Let's leave behind everyone who has ever wronged me, personally, plus a scattershot list of journalists and media commentators who have one way or another irritated me in a way that tipped over from "light, fun hate" into "full, actual hate".
"I know that I sound like a broken record, but Bergoglio is about the worst choice for pope we traditionalists could have got," one commentator wrote on rorate -caeli.blogspot.com, a thought echoed by dozens of others this week.
"Bird has one wing," said commentator Ray Warren.
However, The key distinction between (1) the "content" of the communication and (2) the telephone numbers dialed, time, length and date of call, has led one commentator to coin the phrase "communication attributes" to describe the latter.
As the Brits celebrated some of their best-known inventions — the Beatles, Bond — people in China pointed that when Beijing's organizers, in 2008, ticked off their inventions, the list dwindled after the ancient era (compass, paper, etc).: "In modern history, what have we had to offer?" one commentator asked.
Never sell the skin of a bear before you've shot it, said one commentator on a French website.
It was also the winter solstice, a good time to plant garlic a "great day for having a baby", wrote one commentator on Twitter.
Google have bought Nest; Apple bought Beats; at least one commentator has also suggested that Apple may be eyeing up Tesla ; Facebook bought Oculus Rift, moves to an app economy and buys Atlas to gain greater control across consumer data.
"There are so many ways of looking at him that have only to do with us," says one commentator, "that have nothing to do with him". "Clarence" (Cartoon Network, Mondays).
As one commentator has remarked: "On past performance, most MPs will need some considerable external encouragement before accepting that the renewal of the MDA is a subject that ought to be debated openly and democratically, both within and without Westminster.
