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Possibility of three foxes (a new record) if those things in the Dalek's grills are fox ears. Other than that pretty dang meh day for comics. If anything its the Mail one that comes off best, the others are all rather samey.
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neck face posted:Since when was Charles going out with Jaws? I think it's meant to be Jim Davidson. I wonder if the foxes multiplying in that felt tip guy's cartoons is part of a long game gag about fox hunting?
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on the ousting of Mohamed Morsi – A series of raids and arrests has decimated the Muslim Brotherhood's senior ranks and consolidated the military's hold on Egypt" Telegraph:  Independent:  Rupert Murdoch secret tapes: News Corp defends head Daily Mail: "The army has taken control in Egypt."  Express:  Big News Sign!
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: This makes me irrationally angry. Cloud Potato posted:Daily Mail: This one is fantastic. Probably only because I'm comparing it to yesterday's Express one. Express guy should be shot.
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They appear to be employing the first Doctor as a butler, shouldn't he be stopping them instead of pointing out where Charles is?
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: I found the fox, but where is the bird? 
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That's Phillip reading the paper, and given he recently visited the Doctor Who set I assume Charles is leading the Daleks to oust his mum?
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big scary monsters posted:I found the fox, but where is the bird?  (Check out the leaves continuing into the foreground wall at the top right.)The Mail cartoon is actually not bad. For context, Prince Charles and Camilla visited the cast and crew of Doctor Who yesterday.  Pictured: Two inhuman parasitical life forms seeking dominion over mankind and the destruction of the weak, standing next to some Daleks. That might be a bit mean.   
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big scary monsters posted:I found the fox, but where is the bird? I think the bird is part of the tree's bark. I found two things that could be extremely rudimentary birds. Bit disappointing really but sometimes a v shape is all you get.
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Looks sort of like a magpie on the left bottom side of the tree.Kegluneq posted:Pictured: Two inhuman parasitical life forms seeking dominion over mankind and the destruction of the weak, standing next to some Daleks. Don't feel bad. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/14/prince-charles-estate-tax-avoidance
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I thought that black blob on the left side of the tree might be a treecreeper in silhouette. Not very convincing as a bird, but what else is it there for?
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I see the racism but I'm trying to understand the joke, "oh Murray will fight a Pole a day but we have to deal with Romanians all year long!" Those are two different countries, too.
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: You can see the outline of the leaves from the tree through the wall.
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NightHunter posted:You can see the outline of the leaves from the tree through the wall. Shoddy Eastern European workmanship I'll bet, taking all our construction jobs (nothing to do with the government not funding enough training and apprenticeships here in the UK), rurgh rurgh
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NightHunter posted:You can see the outline of the leaves from the tree through the wall. Kegluneq posted:Looks like this was a rush job, maybe he forgot?  (Although ignore 'foreground' there, I've no idea what I was thinking.)The lack of a clear bird is oddly disturbing to me. 
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Oh dear me posted:I thought that black blob on the left side of the tree might be a treecreeper in silhouette. Not very convincing as a bird, but what else is it there for?
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Birds are out, Thomas just realised many of them are immigrants. Good old British foxes only from now on
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Kurtofan posted:I see the racism but I'm trying to understand the joke, "oh Murray will fight a Pole a day but we have to deal with Romanians all year long!" Those are two different countries, too. There is no joke, it's just straight up racism - "all these Eastern Europeans are the same".
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I must have scanned every pixel with my eyes looking for a bird. If leaving it out was intentional he's a genius at trolling me.
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Guardian: McCluskey says Labour decision to call police over Falkirk row is 'disgraceful'. Ed Miliband criticises 'machine politics' after party report claimed Unite members were unwittingly signed up to Labour party. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/05/labour-police-falkirk-selection-row Labour refuses to rule out EU referendum. William Hague mocks Labour 'confusion' as shadow foreign secretary says decision will be based on national interest. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/05/labour-refuses-rule-out-eu-referendum     Telegraph:  Generally Tories are back to their old game of not shuting the gently caress up about Europe. This whole Unite row with labour is a Tories wet dream, doesn't help that the BBC keeps having anti Union types and Nigel Farage on BBC News the last 2 days. The bigger issue is Labour wanting their cake and eat it, want all the union funding but at the same time want to be tory-lite. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23192888 quote:[..]Unite's stated strategy is to "shift the balance in the party away from middle class academics and professionals towards people who have actually represented workers and fought the boss.[..] Fluo fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Jul 5, 2013 |
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From the If... archives: Captain Middletar calls in some reinforcements from HMS Redundant to deal with Mr Kipling.      Apparently the padre is a borrow of someone else's long-forgotten (?) character. Oh, and I think this is the first appearance of the occasional recurring character God, barring the odd "If...God was an X" strip in the original format.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Sorry but what is an oik? A common person. A pleb. A prole. A ghastly fellow. Not a good egg. It's a class based insult.
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Milotic posted:A common person. A pleb. A prole. A ghastly fellow. Not a good egg. It's a class based insult. In the Drones Club stories by P.G. Wodehouse, members were referred to as "eggs", "beans", and "crumpets". Are any of those terms still in use? Is it purely an upper-class thing?
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It's hard to tell how much of those is legitimate slang and how much is the narrator's weirdness. Nota bene: I'm not British, not upper-class and ESL.
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oik noun, Brit colloq someone thought of as inferior, especially because of being rude, ignorant, badly educated or lower class. prefect posted:In the Drones Club stories by P.G. Wodehouse, members were referred to as "eggs", "beans", and "crumpets". Are any of those terms still in use? Is it purely an upper-class thing? Not really. Someone may be a good egg, or an old bean, or refer to an woman as "a nice bit of crumpet", but I'd consider it archaic. Something old people might say. As for upper class, I wouldn't have a clue. Independent:  After W Holman Hunt.
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prefect posted:In the Drones Club stories by P.G. Wodehouse, members were referred to as "eggs", "beans", and "crumpets". Are any of those terms still in use? Is it purely an upper-class thing? These days crumpet is used to refer to a woman you find attractive. I occasionally use "old bean" and "good egg" myself, but that's more because they're fun turns of phrases. Anecdotal, but it's not that common amongst the upper-middle classes in the south east.
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Fluo posted:Labour refuses to rule out EU referendum.
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Thanks for that little bit of relief Cloud Potato. Might try my hand at making a cats that can say bollocks avatar.
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Cloud Potato posted:And what Saturday is complete without Stephen Collins? I love the guy with the 'Do Pigeons have eyelids?' sign.
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Alan Sugar - Sex Mole sounds like an old The Day Today headline.
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Just one story today: The deportation of Abu Qatada. Guardian:  "Martin Rowson on Abu Qatada and Theresa May – 'Wholesale changes' to human rights legislation promised after lengthy legal battle that cost taxpayer £1.7m" Independent:  Express: 
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: Is it me or are there fox ears just peeking out of the sea in the bottom right?
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Geokinesis posted:Is it me or are there fox ears just peeking out of the sea in the bottom right? It's not just you. I hope he can swim OK
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