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seanyshuffler
Jack Charlton PM snitch Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9535 |
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I use twitter for news and to see old clips from Alan Partridge shows but jesus the place is absolutely toxic. I don't know how people can devote so much energy into it. You'd get anxious reading some of the threads on it.
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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I use it for similar. It must be the only place where a Simpsons clip is followed by a racist rant, then Zidane's best touches and someone having a mild mental breakdown. Too much of that would do nobody any good.
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Baldrick
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Sounds like some of the places I have had a drink in ππ
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AKA pedantic kunt
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seanyshuffler
Jack Charlton PM snitch Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9535 |
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At least you know the person who's saying it if it's in person. Really needs to be some kind of internet id for people so if what's said by an account can be associated with a person.
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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Lunatics are far more enjoyable and better for your well-being down the pub.
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Baldrick
Robbie Keane Peyton-tly Pedantic Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Online Points: 32516 |
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Exactly thatβs the issue with social media. People tend to avoid people they disagree with or if they do interact itβs usually full of vitriol or shade. Whereas in real life in general if you are a bar and someone is saying something you disagree with, most people either ignore or interact in a respectful way. One of the joys and benefits of being a man is that you can go into a bar on your own and end up having a great night and interacting with strangers and lunatics that you would not normally be chatting to. Unfortunately that is a joy that 99% of women cannot really experience.
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I read it this morning and I did enjoy it and he got his core point across well and backed it up. There's a blind spot on the left that shouldn't be there and we kind of forget Jewish fears based on recent history. No issues there. The dismissive comments about Islamophobia weren't from the book either, he dealt with the subject very well in fact. I did find a couple of contradictions that irked though. His comparison of the "Y word", as he calls it to P**i and the 'N word'. I think the comparison with the former is fair enough, not with the latter and that isn't because antisemitism is a lesser racism, but just that the history isn't there. From what I can see online there isn't even a consensus amongst Jews about it, which is there about the 'N word'. I wouldn't be using it, I agree Spurs shouldn't be using it, no matter how well meaning, but it isn't the same. In fact, I would think, and so it would seem do a lot of Jews online, that words like the 'K word' are far more vitriolic. He also said he was one of the few Jews who were well known for being Jewish, and then listed people who were famous British Jews who didn't make a song and dance about it and included Robert Popper. Popper is best known for writing 'Friday Night Dinner', as Jewish a programme as the title implies and which he discusses later in the book in dealing with 'Jewface', similar to 'Blackface' and of which he is correct too and something I wouldn't have considered before. These complaints are minor, there are a couple more of a similar irk, but his points unquestionably hold up over all. He certainly made me think differently about a few things, but his continued inability to apologise for his own past sins while criticising others isn't the 'whataboutery' he claims it is. It may well be used as such, but it often just makes him appear to have a blind spot and the hypocrisy he rightly accuses others of. He talks of the Roald Dahl society and their apology for his vile racism towards Jews being tucked away in a dark corner of their website, but there's still no proper apology from him about his and that is undoing his own good work. The worst thing about Baddiel is that I want to like him. I grew up with Fantasy Football and he thought a younger me that not all England fans were chair chucking racists. I think if I met him, I would enjoy his company. I don't think he is a great comedian, but he is an intelligent man, broadly progressive, and a decent writer. All that just makes his own stubborn refusal to admit his sins more infuriating.
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