John Boyne has written a poem for LOJ

[DwightShrute]

x.com/JohnBoyneBooks/status/1701490832103080255?s=20

"you once were kind of cute"

That's a nice little burn, like if you were careless taking a pizza out of the oven. Bit of sudacreme should sort it out.

Gosh I'm obviously doing Twitter right! Blocked by Owen and India! Such fun!

I'd wear that like a badge of honour!

Wonderful. I do hope he goes full on crazy in reply, thus proving the point.

King of all the gays indeed...

Response limited to re-tweeting this

https://twitter.com/bencsmoke/status/1701571166828110117

That's a nice little burn, like if you were careless taking a pizza out of the oven. Bit of sudacreme should sort it out.

Absolute genius 👏 🙌

Oh dear. LOJ couldn't manage even an undignified silence.

John Boyne has totally peaked,
Wee OJ completely critiqued,
He/him/they's outrage
At their hero upstaged
'Not the King of all the Gays'

Beautiful! Like something from Justin Schmidt https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2016/jun/21/king-of-sting-the-scientist-who-reviews-the-stings-of-insects

LOJ tweeted that the word homosexual was homophobic and that gay men should not call themselves homosexual. Instead he prefers that they call themselves queer. Which many gay men disagree with because of it's historical use.

That is hilarious.
Very skilled.

If he'd had any sense he would have leaned into it and put 'not the King of all the Gays' in his twitter handle.

@Waitwhat23 😁

Someone do one with 'you once were kind of cute' in it.

Homosexual is homophobic!? 😬

He is hiding behind a re-tweet that is attempting to gain the moral high ground by pretending that Twitter is some sort of sophisticated debating forum and John is lowering the time.

I just noticed what I take to be a nod to Sue Townsend/Adrian Mole in the title (with LOJ’s age).

He definitely should. It would make him look good-humoured and self-deprecating.

It's very noticeable how humourless these Inquisitor types are.

Read Boynes' The Echo Chamber' (read by Richard E grant on Audible) it's an absolute savaging in a funny way of modern society including gender

@Blanketsburg it's too late now. He'd be stealing my idea! 😁

I love that John Boyne has called LOJ out. Brilliant poem.

I can't fit 'once you were kind of cute' in haiku form but...

Once you were quite cute,
No more. Shame. 'Be kind' at work.
Get off your high horse.

Homosexual is homophobic!?

Yep

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1698005974307483992

And transphobic, natch

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1698819904692986331

What the fuck?!

Well, it's obviously 'transphobic', isn't everything 🙄

Who is the po faced, humourless tick Ben Smoke? A LOJ sock?

There once was a fellow named Jones
Who believed that a girl has cojones
Although I like dick
This gives me the ick
O confusing erogenous zones!

O confusing erogenous zones!

😆 love it