And Now ... Politics!
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You mean aside from that part where she destroyed an entire industry, leaving crippled and dying towns strewn across the north?B Goy said:
Now that is a hot piece of ass, love me some o' that chocolate!Hollyday said:Never mind Susanna Reid, get a load of this stunner
aaaaaaah Sir Trev... A god walking amongst mere mortals
OT. I got the joke and I'm Australian so I guess I'm one of those internet dwellers.
The joke at the bottom can also work for Australia, just get rid of all special effects, make everyone mega ugly and replace everything else with something like the carbon tax.
Replace the Republican with a robot overlord and the democrat with a former (as in deceased) cancer patient?Solo-Wing said:
I miss Jack Layton. We don't really have any prominent political figures who can at least appear to not be totally evil with him gone.
Oh hooray. As if the escapist didn't have enough subjects to flame about already, we're bringing Thatcher here too?Grey Carter said:
*sigh*... I guess I'll go get the popcorn.
Look, Thatcher was not the most sympathetic of leaders I'll admit, but the binary, black and white way that she is portrayed by everyone really gets on my tits. She came into power at a time where the economy was in the toilet, and much of the heavy, primary industry that had been the backbone of Britain's economy in the past was looking more and more unsustainable, not helped by the Unions having hijacked the entire system in order to hold the country to ransom over nothing every other week. Would you be sympathetic if you had to deal with sanctimonious dinosaurs like Arthur Scargill every day?
For better or worse, she was what she needed to be at the time; and as unsympathetic as she might have appeared, when you take her background into account she probably understood what life for the working classes better than any Prime Minister who has followed her, Labour or Tory (and she had more balls than the lot of them put together to boot).
Defining Thatcher's entire time in office as just her being mean to the Miners and nothing else is as foolish and selective as defining Tony Blair's as just Iraq and nothing else...
Oh wait, we do that too.
Complete agreement.TehKnifeh said:
At least we have the foresight to place all our right wing nutters into one small, easily ignored party though.
Capatcha: Hallowed Ground. The previous one, which I refreshed away from shortly before realising what it said was "know your paradoxes"
Switch Mr. Bellend with a metaphor for the dying middle class and I think this comic would be perfect. Oh, and switch the Right's argument to implications that everything would be fine if we just ended women's suffrage.
I remember the original Billy Joel.saintdane05 said:
THIS ROCKS!!! I was laughing so hard I had to keep rewinding because I was missing stuff. I LOVE IT!!!
sky news is just as flashy we have that in Britain 
Our news is just as full of spin its just a lot more subtle.
I like America I really do and I know many Americans watch and think "How are people buying this propaganda?" when they watch the news because, it is so blatant over their. I was in America when they got Osama and the news was like the end scene out of Return of the Jedi, people waving American flags and cheering in the streets. Like Darth Bin Laden has been destroyed, weew.
British news just covers things selectively and gives really misleading headlines, 'cos people have adhd now and never read articles.
They never interview people who represent the real public either. They will interview single mothers with huge house that are on benefits, while the slant of the report is aww shes broke, they are there to show off a real big nice expensive looking house that's on the tax payer's budget.
I live up north I know what it's like to live on benefits it's not nice. £200 a month if you are under 25 otherwise £280
Our news is just as full of spin its just a lot more subtle.
I like America I really do and I know many Americans watch and think "How are people buying this propaganda?" when they watch the news because, it is so blatant over their. I was in America when they got Osama and the news was like the end scene out of Return of the Jedi, people waving American flags and cheering in the streets. Like Darth Bin Laden has been destroyed, weew.
British news just covers things selectively and gives really misleading headlines, 'cos people have adhd now and never read articles.
They never interview people who represent the real public either. They will interview single mothers with huge house that are on benefits, while the slant of the report is aww shes broke, they are there to show off a real big nice expensive looking house that's on the tax payer's budget.
I live up north I know what it's like to live on benefits it's not nice. £200 a month if you are under 25 otherwise £280
I do not. After looking it up and seeing the homepage's comic (slut-surrounded cabin), I've decided that may change.Eternal_Lament said:
