Kristen Neel's Tweet About Moving To Australia Triggers Heated Twitter Backlash. - Polidicks

[quote] Presumably upset by President Barack Obama's reelection, a Georgia teen, like many other disgruntled Americans, took to Twitter to express her frustrations. She could never have imagined, however, the sort of backlash she would get for her tweet. As the Herald Sun notes, on Wednesday afternoon, 18-year-old Kristen Neel tweeted this comment to her followers: [quote] [IMG]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/853969/original.jpg[/IMG] [/quote] Within hours, an onslaught of criticism erupted as many Australians pointed out that the leader of their country, Julia Gillard, is an atheist and a woman. Ian Cuthbertson, TV editor at The Australian, and author Mark Pesce, were among those who responded to Neel's message. [quote] Responses: ============================================================ [B]Ian Cuthbertson[/B] "Our prime minister is a woman, an atheist who lives with a man she hasn't married. I don't think you'd like it here." ------------------------------------------------------------ [B]Mark Pesce[/B] "1) Australia does not have a president. 2) Our prime minister is an atheist. 3) Yes, she really is." ------------------------------------------------------------ [B]Gilbert[/B] "our "president" is a prime minister, is a woman, and is an atheist. I think you meant Antarctica. Move there." ------------------------------------------------------------ [B]ABCnewsIntern [/B] "Not one word of that sentence is true. I'm not even angry, I'm impressed." [/quote] According to Australia's Herald Sun, Neel's tweet quickly became a viral sensation, receiving more than 1,400 retweets from "bemused Aussies" and others. But while many criticized the Georgia teen for getting her facts muddled, some Twitter users leapt to her defense, "saying she had been the victim of trolls," Australia's Fraser Coast Chronicle writes. [B]Still, less than a day after her tweet was posted, Neel disabled her account.[/B] In the aftermath of the Twitter frenzy, many have pointed out that Neel is not alone in her ignorance of the land Down Under or in her desire to move there following Obama's reelection. In a post entitled "Kristen Neel not alone in not having a clue about Australia," the Chronicle's Mark Furler wrote that "many Americans know about as much about Australia as they do Austria." "I remember once being asked where I was from by a waitress in a food outlet in the US," Furler writes. "After telling her Australia, she replied, 'How far is that drive?'" "Given the level of coverage of Australian politics on US TV news, you can forgive Kristen Neel for her tweet," he continued. Nonetheless, plenty of people in the Twitterverse have also said they would move Down Under if Obama won the election. Buzzfeed has a list of them here. ============================================================ Source: [URL]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/kristen-neel-anti-obama-australia-tweet-backlash_n_2093160.html?utm_hp_ref=tw[/URL] [/quote] :v: She is fractally wrong..

[QUOTE=Bradyns;38378668]:v: She is [b]fractally[/b] wrong..[/QUOTE] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg/322px-Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg[/img] ?

[QUOTE=geel9;38378690][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg/322px-Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg[/IMG] ?[/QUOTE] "Fractal wrongness is the state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview." It's more of a colloquial phrase. Add it to your vocabulary. :smile:

[QUOTE=geel9;38378690][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg/322px-Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg[/img] ?[/QUOTE] "get a handlebrot on yourself before you say anything so fractally dumb" - cool math kid '99

It really makes you wonder what's going on inside these peoples heads. Probably not much.

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;38378856]It really makes you wonder what's going on inside these peoples heads. Probably not much.[/QUOTE] people have an emotional tie to what they feel is right and they choose what political candidate best represents that

Lol, can't wait for the look on her face when she finds out the prime minister is Atheist. [editline]9th November 2012[/editline] Oh she called him a he, and a president. Oh my

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;38378989]Lol, can't wait for the look on her face when she finds out the prime minister is Atheist. [editline]9th November 2012[/editline] Oh she called him a he, and a president. Oh my[/QUOTE] According to the Fraser Coast Chronicle linked in the article, she backtracked and said she was talking about either Rudd or Howard's run as PM.

