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Twitter Strikes Again

StevieJ
StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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edited 6 January 2012 at 5:10PM in Debate House Prices & the Economy
Would you credit it :)
Ed Miliband has become the latest politician to come a cropper on Twitter after accidentally paying tribute to Bob Holness for his work on "Blackbusters".
And in reality we all know it was really Baker Street :)

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ed-miliband-in--blackbusters--gaffe.html
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
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  • gagahouse
    gagahouse Posts: 392 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    "I'll have an e please bob!" - still makes me chuckle (you have to have been a raver in the summers of love to get it, I can still picture the t-shirts and sweaters with that and the blockbuster logo on).
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    At least he wasn't paying tribute to Jim Bowen for his work on Blackbusters.
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    Does anyone post on Twitter who isn't a complete bell end?
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    edited 6 January 2012 at 5:54PM
    FTBFun wrote: »
    Does anyone post on Twitter who isn't a complete bell end?

    No.

    There's a football manager who calls it "twatter" because only "twa*s" use it.

    EDIT: Mick McCarthy
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    BTW some good news off Twitter, Sinead's 16 day wedding is back on. Just to update (for you non twitter folk) back at the end of November she Twittered that she was depressed, getting none and looking for a man, transpires that she found one got married in Vegas and split up after 16 days- Well it is back on :beer:
    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/sinead-oconnor-reunited-with-caveman-husband-16099416.html

    What were you saying FTBFun :)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    More Tw*tter good news - mentaller Kanye West is going to make the world a better place starting with graphic design, The Jetsons Movie and prison reform - all in one night.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! PPI Party Pooper
    I don't use twitter to post, but I do have a read from time to time. Particularly enjoying the fake Angela Merkel account. I particularly liked this one, which was tweeted at 11pm (our time) on New Years Eve:

    Called David Cameron to advise that the Eurozone has moved into 2012 without him. #euroclub #prosit

    http://twitter.com/#!/Angela_D_Merkel
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • gailey_2
    gailey_2 Posts: 2,329 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Maybe all of labour should stay away from twitter.

    give me a k please bob. and another one and another one-thanks ed you muppet you made my day with your uselessness.

    was embarresed for diane abbot yesterday on sky news when her phone went and she scurried off think it was ed calling!

    i dont use twitter but find some stuff on twitter blows up into news.
    angela merkel account sounds funny.
    pad by xmas2010 £14,636.65/£20,000::beer:
    Pay off as much as I can 2011 £15008.02/£15,000:j

    new grocery challenge £200/£250 feb

    KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON:D,Onwards and upward2013:)
  • RUN_RABBIT_RUN
    RUN_RABBIT_RUN Posts: 426 Forumite
    bob holness = legend

    ed milliband = idiot

    got to love twitter tho, its the gift that keeps on giving to the newspapers and bloggers
    'Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.'
    GALATIANS 6: 7 (KJV)
  • Joe_Bloggs
    Joe_Bloggs Posts: 4,535 Forumite
    A Certain prominent politician said what he thought about twitter/twitterati
    !!!!ing him off here     using the tw*t word live on air.
    J_B.
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