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Daktar posted:Nah, it's your standard expat move. Go somewhere warm (where they have massive prawns, Stu) and live in little British enclaves without ever learning the local language or interacting with local people, all the while writing Just a minor tweak
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baka kaba posted:Just a minor tweak Richard Littlejohn? Oh wait, just realised 
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Daktar posted:Nah, it's your standard expat move. Go somewhere warm (where they have massive prawns, Stu) and live in little British enclaves without ever learning the local language or interacting with local people, all the while writing to the Daily Mail to complain about immigrants doing the exact same thing back in the old country. Sadly, very true. My parents live in Spain, and although they do eat local food, they hang around exclusively with other Brits moaning about immigrants and how much Weetabix and Marmite costs in another country. My parents are not as bad as some, though. Insisting on 'proper english sausages' for their Full English (tm) and they also have the added bonus of bitching about the morroccans, without a hint of irony, who have been there for centuries. You should have seen the delight and joy when Iceland and Primark opened. It was like the second coming. 'Finally! I can get Paxo and cheap undies!' Mind you, my Dad looked at my Facebook page and had a go at me for all the foreign named friends I had. He is not on my friends list.
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prefect posted:Do they actually have British enclaves in the US? Are you allowed to tell outsiders? I heard there was a place in Portland that sells marmite, but also that the weather there is as bad as Britain's and that the prawns are normal sized.
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Trickjaw posted:Sadly, very true. My parents live in Spain, and although they do eat local food, they hang around exclusively with other Brits moaning about immigrants and how much Weetabix and Marmite costs in another country.
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Zephro posted:In fairness to the snow cartoons, it has been a loving miserable spring on top of a loving miserable year. Wettest year in over a century and then straight in to the coldest March for 50 years. It's freezing loving cold, I haven't seen the sun in four months, and the forecast is for more of the same for two weeks, after which it will warm up slightly but only 'cos there's going to be some Atlantic lows sweeping in, bringing more.mother.loving.rain. It sets us up beautifully for a shot of the mail denying climate change on one page, while bemoaning "all this freak weather" on another. Bonus points for mentions of immigration or something causing cancer.
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Fluo posted:
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Because those are the face of an owl! Thats a great hidden bird too, by the way, didn't see it until you mentioned it.
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Fluo posted:Telegraph: Also is that meant to be David Cameron in the Express cartoon, because what
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Kegluneq posted:This is actually pretty good. Is it? Can you explain it because I have no idea what's meant to be going on there. Also yes, it's because the express's cartoonist is poo poo.
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Fluo posted:Guardian: I think the Peron hat is a bit of a cheap shot but I have to say I'm loving this weeks If... being a Four Yorkshiremen Sketch featuring the Pope.
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Clapham Omnibus posted:I think the Peron hat is a bit of a cheap shot but I have to say I'm loving this weeks If... being a Four Yorkshiremen Sketch featuring the Pope. He was quite a collaborator I'm told with the Dirty War.  I guess the new Pope still has a long way caricature wise.  Someone said Four Yorkshiremen Sketch! gotta love it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtSw3daGoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo Fluo fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Mar 26, 2013 |
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Puntification posted:Is it? Can you explain it because I have no idea what's meant to be going on there. Boris had a disastrous interview on the Andrew Marr show last Sunday, which people are saying could affect his chances of becoming Prime Minister. In the cartoon he's hit a snag in his zip-wire. viz, he's hit a snag on his way to number ten.
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cloudchamber posted:Boris had a disastrous interview on the Andrew Marr show last Sunday, which people are saying could affect his chances of becoming Prime Minister. In the cartoon he's hit a snag in his zip-wire. viz, he's hit a snag on his way to number ten.  Not the best picture but you get the idea
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I heartily recommend it to any one who hasn't seen it. Eddie Mair skewering Boris Johnson is primo-rudeness.
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cloudchamber posted:Boris had a disastrous interview on the Andrew Marr show last Sunday, which people are saying could affect his chances of becoming Prime Minister. In the cartoon he's hit a snag in his zip-wire. viz, he's hit a snag on his way to number ten. I didn't think it was just a snag, I thought he was hanging himself on his own publicity (yep, aware of the zip-wire context).