Good. We don't need her in our country or anyone else like her.

so many americans have no idea about Australia or what it is or what it's about, it's incredibly embarrassing and you can keep your republicans America

these are the kind of people who voted for Mitt Romney.

[QUOTE=killerteacup;38379274]so many americans have no idea about Australia or what it is or what it's about, it's incredibly embarrassing and you can keep your republicans America[/QUOTE] Australia's that place where everyone has a moustache, most advanced technology and where people fight a Kangaroo to become King, right?

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;38378856]It really makes you wonder what's going on inside these peoples heads. Probably not much.[/QUOTE] Imagine the sound of a vaccuum cleaner pretty much 24/7.

holy shit! retard teenager makes incredibly inaccurate post online FRONT PAGE NEWS FOR 2 FUCKING DAYS NOW

[QUOTE=bye;38380051]holy shit! retard teenager makes incredibly inaccurate post online FRONT PAGE NEWS FOR 2 FUCKING DAYS NOW[/QUOTE] wow what a buzzkill

I don't even know anything about Australia myself. All I know is that when it's winter here, it's summer there. The idea of chicks on a beach in bikinis and santa hats weirds me out so much that I just don't want to think about Australia at all.

[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;38379361]Australia's that place where everyone has a moustache, most advanced technology and where people fight a Kangaroo to become King, right?[/QUOTE] We also are home for the worlds famous cockroach races

[QUOTE=Bradyns;38378713]"Fractal wrongness is the state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview." It's more of a colloquial phrase. Add it to your vocabulary. :smile:[/QUOTE] thanks professor farnsworth

I feel like a grumpy old man when I see people reporting about happenings on Twitter. Why is it necessary to make an article about 'teenager said something inaccurate on the internet'?

it's not it's just cheaper for the media to source your news online from social media, instead of going out and looking for actual news...

[QUOTE]"I remember once being asked where I was from by a waitress in a food outlet in the US," Furler writes. "After telling her Australia, she replied, 'How far is that drive?'" [/QUOTE] I don't believe this

someone in America once asked me if there were cars and internet in England of course i responded with no

Jebus I hate how dumb some of the people are here, I can't stand the thought of getting muddled in with the dummies. This girl's Fractal Wrongness give me a splitting headache...

[QUOTE=V12US;38380127]I don't even know anything about Australia myself. All I know is that when it's winter here, it's summer there. The idea of chicks on a beach in bikinis and santa hats weirds me out so much that I just don't want to think about Australia at all.[/QUOTE]I won't lie, it's a pretty good idea. I'm just so used to spending Christmas on a nice hot day with a good barbecue and other good food that the idea of Christmas being cold is a bit weird to me.

Hey, Australians, we'll make you a deal. If we give you 1/8th of our GDP to just spend fuck-all how you want, will you let us store our idiots in your Baobab trees?

[QUOTE=killerteacup;38379274]so many americans have no idea about Australia or what it is or what it's about, it's incredibly embarrassing and you can keep your republicans America[/QUOTE] don't feel bad they don't even know shit about canada

[QUOTE=ewitwins;38380683]Hey, Australians, we'll make you a deal. If we give you 1/8th of our GDP to just spend fuck-all how you want, will you let us store our idiots in your Baobab trees?[/QUOTE] Don't even bother asking, not even the drop bears would want to touch them.

And then she disabled her account... Hahahaha oh wow, she must be living under an even more remote rock.

[QUOTE=ewitwins;38380683]Hey, Australians, we'll make you a deal. If we give you 1/8th of our GDP to just spend fuck-all how you want, will you let us store our idiots in your Baobab trees?[/QUOTE] No thanks, we've got enough invasive species as it is.

[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;38380810]No thanks, we've got enough invasive species as it is.[/QUOTE] To be fair, British criminals could just as easily be considered an invasive species, however, they're nowhere near as destructive as an American Republican.