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Not a fan of Rowson's cartoon today either, although mainly because he seems to have become Riddell.
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Cloud Potato posted:Mail: quote:Express: I found the other side of that sink, just out of frame:  Stottie Kyek posted:DOCTOR quote:
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Stottie Kyek posted:Is that a stereotype? Do Express readers think all Romanians are window-cleaners or something? All Romanians are gypsies, and window cleaners are gypsies (an 80's stereotype maybe, nowadays it's a business with fairly expensive up-front costs and tends to be done by registered businesses, but Thomas does not live in the now)
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Cloud Potato posted:Express:  "Hooo~ Watch your money around the gypsies, Graham! They come from far away and wear weird clothes!" ClownSyndrome fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Oct 23, 2013 |
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Betjeman posted:All Romanians are gypsies, and window cleaners are gypsies (an 80's stereotype maybe, nowadays it's a business with fairly expensive up-front costs and tends to be done by registered businesses, but Thomas does not live in the now) Butt Potato posted:Mail:
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Skeleton Jelly posted:So Eastern Europeans men look otherwise exactly identical to everyone else but they don't shave and wear caps? Ok. Do... do you think he's being subversive? Take away the contractually mandated jingoist bollocks, and the underlying message is "look, we're all the same really"? Nope. Nice thought though.
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I prefer to believe he's telling a story of a dystopian far future where only politicians, celebrities, and royalty rode out the apocalypse in their nuclear bunkers. Deprived of the 99% who provided them with the attention they crave, they genetically engineered a race of identical googly-eyed, sausage-nosed clones to serve them. They are bred to be incapable of most tasks other than spouting inane witticisms about current events. Obviously, in order to keep their Morlock servants informed they have strategically positioned news placards about the ruins of Britain and labelled all DOCTORS with clear, easily-read signs. Whybird fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Oct 23, 2013 |
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big scary monsters posted:I think he just doesn't know the difference between Romanian and Romani. Even if he did know, do you think that would stop him?
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on John Major's intervention over Tory energy policy - Former prime minister stuns No 10 with call for windfall tax on energy companies" Telegraph:  Cameron announces green energy tax review (I think? Not sure about this one.) Independent:  Mail: "Prince George was christened today at St James palace"  quote:“Aw, Cheer up, boss. Maybe next time. The kid’s got plenty godfathers.”
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Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph: Yeah it's a reference to Cameron's 'greenest government EVER' PR shoot  And now he's backtracking on the green energy levy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24637499 Funny thing is Adams is basically agreeing entirely with his nemesis Ed Miliband on this one, for some reason quote:In the Commons, Mr Miliband said 60% of green taxes had been introduced by the current government and reminded the prime minister of his stated ambition to lead the "greenest government" ever.
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Jesus, Cameron's gone down the Blair route of resembling his caricature more and more.
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Cloud Potato posted:Guardian:  And out of nowhere, Steve Bell is back into doing pure gold!
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on the NSA bugging row - Angela Merkel and François Hollande have asked for a joint response to claims that the NSA bugged the chancellor's phone and intercepted French calls" Telegraph:  Independent:  David Cameron considers switching burden of energy bill cuts to the taxpayer - PM seeks to placate Lib Dems who oppose end of green levies Mail: "A review of the NHS finds that large numbers of hospitals come into the high risk category."  quote:“Before we start put out of your mind any rubbish you’ve heard about high risk hospitals.” Express:  Prince George christening: Official pictures released
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This one's Kind of beautiful.
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Mr. Squishy posted:This one's Kind of beautiful. It looks like the baby's being used as a vessel for the soul of the reptilian Sun King in some kind of Atlantean technology ritual or something. Maintain the orichalcum beams! He shall rise once more! Is it me or is there a trend of Cameron getting killed in cartoons lately? Is that normal in the mainstream?
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I dunno about you but it sure is entertaining in a cathartic way.
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baka kaba posted:It looks like the baby's being used as a vessel for the soul of the reptilian Sun King in some kind of Atlantean technology ritual or something. Maintain the orichalcum beams! He shall rise once more! Him getting popped by IDS was the best.
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That's the flag of Yugoslavia.
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^ yeah well uh, see, aha what I meant was, it's sideways which represents, uh THE SKEWED PRIORITIES OF EUROPE yesForums Terrorist posted:Him getting popped by IDS was the best. The problem with Bell's cartoons is he makes government figures more human and likeable e-  I hope he clearly makes the point that they're showing just how terrible the government is and then uses Nadine Dorries as a convenient example. But it's the One Show so I wouldn't expect much of anything at all. Maybe it'll give Rowson some exposure though, I think his work comes closer to capturing a sense of what's really going on behind the PR/media facade, the depressing hypocritical reality behind the :lies:, but mostly the people who see his stuff are already aware of that. I feel like putting his cartoons up on billboards would do the UK a lot of good baka kaba fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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Mr. Squishy posted:This one's Kind of beautiful. The hidden badger is far more subtle than any joke he's ever made.
