Hunger Striker was secretely eating Big Macs!

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This story has no significance at all but I just had to post it. And I don’t care that it’s from the daily Mail, either
dailymail.co.uk/news/article … food.html#

Nice blanket!

[quote]He was the hunger striker at the centre of one of the longest-running demonstrations ever mounted in Britain.

For weeks Parameswaran Subramaniyan lay in a tent outside the Houses of Parliament as Tamils protested about the plight of relatives under attack in Sri Lanka.

At one stage, his supporters claimed he was ‘critically weak’.

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[quote]The protest finally ended in June, but two revelations put it back in the spotlight yesterday.

First, police said it had left them with a £7.1million overtime bill.

Then it emerged that Mr Subramaniyan, 28, had eased his ordeal by secretly eating McDonald’s burgers.

Scotland Yard surveillance teams using specialist monitoring equipment had watched in disbelief as he tucked into the clandestine deliveries.

A police insider said: ‘In view of the overtime bill, this has got to be most expensive Big Mac ever.’

Scotland Yard made no official comment but senior sources said police decided against dragging the bogus hunger striker out of his tent for fear it would start a riot.

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Oh Pleae, Oh Please, Scotland Yard, release those videos!
I sort of have sympathy for this guy’s plight, but only in a protest supporter kind of way.
I wonder who brought him the McD’s.

I wonder if anyone got suspicious when he wasn;t visibly losing weight.

Anyway, it’s awesome! I hope he never lives it down.

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It is funny. Perhaps they’ll be forced to release their evidence, since he accuses them of lying.

[quote]Parameswaran Subramaniyan and his supporters say he fasted for 24 days after finding out that five of his relatives including his mother had died in the conflict in Sri Lanka. He and other Tamil supporters in Westminster were urging the British Government to intervene in the civil war in the country.

Today, the 28-year-old from Tooting stood by the authenticity of his April hunger strike and said is consulting lawyers after the Metropolitan police accused him of lying about it.

Senior Met sources say their surveillance teams, using specialist monitoring equipment, have evidence of him tucking into fast food meals in his tent in Parliament Square.

Mr Subramaniyan is said to be “hurt” by the accusations, which he says are false. [/quote]
thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ … donalds.do

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Somebody is lying.

My money is on the Daily Mail hack who made up the amusing quote from the unamed police insider, probably after a lengthy liquid lunch.

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Aren’t Tamils supposed to be Hindus as opposed to the predominantly Buddhist Sinhalese, so wouldn’t eating a Big Mac (nominally constructed using some form of beef product, apparently) go against more than just his political methodology?

BroonAnorexic

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McDonald’s sells Big Macs and the corporation is a global chain with franchises all over the world… Because of this, it is possible to eat at Mc Donald’s in most countries of the world. The Big Mac is one of many tasty sandwiches that have won great popularity among the world’s peoples and regardless of the religion there is wide acceptance for those great fries and icy cold cokes…Broon Ale, you should try to eat there some time… I am sure that like me you won’t be disappointed… no siree! Have a coke and a smile… and think about how wonderful the world is a while…

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Even if he didn’t eat a Big Mac he intended to eat a Big Mac at his first opportunity so that’s the same thing. It’s all in the police report. Don’t be daft.

Besides, it’s up to him to prove he didn’t eat a Big Mac. Not the other way around.

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Ah… I am glad to see that you are finally learning PB… There is hope for you after all…

Because the Big Mac, you see, is made with lettuce, special sauce and cheese, and includes two all-beef patties… as an icon of, er, you know, it is apparent that the archetypes evident in the creation of the sandwich and its layers when paired with a large order of fries and supersize coke… that would make it of great appeal to freedom fighters everywhere even if their freedom were not in question nor their fight perhaps as honest as otherwise indicated… perhaps, because of a hidden betrayal, unwillingness to face the evidence, a suppressed reign of the Id… because you see it is about the symbolism, the pairing, the matching and contrasting that on a Jungian level achieve a far greater depth of significance than may meet the surface inspection. Philosophically, it is the yin and yang of the Orient… coupled with the mystical insight of the kabbalah. The positioning of the Big Mac and its ingredients have significance for the universe and the universals within each and everyone of us. The Coke when consumed with bites of the same leads to the release of the essence that is given structure with the building blocks the fries… this in turn represents the inherent capability within each and everyone of us to strive to rise to grow to increase to multiply to attain and ultimately that is what gives meaning to the human quest behind the eternal question: why? which perhaps is mistaken when it may better be asked How many? and as such, the motivators are never fully revealed as they are indelibly intertwined with the rhizomic traces of knowledge that wrap and rewrap fold and unfold release and capture taking the expectant postulator to the next level where the process by its very nature must begin all over again… and yet we ask why why WHY? when it is clear that next … the wise man moves beyond this to ask how many as in how many Big Macs… maybe but then again… numerators are so earthbound as to raise questions as to whether the interlocturor actually undrstands… within the confines of what anyone on earth can truly know given our chains of time and space…

