything, this is an issue that's come to bite us in the behind, i.e. incessantly emphasising the transient and material external as an indicator of the transcendent internal. Spirituality sophisticated cultures and civilisations don't promote this low-level thinking. Pendu cultures do.

The kind of support you're looking for is non-existent in Sikh religious circles. I think there are South Asian or Punjabi addiction support groups but none that have Sikh doctrine at the core of their ethos.

Jesus, you're obsessed with equating turbans to religiosity. The two barely correlate.

Our "own" are Islamophiles. There's no worrying about our own when our own don't even recognise there's a problem.

The Greeks need to stop being so Islamophobic. Someone send a shipment of umbrellas over to Greece so the Greeks can hold them over praying Muslims.

I guess being demure and feminine is antiquated in Sikh culture nowadays. Ultimately, this behaviour is partly a response to the type of behaviour Sikh males exhibit themselves. If Sikh guys made their displeasure clear about this kind of carry-on - and didn't take part in any of it themselves - this nonsense would end overnight.

Yes, she's well fit.

I think I'm turning into the Joker, because I start laughing at things that shouldn't be amusing.

Most Sikhs don't imbue the turban with religious meaning... even some of the ones who actually wear one! The turban existed as a head covering for Punjabi males prior to 1699. It's culture, not religion. The phenomena we're seeing in modern times is the turban being used as a means to "shape-shift" between various groups.

Do you remember that To Catch A Predator episode where the full Singh (not a trimmer) was caught at a 13 year-old girl's house. It was a sting but he was there to do her over! It was crazy because he was an obvious immigrant but he was quite good-looking and a decent English speaker.

I recently met up with some old family I hadn't seen since I was a kid. They moved to Canada from the UK about 30 years ago, and they largely say the same stuff. I also think an element of social status / class has crept into these attitudes. Even the relatively recent (2010+) arrivals from Punjab who had a comfortable middle class existence in Punjab (headmasters, teachers, nurses, doctors, etc) definitely don't think too favourably of the gob5hite, pendu Moosewale lovers who've flocked to Canada. In fact, I'm seeing more of that old-school jaat discrimination being transferred to intra-jaat differences in places like Canada where inter-caste albeit equal-social-status marriage is on the rise at the expense of same-caste yet unequal-social-status being rejected. It seems when caste use to denote social standing in the old country, it was used to discriminate. But this has gradually given way in migrant diaspora communities to a form of class discrimination. Fascinating. Man always finds way of building boundaries.

Opportunism. And they get upset when someone like me tells them they only know how to behave and contribute to society when there's a boot (figurative or otherwise) on their necks. Some of them grin and look sheepish because they know it's true.

Why do the same pool of Sikh emigrants who go to European countries not chimp out over here? Is it the safety / comfort of being a proportionally larger minority in a Canada that panders to Sikhs that gives them the confidence to throw their weight around? I've seen the same type of dead-eyed, predatory Sikh immigrant in the UK who could've easily gone to Canada, but when they come here they don't let out a peep.

^^^ why are we so lame? I hope there's some meaning to this volleyball "salute" (one or both of the bride and groom played the sport in college?), but in reality it's the cringe Punjabi mind laid bare.