A Tweet – look, yes, I know you’re all terribly excited by this – went, as the kids say, “viral”. Currently some 1.1 million have read it, I’d guess that it’ll get to 2 million and more. Whoop, whoop, eh?
It’s not wholly exciting, just something that seems to have caught a wave. OK.
So, a little research. It’s possible to make money on Twitter – they’ll give you a share of their advertising revenue. A bit of investigation shows that I’d need to be getting something like that sort of volume of readership each and every day in order to make perhaps $1,000 a month.
This isn’t one of those career paths that is going to work, is it?
Interesting thread there. I gave you several upvotes and reposts. Just doing my bit.
I loved the post that says you were a ukip candidate, as though it was an absolute mike drop!
The one that’s fascinating me in your tweets is that ‘stop and search’ found 36 swords. How do you conceal a sword about your person?
Richard T,
An unexpected benefit from early years circus training in sword swallowing?
Well it gives us an idea what Spud’s internet presence must be worth.
RichardT:
I think it depends very much on the definition of “sword”. If it means anything over whatever the legal limit is, then many of those would be 3 inch blades or so.
Another possibility is that they’re including vehicle searches in that. It’s pretty easy to conceal what normal people would call a sword in a car.
You’ll never get rich digging another man’s ditch, Tim.
Aren’t all the plastic straws ground down to microplastics and form 90% of your diet?
@RichardT – “How do you conceal a sword about your person?”
Hide it behind your codpiece.
@RichardT With ease… about 2 if they’re short swords and adapted for the purpose in t-shirt, jeans, and possibly a hoodie.
Actual classic swords.. You’d need a longish coat, but roughly 3 while keeping them easily accessible.
Although honestly, in this day and age a smallsword and accompanying long dagger would have any opponent down and bleeding out in about 5 seconds if you’re trained in them.
Unless the opponent is similarly armed. Then it’d be 5 seconds and 50% chance you’re the one bleeding out unless you’re seriously trained in those particular techniques.
Swords are tricky things…
Fencing was the only sport I ever enjoyed.
Why’d they put those buttons on the blades? Spoils the fun.
On the topic of trending on Twitter…
Leeds is up there at the minute with the results of cultural diversity.
Feeling blessed yet?
It was very reassuring to see such a robust response from the police force…
Oh no, wait, they just up and fucked off.
More to come, especially if the police don’t get some reinforcements and come back with batons swinging, crack some skulls, pour l’encouragement de les autres.
How do you conceal a sword about your person?
I don’t know what the legal definition of a sword is, but under the 2019 act, it is illegal to own a curved sword with a blade over 50 cm in length.
So even if we assume that the minimum length for a sword is 50cm, that’s not that large to be able to hide.
Fun to watch. You say some stuff driven by common sense and numbers, and the Greenpeace response is “some people watch Ferngully and root for the big machines.”
And I bet he votes. We are doomed.
Found your 10 year old piece about how corporations are “executed” all the time when they go through bankruptcy. How can you be so daft? A bankruptcy is more equivalent to going through probate. As such, the business is already dead and the government is just transferring assets. Also who in their right mind misconstrues liquidation and execution? You’re obtuse at best and willfully ignorant at worst.
How lovely of you to drop by. Robert Reich made excessive rhetorical claims. I answered them with some sense.
Ho hum.
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