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[quote=“fred smith”]Ah… I am glad to see that you are finally learning PB… There is hope for you after all…

Because the Big Mac, you see, is made with lettuce, special sauce and cheese, and includes two all-beef patties… as an icon of, er, you know, it is apparent that the archetypes evident in the creation of the sandwich and its layers when paired with a large order of fries and supersize coke… that would make it of great appeal to freedom fighters everywhere even if their freedom were not in question nor their fight perhaps as honest as otherwise indicated… perhaps, because of a hidden betrayal, unwillingness to face the evidence, a suppressed reign of the Id… because you see it is about the symbolism, the pairing, the matching and contrasting that on a Jungian level achieve a far greater depth of significance than may meet the surface inspection. Philosophically, it is the yin and yang of the Orient… coupled with the mystical insight of the kabbalah. The positioning of the Big Mac and its ingredients have significance for the universe and the universals within each and everyone of us. The Coke when consumed with bites of the same leads to the release of the essence that is given structure with the building blocks the fries… this in turn represents the inherent capability within each and everyone of us to strive to rise to grow to increase to multiply to attain and ultimately that is what gives meaning to the human quest behind the eternal question: why? which perhaps is mistaken when it may better be asked How many? and as such, the motivators are never fully revealed as they are indelibly intertwined with the rhizomic traces of knowledge that wrap and rewrap fold and unfold release and capture taking the expectant postulator to the next level where the process by its very nature must begin all over again… and yet we ask why why WHY? when it is clear that next … the wise man moves beyond this to ask how many as in how many Big Macs… maybe but then again… numerators are so earthbound as to raise questions as to whether the interlocturor actually undrstands… within the confines of what anyone on earth can truly know given our chains of time and space…[/quote]

You’re evil. In an attempt to be humourous, you’ve led someone who usually despises McDonald’s to have a Big Mac attack… I don’t even think they sell the regular burgers yet at this hour; hopefully by noon this horrid thing will have abated! :noway:

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Thank you, Your Astuteness. It’s all my fault that you had to repeat it so many times before I finally got it. It all makes complete sense to me now. I only have two final questions. Where do we draw the line? Please tell me there is a line somewhere. Final question: will you respect me in the morning?

Third question: could you pull some strings and have a U.N. resolution passed naming me the heir to the Romonav fortune?

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Freedom for Tooting!

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The Romanov fortunate? well, no politburo, I do not think that the Romanovs were fortunate as they ended up losing their lives or fleeing the country… there have even been movies about this… but then it led to further unanticipated greatness because part of the family ended up arriving in the Chicago area where the name Romanov ended up being shortened and altered to Romo. There they opened a cleaners which soon became popular among the working class of the south side. There the masses brought their dungarees, their t-shirts and their work socks to be laundered not of course by the owners of said establishment but by the Chinese who had made it to Chicago from the great train from San Francisco. There many of them were also misnamed. Some Changs became Chungs and Wus became Woos. This eventually led to great confusion as those dropping off their laundry were not sure whether they were dealing with Romanovs or Romos (adding to the confusion was the spanish speaking propensity to refer to steaks as lomos) so there you had these cast of characters with confusing nomenclatures so the working classes started referring to everyone as hey Mack… You know like hey Mack extra soap if you do not mind… and this is where the Romanovs became fortunate. One of the daughters of the original Romanov was neither more nor less fortunate than the average person at that time was named Anastasia, which as any native speaker can tell you is Russian for special in a saucy way… to be continued…

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You’re weird.

And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

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If you’re really omniscient how come you keep spelling my name wrong? And you’re off topic . . . again!

