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trying to be a critical theorist. i have the critical part down. phd(ying) and fangirling.

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@lidlbich
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7 months
gajar ka halwa. what a concept. we took carrots, cooked them down, added dry fruit and sugar. what innovation. what a beauty.
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@lidlbich
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10 months
seeing the Animal reviews coming out and safe to say, Ranbir Kapoor now has the entire incel fanbase behind him. nothing revives a man’s career better than playing a character that slaps and chokes women on screen.
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@lidlbich
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2 years
she is ethereal. an unproblematic, goofy queen. staying in her own lane, thriving with her mad husband. the best bollywood has produced in the past 10 years.
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"Do you know Naatu? Because if not, you're about to." - Queen Deepika Padukone announces ‘Naatu Naatu’ live performance at the #Oscars
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@lidlbich
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2 years
sometimes my mother and I just argue for the sake of arguing. i’m not getting married any time soon, nor am i seeing anyone but four days ago we screamed and argued over my potential future husband kissing my forehead after the nikkah in front of everyone. WHAT NIKKAH WHAT HUSBEN
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@lidlbich
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11 months
posts on female facebook groups make me realise that pakistani women will go straight to heaven if only for the fact that they are married to pakistani men. allah mian really scraped the bottom of the barrel for pakistan.
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@lidlbich
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10 months
spotify taking everyone to Multan (copied from a Noida tweet)
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@lidlbich
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3 years
today, I will mourn the loss of 23 years of my life (friendships, loves, experiences, growth) to parental restrictions. tomorrow, I will get up and pretend i’m not thinking about the fact that I turn 25 in 11 days and have barely lived a year and a half of my life.
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@lidlbich
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6 months
Sufi came to Pakistan for a month and embraced true pakistaniyat 😭 yahi tou hai humara culture
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4 years
Just need the Anjali to my Sufi 🥺👉🏻👈🏻
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@lidlbich
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2 years
being a brown girl means having to choose between getting killed by a shady man driving a shady taxi to go to a place you lied to your parents about or getting killed by your parents by telling them where you’re actually going
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@lidlbich
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5 months
so in heeramandi the MUSLIM revolutionaries in LAHORE scream inqilab zinda while waving an indian flag? for fucks sake, bhansali
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@lidlbich
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5 months
can sanjay leela bhansali tell us what he envisions tawaifs to be? revolutionaries? mistresses? bounded labour? prostitutes? this is what happens when you erase mughal history from your history books and speak broken urdu. they cant even pronounce Fajr.
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@lidlbich
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9 months
married pakistani women on fb groups: *detail sickeningly gory emotional, physical and financial abuse* am i being abused? is this relationship abusive?
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@lidlbich
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10 months
on my knees praying that this man can act
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@lidlbich
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4 years
I posted in a pakistani ladies group that me and my sister wanted homecooked food and were willing to pay for it to be made and so many aunties replied saying ‘beta we’ll make it for free for you guys’ 🥺🥺🥺❤️❤️ im so overwhelmed
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@lidlbich
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1 year
i need pakistani musicians to understand that rapping about sex and having two lines of punjabi is NOT great music please and thanks. stop trying to be faris shafi
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as if danyal zafar couldn’t get more disgusting …
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@lidlbich
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5 months
what a tragedy it is to move away from family for socioeconomic progress to places that are structurally designed to restrict community building. an even bigger tragedy to remember that you come from migrant blood with no roots to fall back on.
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@lidlbich
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3 years
all year round all i hear is ‘i don’t believe in the institution of marriage’ and complaints about being single but as soon as the weather drops below 20, y’all are getting married. i demand an explanation
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@lidlbich
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2 years
VARUN DHAWAN PICKED GIGI HADID UP AND TWIRLED HER AROUND HAHAHA WTF girlie stumbled off stage 😭😭😭😭😭
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@lidlbich
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5 years
A girl was raped at gunpoint by policemen because she went for Sehri with her friend. Fuck this country and it’s goddamned men
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@lidlbich
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2 years
Shahzeb Khanzada ke peechay thora music lagao tou Faris Shafi ka gaana banjata hai.
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@lidlbich
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5 months
need a thinkpiece on how zayn malik quietly made himself an icon after willingly hiding away
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I'M TOO STUNNED TO SPEAK??? ZAYN MALIK YOU'RE SO?????
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@lidlbich
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5 years
My brothers complaining about their 12am curfew. Me:
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@lidlbich
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10 months
you either get married and travel the world (like your parents said you should) or you fight to live alone and eventually realise how lonely life gets when all your friends are partnered up.
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@lidlbich
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3 years
first six figure cheque 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿 i am girlbossing so hard
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@lidlbich
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2 months
i absolutely hate when people do this. pakistani students have been organising since at least (this is only my own consciousness of it) 2015. no one stands up with them. all of you sit in your houses and support the state because everyone is scared of it.
