Basket cases

While I was growing up (a thankless process that I no longer feel obliged to continue), I had a bike with a basket. Now and again I’d find mini-manifestos left in the basket by paranoid overeducated obsessives. They were actually in green ink often enough to suggest even less self-awareness than the Microsoft Office Assistant, which does at least give you the option of telling it to bugger off.

But in the modern 21st-century knowledge economy – which has also produced a thriving ignorance economy – these people no longer need scribble their thoughts out and target them at random individuals. Today, we have the web comments box.

Via Don, I’ve just come across the Twat-O-Tron. Click on the button and it generates a new comment in the style of those found on the BBC News site’s ‘Have Your Say’ pages:

Twas ever thus. did you know that the tax-man is inviting in paedophiles and AIDs. We must stand up and be counted. Next stop WAR!!
[Saint George] Wirral

GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANEG, NO SUCH THING, ITS JUST ANOTHERT AX..I HAVE BEEN REALISING OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS THAT ASYLUM SEEKERS ARE OVERRUNNING THE INDGINOUS POPULATION. ALL ENGLISHMEN SHOULD STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. MRS THATCHER MUST BE SPINNING IN HER GRAVE!!!
BNP for UK ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH

Is this what the BBC licence tax gets spent on??! studies show that The EU will soon be peddling their lies. Somebody should riot in the treets.
Persecuted_in_his_own_country bury st edmunds

It makes me sick. does anyone realise that Muslims are turning prison into a holidaycamp. Its time we string them all up. What would Churchill say?!
NuLabour MUST GO London, United Kingdom

Frankly, I think anyone who devotes time and energy to pouring out their opinions online needs their head examined.