Tweeps, Your Name Is Retard
I didn’t watch the football last night, no matter how enthralling the Germany – Brazil match may have been, television still doesn’t interest me all that much. I did, however, manage to keep up on what was happening, not just through the number of cars which drove through town as the game finished, blaring their horns and shouting at the last few people straggling out of the cinema near here, but also through Twitter. Not that it is all that easy following a football match on Twitter, or a textual live stream, but I managed it somehow.
Perhaps, since I didn’t watch it and my great-grandfather (paternal) was born in the United States that greatest of all Internet trolls – Anne Coulter – will be proud of me as a true American. Now that would be an accolade I am more than willing to hang on the inside of my toilet door and throw darts at.
Aside from the real commentary, the meaningful updates and snippets of useful information, there were other, less intellectual, less educated, less informed people sending out their Tweets throughout the evening. I’m sure one of the more professional Twitter collection sites has managed to make a grand collection of them, but I thought I’d include two which sullied my timeline.
I honestly don’t know how some people can come up with such ideas. How do you form a relationship, a link between something which happened seventy years ago, where most people are now dead, where the country has completely changed, a time when none of the football players were even born with a modern-day football match?
Did anyone mention the British invasion of India when they won a match? How about the Iraq war for the United States or the destruction of the forests and poverty of the people for Brazil? Was the treatment of Algerians mentioned whenever France scored a goal?
So many other thoughts came into my mind as I read these and a few other Tweets, all before the half-time whistle when Germany had only managed a meager five goals. But this – Anne Coulter take note – is what our modern society is like: these are the probably great-grandchildren of those born in the United States.
Love & Kisses, Viki.
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