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I'm pretty pumped about this daily Hollande story arc on our celebrity gossip shows aka the national news. What amazing twists will we hear next? Is Michael Schumacher dead or what?
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Telegraph: Osborne: Don't force UK choice between euro or EU exit Independent:  Ed Miliband to call for banking competition inquiry Times:  I'm guessing Clintons kept a political 'hit-list' of friends and enemies after failed 2008 bid Mail: "President Hollande refused to discuss his infidelity at a meeting of French ministers."  quote:“Very wise. He stuck out like a sore thumb in his old crash helmet disguise.” Express: 
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But we're not being asked to choose between the Euro and getting out of the EU  loving Gideon
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Look if we don't leave the EU right now at great inconvenience to every company that does business on the continent, over 20 romanian bulgarians may enter the country and claim benefits!!!!! The anti-EU hysteria is totally ridiculous, and I'm pretty sure at this point the government is just using it to disguise the fact they're going to burn the NHS to the ground while everyone is distracted.
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Jan 16, 2014 12:08
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: A man and his blind wife go to the museum
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Yesterday's Guardian: After Ucello. Guardian:  "Steve Bell on debate about UK's military capabilities – Former US defence secretary Robert Gates concerned defence cuts may deprive Atlantic alliance of 'full-spectrum capabilities'" Telegraph:  Independent:  After GH MacDermott. Times:  Mail: "Two teenage schoolchildren have runaway together to the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean."  quote:“Oh dear. I seem to have mislaid two one-way tickets to the Caribbean that the staff had a whip round for..” Express: 
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They really should have drawn Sarko wearing high heels just like the ladies.
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With this cartoon we see the progression of the disease that infects all the characters in the Express cartoons. So children are born with pointy noses, and live a carefree innocent existance, (like in the good old days). At some point they awaken to the miseries of the world and start shaking in rage. (See the girl here who is oscillating slightly as she thinks about the stress of home). Eventually the shaking intensifies and to compensate for the visual distortion of the head wobbling about the eyes are locked open into a thousand yard stare. Reading at this stage is impossible, except for anything that is written in large letters on billboards. Shaving can become dangerous, the only thing that calms the rage is complaining to anyone in earshot about what they're reading or rubbing of the nose, over time sanding it down to a rounded shape. In terminal stages, the world takes on a psychedelic multicoloured flowing quality like a Van Gogh drawn in felt tip by an angry racist. In making sense of that visual jumble, pareidolia can occur, with characters hallucinating the appearance of woodland animals.
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HauntedRobot posted:With this cartoon we see the progression of the disease that infects all the characters in the Express cartoons. So children are born with pointy noses, and live a carefree innocent existance, (like in the good old days). At some point they awaken to the miseries of the world and start shaking in rage. (See the girl here who is oscillating slightly as she thinks about the stress of home). Eventually the shaking intensifies and to compensate for the visual distortion of the head wobbling about the eyes are locked open into a thousand yard stare. Reading at this stage is impossible, except for anything that is written in large letters on billboards. Shaving can become dangerous, the only thing that calms the rage is complaining to anyone in earshot about what they're reading or rubbing of the nose, over time sanding it down to a rounded shape. In terminal stages, the world takes on a psychedelic multicoloured flowing quality like a Van Gogh drawn in felt tip by an angry racist. In making sense of that visual jumble, pareidolia can occur, with characters hallucinating the appearance of woodland animals. And some of the populace, when reaching Recognisable Celebrity status, transform into a crude bobblehead, causing every lesser character to stare at them in awe.
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Jan 17, 2014 12:24
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Cloud Potato posted:Independent: Joke shamelessly stolen from Terry Pratchett.
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The "By Jingo" song, and humorous variations, invented by Terry Pratchett.Cloud Potato posted:Yesterday's Guardian: Noice.
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I haven't seen If... posted around here lately. Did it take a holiday break or something?
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HauntedRobot posted:a Van Gogh drawn in felt tip by an angry racist
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"By Jingo" is an actual song made to drum up support for murdering russians
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:"By Jingo" is an actual song made to drum up support for murdering russians Specifically MacDermott, 1878: quote:The "Dogs of War" are loose and the rugged Russian Bear, Bonus content: The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regimen[t] of Women, John Knox, 1558. And yes, I managed to be completely surprised by the 'twist' of that book.
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GorfZaplen posted:I haven't seen If... posted around here lately. Did it take a holiday break or something? Sorry yeah been quite busy lately so had a limited SA causal posting time. Here!      From mid December. I might be reading to much into this but I read it as it's heaven for Mandela but hell for Thatcher / Reagan.      After holiday break (start of jan). Now get ready for  Gove !    This weeks. 
