Ian “Kanga” Cairns, a rough, tough, lover of big chicken-fried steaks, has joined Elon Musk in slamming the online resource Wikipedia for “shocking” inaccuracies.
If you know surfing, you’ll know Kanga, of course. He is a man with the physique of a comic-book hero who ruled big waves, who was pivotal in the creation of a world tour, who would launch the ASP after tearing the game off the IPS’s Fred Hemmings and whose thin-eyed stare could give a man stomach cramps.
Kanga, who is seventy-one, was moved to comment after Musk, the fifty-two-year-old billionaire owner of Twitter/X, as well as SpaceX and the nerd chariot producer Tesla, quipped “History is written by the victors. Well, yes, but not if your enemies are still alive and have a lot of time on their hands to edit Wikipedia”.
(Watch the clip and see Benji Netanyahu add, “History is written by those who can harness the most editors.”)
The baseball-bat-swinging-send-the-king-of-the-hui to jail Kanga replied,
“My personal experience with Wikipedia was shocking. Accused of hacking I finally had to engage with another Ian Cairns in Scotland to vouch for me, that I was me. It makes me doubt every page on the site. It’s not Encyclopedia Brittanica!”
When I asked Kanga, whose bravura was last on full display when he took on surf feminist hero Lucy Small over a meme featuring a white man being hung (Lucy don’t dig white boys!), he came back with:
“I rewrote my profile to match the truth. The next day it had reverted to the old version. I asked why and the thoughts police accused me of hacking the account. They told me I could not update my profile. My conclusion is that the ‘editors’ are crazed and I’ve never been back.”
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