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Trickjaw posted:Sadly, very true. My parents live in Spain, and although they do eat local food, they hang around exclusively with other Brits moaning about immigrants and how much Weetabix and Marmite costs in another country. My parents are not as bad as some, though. Insisting on 'proper english sausages' for their Full English (tm) and they also have the added bonus of bitching about the morroccans, without a hint of irony, who have been there for centuries. You should have seen the delight and joy when Iceland and Primark opened. It was like the second coming. 'Finally! I can get Paxo and cheap undies!'
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cloudchamber posted:Boris had a disastrous interview on the Andrew Marr show last Sunday, which people are saying could affect his chances of becoming Prime Minister. In the cartoon he's hit a snag in his zip-wire. viz, he's hit a snag on his way to number ten. Ah right thanks, yeah I had only heard of the interview not seen it and I didn't recognise that thing as being boris, it looked like someone was smashing a bail of hay into their own face.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Hah, it's funny 'cause up here in Iceland we've been having unseasonably warm weather for the year, 'cept a few weeks back and our Brits seem to mingle a little bit at least. I'd assume that any Brit moving to Iceland had some interest in the country and culture and so on, instead of just going to a typical summer holiday destination so they can pretend they're in a hotter version of Britain Puntification posted:Ah right thanks, yeah I had only heard of the interview not seen it and I didn't recognise that thing as being boris, it looked like someone was smashing a bail of hay into their own face. ..............and???
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Cliff Racer posted:Because those are the face of an owl! Thats a great hidden bird too, by the way, didn't see it until you mentioned it. Hah! That's really rather brilliant. The Express cartoons should just remove all the dialogue and become a Spot the Bird competition.
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Fluo posted:Telegraph: Since this is the Telegraph, at first I assumed this must a malicious cartoon about David Miliband stepping down as an MP to head the (US based) International Rescue Committee (not to say that he hasn't made a bundle since losing the Labour leadership (see Private Eyes passim), but that's hardly relevant here). But, shocklingly, this seems to be saying that privatising public good-providing services is a bad thing. Am I missing something awful here?
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Niric posted:Since this is the Telegraph, at first I assumed this must a malicious cartoon about David Miliband stepping down as an MP to head the (US based) International Rescue Committee (not to say that he hasn't made a bundle since losing the Labour leadership (see Private Eyes passim), but that's hardly relevant here). But, shocklingly, this seems to be saying that privatising public good-providing services is a bad thing. Am I missing something awful here? I think the Telegraph friendly message you are missing is "BLOODY YANKS!"
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I think the Telegraph friendly message you are missing is "BLOODY YANKS!" Ah, that makes a lot more sense, thanks.
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I'm a big fan of Jeremy Hunt sucking blood out of an IV, but who's the guy with the glasgow smile behind Hunt in the Bell cartoon.
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Mr. Squishy posted:I'm a big fan of Jeremy Hunt sucking blood out of an IV, but who's the guy with the glasgow smile behind Hunt in the Bell cartoon. I'm pretty sure that's a (not quite as good as usual) caricature of Andrew Lansley. The scrubs and the two fat cats echo this:  The Chelsea/Glasgow smile, Frankenstein's monster neck-bolts and receding hair are visible here: 
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Fluo posted:
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Skeesix posted:Um, when I first saw this, I thought it looked like a racist Obama charicature.
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Skeesix posted:Um, when I first saw this, I thought it looked like a racist Obama charicature. If it was posted in the main political cartoons thread, I guarantee that's what people would think it is.
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: That would have been a passable visual gag without someone explaining the joke in the middle of it. It's like even he thinks he's a lovely cartoonist
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John Charity Spring posted:If it was posted in the main political cartoons thread, I guarantee that's what people would think it is. That's what I thought it was. :usa:
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John Charity Spring posted:If it was posted in the main political cartoons thread, I guarantee that's what people would think it is. In the past they thought one of Steve Bell's condom Cameron cartoons was Obama and were quite confused. Also anyway with an Archer avatar I default love you, great show! Fluo fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Mar 29, 2013 |
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baka kaba posted:That would have been a passable visual gag without someone explaining the joke in the middle of it. It's like even he thinks he's a lovely cartoonist It would have been a bit hard to see, and not everyone knows the Stones logo. McLachlan does the best stairlift cartoons anyway.     
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Skeesix posted:Um, when I first saw this, I thought it looked like a racist Obama charicature. Even if it was Obama, I'm not sure what would be racist about it. The tribal-looking headdress thing 
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