Comic Vir Das Draws A Quirky Parallel
Musk introduced on Friday that his $44-billion deal to purchase Twitter was “briefly on maintain (File)
New Delhi:
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk not too long ago created a buzz when he introduced a $44-million bid for microblogging and social networking service Twitter. However on Friday, he shocked everybody by saying that the plan has been placed on maintain.
As jokes and memes began pouring in, comic Vir Das took a dig at Mr Musk by drawing a parallel between the deal and his mom’s bargaining abilities at Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar market.
Mr Das recalled the time when he used to go along with his mom to the market as a toddler and the way she would go to completely different retailers to get a greater deal.
He stated that his mom would enter a store, “like one thing, fake to not prefer it an excessive amount of and drive the value down”.
If the shopkeeper stood his floor, she left the store. That is when “different shopkeepers would see her coming and provide her higher offers on stuff as a result of they’d heard the negotiation”.
Ultimately, Mr Das stated, his mom would return “to the identical store and purchase one thing completely completely different. She simply needed the shopkeeper to confess defeat”.
He then went on so as to add that it was “a bizarre ego trouble between her and the man who barely knew one another”, which, in line with him, “the market liked watching in bitchy neighbour mode”.
Mr Das says the shopkeeper was perplexed, as have been the opposite shopkeepers, and he was merely irritated as a result of not one of the issues she was buying piqued his curiosity. He added that he needed the market to burn down.
Whereas concluding his word, Mr Das made the comparability with Mr Musk. He wrote, “Elon Musk is my mother with rockets.”
Here is Mr Das’s publish:
This is the reason I failed economics. pic.twitter.com/QRfJGr8Swx
— Vir Das (@thevirdas) May 14, 2022
Mr Das’s publish has received the web and left many customers in splits.
Actress Alia Bhatt’s mom, Soni Razan, was amongst those that reacted to the publish. She stated that she remembered doing one thing so related on Mumbai’s Colaba Causeway when she was an adolescent.
That is all in regards to the journey and never the vacation spot … and I bear in mind doing one thing so related on Colaba Causeway as an adolescent. So enjoyable ????????????
— Soni Razdan (@Soni_Razdan) May 14, 2022
One other consumer wrote that this was one thing all Indian moms did and added it was a “related expertise for thus many people and shopkeepers”.
you may properly lengthen this as “Indian Mother”. So, eeriely related expertise for thus many people and shopkeepers.
— Indranil Mandal (@indranilmandal) May 14, 2022
One consumer even shared some knowledge on shopping for footwear.
An incident with related tones.
If you wish to purchase dimension 8 footwear at all times ask for 9 or 10 first. You’ll get the fitting worth as a result of dimension 8 is frequent dimension therfore calls for a premium. Many internet sites do that…. Test it out. Non common sizes sells much less. Due to this fact it is discounted.— Ibrahim Saifuddin Sakarwala (@IbrmSaifudd5) May 14, 2022
One other consumer stated this was “an Indian story”, and went on to relate how they’d spent “9 hours in a purchasing arcade together with her bargaining down two similar units of garments that she needed to present”.
Hahahaha. Fairly!
This appears to be an Indian story
As soon as we spent NINE hours in a purchasing arcade, together with her bargaining down 2 similar units of garments that she needed to present. Did not purchase lastly
The aunt haggled in Vogue Road, determined to not purchase when she obtained the value down
— Bhartiy (@BhartiyAbroad) May 14, 2022
One consumer additionally commented on an aunt who “walks into the store, exhibits them the costs of one thing on-line, and has them falling over to match it”. The consumer added, “Ikea, Nike, Costco, Harrods – she has negotiated in every single place.”
My Masi is grasp at this. She actually walks into the store, exhibits them the costs of one thing on-line, and has them falling over to match it. Ikea, Nike, CostCo, Harrods – she has negotiated in every single place.
— Feroza Anjum (@AnjumFeroz1) May 14, 2022
Mr Musk introduced on Friday that his $44-billion deal to purchase Twitter was “briefly on maintain pending particulars supporting calculation that spam/pretend accounts do certainly characterize lower than 5 per cent of customers”, solely to shortly add that he was “nonetheless dedicated to acquisition”.
