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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Health is, er, Wealth

The Knowledgeable People say greed caused the Great Financial Crisis. Greed which made them ignore common sense.

Well, as I learnt, this isn’t a phenomenon limited to Wall Street.

I got a flyer—an advertisement for a newly opened health club in Gurgaon—with my morning newspaper yesterday. Here’s a part of it which shows the benefits they offer:


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Free soft drinks? Offered by a health club? Wah!

11 comments:

jhayu said...

@ Hades.
Hahahaha... That's like a friend of mine not wanting to join one particular gym because they didn't offer his favoured brand of potato chips as refreshments.

Anonymous said...

Soon some other gym will be offering free muffins and brownies....

But it's a great business strategy - keep people obese, and increase your sales.....

Cheers,

Quirky Indian
http://quirkyindian.wordpress.com

Shoaib Daniyal said...

@Jhayu

Must be the Bombay branch of this Gym, saala.

@Quirky

Actually.

I didn't think of it that way.

It's like a Perpetual Motion Machine.

bidu said...

hey hades...........

the girls in d pic are HOT........
instead of serving free junk food they should just have such hot instructors.......

also in d pic i can only seen girls working out.....what message are the trying to send??

you should go and find out.......

wat say??

Pratz said...

lolz........

This greed comment so relates to "Atlas Shrugged"....

Jay said...

Nice observation. Hahaha.

Shoaib Daniyal said...

Bidu,

Well, that is one good reason to join that gym.

Pratz,

It does?

I was planning to read Atlas Shrugged but I couldn’t bring myself to it after reading The Fountainhead

Btw, you should watch the movie .

Trailblazer,

Thanks.

Siddharth said...

ha ha...nice...

Tazeen said...

Ironic.

but they want people to drink that crap so that they stay fat and continue with their gym memberships

Shoaib Daniyal said...

Siddharth,

Thanks.

Tazeen,

Exactly. Never underestimate peoples' stupidity.

S.S. said...

lolz :P