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To find this so fucking offensive?

149 replies

KorsILoveMichael · 24/05/2015 23:22

Not sure if I'm overreacting.

A semi famous social media person uploaded a photo to there Instagram of them with a sellotape wrapped around their face up to their nose to resemble tubes. Making fun of the film Fault in our Stars, a film about a girl with cancer.

I said I found it disgusting to be told I shouldn't be offended because

"It's a fucking film! She didn't really have cancer! Go to bed you fucking noodle!"

Seriously aibu?

OP posts:
WinterOfOurDiscountTents15 · 25/05/2015 09:41

Seems like its moved on, but yabu, imo. I've had cancer, and I don't find this offensive.

BoreOfWhabylon · 25/05/2015 09:42

What is even more horrible is that Derek had to namechange a while ago because she was trolled in a most spectacularly horrible fashion by someone who pretended to be her on here.

I hope MNHQ will bear that in mind.

BoreOfWhabylon · 25/05/2015 09:43

Too many 'horribles' there.

FarFromAnyRoad · 25/05/2015 09:47

I've seen that sort of thing before BoW - it's usually against a poster who is, or is perceived as, 'popular'. Some people with tiny little jealous minds cannot cope with that. Tragic, but true.

BoreOfWhabylon · 25/05/2015 09:50

Yes, every messageboard has them but it's made so much easier here because of the namechange facility.

ilovesooty · 25/05/2015 09:50

Good point Bore

anotherdayanothername1 · 25/05/2015 09:50

I'm not going to get my link am I?

RainbowFlutterby · 25/05/2015 09:50

Well after that attack on Derek I kind of hope that she is really a 48 year old happily married man who pisses about on the Internet for a laugh.

PinkSquash · 25/05/2015 09:52

The OP seems hell bent on being as rude as possible, what a coward hiding behind a NC

BaronessBomburst · 25/05/2015 10:03

Derek is an extremely wealthy computer mogul with a house in the Bahamas, an estate in Southern Italy, and another one in California. He is extremely handsome, and has impeccable taste.
I know because I shagged him once.

Alchemist · 25/05/2015 10:13

Baroness I, too, have spent a night in heaven with Derek.

Derek is all that and then some.

PattiODoors · 25/05/2015 10:41

Bimey OP. Best have a think about how you've let MN down, let other posters down and crucially let yourself down etc

Gilrack · 25/05/2015 14:54

Derek sounds rather like Nolan off Revenge Grin I so would, if I weren't twice his age, he wasn't a fictional character and was heterosexual!

GratefulHead · 25/05/2015 15:11

Just read all this thread, I think what occurs most to me is the OP, accuses another poster of being addicted to MN ....and yet seems to have amassed an amazing amount of info about that other poster's life. Surely this suggests the OP may herself spend rather too much time here! I am on MN a lot but I didn't know half the details she posted about ...sorry Derek am evidently failing lol.

I do vaguely recall you not being around for a few days but beyond that I am clueless.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 25/05/2015 15:19

"However as I said PBP s seem to always be with us. Dealing with them must be like whack a mole."

Love this image, Ilovesooty! Grin

RubieWoo · 25/05/2015 15:19

I think it's in bad taste. If it were someone "blacking up'' their face to dress up like Othello I wonder if it would get the same responses.

RubieWoo · 25/05/2015 15:22

Don't know who Derek is beacuse I don't pay much attention to user names, but I am reminded of that awful show with Ricky Gervais as Derek.

LeoandBoosmum · 25/05/2015 15:26

Semi-famous? Are we talking pathetic wannabe of TOWIE ilk, that kind of thing? What they posted is in no way funny and is actually incredibly offensive (to anyone with a brain and heart). Laugh at them. They are so desperate to be noticed that if it means being 'controversial' so be it. Pretty sad in the end, no?

EatShitDerek · 25/05/2015 15:48

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 25/05/2015 15:49

Stepbrothers, great film! Wink

TiggyD · 25/05/2015 15:53

Pic or it didn't happen OP.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 25/05/2015 15:59

TiggyD I don't think OP will be back. Wink

WorraLiberty · 25/05/2015 16:03

Chuckling away here at the whack a mole image in my head Grin

Fatmomma99 · 25/05/2015 16:49

Hi. Posted early on in thread, and then didn't come back for a while, so I've missed all this.

Just to say, I think a lot of EatShit, and just wanted to post support for her.

I would be V worried about outing all previous NCs, because if you were interested enough to join my dots, it would out me and various completely innocent others, most of them children.

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