This is the controversial moment the motorcade of Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi drove along a giant red carpet which was laid over public roads during a trip to open a social housing project in a Cairo suburb.
Images of the massive carpet sparked a wave of criticism and ridicule on social media, with a hashtag mocking the carpet trending in Arabic. A local newspaper devoted much of its front page Monday to the incident.
'How is the president asking us to tighten our belts while the 4 kilometer (2.5 mile) red carpet says otherwise?' read a headline in Al-Maqal newspaper, whose editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Eissa, is one of Egypt's most prominent TV commentators.
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Now this is what you call "taking the piss!"
Now this is what you call "taking the piss!"
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Now this is what you call "taking the piss!"
Channeling wesw.......
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato