The British National party today asked its Twitter followers to observe a two-minute silence – a day after Remembrance Day.
Which left everyone a little confused.
@bnp Wasn't that yesterday?
@bnp come on guys, not doing yourselves any favours here.
Because the rest of the country commemorated the deaths of Britain's fallen with a two-minute silence yesterday.
@bnp I guess you forgot to do it yesterday??
Then someone at BNP HQ realised their mistake and corrected it, blaming the mis-scheduled tweet on a smartphone.
Sorry for late tweet on silence. Seems smart phones are not so smart sometimes!
Which just left others confused if they hadn't seen the first tweet.
@bnp ??
Soon afterwards, people worked out exactly what had happened – and started to make fun of the BNP.
@bnp A bad workman blames his tools, eh? Or was it some immigrant that had taken his job?
You know what the real problem is?
@bnp I think there's a problem with what's attached to the smartphone...
And just to really hammer home the point, someone decided to poke fun at the BNP in French. Just because.
Pour excuser leur oubli, le @bnp blâme la technologie. #PricelessFail
"To justify their forgetfulness, the BNP is blaming technology," the tweet reads.