Good Morning Late Wednesday Birds.
ChatterBank4 mins ago
Swarm!!
36 Answers
Apparently it's Racist for Cameron to use the word 'Swarm" when referring to illegal immigrants but OK for the left wing Daily Mirror to use it to describe the 'swarms of Jeremy Corbyn supporters who take to Twitter' !!
http://
http://
Answers
Gromit /// Usual sign of a lost argument when the best you can do is put false words into my mouth. /// You must have lost many an argument with me then Gromit, /// It is a bit shocking that the Daily Mirror's journalism is too clever for some ABers to comprehend. It was a joke, and you didn't get it. Which is funny in itself. /// Oh so this is a joke then. /// Swarms of...
08:41 Tue 04th Aug 2015
//Was it the Mirror that accused Cameron of being racist for using the term 'swarm'? //
That wasn't the point I was making Talbot. It's the fact that Harperson, etc have. It been seen attacking the Mirror for using the word "swarm".
Gromit saying I did not have a sense of humour made my day. LOL. Look at the "Jokes" section.
That wasn't the point I was making Talbot. It's the fact that Harperson, etc have. It been seen attacking the Mirror for using the word "swarm".
Gromit saying I did not have a sense of humour made my day. LOL. Look at the "Jokes" section.
//It been seen attacking the Mirror for using the word "swarm". //
Insert the word 'not'. You and Gromit are obviously never had a typo on this site.
Harriet Harperson said Cameron Co armed the Migrants with insects. If that isn't insinuating racist I don't know what is. Also that paper well loved by you both gave the same criticism
Insert the word 'not'. You and Gromit are obviously never had a typo on this site.
Harriet Harperson said Cameron Co armed the Migrants with insects. If that isn't insinuating racist I don't know what is. Also that paper well loved by you both gave the same criticism
I never read the mirror unless someone posts a link to it. So it seems you take a bigger interest than me.
//It been seen attacking the Mirror for using the word "swarm". //
Insert the word 'not'. You and Gromit are obviously never had a typo on this site.
I make many typo's....insert the word 'not ...where?
//It been seen attacking the Mirror for using the word "swarm". //
Insert the word 'not'. You and Gromit are obviously never had a typo on this site.
I make many typo's....insert the word 'not ...where?
Gromit
// Gromit saying I did not have a sense of humour made my day. //
Again, I did not say that. I said you missed this pun. ///
Not in so many words, but you implied it.
/// It is a bit shocking that the Daily Mirror's journalism is too clever for some ABers to comprehend.
It was a joke, and you didn't get it. Which is funny in itself. ///
You also said that lindapalmara had missed this pun, yet earlier stated:
/// Is it not used as a pun in the Corbyn example? ///
// Gromit saying I did not have a sense of humour made my day. //
Again, I did not say that. I said you missed this pun. ///
Not in so many words, but you implied it.
/// It is a bit shocking that the Daily Mirror's journalism is too clever for some ABers to comprehend.
It was a joke, and you didn't get it. Which is funny in itself. ///
You also said that lindapalmara had missed this pun, yet earlier stated:
/// Is it not used as a pun in the Corbyn example? ///
@Talbot
Birds are, indeed, said to "flock" and I think Twitterers should have that word applied to them too.
I don't concur with Gromit's suggestion that there was a play on words going on. There was no story connection between a Cameron speech about the Calais migrants and a Twitter-storm about Corbyn.
However, the Mirror's use of the word was the verb form "(they have) swarmed to Twitter" - the action of behaving en masse, whereas Cameron used the word as a noun or adjective "a swarm of migrants". Using a collective noun, normally only applied to insects, amounts to likening a group of people to a collection of something-less-than-people. Hence the accusation of dehumanising terminology.
You are right about locusts and I accept that swarm has that negative connotation also. Whether bees or locusts springs to mind first obviously depends on the person reading/hearing the word swarm.
So, was the wider context of Cameron's speech that the Calais migrants were going to come here and boost our GDP by the equivalent of a small town or was it that they were going to come here and consume the food equivalent of a small town?
Can the Mirror be forgiven for thinking he meant the latter, from the tone of voice and the stress, if not the words?
Birds are, indeed, said to "flock" and I think Twitterers should have that word applied to them too.
I don't concur with Gromit's suggestion that there was a play on words going on. There was no story connection between a Cameron speech about the Calais migrants and a Twitter-storm about Corbyn.
However, the Mirror's use of the word was the verb form "(they have) swarmed to Twitter" - the action of behaving en masse, whereas Cameron used the word as a noun or adjective "a swarm of migrants". Using a collective noun, normally only applied to insects, amounts to likening a group of people to a collection of something-less-than-people. Hence the accusation of dehumanising terminology.
You are right about locusts and I accept that swarm has that negative connotation also. Whether bees or locusts springs to mind first obviously depends on the person reading/hearing the word swarm.
So, was the wider context of Cameron's speech that the Calais migrants were going to come here and boost our GDP by the equivalent of a small town or was it that they were going to come here and consume the food equivalent of a small town?
Can the Mirror be forgiven for thinking he meant the latter, from the tone of voice and the stress, if not the words?
