That’s Chutzpah

February 15, 2016 Longrider Blogs & Blogging, Humour, misanthropy 13

Dick Puddlecote sometimes regales  us with the more bizarre antics of the anti-tobacco crowd, but today one just takes the biscuit.

Okay, so  the world consists of chemicals, but being a 7th cousin to someone or other seems to make a difference, somehow – it  means she is disabled. Anyway, it gets better. Being so sensitive to a bit of burning leaf in microscopic quantities, she wants to use the vile Twitter to name and shame those who partake of a perfectly legal activity:

This is mob mentality and vigilantism at its worst. The very kind of anti-social, sociopathic behaviour tobacco control has been encouraging this past few decades. This, folks, is the outcome. This is the kind of behaviour that enabled the Gestapo and the Stasi to operate so effectively – nasty little narrow-minded busybodies who were determined to report people behaving in a non- approved manner. I don’t much like the smell of cigarettes. I have this marvellous solution. I move away.

You think that’s bad, though, as if the disgraceful, repugnant, evil Twitter shaming isn’t enough?  Despite being willing to name and shame others, when her rants are posted on Dick’s blog, she demands he take it down. Irony bypass or what? Apparently he is unworthy of the  privilege of being on Twitter or having a blog. I don’t know where that puts us swearbloggers…

Carrie, darling, it’s called freedom of speech. And freedom of speech means people get to say things that might upset you. Get over it and yourself.

And, talking of sociopathic, irrational behaviour, I see that Dickie Doubleday is up to his old tricks over at Grandads and ISAC. If ever there was any doubt that Rickie and Dickie Doubleday were one and the same, that doubt is now annihilated.

Update:

Apparently Carrie is unimpressed.

Um… how to put this… No. That freedom of speech thing’s a bugger, ain’t it?

Update:

It gets better. Received an email:

I asked Dick Puddlecote to remove my name from his bog and reported him to twitter for abuse, harassed and making fun of a physically disabled person.  My reactions to your bad habit are real and not psychosomatic.  Supporting any nicotine delivery program unfiltered or otherwise is irresponsible and illogical.

If you want to quit smoking just do it!

Please delete references to me.  You will be reported.

Lady, in the USA you have a first amendment. I suggest you revisit it. If you go onto the Internet and talk half-arsed, ill-informed and ignorant bollocks, people will respond. It’s called freedom of speech. You don’t get special protection.  Freedom of speech does not mean you get to say what you want without people responding.

You have a choice here; if you are right then make your case. If you are wrong – and you are – then suck it up and learn from the experience. Do grow up.

So, no, I am not removing this. I do not take orders from you or anyone else.

BTW, for the elimination of doubt here. I don’t smoke and never have. Indeed, I don’t much like it. I do, however, support the right of people to partake of perfectly legal activities without being harassed and tormented by vested interests and nasty little self-righteous and ignorant bullies.

Oh, and… You go right ahead and report me to Twitter. Be my guest. Go on, do it.

That’s right, I’m not on Twitter. Never have been and  never will be.

Update:

Perhaps I should leave the last word on this to Stephen Fry.

Stephen Fry has left Twitter. He has given his reasons, saying, in his usual eloquent manner, it has become the “stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous”.

And don’t we know it.

13 Comments

  1. “I am 7th cousin of Lady Diana; Royals are often chem-sensitive.”

    As I pointed out the the thick, self-opinionated, twat (if she ever sees it that is – she blocked me after I asked her opinion on DHMO) Diana wasn’t a Royal by birth – she married into them, unless the inbreeding is worse than we thought…

  2. I wouldn’t mind, but I did try to be polite the first time I encountered her.

    There’s just no reasoning with some people, hence why I opted for the blunt truth this time.

    • Yup. If you go onto the Internet and spout idiocy, then you have to expect that people will respond negatively. Unless you are a royal snowflake, apparently.

  3. Hey now in Kentucky we still have smoking but our family trees sometimes don’t branch out! As they say in Alabama you can Divorce your sister but shes still your sister.
    Now if I could just find a 7th counsin twice removed instead of nothing but first and second cousins,we might find some royalty to add to the limb that didt grow to far.

  4. For some reason the folks at Orphans of Liberty seem to have no issue letting R/Dickie post.

    Even when he’s telling lies and encouraging people to call the police about you. (And failing to notice the irony of demanding to be able to say what he wants where he wants, while threatening others with the state if they say things he doesn’t like.)

  5. For a fleeting moment I wondered if Rickie/Dickie was the new name of a guy who used to play on Simon Clark’s blog as Rollo Tomassi (or Tommassi or summat) who just disappeared one day, but Rollo, for all his repellant zealotry, wrote coherently. Maybe he just died in the gym one day.

    • Yes, whatever happened to Rollo? He did disappear very suddenly, although I suspect I’ve seen traces of him on Disqus comments in the DT occasionally. Certainly the same style of arrogance and a similar username.

  6. I am directly descended, on my mother’s side, from John Browne, a ship’s carpenter. It is well known that ship’s carpenters are intolerant bigot sensitive. It is an inherited disability I have learned to live with however, despite the likes of Ms Kelly denigrating and making fun of people like me.

  7. Zealots and left-wingers always demand total freedom which they then deny to anyone who doesn’t agree with or propagate their warped views. And warped they are, invariably – but if they do not advocate or urge violence upon others, they have the right to burble incoherently.

    • Quite so. It serves a useful purpose as we can see their idiocy for what it is. We can also point to it as an example of just how nasty the puritans really are.

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