{"id":14188,"date":"2024-06-16T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14188"},"modified":"2024-06-16T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T13:14:19","slug":"thin-skin-meets-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14188","title":{"rendered":"X Man: thin skin meets humour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The excessively wealthy man-baby commonly known as Elon Musk is a well-known egotist.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

However, Musk, who has recently been awarded a massive and unwarranted boost to his already considerable riches by Tesla shareholders<\/a>, has another asset that is less well-known, namely an excessively thin skin.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Whilst Musk is a deeply unpleasant character who will not hesitate to insult others, once famously calling one of the rescuers of a boys football team trapped in a Thai cave \u201cpedo guy<\/em>\u201d<\/a> as he felt slighted by his the person he insulted, Musk can’t handle the mildest of mocking, as the following exchange on Twitter\/X shows.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Think before you tweet…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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It is often said that with the wealthy the most sensitive part of their anatomy is the bank balance. Be that as it may, the above exchange proves this is not necessarily a default position for all plutocrats. In the case of Musk the ego is clearly his most delicate organ.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The excessively wealthy man-baby commonly known as Elon Musk is a well-known egotist. However, Musk, who has recently been awarded a massive and unwarranted boost to his already considerable riches by Tesla shareholders, has another asset that is less well-known, namely an excessively thin skin. Whilst Musk is a deeply unpleasant character who will not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,34,9],"tags":[36,16,22,35,23],"class_list":["post-14188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188","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=14188"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14222,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions\/14222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}