You realise you could now be arrested for

[Ash]

Surely Irish heritage is a mitigating factor in defending against accusations of hate crime, a?

Also, the English are forever getting slagged off online. Can we all sue?

If your papers are in order you might be ok there, Mr O'Burney.

English are fair game. Punching up, innit.

[Sir C]

So don't call him that.

What about tree fellers? Is that still ok?

I like calling him that. It's the only leisure activity I can afford, what with paying about 112% of my income in taxation to try to make up for that one-eyed scotch ****'s determination to buy votes by hurling wads of cash at lazy *******s and foreigners.

[Burney]

I do agree. However, I do recall that you yourself have blamed social media for coarsening the way we interact with each other and making it socially acceptable to be a rude ****. So what to do other than regulate it?

I believe it absolutely has coarsened those things. The ability to say something nasty to someone and a/ not be around for the aftermath of hurt it causes and b/ be in no risk of a smack in the mouth have allowed people to lay off their inner editor. However, while I bemoan that, I don't think that means I have to advocate legislating about it, does it?

[Monty92]

I believe it absolutely has coarsened those things. The ability to say something nasty to someone and a/ not be around for the aftermath of hurt it causes and b/ be in no risk of a smack in the mouth have allowed people to lay off their inner editor. However, while I bemoan that, I don't think that means I have to advocate legislating about it, does it?

Agweed......

[Sir C]

Do not show him your dust gun C !
You will then be arrested for indecent exposure

Would you mind if we moved away from the subject of my ruined, useless, ironically named membrum virile? It's a little depressing from this angle.

[Burney]

If your papers are in order you might be ok there, Mr O'Burney.

English are fair game. Punching up, innit.

The concept of 'punching up' does amuse me - not least because of its inherently bigoted assumption of superiority on the part of those being punched. Thus, to the white, middle class liberal mentality, a wealthy Indian or African person may slag off a poor white English person because they are 'punching up', which actually only serves to endorse and reinforce ingrained ideas of racial hierarchy.

[Burney]

Agweed......

It's nice that you can mock your own speech impediment like this, m.

[redgunamo]

Why do people keep doubling down on this utter, utter shīt? There is virtually no evidence of online abuse translating into actual harm to individuals, which means we are now policing people's hurty feels. Why?

Check out the actor James Woods on Twitter.

[Burney]

Check out the actor James Woods on Twitter.

Oh, I do. He is pleasingly robust. As, amusingly, is Captain Kirk.

[Viva Prat Vegas]

It's nice that you can mock your own speech impediment like this, m.

I always thought he had a deep and manly voice
Not a drippy one