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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 20, 2018, 03:23:29 PM

Title: Wally
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 20, 2018, 03:23:29 PM
From our local rag. Silly boy makes silly joke. But is it that bad?

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/16032344.bromley-councillor-told-shell-have-more-time-for-baby-after-election/#comments-anchor

Title: Re: Wally
Post by: Harrowby Hall on February 20, 2018, 04:00:46 PM
The web page you have directed us to is unreadable because of pop-up ads ... or something.
Title: Re: Wally
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 20, 2018, 04:04:56 PM
My apologies.

Try this

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/16032344.bromley-councillor-told-shell-have-more-time-for-baby-after-election/
Title: Re: Wally
Post by: Steve H on February 20, 2018, 05:36:02 PM
Perfectly harmless little dig, which the Tories are blowing up out of all proportion for the sake of political capital.
Title: Re: Wally
Post by: Robbie on February 20, 2018, 05:39:01 PM
Yes, mountain out of a tiny pimple. I'd read it earlier in my News Shopper - btw I did look at the link in the op & could read it there without adverts obscuring the text.

Twitter seems to cause a lot of problems.
Title: Re: Wally
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 20, 2018, 05:45:30 PM
Quote from: Robbie on February 20, 2018, 05:39:01 PM
Yes, mountain out of a tiny pimple. I'd read it earlier in my News Shopper - btw I did look at the link in the op & could read it there without adverts obscuring the text.

Twitter seems to cause a lot of problems.



Twitter doesn't cause problems, people cause problems.  ;)


Such as this one


http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/20/ben-bradley-deletes-tweet-saying-jeremy-corbyn-leaked-secrets-communist-spies-7326456/
Title: Re: Wally
Post by: Robbie on February 20, 2018, 05:50:46 PM
Yeah is people but indiscreet tweets are always in the news leading to goodness knows what controversies. Nothing is private. Some people even tweet pictures of what they are eating! At least that isn't controversial but seems a bit pointless to me. Each to their own I suppose.
Title: Re: Wally
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 20, 2018, 05:52:46 PM
Not sure that saying the leader of the opposition is a communist spy falls into that.
Title: Re: Wally
Post by: Robbie on February 20, 2018, 05:59:08 PM
Slander no less!
Title: Re: Wally
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 20, 2018, 06:16:49 PM
Libel if not proved true, I would suspect. Twitter seems to be publishing. And the lively spiked https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiked_(magazine) thought if JC sued he was being Stalinist because all those purges started with suing for libel
Title: Re: Wally
Post by: jeremyp on February 25, 2018, 11:04:13 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 20, 2018, 05:45:30 PM


Twitter doesn't cause problems, people cause problems.  ;)


The problem with Twitter is that it is designed for quick spontaneous comments and people forget that they are broadcasting to the whole World with it. People have always been saying stupid things like the above to each other. The difference is that, in the past, it would only be a few friends or some drinking buddies in the pub that would here them. Twitter lets you broadcast your unedited stupidity (which we all have, let's be honest) to the whole World.

The other problem is that the media treats Twitter comments seriously.
Title: Re: Wally
Post by: jeremyp on February 25, 2018, 11:07:17 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 20, 2018, 05:52:46 PM
Not sure that saying the leader of the opposition is a communist spy falls into that.
The idea that Jeremy Corbyn ever had access to anything a communist spy would be interested in is totally laughable. Don't know what Ben Bradshaw was even thinking. Probably he doesn't either, he just twat* it unthinkingly as you do.

*past tense of "tweet".