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Cliff Racer posted:I dunno how it is in Britain but unless you have a race horse or work horse your horse is worth jack poo poo over here. I saw one being given away on Craigslist the other day. Others are just left lose to run wild (in actuality to be rounded up by animal control and then auctioned off to the dog food company for a hundred bucks a pop.) Heather Frost (the cancer-surviving 'welfare queen' at the heart of the story) pays around £200 a month, which sounds high but is around what I pay for petrol (ugh), and apparently her adult daughter helps with the costs (Telegraph link). The daughter also claims that the 6-bedroom house would be smaller than their current one - has the actual size of the house ever been cited by a newspaper? Six tiny bedrooms would hardly constitute a mansion.
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Would it somehow be more acceptable if the family were split into two three bedroom houses? I doubt it'd be grabbing headlines if that were the case...
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Would it somehow be more acceptable if the family were split into two three bedroom houses? I doubt it'd be grabbing headlines if that were the case... This is a pretty good point and probably true.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Would it somehow be more acceptable if the family were split into two three bedroom houses? I doubt it'd be grabbing headlines if that were the case... Oh? Try this HORSE-OWNING BENEFITS MUM TO KIDS: YOU CAN'T LIVE WITH ME COUNCIL FORCED TO FIND HOME FOR CHILD VICTIMS OF BENEFITS CULTURE BENEFITS BONANZA: WORKSHY FAMILIES GIVEN SECOND HOMES
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Would it somehow be more acceptable if the family were split into two three bedroom houses? I doubt it'd be grabbing headlines if that were the case... That's what they have now isn't it
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Feb 21, 2013 17:26
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Would it somehow be more acceptable if the family were split into two three bedroom houses? I doubt it'd be grabbing headlines if that were the case... She'd still get attacked for daring to have children while on benefits (mostly by people who would also be screaming at her if she dared to have an abortion) but it wouldn't be quite as big a story.
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Feb 21, 2013 17:27
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baka kaba posted:Oh? Try this
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UnCO3 posted:DOES CANCER CAUSE BENEFIT SCROUNGING? Whoa there, don't want to accidentally direct any sympathy towards poor people now do we? STRESS FOR HARD-WORKING FAMILIES IN BROKEN BENEFITS BRITAIN: ARE SCROUNGERS GIVING YOU CANCER? Whew, that's better
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Guardian: The Tory campaign suffered a blow when the prime minister denied that the party's candidate was a 'loose cannon' being hidden away. Telegraph:  Indy:  Daily Express:  Seems low res today!  Found the bird, and its pretty hardest sofar this month. Fluo fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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Bird was pretty easy for me, yesterdays was harder because I thought it was a random vanity tie design.
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Feb 22, 2013 08:52
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The Daily Express guy really doesn't like drawing male head hair, does he?
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Mr. Squishy posted:Yep, it's stupid how much I enjoy these cartoons now. Good spot on Charlie's tie. I'd say the first's a poorly-drawn Peregrine, and the second's a Red-billed Chough, at a guess. I think pretty much all cartoons would be greatly improved if they were daily "Where's Wally?"s
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Guardian: Maria Hutchings, the Conservative candidate in the Eastleigh byelection, has denied she missed a national radio hustings because party minders regard her as a "loose cannon". Telegraph:  Indy:  Parody of Rembrandt's The Raising of Lazarus (1630).  ______________________________________ Bob Godfrey died yesterday.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21552718 http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/23/bob-godfrey-career-clips He is most famous for being the Roobarb animator. From the Guardian article, there is more in the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCv0LqvNMwU quote:"Always have someone chasing someone else." Solid advice in this spoofy guide from 1961, which uses the cut-out style later adopted by Terry Gilliam on his Monty Python work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuJHIj1AX2M quote:In this educational film made for the British Productivity Council in 1964, Godfrey explains the gross national product with a breezy combination of graphics, photos (sausages, supermarkets and motorways) and a clipped RP voiceover. "Let's call it TOTO – ten out of ten housewives, ten out of ten people use it … if we want to raise our standard of living, we must use TOTO!" It is a great example of how animation can bring abstract ideas to life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzFwoahbA-0 quote:Before Yellow Submarine, The Beatles mopped up some of the teen market with this goofy King Features series, which generally involved them running from screaming fans and then finding a reason to sing one of their songs to get themselves out of trouble. Bob Godfrey directed four episodes, including this one featuring a pair of horses falling for each other to With Love From Me To You. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M5jENojBiw quote:After Roobarb, Richard Briers also narrated one of Godfrey's longer works, an irreverent, anarchic 1975 biopic of the Victorian engineer that races through his life and achievements with a wild combination of animation styles and songs like "Get a big top hat if you want to get ahead". It won the Oscar for best animated short. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiALmD2Xs-s quote:Here in a short from 2000, Godfrey imagines what life might be like for Prince William on his 18th birthday, trying to convince the rest of his family that he'd be a good candidate for the SAS. "Terrorists would take one look at him and say 'We surrender! He's got floppy hair!'" offers a Dalek Prince Philip. and of course! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4aVXeDg3U4 quote:It's a sad coincidence to lose the great animator Bob Godfrey a week after the death of Richard Briers, the man who gave a voice to Roobarb. It was perfect after-school viewing for a generation of 70s kids (and parents) – a great riff on that classic cartoon set-up: a dog and a cat. With its famous wobbly lines and shimmering felt-tip backgrounds, Roobarb had a deceptive charm, set in a world that almost felt like it could have stepped out of a school art class; but of course, it took a master animator to make it look so simple. RIP.
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Feb 23, 2013 11:41
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Rowson's little fatcat is receding further and further into the distance 
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Junior G-man posted:Rowson's little fatcat is receding further and further into the distance 
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a pipe smoking dog posted:The terrifying vacant smiles really freak me out. It just makes me irrationally angry, it looks like every single person in the comic is silently saying "get it" like they're laughing at the lovely joke. At least it's just mind numbingly stupid rather than mac's brand of middle-England bigotry, I'd punch my screen in if those guys teamed up.
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Todays If... This actually had me crippled with laughter for several minutes this morning.
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Here's today's selection: Grauniad:  Britain downgraded from AAA rating, economy still poo poo. Torygraph:  Head of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, resigns amid claims of "inappropriate acts". Link. Indie:  Osbourne again, combined with the death of Raymond Cusick, Dalek designer. But Daleks have been able to fly up stairs since Sylvester McCoy's day!  Couldn't find today's Mac from the Mail.
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Cloud Potato posted:Grauniad: And the fur cup just keeps getting bigger... Is that the remnants of Cleggochio in the corner? Looks like one of his white gloves poking up out of what appears to be a bag of poo poo. And can anyone tell what the pig in the background is doing?
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Niric posted:And the fur cup just keeps getting bigger... Is that the remnants of Cleggochio in the corner? Looks like one of his white gloves poking up out of what appears to be a bag of poo poo. And can anyone tell what the pig in the background is doing? Looks like he's running around with a chainsaw.
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Flython posted:Looks like he's running around with a chainsaw. Ah, I think you're right: the blood on it also suggests he's the one who sliced off Gideon's face. Rating agencies as capitalist pigs makes a lot of sense, though the leering grin at the fur cup is a bit harder to parse.
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Niric posted:Is that the remnants of Cleggochio in the corner? Looks like one of his white gloves poking up out of what appears to be a bag of poo poo. I think it just might be, Osbourne's trailing off and saying "to save faeces" at the end.
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Niric posted:And the fur cup just keeps getting bigger... Is that the remnants of Cleggochio in the corner? Looks like one of his white gloves poking up out of what appears to be a bag of poo poo. And can anyone tell what the pig in the background is doing? Is that Cameron throwing up at rear left ? Also, what's with the tent at bottom left ? Some allegory for "inside the tent"?
