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We knew this site would become a hub for celebrity gossip one day. We received a surge in traffic yesterday off the back of the fully weird news that someone tried to blackmail the ECB over some sort of relationship Eoin Morgan once had with a human woman.
The landing page of choice for those digging into the story was this one about whether or not Eoin Morgan had a girlfriend. It’s from 2010 and in it we give some excellent and entirely plausible reasons why a woman might like to enter into a relationship with England’s now one-day captain.
If you read the comments, there is a marked change in tone from those left within a couple of days of the post being published and those left later on. See if you can spot it.
the blackmailer was from tasmania.
I just want to make it clear that those tasmanians are crazy… us mainland aussies don’t consider them to be normal.
lots of incest & two headed jokes directed at tasmanians.
More or less crazy/inbred/multi-headed than Queenslanders?
Less crazy but more heads and a family tree that doesnt branch.
Another good reason for you not to close down the appeals section on your old posts, KC, if you can find a way to keep them open without slowing the site down too much.
It seems to me that you could make a perfectly decent attempt to blackmail Eoin Morgan and/or the ECB yourself, KC, with all that incriminating and plausible material on the 2010 thread. Top sleuthing.
Still, it’s Pixie Lott I feel sorry for – the forgotten victim of the early stages of your 2010 Eoin Morgan thread imbroglio. Googling her to find out whatever became of her, it seems that Pixie Lott has also found herself on the wrong side of the media this week. In her case, the peccadillo is sartorial – which is surely even worse…in her case, career-threatening:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2921432/Copycat-Pixie-Lott-wears-ill-advised-sheer-black-gloves-NTAs-fails-effect-Amal-Clooney-Golden-Globes.html
That is so awful, I can’t spake.
We’ll maybe test out reopening comments on old posts at some point soon but they do seem to be going through a bit quicker of late and we worry that the change would merely bring back the previous problems.
Trying to give hits to the Daily Mail, Ged? I don’t think any of us can spake.
The good thing about the Mail’s SEO is that you only need to read the link to effectively read the headline to effectively read the story, so you don’t need to click on it after all…
Well that was strange.