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Meanwhile Pakistani students
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@lidlbich
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5 years
My father is planning on using the money he had for my Shaadi, to fund my Masters. Dad really came thru y’all 😭😭😭
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@lidlbich
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11 months
Flo just released their premium features in Pakistan for free and the cynic is me is just thinking what medical or sanitary pads company wants more data to experiment on women in the Global South.
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@lidlbich
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8 months
lahore mein bumble ki halaat dekh ke i understand why arranged marriage is so important for pakistan bcs no one is willingly marrying these men fr fr
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@lidlbich
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11 months
how do you look at this and stop your heart from bleeding?
@SaimaMohsin
Saima Mohsin
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Thousands of Afghans are stranded at the border with Pakistan. Islamabad has given 1.7 million Afghans it says are living illegally in the country until today/November 1 to leave voluntarily or be forcibly removed sparking this mass exodus
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@lidlbich
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@spectatorindex
The Spectator Index
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BREAKING: India's rupee falls to record low against the US Dollar, down to 76.8 per US Dollar.
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@lidlbich
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1 year
can i just say… he’s not conventionally handsome but he is absolutely besotted with her and that makes all the difference in the world. also the lack of people with their phones out is so nice to see. also you can tell someone is wholesome when the videos emanate that warmth.
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@lidlbich
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3 years
come find me if you see me 🤪
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@lidlbich
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3 years
since i’m effectively ‘grounded’, i’m taking my revenge at patriarchy by turning on the AC in my room whenever i damn well like. you make me go through an entire two week procedure before letting me out while my brothers go out whenever wherever they like? well then pay the bill
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@lidlbich
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3 years
if ur rich why’re you on the fulbright or chevening? pisses me off to no extent.
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@lidlbich
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4 years
don’t ask why i’m doing this but zaidalit’s ama is very proudly and humorously saying that she sent her daughter to Pakistan when she refused to wear the hijab. what in the world of toxicity is this. i hate brown parents.
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@lidlbich
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10 months
my dad really went from ‘i don’t want this cat in my house’ to ‘beta yeh dekho yeh humaray ghar ki raunaq hai’ on video call
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@lidlbich
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5 months
atrocious punjabi and urdu being spoken in heeramandi. this is what happens when you don’t consult people from the place where the actual heeramandi is.
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@lidlbich
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2 years
Say what you will but doing matric/inter builds so much character. Like are YOU still friends with this girl from college who ran away with her boyfriend, got married, divorced, ran away again, got cheated on and now no one knows if shes in Pakistan or Australia
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@lidlbich
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8 months
@dezgostang happened around 25 when my brain said stop fighting it you’re not unique
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@lidlbich
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1 year
hello pakistani actors. please stop saying you saw your mother’s qualities in your wife. please i am on my knees begging you to stop announcing your oedipus complex. women, if a man tells you that you have his mother’s qualities: RUN.
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@lidlbich
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4 years
cute guy @ work asked where i’m from and then said ‘couldn’t you go to uni in pakistan?’ abay tere ko kya bataun ke kyun bhaagi wehan se bhai??
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@lidlbich
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10 months
phd karo bois and escape shaadi for six years
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A masters degree is good for that brown girl who wishes to escape shadi shackles for another 2 years.
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@lidlbich
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9 months
I am going to need everyone to be honest. How are you attending shaadis of close friends EVERY december because do y’all not run out of friends? how is everyone you know so rich? like did i miss something?
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@lidlbich
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10 months
you can tell a man wrote/directed/edited this movie because any woman knows that four pads for an entire period would be a risk of sending your body into toxic shock.
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@lidlbich
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1 year
influencers saying ‘normalise wearing the same outfit to multiple holidays’. jaanu YOU need to normalise it to yourself before you run off to get a last minute holiday clothes delivery bcs we been doing that
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@lidlbich
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3 years
Jannat mein express entry ki line honi chahiye pakistani larkiyon ke liye. Dealing with pakistani parents AND brown boys isn’t short of an imtehaan.
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5 months
I am not crazy I can’t believe I saw this????
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@lidlbich
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5 months
Saad-ur-rehman or as the incels lovingly call him ‘ducky bhai’ spent close to a decade curating an audience of incel bros by abusing women and using the most horrible language. Now his wife bears the brunt of it. Auraton ke saath he tou zyadti hoti hai iss mulk mein.
