Posted on 08/27/2013 8:09:29 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
If you're seriously considering proposing to your loved one in public, you might just want to watch this video first.
A hapless romeo gets down on one knee to ask his girlfriend to marry him, but she clumps him around the head with a busker's ukulele.
The cringeworthy video, shot in a shopping mall in Dubai, shows the man, described as an 'Indian teen', and the girl walk up to a group of buskers.
As the musicians begin a to play he takes a microphone and launches into a gooey speech saying: 'I have a very special message for a very special girl. This is where we met three months ago.
'You are my charm, you are my sweety pie ...
As a crowd gathers things start going badly for the man when a toy town-style mall train drives past, breaking the mood and the embarrassed girl mutters 'Oh my god everyone's watching.'
Undaunted the man continues: 'I have a little poem for you and I want everyone to hear this.
'When you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while. And my heart ceases to beat and there is nothing else I seek except you.'
As he gets down on one knee the girl begs him to stop but he continues: 'And I Just have one question for you. You truly make me that happiest person on earth.'
But the girl simply cannot take anymore and she snatches the miniature guitar out of the hands of one of the buskers and whacks her suitor round the head with it sending him to the floor in a crumpled heap.
She then throws the instrument onto the ground and and storms off...........
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
And, ladies and gentlemen, is the FriendZone.
He dodged a bullet. She’s physically abusive. If he’s in the mood for revenge, he should bring her up on charges of assault and battery.
Read to the end.
It was a publicity stunt that worked as it went viral.
“But the girl simply cannot take anymore and she snatches the miniature guitar out of the hands of one of the buskers and whacks her suitor round the head with it sending him to the floor in a crumpled heap. “
She’s wife material’ alright’..
Yup: The Daily Mail even cribbed it so you wouldn’t see the ad portion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yE-wGeCmYA
The joking pitch is that Cadbury’s chocolate is not so sweet.
99% of these things are hoaxes.
http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/marriage-proposal-fake-ballpark/2013/08/07/id/519285
LOL! The train with “Not So Sweet” on the side was a nice touch.
I hope most did not need to read all of it to realize that it was staged, though the confirmation is helpful. Hitting him with the small guitar was the big give-a-way.
Why did you bother excerpting one sentence?
Good thing he found out now what petulant adolescent this girl is before she ruined his life.
I didn’t read it and had to get it under 300 words in order to post it.
My thought. Meant to generate hits, no pun intended.
Buwaaahh hah ah hah hah hah !!!!!
That’s so funny.
What’s a “busker”?
Most of us have seen the occasional solo artist in the subway, or on a street corner. Some places have more serious busking; for example Balboa Park in San Diego, California has a strong busking tradition, and bands will show up and play, sometimes quite regularly.
Here is one example of a band who started busking, and has not managed to obtain a small nitch market:
I understand the “under 300 words bit”. I don’t think I “understand” the “I didn’t read it”.
But I appreciate the honesty — not many freepers would actually admit that they were posting stories they weren’t even reading.
Usually it’s the commenters that don’t read, and the poster yells at them for not bothering to “read the whole thing”
I guess this is one way to get your posting stats up, just start randomly posting things without reading them. :-)
not unlike the Obama presidency
I watched the video instead of reading all of the article.
Since the article seemed to follow the video I posted it without reading it all the way through.
By the time I got to through copying the narrative the 300 word limit was reached, so I do as always .... [the rest].
If I had read the bottom line and seen that it was just a Cadbury commercial I would not have posted anything at all.
What’s very clever is how the Daily Mail posted this ad/video/story with a 350 word narrative knowing full well that only the first 300 words of it would ever make most posts and that last line would not likely be part of it.
I liked how the said it was “suggested” that it was an ad, when there was an actual ad — like they had already written the story and approved it, and then learned that it was all a gimmick, but couldn’t just scrap it, so they had to act like it was some mystery.
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