{"id":8111,"date":"2012-08-10T20:16:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T19:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2012-08-10T21:24:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:24:44","slug":"gagz-a-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8111","title":{"rendered":"Gagz a plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter (no matter how you feel about it) is a medium for good and bad.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, utter morons like Piers Morgan spout their meaningless gibberish to an incomprehensibly large readership.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, there are mentally challenged people like that guy who said evil things to the diver (I&#8217;m a little tired, just nod and say &#8216;yes, I know who you mean&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>But, idiots like these aside (and there are many idiots like these out there), there are many good people.<\/p>\n<p>Sensible, wise, educated, erudite&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am, obviously, none of these.<\/p>\n<p>I am, occasionally, funny.<\/p>\n<p>More on this in a moment.<\/p>\n<p>But the thing that makes Twitter really work (instead of being a pale parody of itself, as Piers Moron uses it), is to follow back all of the people you follow.<\/p>\n<p>It is, after all, a *social* network.<\/p>\n<p>And when you follow all of your followers, you build up a rapport with them.<\/p>\n<p>And occasionally you meet them.<\/p>\n<p>So this Saturday I&#8217;m going to Aston le Walls for Pimm&#8217;s, pasties and ponies.<\/p>\n<p>All organised via Twitter; through people I follow\/who follow me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to the funnies.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s just a selection of my funniest Tweets during the last 48 hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have to spend all day in Swindon tomorrow. It&#8217;s a bit like community service.<\/li>\n<li>My neighbour has just gone to Brecon Jazz Festival. Didn&#8217;t have the heart to tell him it&#8217;s about music.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve sat on this couch and watched so much of the Olympics that I&#8217;ve got athletes bum.<\/li>\n<li>If lady boxing is the official title of boxing sport for ladies, I can&#8217;t wait for the introduction of gardening sport for ladies.<\/li>\n<li>Just imagine how riotously funny the Dressage TV commentary would be if it was hosted by Ant and Dec.<\/li>\n<li>The dressage will now have a 10-minute break for a course walk. (Eventers joke)<\/li>\n<li>Just bought a lottery ticket. Because it&#8217;s \u00a3148m and that would buy a lot of chocolate and ponies and unicorns and stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Sorry, I&#8217;ve been out of the loop on this and I&#8217;m just catching up. So Fern Britton is pregnant and Jessie J is the father?<\/li>\n<li>This is my 42,000th Tweet. It&#8217;s a significant milestone in David Cameron&#8217;s shining political career. Oh. Wait.<\/li>\n<li>Hahaha! London Southend airport. You may as well rename Kidlington airport as London Oxford airport. Oh. Wait&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Only just realised that Fence One of the Olympic SJ is not a rustic obstacle (another Eventers joke)<\/li>\n<li>I did not just spend an entire meeting considering driving into town to hit Greggs for three vegetable pasties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See what you&#8217;re missing?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter (no matter how you feel about it) is a medium for good and bad. 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