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baka kaba posted:Scientists, am I right? They think they're so smart, but they're not! With their giant doors and doohickies pointing into the room. Isn't the Bell one referencing the picture of Diana Spencer in her see through frock, when she was a nanny?
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Cloud Potato posted:Mail: A portrayal of a harmonious multi-gendered and multi-ethnic work environment? What did you do with the real Mac!? EDIT: Trickjaw posted:Isn't the Bell one referencing the picture of Diana Spencer in her see through frock, when she was a nanny? 
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baka kaba posted:Scientists, am I right? They think they're so smart, but they're not! With their giant doors and doohickies pointing into the room. Jesus Christ it's a light-hearted joke. Mac does a lot of cartoons that deserve scorn, but this notion to immediately slate him for imagined slights is bloody ridiculous.
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Mar 19, 2014 13:18
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That's not realistic, because it's dark outside but the builders are working.
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Mar 19, 2014 14:13
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Wolfsbane posted:1) No, they wouldn't. Half of Kreider's work is "my friends are slobs and slackers and so am I." The joke is right up his alley with the only non-Kreiderism being that his astronomical comics tend to personalize the phenomena in question rather than the people who discover them.
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Mar 19, 2014 14:19
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Private Eye posted:Jesus Christ it's a light-hearted joke. Mac does a lot of cartoons that deserve scorn, but this notion to immediately slate him for imagined slights is bloody ridiculous. Most of what I said was a lighthearted joke too  He still has a track record for anti- intellectualism though, which isn't surprising when he works for the Daily 'we uncover the truth about "climate change"!' Mail. You've never seen this setup before? It's a pretty common trope, intellectual/expert proclaiming something with authority, fooled by something completely different going on behind the curtain, usually involving working class people doing something mundane. People pissing into wine bottles, through a doorway you can see people drinking from wine glasses and saying 'excellent vintage notes of summer meadows', that kind of thing And I hadn't seen that Diana picture, the blurred kids' faces made it look like a child abduction or something
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baka kaba posted:People pissing into wine bottles, through a doorway you can see people drinking from wine glasses and saying 'excellent vintage notes of summer meadows', that kind of thing Mocking pretentious posh people for drinking expensive wine is anti-intellectual?
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Crashbee posted:Mocking pretentious posh people for drinking expensive wine is anti-intellectual? Pissing in wine is also 'working class people doing something mundane'.
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Crashbee posted:Mocking pretentious posh people for drinking expensive wine is anti-intellectual? Sure, in the sense that exploring and enjoying something and broadening your horizons is considered pretentious in and of itself. It's not the people that are getting mocked for being posh, it's the activity and the idea that they think they know some things that other people don't. Call it anti-perceived-elitist, if you like. Ties into the 'that's not for the likes of me' attitude Paladinus posted:Pissing in wine is also 'working class people doing something mundane'. Pisswater is pretty mundane. Don't worry, in a Mac cartoon it would be his 'hoodies and scroungers' characters doing it so he could do the double. Really I went off on another track there, but I'm talking about 'ordinary people' getting one over on 'them', either through Fight Club-esque 'they think they're connoisseurs and they can't even tell when we give them something terrible' dirty jokes, or just getting on with normal life while 'experts' read into completely ordinary things. It's a common setup for getting a dig in
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Mar 19, 2014 18:12
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on George Osborne's budget – The chancellor's budget targets grey vote with savings and pensions reforms" Telegraph:  Independent:  New pound coin designed to combat counterfeiting Times:  Mail: "In today’s budget a cut of 1p from a pint of beer was announced."  quote:“Don’t look so cross. I’ve just saved 20p” Express: 
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You know I only found out like a week ago that Farage hasn't even turned 50 yet. I mean he doesn't look old, I guess I figured that a literal caricature of everything British that's died a welcome death must be older than 49.
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Guardian did a Generation Y Takeover: Generation Y comic-strips from around the world.  Sofia Niazi, 27, London, UK Sofia is an illustrator and editor who works on OOMK (One of my Kind), a magazine about women, creativity and spirituality. “I’m a bit obsessed with the internet and whether it’s going to fry our brains and turn our bodies to mush. So far research is inconclusive. One thing that a lot of people seem to agree on, though, is that the internet has resulted in an increase in our working hours. I feel like one of our new jobs – particularly important to a lot of young people today who have grown up with the internet – is ‘digital self-management’ or ‘reputation control’.”  Sam Wallman, 28, Melbourne, Australia Sam is an organiser for a large trade union in Melbourne. He recently illustrated a first-person account of what it’s like to work in a detention centre for asylum seekers, run by the British company Serco. “Australia is a very wealthy country, and some people argue that this has led to an unquestioning, apolitical generation of young people – I reckon maybe there’s something else at work.”  Sumit Drew, 26, Delhi, India Sumit is a cartoonist based in Delhi. He is the author of the graphic novel The Itch You Can’t Scratch, as well as Kashmir Ki Kahani, an online webcomic that narrates the history of Kashmir conflict, and he is passionate about Indian education. “The world’s largest youth population crams in dingy corners during the most important years of their lives! I think that’s absurd. What do you think?”  Waraq Collective, Beirut, Lebanon Waraq – Joan Baz, 27, Ashley Choucair, 28, David Habchy, 28, and Hussein Nakhal, 25 – is a multidisciplinary collective working in illustration, animation, art direction and performing arts.“We are a quartet that live and work in an old Beiruti yellow house called Beit Waraq. This house has become an open cultural space for the community, hosting monthly workshops, screenings, performances and other cultural events.We have inherited religious and political consciousness from our parents, an issue that is increasing the gap within our peers. This is an issue that starts in school, continues in university, and follows us all throughout our careers. We are called the postwar generation, yet we live in a state of war. Maybe it is about time we choose what to inherit.” Uploaded these thinking the final scrip was released, it wasn't but have it here as script 4 will be out in a couple of hours.     honk!
