Jedit posted:

Cadbury's may be our crap chocolate, but it's still infinitely better than anything Americans produce. One of our favourite hobbies is giving our Yankee friends Green & Black's and watching them burst into tears.

Small Frozen Thing posted:

British people are to chocolate as New Yorkers are to pizza

Libluini posted:

At least it's not as horrible as American chocolate. (The USA doesn't produce chocolate, they're producing sugar with brown food colouring.)

Titus Sardonicus posted:

I'm leaning towards this as an explanation as well. That looks less like a drop in quality than a complete stylistic change, it doesn't resemble Payne's old work in any way. And personally, I don't think it's bad, per se, just incredibly lazy when whoever is drawing, Payne or otherwise, keeps relying on the same tired trope over and over.

Jedit posted:

Cadbury's may be our crap chocolate, but it's still infinitely better than anything Americans produce. One of our favourite hobbies is giving our Yankee friends Green & Black's and watching them burst into tears.

Wildeyes posted:

Yeah? Can you get any chocolate bars in the UK with pop rocks in them? Or waffle pieces? Or potato chips?

Well we can. Checkmate, limeys.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Yes, yes and yes.
Cadbury sells the first kind so theyre everywhere.

Mr. Squishy posted:

LOL meaning lots of love is a perfectly valid understanding. Also the boxes to the right are just of random British crap?

TheDarkFlame posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

Libluini posted:

At least it's not as horrible as American chocolate. (The USA doesn't produce chocolate, they're producing sugar with brown food colouring.)

TheDarkFlame posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

TheDarkFlame posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

Mister Beeg posted:

Mallard Fillmore: Year One (December 12-18, 1994)

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Lustful Man Hugs posted:

Sometimes this thread is the most horrifying best place.

Xanderkish posted:

Fixed that for you.

I for one propose we have more political cartoon slashfic. I envision Wormbama in a menage-a-trois with Condom-head Cameron and one of Payne's giant-rear end cars.

Portals posted:

I vote for not letting more slashfic into this thread, it's horrible enough as is.

xthetenth posted:

At one in fifteen students, that's not the clap, it's a round of applause.

R. Mute posted:

Ted Rall is a competent cartoonist.

Wildeyes posted:

I have a theory that Redhead Waifu gets way, way more screentime in this comic than Zed does (even though he's listed first on the character page), which probably owes to the fact that Muir has to meet his daily cleavage quota. This comic could be the poster boy for arguing against the merits of the Bechdel test.

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Small Frozen Thing posted:

I am a firm believer in Politoons thread accelerationism, I approve of their concept

forbidden lesbian posted:

im gonna ship posters in the thread, rorus raz/r mute OTP

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A recurring theme outside the fever swamps is the growing collection of things that everyone knows, but we’re not allowed to discuss. I think a lot of it is simply due to the emerging religion of the post-national West trying to work out the orthodoxy. It’s hard to hail the triumph of egalitarianism when clearly most people are not equal. While that’s being hammered out, you’ll not notice it – or else.

On the other hand, ever human society has things it carefully places in its blind spot. Reality is simply too big and complicated to be anything other than messy for self-aware mammals. Religion used to solve this by blaming the gods, but now we just politely refuse to talk about those intractable or inconvenient aspects of human existence. Just for fun I thought I’d make a post of some of them.

Black people commit a lot of crime: The recent unrest in American ghettos has been great material for the TV news channels. The only thing better than burning buildings is seeing people loot the building first then set it ablaze. If they are doing it during the day it is even better as you can then get great closeups of the rioters.

The trouble is all the people doing this are black. In America, everyone knows black people commit an outlandish amount of crime. If you see black males on the street, everyone, including black people, assume they are up to no good. It is something everyone knows, but we choose not to discuss. When we are forced to talk about it, some other unrelated issue is brought into the discussion so we can talk about that, rather than the crime figures.

No one wants their kid to be gay. All parents say they are just happy if their kids are healthy. That’s mostly true, but no parent wants their kid to turn out to be a happy healthy homosexual. All of those pious Progressives haranguing us about the gays privately hope they never have to be in the same room with a gay, much less have one in the family. There’s a reason for all of the gay ghettos in places like New York, Boston and San Francisco.

