That Twitter thread… You know the one

[broodblik]

.... Telling Bowland to "fuck off" was unnecessary, to say the least.....

For me it is not unnecessary but rather unfounded and shows a lack of professionalism.

[IndigoPrime]

That and his tendency to quote-tweet every response, thereby ensuring all his followers see such remarks. Perhaps he doesn't know how to use Twitter properly. If he does, that's just encouraging pile-ons. (Not that this happened earlier this week—the reverse seemed to be the case.)

[TordelBack]

Apart from having zero interest in commiting photos of my spawn to perpetual record or sharing how cold it was on my morning run with people I went to school with but haven't seen in 30 years, and absolutely hating its bizarre Heraclitean 'news' format, I find Facebook group pages to have the most irritating population of all the social media platforms.

Irrespective of the efforts of group managers/hosts/whatever to provide and steer relevant content, the comments just fill up with ill-informed entitlement. And to be clear I'm not specifically talking about 2000AD or comics here, I mean everything I've ever taken an interest in.

A recent personal audit of various Irish social media/news options left me in no doubt that racist sexist anti-science bullshit has gone from 'annoyingly prevalent' to 'completely dominant'. In fact Twitter, with its ability to closely define your own feed in the manner of sticking fingers in one's ears and humming loudly, and TikTok, with its abundance of super-brief feel-good frippery, are better experiences than most.

But I have to turn all this shit off a good 2 hours before I plan to sleep,  or it's a long night of bruxism for me. Except here of course, which is positively somnolent by comparison (in a good if-not-conducive-to-growth way)

[SmallBlueThing(Reborn)]

I'm going to stick my oar in here and just let people know that screenshots of this thread are being displayed in at least one other forum on the internet. Namely the 2000ad subforum on gallifreybase.com, and specifically Gordon Rennies words about Pat Mills.

Might be an idea to keep that in mind.

SBT

[TordelBack]

-fights urge to moon screen-

It's kinda cool to be simultaneously irrelevant old men grumbling at each other in an emptying room and quotable internet sensations.

[The Monarch]

Hello!

[Dark Jimbo]

Hey, why not? The forum's already regularly scanned for titbits by a certain Facebook locale.

[SmallBlueThing(Reborn)]

Alternatively, every single post to this thread should from now on contain the phrase "Doctor Who is a load of shit and hasn't been any good since 1982".

SBT

[Dark Jimbo]

Actually, is it not a good idea for a mod to split the last five or six pages off into their own thread?

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

I'm going to stick my oar in here and just let people know that screenshots of this thread are being displayed in at least one other forum on the internet. Namely the 2000ad subforum on gallifreybase.com, and specifically Gordon Rennies words about Pat Mills.

Might be an idea to keep that in mind.

SBT

Sorry 'bout that!!

[judgeurko]

I'm going to stick my oar in here and just let people know that screenshots of this thread are being displayed in at least one other forum on the internet. Namely the 2000ad subforum on gallifreybase.com, and specifically Gordon Rennies words about Pat Mills.

Might be an idea to keep that in mind.

SBT

So what?

[Tjm86]

Possibly a polite reminder that although there are a limited number of forumites these days this is still a very public place?

Mr Mills may not be overly concerned about the opinions of a small, obsessive group of readers but extreme behaviour has resulted in lampooning in print in the past, no?

[GordonR]

Imagine how much sleep I'll lose tonight worrying about what the ming mongs (copyright Russell T Davies) of Gallifrey Base are saying.

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Once again, I'm sorry for any offence caused by bringing it to the attention of Galifrey Base. I didn't know (and still don't) how to blank the images in question.

[IndigoPrime]

Actually, is it not a good idea for a mod to split the last five or six pages off into their own thread?

It's a good idea in theory. It was a pain in the arse in reality. On balance, I rate this topic split THREE VCS OUT OF FIVE