Random follow #70 - @trademe_txt

This little beauty of a twitter account is the perfect remedy for boredom.  You can follow @trademe_txt and discover a menagerie of idiocy, bigotry, rednecks and general thick headedness.  What is most concerning is that the tweets shared via this account are real comments made by real New Zealanders on a real website called Trade Me.

In short the tweets are a collection of off the wall comments made by buyers and sellers in the Trade Me message boards.  And some people are pretty thick or complete rednecks.  There are no plain tweets amongst this lot. This was the first ever tweet for this account and boy was it a goodie -

"So Where do all the non maori PD workers do their work ?"

I seriously hope this account isn't pulled down or sanitized at all.  It is a true to life mirror of the underbelly of New Zealand society.  It is raw, gritty and at times really infuriating. Lets look at a few examples -

"[Re: problems with immigration] A refugee fresh from Mogadishu comes and settles in NZ with his half dozen wives."

"More importantly do they consult Pakeha? Do they understand the V8 is an important pakeha taonga and should be treated with a great deal..."

"No CO2, no life. Greenies are rather thick."

So the @trademe_txt account is quite new and has very few followers. But for those of us who have been lucky (or unfortunate) enough to follow this account it certainly adds some spice to your timeline.  As a disclaimer this account has nothing to do with the official Trade Me and I have no idea who owns this account.  But whoever they are is doing a really great job of ousting some of the most stupid and foolish people that breathe air right now.  Then again if they did breathe oxygen properly maybe their comments wouldn't be quite so thick.

Then again you read these tweets as stand alone comments and take them with a bit of salt some of them are really ingenious and bloody funny to boot.

These people really exist.  And they post their comments online.  They live next door to you.  They work with you.  These are the people of New Zealand.  Hear them roar.....