I did not pick this gem out of the mud all by myself. This has been the quote of the day at all sorts of places, this one included, for quite a few hours:
Next up, Walker’s crisps and Pringles.
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Boris Johnson should immediately hav a picture made of himself holding one of those giant publicity checks made out to the Labour party for L1000.
They will explode.
Wait until they find out that Hitler breathed air.
That’ll be a boycott to remember.
No, that’s alright.
If Trump doing it ever hits the news, though…
Context? Who is Sue?
(I am not British.)
https://twitter.com/mrnickharvey/status/1232632798009315328?s=09
A few days ago a British pol tweeted a picture of himself ‘making tea for the staff’ or something – and that Yorkshire Tea was their go-to. Not a promo or anything, just that they like Yorkshire.
Because he’s a Conservative, Leftist Twitter flew in to an outrage, demanding boycotts, etc.
Sue is someone who tweeted about how she (paraphrasing) ‘didn’t want to think about how that guy was enriching himself off the backs of the poor when she made a cup’ or something. Yorkshire Tea responded with ‘Sue, you’re shouting at tea’.
Best response yet:
https://twitter.com/Sapere_vivere/status/1232230409989218304
(Boris drinks water! Boycott THAT, SJW’s!)
This whole thing is peak Britain 🇬🇧 😆
Looks like Yorkshire Tea is double plus screwed. Jeremy Corbyn drinks it too …
http://www.kimdutoit.com/2020/02/26/storm-in-a-teacup/
All they need to do now is have the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem photographed holding a packet of the stuff and that’s all the corner shops boycotting it for total annihilation.
Wasn’t Hitler a tea drinker? 😳
But seriously, this has all the subtle brilliance of a 4chan operation. Who knew it was this easy to get ctrl-left loonies to stop doing things?
Jellyfish Lineker commented that the Moggster was after his job at Walkers, considering how much the taxpayer forks out to keep Gary’s little smirking pieface on MotD, which is about 20x what we pay JRM to lounge around the green benches, it would probably only be fair.
Finally, you fall in love with the british people. 😆
On the other hand:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/13/yorkshire-tea-not-happy-brexit-going-8895301/
Yorkshire Tea would seem to have been taking sides against Brexit, about a year ago. Maybe their current social media guy is different from whoever said that.
Although, I’m not entirely clear what they were “not happy” about. Was it the fact of Brexit? Think so. Or, the fact that Brexit was happening so slowly? Maybe so.
More research is needed, and just now I am snowed under with other things.
Colonial here politely requesting a translation.
I don’t think you can get here from there.
Alex DeWynter (February 29, 2020 at 1:53 am), the following translations, inserted into the text of Runcie Balspune (February 26, 2020 at 10:09 pm), may assist your making sense of it.
Jellyfish Lineker = Gary Lineker, ex-Tottenham and England footballer, now TV presenter
MotD = Match of the Day, the BBC programme he presents (for a generous salary, paid out of the BBC license fee)
the Moggster/JRM = Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, conservative politician, Brexiteer, unpopular with the woke despite (or because of) his habit of replying with unyielding politeness to their leading questions
Walkers = Walkers Crisps, who used Gary Lineker in an advertising campaign
the green benches = the house of commons (the upholstery of the benches on which MPs sit is green)
HTH = Hope This Helps – and I fully understand why a foreigner might need help with it (I had to check the Walkers Crisps bit myself). 🙂
The left appeared to be angry that a brown skinned man, the Chancellor, was shown drinking Yorkshire tea.
Clearly the left are RACIST.
RACIST, RACIST, RACIST.
As confirmed by the attack by the left on a women-of-colour the Home Secretary a few days later. With sexist abuse being used by the RACIST and SEXIST Professor A.C. Grayling.
Professor Grayling by his use of the word “succubus” as a term of abuse (clearly associating a female with using sex to destroy men – a more SEXIST claim can not be thought of) is clearly also a specieist (sorry SPECIEIST) – as he is showing bigotry against the Demonic Community, clearly xenophobic (sorry I mean XENOPHOBIC) against those who origin is from Hell.