Whats up with these flappy flappy fatkay!? Cant singhs tie pugs these days?? Is it too difficult or do they feel the need to look like their idols like Slim Shady and Jay Z!
The funniest is when you see a singh with a full dhari (beard) with his joori sitting up on his head like a surprised pigeon with the flappy bits at the back spread out over his shoulders like aeroplane wings!! I mean what it going on?
These guys need to be renamed S.A.P’s which stands for Stoopid Application of Patka!
The only excuse to wear a patka (I like to call them ‘fatkay’, as it sounds stupid as well as looking stupid!) are the following:
you are going to the gym
you are at the gym
you are coming home from the gym
Or any other activity such as sports where a dastar would be too uncomfortable!
“Imagine the scene: its 1740, the hindus and Sikhs are facing persecution, the residents of a village are going to be attacked, they have no hope of defending themselves from the approaching moghul army. They do what they can to get a message to the remaining sikh army, their only hope.
As the day of the attack gets closer the men of the village lock up the women and gather what weapons they have, knowing that taking one or two moguls down with them is all they can hope for! They see the dust cloud rise as the enemy approaches; they brace themselves for a short but hard fought battle! Where are the Sikhs, did they not get the message, maybe the messenger was killed?
But wait what’s that, it looks like people, men, they are armed, I can see blue and saffron, it’s the Sikhs!! At last! We now stand a chance, think the villagers! They are overjoyed! The Sikhs approach closer, their long flowing beards blowing gently in the breeze, there huge horses towering the men as high as the sky, weapons glistening, chiming, ringing the pre war battle! But whats this? Somethings not right! Where are their majestic dastars, the crowns of the gurus lions?? They been replaced by FLAPPY FATKAY!!!! Ah man! These huge soldiers ready to do battle with big diamond shaped jooras and flappy fatkay!! the villagers including the women think sod this and beat up the singhs!”
Stop and think! Visualise the scene.
Its wrong in many ways I know. Yes, I would much rather the singhs of today keep there un-cut hair and wear a fatka then have a ‘short back and sides’. But going to the gurdwara and weddings etc with a flappy fatka is just taking it too far!
And the joora on the back of the head is just wrong too, yes again for sports its understandable, but for your hair to be worn like that everyday-to pretend that you haven’t got a joora is just silly! The blonde down the road wont think you’re cool, she’ll just be thinking that you got some sort of strange elongated head!
The guru gave us this image as a reflection of himself, and whenever we can, we must do our duty to represent our guru. Not just visually but, in our action and mannerism we must do as our guru would in all situations, or at least try. Be proud of who you are and your heritage, many people died for you to have the right to wear a dastar and follow the gurus teachings, don’t let that be in vain.
It seems that the future generation of singhs will not be able to tie dastars as there will be fewer singhs to teach them. If you the reader cant tie a dastar, the next time you go to the gurdwara and see someone wearing a dastar you like the look of, just ask them how to tie it and if they will show you, they will never refuse as it will be very flattering of you to ask them.
A dastar/pug/turban shouldn’t take more then 3 minutes to tie, and once tied is one of the most comfortable things you can wear, if yours hurts or is uncomfortable something’s wrong and maybe you are sacrificing form for style.
Come on guys, stop flapping about and tie a dastar! Do it for yourself and do it for your guru!
The funniest is when you see a singh with a full dhari (beard) with his joori sitting up on his head like a surprised pigeon with the flappy bits at the back spread out over his shoulders like aeroplane wings!! I mean what it going on?
These guys need to be renamed S.A.P’s which stands for Stoopid Application of Patka!
The only excuse to wear a patka (I like to call them ‘fatkay’, as it sounds stupid as well as looking stupid!) are the following:
you are going to the gym
you are at the gym
you are coming home from the gym
Or any other activity such as sports where a dastar would be too uncomfortable!
“Imagine the scene: its 1740, the hindus and Sikhs are facing persecution, the residents of a village are going to be attacked, they have no hope of defending themselves from the approaching moghul army. They do what they can to get a message to the remaining sikh army, their only hope.
As the day of the attack gets closer the men of the village lock up the women and gather what weapons they have, knowing that taking one or two moguls down with them is all they can hope for! They see the dust cloud rise as the enemy approaches; they brace themselves for a short but hard fought battle! Where are the Sikhs, did they not get the message, maybe the messenger was killed?
