Bee-hind the bar...
Amarjot Kaur
It’s about time that bee learnt to ‘beehive’ itself for it’s back to its old ways and there’s nothing stopping this one. Spotted at a ‘Bee Err’ Bar, this one distributed after-party invitations to almost everyone at the inn on an address that read: Bee-52, take the shot cut! Now, that all had gathered at bee’s humble abode, former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen became the topic of interest, especially after her video on Instagram went viral. What followed later was a fight over sexist jokes and bee’s been beaten ‘black and yellow’!
“It’s funny how people resort to violence. I feel like filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who was slapped. His crew was assaulted and the set of Padmavati was vandalised by Karni Sena because they thought the movie is distorting the history of queen Padmini,” says the bee. Now, that’s called ‘bee’ing ‘bee’fuddled!
Face the book
Echoing bee’s sentiments, Renuka Shahane posted a copious text on her Facebook page tendering support to Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Here’s an excerpt from the post:
“But evidently some people love violence and/or think the film industry is a soft target. If political parties can make capital of bullying film personalities into submission (or extort money from them) by pressurising them just before their big releases & the CM of Maharashtra mediates & therefore indirectly endorses this extra-Constitutionary authority form of bullying, then it opens the floodgates of hate by ” the hurt sentiment” brigade.”
Besides, a Muslim woman, Asma Elhuni, 39, shared the video on Facebook shortly after and was already viewed more 1.3million times where she sat on a table inside Joe’s Coffee Shop in Atlanta and was harassed by a man who allegedly started taking a photo of her and asked her if she had a Green Card. “Not a Green Card, but had he done this to me, I would have showed him the ‘red’ card!” growls the bee in anger.
Tweet trail
Now, that Trump has been voted, Internet memes have now an inspired ‘troll’blazer from Modi-Trump phone calls to Trump hate! Here’s a bee joke:
Q: Why couldn’t Modi talk to Trump if we were in the 60s?
A: He kept mistaking Trump call for trunk call!
However, what really had bee and its hommies at hive in splits was the image of India’s 29th state Telangana’s map that’s ruling the social media space is that it resembles male genitalia. A Reddit user posted the map online and it reached social media websites. The picture is from an event to promote business in the state titled ‘Andhra Pradesh Investment Meet 2017’ that took place in Visakhapatnam recently.
Shivam Vij @DilliDurAst
That’s a map of Andhra Pradesh there. Fyi.
Among many cases that Delhi High Court has solved, there’s a remarkable one that struck the bee. It categorically stated the difference between sandals and chappals— a woman’s footwear without a back strap is a sandal and not a chappal, according to a bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and Najmi Waziri, in a judgment that came earlier this week.
On a lighter one, read this:
Sahil Shah? @SahilBulla
Lawyer: Sir, let’s talk about women’s safety, corruption or try punishing Salman. Let’s do something good..
High Court: Hold my drink...
And if that’s not enough, Lt. Gov of Puducherry Kiran Bedi tweeted a picture with monuments like the Big Ben, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Twin Towers, Statue of Liberty lit up in Tricolour. “Fantastic. Jai Hind,” she wrote with the picture, which went viral. Well actually, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, was the chief guest at the Republic Day parade and world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa in UAE, lit up on Wednesday night in tricolours – saffron, white and green – on the eve of R-Day, being the only building outside India which lit up in tricolour.
“Come, take this pen. Colour me in saffron, white, and green,” asks the bee as it sips on some more Bee Err, while everybody else seems as motivated as the man who drew the Japanese flag!
Tube tales
Besides, Salman Khan said that the black buck died a natural death and has been trolled on social media ever since. “Yea, read this tweet: Bullets are made of metal that we get from nature, so natural death,” laughs the bee! Never mind. For those of you who are following the Punjab polls, check out Rahul Kanwal’s Twitter post—a video of Capt Amarinder Singh fighting Badals and AAP in hilariously Bollywood style. “Make me a Patiala Peg, someone!” the bee shouts!
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