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Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

Kurtofan posted:

That's actually Putin, though.

I guess Putin is the far right's darling everywhere.

I know, I'm just taking the inspiration thing all the way.

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Modus Trollens
Sep 12, 2010


This is the best thing ever. Probably for all the wrong reasons but still

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

Modus Trollens posted:

This is the best thing ever. Probably for all the wrong reasons but still

So are those Mini-Me twins, or are the sharks just massive?

Anemone Mine
Dec 30, 2010

Kegluneq posted:

So are those Mini-Me twins, or are the sharks just massive?

Haven't you seen Dr No? The necessary thickness of the glass has a magnifying effect. Say what you like about this guys politics but the detail that goes into his work is impressive.

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

Anemone Mine posted:

Say what you like about this guys politics but the detail that goes into his work is impressive.
Yes. Yes it is.

Fluo
May 25, 2007

Cloud Potato posted:


Russia Kingdom Independence Party :confused:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh5kZ4uIUC0

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"

LemonDrizzle posted:

Where do you get hammer-and-sickle branded laptops?

Here you go. Hammer and sickle stickers sold separately.

Modus Trollens
Sep 12, 2010

Anemone Mine posted:

Haven't you seen Dr No? The necessary thickness of the glass has a magnifying effect. Say what you like about this guys politics but the detail that goes into his work is impressive.

They're obviously Megladons?

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Express:

"Steve Bell on George Osborne and the full employment plan – Chancellor repudiates 1991 declaration by Norman Lamont that unemployment was a price worth paying to bring down inflation"

Express:

Nigel Farage: 'Putin is leader I admire'

Express:

France's government resigns en masse (but Hollande's clinging on): Failing socialist policies blamed for elections rout

Express:

Climate change to bring more floods, UN warns

Express:

Emma Watson pulls an Angelina Jolie in thigh high dress on Noah red carpet

lets go swimming
Sep 6, 2012

EAT THE CHEESE, NICHOLSON!

Nice April Express, Cloud Express.

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe
Just draw animals, Thomas. Just draw animals. :3:

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

SedanChair posted:

Just draw animals, Thomas. Just draw animals. :3:
Those animals mostly look scared as poo poo, probably because the lions can't believe their luck.

quote:

Emma Watson pulls an Angelina Jolie in thigh high dress on Noah red carpet
Hur hur hur

(I am a child.)

Betjeman
Jul 14, 2004

Biker, Biker, Biker GROOVE!
The Express believes in climate change? :raise:

Waaaait you got me

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Betjeman posted:

The Express believes in climate change? :raise:

Waaaait you got me

APRIL FOOOOOOOL

Not many cartoonists would think to get a jab in at 'alarmist climate change stunts' by using a story where the person warning everyone of impending environmental catastrophe is completely vindicated in style. Thomas manages it because he generally avoids thinking

Also nice to see that the right wing has suddenly noticed Farage is a fuckup. Who knew!?

Here's what Bell's riffing on for anyone who's not aware:

Saatchi and Saatchi strike again

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe
And that image stoked the intense creativity of Romney 2012:

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

What the gently caress is that typeface

Kinda surprised they didn't go for this one actually

baka kaba fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Apr 2, 2014

Strawman
Feb 9, 2008

Tortuga means turtle, and that's me. I take my time but I always win.


baka kaba posted:

What the gently caress is that typeface


Ariel UNSKEWED

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe

baka kaba posted:

What the gently caress is that typeface

Kinda surprised they didn't go for this one actually


I loving love Britain.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Strawman posted:

Ariel UNSKEWED

Looks pretty skewed and wacky to me, really helps with the message - OBAMA :woof:ISN'T WORKING:woof:

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

SedanChair posted:

And that image stoked the intense creativity of Romney 2012:



Oh wow I never realised this used the exact same photo

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
Guardian:

"Steve Bell on the Royal Mail sell-off – Business secretary insists privatisation of mail company was success, but critics have said taxpayers were shortchanged to tune of hundreds of millions"

Telegraph:


Independent:


Times:


Yesterday's Mail:
"A new law which will prosecute parents who emotionally abuse their children is being considered by parliament."

quote:

“ Alright. It’s a promise. When we get out you won’t have to eat up your greens or tidy your room ever again.”

Mail:
"Food scientists are recommending we increase our input of fruit and vegetables from 5 portions to 7."

quote:

“They’ll probably live to be 100, but perhaps you should ease back on the bananas.”

