As someone once wrote... "A Pendoos home is his castle" Well maybe not a castle but more likely a semi-detached in Forest Gate...
Unfortunately my folks are going a bit Ikea, but that doesn't stop them from having a 4 foot knitted Darjeeling wall-hanging, right next to the print of Constable's "The Haywain". Steel plates, suitcases and Hindu shrine tucked away in the wardrobe, all mandatory of course.
Anu Mitra
Hello fellow pendoos and pendis I am proudly pendoo - we have everything except the outside kitchen sink in our house. Literally. You need a picture of my sofa with plastic on it - after 8 years i should add. And what about my gallon drum of corn oil. Now thats propa pendoo. Or the home grown methi/ coriander in the garden (or green house if you're really posh) where do I send the pics..... you should have a ultimate pendoo championship tournament. smit
ps. nice one for the site. love it.
Smit Acharya
A Good way to spot a Pendoo is if they have a coffee table in each corner of the lounge. Also, velvet wallpaper.....Burgundy...........with beige printed sofas.....
Raj
Well - 1. the classic suitcase saga - every pendoo has to have the suitcases on top of the cupboards or the home could never be the same. 2. steel plates to eat your food in 3. a glass milk bottle/plastic bottle near the toilet for those who want a thorough wash - pindoo stylee... i'll get back to you when i think of some more...
Miss P Matharu
Hello my fellow pendoo, I was forwarded your web address by a mate of mine...that is some seriously funny shit....I guess I must be a pendoo, cos i got the remote controls wrapped in cling-film too. Anyway, keep up the good work!!!!
Gurminder Sanghera
Just a few more suggestions for your Pendoo Gallery. 1. Suite cases on top of the cupboards. 2. Dinning chairs with cling film on. 3. Sunday market shopping spree.
Noaman Tareen
Wicked site but u forgot the pendoo style carpets and the artificial flowers rather than the real ones. Truly us indians are pendoos by nature. Give it up all fellow pendoos!
Jasbir Sanger
How to spot a pendoo house:
1. on entering look out for the thick plastic runner in the hall laid ontop of the carpet; 2. dinner is served in top-of-the-range, easily recognisable melamine cookware, brought over from India/Pakistan etc; 3. check out the garden, tastefully landscaped in large concrete slabs; 4. well off pendoo's are easily recognised by their double glazed windows, etched with large red flowers, and draped with 'welvet' curtains 5. sofa's are narrow, in burgundy, patterned and the seats lift up for storage space underneath 6. bedroom wardrobes contain 'boxed gifts' ready for recycling at the next pendoo wedding 7. notice any pendoo soft furnishings ('crochet' effect square covers laid on sofa heads and arm rests)
Sajdaa
Some more Pendoo classics, 1) All rooms have bare light bulbs without lamp-shades, 2) House has to have a through-lounge, extention AND a three bedroom breeze-block, double glazed 'shed' at the back of the garden, fully equiped with hot/cold water, propane stove, 3 phase electricity, spare bed and second hand snooker table. Love to see more pictures,..
HV (Ilford)
What about the plastic lino in the hallway and hundreds of chupple and shoes in a pile by the front door. I have lost many a pair of shoes when visiting these pendoos houses !
B
Hello My name is Saby and for some rather strange reason I felt a real sense of unity reading through this rather cool website)...But (and you knew there was going to be a but) how oh how could you forget the bothal, and you know wot i mean if you have ever been for a s**t. Perhaps you could title it The bothal - Never leave home without it....
Saby Singh
Every pendoo must have a gallery of wedding/degree photos draping all four walls of the front room. A doyley or piece of white cloth covering the TV and VCR to avoid dust. The pure pendoo must also have the good ol' plastic floor covering in the hallway of the house. The garage round the back (or side) is not used to park the car in, it used to store anything and everything, from cartons of lentil to plastic trays and cutlery left over from a wedding 5 years ago... The good ol' Taj Mahal coffee table, everyone must have at least owned one, or know someone who did.
Sukh Singh, Gravesend
Hey come on guys, things have moved you know. Not all Pendoos are strange backward people. Today, they have satellite TV - permanently on and fixed to Zee TV, B4U, Star, etc, etc!
Raj V
Fab site! Sadly it is true we all have a little Pendoo in us the Westerners included. Don't forget the Top Loading JVC Video in working order complete with Cloth/Lace cover and an array of old Video Cassettes everyone has at least one copy of 'Sholay'
Kiran Thakur
1. Private number plate: e.g: RAV1 2. Goldleaf tissue box on the back shelf of the car. 3. Carriage clock on top of the T.V 4. Circular tube light in the living room. 5. Plastic hallway lino (clear ) 6. Plastic strips( coloured )over the kitchen entrance. 7. Cloth over sinktap.
Ashish Patel
Don't forget the plastic sheet over the cheap lace table over the really expensive dining table that noone ever eats off!
Angela
1) Any invitation to any event must be sent with the words "And Family" on the envelope. 1a) Only use 2nd class postage stamps. (See (1)). 2) Guests must remove shoes as they enter the house and store them in the porch. 3) Owning a pan big enough to cook a curry for up to 200 people. 4) Using a dab of red nail polish to mark your stainless steel pans and utensils. 5) Having enough spare bedding and pillows to facilitate a sleepover for at least 20 guests. 6) Recycling unwanted presents and gift by giving them away at other functions. 7) Having an over grown money plant circling the perimeter of the ceiling of the thru-lounge, suspended by masonry nails and white cotton thread. 8) Hanging Calcutta leaves outside on top of the front door. 9) Owning (and using all at the same time on the weekend) at least 3 x 'Corningware' and 'pyrex' dinner sets imported from USA. 10) Having a comprehensive collection of family weddings, anniversaries and birthday parties on VHS. 11) Taking 4/6 week holidays to India to visit every single member of the community at their home.
Sanjay Makwana
Taking... (unofficially) carrier bags from supermarkets when no one is looking and stuffing them in with your shopping and using them as bin liners for all your dustbins in your home....
Nelly P (middleton)
Here are a few other typical pendoo habits: 1.There are hundreds of shoes in a pile by your front door 2.Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still shout loudly down the phone 3.You have plastic flowers on your mantelpiece 4.You have an ashtray, elephant, camel or taj mahal that is made of marble 5.You have a cushion with lots of tiny mirrors sewn onto it 6.You call an older person you never met before "uncle." Keep up the good work
The team at www.easterndates.com