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As if UKIP would take issue with a
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And the final IF... this week:
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on doubts about George Osborne's 2014 budget – Institute for Fiscal Studies says that George Osborne's 'unspecified spending cuts' may leave projections for the public finances on an uncertain footing" Telegraph:  Times:  Express: 
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Said it before, but why the gently caress does Brown always draw the early 40s, smooth-faced, slightly pot-bellied but otherwise average-build George Osborne like a Ken Clarke-style overweight bruiser?
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Mar 21, 2014 18:28
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Alan Titchmarsh probably does look like that naked though
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Yesterday's Guardian: "Martin Rowson on Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine – Vladimir Putin laughs off western sanctions against Russia as he completes the annexation of Crimea" Observer:  "Eyes down with bingo caller George - Chris Riddell on the chancellor's pensions, beer and bingo budget" Sunday Telegraph:  Arsene Wenger's 1000th game in charge of Arsenal (didn't go well) Yesterday's Times:  Pour encourager les autres. Stephen Collins: 
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Adams appears unsure about the rules of bingo. Mr. Squishy posted:Scarfe of the week
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Maybe Thatcher's found a new host? I need to ask, what's the EU doing to Putin in that Rowson? Around his backside. Should I even ask? Also new Paul Thomas mascot spotted  I'm going to mentally insert that dog into every cartoon from now on
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baka kaba posted:Maybe Thatcher's found a new host?
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baka kaba posted:Also new Paul Thomas mascot spotted
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Guavanaut posted:Stealing his wallet. Ohhhhh right. Thanks! Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I vote for the amazing levitating woman just to its right. The dog has the perfect 'this poo poo again' look on its face though. It's almost a cry for help
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baka kaba posted:The dog has the perfect 'this poo poo again' look on its face though. It's almost a cry for help I think it's the face most of us wear when we see that loving cartoon
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Yesterday's Guardian: "Martin Rowson on the fallout from the budget" Guardian:  "Steve Bell on Obama's visit to Brussels – Obama will arrive with 900-strong entourage, including 45 vehicles and three planes, and attend EU and Nato summit" Telegraph:  Labour economic policies 'very clear' insists Harman Times:  Ukraine crisis: G7 summit to discuss action against Russia Mail: "200.000 new homes are to be built on green belt land."  quote:“I spotted a green woodpecker yesterday. It was stuffed in the Natural History Museum.” Express:  Leeds school to teach English as foreign language
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God drat, what is it with political cartoonists in all these countries and their obsession with how BIG STRONG MANLY MAN PUTIN CRUSH WEAK WIMPY WORLD LEADERS WHO DON'T IMMEDIATELY RATTLE SABERS It's taken over US cartoonists like a virus and apparently Britain is no different.
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The Independent:  I actually much prefer the Adams take.
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For once I agree with the Telegraph. Labour are useless and could gently caress up the most basic of tasks and the Tories are literal Nazis.
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Gonzo McFee posted:For once I agree with the Telegraph. Labour are useless and could gently caress up the most basic of tasks and the Tories are literal Nazis.  (It's also worth noting that the diggers of the original tunnel also hosed up by coming out in the wrong place, which among other factors led to the execution of most of those who did escape. So gently caress both of them.)
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SedanChair posted:Do you want them to learn English or not? They want less immigrant full stop.
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Redeye Flight posted:God drat, what is it with political cartoonists in all these countries and their obsession with how BIG STRONG MANLY MAN PUTIN CRUSH WEAK WIMPY WORLD LEADERS WHO DON'T IMMEDIATELY RATTLE SABERS There has been a couple where he hasn't been drawn like that:  But I think its became a thing recently because the aggressiveness he is showing in the international political world and there is a lot of photos of him with his shirt off. You could make a shirtless Putin Calendar with it haha!  The classic three cropped, left him fishing, middle riding a horse, right after he shot/killed a bear. I think it's also partly to do with the world leaders can't really do much, like if the EU were to put sanctions up Germany for one would be hosed as 36% get their gas from Russia, Poland 48%, France 14%, Finland 100% [in 2007 atleast], Italy 27%, Estonia and alot of the eastern countries are around the 60-100% mark etc.  But I get what you mean it seems abit weird, didn't see much of it during the Syrian one. Fluo fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on the prison books ban – Eminent writers and academics have been outraged by a Ministry of Justice ruling barring prisoners from receiving packages containing books" Telegraph:  Clegg v Farage: The LBC Leaders' Debate Independent:  Times:  Express: 
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: Yeah I bet that greek who married into a German family just loves UKIP, because he's notoriously a complete gently caress-wit.
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: Also I don't know much about the heating at the palaces, but I'm sure there's no cheap electric heaters standing on tables.
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Guavanaut posted:Also I don't know much about the heating at the palaces, but I'm sure there's no cheap electric heaters standing on tables. Cloud Potato posted:Independent: I assume it's some reference to EU regulations regarding straight bananas and the like, but it's still a clumsy cartoon. (Does anyone actually plan to watch this?) Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Mar 26, 2014 |
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Kegluneq posted:(Does anyone actually plan to watch this?) It's on the radio, and not even a national station. Not the hugest of events.
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It will be a challenge to see if I can avoid hearing the filleted highlights repeated every news update for a day.
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I don't even know why Clegg agreed to it, talking poo poo about the EU on panels has been Farage's bread and butter for years. For every reasoned argument Papa puts forward, Farage will have some well-honed talking point that appeals to people's fears and prejudices, delivered with practised style. It's gonna be a moidah and we're all gonna hear about it
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