ON TWITTER
#BLADERUNNERDAY
It’s November 2019, the setting for Ridley Scott’s science-fiction classic Blade Runner.
@wreckinrod wrote: “Blade Runner has officially become a movie set in modern day.”
@ctropes wrote: “We did it, everyone. We’ve reached Blade Runner’s far-flung future. Enjoy your flying cars and watch out for replicants.”
@oliver_warden added: “I’ve waited 37 years to tweet this: ‘Like tears in rain.’ I made it!”
@itsjacob1404 tweeted: “It’s November, where my replicants at?”
@Andrestrades said: “Totally misjudged the future! I didnt even see one person looking at their phone in the whole movie!”
@Markstarrsounds
added: “Well. They got the exploding-state-on-fire feel correct.”
@Fire_warrior005 said: “I’m going to have to rewatch this tonight! But where are the flying cars?”
@egoborder tweeted: “It’s just now hitting me how much time I had to learn how to fold unicorn origami.”
@Rexlivesagain said: “Except for the flying cars, Philip K Dick basically nailed it. The bleak and austere living conditions, emotional detachment, people living on top of each other in an
environmental wasteland. I’d like to demand my robotic sheep, though, that’d be cool.”
#BLOODYSUNDAE
Mcdonald’s apologised for its Hallowe’en-themed dessert, Sundae Bloody Sundae, which references one of the deadliest episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
@ICE_MD noted: “It was in PORTUGAL.”
@isa_is_nice replied: so it’s okay for Mcdonald’s UK to do an ad referencing 9/11?”
@laurenamberly00 wrote: “The entire production of this has to do with people from other countries not knowing the history of the Troubles and how sensitive it is.”
@undeadxpunk added: “If only the ice cream machine actually worked.”
@gorbalsgoebbels said: “There was also a Bloody Sunday in Russia in 1905.”
@Namedwoof reckoned: “One’s a historical episode. One’s an ice cream. Context people! Besides, they’re spelt differently.”
@tris_legomenon said: “That feeling when you hire Alan Partridge to run advertising.”
@APMC said: “They don’t know what Sunday Bloody Sunday means. They’re referencing a U2 song.”