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Betjeman posted:It's on the radio, and not even a national station. Not the hugest of events. You'll be able to watch it on YouTube
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baka kaba posted: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 It was Clegg's idea, and he's doing it because 'we're all gonna hear about it' whatever happens.
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Crashbee posted:It was Clegg's idea, and he's doing it because 'we're all gonna hear about it' whatever happens. He's doing it because he's afraid of getting the Libdem's rear end handed to them at the EP and national elections. He's staked a position where he hopes to find some votes. Fair play to him, at least he's clearly pro-Europe (like Farage is anti) where Labour and the Tories are stuck in the waffling mud.
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Yeah, and I bet Clegg is honestly well-equipped to make the case for the EU. He's worked in it for a long time so he's informed, and he's pretty good at expressing ideas. It's just that Farage is going to go full polemic and Clegg will probably end up on the defensive the entire time. Talking bollocks about the EU is what Farage is good at, and it'll play well with the audience if they're not already pretty well-up on the situation
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tdrules posted:You'll be able to watch it on YouTube It was also on BBC News so I was right all along  baka kaba posted:Yeah, and I bet Clegg is honestly well-equipped to make the case for the EU. He's worked in it for a long time so he's informed, and he's pretty good at expressing ideas. It's just that Farage is going to go full polemic and Clegg will probably end up on the defensive the entire time. Talking bollocks about the EU is what Farage is good at, and it'll play well with the audience if they're not already pretty well-up on the situation
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on Nigel Farage v Nick Clegg – Ukip leader Nigel Farage and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg debated Britain's future in the EU on Wednesday" Telegraph:  SSE price-freeze: Politicians rush to claim credit Independent:  MPs approve annual welfare cap in Commons vote Times:  Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay star Chris Martin to separate; Not sure what the image is referencing though. Yesterday's Mail: "Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage will be debating Europe on LBC radio."  quote:“I want to cancel my husband’s doctor appointment. We’ve found a cure for his insomnia.” Express:  Classic Big News Sign.
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: Is Thomas under the impression UKIP has MPs or something?
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Cloud Potato posted:Times: Is that a thinly veiled rape joke?
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I think it's a drunken loving joke. So yes, it's a rape joke  I have a guess about how that debate went. Farage appeared polished and had an answer for everything, and Clegg managed to occasionally squint and emphasize words like a sincere person might if they had overcome severe brain trauma. Am I close?
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 Don't worry, the nightmare of living under the EU will soon be over (also I hope the EU mandates better monitors than mine, I shouldn't have to proof things on my phone)
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SedanChair posted:I think it's a drunken loving joke. So yes, it's a rape joke Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: Is that the same scene from previous cartoons? Like an actual, literal copy-paste?
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I would be very very surprised if Paul Thomas had anywhere near the technical knowledge to ctrl-c and ctrl-v. He does redraw the same scenes and poses over and over and over though, and the genius of his "two quasi-human monstrosities walk past a Big News Sign and comment on it" is it can be infinitely reused.
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I wonder if there was an initial period in his cartoons where the Big News Sign was actually anywhere near an actual newsagents most of the time, before his gradual disconnection from the world as it actually is led him to just shove it anywhere on the landscape.
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Angepain posted:I wonder if there was an initial period in his cartoons where the Big News Sign was actually anywhere near an actual newsagents most of the time, before his gradual disconnection from the world as it actually is led him to just shove it anywhere on the landscape. See if you can spot one in this compilation by baka kaba from last year: Fake edit: I do see one newsagent in there!
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Mar 28, 2014 09:51
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Meanwhile Paul Thomas has drawn Clegg with an egg in his mouth and... a pile of fake eyelashes by his elbow?
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Crashbee posted:Meanwhile Paul Thomas has drawn Clegg with an egg in his mouth and... a pile of fake eyelashes by his elbow? also that's not how you build a fire 
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Strong candidate for the treatment e- ahaha I thought I hosed the frame border up but turns out it's that attention to detail that made Ghost Car such a hit
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Does anyone remember the old Vic and Bob series where one of the sketches always ended with someone dying and before they died a Ping pong ball would come out of their mouth and then they would fade away like Yoda? Variation of the "egg from mouth" thing from Airplane posted earlier for the Cl-egg mouth. He also looks more like prince Harry.
