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  • Minnie Driver: Why Did She Quit Twitter?

    Actress Minnie Driver learned a tough lesson with regards to the internet: There’s always someone floating around with something not-so-nice to say.

    Driver found this out when a photo of her on vacation made the rounds on social media. In the image, you can see the 44-year-old pool side in a cute light blue floral string bikini.

    In reality, Driver’s body looks healthy enough. She did have a kid and she’s not a twenty-year old. Who expects someone in their forties to be tanned and toned and perfect?

    Whoever these persons are, they made it their mission to tweet at Driver and inform her that they weren’t to thrilled with her body in the picture.

    Keep in mind this is a paparazzi image and that Driver had no idea she was being photographed while vacationing.

    The actress was horrified by the vicious nature of certain comments.

    Driver tweeted as a response to the vitriol, “You try being photographed when you don’t know it’s happening, when you’re on holiday with your kids!”

    Sorry Driver, the average internet troll typically lacks empathy.

    Speaking of empathy, not all tweets about her bikini picture were mean. Some fans and onlookers were quite supportive of the indignant starlet.

    Driver was so upset about the mean comments that she followed up the tweet with an announcement that she is leaving the “Twittersphere” for an indeterminate amount of time.

    She said that persons on the site are “too mean sometimes” about one’s “body” and “soul”.

    The one thing that puzzles me about this decision is that it seems she is yet another celebrity who does not understand the concept of a private Twitter.

    When your Twitter is locked, random strangers can’t tweet at you or see your tweets. It makes life easier than having to quit the site over controversies. It also denies internet bullies the satisfaction of running you away.

    Image via YouTube

  • Naturally, The Westboro Baptist Church Trolls Oklahoma Tornado Victims

    In what may be one of the most non-surprising “news” items of the year, members of the Westboro Baptist Church, professional life trolls that they are, have blamed the Oklahoma tornado tragedy on Kevin Durant, among other things.

    Well, of course they did.

    I mean, why else would destructive weather carve up the Midwest of the United States, if not for Durant’s support of Jason Collins? Had the Oklahoma City Thunder’s star kept his mouth shut about “glorifying gays” or something, the tornado cells that plagued the middle of the country would not have even happened. At least, that’s the gospel according to Fred Phelps, Jr, son of Pastor Fred Phelps, as you can probably guess. I’ll let his Twitter post fill in whatever blanks you may have:


    If these bastions of dignity decide to picket any of the upcoming memorial services related to the tornadoes, would anyone really be surprised? In other news, how insecure does one have to be to go to such extremes just to stay relevant? By now, it’s obvious this pleasant group does not care about perception. They only want the attention that follows their pathetic trolling attempts. Instead of getting upset by them, it’s also clear the best way to deal with such nonsense is to mercilessly mock it, much like the guy in the lead image is doing. If you’re a hacker, or know how to use hacker tools, I guess the Anonymous strategy, at least when it comes to entities they don’t like, is an option as well.

    Not that we would condone anything like that.