Can't believe we haven't covered the Grenfell effigy furore.

[redgunamo]

I read plenty of comments saying that these people's lives should be ruined for doing this. Nobody seemed to consider that there would be innocent victims of such ruination - not least their kids. But there's nothing as ruthless and repulsive as the self-righteous mob.

Sure, but those comments can be blandly made precisely because nowadays, it's practically impossible to ruin anyone's life.

Lose your job? Bof! Just get another one. Wife? Family? Never liked them much anyway. And so on.

[Burney]

Sure, but those comments can be blandly made precisely because nowadays, it's practically impossible to ruin anyone's life.

Lose your job? Bof! Just get another one. Wife? Family? Never liked them much anyway. And so on.

But imagine being the sort of person who actually wants to ruin someone's life! Imagine being that bloodlessly vindictive? I can understand - even sympathise with - hating someone so much you wish them dead, but there's something so repulsive about wanting to see someone's life ruined.

[redgunamo]

But imagine being the sort of person who actually wants to ruin someone's life! Imagine being that bloodlessly vindictive? I can understand - even sympathise with - hating someone so much you wish them dead, but there's something so repulsive about wanting to see someone's life ruined.

It's just a figure of speech, I think