So, I was thinking of something fun to do on Pepperwater and thought that this might be amusing. “You might be Anglo” is basically listing out Anglo-Indian characteristics. Like, for ex: You might be Anglo if… (enter characteristic that’s almost unique to Anglos).

I added the first one and will add more as I think of some, have fun, keep it clean. Making fun of ourselves is okay! Just click the “AddComment”.

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If you must have Pepperwater.com at least once a week.

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If you once in your life said ‘Typical Anglo’.

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If you ripped off your rich relatives when they visted from England,Canada or Aus.
U are Anglo

pops
if you sold the old newspapers for a quarter bottle
U surely are Anglo

pops
if you robbed your nanas money no matter where she hid it…

whiskylullaby
If you’ve been baptised in beer at the church-a-Hank Williams and then went on to proudly with the boys “Im proud to be an Okie from Muskogie”
You gotta be Anglo

Ladyfair
if you got the “FIJACKS” atleast once in your life. (got the frights/were moody)

conradical
if you know more than 5 Pat jokes.

chutneymary
If you have a friend, family member or a pet called Buddah.

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If you like attending funerals.

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If you have a Scared Heart picture in your lounge.

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If you say grace before meals.

ashwynfernandes
If you say Sea-ear (read see here), I’m warnin you child! (when you want to show someone you’re begining to get irritated)

gavin on 2006-08-17 06:55:34If you love the colour ello(yellow) You might be an Anglo…

gavin
If you’re daily breakfast consists of any of the items listed here: Toast, Cheese, Bulls Eye, Sausages or scrambled eggs

Raoul
If someone asked you , what Macha what news ? and you replied , Nothing da I ate leather and shat shoes.

Raoul
If you had one Aunty in Negpattam ( Nagapattinam ) , One Aunty in Medura ( Madurai ) and One Aunty in Trichinopoly ( Tiruchirapalli).

Raoul
If all the underwear in your family are called “Jocks” , “Jungies” and “Flyingfoxes.

conradical
If you walk into a dance with a quarter bottle bulging in your suit pocket.

conradical
If you know exactly what species of ants “bully ants” is.

conradical
if your nick name as a kid (or even now…) was either “boxer”, “bandu boy”

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If, on you birthday you mum let you choose your favourite meal, and you selected bow-bow curry.

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If you believed that Anglo’s started Karoke. You’ re sure to be an Anglo

Nora
If you have coconut rice and ball curry for lunch on Sundays (favourite among the Banglo (Bangalore) Anglos)

whiskylullaby
If you ran into one of the stalwarts of main road and they went “what macha – long time no see” or “Cousin got any change da, never ate from morning macha” you give them something and they are off…full swing, smile on their face to the grog shop

conradical
If you did this.. “Once I met a pitchakari, he asked me for some biriyani….”

gavin
If you played “olly colly”

conradical
If you’ve sung “Ging gang gooly…” at Sunday school or wherever!

conradical
If your Sunday was longer than a Monday.

ernest
If your family had an Ayah,– a Baby Ayah, a cook who was called”boy” a chokra and a thai.
must say you had to be a rich AI.

conradical
If you are a feared kite flying champ.

conradical
If Kalang Kol was a sport.

gavin
As I remember Flavian, just caught up with Monique and just getting to know Vincent :grin

gavin
If you spent your Sunday obligations listening to sermons from the nearby tea shop.

gajabeedi
If you know how to jive.

gajabeedi
If u knew Flavian, Monica n Vincent.

gavin
If know Mad Nora from Perambur

dominicsoans
If you know Sampath from Foxen Street

al_pereira
If u use the phrase How mad nah!!! and if u use “blimming and blinking” in every other sentence (still dont know what they mean – as swear words)

al_pereira
If you call your husband/ wife Dahlin, tootsie, sugarplum, lovey.

dominicsoans
If you know Phebeian Johnson…

gavin
if your daddy used to drink his grog with some pickle as katchikos.

al_pereira
If u use the phrase “thatny” – for that only

al_pereira
If you call all the people older than you “Aunty” and “Uncle” except your own Relations – u call THEM by Name!!!

al_pereira
If u refer to all the girls and boys in your area as “child, girlie, men and fellow”

gavin
If you love meatloaf

gavin
If you respond with a “Namind (never mind)Child”

monique
If you walked in late to church and walked out early after communion.

pops
IF YOU ARE READING THIS

tarini
If u go to covelong for the feast, after the mass go to the room, eat bfast, play cards, start the drinking sessions & then off to the beach!!!
U are definitely ANGLO

s_pheoby
If at Anglo weddings, nana says to pass more wedding cake so she can put some in her bag to take home.

