Trouser malfunction-3 .....Was this a punishment by the God?

Scenario-1: It is 23^rd June, 2010.The ‘Telegraph (UK) headlines scream.“ Lord Mayor bans "intrusive and outdated" Christian prayers before council meetings. A Lord Mayor has banned the traditional Christian prayers at the start of council meetings, calling the practice “"outdated, unnecessary and intrusive".

Nick Britten wrote further: “Mr (Colin) Hall, who has just taken over the mayorship in Leicester, said the “majority” of councilors and city council staff were not practicing Christians therefore there was little point in having the prayers” and also that “ "I am delighted to confirm that I will be exercising my discretion as Lord Mayor to abolish the outdated, unnecessary and intrusive practice. 

Mr Hall declined to comment (on the reactions from the Church) but the Deputy Lord Mayor, Robert Wann, said …..: “We have many faiths within Leicester and we respect all faiths accordingly. Equally we respect people with no faith and on this occasion the Lord Mayor has decided not to have prayers and we will abide by that."


Leicester is a huge population with large minority groups. The council members have familiar sounding names like Hussein Suleman, Manish Sood, Ramila Shah, Veejay Pael, Rashmikant Joshi, Piara Singh & Harshad Bhavsar! This will give a glimpse of minority settlement.

Scenario-2: On the same day, 23-6-2010, another paper The Mail Online (UK) headlines scream in the mayor's support:

“What's God got to do with it?' Atheist Mayor bans traditional Christian prayers before council meetings. It quoted Mr Hall saying that  'I consider that religion, in whatever shape or form, has no role to play at all in the conduct of council business.”

Scenario-3

A week later, on 30th June, 2010. The same ‘Telegraph’ (UK) headlines scream:

“Lord Mayor's trousers fall down.  A lord mayor has apologised after his trousers fell down during a visit to a local library".

Scenario 4: On 1^st July, the Church mouse blog post headline screams:

“New proof of God's existence - Mayor bans council prayers, then his trousers fall down in public” He adds : Clearly the Lord was not so impressed, as he has now humbled the mighty Mayor in possibly the most embarrassing incident Mouse has ever heard of for a public official.

 

It further says: "..Mouse has seen the mighty ha(n)d of God at work in this.  Surely this is proof that God intervenes in the world. ”

 

Let the headlines scream. Let the people take whosoever's side, but one thing is clear. Councillor Hall means business. No fuss. he knows where to put his foot down. And also knows where to lend his weight. ( He weighs nearly 100kg)


And believe me, the God had no hand in his trousers succumbing to gravity. It was his weight loss effort. If he has his way, there will be hundreds and hundreds of incidents of pants falling down on the streets of Leicester.


Not convinced?  Read further., why his trousers fell down. 

 Scenario 5: 4^th  July, 2010: It is reported that the Indian-origin Labour MP Keith Vaz has gifted a belt to the Lord Mayor of Leicester, whose pants became loose and fell down few days ago. vaz said: "I hope this small gift will help him in his civic duties.
Vaz has known the Lord Mayor since he was in his teens, said: "I am delighted that the Lord Mayor has gone on a diet. This is something that we all aspire to do but none of us would have expected such dramatic consequences."


Councilor Hall has started a city-wide campaign for physical fitness.

Called 3x30 ( see the logo), people who sign up will be pledging to make that change to their lifestyles by exercising 3 x 30 minutes a week. The 3 x 30 Pledge will  motivate people to exercise,  through discounts to the local Council Leisure Facilities , receiving incentives , prize draws  and so on.

Once you achieve 3 x 30 minutes of exercise and hit specific milestones you will receive incentives such as a pedometer, exercise DVD, signed football shirts/tickets, water bottles etc. There will also be prizes for the 100th/200th pledger and so on. Leicester City Council has been successful in securing funding to deliver free swimming lessons to Adults across the City. 

Lord mayor has set himself a target to reduce his weight by 3 stones ( 18 kg) from the current weight of 16 stones (97 kg )  ! He follows strict diet, does exercises and to attend his meetings, goes walking very often.

How he forgot to get the pants altered for his new slimmer waist or to fasten them with a belt is a mystery. may be he was busy wearing his official  heavy 18-carat gold chain set in velvet with a medallion, dated 1867

Is not this  fun  that an innocently falling pair of trousers has given best publicity to a  right meaning mayor , who has chosen to express his views on church and prayers , on the need to keep fit and be active.

  

Both his actions will make the city a wonderful place to live with health and harmony.

Councilor Colin Hall, the Lord Mayor sure knows that “There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying”

Trouser Malfunction-2: - (read wardrobe malfunction) -an interesting phenomena

"Wardrobe malfunction" is a term used to describe the accidental exposure of an intimate part of the body due to a defect in the dress.

We are indebted to Justin Timberlake who used it for the first time when in a February 2004 incident that resulted into  the "unintentional" baring of Janet Jackson's bust.It is said this sister of Michael Jackson did not hurry up to cover it up.

This phrase became so popular that it was named as a word that created the maximum  influence on the language for that particular year.

This phrase is also applied to an incident when some part of the dress is NOT removed, like  in 2005 when George W. Bush forgot  to remove his gloves before shaking hands with his Slovak guests.

This subject is photographers' delight although its victims are embarrassed a lot.

But often it is also a publicity stunt. Directly or indirectly, intentionally or otherwise, the opportunity to the publicity is is encashed.

In case of Lord Mayor whose trousers fell down as he stood up to speak at a function, he tweeted that I was wondering how to give publicity to my diet plan and this has happened unintentionally). It is not understood why did not choose to wear a belt or have some trousers altered - more so when he prefers to walk down the streets on many of his engagements in a bid to improve the awareness of weight reduction.