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Forums Terrorist posted:Where's the Sheikh of Wales? baka kaba posted:Strong candidate for the treatment   
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Nope, Australian. Specifically, the NT News.
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I just noticed Cameron's hand is fading away like he's Marty McFly. Go back in time and make sure Britain and the EU don't stay together!
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I've just noticed that he seems to be pointing a remote control at a PC, for some reason.
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on Iain Duncan Smith and the bedroom tax – About 6% of benefit claimants affected by the bedroom tax have moved as a result of the benefit changes" Telegraph:  David Cameron: British public do not want referendum on European Union 'right now'; British Summertime begins tomorrow, reducing Mother's Day to 23 hours. Why do you hate mums, Cameron? Independent:  After William Holman Hunt. Times:  Stephen Collins: 
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vodkat posted:Why did I click on the Telegraph link. Why did I read the comments section There is no man-made climate change. The investigations between 2009 and the present progressively elicited the admission that it was either a mistake, a hoax, a fraud, an economic disaster, a humanitarian disaster or a religious dogma. Even Dr Prof P Jones and Prof Mike Hulme agree on this point in varying degrees. As a religious dogma, the belief strongly held by some people that human behaviour influences the climate goes back millennia and its adherents enjoy partial protection afforded by the law to be stigmatized for that belief, at least not in employment (Burton: Nicholson v Grainger [2009] EWCA Civ 1025; [2009] IRLR 78 (EAT)). As a mistake, it had its origins in some over-simplifications and outright mathematical errors in applying the laws of physics to an insufficiently understood system. In particular, the variability of cloud coverage (which reflects incoming solar radiation) and the details of how radiant energy is exchanged were wrong. However, the more fundamental error was the woefully incomplete modelling of convection which transports heat between parts of the atmosphere, between parts of the oceans, and between the too. As a hoax, it was a useful "Mencken hobgoblin" for politicians who seek to control over wealth in order to pursue their particular political objectives, but spun to look like a genuine threat which demanded urgent extreme action. As a fraud, it was useful to start-up companies who could negotiate extraordinarily beneficial government loans, subsidies and extremely market-distorting tariffs to keep them afloat up till the time that the debts had to be repaid, whereupon they went bankrupt. The fraud has been investigated by the UK Serious Fraud Office and presumably other national law-enforcement agencies and they have started to take action against the perpetrators. As an economic disaster, it led to the mass transfer of energy-sensitive industries to countries that either do not subscribe to the dogma,such as China, or enjoy special concessions like India. The USA is special, as it did not agree to Kyoto yet has achieved emissions reductions as a result of a boom in fracking. At the moment the UK electrical grid is extraordinarily compromised by the closure of coal-powered plants and the delay in installing gas-fired plants, plus the ridiculously generous deal with the Chinese for nuclear power strike price. A severe winter within the next decade will be deadly because of the blackouts, which in any case would be political dynamite. Currently the only standy is STOR, which runs on diesel, which is expensive and …… a fossil fuel. The only rational explanation for the economic shenanigans is that global warming is intended not as an environemental issue but a tool of international wealth transfer. As Ottmar Edenhofer (IPCC/PIK) explained: "one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy; one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy." As a humanitarian disaster, the West is trying to prevent the Third World utilising the cheapest, most reliable and life-preserving sources of energy on the planet: fossil fuels, especially when burnt to provide electrical power. Did we learn nothing from the disastrous DDT ban? In summary, Rowan Williams is entitled to preach whatever beliefs he wishes, be it in fairies, Father Christmas or man-made climate change, if he thinks it helps to foster feelings of mutual emotional support and bonding in order to promote a common culture, but if he engages in political pressure to enforce those beliefs he will risks facing ridicule, loss of credibility or civil unrest.
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Thank you for ferrying this garbage to me, someone who knows enough to never read the comments on a news site.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Thank you for ferrying this garbage to me, someone who knows enough to never read the comments on a news site. Don't mention it. I also enjoyed another post where they attack the one person who believes in man made climate change for being unscientific, and then cite a book from 1978.
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Cloud Potato posted:Express:
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Kegluneq posted:Nigel Farage is an anachronistic Bond villain, love it. That's actually Putin, though. I guess Putin is the far right's darling everywhere.
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LemonDrizzle posted:Where do you get hammer-and-sickle branded laptops? I also would like to know this for.. reasons.
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