Dr D's tongue-in-cheek take on billionaire Y Maezawa's 'cosmic love'
Dr D has a thing or two to say about the billionaire's offer.
By ET Bureau | Updated:
He is one of the leading doctors in the country. He values his privacy (but not of his clients).
Dearu Dr D San,
Konnichi Wa! My Englishu notu fluentu but I still try to communicatu my problemu.
I am successful businessman from Tokyo who made a lot of money in the fashion business. Kampai! As part of the rest of my lifeu I want to go to the Moon. My boyfriendu Elon Musk is running a company SpaceX with some bigassu rockets that will take me and a few artists I choose to the Moon. But I also thought it might be a good idea to see if I can find love along the way. So I have begun accepting applications from single women 20 and over who want to join me on the trip to the Moon. It’s dangerousu but then so is marriage. I sent out a tweet saying, “Why not be the ‘first woman’ to travel to the moon?” for which I have been hammered as some sort of insensitive boor.
What can I do to show that I mean well?
Y Maezawa,
Sea of Tranquility
I wanted to (as today’s youngsters say) hate on you for being such a misogynistic jackass. But then I came across this report also about you: “Japanese billionaire and fashion designer is giving away $9 million to a thousand of his Twitter followers to see if unconditional free payments boost happiness among people or not.” And your Twitter handle is @ yousuck2020. You seem all right. Hope you find love, even if in this weird way.
STATUTORY WARNING: This humour column is not for the weak-kneed or the thin-skinned.
Dearu Dr D San,
Konnichi Wa! My Englishu notu fluentu but I still try to communicatu my problemu.
I am successful businessman from Tokyo who made a lot of money in the fashion business. Kampai! As part of the rest of my lifeu I want to go to the Moon. My boyfriendu Elon Musk is running a company SpaceX with some bigassu rockets that will take me and a few artists I choose to the Moon. But I also thought it might be a good idea to see if I can find love along the way. So I have begun accepting applications from single women 20 and over who want to join me on the trip to the Moon. It’s dangerousu but then so is marriage. I sent out a tweet saying, “Why not be the ‘first woman’ to travel to the moon?” for which I have been hammered as some sort of insensitive boor.
What can I do to show that I mean well?
Y Maezawa,
Sea of Tranquility
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Dear Y Maezawa,I wanted to (as today’s youngsters say) hate on you for being such a misogynistic jackass. But then I came across this report also about you: “Japanese billionaire and fashion designer is giving away $9 million to a thousand of his Twitter followers to see if unconditional free payments boost happiness among people or not.” And your Twitter handle is @ yousuck2020. You seem all right. Hope you find love, even if in this weird way.
STATUTORY WARNING: This humour column is not for the weak-kneed or the thin-skinned.
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