THE speed at which Twitter users can mobilise and direct their fury towards anything they deem to be offensive is frightening, and it's getting quicker.

Last week, The Old Angel Inn in Nottingham cancelled a terrifically distasteful "Bag a Slag, Grab a Hag" speed dating night after a multitude of complaints to the city council and the police.

It had been first advertised less than a week previously.

Given the endless column inches devoted to detailed deconstructions of just why the night's now-infamous poster was so offensive, promoters up and down the country must be kicking themselves that they didn't take a similar approach in search of free publicity.

Tens of thousands of people up and down the country will have read the pub's name several times by now: coverage that a Hollywood blockbuster's advertising budget would struggle to achieve.

Not bad for what at best amounts to a tasteless PR stunt.

There must be the temptation to pull something similar off at Driftwood: one of the Sauchiehall Street drag's busiest student bars.

Their crowd is just young and naïve enough to be drawn in by such an event.

It's one of the main pre-loading stops before the short hop down to The Garage and the like, so what it lacks in subtlety and taste it makes up for in other ways.

There's a vibe of boundless enthusiasm here, a down-to-earth charm (if that's the right word), and of course it helps that the drinks are cheaper than the sentiment in a reposted "please share this" Facebook photo.

It's not the most sophisticated joint you'll ever visit, but something tells me that it doesn't really matter to the punters.