I originally posted this in the British News thread in A&N, because vaguely news related, but it counts as an L too, I think.
The media - the BBC especially - likes to run stories with a human interest angle, especially when it wants to support a particular position. They'll lay out the bare bones of the story, then intersperse it with quotes and narrative interviews from one or two "ordinary" people. It's the written equivalent of
Charlie Brooker's "How to report the news" (which is a great skewering of the BBC's visual language bible, still applicable today) and just as annoying.
The BBC in particular likes to force in trans representation to these stories whenever it can.
This one is a recent example, but you can likely find a troon in most of their human interest stories over the past few years. They interview a tranny about housing costs in Birmingham, because that's such a typical inhabitant of a city with one of the densest muslim populations in the country.
Meet "
Emma Harris":
Power Word
Graham Harris (h/t
@Rusty Metal Skull Gun), a software developer from Birmingham, who makes up almost two thirds of the entire article. He's earning 50k a year, which is pretty high for the sort of experience and skillset he has (UK tech wages are suppressed by the constant influx of jeets in entry-level positions, amongst other things).
I've not found much more about him. He seems to have trooned out during the rona stuff (many such cases). He's self-diagnosed autistic:
And otherwise fairly boring. The thing is, I'm sure I've seen him at least once before in a BBC article, which leads me to suspect he's trying to jump from being a shit software dev who can't hold down a job for more than a year (he's moved jobs just about once a year, every year, for the last eight years) to some sort of media grift, presumably thinking it'll earn him more money.
So why an L? He's earning 50k a year. After tax, that's about 3.3k a month, from which he claims to spend a third, or about 2.2k, on rent and bills. Somehow, despite earning enough money to cover all of his expenses and still have more than £1000 left over every month, he manages to have
no money and can't save up for a deposit on a house, or even a nice apartment.
