O'dear Fabricant

[-Talbot-]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44818546

[jno]

I think Minkyme's interpreation is correct, Kromovaracun, that's clearly the intentional symbolism of it. I believe Noel Coward once interpreted a picture of two dogs mating by saying (for the benefit of a child who was asking) that it just showed a dog had got tired and his friend was pushing him all the way to St Ives. But in a world of angry politicised tweets, I think it means exactly what Minkyme says.

[Kromovaracun]

I understand that, and Minkyme is objecting to the intention behind it rather than the image itself - but it's still a pretty asinine image to look at. I can see that it's a little bit distasteful, sure, but it's miles from what I was expecting before I saw it.

[Kromovaracun]

For 'asinine' I meant to write 'insipid'.

Maybe the heat is boiling my brain :)

[hereIam]

I don't think it's any more distasteful than a blimp of the President of the USA dressed in a nappy !!

[Kromovaracun]

The baby balloon at least has more of a satirical edge to it which accurately characterises the U.S. president.

This one is just 'durr muslim pig innit'. Completely unoriginal.

[hereIam]

But I don't think it does 'accurately characterise' him ...

[naomi24]

Fabricant strikes me as a very strange man.

[cassa333]

Why or how is it Islamaphobic? Is it because of the pig or that he is a Muslim?

[naomi24]

The meeting (not sure that's the right word here) of the two, Cassa.

[hereIam]

When I saw his pic. I thought he was related to Boris !

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Kromovaracun
For anyone who wants to see the image in question, you can do so here:


Or just simply look at the image in the link I posted.

[youngmafbog]

Oh dear.

Well Khan't has sort of invited this sort of thing hasn't he?

[cassa333]

For Funks Sake.

As far as I am concerned it is about hitting the target not about islamaphobia.

[jno]

then why's the pig there?

[sandyRoe]

To stray a lot from the original question, can Fabricant truly believe that his wig is fooling anyone?

[andy-hughes]

Perhaps the message Mr Fabricant can take from this experience is - if you are in a meeting, try concentrating on the meeting, instead of fooling about on your phone forwarding childish cartoons like a fourteen-year-old in a maths class.

Be professional, and be your age, and act like the representative of the people who elected you, that you are being paid to be.

[douglas9401]

Alternatively, Fabricant is the most repeated typo in history.

[webbo3]

Andy-Hughes @ 23:00
\\Be professional, and be your age, and act like the representative of the people who elected you, that you are being paid to be.//

What, like Khan should be doing instead of allowing an inflatable baby Trump.

[anneasquith]

I was in a meeting...........that's ok then, you got a wee bit of publicity . Plonker.

[-Talbot-]

There's a lot of that about.

https://twitter.com/search?q=alex%20salmond&src=typd