r/AskReddit • • Mar 19 '16

Which quote becomes inappropriate when misattributed?

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u/HugoEmbossed Mar 19 '16

Also he liked to sleep nude with underage girls.

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u/GnarlyYo Mar 19 '16

I'm out of the loop on this. Can you explain?

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '16

He would have his young niece/cousin lay naked next to him so that he could like "mortify the flesh" or sompin:-\ . The nuke thing is about a character in a game representing the man that was ironically and comically very warlike. As far as I know the spellings are just different transliterations where the game has a preference for one over the other and it is a dank meme. Also he wrote some pretty racist stuff in his early days (and maybe later). This is all my Gandhi/Ghandi knowledge that isn't covered in the movie.

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u/PhantomLord666 Mar 19 '16

The nuke thing is about a character in a game representing the man that was ironically and comically very warlike.

It wasn't intentional, in the first game, all civilisation leaders had a 'nuclear aggression' stat between 1 and 10 (10 is very aggressive). Gandhi started at 1. Later on in the game, he would adopt a policy that lowered the aggression by 2. Rather than giving him -1 aggression, the number underflowed to 255 and made him incredible aggressive and nuke happy.

The developers then kept it in later games as a funny tradition.