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quote:all you hear is haha funny comedian man running in Italy, and people are voting for him, what a wacky situation!
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Feb 27, 2013 14:49
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Zephro posted:No kidding. I don't see how it's any more ludicrous than "haha funny Bullingdon men running Britain, Chancellor's only experience in the real world is folding towels in Selfridges. And people are voting for them, what a wacky situation!" But the purpose of towel-folding isn't to make an audience laugh. Surely that contributes?
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Feb 27, 2013 16:01
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Feb 27, 2013 18:31
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You may contain traces of pit pony!!  Loving this weeks If...  Guardian:  It's the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war. Tony Blair says Iraq would be far worse today under Saddam Hussein. Telegraph:  Indy:  Daily Mail:  British Gas have announced huge profits but still the bills go up. quote:“It’s endlessly fascinating. From up here one can see the strained worried faces of mere mortals as they struggle to pay their gas bills.” Daily Express:   Oldish article but just came across it. Never knew this about Monkey Dust http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/sep/05/howimournformonkeydust quote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEVJ_48YgTg I miss Monkey Dust. 
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Feb 28, 2013 06:47
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Fluo posted:I miss Monkey Dust. Oh god this. I think it's still my favourite clip show of all time. The political satire, the artistic range, the music, the incredibly dark humour... I didn't realise until quite recently that Harry Thompson had died of lung cancer at a very young age, bringing the series to a permanent close. It rather puts the Closure sketch into perspective. Also, that Mac cartoon seemed oddly sympathetic to the proles. I guess even Mail readers are feeling the pinch, leading to an unusual moment of solidarity.
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Feb 28, 2013 07:40
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Kegluneq posted:Oh god this. I think it's still my favourite clip show of all time. The political satire, the artistic range, the music, the incredibly dark humour... I didn't realise until quite recently that Harry Thompson had died of lung cancer at a very young age, bringing the series to a permanent close. It rather puts the Closure sketch into perspective. I so loved Monkey Dust, only ever got season1 on dvd, never been able to find season 2 and I think season 3 wasn't brought out on dvd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VovRTt0hAPk The Anne Frank one is blocked on youtube so can't link that one.  Anne Frank one; Jews are Irish, Nazis are British, Heroes are American. One of the best lines in it "this is for president Churchill!" and the American narration keep pronouncing stuff wrong like instead of Reich they say Re-e-sh. Edit: Found it but had to get it outside youtube http://en.vidivodo.com/video/monkey-dust-ann-frank/166592
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Feb 28, 2013 08:02
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Fluo posted:Anne Frank one; Jews are Irish, Nazis are British, Heroes are American. One of the best lines in it "this is for president Churchill!" and the American narration keep pronouncing stuff wrong like instead of Reich they say Re-e-sh.
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Feb 28, 2013 08:50
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Kegluneq posted:I think the Crusades one is still my favourite of those. 'Dedicated to all the Americans who died during the Early Middle Ages.' Ahahaha yeah, also the 'New Truth' one was great.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asFU5ReztXU
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Feb 28, 2013 09:36
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Let's not forget the true star of Monkey Dust  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCywGhHQMEw
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Feb 28, 2013 10:40
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mfcrocker posted:Let's not forget the true star of Monkey Dust Always loved this one, especially "by the powers invested in me by...." Though that compilation doesn't have the best one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaUkt59vY1Q&t=150s I found it a bit disappointing that Chris Morris's film Four Lions was basically just a longer, but less funny and biting, version of the "Brummie Terrorists" sketches.
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Feb 28, 2013 11:02
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mfcrocker posted:Let's not forget the true star of Monkey Dust Oh gods, the Paedofinder General Song has disappeared from Youtube This is terrible.
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Feb 28, 2013 11:14
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I need to dig out my season 1 DVD when I get home. Edit: this is not the UK megathread 
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Feb 28, 2013 11:38
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NightHunter posted:I need to dig out my season 1 DVD when I get home.