But wait what’s that, it looks like people, men, they are armed, I can see blue and saffron, it’s the Sikhs!! At last! We now stand a chance, think the villagers! They are overjoyed! The Sikhs approach closer, their long flowing beards blowing gently in the breeze, there huge horses towering the men as high as the sky, weapons glistening, chiming, ringing the pre war battle! But whats this? Somethings not right! Where are their majestic dastars, the crowns of the gurus lions?? They been replaced by FLAPPY FATKAY!!!! Ah man! These huge soldiers ready to do battle with big diamond shaped jooras and flappy fatkay!! the villagers including the women think sod this and beat up the singhs!”
Stop and think! Visualise the scene.
Its wrong in many ways I know. Yes, I would much rather the singhs of today keep there un-cut hair and wear a fatka then have a ‘short back and sides’. But going to the gurdwara and weddings etc with a flappy fatka is just taking it too far!
And the joora on the back of the head is just wrong too, yes again for sports its understandable, but for your hair to be worn like that everyday-to pretend that you haven’t got a joora is just silly! The blonde down the road wont think you’re cool, she’ll just be thinking that you got some sort of strange elongated head!
The guru gave us this image as a reflection of himself, and whenever we can, we must do our duty to represent our guru. Not just visually but, in our action and mannerism we must do as our guru would in all situations, or at least try. Be proud of who you are and your heritage, many people died for you to have the right to wear a dastar and follow the gurus teachings, don’t let that be in vain.
It seems that the future generation of singhs will not be able to tie dastars as there will be fewer singhs to teach them. If you the reader cant tie a dastar, the next time you go to the gurdwara and see someone wearing a dastar you like the look of, just ask them how to tie it and if they will show you, they will never refuse as it will be very flattering of you to ask them.
A dastar/pug/turban shouldn’t take more then 3 minutes to tie, and once tied is one of the most comfortable things you can wear, if yours hurts or is uncomfortable something’s wrong and maybe you are sacrificing form for style.
Come on guys, stop flapping about and tie a dastar! Do it for yourself and do it for your guru!
14 comments:
Get with it man! did you not know these ultra cool kids that wear those Fatkeh or Patkeh call them TYSONS!
Just thought I would correct you - don't want you offending them now do we ;-)
lol funny!
Agreed!
Boys with beards wearing flappy fatkay look silly, very silly indeed!
Tysons!! wow, they got a name too. so they even named it after a beat-up, ex boxer, bankrupt, convicted s3x offender!
im clearly too old and no longer cool.
G
Whoops, better not wear my "fatka", though its usually only for when I'm playing footie! Gurch if you see me wearning a fatka, i'll be sure to tie the loose ends up so I look like Harbhajan Singh - Yes I'll have the stylish hair knot on my forehead!LOL
Good post Gurch. There are a lot of 'Sardars' who aren't wearing their dastaars and opting for the patka/bandana, I was at a wedding just 2 days ago and saw many a person coming to the wedding in a full suit and patka - who do they think they are? Monty 'I don't wear a pagh' Panesar?
Though there's always a positive to be drawn, at least "mans" have got Kes and also, "mans" aren't donning caps - Thats my personal Pet Hate!!!! Rant Over.
bruuuuuuuuuuvvvv...u were neva cool!!!!
I agree, there is a positive that singhs arent cutting their hair. But to be wearing one always in favour of a dastar isn't right.
G
y are all your blogs about cursing people? wheres the love and fun times?
Sanpreetji, as stated in my first post, this is a blog of things that I am noticing in my community and represents my opinion. I don’t think you can judge my 'whole blog' as it is an evolving page and not static.
I am certainly not hating any groups, far from it. What I’m doing is pointing out things which are being ignored and going on the background of our community. I have purposely not picked hard-line subjects as there are already plenty of sites or blogs dealing with these issues.
So far in what have I written have I said anything wrong? I have asked Singhs to stop biting off there moochas and asked Singhs to where a dastar and accept our guru's roop.
Thanks for your comment.
G
now we even got printed turbans...they shd really give that a try!
Printer pughs are too cool!!! I waant to start wearing one!!!
and then there is you being a hippocrit again!!! http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=907886438&size=l
very observant anon!
to my defence, that was when we went to Go Ape, which is like an adventure playground in the trees. Unfortunatly if i wore my dastar that day it would have most definitly get hot and sweaty and would have come off. that would fall under one of my exceptions .
thanks for taking the time to look at the blog though!
G
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