Making the news today....

[Conor Wright]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

It’s starting to look like Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter could be one of the greatest acts of hubris, the biggest loss of money and bringer of some of the biggest laughs of all time.

It's like pulling numbers out of thin air, where is the actual value in twitter? Data? Ability to influence or manipulate? It's certainly not in anything tangible or in advertising. 

It would only be a good thing for humanity if it collapsed under the weight of its own hypocritical bullshit. So is it all the better if we can have a chuckle at the owner wasting a sum of money sufficient to literally end world poverty as a sideshow to an already rapidly declining society. Is this what counts for comedy now? Jaysus, just as well George Carlin died when he did.

 

[Mark Bolam]

I don’t even pretend to understand it.

 

I wonder if Elon Musk knows that when I was a lad, Twitter was the bit between the twat and the shitter?

[Steve Bullman]

3 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

I don’t even pretend to understand it.

 

I wonder if Elon Musk knows that when I was a lad, Twitter was the bit between the twat and the shitter?

So you’re basically saying it’s mostly populated by 2 different types of people? 

[Mick Dempsey]

12 minutes ago, Conor Wright said:

It's like pulling numbers out of thin air, where is the actual value in twitter? Data? Ability to influence or manipulate? It's certainly not in anything tangible or in advertising. 

It would only be a good thing for humanity if it collapsed under the weight of its own hypocritical bullshit. So is it all the better if we can have a chuckle at the owner wasting a sum of money sufficient to literally end world poverty as a sideshow to an already rapidly declining society. Is this what counts for comedy now? Jaysus, just as well George Carlin died when he did.

 

Precisely, it could be the MySpace of the 2020s.

[Puffingbilly413]

1 hour ago, Johnsond said:

7K a month on benefits  🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️No wonder people won’t bother working. Pure insanity. 

Just read the article. You have to wonder what social services were doing not to get involved earlier. 

 

And how on earth do you qualify for that amount of benefits? I can only assume rent gets paid on a large property because of the kids and that's what bumps the figure up.

 

Poor bloody kids. And dogs.

[Conor Wright]

12 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Precisely, it could be the MySpace of the 2020s.

Never on it but I remember the name, what happened? Did a narcissistic megalomaniac take that over too?!

[Bolt]

8 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Precisely, it could be the MySpace of the 2020s.

Aaaahhhh, MySpace.

 

I still get a disproportionate amount of pleasure by singing along  loudly to Clean Bandit’s ‘Tick tock’ but substituting each tick tock in the chorus  for a MySpace.

 

Kids these days, so easily baffled.

[Conor Wright]

1 hour ago, Johnsond said:

Couple paid £7k a month in benefits left children living in filth with 36 dogs

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Officers, unable to breathe due to the stench, found a young girl asleep near a dead dog and...

7K a month on benefits  🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️No wonder people won’t bother working. Pure insanity. 

Jesus. What the actual ****************. Say what you like about me for this but they should be shot dead and forgotten. To hell with jail or "punishment" get rid of them and move on, make the world a little better.

[Steve Bullman]

1 hour ago, Steve Bullman said:

So you’re basically saying it’s mostly populated by 2 different types of people? 

@Mark Bolam bit weird that both your personas reacted to this….maybe just a glitch, but ironic maybe? You on Twitter by any chance?
 

 

[Mark Bolam]

I noticed that as well.

 

Weird.

 

Neither of us are schizophrenic.