This is the part you already know and you might’ve even donated a few spare undies, for what promises to be a very newsworthy cause, if not a worthy one.
While I don’t give a rat’s behind one way or the other about the underwear funda, I do strongly feel that people are free to do what they want, so long as they don’t break the law and inconvenience the general population, and the Shri Rama Sene is hence guilty on both counts.
Coming back to underwear, I was thinking of how I’d find it really tough to part with my comfy boxers and other underwear, even it was for a cause like the one mentioned here, simply because most guys treat their boxers as good friends. These boxers are worn and ‘broken-in’ (pardon the expression) until it’s time to get new ones, and then they’re washed neatly and used to swob the floor or used to dust the window sill or the television, and later on, given a decent burial in the backyard.
The very thought of mailing one of these trustworthy garments to someone who offends my sensibilities is blasphemous.
Added to which, my laziness knows no bounds, and I am not enthusiastic about the idea of packing underwear neatly and then sending it to some address. However, I was thinking of how I’d be keen on sending underwear if I had an easier way to do it, and if it weren’t something that I was going to regret having to part ways with.
Voila! The idea of send undies dot com was born!
Please continue reading if you are ok with being grossed out a little. You have been warned.
If the trend for sending underwear as a form of protest catches on, you can then send underwear to anyone from anywhere in the world, simply at the click of a button. This website will enable you to select the underwear. You will be able to choose between various styles of undies, all of which are cheap and crafted exclusively for use during protests.
You will be given a choice of colour and you can select between fresh new undies and old, worn and unwashed undies. There is a possibility that undies in different states of vintage, so to speak, can be provided; I’ll let your imagination do the rest for you.
Once you pick your underwear to be sent, simply tell the website which address to deliver the said underwear to, pay for the entire process using a credit card payment gateway, and your protest has been lodged, your underwear has been sent.
I’m too lazy to send my friendly neighbourhood boxers to the bald dude, and consequently too lazy to create the website as well. Someone who reads this and is enterprising enough to make it happen has my blessings. Please give me due credit, and send some gifts my way.
I’d prefer if you didn’t send me any undies. KTHXBYE!
PS – Subbu suggested something less cumbersome and instead of the forms, wanted to have a click counter which is similar to the ‘feed a child with a click’ campaign. To add on further to his suggestion, maybe the send undies click-counter can be open for a while for people to click, and then those undies can be delivered to whoever is at the receiving end of the protest, after the counter has expired.
On the 14th of Feb, 2009, an overwhelming response from all over India will be providing one Mr. Mutalik with a lifetime worth of neatly packaged pink undies. Who knows he might even be singing along an old Aerosmith tune: “Pink it’s not my new obsession”
I do strongly feel that people are free to do what they want, so long as they don’t break the law and inconvenience the general population, and the Shri Rama Sene is hence guilty on both counts.
Apologies for the pedantry, but that bit up there needs a little re-structuring, no?
And most of these kids with their moral high ground would be better off knowing that they must be atleast 25 years of age to consume alcohol legally in this nation of ours. They get what they deserve.
@Tall Dude,
I was initially planning on writing a post following the aftermath of the pink underwear delivery to the Shri Rama Sene office, but I’m too lazy to do so now.
@Lebarace,
Agreement, it needs to read better. But then again, when I have gazillions of things to do, and updating my website is one among them, I can live with the fact that there are some semantical issues with what I’m penning down, so long as the thoughts I convey are not garbled completely.
I thought the legal drinking age was 21, and that it was enforced state-wise. Can you point me to some relevant link to look it up? Thanks.
You know you have consumed too much american pop culture when you internalise their laws and regulations. Next you ll be crying pre numps, and first amendment and restraining orders.
Isn’t this what the Rama Sene are fighting agaist, this mindless consumption and regurgitation? Now if only violence solved everything.
As far as sources, a quick google search.
@Lebarace,
I think being able to drink in a country where it isn’t against the laws isn’t really about embracing American Pop culture.
I agree with what you say about curbing underage drinking. Abroad, I’d to carry my passport wherever I went to drink to prove that I was above the legal age.
Also, if you’re so against change, why don’t you please get off the internet and send me snail mail instead?
Sending undies reminds me of ‘The Big Lebowski’, where The Dude’s friend puts a bag full of undies instead of a bag that’s supposed to contain money to be paid to alleged kidnappers.
Who or what does “Lebarace” refer to? I thought the person was referring to ‘Liberace’. BTW, if I hadn’t heard of Liberace on television, there’s *NO* way I’d have known it was pronounced ‘Li-buh-raa-chee’