After having a little read of several fellow Saintsationalist’s recent body of work, I’ve learnt something. I didn't realise how many literalist Americans there are posting here on SS! They don't.get.irony.
I love irony though. So to be the contrarian (and in homage to our now Con G being in stereo
), in defence of SS’s latest martyr...Didn't post on Saints' matters?
Not even close to true. However, I could name a couple of Saintsationalists (and one in particular) who have actually never once posted on Saints' matters. (Which I don't have a problem with, btw.)
Racist?
Back to irony - and satire. Those who consider Numpty Dumpty-postings racist, either don't get irony, or are being inadvertently racist themselves. As for actual bona fide racist posts, well, I could again name a couple of Saintsationalists. (Which I do have a problem with – the sentiments, not the posters themselves.)
Humour?
Ok, one couldn’t really bag-out anyone on this topic. Why? Because Numpty Dumpty clearly wasn't aiming for humour. Why? Because, IMHO there is nothing funny about the type of bloke who is currently the US Pres'.
Actual humour (or maybe irony again?).
Now we're talkin'. Good old Parkster is humourous. You gotta’ love Parkey. (I do.) Defends the Turnip. Calls for our club to be ripping-off pensioners. Calls for using the services of prostitutes. And all on a forum that Simon, and fair enough too, wants to be 'open to all ages'! Classic!
Then... comes back feigning indignation and crying racism... and all in response to Turnip's actual words and sentiments... being presented back to him/her. Parkey is clearly one Saintsationalist who does get irony! Personally, I’m lovin’ it. Similar re 'Mr Huggins' over gun control/the latest US school mass-shooting. Initially to the reader, this is a bit surprising, especially since it can be read somewhere that he's '(usually) a very stable genius.'
But no, actually nothing surprising there at all. Because, Huggy also ‘gets’ irony. 
I love good theatre. And like Parkey and Huggy, I love good irony.
Sadly though, not enough of our fellow Sainsationalists can see through things like Parkey and ‘Mr Huggins’. Numpty Dumpty has copped the big ‘You're fired!’, or so I read in a post up above. Hmmmm... Imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery.
More irony...? So the baying of the mob has been listened to. Again.
SS gets to add another lost poster to the likes of Pluggsy, that surfer dude, Joffaboy, Pluggsy (again), Bunk Moreland, Big Marty, Dave, Deemsy’ (remember him?), Pluggsy (yet again), Westy, Dan Warna, White Winmar, Pluggsy (once more, with feeling), Zac Attack, Holly Valance, GT (remember him?) and JohnPeterBudgeFanClub. (Who else have I forgotten???) And on top of those, we have the gagging of/howling down of/or simply the going a bit quiet of the likes of The Perfectionist, TotheTop, Sunsaint and Markp (love your work, love your work, love your work, and love your work guys).The SSss (that's SaintSational slippery slope) to vanilla continues. This place may yet become sanitized and soulless, Big Girl’s Blouse Mk 2. (Dust off your cardigans.) Sure, it's the quiet time of the year, but I don't recall previous years being this quiet(?) Tumbleweeds...
A read of Numpty Dumpty posts will actually show no breach of forum rules. Newsflash! Copping (forum rule breaching, btw) vitriolic responses from a small lynch mob of the perpetually outraged, does not equate to trolling.
Whereas, a read of posts from some (certainly not all though) of the baying anti-Numpty cartel will show a considerable history of actual breaching of forum rules in their exchanges, and with any number of their fellow Saintsationalists. Abusively attacking fellow posters, c/f attacking the sentiments of their post/s. Now there's the actual breaching of forum rules for you. Naughty.
Whereas, when (repeatedly) abused, Numpty Dumpty posts that I've read have never once returned the vitriol. Maybe that’s the real reason why Numpty ‘had to go’? Always replied to abuse in (even if not with) good humour!?!
I guess that’s simply not the ‘Saintsational way’? Heaven forbid! What would happen to Saintsational’s world-famous theatrics (and Matrix's popcorn sales) if everyone started responding in good humour...?Basically, people who wanted Numpty Dumpty out, either are literalist Americans who don’t ‘get’ irony or satire. Or, if they do, then that implies they don’t like to see certain subjects satirised... which then implies that maybe they actually do support racism, bigotry, sexism and guns for all. (Think about it.)
And as for the 'get a life’ jibes. Seriously???
Hardly an argument to promote a POV. More like a tired, meaningless and totally illogical cliche. As in, therefore, everyone who is a regular reader, let alone poster... needs to 'get a life'. (Again, think about it.) If one wants to use such a cliche, then maybe at least direct it a bit more appropriately? Like, towards those who (seemingly) so need to ‘get a life’, that they have (seemingly) nothing better to do... than (regularly) jump aboard every time the lynch mob of the self-appointed ‘moral guardians’, starts frothing at the mouth and howling at the moon.But hey, that’s ok. As I said... like Parkey and Huggy, I love irony. (And theatre.)
Ok, back to the tumbleweeds... at least, till our SS thought-control police find their next enemy of the people...
