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General Category => Economy/Business => Topic started by: bigheadfred on January 15, 2017, 10:27:20 pm

Title: Gandhi flip flops sold on Amazon cause anger in India
Post by: bigheadfred on January 15, 2017, 10:27:20 pm
Flip flops depicting Mahatma Gandhi have been removed from sale on Amazon after they caused anger in India.

The row comes days after the online retailer apologised for selling doormats featuring the Indian flag.

Gandhi, who campaigned for independence from Britain, is widely revered and known as the Father of the Nation.

The Indian embassy in Washington had been told to tell Amazon US to respect Indian feelings, a foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38628499

What is that saying about walking a mile on someone else's shoes?
Title: Re: Gandhi flip flops sold on Amazon cause anger in India
Post by: Sanguine on January 16, 2017, 02:21:04 am
Geniuses at work.
Title: Re: Gandhi flip flops sold on Amazon cause anger in India
Post by: dfwgator on January 16, 2017, 02:27:48 am
Geniuses at work.

Must be the same exec that came up with this idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijIq_-8HJo8
Title: Re: Gandhi flip flops sold on Amazon cause anger in India
Post by: bigheadfred on January 16, 2017, 02:33:23 am
Geniuses at work.

I know, right?

Mahatma Gandhi was a peculiar person. He walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet became quite thick and hard. He often went on hunger strikes, and even when he wasn't on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and became quite thin and frail. He also was a very spiritual person. Finally, because he didn't eat much and when he did his diet was peculiar, he developed very bad breath. He became known as a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
Title: Re: Gandhi flip flops sold on Amazon cause anger in India
Post by: Sanguine on January 16, 2017, 02:58:39 am
I know, right?

Mahatma Gandhi was a peculiar person. He walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet became quite thick and hard. He often went on hunger strikes, and even when he wasn't on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and became quite thin and frail. He also was a very spiritual person. Finally, because he didn't eat much and when he did his diet was peculiar, he developed very bad breath. He became known as a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

Oh, Fred, I read that to the end...and, now I'm not sure I should have.

 :silly:
Title: Re: Gandhi flip flops sold on Amazon cause anger in India
Post by: Wingnut on January 16, 2017, 03:06:08 am
Did he blow out the flip flop
Title: Re: Gandhi flip flops sold on Amazon cause anger in India
Post by: GtHawk on January 16, 2017, 06:06:17 pm
Did he blow out the flip flop
I heard it happened when he stepped on a pop top.
Title: Re: Gandhi flip flops sold on Amazon cause anger in India
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on January 16, 2017, 06:30:11 pm
Oh, Fred, I read that to the end...and, now I'm not sure I should have.

 :silly:
It sounded quite atrocious.  :silly:

Brilliance @bigheadfred sheer brilliance.