I agree quite strongly with Jan Moir's article today.
Celebrities tweeting their condolences for the whole world to see is a load of egotistical and self promoting bollocks.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:50, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

She doesn't do irony though, apparently.

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:53, Reply)

I know the manner in which she wrote it makes her rather hypocritical, but I still think she's bang on the money this time.
Plus she winds people up which makes her class in my book.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:57, Reply)

Yes, there is nothing better than someone winding other people up by being a nasty bigotted shit.

(Bazongaloid, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:02, Reply)

She really is a turd, isn't she.

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:05, Reply)

She is a total knob, I just find it amazing people let themselves get so wound up about what she writes.
She clearly goes out to get a reaction with her articles (raising peoples' awareness of the Dail Mail in the process) and succeeds every time. Everyone should ignore her and the knobheads that employ her rather than get angry about it.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:11, Reply)

Or burn her to death.

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:17, Reply)

Because many people don't think she is writing to get a reaction, they think she is writing the truth
and what's more worrying is that she probably isn't writing to get a reaction, she actually is a cunt.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:17, Reply)

I disagree
I think it's nice that there are messages coming from them. Yes, I'm sure there are more private ways of doing it, but would you want constant phone calls/texts/visitors at a time like that?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 11:56, Reply)

The cynic in me thinks it's all about the celebrities tying themselves in with it to boost their public image.
They're tweeting their condolences and then five minutes later promoting their latest tv show/tour/book or telling the world they had a hard boiled egg for breakfast via the same medium.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:00, Reply)

No different from what it'd be in real life then
If a friend of mine tells me their *insert relative here* has died, I'll pass on my condolences, but once I'm off the phone, it doesn't enter my mind again, not until I send them my best wishes on the day of the funeral. It's human.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:02, Reply)

Yes but this isn't real life it's a social networking site that doesn't work in the same way as speaking to someone on the phone and then hanging up.
You can't really compare the two.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:13, Reply)

I don't think their motivations are that bad
But I do think that they shouldn't do it.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:03, Reply)

I think that twitter should fuck off

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:15, Reply)

Agreed, I might ditch my account
I rarely check it, and when I do it's spammed with useless, uninteresting shit.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:18, Reply)

almost everything anyone has to say is useless and uninteresting
which is why I dislike twitter so much
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:19, Reply)

And you can read that here

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 12:20, Reply)