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27 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Pitfalls of dressing like this as a professor. I sent a paper to the office printer and it was stuck so I went to the copy room and there were 2 students there struggling with the printer and said "oh you must be the IT guy. Could you fix this please?" ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
And I did ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ™ˆ
There's no one around. Seriously wanna take this printer to a meadow and do this.
Haha, also happened to me. I was in an empty classroom (that I had booked) to teach just one PhD student some Karl Popper awesomeness and midway, some grad students walked in to sit & study. I didn't care. But then they were like "can you keep it down?"

"please keep it down. Other people are trying to study, please talk softer" she said and I was like, um, sorry, I'm literally a professor here who literally booked this room so...๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
They were so apologetic.
I'm convinced that office printers were invented by Crowley #GoodOmens

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Gaurav Sabnis ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
28 Jul
Reminder that the American government does NOT have a sports ministry or any real budget to actively promote sports. These #Olympics medals are all because of student athletes who give it their best knowing 99.99% will never make any real money even if they win a gold.
The biggest untold story of the Olympics is how America is so good at it when almost every other government is actively trying to bring medals home. It's only because of the people and the high schools and universities and parents.
American professional athletes (NBA,NFL,MLB,NHL,MLS etc) have a decent chance of making a good living from dedicating their life to their sport. American Olympians do not! They often struggle to make a living. No one is offering an American Olympic medal winner free pizza.
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Gaurav Sabnis ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
27 Jul
In south India, donkeys are accused of not appreciating camphor and I'm always like, doesn't that make donkeys smarter than humans? ๐Ÿค”
"a monkey can't appreciate ginger"

Okay

"A donkey can't appreciate sugar"

Okay

"A donkey can't appreciate camphor"

Hold on! You do????
A scientist friend explained to me how crazy it is that we voluntarily handle and use something as toxic as camphor in such huge amounts and even give it a medicinal aura without knowing its harmful effects cos it would be called "hinduphobia".

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Gaurav Sabnis ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
26 Jul
๐Ÿงต alert. Strap in.
A cricket chat brought back a cascade of memories about my Sabnis grandpa and I realized that omg Nana was a total "woke" dude in cricket matters and always calling out BS nostalgia and if he were still alive, he would be a hundred and loving my tweets.
First of all, how is my Sabnis grandpa (Dada in Hindi) my Nana, desis will wonder, cos Nana means maternal grandfather. That's cos he was Nana to everyone, even his wife. That was his nickname, like Vishwanath Patekar is Nana Patekar to everyone.
Nana is THE biggest cricket influence of my life and I might expand this thread into an essay.
Narayan Sabnis was the eldest son in a pretty privileged family in Indore. His father was the head accountant of the Holkar principality. Nana had a pretty chill childhood.
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Gaurav Sabnis ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
26 Jul
LOL NBC commentator on the Purcell match is saying "why do Australians keep calling this color gold? Where is the gold? Your color is yellow. Just call it yellow "

Haha one of my pet peeves too
I tease my Aussie colleague about whenever he talks mistily about the baggy green and the green and gold. The baggy green is green but not really baggy, just a little loose. And that's just not gold. It just isn't.
The same commentator though has pronounced Osaka as Osaki and Xu as Yu.
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26 Jul
Neighbor just told me that back when teenaged Steffi Graf and Boris Becker won Wimbledon, their pictures together led to a lot of "Nazi Youth recruitment poster" jokes on late night TV in the US and the Germans were not amused. Image
I'm from the generation where ever kid in India hoped they'd get married ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ™ˆ
I'm just cracking up that this is probably my earliest tennis memory and I was today years old when I realized the recruitment poster joke potential.
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26 Jul
During the french Open I was saying to a friend that damn, no one can match black athletes in just being on the right side of everything publicly, even at great personal cost. He says, she's not black, she's Japanese cos she represents Japan & I'm like it's not her choice.
A lot of people don't get this about Kamala Harris either. How can she call herself black and Indian both? It's not her choice in America or even in India.
Osaka and Harris are black AND other things. There is no need to put them in one bucket or another.
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