Gay men are mostly assholes. Life for homosexuals is not a lot of fun. Unlike everyone else, their pool of potential mates is infinitesimally small. A normal man makes a pass at a women and it is not big deal if she is offended. A man makes a pass at a man and it is big trouble if the other guy is not into dudes. Life for gay people is not a lot of fun and that’s what makes them so unpleasant. We all know this, but what’s the point of saying anything about it? They are what they are and that’s punishment enough.

Lesbians are surly and unattractive. The pornography industry has convinced a lot of men that lesbians are hot super models or the girls down the hall, if you can just get them drunk. Of course, lesbians in the press avoid the normal kit as they know how TV works. Viewers want to see attractive people. That means lantern-jawed men and model quality women.

In real life, lesbians look like the guy who paved your driveway. They have bad haircuts and wear men’s clothes. For some reason, they like wearing men’s jeans and flannel shirts. Younger ones will have a face full of fishing tackle and tattoos. To add to the unpleasant visage, they are surly and miserable people. I’ve trod this earth a long time and I have yet to meet a sunny, bubbly lesbian.

The apple does not fall far from the tree. Education policy and all of our debates about crime, poverty and the underclass are all based on something we know is nonsense. That thing is the belief that the kid will grow up to be something different than his parents. The fact we all know is that almost all kids turn out to be, more or less, like their parents.

Public policy is based on the belief that the right teacher, the right program, the right social worker will magically overcome biology. We all know this is nonsense, but we go along with it because it beats the alternatives. The rare exception of the kid overcoming bad parents makes us feel good so we go along with the lie, even though everyone suspect it is a mistake.

Men are not all that interested in what women have to say. Here’s another biology issue. Males are programmed to seek mating opportunities. We fight one another, fight strangers, perform in public and do all sorts of things to increase out chances of mating. Whatever it takes to bag a female we will do. That includes pretending to care about what a woman has to say on most subjects.

The hard cold truth is women are bred for having and raising children. Men are bred for battling other males for the chance to reproduce. It’s why we used to say that men will trade money for sex and women will trade sex for money. The biological ends of men and women are the same, but the means are vastly different and neither side can offer much in the way of advise to the other, with regards to the means.

My guess is women don’t care what men have to say either, but most men assume that anyway. Women seem to think we are supposed to care what they have to say so we have all of these rituals where men pretend to care what the hot women in the office is saying about sales, but he is really just thinking about banging her.

The most bigoted people in America are black. In fact, blacks are actively encouraged to wear their prejudices on their sleeve. Every black comic does bits on white people. Famous black people put a lot of effort into “keeping it real” so they can be clear that they are not down with the blue-eyed devil. How many times have you heard a black guy say something like, “It is a black thing, you wouldn’t understand”?

What makes this most absurd is we also pretend that blacks are biologically incapable of being racist or prejudiced. No one, for example, ever says that Al Sharpton is a racist, because that’s not permitted. We all know that he is a hate-filled carbuncle of a man, but he’s black so we don’t say he is a racist.

Jews do run things. If you look around, it is not hard to notice that men of the tribe occupy a disproportionate amount of the nation’s high ground. Hollywood is run by Jews. The media is all run by Jews. Finance, obviously. Look at the list of richest 1000 and you see that 30% are Jews. It’s not a conspiracy or part of some master plan run from a secret location in Israel. Jews are just a wildly successful people.

Western societies reward intelligence and Jews are the smartest group of humans on earth. That means more of them will be equipped to succeed in a modern society, relative to their numbers, than we’ll see with other groups. Having smart people in charge of your country is a good idea so everyone goes along with it and never mentions it. The last time people noticed the Jews were in charge, a lot of bad things followed so we pretend not to notice.

Most people should not be allowed to vote. Paying attention to pubic affairs is tough stuff. First off, it’s boring. Thinking about the big game is a lot more fun than thinking about tax policy or abortion policy. Even if you have an interest in it, there’s so much bravo sierra in the media it is hard to keep track of things. Even smart people fall into lazy habits of rooting for Red Team or Blue Team without thinking about it.

Most people are not smart. In fact, most people are average to below average. We’re a country that lets retarded people vote. We all know this is a terrible idea, but we go along with it anyway. We hope that when it matters the serious people who know the right answers will also have the ability to convince the dumb people to pull the right lever. But, most of us suspect it would be better to just let the smart people vote, but we keep that to ourselves.