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Whilst in church you say your prays at lightning speed you are two words ahead of the congregation, there seem to be an echo in church and you end all your prays with taymen.

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If you can not do without pepperwaer (the T is silent)every day. :sigh

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If there is more coconut oil on your head than in the frying pan. :grin

gajabeedi
If u called Dad as ‘Pop’ or ‘Poppy’

gajabeedi
If u had played Ringa Ringa Roses, Ringing the duck, Dog Shots, Musical chairs, n sung Hotel California more than a dozen times yep

brujay
if u had a snake as a pet…
yep…a snake a water snake!!

chutneymary
if you pronounce fifty, 60,70 like Fiftay, sixtay, seventay

gajabeedi
If you surnames are like D’Cruz, D’Sa, D’Sylva, D’Monte, D’Souza, D’Rozario etc.

gajabeedi
If you seen yor chic kissing yor friend on yor terrace.

Raoul
When you spend your whole salary at the Race Course and then tell your wife ” God will provide chile “.

gajabeedi
If yor Dad caught you red-handed smoking cigrattes under the cot.

gajabeedi
If you have had Pepperwater on every weekend with Chicken Fry. :grin

Raoul
When you are convinced that everyone else in India is a bloody pye Dog , Pariah Bugger or Wog.

Raoul
If you buy Jow and Bones along with the meat.

Raoul
When you have witnessed the following – Aunty Dudu is layed out and between prayers uncle polly wails “Ow you can leave and go without telling one word chile”.

Raoul
When at very funeral you attend , you hear the town samaritan say “Ok men now come throw of sand in the ole”.

Raoul
If you played Mummy Daddy Game with the nieghbours daughters.

whiskylullaby
If you have managed to successfully avoid success for the last 25 years by becoming a full fledged alcoholic…

monique
If you never cared to drop comments for blogs or article but yet found” you might be Anglo” funny and made sure you too dropped your funny comment for this one atleast..:p

Ladyfair
If you played the hot dog campionship games at school

Ladyfair
If all your friends are Machan or Machi

Eves
If you bought”hoopers”from the woman on Foxen street

Eves
If you bought”hoopers” from the woman on Foxen street..

whiskylullaby
If after a weekend you found yourself dead beat, dead broke and dead drunk!

whiskylullaby
If you’ve played the game L O N D O N spells London while living in P E R A M B U R…

whiskylullaby on 2006-08-12 10:37:05If your seniors at St.Marys where Conrad Abraham, Keith Nash, Adrian Craig,Donovan Nigli, Didi, Nana, and of course the Lazaro Brothers LoL…

whiskylullaby
If you’ve taken a chick held her and and walked down main road or foxen street

conradical
If you you ever wore “happy” pants and thought they were the coolest thing!

conradical
If you go house to house on a bicycle selling pickle.

conradical
If you and 10 other friends pooled in about 3 rupees each to buy a quarter bottle of booze

phebe
If your working in a call center even tho u havent finished ur 10th std….. heaheaeeeaehaehaeh

phebe
If you have blade/bottle cuts on ur left inner forearm (right one if ur left handed ) due to love failure or coz her folks dont like you

phebe
If you like to smash ur Britannia Milk Bikis up in ur black coffee and eat it like porridge (cmon you know you love doin that !!)

phebe
If you come down to india (from wherever in the world you are now) just for the christmas and new years dance just to show off that gold, handycam and mobile phone !!

niksin
‘F&%k Off’ comes easier to you than ‘Please’ or ‘Thank Oou’….

chutneymary
If your dog, does not get sick after pigging out on left over curry and rice.

chutneymary
You remember your Mum saying, ‘a Muslim is a Muslim’. Then you think, ‘what is she talking about?’ Now you know.

chutneymary
If you hum Guantara mera, oh oh oh, chan ara tera, when you have nothing better to do.

