Stephen Fry quits Twitter after backlash against joke on his friend

I am conflicted. I don't really like Stephen Fry, and I don't like the "perpetually offended Twitter brigade".

I think Stephen Fry seems more in the right in this case...

Personally, I quite like Stephen Fry and I think the offence taken is ridiculous. However, he probably should have just remembered that he was speaking on national television... he wasn't saying it to his friend or a group of them where they'd all know the nature of their relationship and take it for what it was. Nonetheless, they didn't seem that fussed themselves so I probably would have just stopped complaining about nothing if the person who's supposed to be 'oh so offended' didn't actually give a monkeys.

Stephen Fry's probably used to being around mentally stable people who know how to take a joke.

Yes but this is my point, he was not around just a group of 'mentally stable' people, as you put it, he was on national television.

Yeah, and most people watching national television are completely sane and probably hardly use Twitter.

If your thought can be condensed to 140 characters it isn't worth much in the first place. Why you think other people should listen to you is baffling.

If your thought can be condensed to 140 characters it isn't worth much in the first place. Why you think other people should listen to you is baffling.

Yet here you are.

Drewski is on Twitter???

He was good in Blackadder but beyond that I find him really tedious and ever so pompous. Not that I mix in such circles but he's the celebrity I'd least like to sit next too at a dinner party.

I doubt that very much.

I'm not sure why you're trying to pick a row with me? I don't think he should have received all of the criticism for his comments but I also get that it probably was not the best thing to say.

I just don't get why you're insisting it was a bad thing to say. The only reason it was blown up was because of these melodramatic ****ing clowns on twitter who want the world to be a puritan, sterile vacuum.

He's in Blackadder??

But yeah I agree with the rest

Posted from TSR Mobile

One of your trademark sassy comments is featured on a popular youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-evKtoPN-8 ~ 0:20.

He quits Twitter every other day. He needs to get a life if he thinks there's power in such actions.

What indication is there that quitting Twitter is intended to influence anyone...?

Maybe he's just sick of the bloody site, can't blame him

Of course. General/Lord Melchett.