The Off Topic Topic

[Razgovory]

They are fairly dry.

[MadImmortalMan]

Raz, you are so immensely helpful. 

[Admiral Yi]

My dad is flying in Sunday and we've got tickets to the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.

https://www.cesweb.org/

We're gonna take the hemi across the desert. I really don't know what these things are like, but if there's anything in particular I should do, let me know.

Don't take any hard turns at 80.

[celedhring]

I have always been of the opinion that the massive media contracts that are driving sports in the USA and Europe, are just not sustainable in the long run. This article seems to confirm that:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/28/disney-has-a-money-problem-that-even-star-wars-cant-fix/?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fcard

[Admiral Yi]

Just learned that Freddy Mercury was orginally part of the Guajrat diaspora in Africa.  He was born in Zanzibar in 1946.

[mongers]

Just learned that Freddy Mercury was orginally part of the Guajrat diaspora in Africa.  He was born in Zanzibar in 1946.

Is that a newish term for how the Parsi spread around the Indian ocean/Near-East in the service of the British and/or to further trade with India or is it something very different?

[barkdreg]

His real name was Farrokh Bulsara 

[The Brain]

Freddie Mercury was gay.

[Admiral Yi]

Is that a newish term for how the Parsi spread around the Indian ocean/Near-East in the service of the British and/or to further trade with India or is it something very different?

Neither.  Guajrat is the province in India which accounts for a disproportionate amount of the Indian diaspora and of Indian, both local and diaspora, economic activity.

[mongers]

Is that a newish term for how the Parsi spread around the Indian ocean/Near-East in the service of the British and/or to further trade with India or is it something very different?

Neither.  Guajrat is the province in India which accounts for a disproportionate amount of the Indian diaspora and of Indian, both local and diaspora, economic activity.

I was aware of the province and the relative mobility of the Gujarati.

From what you've said, it sounds like too broad and sweeping a term to apply to several distinct phases of migration, colonial and otherwise during a wide time period; better to describe the historical events individually?

[Admiral Yi]

I was aware of the province and the relative mobility of the Gujarati.

From what you've said, it sounds like too broad and sweeping a term to apply to several distinct phases of migration, colonial and otherwise during a wide time period; better to describe the historical events individually?

Diaspora?  Diaspora doesn't refer to any particular wave of emmigration at a set time to a set place.  It describes people who have left their home country as a whole.

[jimmy olsen]

[The Brain]

Don't laugh at the Special Olympics.

[Maladict]

That is really cool.

[Syt]

Skating in the Name of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fchHvKesTr0