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1 year
A PROPER YOUNG ADULT LOVE STORY SET IN PAKISTAN WITH ALL OUR CULTURAL NUANCES IM CRYING HERE U DONT UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS FOR ME
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7 months
not but i’m genuinely annoyed. now India has claimed Heeramandi as an Indian thing? Kal ko Lahore Fort bhi India mein hoga? Waisay Mughal History erase karni hai aur heeramandi own karli hai? Aisi historical rewriting ke matlab wah
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@lidlbich
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6 months
guys. mein hydrafacial kara rahi houn and the aesthetician just asked ‘aap shadishuda hain?’. i said no and she said ‘woh aap golu molu si hain’. inform the healthcare industry apparently you can only be fat if you have sex (which is what shadi shuda implies)
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5 months
guys actually inqilab sirf india mein he aaya tha Pakistan tou awein lagay haath ban gaya. indians love rewriting history lmaooo
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@lidlbich
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2 months
It genuinely takes a certain sort of narcissism to consider your audience unintelligent. I am tired of queerness being a talking point for people who like to come in from the West and then want brownie points for making things worse
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#barzakh Yes, the finale still airs tonight.
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@lidlbich
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5 years
Anyone remember that time Cartoon Network said they’d send birthday gifts to people on their birthdays if we sent them letters? All five of us sent them letters and we randomly received a box of CN goodies a year later. Good times.
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1 year
i love how the commentators keep reiterating ‘a sea of blue’ ‘so much support for india’ as if the match isn’t IN india and pakistanis could get visas sksksks
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5 years
My boss who used to bodyshame me in the name of ‘health’ is now wearing a shirt that says ‘my body my choice’ and I finally stood up for myself and messaged him saying ‘wish you had that shirt when you were bodyshaming me :p’. The ‘:p’ was because im a weakling
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2 years
wax strips are expensive, razors are expensive, waxing is expensive, laser is expensive. being a woman is a pAin
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5 years
I am in utter awe of @itsmeeshashafi ‘s composure because even I can’t defend her without my throat cracking up
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3 years
25 is such a weird age. I’m 3 years into my career and then men on bumble are in 3rd year uni. Matlab ab mein tumhari graduation pe aun ge??
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man. sometimes i do genuinely think ke the pakistani state is hell bent on destroying its cultural legacies. we just love our people being miserable, easier to rule over people dejected by the world.
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Basant denotes the arrival of spring, celebrated at the end of Jan and the start of Feb. This documentation is of a random stranger I came across a year ago, singing Amir Khusrau’s poem at Mazar-E-Ghalib (Ghalib’s Tomb), Nizamuddin, New Delhi.
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like has everyone collectively lost it? how are you defending a series that was based in 1945 in what is now PAKISTAN with no mention of Pakistan? Historical accuracy choro, apni history ke liye izzat nai hai?
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1 year
the transphobia on this app is astounding
@AuratMarchKHI
Aurat March - عورت مارچ
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It's important to keep in mind that menstruation is a biological process & biology is different from gender (which is socially constructed). Not all those who have a uterus are women & not all women have a uterus. Reducing a woman down to a uterus is misogynistic. #AuratMarch
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the song azaadi is such a cheap rip off of hum dekhenge and what a sad fucking moment for cinema that it is being sung in a hindu nationalist series with no context or respect for the origins. fuck you, sanjay leela bhansali
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@lidlbich
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2 years
male youtubers are objectively the worst. - the village food secrets are religious fundamentalist bigots who are constantly being funded by govts of other countries. - every incels fav d*c*y is such an embarrassment and just straight up gross.
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guys please start discourse on youtube vloggers. i have SO MUCH TO SAY 😭😭😭
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4 years
did ur parents also tell u about this secret ‘sex’ club of pakistani politicians in the 70’s or 80’s where the wives were in different rooms and they mixed up the keys like a lucky draw and whoever got whoever’s key slept w the wife in the room or are u normal
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@lidlbich
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1 year
if you grew up in lahore and were even remotely part of any private school, ur exposure to this guy reached saturation point ten years ago 😭😭😭
@zchishtii
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personally i think we all need less of kh*qan sh*hnawaz
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@lidlbich
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5 years
My sister used my Miniso face massager, as a face massager I CANT EVEN WHY WOULD SHE DO DIS UFF
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@lidlbich
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5 years
Huye faasle, jhootay silsilay, toote hue dil jayein kahan 🥺🥺
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4 years
every time i watch a youtube video by a young, pakistani kid all i can think is ‘how the fck are all of them so rich and allowed to go wherever???’ then i remember oh this is the life ur rich friends from private school lived while u weren’t allowed to go out as a teenager.
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1 year
if this weren’t a drama, he’d be pulling into an empty gali or even dha and that makes me so happy. finally a proper brown couple representation on screen 🥰
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Man fking knows what he did, I-
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@lidlbich
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10 months
goodbye to my baby show. you will always be special. long live all the magic you made. the kingdom lights will always shine for you 💜
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@lidlbich
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2 years
plssss i went on the GCU bus for FOUR years. used to cost 12k/year, saved me a shit ton of money and was the primary reason my parents agreed to send me to GCU otherwise i’d be stuck in a closer, shittier university!!! ffs safe commuting is so integral to mobility!
