"History is written by those who can harness the most editors."
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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have you googled wikpedia and your name…??
I am a piano player and actor…fuck yeah!!
Yet they left out the bit where you stabbed caesar?
1 – That’s false.
2- Who said I hate Christians? Muslims are not the subject.
Once again magatard fail at cognitive, logical thought. Not surprising though.
Yawn…
Are you trying to tell me that you believe that Hunter Biden is innocent?
Holly hell. Com‘on LGR you’re too clever to believe that garbage!
non-sequitor of the day: on another surf site Felipe lists the 5 most dangerous surfbreaks…
The left didn’t adore Trump he was constantly mocked especially in NY.
Maybe a few things missing but I don’t see the need for his angst, I’m surprise he has the page he has 🤣🤣
Very old man discovers some information on the internet not accurate.
Shocking.
Ian “ELO” Cairns
Isn’t it funny? ‘I don’t like the truths written about me.’ Tale as old as time.
If you think everyone is an asshole, then maybe, just maybe you are the asshole.
AIn “Ka(i)nga(i) cAIrns
Ian is just going peak boomer by not knowing that wiki was built specifically to allow users to make and edit content.
I mean he can just make a page Ian Cairns (surfer) then ask wiki to lock his profile if it really worries him. They did the same to yasser arafat when israelis kept editing it to say he was “a rampant homosexual” and the world record in long jump when smart arses kept changing it to “Arya Stark at the battle of winterfell”
Boomers should just keep off social media and go back to listening to pink floyd.
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time…
I have read the ian cairns bio. Its two volumes and written by sometime poster wayne patrick murphy. Its a bit tedious, should have been cut to one book.
The main thing wrong in wiki is the first paragraph or so where it says they moved from kew to Western Australia.
In fact they moved from Melbourne to Sydney first, and thats where cairns learnt to surf (so hes not really a west aussie surfer). Then later his dad got an engineering job in WA and they moved over there when he was a teen.
They also got it wrong saying he was winning events in his adopted state from age of 13 but they also say he’s born in 1952 but moved to WA in 67.
In fact according to cairns they moved to WA in 66: https://thetempleofsurf.com…
That link is worth a read for the lols about moving to a place called “CSLO” (presumably cottesloe), and they also say hes 1973 world champ (there was no world champ in 73).
I don’t Cairn!
then him and his mates busted down some door, and surfing has never been the same….especially for those dark skinned blokes who were hiding behind the door?
Buuuuut, what are his thoughts on Stab?
eliminate x=producers…we want residuals~
I used to edit and make up articles on Wikipedia regularly. One that stayed up for a good few years was about the Pasha Bulkers, a rock band from newcastle consisting of Daniel Johns, Andrew Johns and serial pest Peter ‘Shock’ Hore. They disbanded after shock urinated on a crowd member.
all acriss the unuverse..paul mccarrney
Even the fat girls hate each other…..
Looks like Cairns made two edits on October 3, 2011:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/…
And a smaller edit
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/…
On October 4, 2011 the entire thing was reverted to the version before Cairns’ edits.
No reason was given, but we can hope that it was done out of spite.
“Cairns is currently Head Coach of the PacSun USA Surf Team.”
It doesn’t exist anymore.
Debated politics with him a few times. Nice guy.
His wife is cooler than he is.