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I believe there is a mindset that "White bloke living in Thailand = Pedo".

But I'm surprised and disappointed that someone like Musk apparently subscribes to it.

 War Drone wrote:
I believe there is a mindset that "White bloke living in Thailand = Pedo".

But I'm surprised and disappointed that someone like Musk apparently subscribes to it.

But that's the problem - the rescuer was transported to help from Britain where he lives. Its simply a slander.

But its Musk. The man is a massive bell end and I hope tesla takes a share kicking from his irresponsible behaviour.

From that Guardian article. it sounds like one of Elon Musk's major shareholders will be having a word.

Dr. Mills wrote:

 War Drone wrote:
I believe there is a mindset that "White bloke living in Thailand = Pedo".

But I'm surprised and disappointed that someone like Musk apparently subscribes to it.

But that's the problem - the rescuer was transported to help from Britain where he lives. Its simply a slander.

But its Musk. The man is a massive bell end and I hope tesla takes a share kicking from his irresponsible behaviour.

AndrewGPaul wrote:From that Guardian article. it sounds like one of Elon Musk's major shareholders will be having a word.

I saw that. This on the top of face Tesla is only just hitting there production targets for the model 3, and he was not exactly in thr clear.

I'm not Suprised, he might be getting a good grilling.

Musk deserves an uncomfortable conversation or two after a stunt like that. I do not understand why he would think those are OK things so say, or why he would think they would do anything other than make him look like an ass.

The longer Twitter exists, the more I'm sure that it's sole purpose is to tempt people into showing the world what huge donkey-caves they are, and that we should really be calling tweets "twits" instead.

Seriously, nothing of value would be lost if Twitter ceased to exist. I'm just glad the kids and their coach made it out of that cave alive.

 Lone Cat wrote:
Even so. these thirteens will be hospitalized for some time. there's a concerns regarding to contageous lung diseases found in triage tents. in the first day. the last of the first batch rescued were diagnosed with such. who knows if the rest of the football team will be infected as well?

Chest infection is an expected reaction to being in a cold damp place with no food and dirty water for a week. It’s normal and should hopefully clear up with a short course of antibiotics, some food and some rest.


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jouso wrote:

 thecountrygoblin wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
And in the aftermath of it all, Musk is now calling the British rescuer a pedophile.

He’s gone off the handle worse than usual.

Pretty nasty business to call someone a pedo, especially with nothing to support the claim!

He's deleted the tweet since.

Still zero class. The man has gone off the rails since the Tesla issues with production, he should quit twitter for a good while, or let a PR guy handle it.

He’s always been a knob. He has just previously stuck to having a go at other Silicon Valley CEOs and the like.

 thecountrygoblin wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
And in the aftermath of it all, Musk is now calling the British rescuer a pedophile.

He’s gone off the handle worse than usual.

Pretty nasty business to call someone a pedo, especially with nothing to support the claim!

Especially considering the accusation of paedo stems from the diver not wanting Elon's hard torpedo being squeezed up the schoolboys' twisty passage.

 War Drone wrote:
I believe there is a mindset that "White bloke living in Thailand = Pedo".

But I'm surprised and disappointed that someone like Musk apparently subscribes to it.

While stereotypes are generally a pretty useful thing, deciding to call someone a pedophile because they didn't find your submarine useful is pretty terrible, and not to mention stupid, especially when the person who you're insulting is crucial to saving children that the entire world is looking at. He either let the money and fame get to his head or has some information we're not privy to, though the former is far, far more likely.

 Power Elephant wrote:

 War Drone wrote:
I believe there is a mindset that "White bloke living in Thailand = Pedo".

But I'm surprised and disappointed that someone like Musk apparently subscribes to it.

While stereotypes are generally a pretty useful thing, deciding to call someone a pedophile because they didn't find your submarine useful is pretty terrible, and not to mention stupid, especially when the person who you're insulting is crucial to saving children that the entire world is looking at. He either let the money and fame get to his head or has some information we're not privy to, though the former is far, far more likely.

If he knew more then surely Twitter is not the destination and would be better off contacting Thai or UK police.

If it's not worth contacting police. It's probbly bs.

There must be some UK libel lawyers wondering how much they can get from Elon right about now ...

 Kilkrazy wrote:

 thecountrygoblin wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
And in the aftermath of it all, Musk is now calling the British rescuer a pedophile.

He’s gone off the handle worse than usual.

Pretty nasty business to call someone a pedo, especially with nothing to support the claim!

Especially considering the accusation of paedo stems from the diver not wanting Elon's hard torpedo being squeezed up the schoolboys' twisty passage.

So wrong but so funny

He got some rightful criticism even before that - I thought the flexible tube idea was interesting, but that mini sub had zero chance of fitting through the tiny cave passages - any slight turn and its length would've gotten it stuck. One of the rescue divers described getting stuck himself, with his partner pulling him out from behind, and he was wearing gear made for this purpose.

I think it was fine to offer ideas, but it just seems crazy that he thought the submersible would work given the conditions described, or that he'd take offense to their not using it...

He's now issued one of the most graceless "apologies" I've ever seen:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44870303

That's the sort of apology I used to give to my sister when I was nine because my mum made me.

Well that's probably not far from the truth as to why he's issued the apology; though instead of his mother its probably his shareholders.