Today on "People Overreact On Twitter", the Boston marathon

[deadly_habit]

They've stolen so many of our place names the lazy bastards

Yea those damn lazy English colonists with their unoriginal names!
I think we're having one of those twitter moments right here on DSF.
Since we have more than 140 characters here http://totallyhistory.com/thirteen-original-colonies/

[Mason]

lol ur our creation

[deadly_habit]

My ancestors pillaged ur ancestors lands lol.

[Mason]

u speek mi laguage

lol cheque m8

[Sexual_Chocolate]

They've stolen so many of our place names the lazy bastards

Yea those damn lazy English colonists with their unoriginal names!
I think we're having one of those twitter moments right here on DSF.
Since we have more than 140 characters here http://totallyhistory.com/thirteen-original-colonies/

Massachusetts was founded in 1630

wrong.

[deadly_habit]

It was Plymouth settlement around 1620, and Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629-30 (actually officially establishing Massachusetts) after Jamestown iirc. Been years since history class, but colonization was always interesting as hell to me history wise.

[wub]

Nate Bell, Republican Rep. of Arkansas

[BonerJams04]

political tweets <

[deadly_habit]

Right wing extremists - Get rid of all X people\X religion of people who are behind attack, suspend their rights and tighten everything down to stop terrorism and trial in the court of public opinion
Left wing extremists - Ban all guns, still christian undertone, still the same tighten everything down to stop terrorism and trial in the court of public opinion

I honestly can't think of anything intelligent I've ever read on twitter to date.

[DRTY]

I stopped using ma twitter. It's shite

[deadly_habit]

Mines mainly for keeping up to date with writers I follow posting up articles or links to some interesting articles, other than that it's shit 99% of the time.
It's like text messaging, if it really was something important you'd call. Twitter is taking that to an even more banal level of 140 characters with trending and bullshit.

[DRTY]

It's like text messaging, if it really was something important you'd call. Twitter is taking that to an even more banal level of 140 characters with trending and bullshit.

That's quite a nice analogy of it. I find it really pretentious, why do people think anyone wants to read they're drinking a cup of tea, or having a shit, or watching some shit TV. I just don't get it

[hifi]

i wonder if they know how dumb they really look.

#notanidiot just a #deepthinker

yea that one was good and
"God's wrath #earthquake in Pak-Iran - a response to bombings in #Boston #onlyGodknows"

[skell1ngton777]

har har boston is commie cigarette euro weasels

bostards

[wub]

To prove to you that this isn’t a “Twitter problem,” here are a few from Facebook:








Yes, close enough;


A user of Yahoo Answers, former capital of internet dummies, chimed in:


And today's winner;

[skell1ngton777]

the idiot goverment needs to spend the tax money they are trying to take away my guns with and put tererist detectors in every airport

[topmo3]

the stupidness make brain hurt

[mIrReN]

the stupidness make brain hurt

[hifi]

wub, did you happen to come across all of these tweets via this blog? http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/
also http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 81341.html

[nitz]

What i don't get is these ignorant people above (in twitter and Facebook) could simply have googled the place if they didn't know, before they started hyping?