Tuesday 28th January 2003
Shades of Grey
So the question on everybody’s lips (well, perhaps not quite everyone) is whether or not ‘Prince Albert’ was being satirical with this Live! article. A few people (including Sam and Someone Else) seem to have taken it at face value - that some insanely arrogant prick really thinks this kind of thing (fair enough, since arrogance is a known problem round here). Others responded to the article congratulating the author on a well made attempt to cause such a reaction - known around the web as a troll posting. Myself, I’m not too sure which is the case. I’ve a feeling that the author will be thinking that he was being satirical (or will be thinking that he’s being ironic, but only if he doesn’t know what ironic means), yet I suspect that deep down he actually believes this kind of thing. Perhaps not to the same extreme as he has written - when someone I know recently said "Oh, just bomb them all, they all look the same to me" (free pint to the first to guess who was talking about Iraq), he was only joking - but that doesn’t mean he’s a holier-than-thou foreigner hugger.