"I'm literally mad with the hunger, Ted."
What happened to Graham Linehan?
- Thread starter dumbo
- Start date
"The money was just resting in my account"
Woke Twitter is great. I love all these hateful wankers being deplatformed. Beginning to wonder if Jack /Twitter have invested in Parler and are more than happy for the different factions to find their platform.
I'd share the screenshot, but he included his address in it and it's probably unprofessional to dox him.
Nothing especially egregious, he demanded the pizza be sliced (it's a delivery note and I'm a sweaty mess on a bike, you don't want me touching your food) and warned that he'd reject it if I cycled in a way that made it 'a mess'. Just gave off strong dickhead vibes.
Unfortunately, he didn't bother to check the food when it arrived because I'd have got it for free if he didn't want it.
I wouldn't even say it's just right wing types, the downsides of social media imo is it becomes it's own mini ecosystem and also how it's a perfect endless resource for news outlets who have a model based on live 24/7 breaking news. The fact is someone like Linehan became a giant transphobic whale with all different political cleaner fish profiting off his outbursts and attacks on trans people.
Some were far better than others by using peoples hatred of Linehan to raise money for trans charities but really all this did was reinforce and give the impression that somehow social media itself can lead to any sort of change(Which it can't). Linehan spent so much time on Twitter because he clearly thought it was making a difference and with all of the people gaining off him in some shape or form it's not a surprise he thought this.
It became its own infinite loop where only the people not participating in it can see how it works, while everyone inside just keeps going round and round until their brains melt.
Completely agree with you here. A while back I spent some time just trying to understand why these people called themselves "gender critical feminists", I listened to the lectures they gave, read interviews from them and the one thing which really stood was a complete lack of evidence for any of their claims, they had nothing but rants on PC Culture, one off headlines from the Daily Mail and open bigotry.
The weird thing is while in most countries this sort of stuff is usual coming from conservatives, Britain for whatever has it coming from quite a lot of 'liberals". There was a split a few years back between the guardian offices in american(Pro trans) and the offices in England(Anti trans)for example and I'm guessing Linehan would describe himself as a liberal and many of the people at these "gender critical feminists" talks were at some point progressive.
Honestly I'm not sure why this is the case over here.
Last edited:
I've been reading everything from very po-faced and superior (in tone) books about 'the origins of the British artistic imagination', Clark's Civilisation etc etc & also tweets about the 'Covid hoax'; and this has been instructive and depressing reading. All of these, though varied in mood for sure, hint that we are primitive people and obsessed with the negative. Clark, in particular, congratulates himself and his nation by way of contrast, highlighting the wild-eyed and visible madness in European paintings which he claims are evidence of the madness of mobs in 'other countries'; unfortunately, he's snobbishly oblivious to the truth that this is a British disease too.
If the above reads like posey showing-off of my reading choices, or as irrelevant, that's a fault with my expressive abilities more than the theme: the theme being that we are not as civilised as it pleases us to believe.
With no more Twitter, Linehan has had to find new ways to spend his time. He's now creating profiles on dating apps, hilariously and originally posing as trans, in an effort to out people.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/...en-her-dating-app-trans-transphobia-backlash/
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/...en-her-dating-app-trans-transphobia-backlash/
What a sad man.
It seems like someone fitting this cnut’s description did the same thing last year & was shamed for it.
Or it’s just that this brand of cuntishness is far more prevalent than I ever realized.
Or it’s just that this brand of cuntishness is far more prevalent than I ever realized.
No wonder he's so worried about people cynically taking advantage of transgender issues to invade women's spaces if it's the type of thing he feels compelled to do himself.
he really is pathetic
I can't help but feel like he just fancies trans women and can't come to terms with it
I don't understand whats going on here. Whats his beef with the trans community?
Also perhaps worth noting that (according to twitter) the app in question has filters that would allow anyone who didn't want to match with a transgender woman not to do so. But obviously that doesn't deter Linehan's crusade of cuntishness.
Imagine your life becoming such a state where doing stuff like this is how you spend your time. What a very sad person.
Their existence.
Imagine being a successful comedy writer with numerous awards to boot and then deciding to spend your free time crusading against trans people on a dating app.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's announced at some point that he's got worms in his brain or something.
He seems on a mission to "protect women" (his perspective not mine). I think it's mostly to do with trans women using women's toilets and changing rooms, and some women being upset with this. Quite why hes got himself so deeply involved I don't know. I suspect there's a terf activist he wants to bang. That little blonde milf probably.
i love how radical feminists say they're against gender stereotypes... whilst reinforcing gender stereotypes when they decide how a woman 'should' look like or be. they don't want trans women in women's bathrooms (because they're 'male born' and therefore could be a dangerous predator, obv (but it's not scare mongering!)) but can offer no solution to this supposed problem (which isn't a problem at all given trans women have been using bathrooms since before any of us were born) as to how you actually enforce such a rule, never mind stop traditionally 'unfeminine' looking women from being harrassed themselves.
they're fecking bigoted morons.
they're fecking bigoted morons.