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So one of the Romanovs was named Donald after his British cousin who later became an important big wig in the Navy. Given the common usage of “mack” it was not long before he became confused and assumed (with his poor English) that he was Mack Donald as in “Sir” Donald… because that was the point of having the Mac in the first place in the Irish/Scottish tradition and being an arrogant aristocrat naturally he assumed… Anyway, later in an arranged marriage he was married to the specially saucy Anastasia and inspired by her tender caresses he came up with a sandwich in her honor (but no rather his) and he called it the big Mac again there are some critical assumptions here on so many levels but is it not true that we all make assumptions about various matters each and every day of our waking existence and we do so because of our familiarity with our own group’s value propositions… and because of this the Romanov’s made a fortune despite not being fortunate… and thus … I have lost the train of thought that guided my words in responding to Politburo regarding whether I could help him with the Romanov fortunate? no was it fortune? well, anyway, let’s try to focus on the key factor and that is that the fortune was returned to those who had not been fortunate to restore their fortune and that is my response to Politburo… you need no one’s help with the fortune of the fortunate… rather you need a big Mac. That should help you understand the good fortune that you have to be fortunate… am I getting through here?

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He should have done his hunger strike in Taiwan. Then it would have been OK for him to eat burgers daily and no one would have questioned his deprivation and dedication.

[quote]student protesters have been staging a hunger strike in central Taipei since last Friday in an appeal to investigate the shooting of Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu . . .

Students are taking turns going without food for 12 hours, labeling the action a hunger strike.

Tien Wei-li, a student at Feng Chia University in Taichung, fainted Tuesday morning . . . He was taken to hospital for treatment before being released.

“I hope Chen can come to talk to us,” a teary Tien said at the hospital, adding that he did not regret joining the sit-in.

Another hunger-striking student surnamed Chu took himself to the hospital by taxi after he began to feel dizzy. Doctors at the hospital said the condition of both students was stable and that they could be immediately discharged.

Tien and Chu then returned to the scene of the protest and continued their hunger strike. [/quote]
english.people.com.cn/200404/07/ … 9723.shtml

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I bet he’s thanking the Daily Mail for the renewed publicity. You gotta love the Mail. Always good for a read when you find a copy on the train, but perish the thought of paying for the dirty, fascist rag.

“police insider” indeed. “Sources who wished to remain nameless suggested…” = the journalist’s cat.

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[quote=“Mother Theresa”]He should have done his hunger strike in Taiwan. Then it would have been OK for him to eat burgers daily and no one would have questioned his deprivation and dedication.

[quote]student protesters have been staging a hunger strike in central Taipei since last Friday in an appeal to investigate the shooting of Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu . . .

Students are taking turns going without food for 12 hours, labeling the action a hunger strike.

Tien Wei-li, a student at Feng Chia University in Taichung, fainted Tuesday morning . . . He was taken to hospital for treatment before being released.

“I hope Chen can come to talk to us,” a teary Tien said at the hospital, adding that he did not regret joining the sit-in.

Another hunger-striking student surnamed Chu took himself to the hospital by taxi after he began to feel dizzy. Doctors at the hospital said the condition of both students was stable and that they could be immediately discharged.

Tien and Chu then returned to the scene of the protest and continued their hunger strike. [/quote]
english.people.com.cn/200404/07/ … 9723.shtml[/quote]

TWELVE HOURS?! :astonished:

That’s hardcore stuff… they must have really been serious if they missed the 12:00 sharp lunchtime feeding frenzy.

Is it just my imagination, or is that just incredibly soft? I mean, Gandhi’s hunger strike was an ongoing thing, not done in shifts. C’mon people, if you’re going to do something, do it right! And don’t go running to hospital if you feel a little woozy after eight hours; it’s a freakin’ hunger strike; you’re supposed to feel woozy. If you get treatment and sustenance, you defeat your purpose, and no one is going to sympathize with you.

Bunch of wusses… :noway: You can’t run with the big dogs if you pee like a puppy!

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Don’t mock, 12 hours is a seriously long time for the average citizen of Taiwan. I’m not surprised they became dizzy and required hospitalisation.

As an aside, why do a number of posters (two on this thread) often use ‘…’ in their posts. As far as I can tell it doesn’t seem to relate to a missing word, so I can only assume it’s used to add emphasis or perhaps it’s because the poster is … pausing for thought?

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Ellipses are the new black… :smiley:

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new black what?