Increasing is the key term here. CEOs who have become publicly attached to dumbfuck ideas have always been a liability.

*look around*

O tempora, o mores, in fact.

No platforming has been around for decades- since at least the 1980s. And I thought millenials were all meant to be lazy and apathetic? Or am I thinking of Generation X? Or Baby Boomers? Or the Gilded Generation?

Crystal meth.

Possibly. I don't spend as much time on social media as many others. I do see it happen though, even here, in this bastion of tolerance and dick jokes and understanding and peace and dick jokes. And in my experience it's more likely to be commenters ripping a TV Club writer for saying something too 'liberal' rather…

I'm already fed up of Randy shoving his PC-ness down my throat.

Yeah, I'm not sure I buy much of that either. Social media isn't so much a cause as a resource for lazy hacks to find Twitter quotes supporting whatever they want to be supported. Even the trueish claim that it's easier to anonymously make death threats on the Internet should be put in the historial context of e.g.…

Yeah, the only one I remembered of those was Sacco. And that's only because she was back in the news after the Ronson book.

The point isn't that it happens, any more than you can't find actual instances of people who are dicks about Christmas. The point is that people always have acted like this, both positively and negatively rather than that we live in a unique era of greasy thugs.

the increasing mob mentality of the PC police

Huh. Well, that's me learned something new for today. Time for my bourbon.

Duchovny doesn't really get as much love for his comic abilities as he should. Then again, he chose to star in Evolution, so really he brought it on himself.

- So, Yoda, the category is landmarks. This famous mountain has four faces…
- Mount Rushmore it is.
- I'm sorry, answer in the form of a question.
- Is Mount Rushmore it?
- … huh?
- Oh. Sorry. When my age you reach quiz show format you not understand so well. Meant I, Mount Rushmore what is.
- … Can we get that Connery guy…

Now she's COCK OF THE WALK!

Is trolling for dudes the same as trawling for dudes? I mean, I thought you could troll things, but not troll for things. Unless, maybe, you troll for Jesus sortathing?

I think what's they're saying is… *blows pitch pipe*

Same here, if you replace 'tolerate' with 'remember'.

That's messed up.

At least that's a deliberate ambiguity. And, really, the poem doesn't deny that fences are good sometimes, but that solidly sticking to one not particularly original idea ('his father's saying') regardless of context and never letting your imagination do any work is not the way to live a life.