Having foolishly made the mistake of reading the metro today, there were a few articles that tie in rather too well with my last post.
There’s a half page article about Megan Ward who’s invented a “smoking kills” key ring which is being ordered by “anti-smoking consultancy”* GASP, and she’s also produced possibly more useful strong sun indicators. In smaller news the Scots it seems are drinking a shocking one and a half pints a day (Of course these numbers will get increasingly inaccurate as people home brew or buy abroad) . The really impressive article though is the call from Dr Shyam Kolvekar to ban butter it seems just advising people to use less is no longer enough. Once he’s done with butter though he’s already got a few other foods in his sights:
To round off the mornings madness the Independent is reporting on a man arrested for a twitter post threatening to blow up Robin Hood airport. Yes it probably warranted someone going round for a quiet chat, but the arrest and life time ban from the airport? I hope that he wasn’t reported by someone following his tweets.
* What on earth is an “anti-smoking consultancy” anyway?
This story was picked up on by the ‘Twitterati’ just after it broke, and from what I gather it appears that it was indeed a follower.
However, bear in mind that if it had been Re-Tweeted it could have been reported by someone a little further along the line. In which case, why arent all the (possible) RT-ers in the dock with him, since I’d be surprised if someone hadn’t found it amusing and RT’d it. It was, after all, meant to be a joke.
My wondering about if it was a “follower” was really down to what sort of moron would report that if they actually had some involvement with the initial tweeter. At least some random person that stumbled across it might be able to claim they didn’t know it was humour.