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Feb 28, 2013 11:55
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Fluo posted:
Holy gently caress what is this. Is someone secretly filling in for Mac while he's on holiday or something? (I'm not going to the website to find out if the quote is really "lucky profits are up, those hoodies are breaking into your car again") Also that Telegraph one. CON LAB LIB DEM, CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR
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Feb 28, 2013 13:45
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baka kaba posted:Also that Telegraph one. CON LAB LIB DEM, CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR
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Feb 28, 2013 13:49
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Kegluneq posted:Also, that Mac cartoon seemed oddly sympathetic to the proles. I guess even Mail readers are feeling the pinch, leading to an unusual moment of solidarity. baka kaba posted:Holy gently caress what is this. Is someone secretly filling in for Mac while he's on holiday or something? The Mail is a populist newspaper, not a newspaper for the "elites". The same populism motivates anger at executives of power companies and anger at people on benefits. This cartoon isn't sympathetic to poor people. It's just angry about a group that are seen to be costing Daily Mail readers some money. Whitefish fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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Feb 28, 2013 14:24
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Yeah but it shows a smidgen of awareness and even class consciousness there, especially in how the caption is worded. It's like he almost gets it
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Feb 28, 2013 15:08
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I absolutely adored Monkey Dust when it was on the telly, and even today it comes across as almost preternaturally prescient about an awful lot of things (McDonalds selling degrees comes to his mind). But upon rewatch, there is some pretty iffy stuff in there as well. Joint greatest ever soundtrack, though (tied with Spaced). Also, I'm constantly bewildered by just how completely inept, banal and unfunny those Express cartoons are. I'd post a link to Brant, Physical Cartoonist, but he's actually better.
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Feb 28, 2013 18:45
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Barry Foster posted:I absolutely adored Monkey Dust when it was on the telly, and even today it comes across as almost preternaturally prescient about an awful lot of things (McDonalds selling degrees comes to his mind). But upon rewatch, there is some pretty iffy stuff in there as well. baka kaba posted:Also that Telegraph one. CON LAB LIB DEM, CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR 
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Feb 28, 2013 19:03
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Kegluneq posted:Anything in particular? I seem to recall it would sometimes have a go at the NHS in a very sort of Telegraph-y way, and was a bit dodgy when it came to LGBT issues (if I recall correctly, it mostly treated being gay as something slightly icky for laughs). It could also be pretty condescendingly classist at times. It just seemed that for a programme that was as smart as it usually was, it'd still occasionally go for really low-hanging fruit. It's been a few years since I've seen it all the way through, though.
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Feb 28, 2013 20:03
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Barry Foster posted:I absolutely adored Monkey Dust when it was on the telly, and even today it comes across as almost preternaturally prescient about an awful lot of things (McDonalds selling degrees comes to his mind). But upon rewatch, there is some pretty iffy stuff in there as well. Joint greatest ever soundtrack, though (tied with Spaced). The show was a collaboration between a pretty big variety of cartoon studios, hence the huge difference in quality of every sketch.
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Feb 28, 2013 20:22
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Barry Foster posted:I seem to recall it would sometimes have a go at the NHS in a very sort of Telegraph-y way, and was a bit dodgy when it came to LGBT issues (if I recall correctly, it mostly treated being gay as something slightly icky for laughs). It could also be pretty condescendingly classist at times.
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Feb 28, 2013 21:36
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Kegluneq posted:Hmm, perhaps. It has been a few years since I saw it all the way through too. I remember LGBT characters being presented in a more neutral or whimsical sense though, like the gay couple in the Paedofinder General compilation and the elderly couple's erotic dreams in a ketch I annoyingly can't find on Youtube... The NHS came under criticism but then so did every aspect of government and authority (as well as the BBC itself), it was just part of the bleak setting of the show. It's probably true that the 'NHS is overrun by MRSA, rats and useless staff' thing was just part of the overall nihilism, but with regard to the LGBT thing I'm thinking particularly of elements of the Wannabe Cottager sketches, and one where lesbians were portrayed as horrible shrieking harridans. Still, nothing's perfect. And we should probably stop derailing the Cartoons Mega Thread...
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Feb 28, 2013 21:42
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Barry Foster posted:It's probably true that the 'NHS is overrun by MRSA, rats and useless staff' thing was just part of the overall nihilism, but with regard to the LGBT thing I'm thinking particularly of elements of the Wannabe Cottager sketches, and one where lesbians were portrayed as horrible shrieking harridans. quote:Still, nothing's perfect. And we should probably stop derailing the Cartoons Mega Thread...
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Feb 28, 2013 21:56
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Barry Foster posted:It's probably true that the 'NHS is overrun by MRSA, rats and useless staff' thing was just part of the overall nihilism, but with regard to the LGBT thing I'm thinking particularly of elements of the Wannabe Cottager sketches, and one where lesbians were portrayed as horrible shrieking harridans. Still, nothing's perfect. And we should probably stop derailing the Cartoons Mega Thread... Monkey Dust is a cartoon! animated cartoon but a cartoon all the same.  Very political a lot of the time too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKSllUPbzCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU4mK7BICFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU3AMfAUD4U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKSGdByaUIA Pretentious wanker parts was great too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlTQ5mbZG3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEPwn2Yit9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxzCupLAsfo Fluo fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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Feb 28, 2013 22:53
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Oh god, the Ebola experiment... Think that was my favourite sketch at the time. So much callous evil (inspired by Porton Down presumably). The paedophile march sketch had an amazing soundtrack for a simple joke scene, but that was so often the case with Monkey Dust.
