#51

Get following him then! You’d be number 47

#52

Just read it. There are a couple of stats sandwiched between a whole load of sexist, ageist, poorly-executed “humour”. Hark at them, calling out mums for shitposting. And hark at you for defending Vice.

#53

My old man’s gotten stuck right in with BTL commenting. Gotta do something in retirement I suppose.

Problem is his views on most things are thoughtful and erudite so there’s not much fan to be had there. Is Centrist Grandad a thing?

(He’s not a Grandad yet but he is very Centrist)

#54

Vice posts some decent stuff.

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#56

GET HIM ON HERE!

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#58

And so
:slight_smile:
He should sign up as
:slight_smile: :dark_sunglasses:
Hermitwormit
:sunglasses:

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#59

Since my mum retired she’s been spending a lot of time arguing with Corbyn and Trump supporters in the comments of Guardian and Telegraph Facebook posts, but the other day I saw she’d been commenting on an article from a Paraguayan newspaper about two women who had crossed the border to Argentina to get married and she was giving this homophobe a right telling off, made my heart swell

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#60

My mum tweets about the archers and retweets pro Corbyn stuff

My dad is a centrist Dad and criticises Corbyn, he also posts pics of old Spurs stuff eg on this day Jimmy Greaves scored a hattrick against Coventry!

#61

Despite my dad’s sometimes awful views IRL he’s actually quite adorable on Twitter. A grand total of 30 tweets, the most recent of which was “RIP, One of the great rockers!” on an RT about Rick Parfitt’s death, and 2nd most recent was “Urinated on your hand… that’s my boy!” when I tweeted about making Spice watch GBBO with me and him weeing on me as a thank you present. And his bio is so basic and old man-y that it’s really endearing.

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#62

I unfriended my parents and step family on facebook because the casual racism and general other isms was dragging me down. Don’t need to voluntarily subject myself to that shit ta.

#63

pretty sure my mum has never used any piece of technology capable of using the internet so not a problem for me.

#64

My dad uses Facebook to make deep theological insights into things, and to make slightly crap jokes on global posts. He could be a lot worse, really.

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#65

Yeah, my mum hasn’t worked out how to do a full stop whilst texting yet and I don’t think my dad has even touched a mobile phone in his life.

#66

It’s a comment on the same article I posted ages ago mate. You’ve properly gone full marckee here :grinning:

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#67

genuinely enjoyed reading this thread. sorry about your discovery.

my dad’s not tech savvy enough to use social media, but he did ring me a while ago asking how to get that West Yorkshire Police browser lock thing off the screen in a panic. I obviously knew what kind of sites he’d been on, but I still asked him anyway “err don’t know”

thing is, I guarantee he’d of paid the £100 they were asking for before he phoned me. I often wonder how much they actually fleeced him for.

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#68

Yes, I am aware of that.

???

#69

Mums and Wankers°™

Five years+ and counting. Disappointed you’ve not linked to the source here, @marckee

°Dads

#70

UPDATE

This started quite well, with me (anonymously, obvs) sending him some links to stuff and engaging with him, and trying to put across an argument for some of the horribly misogynistic stuff. It was quite nice, and the most we’ve chatted in years! Well, kind of.

Then he started to annoy me, by cherry-picking a quote from an article about presumption of innocence that ignored LITERALLY the rest of the entire article, and quote tweeting his attention-seeking replies instead of just replying normally.

Then I got drunk and asked him how much he would attribute his dislike of Nicola Sturgeon to her being a woman.

Then I got more drunk and called him a stupid, stupid cunt.

1-0 deadonthestairs?

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#71

He retweeted this yesterday :upside_down_face:

https://twitter.com/graham100200/status/1084473364721356805

Nice one dad

#72

Another update! He closed his account in shame (apparently after consulting with some friends who agreed with me that there was some slightly problematic content lol) and now enough time has passed for me to be able to claim his @ handle that was released back into the wild :slight_smile:

Not exactly sure what to do with it though? This feels like a hollow victory. I wonder how he is passing his time now and how long it will be before he sets up another account that will be harder to be linked to him. Not long, I suspect.