I see that Charlie Brooker is still an arse:
Attention all boring people: do not ever try to chat to me. Any attempt to do so will be met with silence
The whole tedious and nasty little diatribe is an unpleasant attack on a taxi driver who has done Brooker no harm whatsoever. I noticed that the first commenter, Auric, got in there before me:
Only trouble with attacking bores like this is that you are setting yourself up to be attacked unless you really ARE NOT boring.
For example, I gave Charlie his customary 20-second skim. There`s never anything interesting in them. As usual, its a failed attempt at humour – and what is more boring than that!
Indeed so. Charlie Brooker, bore extraordinaire. One day he might manage some scintillating wit, but I won’t be holding my breath.
Bit of a c**t isn’t he.
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Indeed so. The last time I ripped into him for being a bigot, I was attacked by people who think he is funny. There is nothing funny about making snide comments about the little people. Brooker is not a humorist; he’s a nasty self-righteous arsehole who has been given a platform by the Guardian to spout his bigotry. And, no his writing is not clever, it is not funny, it is tiresome, tedious, bigoted and dull. Boring, even.
His supposedly avant garde, world weary cynicism is about as funny as a train wreck. I am reminded of alternative comedy back in the eighties. It was alternative only in that it wasn’t funny.
There’s people who are much more worthy of vitriol and general abuse than a man who wants to make his crust and isn’t unpleasant while doing it.
I recall a fairly long taxi ride across Edinburgh a couple of years back. It was made more pleasant by the small talk of the cabbie who turned out to be an interesting person to talk to. Brooker is an arrant snob taking a cheap shot at someone who is unable to defend himself. Low, very low.