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on banks and the cost of living - Labour leader Ed Miliband has promised a reckoning with Britain's 'broken banking system'" Telegraph:  Independent:  Apres JL David. Times:  Japan WW2 soldier who refused to surrender Hiroo Onoda dies Stephen Collins: 
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Fluo posted:Sorry yeah been quite busy lately so had a limited SA causal posting time. Here! Thank you!
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Cloud Potato posted:Stephen Collins:  Who knew that gave particles mass, eh?
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Yeah, the rich won.
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Is that Gromit (or Wallace) caricature supposed to represent Milliband?
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Kurtofan posted:Is that Gromit (or Wallace) caricature supposed to represent Milliband? Yes it represents real life communist and heir to Stalin 'Red' Ed Milliband.
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Kurtofan posted:Is that Gromit (or Wallace) caricature supposed to represent Milliband? It's Wallace you heathen and yeah it's because he has the same toothy gormlessness about him.
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Jesus loving Christ. "Hmmm, Miliband and Wallace are kind of bucktoothed, what current news event could I possibly use them as a caricature in? I know, I can use this story about a Japanese soldier who died! That won't appear massively racist in any way."
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Observer: "TV exploits easy targets - Chris Riddell's take on the Channel 4 Benefits Street row" Sunday Telegraph:  Nick Clegg says Lord Rennard must apologise to regain party whip Independent on Sunday: 
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Butt Potato posted:Independent on Sunday:
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big scary monsters posted:In Don Quixote the windmills were only imagined to be ferocious giants. A bad cartoon. Maybe we're imagining it, since it is a cartoon! 
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Cloud Potato posted:Independent on Sunday: job creating mills?!?!
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I think the phrase "tilting at windmills" has become fit to use for anybody who's set themselves an impossible task, and no longer necessarily implies that the task itself is wrong-headed.
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on the Lord Rennard controversy - The dispute in the Liberal Democrats over sexual harassment allegations surrounding Lord Rennard, the party's former chief executive, is in danger of spinning out of control" Telegraph:  Racist, imperialist, power-hungry megalomaniac. Why Roosevelt is not the model for Miliband or Labour Independent:  Times:  Express:  Royal Family press offices set to merge
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Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph: Bizarrely enough given that Tim Stanley is a far-right shithead with dubious credentials as a historian, if you ignore the side-comment about distorting markets this article sounds like an attack from the left if anything. e: Seriously when was the last time a Telegraph journalist complained about someone being "racist and imperialist" and called the UK a "nation of Diggers, Chartists, Quakers and Tolpuddle Martyrs"? Zohar fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Jan 20, 2014 |
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Wedging leftists between economic and social justice is an old trick of the right. It's also a really, really effective trolling tactic as IWC's innumerable reregs can attest to.
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Scarfe France? Oh the place with the eyefull tower.
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Does anyone else hate Hollande's face? I try not to hate people based on how they look but there's something so bathetic and ineffectual about him.
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SedanChair posted:Does anyone else hate Hollande's face? I try not to hate people based on how they look but there's something so bathetic and ineffectual about him. Hate's a strong word, he has a quite unremarkable face. I guess "unemotive" would be the correct word. It's lacking something, anyway.
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on Nigel Farage's claim about women City workers - Ukip leader Nigel Farage says women working in City can do as well, if not better, than men if they don't take time off after childbirth" Telegraph:  Lord Rennard suspended from Lib Dems amid apology row; Rosetta comet-chaser phones home Independent:  Times:  Mail: "Lord Rennard has been suspended by the Liberal/ Democrat party for refusing to apologise to women who accuse him of inappropriate behaviour. "  quote:“Suspended but still no apology, Mr Clegg. However the whips are hoping for a breakthrough soon.” Express: 
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For the life of me I just can't find the fox today. Is it in the mirror image of Cameron's head?
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You'd think that Mac, if only through some form of osmosis from working in political commentary for around four decades, would be aware that members of the Lords do not, in fact, wear crowns. What he's thinking of is the Queen.
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FullLeatherJacket posted:You'd think that Mac, if only through some form of osmosis from working in political commentary for around four decades, would be aware that members of the Lords do not, in fact, wear crowns. I don't mean to white knight Mac, but I'm sure he knows the difference between a peer and the Queen. He probably just drew them wearing their coronets for some whimsical English reason. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronet
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