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HCO Plumer GCB GCM posted:Is that Cameron throwing up at rear left ? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's Cameron throwing up, though he seems to be balding quite severely there. I'm not sure about the tent bit, it's definitely something staked down over something (the brown patch around it is what made me think it must be crap), but I think the bit poking must be Clegg's hand. Compare it to here, especially the four fingers:  The meaning is rather lost on me though; Clegg is covering (someone else's?) poo poo, or just that he's both irrelevant and full of poo poo?
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Maybe it's a Lib Dem coverup (the sexual harrassment) and Clegg breaking through it to say 'actually yeah I knew'?
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Possibly Clegg as a tent, covering up the Lib Dem's chief executive alleged sexual harrasment. This is why political cartoons need labels.
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Cloud Potato posted:Possibly Clegg as a tent, covering up the Lib Dem's chief executive alleged sexual harrasment. I think you and baka are probably on the right track with this, and it neatly ties in to the title "denial". Any thoughts on Osborne's broken fingers?
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Niric posted:I think you and baka are probably on the right track with this, and it neatly ties in to the title "denial". Any thoughts on Osborne's broken fingers? Crossing your fingers in order to tell a lie, combined with broken fingers after having them caught in the till?
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Scarfe of the week Oscars' week is easy-mode for cartoonists.
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HCO Plumer GCB GCM posted:Is that Cameron throwing up at rear left ? poo poo intent? I dunno. I love the fatcat's  and the triple diplodocus looking sheepish. Even the furcup has lost its cheery smile.
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Out of curiousity, what happened to the elephant man? Did Clegg fire him?
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Vince Cable's still rumbling on in the background. He's a pretty hard man to fire, as he'd apparently take half the party with him (he once described his quitting as "the nuclear option"). Last time I heard of him doing anything as a business secretary was him shrugging off the more-generous Olympics opening hours drifting into permanency, despite his avowed insistence that they would be a temporary measure.
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Guardian:  Riddell from Sunday.  Pope Benedict XVI forced the resignation of Cardinal Keith O'Brien in an attempt to minimise the impact of allegations.  Stephen Collins was only uploaded yesterday, its normally Saturday.  Telegraph:   Indy:  Daily Mail:  quote:The Lib-Dems are being hit by the bad news that Lord Rennard has been accused of molesting women. quote:“Okay. Which is it? Are you here for a grope or to ask me to take on your speeding penalty points?” Fluo fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Feb 26, 2013 |
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Fluo posted:Indy: Looks like Nick just got Melvined.
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Re: The Indy cartoon - I love that angle on the election, could any comedian really be more ridiculous than Berlusconi as a candidate?
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Its kinda not cool to do the whole 'Heya, mama mia' poo poo, surely.
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BastardySkull posted:Its kinda not cool to do the whole 'Heya, mama mia' poo poo, surely. e: V--- I'm really more amused by the idea of Berlusconi being viewed as a credible candidate, rather than passing judgement on any of his opponents, including the comedian ('s coalition). Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Feb 27, 2013 |
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Kegluneq posted:Re: The Indy cartoon - I love that angle on the election, could any comedian really be more ridiculous than Berlusconi as a candidate? That angle really bugs me actually, because if you read most of the stories (or god forbid watch TV news) all you hear is haha funny comedian man running in Italy, and people are voting for him, what a wacky situation! If you actually read into the background he's basically a spokesperson for an alliance of politicians who already hold some office, and who are effectively running on an anti-austerity platform that's resounding with a lot of people for obvious reasons. He's not even intending to enter parliament, since he has a conviction and he wants a ban on MPs with criminal records. It's just lazy reporting, and it sets up the narrative nicely for what's happening now they've done well - the neoliberal establishment going oh noooo what have you done foolish Italians, voting for a comedian instead of people who understand economics. It reinforces the idea that there's no serious credible alternative, and shifts the argument away from one about economic policy and people's lives, to one about leftist jokers and how people have to be ruled and forced to take their medicine. It's poisoning the well. At least France is backing them up, maybe we'll see a change yet
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