Yeah, they do a bit. I don't contribute to them much - the ones I contribute to a small, closed groups of friends - but I'm in several for parents of pupils at my children's school, for example, and they can get very heated and Mumsnet-y.

I once sent a marketing email to several thousand recipients in which I'd mistyped 'discount' as 'dicount'. This was very much NOT deliberate. My only defence was that the 's' wasn't the worst letter to have omitted.

So, historical inaccuracy aside, is the rule 'if it didn't exist 2000 years ago, it isn't Christian'?

This seems a little - how can I put it kindly? - badly thought through.

Is the Conservative party unchristian?

Toasters?

Tarmac?

Calculus?

Hot-air balloons?

St George?

The Church of England?

I'll credit her with this, though: her pronouncements are so unhinged and obviously wrong that I never feel I need to dig beneath the headline to discover the nuance that might make me say "aaaaah, right, yeah, I see what you mean; maybe you have a bit of a point", because there won't be any.

It's weird, though, isn't? there was no worldwide web or social media to get accidentally radicalised or stumble across things on. You'd have to seek out that shit from God knows where or mix with incredibly unsavoury people.

Ha! Although Wikipedia tells me that 'Her family name of "Quattrocchi" ("four eyes", meaning "bespectacled") was shortened to Quatro'. Probably for the best; Suzzicchi would be a burdensome first name.

Yep. I think what they subconsciously mean is “you can say whatever the hell you like but if you express opinions like mine you can’t say anything that doesn’t make people think you’re a spiteful simpleton these days”.

I wouldn't necessarily call them idiots but yes, I think your broad point is correct.

... which led to her suggesting we were obsessed with supporting immigrants rather than Brits... the very people that, from the outset, she'd been against supporting. People at both ends of the spectrum, the haves and the have-nots, are all angry, fuelled, respectively, by greed and misguided blame.

It's exhausting, Mark. On a related note, my very kindly cousin posted something on Facebook yesterday in support of the welfare state. One of her batshit friends replied to disagree. Someone replied to disagree with her, prompting her to bring immigrants into the mix. We leapt to their defence,...

Maybe. The important point, though, is that British people should pronounce 'croissant' like they would if attempting schoolboy French in a halfhearted way, i.e. 'k(r)wu-son(t)', with equal syllabic stress, but maybe a bit more on the first, not how my YouTube-influence 12yo says it as 'cruh-SONT'.

I wouldn't go that far; just ignore them, as Dorian says.

You both joke but I've just Googled it and the story, reported in multiple outlets, is that he WASHES HIS BLOOD.

Speak not of that IKEA. May it rest in peace.