The Offtopic Thread (Archive 1)

[rvisharma]

Did Rajdeep Sardasai fall for it? It looked like he did the video knowingly, as a joke.
Putting / hiding two camera's otherwise is not easy, especially at the perfect angle.

He must be paid to do the video to speak on paid news.

 

[amish]

LOL in short its paid news to prove all Indian news channels show paid news.
Generally people are not supposed to believe paid news!
So that makes this video a paradox!!
Since its paid for, it proves paid news exist!
But since paid news should not be believed, it proves paid news does not exist!

 

[Sushubh]

I think he did it for the lulz and did not realize that he ended up looking like a dick.

 

[mhsabir]

Millenium Post's ahem response
http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=58761

Then he goes begging from door to door for a feature to be published on him as a popular journalist and six-times Mr Canada entrant. Supposedly Millennium Post sends a reporter on his request, probably as a courtesy as such mindless items are a staple of our entertainment pages – we are desperate to fill up column space with Kim Kardashian’s booty and photoshopped pecs of Mr Jones scrawny torso, because we are terrified of libel cases if we publish the wrong kind of gossip on Bollywood stars. And Indian readers still salivate at the display of gora log in various states of undress over their morning cuppa, even if it be Mr Jones’ obviously fake and if you pardon me, disgustingly pale and ungroomed abs in these days of bronzed and waxed perfection. The poor reporter from Millennium Post giggles over the ‘Canadian Journalist’ with his phoren accent and charming wit trying to pull a fast one on the gullible Indian public and is then offered up as a prime example of corrupt and unethical Indian journalism! What Stewart forgets to mention is that the poor reporter did not receive a single penny from Jones nor did she ask him for a dime. When he asks her will you write paid news, she asks him in turn in a bewildered voice, ‘If you pay me?’ but the inflection of surprised questioning and disbelief in her voice is ham-handedly edited out so as to show that she is confirming that she will write his article only if he pays her.Ironically, he then picks up the newspaper to show her the article, which has already been published! So is he trying to inveigle her into taking a payment for a second article. Why didn’t he pay the poor reporter for the story on camera, she seemed all in a daze at Jones haranguing her and would hardly have caught on. Is there any proof at all that you paid her? If you paid some foxy fixer instead who took you as another clueless American trying to comment on a complex political system and media that you haven’t the faintest idea about, and wanting a bit of self-promotion in the process, well the joke is on you Mr Jones. He took you for a ride, as such amoral middlemen are wont to do. You don’t need to pay $ 2500 to get your PR piece published Mr Jones, Rs 25000 to any PR agency would do. In dollar terms, I guess you can buy space in American newspapers as cheaply. And a rather goofy PR piece is all it really was. If you wanted to ‘expose’ Millennium Post or any other paper by publishing your ape-like bodybuilder pose, shouldn’t you have paid the Millennium Post reporter herself rather than some unnamed third party. And couldn’t you have chosen a slightly more entertaining subject? Canadians are the salt of the earth, but pardon my bluntness, they are not exactly the life of the party.

 

[Nishant]

 

[Nishant]

Co-pilot was welcoming the passengers on the plane shortly after take off.

"Thank you for flying with us this morning. The weather is....." When suddenly he starts screaming while he is still on the loud speakers.

"Oh my God!" "OMG" "OMG" This is going to hurt....Its burning"

A ghostly Silence reigned, He gets back on the microphone talking to the passengers.

"I sincerely apologise for the incident but the air hostess just dropped a very hot cup of coffee on my lap... you should see my pants from the front"

A passenger replies, "Why don't you come here and see our PANTS FROM BEHIND"!

 

[genie]

 

[Manish24]

don't know where else to post
got this in my primary mail box.
so darn disheartening https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/ensure-a-stronger-road-safety-law-and-introduce-it-in-parliament-roadsafety#share

 

[dupree]

 

[Papu]

lol