His fitness guru also tweeted that fact that his trainee's falling trousers are a testimony to her fitness programme. Her books have very catchy titles, as we can see here!

But the picture I enjoyed most about ward robe malfunction was the  one taken in the 1950s.

It  is a famous photo of actress Jayne Mansfield leaning over a table at which the legendary actress Sophia Loren was sitting. The photo was famous not just because accidentally Jayne exposed her bust , but  more because of the incredulous look on Loren's face as she sensed that something wrong has happened.

Enjoy - i.e. Sophie's highly expressive eyes! 

Trouser Malfunction-1: The dieting Lord Mayor's belt-less trousers fall down before students!!

The Lord Mayor of Leicester has apologised after his trousers fell down during a visit to a local library on Tuesday.

Mr Colin Hall, the Lord Mayor , who is required to be addressed as The Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Leicester  as per the protocol, & wears the 18 carat gold chain of office on black velvet was standing up to give a vote of thanks at a civic function  organised by an education network at Southfields library and pupils from three local schools were present at the function.

His spokesman said: "The Lord Mayor of Leicester, Councillor Colin Hall, attended a function at a local library yesterday where he suffered an unfortunate problem with his trousers. They did not stand up with him - but fell down.

"He was not wearing a belt and the trousers came loose and fell. The Lord Mayor has offered his deepest apologies to those attending the event for any offence caused by the accident."

The council confirmed that Mr Hall recently hired a fitness guru with the goal of losing three stone ( or 19 kg ) from his 16 stone (about 100 kg weight) by next May, when his 12-month term expires.

He walks down to many functions 

as a part of his weight loss regimen.  

O

n his twitter message he said:  Two days ago, I was wondering how to publicise the progress of my diet. I hear, though, this issue may be resolved very soon. 

   

                                           

His fitness guru however 

was enjoying the publicity she got. She tweeted : "Very funny to hear that Leicester's Lord Mayor Colin Hall's trousers fell down at a public event. My diet is obviously working well! Bril!l" 

Majority of others who tweeted, said  : "This is the best news headline I have ever read."

Cartoon ( with thanks to the copyright holders) 

What a kick? Why not to do this in India!!

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is a truly brave man. 

He has suspended yesterday the Nigerian football team, which failed to win a single match! 

Perhaps, because, football is a great uniting and bonding factor in this land of diversity which has more than 300 tribes and customs.

The president also wants an audit of the current World Cup organising committee. 

In past, Nigerian fans are known to have  become so angry at thier team's failure that they broke glasses of the  team bus and hand to be  prevented from attacking  the dressing rooms with the help of tear gas shells. 

Their team, the Super Eagles, has earned the new name, as a joke:  the Super Chickens. 

The ban is to "enable Nigeria to reorganise its football".The Nigerian Football Federation will  be dissolved  Nigeria were knocked out in the group stages without winning a game. 

  

To Mr president Goodluck Jonathan, we say : Jonathan, Goodluck!!

India’s record world Championships is nothing to crow about. in past there was Milkha Singh in the 1958 who won 400 m gold. An occasional Rathore, Saina or Bindra, that is all. Take any game, sports or athletic event and we are absent. Our contingents have more non-playing members from various govt. depttt.s than the players! 

Oh, we need not forget Kabaddi and Kho-Kho and are masters because hardly anybody else knows about it.

  

Remedy?

  

One  feels our nation deserves Goodluck actions - Nigerian style. Ban all the sports and sportspersons who have lost shamelessly at major events. 

Ban them for two years. Put them to focussed task of improving. Audit their accounts. Whip the corrupt and unworthy officials.

As for cricketers, additional put a ban on their advt. contracts , so that they can play properly. Or else, levy additional tax on advt income, so that it is not worth earning.  

In other words, do whatever is necessary , whether written in the book or not. 

Compare us with the neighbour!

  

China's participation in Olympics started  in1936 at Berlin Games and performance was pathetic. There were more than one reasons for intervening absence & she  entered Olympics after a break of 30 years at 1984 Los Angeles and - the world was shocked by the sterling performance of its players.  

Reasons?

In August 1995, a ‘Physical Culture Law’ was enacted in China , which created   a series of rules and regulations requiring citizens to enhance their health and physique through sports. 

With the emphasis on young people and children, this programme proposes that everyone engage in at least one sports activity daily, master at least two body-building methods and have a health examination every year. 

 It also requires that physical culture departments at all levels help individuals to create health-building activities that fit in with their work and school commitments. 

The National Physical Fitness Programme has set a number of targets to be reached in a timely manners, such as  making 37% of China’s total population (that’s 481 million citizens) take part in physical exercises regularly, and to have 350,000 popular sports instructors across the country. 

By the end of 2000, there were 30 national  sports associations and over 40,000 grassroots sports associations, plus  3,854 urban sports organisations,and also 2,000 community sports instruction stations with  100,000 part-time sports instructors. 

Since 

the 1990s, large numbers of sports centres have been constructed or reconstructed. In the period 2000- 2002 alone, 1,077 public health building projects were created. There are - unbelievable but true - more than 620,000 stadiums and gymnasiums in

China!

China's sports coaches are rated  on the success of their students. In 2009, for example, Ai Dongmei, a former national marathon champion, and two of her team-mates, were granted  damages from their former coach, who was regularly beating them and had taken away  all their earnings.

Long live such a dedication for sports and for the national pride. Long live the visionaries in Nigeria and China.

Waiting with crossed fingers to be commence soon and end without national disgrace!!

MERA  BHARAT ALREADY MAHAN !!!