How do they get anything done?

Making sense of the good, bad and often strange trending topics online

Another day, another uproar in Parliament.

Following reports of the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha being adjourned again, senior journalist Tavleen Singh tweeted: 'Ordinary people are losing faith because of this constant chaos. It is too much noise without reason.'

Someone using the handle True Indian blamed the opposition: 'The BJP game plan is to stall parliament and then claim it didn't function.'

And there was this, from a certain Abhishek Sharma: 'The title Rise of the Planet of the Apes seems more relevant after seeing parliament at work.'

Shooting the messenger
Soon after downgrading America's ratings, agency Standard & Poor cautioned that it could lower the sovereign ratings of countries like India. Naturally, it became a trending topic. Jonathan Schwarz, presumably an American, commented: 'Possible ways to get our AAA rating back: (1) raise taxes; (2) cut spending; or (3) just start paying S&P for ratings the way Wall Street does.' It also helped Rodney Odoi create a new joke: 'Your mama is so poor she raised the debt ceiling and S&P still downgraded her.'

Ex-rated
The topic 'message to my ex ufffd' made a whole lot of people say a whole lot of nasty things to their former lovers. Stuff like this, for instance - 'thank you for showing me exactly what I don't want in a person', 'I still think I was drunk during that whole relationship', 'sorry you got my name tattooed', 'you always told me I deserve better than you and I got it' and 'I hope you slip on an ice cube, fall, hit your head really hard but not die, just go into a coma.'

The last word
Here is proof that the actress Preity Zinta doesn't like Mumbai's roads either: 'Potholes have become so big that they are now being considered for housing projects. Interested parties please contact the BMC.'

Lindsay Pereira is Editor, MiD DAY Online