And he walked with his tail in the air and tore her little girl limbs apart

[venta]

Once - long, long ago - a major news event would occur and there'd be the usual comment of "... and I wonder how long it'll be before we start hearing the jokes about it?"

Now, thanks to twitter, you can be sick of the jokes before you've ever really digested the news.

It's less than 45 minutes since Liam Fox jumped, and I'm already thinking that if I hear one more comment about him having dropped his resignation letter in a bin in St James' Park I'll have to murder someone.

Comments

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

The is the first I've heard of it. Social media FTW.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

And I learned about it here! It must have happened just as I was packing up to leave work.

[hjalfi.livejournal.com]

Liam who?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Bucket Boy :)

Do you ever actually read/watch/listen to the news? I'm just curious...

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Or if you read Twitter backwards in chunks like me, see the jokes before you've scrolled down as far as the news.

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

I don't even get that joke. It's been troubling me ever since I first heard it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Just conflating Fox's resignation with this story (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15301859), I think.