That cesspit called Twitter
Twitter really is a very sad place.
There is a company in Dublin that rents out bicycles, or leases them or something.
Somebody had the idea of naming the bicycles with Irish female and male names so that the customer could identify which bike they were renting. It’s maybe a little bit on the twee side, but I’ll let that pass.
You can imagine the scene – customer gets the message that “today they will be riding Sinéad” or whatever. Now in typical puerile fashion this gave me cause for a chuckle, or at least a smirk. It is actually a rather ingenious marketing ploy. What Irishman could resist the announcement in the pub that they had been riding Niamh all day and it was the best ride they had had in years?
For as you may have gathered, “riding” is a word with an alternative meaning particularly in the greater Dublin area. You may gather that meaning from my example above. Given that fact the company should have used the innuendo in an advertising campaign – “Would you like a good ride?” or “Who do you fancy riding today?”
Sadly though the Perpetually Offended on Twitter got to hear about this, and of course they were offended. It seems that little gets by these sad twats and they must spend their days trawling through “tweets” looking for something that could remotely offend them. They always overlook the general rule that you cannot give offence, you can only take it. Offence is in the eye or ear of the beholder. I can understand how pejorative expressions might be a bit iffy but I would hardly put “riding” in that category.
So the company, instead of grasping a great opportunity cowed to the humourless Twitter mob and have “renamed” all their bikes with plain dull numbers. Doubtless the Twitter lot will find some reason to complain that somehow the numbers are offensive.
Is there anything that doesn’t cause outrage on Twitter?
Ive just recieved a 30 day ban on Faceache due to someone being offended by a 30 month old post apparently I was promoting self harm and suicide
The post in question was a common meme of someone using Tabasco as eyedrops with the comment things I’d rather do than watch Love Island.
Im not sure whether the offendind bit was the picture or the mention of Love Island
The only reason I have accounts on Twitter and Farcebook is that I was advised many yonks ago that I could use them to advertise when I updated this site. I think I’m safe from a banning unless a title of a brainfart offends someone. I would be quite happy if it did!
Musk thought 50% of Twitterers were Bots – perhaps now it’s nearing 100%?
What was once a useful distraction for the less mentally capable, has become a cesspit of stupidity.
I don’t think they are all bots – just people who act like robots, endlessly pouring out their bile.
I dumped twatter ages ago. Recently found GETTR which is far better.
There are quite a few alternatives. I opened an account in Gab a good while back, but never used it. I don’t see the point.
The numbers are fine.
It is those who use numbers who cause offence.
They label some numbers as “odd”, others “rational”.
These people are fascists, believing some numbers to be “prime” while a whole class of fractions are “vulgar”. They even believe that there is a “divine ratio”.
And our schools have been infiltrated by cultists who indoctrinate our children with this numerological bigotry.
Something must be done.
I seriously think something should be done about “vulgar” fractions. They really need to be renamed to something a little nicer. Poor fractions…..!
In the 80s and 90s I worked for a fairly large computer company that rebadged CDC disk drives. These drives were the size of a washing machine with removable disks of 80 Megabyte capacity (huge, yeah?) One of our customers labelled the disks with various “old lady” names so that when the operating system needed a particular disk it would ask “PLEASE MOUNT GLADYS” or “PLEASE MOUNT DORIS”. Most people were amused, I don’t recall anybody being offended but I assume they would have been told to get a sense of humour. Or a life.
Different (better?) times.
Much better times. I doubt even Doris or Gladys would have objected, but people had a sense of humour back then.
“Hello. Is that the bicycle renting company? I’d really like a 69 today. Can you accommodate me?”
Now, let’s see who would be offended by that?
You’d probably get 404 instead?
Is there anything so preposterous that the cowards won’t roll over for it?
Probably not.
If they aren’t already in use somewhere, it won’t be long before employers will need to include a blank ‘Hurt Feelings Report’ to be filed along with documents of a similar nature. (Vacation, Sick Leave, and so on.