Well yes genocide is one theory I suppose. Another is that some people, with the same facts at their disposal, assessed the risk level differently from others.

I was slightly disappointed to discover that the song about the Metro Police had nothing to do with Scotland Yard

I spent a lot of time in my local in the 90s. There would always be someone in there you could have a chat and a laugh with. I’d go in for a quick one after work and end up staying all evening. Funny thing about […]

This person gets it

so the discourse today is Brexit neighbours viral tweet thread? cool, sure I can gather some opinions on that to piss everyone off

— upwards of 8 vulvas (@PublicChaffinch) July 2, 2020

It’s the ‘boiling a frog’ structure that makes me think it’s a wind-up. It starts off pandering to common anti-Brexiteer tropes, then gets more overtly prejudiced but the audience still goes with it because they […]

Ahh yes I see that now. Read it differently the first time.

But as some point you have to abandon that ‘even though it’s made up it’s still true’ defence. When the son asks what 850km is in miles because he ‘doesn’t do French distances’ do you accept that at face value, […]

It’s clever because it takes a well-established prejudice (that all Brexiteers are thick as mince) and challenges the reader to either double down on their prejudice or admit they’ve been duped. For example, when […]

So did I! Backward 7 spilled his pint and Mr Shale offered a very large spotted handkerchief as a mop.

It’s very clever really. That post has got thousands of people on Twitter scoffing at a made-up tale about the idiocy of fictitious Brexiteer bigots and gullible fools – and inadvertently proving themselves to be […]

I wonder if there’s a correlation between excessive Twitter use and poor mental health? Not saying one causes the other, just wondering if they combine to make both worse

I sincerely hope you mean ‘rouse myself’ rather than ‘arouse myself’ in this context, Lodes…

Poor Owen, all he’s trying to do is defend the indefensible, when even the person he’s defending knows they’re in the wrong.

Jones and Linehan are alike in that they are the worst possible exponents of the […]

The Corbynists take on the trans debate is the crashiest of woke car crashes. Men like Russell Lloyd-Moyle and Owen Jones telling women their concerns about sexual assault are overstated and transphobic. Twitter […]

This is how old we are. If you say something like”I think maybe women and girls should have the option to undress and shower in a place where there aren’t penises” you’re basically Satan.

Well, ok. If you are vocal on the JK Rowling side of the ‘Transwomen are women’ debate then you’re going to get called a lot of very bad things on Twitter. If you keep on provoking the people saying those things […]

If you can ignore a repeated chorus and some ‘beep beep, beep beep yeahs’, ‘I’ve found a driver and that’s a start’ is quite a good punchline

Shunning El Floridita’s disgusting Hemingway daiquiri? Wise choice, it’s horrible, like melted sherbet lemons, only grapefruit.

Today it’s Christopher Columbus in the US (stole a continent from the Native Americans) and Baden Powell in the UK (made generations of small boys go camping in the rain)

That one’s a whole mess of a thing, isn’t it. One of the many advantages of being an old white male is that any opinion you had on the whole Trans thing would be instantly declared invalid by both sides, so […]