What do you do when you’re sitting in a meeting, bored out
of your skull?
Do you try to think of your favourite piece of music? Do
crossword puzzles in your head? Try to think up stories to write? Plan your
next vacation?
How about watching porn on your mobile phone?
If you’re an Indian politician, that sounds about right.
Two Indian members of the legislative assembly of the state
of Karnataka (that’s where Bangalore is) were caught watching porn right there
in the legislative assembly on a mobile phone belonging to a third minister...on
TV, no less, so they couldn’t even claim it was a conspiracy or something
similar. I’ve no idea what the porn clip in question was, but I assume it
was...uh...compelling enough that they couldn’t wait.
Normally, we Indians aren’t that hung up on our so-called
leaders’ sexual peccadilloes, but this being a season of elections, the episode
has made Scandal with a capital S; most of all because those ministers are from
the Hindunazi Bharatiya Janata Party, which never ceases to preach morality at
the rest of us. The BJP is doing some ludicrous self-justification, and the three involved ministers have been compelled to resign, though they’ll of course be quietly reinstated when the heat dies down.
The thing I’m wondering is, just what were these characters
planning to do after watching the porn? Were they planning to perhaps go to the
bathroom and jack off? Or maybe...do it right there under the table if nobody
was watching?
I think I’d better stop imagining now.
The CEO of our municipal public transportation system got into trouble a while back for cruising gay porn on his lunch breaks on the city computers.
ReplyDeleteIt just shows such poor judgment. I mean, what in the hell?