HeidiRego
If you sing the Chokra boys song at a party and say I done did this!!!!!!

painbones
If you save the gift wrapping paper under your bed , so you can us e it to pack a gift for some one else.

painbones
If your family live all accross the world. (Australia, England,Canada,New Zealand, U.S.A)

whiskylullaby
If you heard daddy say hail mary full of grace the lords in the pillowcase and sing while shepherds wash their frocks by night…

Alison
If the highlight of your year is always the 31st Dance

Alison
If your Aunties and Uncles get REALLY offended if you don’t greet them with a ‘Mornin’, ‘G’Afnoon’, or ‘D’Evenin’

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Who started this topic? this is going to run and run, its provoked a deluge of comment. Lets see if we can go past 100 comments by the weekend. I have notice a pattern, we have isolated ourselves from these characteristics, these stereotypes do not apply to all of us here on Pepperwater these characteristics refer to the Anglos on other Anglo web sites.

Ladyfair
If you call ladies fingers “bandacoi”

conradical
if you licked (or licking) chatties.

Ladyfair
If you refer to every guy as “bugger” in a conversation.. 8)

painbones
If your all the Remote Controls in your House still have the plastic wrapping arround it (Even 5 yrs after you bought the TV…)

painbones
If you and your family go to Mass with everyone wearing the same material, Father and Son ahve the same material shirt , mom and sis have the same material skirts, and when you go back home the same material is used for your curtains and the sofa covers.

niksin
(Guys) if you’ve gone for a thousand masses, but never heard a single sermon…

conradical
If you didn’t own a tie and a suit but still wore one at the Christmas dance…

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If you are tight and mean. Even in punishment, you just gave one kick up your backside,one slap across your face,one kutto on your head, the generous ones at least knocked nine bells out of you.

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If you started jiving at 3 years old,carried this great chip on your shoulder at 11, played the guitar at 16,formed band at 18 and then randomly went around chanting come on the band.
You’ve simply GOTTA be an Anglo…

ashwynfernandes
If you like to use the word “like”, a lot like… hahaha… lmao…
p.s. This one’s dedicated to Mario like…

ruth
I talk you talk, why you middle middle talk talk (transelate in Tamail )

ashwynfernandes
If your moma prays to all the saints and every single version of Mother Mary ever known to human kind…

ashwynfernandes
If you like / knows someone who likes to wear those Fla la laa dresses

gavin
If you can get the smell of Beef/Tongue Roast and pepperwater from your house on a weekend.

gavin
If you smoke “Gaja Beedi’s)

gajabeedi
If you like Jack Daniels (JD) & Director’s Special (DSP)- Every Anglo’s pride

alajam on 2006-08-11 04:21:02if you’re into “nose-picking and nut-scratching”….in public.

gavin
If you drop your “H”‘s

gavin
If you’re in Banglo!!!

monique on 2006-08-11 03:56:32If you have a unique name like “Monique”

gajabeedi
If you have a smokin’ hot username like Gajabeedi.
Ok! Thats too much for me.

gavin
If you willingly go to the market to make some extra pais(paise). (This is the 50th msg – keep them coming)

gavin
If you smoke half a buggie(beedi)now and keep the other half for after lunch.

harry krishna harry harry
If your not playing the guitar and singing, you are holding a girl on one knee and have a bottle of booze in the other hand

harry krishna harry harry
If you asked your mum where something was that you misplaced and she answers. “On my head”

monique
If your son passed his 10th in 3rd class and you throw him a Big party inviting all his friends and then surprise him at the party by handing over keys to his brand new bike gifted to him.hehehe..(this really happend )

monique
If you walked in your short pants and T-shirt to the natta shop down the road or drove around on your bike to your fren’s place like that.

