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Feb 18, 2017, 78 tweets

This made my day. Woman who introduced a bill to curb wedding expenditure came in a chartered plane to her own wedding that had 1 lac guests

This made my day. Man who says visit temples instead of cutting birthday cake enjoyed birthday cake-cutting himself. patnadaily.com/index.php/news…

This made my day. The Supreme Court that ordered the govt to not make Aadhar mandatory, then passes an order that makes Aadhaar mandatory.

This made my day. Man cautions against stealing electricity, at a function run on stolen electricity.

This made my day. Man who said he was afraid to speak his mind for fear of losing his job tells others to speak their mind and be fearless.

This made my day. Man who alleges illegality of a TV channel had his own TV channel indulging in the same illegality.

This made my day. Man recently accused of hit-and-run counsels others on safe-driving.

This made my day. Man uses an image of an area destroyed by coal mining, to promote coal mining.

This made my day. Man who asks others to gift books instead of bouquets himself gifts bouquets instead of books.

This made my day. An explosive report of a scam perpetrated by a man is tweeted by the man himself.

This made my day. Man hired by a client in a defamation case turns witness against the client.

This made my day. A party that has taken advantage of its dynastic connection accuses someone of taking advantage of his dynastic connection

This made my day. Man who says Indian courts should stay out of Muslim personal law matters now says Indian courts should decide on them.

This made my day. Man who happily told the court to not deprecate a 1400 year-old practice is now happy that the court deprecated it.

This made my day. Man whose govt said we don't even have right over our bodies says his govt wanted #RightToPrivacy as a fundamental right.

This made my day. NGO that promotes kindness to animals & Veganism, and whose activist was thrashed for this, now promotes slow slaughter.

This made my day. Man who censored kissing, sex, nudity, even the word 'Intercourse', now presents a film that promises all of the above.

This made my day. Channel whose anchor was caught fixing interview & lauding the tutoring with a phrase now runs a show with the SAME phrase

This made my day. Man who cautions against sending libel notice to a blabbering critic, himself sent a libel notice to a blabbering critic.

This made my day. An article that preached journalistic integrity and punishment for plagiarised content, itself had plagiarised content.

This made my day. Man who says those who go to the West to study come back as spies, himself sent three of his children to the West to study

The same people now vilifying the Bullet Train had their own govt endorse and sanction it, despite urgent need for normal rail infra upgrade

This made my day. Man who now screams Bullet Train is evil was silent when his own Prime Minister and Railways Minister sanctioned it.

This made my day. Man who angrily called for a Sangh-Mukt Bharat will soon be pleasantly calling up on the Sangh Chief.

This made my day. Man who asks others to say no to crackers swaggered through a cracker boulevard at his own wedding. (h/t @AmulButterBaby)

This made my day. Man who forcefully says no to fireworks enjoyed a farrago of fireworks display himself (h/t @ShashiTharoor @CrimeMasterV2)

This made my day. Man who is fine with hurting animals gleefully accepted the Person Of The Year Award from PETA. (h/t @SeCoolar_Right)

This made my day. Man who mocked the taking down of a report by a media house is silent when his own report is taken down by his media house

This made my day. Woman tells other women to boycott tweeting for a day, through a tweet dispatched on the same day.

This made my day. NGO promoting safety of animals on Diwali was promoting their slow slaughter on Eid.

This made my day. Woman who taunts her former colleague on nepotism herself got hired as "Roy's Boys", in a company WITHOUT an HR department

This made my day. Man who forces children to take an oath to not burst firecrackers enjoys bursting them with his child. (h/t @Dev_Fadnavis)

This made my day. The Supreme Court lashes out at the government for following the Supreme Court order. (h/t @GappistanRadio)

This made my day. Woman who warns others of suffering caused through fake news makes them suffer through fake quotes. (h/t @TrueIndology)

This made my day. Man who says Bullet Train Project is an exercise in vanity promised, permitted, and planned the Bullet Train Project.

This made my day. Man who asks others to gift books instead of bouquets himself gifts bouquets instead of books.

This made my day. Party that wants to stop crop burning in Punjab, burns crop in Punjab.

This made my day. Party that wants others to know their legacy doesn't know its own legacy. ia600600.us.archive.org/10/items/harpe… (h/t @iAnkurSingh)

This made my day. A rating agency that didn't upgrade India EVEN ONCE during the ten years of the UPA, was in fact waiting for the UPA to leave so it could appreciate its work and upgrade India.

This made my day. Man who doesn't believe in caste is a proud janehudhari brahmin.

This made my day. Man who once called the sitting Prime Minister of India a Eunuch, and refused to apologise for it, now says he is pained by the new low in politics.

This made my day. Woman who has done nothing to reopen Cinemas banned because of Islamic Fundamentalism in her own state, congratulates the opening of Cinemas by an Islamic Fundamentalist state.

This made my day. Woman honoured with PETA Hero to Animals award releases a video four days later on how to be a hero by roasting a poor hapless animal. (h/t @Anand_G9)

This made my day. Man who ran a Recovery Day campaign demanding accountability of 854 cr looted by @ArvindKejriwal finally gets his Recovery as he is nominated to the Rajya Sabha by @ArvindKejriwal himself. (images courtesy @ajaymaken, @KapilMishra_IND)

This made my day. Woman who believes that God created the earth, animals, and man; that the messenger of God flew on the back of a winged horse; and further believes in a holy book that negates Darwin & Evolution in toto, mocks someone who doesn't believe in Darwin and Evolution.

