Terrible Things Posted on Social Media II

Where is the “only in [place]” thread? Got a contribution for it and I can’t find it

I’ll just put it here because otherwise I’ll forget what it was

Only in Britain do parents violate their kids’ privacy. That old stereotype about British parents that everyone knows the world over

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11 LIKES SAY YOURE WRONG

Congrats on your Nice Reply badge

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THANK YOU

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Twitter was pretty nice back then in a lot of ways.

I see! I didn’t know some of the stuff you speak of here and that certainly adds some context.

Curiosity led me to look at the replies to her tweet. The vast majority of them centre on an “interesting” tweet of hers from 2011. Apparently she’s blocking anyone who posts it.

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“apparently”

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This isn’t terrible, but does touch on several things that have appeared in this thread

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The plastic wheelie bins we have today – with their emasculating pastels, often colour-coded for recycling, and their humiliating, labour-saving wheels

Can’t work out if the author is deliberately invoking that Superhans thing or the commentators are doing it unwittingly (presume the former) :smiley:
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‘Binmenism’ is a lovely expression :+1:

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And so ends the inning of badges

(this is in response to a gag about being poly btw :scream:)

all I see is

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:grinning: it’s uncanny

I don’t understand.

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Is the word seminal from semen then?

I always assumed so