Express:

Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg prepare for TV re-match

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe

quote:

“ Alright. It’s a promise. When we get out you won’t have to eat up your greens or tidy your room ever again.”

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...


I think a simple :fuckoff: suffices. 'Non-physical child abuse is trivial' is shocking even for the Mail.

Rude Dude With Tude
Apr 19, 2007

Your President approves this text.

woah woah woah what's going on here Farage and The UKIP aren't allowed on communist islamofascist broadcaster the BBC because of political correctness.

unless... they've been lying to us

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

woah woah woah what's going on here Farage and The UKIP aren't allowed on communist islamofascist broadcaster the BBC because of political correctness.

unless... they've been lying to us

They only allowed them this time to take everything he'll say out of context and present him as a racist that he obviously is not. HOW DARE YOU?

nuzak
Feb 13, 2012
I like that Farage has a glass of beer contrasted to Clegg's wine glass

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

baka kaba posted:

What the gently caress is that typeface

Kinda surprised they didn't go for this one actually


I'd love to have this as a poster.

Pilchenstein
May 17, 2012

So your plan is for half of us to die?

Hot Rope Guy

nuzak posted:

I like that Farage has a glass of beer contrasted to Clegg's wine glass
I can't remember the last time I saw a glass like that. Between that and the use of "rhubarb" this cartoon is perfectly tailored to speak to the ever important "between 67 and the grave" demographic. :v:

Rude Dude With Tude
Apr 19, 2007

Your President approves this text.
I was drinking out of one in my local on Saturday.

Metrication
Dec 12, 2010

Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".
It looks like a sherry glass.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Kegluneq posted:

I think a simple :fuckoff: suffices. 'Non-physical child abuse is trivial' is shocking even for the Mail.

Mac is like 120 years old so he probably thinks beating your kids is fine as well.

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007


Has anyone said that they shouldn't have sold it in the first place, rather than that they should have sold it for more?

Obliterati
Nov 13, 2012

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
Thunderdome is forever.

nuzak posted:

I like that Farage has a glass of beer contrasted to Clegg's wine glass


That beer is in a German glass :britain: First he's admiring the Russkis and now he's enjoying presumably German beer!

Betjeman
Jul 14, 2004

Biker, Biker, Biker GROOVE!

Obliterati posted:

That beer is in a German glass :britain: First he's admiring the Russkis and now he's enjoying presumably German beer!

It's in a pint mug mate, as British as cricket and spitfires

Obliterati
Nov 13, 2012

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
Thunderdome is forever.
Oh right, I stand corrected. Is this a regional thing? I don't remember running into these in Scotland except for German beer.

Betjeman
Jul 14, 2004

Biker, Biker, Biker GROOVE!

Obliterati posted:

Oh right, I stand corrected. Is this a regional thing? I don't remember running into these in Scotland except for German beer.

You won't see them around anywhere much any more as straight glasses are much easy to stack and store, but go to an old man pub and they probably hand them out to the bitter drinking regulars.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Badger of Basra posted:

Has anyone said that they shouldn't have sold it in the first place, rather than that they should have sold it for more?

The general defence from Cable and friends (and the line parroted by the media) is that successive governments tried to privatise Royal Mail and weren't able to do it (without mentioning why), so getting a profitable public service thrown onto the market floor to be torn to rich bloody pieces by investment bankers is actually an achievement in itself! It's like the scrap metal guys who take away your old appliances - you're just happy to get them out the door. Any money they actually give you is basically a bonus!

So the answer to your question is no

bpower
Feb 19, 2011

Betjeman posted:

You won't see them around anywhere much any more as straight glasses are much easy to stack and store, but go to an old man pub and they probably hand them out to the bitter drinking regulars.

I was over in England on business once, it was terribly hot so after work I decided to nip into a quaint looking pub on the way back to the hotel. I never had a proper English ale before so I ordered one of the local brews. It wasn't one of those warm, soupy looking things you see on the telly. It was golden, clear, ice-cold and incredibly refreshing. About an hour and a half and six of those I was crooked drunk. I couldn't tell the barman where my hotel was, my strong Irish accent probably not helping the situation. He had to ring my home office in Dublin to get the name of the hotel so he could stick me in a taxi. I dont remember anything after that but I was told I just went straight to bed, so that was nice.

Thats my English beer story.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Everybody dance now!



Detecting some hidden symbolism on with Clegg's shadow there - yet another layer in the geology of Thomas's work

baka kaba fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Apr 2, 2014

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Rude Dude With Tude
Apr 19, 2007

Your President approves this text.
oh.. wow

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