[Closed] Another Twitter Muppet

Background. Care to explain?

A cry for attention I reckon. Best to give it the attention the whole page is probably worth, ie zero.

Background. Care to explain?

Hers, not mine. Although a horse's arse would be more appropriate.

Thats the silly bints twitter background I think.

At least cyclists know to avoid a green peugeot 307 reg Y454 MUB

http://t.co/vE4uAD6d8N

It's not a horse, it's a deer, a female deer - DOH! 😉

(aimed at the twitter poster, not Harry The Spider)

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[url= https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=laura+makabresku&safe=off&sa=X&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=kBDQU7fYNMO-0QXW24CoAw&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1920&bih=1063 ]Laura Makabresku[/url] apparently

bosh

First time an animal has given me a boner since the Cadburys Caramel bunny was on the telly.

What's the thread about?

Are you fawning over her doe eyes?

Christ alive! Does she really intend to go out and drive into a cyclist?

I've sent this to the House of Commons Transport Committee on Cycling Safety - part of the report they published last week talked about driver attitudes... and asked them if they're prepared to make a PR story around it. I suspect they're unlikely to but this really is pretty shocking

So she now has put out an apology and got herself a heap of free publicity. Attention Seeking ******

So she now has put out an apology and got herself a heap of free publicity. Attention Seeking ******

"Free publicity" for what ?

herself in the show yourself off on the internet game.

Ah ok.

I didn't realise that people normally paid for that sort of publicity.

Clever girl in that case 😉

Blimey! Are all Twitter users as vapid and self-obsessed as that?

.... and are they really old enough to drive?

[i].. and are they really old enough to drive?[/i]

[stating the obvious]Not mentally. [/stating the obvious]

i particularly enjoyed her claim, pre-deletion, that she didn't mean she would run cyclists over in her car but was "merely" suggesting that people on bikes doing something entirely legal deserved to be assaulted, and she would do it.

it's just another idiot typing before thinking, basically.

she has a friend called Snafflepuss....says it all really...

I hope anyone googling Kirsty Boden finds this.

[i]I hope anyone googling Kirsty Boden finds this. [/i]

People have been contacting her employer and their clients too.

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r's facebook page [/url] is copping some heat, they offered a pretty standard semi-apology and unsurprisingly people aren't buying it.

As a media company offering consultancy in how to handle social media they should have seen that one coming.

At those posters trying to say it was 'a joke' seem to miss the fact that viable threats to kill aren't very funny.

At least their statement is better than the usual "we're sorry you got offended but we're not sorry we said it"

The cycling community has to be the best in the world at getting wound up over tweets. The organisation, and relentlessness with which they go about their flaming of people and companies involved with anything like the tweet in the OP is staggering.

EDIT: I should say that I do think that the girl should get the sack for what she did... It was completely idiotic.

Animal Lover.

Tells you everything you need to know about Animal rights types.

DC linked her FB profile. The hilarity is that her job title was something to do with social media, would have thought she'd understand how things like this work.

The cycling community has to be the best in the world at getting wound up over tweets.

Mainly because the attitude expressed in these tweets, if allowed to go unchallenged and become normalized poses a true existential threat to cyclist's lives.

If you're a cyclist then she's basically said "You deserve to die and I'll enjoy killing you" it's hardly surprising that people are getting a bit hot under the collar.

The cycling community has to be the best in the world at getting wound up over tweets. The organisation, and relentlessness with which they go about their flaming of people and companies involved with anything like the tweet in the OP is staggering.

Animal Rights groups + Gay And Lesbian rights groups are pretty active when they want to be. As were Racial Equality groups back in the 60's.

My observation to the House of Commons Transport Committee was that in nearly 40 years of cycling I've never received the amount of abuse and harassment that have in the last couple of years - couple this increase with the ability for a dispersed group to make itself heard, and the lack of support we feel we get from the Law - a lot of cyclists are taking matters into their own hands...

The cycling community has to be the best in the world at getting wound up over tweets.

We could probably learn a thing or two from the neo-Zionists, tbh.

globalti - Member

Blimey! Are all Twitter users as vapid and self-obsessed as that?

