only in america....
do we have daylight savings time, forget to set our clocks back, and show up at work one hour early.

damn.

PG, get outta here, did you really do that? thats too funny.

well, no, i didn't actually show up at work one hour early, because, by that time i had already realized my stupid mistake. but i did, however, have an extra hour this morning.

only in nepal do people start every letter with "sweet rememberance"

Only in Nepal do people say someone expired when someone passed away (what was the expiration date printed on the bottom?)

only in nepal do they always use an ada "ka" followed by a "ya" when spelling an english "k"
you know, like in "kyaafe" (cafe) or "kyaset" (cassette)

d+ck head its not only in ur fwaking america

what was that about?!


only in nepal do they have a time zone that is 15 (or 45) minutes off the hour

P_g bro that is very true, a friend of mine never beilived me until i showed him in the internet that it was actually 15 - 45 mins off, ..

so Only americans think that the time difference is always in an hour :P

Ohhh!
This thread is still alive?

Let me join here.
>what was the expiration date printed on the bottom?
???? katako bottom ho?


>only in nepal do they have a time zone that is 15 (or 45) minutes off the hour
When I talked about it to my friends (Chinese & English) they said it may be due to politacal reason to show that Nepal is different from India. (LOL) "I replied them, Hey guys do you have little knowledge in Geography? Time difference is due to the fact that earth is spherical , there is no any political reason behind it..." Kura Bujhe ki bujhenan kunni tara masita sahamat bhaye.


Only in Nepal: Poeple ask "Ani khaana khanubhayo?" while talking in the telephone.

"Time difference is due to the fact that earth is spherical" .. but why is that no other country takes the 15 minutes into account besides Nepal? In a way it is to be different. Similarly the flag itself is a statement of being different.

ho ta ni. i have heard from some very reliable sources that nepal did set its time zone at 15 minutes apart from india's to show it is independent and is NOT associated with india. i also heard that it was to stand up to the british (the basis for all time zones is gmt, greenwich mean time) and prove their independence and strength and that they don't have to "follow orders" or merely accept what is given to them.
bravo, nepal!!!

sorry, no "only in..."s right now.

The Standard Nepalese Time is the time at Gauri Shankar Himal.

I also do not know whether we had similar time to India, before deciding that or not.
Time diference 15 minutes matra haina 5 minutes pani hunchha.
5 seconds pani hunchha: gegraphically.
There might be other countries sonsidering it... ... ...

To add to BedRock's expiration,

Only in Nepal do people say, "Falano Kashnu (fell/dropped) Bhayo," to mention that someone has died.

And Only in Nepal, can people say politely, "You are invited to my party but not your wife and kids." by crossing out Mrs/Ms in the invitation card.

Never mind Mt Everest and our double triangle flag. There is another thing that distinguishes us among the community of nations: Nepal Standard Time, which is 5 hours and 45 minutes ahead of GMT.

More significantly, it is 15 minutes ahead of Indian Standard Time. And that sets us apart, because it is the only time zone in the world that is only 15 minutes different than that of an adjacent country.

The sun rises in Dhangadi 32 minutes after it dawns in Bhadrapur, not really an oddity since the whole of China is one unwieldy time zone. When it is six in the evening at the Friendship Bridge at Kodari, it is already nine at night across the Bhote Kosi on the Chinese side.

In the Malla period, Kathmandu residents had their own traditional way for telling time. If you wanted to know the exact time, you went to a pond near Hanuman Dhoka where an official would tell you how many pala had submerged since dawn. Each pala had a tiny hole and would fill up in exactly 24 minutes. ?This method was OK for us until the Westerners arrived,? explains Sambaraj Acharya, professor at Balmiki Campus.

And with them came global time zones. Set in 1884, it agreed to use the Greenwich meridian as zero and measure 24 standard meridians on longitudes 15 degrees apart. But it was not till 1956 that we set our watches for the first time to Nepal Standard Time, with the meridian at Mt Gauri Shankar, 100km east of Kathmandu. It
wasn?t Mt Everest because Gauri Shankar was closer to Nepal?s centre of gravity, as it were.

It was a choice that set our clocks 10 minutes ahead of India, which at the time used the longitude that passed through Calcutta. When our neighbours switched their meridian to Hyderabad in 1971, we officially had four degrees of separation, and presto, found ourselves a further five minutes ahead of the Indians.

With the information age, there is now some grumbling that we should set ourselves to Indian time. Acharya is
unimpressed. He told us: ?Why should we change something that is well established, scientific and accepted?? Apparently it?s not as simple as rounding off to the nearest zero. More nationalistic naysayers will probably dismiss the idea simply on the grounds that our perceived lead over India will narrow.

How much are those 15 minutes worth? For most Nepalis it is part of an inbuilt elasticity when it comes to punctuality?the foundation of the old ?Nepali Stretched Time? joke. It is our grace period, a quarter of an hour that we tack onto to every appointment and still consider ourselves to be ?on time?. Even if we are, technically, 15 minutes late.





Only in Nepal: ... thinking

only in america do we vote for a dictator to lead a democracy

Only in America people realizes that they made a huge mistake back in 2000 ..(considering the current situation of U.S.) and yet again makes the same mistake in 2004.

only in america is lying about having oral sex worse and more immoral than lying about "weapons of mass destruction" and killing thousands of innocent people

Only in America 'religion' is the best kept secret in winning people's vote.

only in america did we have a chance to prove to the rest of the world that we are not totally self-centered and have compassion for others

only in america did we blow that chance

only in america did we vote to keep bush in office, while internation polls average 70-80% in favor of kerry

there is a great welsh newspaper called the welsh mirror and the cover has a picture of our "leader" and asks the question: "how can 58,000,000 people be so dumb?"
i'd like to know the answer to that myself.

sorry. that's "international polls"