whiskylullaby
If your at British or Lala’s and thinkin,look at these pies how they “beep” up the place

whiskylullaby on 2006-08-11 01:41:09If your sittin at home, have a beer and listening to Buck Owens and Merle

whiskylullaby If your week at work went like this..
Monday – Put Half A Day to watch the cricket
Tuesday – Went Late cause your slipper cut
Wednesday – Took Permission because grandma died
Thursday – Put Mutt because the hangover was BAD
Friday – Resigned in typical Anglo Style – DONT TURN UP – EVER!

whiskylullaby on 2006-08-11 01:08:15If you’ve been for one of the dances organised by Passange

pops
If you had an Ayah named Muniamma

gajabeedi
If yor mama told you. “i’ll slipper you, mind!”

whiskylullaby
You go to church faithfully on sunday morning and get sloshed faithfully on sunday evening

gajabeedi
If yor dad rejected your Metal CD’s or cassettes from playing it.

gajabeedi
If i said ‘Who’ and you replied Mother Boo!

Alison
If a guy has to ask your Dad’s permission to dance with you at a dance

gajabeedi
If you had slapped the person on one cheek.

Alison
If Mum gets up especially early on a Saturday/ Sunday morning just to make Dosas or Idlis for breakfast

gajabeedi
If you tried to walk yor friend’s pretty girlfriend for a party without him knowing it.

gajabeedi
If you consumed liqour on top of yor terrace with a couple of friends.

gajabeedi on 2006-08-11 00:29:09If you drunk grog from yor father’s bottle n smoked his cigarettes.

alajam on 2006-08-11 00:21:53All doubts of her being Anglo vanished as soon as she began cracking open walnuts between the cheeks of her arse.

whiskylullaby on 2006-08-11 00:14:16If at an interview your first question is…Will you promise to come to work on MONDAYS? You must be an anglo-indian

frannoel on 2006-08-11 00:12:25If you bought (still buy?) a casuarina pine tree from Vepery (near vet college) and decorated it for christmas. Oh, and was in a carol/cerenading group too!!!

Stewart
if you have achieved NOTHING

chutney_mary you have a fight or watch a fight on:
a) A Christmas Dance b) New Years Dance c) A wedding

Also if…
you wear a frock.
you play the drums, guitar or you sing.

Justin Conlon
if your daddy or grandpa worked for the Railways. You must be an anglo…
if u can insult someone in 4 diffrent languages. You must be a Bangalore Anglo…
if u make plans for the 15th Aug Hockey tourney all year long.
if u go to a dance the night before your final examination.

Ladyfair
somebody calls you “dorai” or “missi amma”
if you have Black Coffee & pora biscuits….when your funds are running low….
if you sing “She’ll be coming down the mountain…” to & fro from a picnic…….

maureenn
If you have coconut rice, ball curry and devil chutney for lunch on special days.
when anyone ten years older than you are called aunty and uncle.

chutneymary on 2006-08-10 14:45:17if Ginger wine and Kul Kuls are a ‘must have’ at Christmas time.

chutneymary on 2006-08-10 14:42:30if you know every Tom, Dick and Harry’s business

alajam on 2006-08-10 14:18:39if you’re 25 years old – living at home with Mum – and still WETTING THE BED.

conradical on 2006-08-10 14:07:16… if you know more than 4 verses of Surankanni in English.
haha, this is cracking me up! I can write stuff here all day long

alajam on 2006-08-10 13:16:30if you’re full of BS.

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If you came from KGF all the rest are Pariah buggers.

monique
If you far*beep*ted and blamed it on your poor lil innocent speechless dog..hehehehe….

conradical
If you stuck a pin in the bottom of your rubber slipper strap to save yourself from buying a new strap…
Haha, some real funny ones so far! Keep them coming!

chutneymary
If you think ‘She wears my ring’ and ‘Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone’ are still the two hottest songs in the world.

Alison
If u just have to take a doggy bag home after every party or dance, usually using those family members who didn’t go to the party as an excuse. for example “Maggie, I hope u don’t mind if I take something back for my Sunna Boy, poor fella’s working lates today”

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If your are reading this message

brujay
If you had a squirrel in your shirt pocket & used ink filler to feed it or catch a blood sucker with a stick & nylon rope :grin

conradical
If you have pigeons in big cages on your terrace.