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Why Gandhi is so cool

Non-violent, you say? Civil disobedience? Parley with the King Emperor? Nah, he’s cool because he fucking kicks ass. Here are some true stories about him:

I heard one time Gandhi walked into this club and beat up three guys with a pool cue for absolutely no reason. They say he sucker punched this one guy, and then scissor-kicked him right in the back of the neck. And then that guy could only eat out of a straw for the rest of his life. Is any of that true?

Gandhi was all about rabbit punches. Just when you thought a fight was over he’d punch someone in the back of the head and then dish out mule kicks. I’ll see if I can find a link.
- Robert V.

No way was Gandhi going to take any shit from some idiot fat white man with a cigar in his mouth who drones about fighting in the hills. Parley with the King Emperor?! Parley? You have no clue what he meant when he said parley.

Gandhi didn’t win the Nobel Prize because (little known fact) he lead a band of guerrilla warriors into London and razed the city. He also threw a man out of a window for commenting on his appearance. True story. - Graham

Now, a man who fights must know when to fight, for the best battle is the one that is won without being fought. Gandhi knew this, and was no stranger to diplomacy, though he did acknowledge that it was a ‘limitation’ and a ‘weakness’.

Ghandhi’s autobiography talks a great deal about these types of things, and shows that he knew his limitations, weaknesses and failings. But he had a lot of good thing to say as well. Like the rest of us, he was human being. - Benton

All this and more, courtesy the commentators at the mental_floss blog.

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