He sees himself a standing up for cis women who are having their spaces - online and in real life - invaded by trans women. He also sees himself as a white knight to lesbians, protecting them from unwanted advances from trans women and the “erasure” of cis lesbians from queer culture. Or something like that anyway.
Anyway, he’s got so utterly consumed by squabbling online I doubt that even he can remember how it all started. It must be hell spending your entire life immersed in - and creating - so much toxicity. He’s a very sad man, in every sense of the word.
Another reading of it is people didn't like an episode of The IT Crowd and he spiralled from there. For real.
There are probably better articles about the specifics but this should give the gist. He was already well, well down the spiral at the time of this article
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...-crowd-douglas-april-twitter-ban-b905895.html
For the first time in history we are getting to see the thinking of madmen in action. It used to be they'd lose their marbles in private, and would end up shouting at their family, or in a park shouting at pigeons. Now we get an inside track to the meltdowns thanks to the internet.
First time that really struck me was with Charlie Zelanoff. The mentally ill delusional who think he’s the greatest boxer in the world. He goes to pro gyms to start fights with boxers and then runs away when they start throwing punches. He decided to film himself doing this and posted it all on YouTube.
He's been even more desperate for attention since twitter kicked him off.
I assume the end of this story is years from now he will attempt redemption with some tell all piece about how social media ruined his brain, which will have some truth to it but mainly seek to make him seem an innocent victim and minimalise the damage he has done.
I assume the end of this story is years from now he will attempt redemption with some tell all piece about how social media ruined his brain, which will have some truth to it but mainly seek to make him seem an innocent victim and minimalise the damage he has done.
Yea I think I seen that. It makes you think though when you watch some people on YouTube whether they are mentally stable or not, I suppose it would be hard to tell for the untrained. Charlie Sheen's meltdown is the most famous example.
This guy is clearly losing it. Why would anyone feel the need to care so much that they pose as transgender on the Internet to out people. Bizarre.
Problem is it’s not just him. The whole terf movement, particularly in the uk, is batshit crazy
Also (and this is a minor point) mocking people for the way they look is generally an unpleasant thing to do anyway and a lot of the time it seems to be his go to way of criticising people.
Basically I suspect that even if I was a TERF I would think he's a needlessly unpleasant prick. And I say that with some confidence as before he went mad and was just some guy posting liberal stuff I agreed with on twitter, I thought he was needlessly unpleasant prick.
Basically I suspect that even if I was a TERF I would think he's a needlessly unpleasant prick. And I say that with some confidence as before he went mad and was just some guy posting liberal stuff I agreed with on twitter, I thought he was needlessly unpleasant prick.
Creates legitimately a cult show guaranteeing life long fame then pisses it down the drain with this transphobe fascination.
Love Limmy but feck me he takes his time telling a story.
my thoughts tooI could listen to his improv stories all day but actual, real stories from him is like getting blood from a stone.
That whole "does this look like a woman/is this a woman" complete with accompanying picture of what would be considered an overweight/unfeminine/unattractive person argument, that was massively popular with Glinner and other antitrans "feminists" on twitter a couple of years ago and seemingly still popular with Glinner today, is fecking nuts. Absolutely, opposite-world lunacy.
Firstly that isn't even the argument they were claiming to make (the appearance Vs some idea about underlying gender factuality), it's actually the opposite to what they claimed to be arguing: that the visage is subordinate to biological fixedness). Secondly, as you say, it's just deeply unpleasant. Thirdly it feeds an oppressive, misogynistic (and popular with fascists) attitude regarding Aesthetics. It's4chan/lolcows levels of depravity but without the consistency.
It's at that point you have to throw in the towel and realise that these people are beyond help.
Even if you are a die hard biological fundamentalist TERF, trying to protect XX, mensturating women at any cost, that argument should scare the shit out of you. It's a misogynistic attack.Glinner on his blog said:
Literally, because someone criticised his portrayal of a transwoman on the IT crowd
https://medium.com/@AlexaEphemera/i...raham-linehan-s-ugly-transphobia-30b15be317a5
More than one.
Yes true but coincidentally I had been watching the Father Ted documentary right before spotting this thread.
Think it’s a Twitch thing. He’s constantly distracted. I’ve heard him chatting on a few podcasts and he’s been much quicker getting to the point.