I did the same thing! Bought a Fire HD 8" at Christmas, mainly for ebook reading, thinking it would be a decent size because it's slightly bigger than the average book. Well, considering my phone has a 6" screen, it turned out that 8" wasn't enough of an increase over that to justify a whole other device so I ended up…

Sure, the past matters, but things - and people - can change. My point here was that I don’t think a company should have fired someone for not being in line with their brand when the things he said that are not in line with their brand were said years before he was hired by them and, by all accounts, he is no longer…

Yes, and he was a director in the capacity of a director working for Troma - a production company that made intentionally shocking films - so coming up with intentionally shocking lines and jokes was pretty much his stock in trade.

So how would you feel if your family stopped telling racist jokes, got new jobs and then, 6 years later, got fired from their new jobs because somebody mentioned that they used to tell racist jokes and everybody assumed that meant that they were so horribly racist that they must have been committing hate crimes?

No, the equivalent would be racists making jokes about racism, which is different to making racist jokes.

People on both sides can create a Twitter storm, yes, but in case it wasn’t clear the issue is with a company firing someone that has worked for them for 6 years for something that they did before they were even hired without any apparent due process.

Ah, so you’re saying it works both ways. Yes, the left can kick up just as much of a fuss as the right, and I personally think that everyone on both sides deserves a bit of due process - and my point in my first post there was that I think a bit of due process would have cleared James Gunn because Disney would have…

You could, but it be wrong so it wouldn’t make any sense. I haven’t seen more support for her than criticism for her. Also, her tweet was made while employed by ABC so it was more important that they fire her to distance themselves from her views because they are very much her present day views, and when you call out…

There is a big difference between Trump’s ‘grab them by the pussy’ comments and James Gunn’s tweets and, if you can’t see it, I don’t know where to start explaining it to you, but I will try by saying that it basically comes down to the fact that Trump’s comments were not jokes - he was talking in all seriousness…

I don’t know much about the psychology of pedophiles but I think they might be more preoccupied with actual thoughts of pedophilia rather than dedicating their time to trying to make jokes about it. Kevin Smith has been making dick jokes for 20 years but he’s not gay.

What’s ego got to do with it?

I am not okay with either, but I’m also not okay with people thinking that trying to make jokes about pedophilia makes someone a pedophile, even if they’re just terrible attempts at tasteless jokes.

How so? Alt-right is loosely defined at best, but it was Mike Cernovich who first highlighted James Gunn’s tweets and his followers ran with it, and ‘alt-right’ is literally the second thing that describes him on his Wikipedia page (after ‘American’).

What do you mean by ‘team’? I think I know but I’d like to hear your explanation.

Yeah, no one was defending his jokes - we were defending 2018 James Gunn, when it was 2008-2012 James Gunn that got fired.

I have it on DVD - but I live in the UK, which is Region 2, and it was only ever released in the US, which is Region 1. This was fine when I bought it because I had a region free DVD player. Sadly, that is no longer the case. I guess I need to make some region-free copies of the discs, or just rip the episodes to hard…

I would be very careful about reading other people’s reviews before writing my own because I would be concerned that, if I did have the same opinion, their wording would make its way into my own writing. That way, if I did write a review saying the framerate was ‘silky smooth’ and then someone pointed out that someone…

What’s weird is that he seems to have gotten worse at plaigiarism over time. I mean, I trawled through the Fifa review and it’s not badly paraphrased, it’s just a few key phrases such as ‘silky smooth’ that stand out and the fact that it makes the exact same points in roughly the same number of words/sentences that…

Hey, that’s my opinion - don’t plaigiarise me!

I’m going to take up smoking and then quit! That’ll some ‘em!