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jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Guavanaut posted:

Wait, what's this about otc Viagra? It's actually a thing that The Mail were talking about.

That seems like an odd thing to otc given the number of people who would buy it for extramedical purposes, given the government's other attitudes on non-medical drugs.

Viagra is a drug that middle class ageing white men want to use. Therefore there should be no impediment to it's availability, regardless of the risks.

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jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Er, what happened to the Times? Two Tory bashing cartoons in a row?

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Cloud Potato posted:

Mail:
MAC on...the Labour Party campaign launch


Did Mac just draw two black people and two women, probably his most diverse crowd scene ever, to depict a group of six bankers?

Also fun to see most cartoons devolve into more and more simple 'Labour are Bad' messages as the campaign progresses.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Cerebral Bore posted:

You know you've hosed up as a Tory if even Mac makes fun of your ideas.

Remember that the Tories don't run the press, the press runs the Tory party.

Comics like that serve a dual purpose of portraying all workers as feckless skivers and giving the Tories a gentle reminder that they had better not be too serious about giving workers more rights.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Kurtofan posted:

Is mac saying bobbies are bad scroungers or that they are unjustly held back by cuts??

The implication is pretty clearly that public sector workers are more concerned with getting a pay rise than doing their jobs, and also (judging by the amount of food/drink around) lazy and not really underpaid at all.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010


This is a masterpiece.

I get Theresa May as a human lightning rod, David Davis in the endless hamster wheel of Brexit, and the solar panel capturing the sun shining out of Boris and Gove's arses.

But who is the guy providing poo poo for the human waste digester?

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Discendo Vox posted:

Just to be clear, Jeremy's said nothing positive about Maduro, I assume?

The big story at the moment is that he hasn't interrupted his holiday to personally condemn him.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010


This is the epitome of 'two things happened'.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010


gently caress's sake, how many more times are we going to see the 'UK and EU in a restaurant arguing over the bill, which is for billions of pounds' motif.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Gimmick Account posted:

I'm just staring in disbelief at the two most recent Mac cartoons. I would not have expected a major newspaper to print this kind of vile poo poo in 2017, not even the Daily Mail.

Apparently, Mac hates women even more than foreigners?

Did you spot the hangman/noughts & crosses on the most recent one, indicating the male psychiatrist isn't even listening to the female 'patient'?

And the striking similarity to his Diane Abbott in all but skin colour/racist caricature face?

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Angepain posted:

Mac's really been on a gently caress off streak lately.

Is it something about the government and/or brexit falling apart lately that's made the right wing press rev up their Scary Trans Gays engine a couple of notches or am I just noticing it more?

It's a not so subtle reminder that no matter how incompetent they are, only a Tory government will keep those undesirables in their rightful place. Just in case anyone was looking at the current mess and considering voting for The Other Guys.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Guavanaut posted:

She's running to the doctors because he's about 20 minutes away from a heart attack or at least a painful priapism.

The bizarre thing is he's simultaneously implying that the wife bought viagra and that she doesn't want to have sex.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010


I'm really struggling to decipher what point this is trying to make, aside from the obvious 'Diane Abbott is stupid'.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

I know they have to make him recognisable, but if I were Stephen Hawking I'd be pissed if I got to heaven and still had motor neurone disease.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Cloud Potato posted:

Sunday Telegraph:


I'm not sure a cartoon comparing Corbyn to Christ is as big a burn as they think it is.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

I really don't understand the Sunday Times one. Boris is going to wash away UK democracy, and Corbyn is trying to stop him but failing? But apparently he's going to do it on the back of an election, so how exactly is that undemocratic? Are they trying to imply Corbyn is ineffectual, because someone trying to hold back the tide is normally a metaphor for arrogance rather than incompetence? Are they trying to say Boris is inevitable?

What's the loving message?

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jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Guavanaut posted:

Yes Bob. All gave some. Some gave all. You can't even be bothered to wear a cloth mask. Off you gently caress.

Read slightly differently, it could be quite a profound juxtaposition between the sacrifices made during the war and the people currently sacrificing their "today" (by remaining in lockdown) so that others might have a tomorrow (survive coronavirus).

It's not intended that way, of course, but it's still ironic.

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