"Deli Mike" (Crazy Mike) - the nickname of a temperamental Airbus A340-300 (TC-JDM) that flew for Turkish Airlines. The name came from its “DM” tail letters Delta Mike, but after all its antics, the technicians at Turkish Technics flipped it to “Deli Mike” (“crazy Mike” in Turkish).
Right after delivery it started acting up with weird electrical ghosts that never fully went away. Cabin lights would flick on and off by themselves, emergency exit signs would light up one by one like a Mexican wave, and passenger reading lights often responded to the wrong buttons. Call buttons would randomly chime, the master caution would go off for no reason, and the plane just seemed to have a mind of its own. One engineer even swore he “fixed” some instruments just by patting the door and saying, “What happened to you, big man?”
They swapped parts, reset computers, and rewired systems, but the quirks stuck around. The technicians’ verdict summed it up perfectly:
“Deli Mike can fly halfway around the world if she wants to. If she doesn’t feel like it, she won’t even move one metre.”
A classic reminder that even the most advanced machines can develop a personality of their own.
This is who the Thar was designed for: for civilised balding dads to slip out with their friends on an expedition; not for landlawda dehatis to run over kids in tier-6 cities.
Just for a second entertain the possibility, that this generation is able to visualise a country…that my dumbass generation and the one above us forgot. We idealistically thought of it, and forgot it quick. Distracted by life and prosperity. Maybe it’s because they’ve grown up documenting and broadcasting their entire life. So they’ve had a good look at themselves during formative years. Assessed their values, albeit to showcase them. Which we weren’t able to do. So they are possibly more sure of themselves at this age, which seems completely alien to us. It’s possible.
thinking "haha this tall idiot can only solve math problems if they're about fruits and vegetables" and then realizing that this is also how I was taught to solve math problems