This made my day. A Tamilian named Stalin asks Tamilians to give Tamil names to their children.

This made my day. Man who derides others for wearing expensive clothes, and coined the phrase 'suit-boot ki sarkar' because of it, himself wears a Rs 68,000 Burberry jacket. (h/t @Iyervval)

This made my day. An affidavit on solid waste management filed by the government is itself considered solid waste by the Supreme court.

This made my day. Party that castigates the ruling govt for keeping military equipment sale particulars a secret, had itself kept them a secret when it was the ruling govt. (h/t @Iyervval)

This made my day. Man who ran a malicious campaign against a person for 15 years pleads with that same person to stop a malicious campaign against him.

This made my day. Channel that lashed other media houses for not crediting its journalist in their coverage of her story, is lashed by the same journalist for not crediting her in its coverage of her story.

This made my day. Journalist who lectures on his mission to fight the spread of fake news is shortly going to apologise for spreading fake news. livelaw.in/tv-journalist-…

This made my day. Man resolutely against piracy himself pirated someone else's work for his party symbol. (h/t @KiranKS)

This made my day. Man who told the court he is NOT a Hindu now writes a book titled Why I AM a Hindu. (h/t @prakash_venkit) indiankanoon.org/doc/45740218/

This made my day. Man who said Evolution was a complete lie because no one in the jungle saw a monkey turn into man is chief guest at #NationalScienceDay.

This made my day. Man on left finds what the man on right is wearing outlandish.

This made my day. Man who said Dr Manmohan Singh was neither a sardar nor asardar now says he is not only a sardar but also asardar. (h/t @Being_Humor)

This made my day. Man whose party and its supporters are currently turning apoplectic with rage at today's decision to grant religious status to one Hindu sect, had earlier not only demanded similar status himself, he now also agrees with today's decision.
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This made my day. Men assemble to reduce pollution, by burning 50,000 kilograms of wood. (h/t @bhak_sala)

This made my day. Man boasting about how he can secretly record conversations using a hidden camera, himself gets secretly recorded on a hidden camera. (h/t @waynesmith1971) #CambridgeAnalytica

This made my day. Family billionaire who mocked Indians for complaining about price rise with the price of an ice-cream complains about the price of a cup of tea. (h/t @pokershash)

This made my day. Folks who implored others to delete an App because of security concerns ended up deleting their own App because of the same concerns.

This made my day. Organisation that demanded the culprit responsible for the CBSE paper leak be arrested, finds its own member arrested for the same.

This made my day. Woman who wants to penalise and regulate the spread of fake news herself spreads fake news.

This made my day. Men on a day-long hunger strike break for sumptuous lunch. (h/t @dhanyarajendran) thenewsminute.com/article/hunger…

This made my day. Men stuff themselves silly on chhola bhaturas before embarking on a five-hour hunger strike. (h/t @gurujeeGayabh, @INCIndia)

This made my day. Supreme Court petition to regulate the powers of the Chief Justice of India was heard and dismissed by a bench that included the Chief Justice of India himself. barandbench.com/sc-petition-co…

This made my day. Man who is currently leading the charge for an Impeachment Motion against a judge defended a judge against an Impeachment Motion himself, later adding that politicians should keep out of impeaching judges as Impeachment Motions are a farce. (h/t @It66703591)

This made my day. Police put up a WANTED poster on the wall of an absconder's home even as he stands right beside them indulging in general chit-chat. indianexpress.com/article/india/…

This made my day. Man who is enraged and mad as hell by the adoption of a historical site by a private company was Chairman of the committee that wanted to compel private companies to adopt historical sites. (h/t @bvijayrao) ndtv.com/india-news/bef…

This made my day. Party that mocks and lampoons the adoption of a historical monument by a private company had gone to great lengths to formulate rules that included adoption of historical monuments by private companies. (h/t @KanchanGupta) pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintR…

This made my day. Man who is the holy spirit and guiding light for Communists who famously said "Let the stock market go to hell!", himself invested in the stock market. swarajyamag.com/elsewhere/8-fa…

This made my day. Man who mocks someone for contesting from two seats, saying he is doing so because he is scared, contested from two seats himself. (h/t @xeqtz)

This made my day. Man who boasts his newspaper will bust fake news has his own newspaper peddling fake news. opindia.com/2018/05/cbi-de…

This made my day. The same two men who now want the date of an Assembly floor test to be extended and shortened respectively, earlier wanted the date of an Assembly floor test to be shortened and extended respectively. (h/t @ravithinkz, @DrAMSinghvi) thehindu.com/2005/03/10/sto…

This made my day. Man who today DEMANDED that an Anglo-Indian SHOULD NOT BE nominated so as to bolster the numbers of the party called for a floor test, had earlier argued that an Anglo-Indian SHOULD BE nominated so as to bolster the numbers of the party called for a floor test.

This made my day. Party that fought tooth & nail AGAINST the Governor calling the single largest party to form the govt, had drafted a plea to fight tooth & nail FOR the Governor calling the single largest party to form the govt. (h/t @anujg) timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/fearing-…

This made my day. Men discuss finding alternatives to plastic while sipping water from plastic bottles. (h/t @nitingooti) maharashtratoday.in/committee-set-…

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