elbee909 Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 It's as much a sacking for being fucking shit at one's job as anything else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 3 hours ago, RS said: Ironing board headed cunt Hahaha that's class. His head has totally fell off. Love that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
et tu brute Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 2 minutes ago, Mr Raspberry Jam said: Hahaha that's class. His head has totally fell off. Love that. I wonder if he will now join up to RTG? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbee909 Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Read it in an Alan Partridge voice. "Needless to say, I had the last laugh." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandamninator Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 (edited) 39 minutes ago, enthusiast said: that's one way of putting it Was racking my brain wondering if there was a second tweet on the plane to Africa scenario after reading that post. I can't think of a more inaccurate way of describing that fiasco Roseanne should've said that when her show got cancelled - "I wasn't being a piece of shit, I was being ironic." Edited February 1, 2022 by Pandamninator Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
relámpago blanco Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 3 hours ago, Doctor Zaius said: Lost his job. Still blaming Newcastle fans in his subsequent tweets. Prick. What did he expect, who is he? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 (edited) If he'd posted that 10 year ago and it had been dragged up I'd agree like, but he posted it a few days ago. You cannot drag your employers name through the mud in such an obviously thick way and not expect the sack like. I'd feel differently if he'd been secretly recorded down the pub or something. Edited February 1, 2022 by Hanshithispantz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
relámpago blanco Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Kaizero said: Just a sidenote, but how can one be "further arrested"? Surely it's "further charged"? Did they put two pairs of handcuffs on him to further arrest him? Additional crimes he hadn't been arrested/charged for/with. Edited February 1, 2022 by relámpago blanco Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Oh aye, I'm not arguing the merits of whether or not he deserved the sack or not, it was at best an ill informed comment to make. I was more commenting on the individuals aiming to get him sacked and that it sets a dangerous precedent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 @The Prophet this you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 With impeccable timing Raith Rovers have signed David Goodwillie, causing "Rape Rovers" to trend on Twitter and their women's captain to resign. Club statement basically "He rapes, but he also scores, and he scores more than he rapes." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 He gets absolute dog's abuse from the fans. Last time I saw him he had a fan screaming "BEAST" at him for 90 mins. Keep in mind it was not a big crowd, it was basically silent otherwise Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Accepts responsibility for the idiocy of the tweet but not the repercussions of his actions, aye OK then. Would have been better to just hold his hands up, take the L and try to hold on to the tatters of his career, doubling down does him no favours. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 3 hours ago, Rafalove said: It’s a free speech issue surely? He does have free speech. He was absolutely free to write what he wrote - Nobody stopped him. This is the thing though that people always forget - freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. You have the right to be as horrible as you want, but in return people have the right to judge you on that. In this case, he was judged to be no longer needed by his employer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 When you decide you want to tweet stuff like that and then share it with the entire (twitter) world then you're taking a hell of a chance. I've got very little sympathy for him if it's eventually caught up with him, he's the victim of his own stupidity. Just one more example to stay a million miles away from twitter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiago Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Twitter convinced a generation that every single thought they'd pop in a text message to a mate or a group chat was worth broadcasting and wouldn't cause problems. People liked his tweet, so some clearly found it funny, but I found it horribly crass and insensitive. To drag us into things only made it worse, and his apology suggested he hadn't learned much from it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Has he even apologised ? He just seemed to blame all Newcastle fans and then said the only reason he deleted the tweet was because his employers told him to, personally if he was a binman or bricklayer I think his company wouldn't even care but in his role image is important, I totally agree with everyone on here though, if you can't stay off social media then try to be as bland and neutral as possible, cheap laughs off strangers is pretty pointless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Surely nobody needed to bring it to the attention of his employer anyway, it was public to start with. The force he wanted to use to get a reaction has resulted in a strong reaction, that was the intent. Unfortunately for him the opinion was very ill-advised, and his employer didn’t want to be associated with it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 (edited) Aye his tweet being aimed at trying to rile a specific group of people up got it's obvious and intended reaction. There are many things he could have done which would have got him unfairly targeted, but I don't think what he did was one of them. FWIW you absolutely SHOULD be allowed to "joke about rape" etc, it's just harder to pull off than joking about your ma's Sunday dinners, so unfunny cunts with their job in their twitter profile should probably stay away from it. I joke about horrific shit all the time but I've never done it in a place where my boss is obviously going to publicly see or hear about it Certainly if the subject at hand involved a rape victim who has just recently been thrown into the public eye. It's insane behaviour. Edited February 2, 2022 by Hanshithispantz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Joke about rape all you like if you’re a comedian or having ‘bangs’ with mates and everyone knows it’s a joke (not my cup of tea mind), but to make light of it just to make some stupid backwards point and to rile people up while also being insensitive to the situation and the actual act of rape and abuse, while logged into Twitter under the handle of who you work for, well it’s fucking rancid, stupid, pathetic and he deserves to get sacked and deserves to be banned from Twitter too, maybe it will save his life! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ9 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 How is it that people in 2022 still don’t understand that Twitter is completely public? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Not sure he deserves to be banned from Twitter like. Like we don't need to destroy his entire career over it or out Agree with the rest though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 2 minutes ago, Hanshithispantz said: Not sure he deserves to be banned from Twitter like. Like we don't need to destroy his entire career over it or out Agree with the rest though. This is what I was getting at yesterday, but didn't articulate it particularly well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Twitter is just a cesspit. An absolute virtual dumping ground. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 14 minutes ago, alijmitchell said: How is it that people in 2022 still don’t understand that Twitter is completely public? I think it's almost the other way round, people now think that everything you/they say should be public and it has some kind of inherent value. I can't cope with Twitter just because of the volume of content. After I get to following about 30 people I feel swamped. Haven't used it for years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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