I'd say you get closer to the full picture yes.

Do you still have the shop in Leeds?

 

"And now #Leeds...RT@LouEaston Shooting in #Leeds seems to have been confirmed along with a group of about 100 hooded youths in Chapeltown!"

 

http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Leeds

Never had a shop in Leeds. I heard that there was a shooting in Chapeltown, Leeds, which sadly isn't unusual. Then a few "youths hanging around" but not really heard of anything major kicking off.

Ohhh, that was Bradford, wunnit? The one with the free beer and tea in it. And insanely large naan breads after.

Yus! That is still there, I was there today. Doing quite well.

You had a shop and gave away beer? Seriously I could work for you :)

I think.. that was for our opening. I don't actually remember the free beer...

There's probably a reason for that!

You've been awfully quiet today, tell me what kind of cool things you got while out rioting!

I do remember one time going with Koswix to Omars in Bradford where he tried to eat one of their "Notorious" naan breads on his own. Ended up wearing it as a cloak.

 

(Notorious Naan modelled by me and my friend Nadine)

Good job modeling! It looks pretty large, but I'm still thinking Kos is a pussy.

To be fair, after he'd eaten as much as he could, I sat next to him and got /thirsty/.

I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. It reminds me of a very large soft taco shell.

That was not pleasant. :(

 

Although it was fun feeding the bar staff in that Theatre place free naan. They were cute*.

 

 

 

*I can't actually remember them, but in my made up memory they're cute.

I've tried that naan bread challenge. I remember the staff sitting down at the table opposite and laughing at me. :(

 

I got through about half of it, then I was stuffed. Went home to sleep it off, but my pulse was racing - I had to get up and do 50 push ups just to burn off some of the energy. :C

Ha. Haven't been for a while. Pretty cunning business plan, the curry portions are relatively small (but tasty) and you fill up on a comedy bread product.

:D

 

I like the idea of comedy bread.

 

I've not had a curry since my tummy trouble - might have to see if I stomach one again soon.

Just make sure it's a good one and you should be reet.

If anyone decides to go out I'd like a few things. I will PM you a list :'-D

yourlocalguardian.co.uk != guardian.co.uk

I don't even think they're the same company, but they're definitely different websites.

The one I linked to (which I simple found through a search; it's not mine, and I have no idea what it's actually like as a media outlet) is posting stuff from reporters called Peter Truman and Hannah Williamson who are actually there - they're not just repeating people's Twitter posts.





Twitter doesn't give the full picture. Even if all the shit which is wrong with Twitter was magically fixed, you'd still get probably false stuff like this:


And definitely false stuff like this:


Then there's this:

This:

This:

Repeat 100 times.

And that's just the direct re-tweats, there's then all the people saying the exact same thing in different ways, and all the responses to that.

Ok, it's sad someone has had their furniture shop destroyed, but I don't want to read about it in every other message.

I want to find out what's going on.

I want to know stuff like this:








I don't just want to read what the media writes - I'd be interested if anyone was trying to make any statement or if it is 100% pure destruction and pillaging - and you generally wont get that from standard news.

But being able to see an instant overview of the most significant pieces of information (especially from multiple sources) is helpful to obtaining that full picture.



If you really don't get what's wrong with it and need to ask how it could be changed then I'm not sure there's any point in me wasting time trying to point out why it's so incredibly shit.

Do you really see nothing wrong with this:

?