Indian cricket fans losing their marbles over a hilarious tweet
A simple joke by an Aussie journalist has riled up some with no sense of humour
Of the many things strange about this Internet chap is it being bipolar. One moment it's all jokey and good sport and the next it goes all serious and sensitive on you.
You never know where its mood swings might take you, and this sometimes exposes us the unknowing, socially-inept types to a bunch of trouble.
This recently happened with Australian sports journalist Dennis Freedman, who famously has a soft spot for Pakistan cricket team but was merely jesting when he tweeted this:
Now the netizens and the Twitterati crack and make up all kinds of jokes all day long, but unfortunately for Mr Freedman, their sense of humour went amiss on this one.
For fans of the Indian cricket team, it is near blasphemous for a foreign critic to even joke about their beloved players. Local critics are fine and their wit would still register, but when a non-Indian makes fun of their own, all hell breaks loose.
Of course, the backlash was on the cards.
Whatever happened to treating a joke as a joke?
You never know where its mood swings might take you, and this sometimes exposes us the unknowing, socially-inept types to a bunch of trouble.
This recently happened with Australian sports journalist Dennis Freedman, who famously has a soft spot for Pakistan cricket team but was merely jesting when he tweeted this:
Now the netizens and the Twitterati crack and make up all kinds of jokes all day long, but unfortunately for Mr Freedman, their sense of humour went amiss on this one.
For fans of the Indian cricket team, it is near blasphemous for a foreign critic to even joke about their beloved players. Local critics are fine and their wit would still register, but when a non-Indian makes fun of their own, all hell breaks loose.
Of course, the backlash was on the cards.
Whatever happened to treating a joke as a joke?