Yes.
That's why they're Twitter users.

Personally I treat twitter posts from strangers, in the same way I treat stuff I overhear people saying in a pub.

People used to say stupid stuff all the time. And they always have.

Now people tweet stupid stuff all the time.

There's a lot of stupid around, and if I let it wind me up, I wouldn't have time for anything else.

The cycling community has to be the best in the world at getting wound up over tweets. The organisation, and relentlessness with which they go about their flaming of people and companies involved with anything like the tweet in the OP is staggering.

Interesting that it seems to be Air-headed Females who become the targets more often... I suppose tweeting/FBing your every vapid thought without any real editorial consideration is more of a Female past time these days (Yep I'm being a big ol' sexist, but honestly can you tell me I'm wrong?), the three main haterz that spring straight to mind currently are this Kirsty girl, that silly SoCal Volunteer Police woman last week and everyone's favorite trainee accountant Miss Emma Way...

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Yay!

Male Cyclist haterz are no less vehement or offensive, but they tend to stick to parts of the interweb where their views find more acceptance/less challenge, Car forums f'rinstance...

And yeah cyclists even as a "Disparate group" are far better organised online when it comes to stamping on anti cyclist numb-skulls than I think most of them expect, I reckon that's a good thing TBH, We may be physically vulnerable on the roads but piss us off and we'll make you look like a twunt in your little online universe and threaten your employment... a few more of these type of stories and it might just give pause to [I]#Bloodycyclists[/I] types...

Am I the only one who finds the reaction slightly OTT?

Contacting her employer and saying she deserves the sack for a silly, badly judged comment seems as ill judged as the comment itself.

"Following 510, followers 314". AKA an internet nobody. Don't give her any attention.

that silly SoCal Volunteer Police woman

Missed that one, is it worth catching up on?

Probably not.

It's twitter and facebook innit? Inherently good at pile ons; I bet she's learning a lot about her job right now.

Air-headed Females

cookeaa joins Derek_starship in setting off the HU-MAN FE-MALES klaxon by talking about women in a weird and clinical sounding way.

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Top comment on their Facebook page made me lulz!

Argh! It's been removed already.

Am I the only one who finds the reaction slightly OTT?

Contacting her employer and saying she deserves the sack for a silly, badly judged comment seems as ill judged as the comment itself.

This, its bad enough that I have to watch what I say at work so folk dont grass me up to my bosses, never mind the whole internet looking down from atop its high horse.

But then I dont put the name of my current employer on public social media, or have twitter, which seems to attract the most holy of holier than thou types...

Was she in that C4 dogging programme? They all used to wear animal heads like that?

I agree that contacting her employer directly asking for her to be sacked is OTT. Bringing it to her employer's attention, pointing out what their business is, then asking them why they employ such a thick bint is a more rhetorical way of doing it!

Ten out of ten for the point about not being aggravated by people who are either deliberately looking for confrontation/controversy or are just plain thick. There just is not enough time to get wound up by all the tossers out there. I've said it before and I'll say it again, tossers are everywhere. Everywhere. Like the masons, but with no actual agenda. The plain fact of the matter is that I would spend more time and attention to scraping a discarded fag end off the bottom of my shoe than thinking about Emma Way or her ilk.

I agree that contacting her employer directly asking for her to be sacked is OTT. Bringing it to her employer's attention, pointing out what their business is, then asking them why they employ such a thick bint is a more rhetorical way of doing it!

You'd rather be the passive aggressive, cloak and dagger type? Classy. I still think it's a shitty thing to do. We've all said silly things. This isn't anywhere near as bad as Emma way as she just appears to be giving it the biggun, rather than bragging about something she's done. I'm not sure I like a world where someone will contact my work because something I've said offends them. Where do you draw the line?

Not a big fan of whimsy?

On a scale of whimsy to f***ery, I wouldn't put threatening someone's job very close to the whimsical end 😛

She seems like a tosser and I hate what she said, but the focussed, organised rage she's got back from the internet is way overboard. It doesn't do good things to people.