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baka kaba posted:But it's the One Show so I wouldn't expect much of anything at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbcACpriZ9s  With that said I missed it I think, anything interesting happen?
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That's like the one One Show show where anything happened. And you know it! I'll have a look on iPlayer and see if it was interesting, I get the feeling everyone's going to be nice and nice to Nadine Dorries and then I'll feel dirty
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baka kaba posted:e- I missed most of the show, the only interaction with the presenters I saw was when they challenged Rowson and some younger cartoonist to make a political cartoon about the US spying on other countries - Rowson did an Obama-Earwig going through Merkel's and Hollande's heads and the younger chap did a periscope spying on Merkel while in the bath. I don't think any political views are allowed on the one show other than some loving NIMBY moaning how a Nuclear Power Plant/Windfarm/etc may be built on some land that they claim to be pristine but has obviously been heavily modified by human hands since the 15th century. Hell, most of the "untouched" green-land they show is hedged and mowed. They also had a poo poo bit around the time of the Olympics - some silver-winning fucker interviewed a protester and then later complained "They had all these answers [against my questions of why they were protesting, and pretty loving good ones like the gentrification, kicking people out of their homes, how Olympics very rarely actually improve the economy in comparison to how much the host-country spends, etc], it was so frustrating!" The One Show, however, is just a vehicle for the BBC to break down Right Wing talking points into smaller, digestible pieces for middle class English-folk. Kind of like how Newsround and Blue Peter breaks down complicated facts of life (NR did a decent bit about anthrax back in the day, or whatever chemical that was making people think they'd been poisoned but infact just had a cold, & I remember when Blue Peter tried to explain the whole Hong Kong thing) for 8-year olds to early teens. LashLightning fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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Nah that was Ben Jennings and BOB doing the live drawing. Turns out BOB is young and obsessed with Ed Miliband, who knew? The actual piece was pretty good actually (it's at 7:00 if anyone wants to wind back iPlayer, right at the start of the programme), it was mostly Rowson talking about why he does what he does, and Nadine Dorries popped up and tried to pretend it was all good fun while Rowson pointedly ignored her and laid down one of his burns. They showed a lot of cartoons too, lingering shots, including the Indy one up there of Hunt sucking the NHS's blood, one of Rowson's where he's smothering a patient with a pillow, a Thatcher Hillsborough one, and Steve Bell's 'why is this pit open?' classic. All in all pretty subversive, pretty good for teatime TV! Honestly the One Show is pretty safe whenever I've seen it, and they have some real shits doing guest reports, but sometimes they are pretty critical in a non-confrontational way. They sometimes even do the thing where there's a report and then in the studio they hit all the good points. Matt Baker's good at the gentle jabs, but it's not exactly a show built around that and all too often it's 'here's a bad thing, Alex Jones looks sad and shakes her head... and now a dog that eats cakes!!!!'
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BastardySkull posted:New av anyone? "The Boy who would be Krang"
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Thursday's Express: Guardian:  "Martin Rowson on George Osborne's 'path to prosperity' - UK's economic growth cheers chancellor but Ed Balls says there is 'no recovery at all' for millions" Telegraph:  Independent:  After Delphin Enjorlas. Stephen Collins:  
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Cloud Potato posted:Thursday's Express: All these guys sure are happy that a baby is crying.
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Whybird posted:All these guys sure are happy that a baby is crying. That's pretty much every single christening ever lol.  Like that Stephen Collins this week! 
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Observer: "Halloween shockers from the coalition - Chris Riddell goes trick or treating with the prime minister" Sunday Telegraph:  UK braced for worst storm in years; Danny Alexander 'confident' HS2 will be within budget Independent on Sunday:  NSA: New reports in German media deepen US-Merkel spy row Cloud Potato fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on Tory ministers and their recent domestic policy programme" Telegraph:  Independent:  TV licence 'faces cut unless BBC rebuilds trust' - Shapps Express: 
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: 'Every cloud has a silver lining. For example, now we have no electricity!'
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Crashbee posted:'Every cloud has a silver lining. For example, now we have no electricity!' 'Every cloud has a silver lining. For example, now we have
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Kegluneq posted:'Every cloud has a silver lining. For example, now we have ________________/ 
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Guavanaut posted:"Don't say I didn't warn you."  From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on HS2" Telegraph:  Stage set for heated debate on energy prices Independent:  Mail: "A huge storm causing devastation has swept throughout the Uk."  quote:“Strange isn’t it?- The last devastating storm bringing chaos and misery to the country was in 1987 when again the Tories were in power.” Express: 
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Am I reading this incorrectly, or is Mac saying "Don't vote Tory again, because whenever you do God visits devastation upon the country"?
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ookiimarukochan posted:
It's a "BBC HAS LEFTIST BIAS" joke.
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Cloud Potato posted:
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Tony Jowns posted:It's a "BBC HAS LEFTIST BIAS" joke. I wonder if he thinks that weathermen somehow SET the weather rather than FORECAST it?
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