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<blockquote data-quote="D#rox" data-source="post: 17345983" data-attributes="member: 491541"><p><strong>40 interesting facts about Sri Lankans</strong></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">21. When you visit your Sri Lankan aunties, they always serve you a plate of lemon puffs and Tang before anything else.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"> <span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/munchee-lemon-puff.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"> <span style="color: Sienna">22. When people shout “issaraha bahinawa” (getting down front) in busses..</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"> <span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/colombo-transport-bus1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"> <span style="color: Sienna">23. When every Lankan girl that you meet is the daughter of the auntie whose grandfather is the cousin of the father of your uncle who is the brother of your dad!</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"> <span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/sri-lanka-family.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">24. When to your parents</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">a) Scotch tape is called ‘sello tape’,</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Scotch-sello-tape.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">b) Toothpaste is simply referred as ‘Signal’</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/signal-toothpaste-box.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">c) Soap is “Lux” or “Rexona”</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/lux-soap-wrapper.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">d) MSG’s are “Aji-no-moto’</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Aji-no-moto-msg1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">e) and binoculars are “binaCLOSE’</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"><img 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alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">25.) When you know the words to the very annoying ‘Surangani’ and “Ojaye, Ojaye” songs…(NOTE: and now that you have been reminded, these songs automatically start playing in your head)</span></span><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/sri-lanka-fashion.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">26. When despite the fact that you have eaten a full three course meal prior to visiting your “auntie”, refusing to eat another three course meal in the same evening may result in dire consequences.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/full-rice-dish.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">27. You get invited to dinner at an “uncles” house for 7:00pm; You get there at 8:30 and dinner is served at 11:58 pm; The arrack induced fathers start singing at 1:00 am while the mothers start making idle chit chat about the “old days in Sri Lanka”…By 3:00am your “auntie” forces you to drink coffee so that you can get a good nights sleep when you get home at 6:00 AM.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/sri-lanka-party.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">28. When you’ve spend at least one afternoon wrapping your school textbooks with “brown paper” so that they don’t get damaged!</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"><img src="http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/brown-paper-covers1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna">29. Everyone is a family friend.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Sienna"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D#rox, post: 17345983, member: 491541"] [b]40 interesting facts about Sri Lankans[/b] [CENTER][SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna]21. When you visit your Sri Lankan aunties, they always serve you a plate of lemon puffs and Tang before anything else.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5] [COLOR=Sienna][IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/munchee-lemon-puff.jpg[/IMG][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5] [COLOR=Sienna]22. When people shout “issaraha bahinawa” (getting down front) in busses..[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5] [COLOR=Sienna][IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/colombo-transport-bus1.jpg[/IMG][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5] [COLOR=Sienna]23. When every Lankan girl that you meet is the daughter of the auntie whose grandfather is the cousin of the father of your uncle who is the brother of your dad![/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5] [COLOR=Sienna][IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/sri-lanka-family.jpg[/IMG][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna]24. When to your parents[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna] [/COLOR][/SIZE][INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna]a) Scotch tape is called ‘sello tape’,[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna] [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna] [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna][IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Scotch-sello-tape.jpg[/IMG] b) Toothpaste is simply referred as ‘Signal’ [IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/signal-toothpaste-box.jpg[/IMG] c) Soap is “Lux” or “Rexona” [IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/lux-soap-wrapper.jpg[/IMG] d) MSG’s are “Aji-no-moto’ [IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Aji-no-moto-msg1.jpg[/IMG] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT][INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna]e) and binoculars are “binaCLOSE’ 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[/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna]25.) When you know the words to the very annoying ‘Surangani’ and “Ojaye, Ojaye” songs…(NOTE: and now that you have been reminded, these songs automatically start playing in your head)[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=5] [COLOR=Sienna][IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/sri-lanka-fashion.jpg[/IMG][/COLOR] [COLOR=Sienna]26. When despite the fact that you have eaten a full three course meal prior to visiting your “auntie”, refusing to eat another three course meal in the same evening may result in dire consequences.[/COLOR] [COLOR=Sienna][IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/full-rice-dish.jpg[/IMG][/COLOR] [COLOR=Sienna]27. You get invited to dinner at an “uncles” house for 7:00pm; You get there at 8:30 and dinner is served at 11:58 pm; The arrack induced fathers start singing at 1:00 am while the mothers start making idle chit chat about the “old days in Sri Lanka”…By 3:00am your “auntie” forces you to drink coffee so that you can get a good nights sleep when you get home at 6:00 AM.[/COLOR] [COLOR=Sienna][IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/sri-lanka-party.jpg[/IMG][/COLOR] [COLOR=Sienna]28. When you’ve spend at least one afternoon wrapping your school textbooks with “brown paper” so that they don’t get damaged![/COLOR] [COLOR=Sienna][IMG]http://www.interestingemails.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/brown-paper-covers1.jpg[/IMG][/COLOR] [/SIZE] [SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna]29. Everyone is a family friend.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][COLOR=Sienna] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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