Remember that story about the little girl with the facial scars being allegedly thrown out of KFC because her injuries were upsetting the other customers: FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE
 
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-claim-kfc-kicked-3-year-old-disfigured-granddaughter-hoax-report-article-1.1841151
 
I mean I don't want to bang my own drum here, primarily because it was so obvious a 6 year old child could have seen through it, but I knew this crap was a hoax from the start. Why? Because EVERY SINGLE TIME one of these stories spreads like wildfire on social media and everyone's rushing to their keyboards to express their most righteous outrage, it turns out that the person who made the claim fabricated the whole thing for attention. Waitress writes offensive note on customers receipt condemning their "lifestyle" or their skin color or some such thing. Customer posts photo of receipt or otherwise recounts their experience on Facebook. Facebook users issue stark condemnations in their thousands. Mass media picks up the story. Goes viral. Millions of people vow never to shop at store X or eat at restaurant Y every again. Stories continue for about a week. And then it's all exposed as a big con. 
 
When this KFC story came out, I made a comment on a news site along the lines of "here we go again, I wonder how long before it's exposed as a hoax." Downvoted something like 600 times. Roundly condemned over and over again in comment replies for being a "hater." People telling me "of course it's true, why would she make up something like that? KFC is a corporation and all corporations are evil." 
 
Why does the general public have such awful, awful judgment? How are they so utterly terrible at seeing patterns? It kind of freaks me out that these people can vote and serve on juries etc. 

That they have a bad judgement and are spreading that junk on social networks is the least of my worries.
 
But as you say, those people vote, they drive, they spawn... 

To be honest with you, when I read the news, I didn't know what shocked me most - that a parent would feed their children KFC or the amount of rubbish and disinformation going around about pitbulls.

People seem to be addicted to internet news and they like to be able tosay things like "this would have been the best thing to do in that situation" and c.rap like that. People really need to get out and lead their own lives.
 
Here is something frpom today's New zealand Herald- very similiar to the KFC one which was also reported over here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz...&objectid=11280689

Experiments in mind control.

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People seem to be addicted to internet news and they like to be able tosay things like "this would have been the best thing to do in that situation" and c.rap like that. People really need to get out and lead their own lives.
 
Here is something frpom today's New zealand Herald- very similiar to the KFC one which was also reported over here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz...&objectid=11280689

Yep we've seen this kind of story over and over again. To be honest I'm less annoyed at the liars who fabricate these stories as I am at the reaction of the idiot section of the public. With regards the fabricator, I think there are various factors at play (I would speculate the mental pressures of belonging to a minority group coupled with the fact that society encourages a victim mentality by offering unbounded sympathy and attention to anyone who is perceived to be the victim of some kind of oppression). But the public is motivated by nothing more than a self indulgent love of expressing outrage and feeling self-righteous. It makes them feel warm inside. 

Loneliness plain and simple. The kind of thing people who need people used to discuss with their flesh and blood friends over coffee, stupid meaningless misplaced outrage, unimaginative useless advice, envy disguised as admiration, etc. Now it finds an outlet in text and picture on the internet for everyone to admire.
 
 

Oh and of course my outrage over the fake outrage is totally different 

Yep, more and more of these every day. Noticed a story yesterday about a Primark customer buying a garment with a label sewn inside reading 'forced to work exhausting hours'. It'll be de-bunked.

A few months back, Rolling Stone had a headline which went "Courtney Love thinks she knows where the missing Malaysian plane is".
 
I remember exactly how I felt when I read it, and, that's when it stroke me that 99% of what I read on the net is as insightful and relevant as Courtney Love's view on aerial traffic, or quantum physics.
 
Which is why I got back to good old fashioned books and avoid readers comments as much as humanely possible. Too many Courtneys...