Now that I've gotten your attention, you bloodthirsty mob you...I want to say that @BrumPlum was just making a comment that many of us have thought before. Stephen Fry is an interesting person, and a legendary entertainer, however nobody can be interesting and entertaining all of the time. I have read tweets by Mr Fry that were remarkably dull. I personally do not care which operating systems or browsers or phones Stephen Fry likes. And he posts about technology a LOT. So I would also have to say that some of his tweets are boring. People have said I'm boring, @BrumPlum's boring, and other people are boring. It doesn't usually result in a lynchmobbing by lots of people who probably haven't even read the offending comment. This is a bandwagon that has been rolling for far too long, please can somebody hit the brakes?
The abuse targeted at @brumplum today has been a hell of a lot worse than the word "boring". The way the majority of users have been baying for blood is sickening, and reminiscent of crowds campaigning for the beheading of a Danish cartoonist, and a teacher in Sudan who named a teddy bear. Mr Fry has recently made comments regarding Auschwitz which he has apologised for. He has branded Jan Moir "a repulsive nobody", which although it is true, is harsher than "boring". That was the last time Mr Fry used his Twitter influence to organise a lynchmob, only that time there were valid grounds. Twitfreaks need to be less like sheep and assess a situation for themselves. In my humble opinion, Brumplum has done nothing wrong here, yet he's had hundreds of people sending him abuse because Mr Fry took offence to being called boring, and overreacted in extremely melodramatic fashion.
Grow up guys, leave the poor bloke alone. I bet I could look back in every single one of your feeds and find a more hurtful comment than calling someone boring. Pot, Kettle.
Thank you.
P.S. Alan Davies, you are still a cock, and Virgin Media were still in the right :)
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