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I met this girl today, who wanted to have a drink at the college party, but did want to be seen pouring her own drink. So she asked guys to get her fruit juice laced with Whiskey.
I have bought a round or 2 of drinks to various girls, but somehow I felt really awkward carrying her glass.

1) First i thought, its because of the fact that I realized that she drinks: But I really don’t care, nor does it matter
2) Then I thought it might because I was not ready to spend 1-2 minutes that I spend in getting her glass… but its unlikely
3) Then I thought it might be because I was appalled by her attempts to mask her drinking problem (she did have 4 rounds of alcohol), but then I have seen people going to much greater extend for masking their problems/addictions… and this won’t list even in the top 10.

What do you think is the reason for me to feel so much awkward while helping her get her drinks.

Today a wise man (Lets call him Ventilator Baba) pointed out a major difference between the political use and the dictionary meaning of these 2 words.

Dictionary:
Conservative: A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
Liberal:Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

Hence in Orkut/Facebook when the websites ask people about their political views most of my friends write Liberal. However they don’t realize that in the political science

CONSERVATIVES – believe in personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American values and a strong national defense. Believe the role of government should be to provide people the freedom necessary to pursue their own goals.
Conservative policies generally emphasize empowerment of the individual to solve problems.

LIBERALS – believe in governmental action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all, and that it is the duty of the State to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties and individual and human rights. Believe the role of the government should be to guarantee that no one is in need. Believe that people are basically good.

Liberal policies generally emphasize the need for the government to solve people’s problems.

I hope this helps atleast some of us in sending out the right signals.

As per this article

IIT selected just 159 Students (SC/ST) for 414 seats. Then going by the past trend, 40 of these would drop out because of the ill treatment they will receive in the 1 year long preparatory course and/or poor grades.
I could never understand is that why there is so much fuss about helping 120 students p.a.?

The stockbroker’ s secretary answered his phone one morning. ‘I’m sorry,’ she said,

‘Mr. Bradford’s on another line.’

‘This is Mr. Ingram’s office,’ the caller said. ‘We’d like to know if he’s bullish or bearish right now.’

‘He’s talking to his wife,’ the secretary replied.

‘Right now I’d say he’s sheepish.’

- Source

Here is a nice HBR paper that says that Information technology does not matter.

And here are some rebuttals for the above assertions

2 brothers were having their breakfast one morning.. it’s cereals with hot chocolate.. the younger brother finished his drink and took his bowl of cereal, and went to the aquarium. Just as he was about to feed the fish with the bowl of cereals, his mother came in and shouted, ‘jon, dont do it!! the fish will die!!’ the little boy turned pale, and gave his mother a desperate look..

Joke stolen from GMohanPrakash