mizfit Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Gary Lineker and Lilly Allen come across as decent people in a swathe of bigotry and racism. I realise we have our share of fruit loops on here - trolling usually - but there are people on Twitter openly espousing as racist views as you could imagine. It's staggering. It's embarrassing, today's daily mail made me realise how facist, racist and disrespectful the UK seems to have become since brexit. An article on a child who has been rejected for Asylum has comments wishing death, demanding he is left behind, and taking joy. Is that really how low we, as a race have become? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 It's embarrassing, today's daily mail made me realise how facist, racist and disrespectful the UK seems to have become since brexit. An article on a child who has been rejected for Asylum has comments wishing death, demanding he is left behind, and taking joy. Is that really how low we, as a race have become? It is.I posted elsewhere the comments after a lorry killed an asylum seeker in Calais. They would turn you're stomach. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Stewart Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 14 minutes ago, mizfit said: It's embarrassing, today's daily mail made me realise how facist, racist and disrespectful the UK seems to have become since brexit. An article on a child who has been rejected for Asylum has comments wishing death, demanding he is left behind, and taking joy. Is that really how low we, as a race have become? It's always been this way, it's just that now the morons and scum have smart (ah, the irony) phones in order to express their vile, disgusting, idiotic views to the rest us. They're complete and utter scum, and there're lots of them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 24 minutes ago, mizfit said: It's embarrassing, today's daily mail made me realise how facist, racist and disrespectful the UK seems to have become since brexit. An article on a child who has been rejected for Asylum has comments wishing death, demanding he is left behind, and taking joy. Is that really how low we, as a race have become? No some of us have evolved. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumigoo Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 It's always been this way, it's just that now the morons and scum have smart (ah, the irony) phones in order to express their vile, disgusting, idiotic views to the rest us. They're complete and utter scum, and there're lots of them. It frightens me some of the comments on the Facebook pages and Twitter accounts of various news agencies but as you say it is mostly down to everyone having a keyboard and a phone. It has always been the case that c***s are the loudest and a quick look on social media confirms this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 It is.I posted elsewhere the comments after a lorry killed an asylum seeker in Calais. They would turn you're stomach. There's a Twitter account called Best of The Daily Mail or something like that where they basically ridicule comments posted on that site. They had a screenshot of comments after that incident you refer to and it was just a list of people saying things like "Good", "Shame there's more where he came from", "Just the one? Missed opportunity" and so on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 38 minutes ago, mizfit said: It's embarrassing, today's daily mail made me realise how facist, racist and disrespectful the UK seems to have become since brexit. An article on a child who has been rejected for Asylum has comments wishing death, demanding he is left behind, and taking joy. Is that really how low we, as a race have become? I was having a conversation with an old Irish guy a couple of years ago and he postulated that it was when the authorities gave their approval or looked away that all sorts of nutters came out the woodwork. We were discussing how a civilised country such as Germany elected the Nazis. Is Britain post Brexit showing signs of a similar malaise? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speccy1984 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 43 minutes ago, RiG said: There's a Twitter account called Best of The Daily Mail or something like that where they basically ridicule comments posted on that site. They had a screenshot of comments after that incident you refer to and it was just a list of people saying things like "Good", "Shame there's more where he came from", "Just the one? Missed opportunity" and so on. @DMReporter could be the one you're looking for. Unbelievable stuff on there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Aye that's the one and this is the tweet I was thinking of in my poorly spelt post above https://twitter.com/DMReporter/status/785459036464578560 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eindhovendee Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Cracking Tweet from Peter Crouch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Crouch seems like a decent guy, sadly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Nice to see the Old Firm has lost its 'shine' after just the second game of the season. Not nearly as much point scoring etc as there was last month. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 One of my mates has just informed me that one of my tweets appeared in the Scotsman today regarding Gordon Strachan and the SFA's lack of a spine. Does this make me Twitter famous? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 One of my mates has just informed me that one of my tweets appeared in the Scotsman today regarding Gordon Strachan and the SFA's lack of a spine. Does this make me Twitter famous? Its yet another example of modern lazy journalism. Instead of quoting "sources within the club" or "family friend" they just trawl social media. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Had to unfollow Jim Spence. He just doesn't say anything interesting anymore. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessmagic Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 He's always bigging up the polis as well which gets a bit much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernJambo Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 I would encourage you to find Craig Telfer's chain of his bio updates. Spence has time on his hands! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Jim Spence was one of the better pundits when he was on Radio Scotland and his Twitter at that time was a bit more interesting. Now it just seems to be daft wee jokes and stories and constantly playing to the gallery. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 One of my mates has just informed me that one of my tweets appeared in the Scotsman today regarding Gordon Strachan and the SFA's lack of a spine. Does this make me Twitter famous? It makes you Celebrity Big Brother famous, bro. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 37 minutes ago, Highland Capital said: Jim Spence was one of the better pundits when he was on Radio Scotland and his Twitter at that time was a bit more interesting. Now it just seems to be daft wee jokes and stories and constantly playing to the gallery. Yep. Unfollowed him soon after he left the Beeb. He wa just trying too hard to wind people up constantly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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