{"id":13219,"date":"2023-10-19T11:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13219"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T11:08:46","slug":"dumb-britain-personified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13219","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Britain personified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the regular features of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.private-eye.co.uk\/\">Private Eye<\/a> magazine is its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.private-eye.co.uk\/sections.php?section_link=dumb_britain\"><em>Dumb Britain<\/em> column<\/a>, which typically records the answers clueless quiz show contestants have given on TV.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The advent of social media has now enabled the entire population to show how stupid they can be without the need to apply to appear on a TV quiz show, as in the case of one unidentified woman from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armthorpe\">Armthorpe<\/a> near Doncaster, which was duly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/woman-slams-selfish-paragliders-who-31211598\">reported 2 days ago by the Daily Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/10\/hamas_yorkshire.png\" alt=\"Headline reads Woman slams selfish paragliders who\r\nmade her think Hamas were invading Doncaster\" width=\"485\" height=\"474\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/10\/hamas_yorkshire.png 485w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/10\/hamas_yorkshire-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>The story was also picked up by other tabloids, with Daily Mail commentards questioning the lady&#8217;s sanity &#8211; quite a feat given their single-digit <abbr title=\"Intelligence Quotient\">IQ<\/abbr>s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>If Hamas were contemplating invading Yorkshire, their paragliding aviators would have to train really hard, given the distance between Gaza City and God&#8217;s Own County is several multiples of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedom-parapente.fr\/en\/blog\/the-world-paragliding-distance-record-will-be-broken-on-saturday-19-june-2021-by-sebastien-kayrouz-with-612-km\">current world paragliding record of some 612 km<\/a> for a straight line flight.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the regular features of Private Eye magazine is its Dumb Britain column, which typically records the answers clueless quiz show contestants have given on TV. The advent of social media has now enabled the entire population to show how stupid they can be without the need to apply to appear on a TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17,34],"tags":[36,10,33,35],"class_list":["post-13219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-facepalm","tag-media-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13219"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13237,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219\/revisions\/13237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}