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Feb 28, 2013 23:59
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Kegluneq posted:Oh god, the Ebola experiment... Think that was my favourite sketch at the time. So much callous evil (inspired by Porton Down presumably). The paedophile march sketch had an amazing soundtrack for a simple joke scene, but that was so often the case with Monkey Dust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSAzI8AN0Js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAUi4OyO2Mw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-iAbYffmqU  Holy gently caress, how did I never know about this? Porton Down is actually being used as a registered controlled substance research facility, where the biotechnology Company GW Pharmaceuticals is developing with the help of Hortapharm B.V. unknown medicinal strains and cannabis related patents. Dstl Porton Down has also been involved in human testing. A second inquest on Ronald Maddison commenced in May 2004, after many years of lobbying by his relatives and their supporters. It later found the death of Ronald Maddison to have been unlawful; this was challenged by the Ministry of Defence, but the verdict was upheld and the case settled. In February 2006 three ex-servicemen were awarded compensation in an out-of-court settlement after claims they were given LSD without their consent during the 1950s. ________________________ Guardian:   Prime minister David Cameron has promised to fight a new cap on bankers' bonuses proposed by the European Union. David Cameron really is so out of touch isn't he?  Telegraph:  Indy:  Daily Mail:  Despite losing millions of tax payer’s money the Royal Bank of Scotland continues to pay it’s bankers huge bonuses. quote:“Humans are so stupid… The country would be a lot healthier if they were to have a cull of Bankers.” Daily Express:  
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Mar 1, 2013 13:46
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Who'd have expected the Mail to be the first paper to openly call for class war? 
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Mar 1, 2013 14:09
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Porton Down was all kinds of hosed up. I'm kind of surprised you linked that one without knowing the context though, or were you thinking of the even more notorious American experiments? Mac continues to confuse. Implicitly criticising a Countryside Alliance-approved badger cull and calling on the death of the banking class? I hope the true Mac gets well soon so we can continue to wish him ill health again. The Indy cartoon might be in reference to this painting, but I'm not much of an art historian so there's probably a far closer match. The arms look right though.  Giovanni Gaulli, The Apotheosis of St. Ignatius, 1685.
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Mar 1, 2013 14:12
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What the hell, Fluo, I'd never heard of that at all. The craziest part of that video is the town council member saying "we'll have to write to our MPs to check it doesn't happen again" rather than "HOLY poo poo" I felt like a total conspiracy nut watching those videos. That's completely insane. quote:Along with other servicemen, Maddison was offered 15 shillings and a three-day leave pass for taking part in the experiments. He had planned to use the money to purchase an engagement ring for his girlfriend, Mary Pyle.
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Mar 1, 2013 14:48
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The Supreme Court posted:Ronald Maddison
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Mar 1, 2013 15:01
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Kegluneq posted:Porton Down was all kinds of hosed up. I'm kind of surprised you linked that one without knowing the context though, or were you thinking of the even more notorious American experiments?[/i] I thought it was generally just what the future of Britain would be like, not what it was/is.
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Mar 1, 2013 15:35
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Fluo posted:
Loving the reference here to this painting called "The Volga Barge-Haulers" who were employed basically as slaves because it was cheaper than upgrading to steam engines. Apparently it was one of Stalin's favorite paintings  
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Mar 1, 2013 15:44
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I wonder what classic paintings the Express cartoons are based on? Seriously this is what I see every time one's posted: 
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Mar 1, 2013 15:56
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vodkat posted:Loving the reference here to this painting called "The Volga Barge-Haulers" who were employed basically as slaves because it was cheaper than upgrading to steam engines. Apparently it was one of Stalin's favorite paintings This can't be posted without this also happening in the background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD0WVL-HjE
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Mar 1, 2013 16:22
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mfcrocker posted:Let's not forget the true star of Monkey Dust No, Mr. Hoppy was the real star of Monkey Dust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jHvjOpRTZY "I only said that I did as they promised back my fingernails if I did"
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Mar 1, 2013 17:32
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The release officer becoming increasingly annoyed as the series went on was the best. "DNA evidence, didn't do it, wad of compensation, wacky 70's memorabilia, now gently caress off"
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vodkat posted:Loving the reference here to this painting called "The Volga Barge-Haulers" who were employed basically as slaves because it was cheaper than upgrading to steam engines. Apparently it was one of Stalin's favorite paintings Fuuuuuck I didn't even notice this. It was on display here in '02 and I saw it in Piter as well  Steve
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a pipe smoking dog posted:This can't be posted without this also happening in the background This video turned me into a Bolshevik.
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