Do watch this to the end

#Qatar #LGBTQ #football #worldcup

Now, I can’t guarantee it, but surely this is a (very fine) piece of ironic satire, not reality? I can understand why some of you might think it’s real, and it’s certainly performed in response to a sad reality… but surely it isn’t actually, in fact, truly, really, verily … real?
@stephenfry It's the quite wonderful Exploding Heads. Fine, straight faced satire
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@gbfo @MikeCollins @stephenfry thought it was slightly brasseyeish! Take your overall gayness and halve it!
@MikeCollins @stephenfry Indeed so. An underappreciated genius. 'Love to the family. '
I got it as a satire pretty quickly as there are no logos or images in the background. Shows how much training you need these days to differenciate fake from real news...
@stephenfry satire. if it was saltire it would be Scottish
@stephenfry The questions were too on-point to be real.
@stephenfry It's all very sad. Thank God we can laugh at it still. In public!
@stephenfry The US and UK (mainly England) are well beyond parody at this stage, so there's really no way of knowing.
@stephenfry I can't even promise I am not a parody anymore, let alone stuff online
@stephenfry beer and football being a fundamental human right? I’ll have to double check the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but I don’t recall it specifically mentioned
@stephenfry Fortunately they included a straightforward punchline as an indicator.
@stephenfry He thinks the British are "loved the world over"? 😂
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Who the hell is the other guy?
@stephenfry wow...."don't be too gay" , followed by "beer and football is a fundamental right" is a helluva take.
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No words other than WT 🦆
@stephenfry Did the minister who suggested people “compromise” on their gayness in Qatar also decided to half whatever little intellect he had the moment he entered government?
@stephenfry *Dials the gay up to 11*
@stephenfry I can't tell if that's real or satire.
@mansr @stephenfry
That's the trick to its brilliance
@stephenfry wow just wow is all you can say. Who would think in this day and age these conversations are still being had.
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Hilarious
And this terrible person probably has no selfawareness of having been an utter fool and a bigot.
@stephenfry The Exploding Heads are brilliant. And now here...@ExplodingHeads

@DannyCallcut @stephenfry @ExplodingHeads

Thanks for that, never seen these before but that was hilarious and satirically spot on. Followed.

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am I allowed to copy this to Twitter, while it exists?
@stephenfry
just started here today .. not sure of all the 'rules' and don't want to get ba nn ed or fined before I start for social faux pas ...
@stephenfry "Insensitive content" would have been a better content warning 😲
@stephenfry I'm apalled at this exchange taken out of context, and I wonder if he's just trying to protect LGBTQ people while visiting a country that can be quite-literally deadly to people who are not heterosexual.
@stephenfry an awful lot of people don't seem to realise this is parody :) Check out the @ExplodingHeads
@stephenfry I would love to see the PSA ad, "How Gay Is Too Gay".
@stephenfry Did not turn out as expected - at least in terms of alcohol and football. 😂
@stephenfry Halve your gay? Beer & football (soccer in 🇺🇸) are a fundamental right? 🤨 This caller explains the stupid that is #brexit & #alcohol #Tories
@rachel_maria65 @stephenfry they are comedians - @ExplodingHeads
@monkeon @stephenfry the man calling in is a comic?
@monkeon @stephenfry Thank you - I finally figured it out. Derp on me 🤪
@rachel_maria65 @stephenfry not at all, it is getting harder and harder to tell nowadays!
@precious82721 @rachel_maria65 @stephenfry you of course are within your rights to either find it funny or not, but satire can sometimes be challenging. They clearly don’t actually believe the things they say (hence satire).
@monkeon @rachel_maria65 @stephenfry “I'm afraid I'm not that interested in trans folks," the “Monty Python” actor wrote in one of his tweets defending the "Harry Potter" author. Satire? 🤔 Nope don’t think so. I don’t believe anything John Cleese said is considered satire. Clearly you don’t know that John Cleese is transphobic. Stephen Fry has said that JK Rowling remains "a friend" – but acknowledged the "upset" she has caused with her comments on trans lives.
@rachel_maria65 @stephenfry Hey Rachel, it's satire from these guys: @ExplodingHeads Definitely tearing a strip off the "just show a bit of respect" rhetoric.

@rachel_maria65 it's UK satire.

@ExplodingHeads

Sometimes it's hard to spot as our politicians are so deranged

@pgaskell @ExplodingHeads Having survived the orange 🍊 crud, magat gop electeds, the plague, I know exactly what you mean. 🖖🏽
@rachel_maria65 watching that from afar was horrific enough, I can't imagine what it would have been like
@pgaskell I wonder whether all 🇺🇸 citizens should be micro dosed with psychedelics & group therapy.
@rachel_maria65 I think when they've done the US then there's quite a few over here to be fixed as well.
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Almost the end of satire. #Qatar is a disgrace and I hope whichever @fifacom @fifaworldcup officials profited from their selection burn for eternity.