@nadeemhaque
Nadeem Haque
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Every university has a fleet of buses that operate at 30% capacity. Why do we waste money on those. Then universities say they are short of cash! They can run these buses commercially and recover some cost. Can we ever re imagine anything?
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- Found a supportive job with a healthy work-life balance. - Thought I found the loml (really didn’t) - Got offered THREE fully-funded PhD studentships in the UK (i’m still in awe) - Moved to London. - Became my own person. - Started reading again.
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What's the best thing that happened to you in 2022?
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you think you have faced embarrassment? i walked into the apple store with my macbook ready to fight them on the scratches i keep seeing on my screen. he wiped it away with a microfibre cloth. it was dust. i am never showing my face there again
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2 years
OHMYGOD GUYS THAT IS MY MOTHER OMGGGG ITS WAS CALLED THE HOOT AND LAUGH ASSOCIATION OF KARACHI UNIVERSITY - HALAKU i’m dyinggg my mother is laughing her ass off rn asking me where i got this
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Justuju - جستجو
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Students campaigning for Karachi University Student Body Elections in the early 80s. 1/n
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11 months
i mean pakistani women will go to heaven for the sole reason of being born in Pakistan tbh. there is no other explanation.
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4 years
what the fuck is pakistan’s obsession with 1 page CV’s? what can you possibly communicate in one page WITHOUT a cover letter? kabhee samajh nahi ayi. reeks of the fact that noone really reads through the CV
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2 years
officially an overseas Pakistani 🤪
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4 years
meanwhile Zaid is living a pretty ‘modern’ life. his sister isn’t studying, lives in the basement of their parents house, married to a cousin from Pakistan. I fucking HATE the double standards.
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9 months
pakistani mard aisay jokes maartay hain and then cry about being single.
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2 years
Geo news: NAYI NAYI KHABAR CHIEF JUSTICE UMAR ATA BANDIAL SUPREME COURT PUHANCH GAYE HAIN. Aur kahan jaraha tha woh???
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2 years
I remember when I was moving and asked my partner if we can send each other a good morning or good night message every day even if we don’t find the time to talk since time difference and long distance and he said I was asking for too much <3 <3
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this or nothing <3
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1 year
There was absolutely no need for this elaborate scene but I love Ali Hassan’s commitment to serving us thirst traps and utilising Hamza’s body for maximum content.
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5 months
every episode of heeramandi has nearly 8 minutes of credits and yet SLB couldn’t get a proper historical consultant on board 😬
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1 year
sehar and hamza been giving us puppy love, hate to love, cute vibes and then drop this MAFIA CODED cover like we’re just supposed to be normal about it?? WHO ALLOWED TO FOLLOW THRU WITH ALL WATTPAD TROPES HEIN??
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11 months
hamza ko bus solo travel girlie se attention chahiye 😌
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1 year
I loveeee this scene hahaha the timing 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽
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3 years
@jasebyjason He’s literally gaslighting her
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4 years
Me and my sister was alone in Nottingham in Ramzan trying to meet course deadlines during lockdown and we wanted food. Posted in a ladies group. Got biryani and aftari from 3 different aunties 3 days in a row for free
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Faizan 🇵🇸
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we need a wholesome moments of 2020 thread!! quote this with ur top wholesome moment from the year.
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kjo did a disservice to this song by putting it in a little box next to the credits because it would’ve been an absolute delight to watch full screen
kudmayi from rocky & rani has to be one of my favourite wedding songs from bollywood in a long time. it’s just magical
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4 years
IBA now has sanitary napkins vending machines? I love that. Takes the pain of hunting down the common room wali aunty and begging her for a pad.
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2 years
Matric/Inter girls were truly always living on the edge. Unn jitna jigra kisi mein nai dekha aj tak. Bunking academy, risking their lives and freedoms for one shoddy date at Main Boulevard Mcdonalds. No one did it like them
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2 years
literally scrapping at the bottom of the barrel with pakistani men 🤢
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9 months
suddenly i’m 12 again
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2 years
let me add though. men think they are the busiest people on the planet. so busy that they can’t communicate and their partner has to be understanding of that. its lowkey emotional abuse and gaslighting to think that asking for time out of your hectic schedule is asking for much
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It’s so important for me to date someone who understands my family and house situation, my background, my hectic schedule. Relationship should be at least makes you feel at ease and not uneasy. it’s essential for me that I am assured that no matter who am I,
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11 months
hamza sohail, the man that you are.
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1 year
I have realised the only way to find someone organically is to be introduced through friends or acquaintances so hi I’m in London if any mutual has a single friend
@Arsalan_1998
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1 year
Bumble is honestly the worst app. Why can't I find someone organically? It's not supposed to be this hard
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1 year
#London comes out in support of Palestine
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