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Cracking programme on BBC 2 about the rise and rise of social media platforms over the last twenty years. There's not much to recommend it. Quiet frightening really.
I'm not offended either - I didn't find it funny, but I didn't find it offensive either.
Mind you, Houghton's an even bigger clown than I thought he was.
Well I still find it funny especially when Brian Moore gets stitched up with the Packie Bonner pronunciation. I guess I'm really old school as I still love a bit of banter with people. I genuinely feel left out if I'm not having it ripped out of me at some point!... (there I've said it now).
Well I still find it funny especially when Brian Moore gets stitched up with the Packie Bonner pronunciation. I guess I'm really old school as I still love a bit of banter with people. I genuinely feel left out if I'm not having it ripped out of me at some point!... (there I've said it now).
Couldn’t agree more.
Made me think, everyone I love and cherish, family or friends, are comfortable taking the piss and having it taken out of them. I’m amazed when anyone can be offended by sketches like baddiel and skinners.
As a rule of thumb, it’s best to avoid people who can’t laugh at themselves.
Well I still find it funny especially when Brian Moore gets stitched up with the Packie Bonner pronunciation. I guess I'm really old school as I still love a bit of banter with people. I genuinely feel left out if I'm not having it ripped out of me at some point!... (there I've said it now).
Agreed. I think p1ss-taking is the default sense of humour for both Ireland and Britain. I think we all know when it goes too far and spills into being racist, sexist or discriminatory. This - to my eyes anyway - doesn't come close.
I don't even think it's aimed at Irish people. I think it's aimed at Houghton trying (and failing) to convince people that he's Irish.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
He has apologized countless times to Jason Lee as he said in the documentary. I don't agree with some of his observations but he's entitled to his opinion and nobody deserves some of the horrendous abuse he's received.
He hasn't.
He has apologised for it, but according to Lee, he has never apologised to him personally ever
My favourite Baddiel incident was when he ripped the sh!t out of someone's tweet on TV, but then it turned out they were kind of famous (in an 80s band iirc) and he issued a grovelling apology.
I certainly have more sympathy for his views than I thought I would. It’s made me question the motivation for my own behaviour on here, and on social media in general. In a LfW first, I think I may have changed my mind about a lot of things I believed going in.
That said, there is still a huge element of hypocrisy and wilful ignorance in the behaviour of a certain demographic who think their carefully crafted libels and defamations on social media are somehow less abusive than a scaffy from Barnsley calling Diane Abbott a thick black cnt. They aren’t, they are just as damaging.
This will roll some eyes, but the elephant in the room is the profit motive. Of course Twitter will ignore calls for change as long as abuse delivers profits, which it does.
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Between seconds 23 and 28: "The things that people said in private Are the things that people shout today"
Cud call it right, all the way back in 1994:
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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