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[challenge entry] From /Links manifesto link

My first ever fp :) - Thanks!

From the General election: Photoshop Labour challenge. See all 346 entries (closed)

(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:38, archived)
# Is that an Allan Ahlberg illustration?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:42, archived)
# It's from When The Wind Blows
Raymond Briggs, I think
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:44, archived)
# yep.
When The Wind Blows made me cry.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:46, archived)
# This Labour government makes me cry
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:48, archived)
# "Thiiiiiiiiiiiings, can only get better"
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:49, archived)
# Yeah still waiting for that one :D
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:50, archived)
# Fucking hell
I was such a naïve first time voter in 1997

I wish I could go back and beat all that optimism out of my 18 year-old self with a fucking cricket bat
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:53, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
You sure you were 18 in 1997? ;)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:54, archived)
# Now I come to think of it
I voted just after my 19th birthday
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:07, archived)
# It's your birthday soon too then?
Mine in 2 weeks exactly :D
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:52, archived)
# No go back and hit Tony Blair with the Cricket Bat
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:54, archived)
# That would be the decent thing to do
I was just being selfish
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:08, archived)
# Steer clear of "Grave of the Fireflies" then...
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:07, archived)
# gah! that stupid boy
take your sister to a fucking doctor you coward!
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:24, archived)
# meh
I remember being told about "Grave" and everyone said it was so bloody sad I was definitely gonna cry out every drop of moisture from my body during the course of the film. It's not THAT sad. Great film though.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 13:57, archived)
# i watched that late at night, then crawled into bed and said to my wife
"i need a hug"
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:24, archived)
# Before or after
he robbed the train and did a runner to Brazil?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:46, archived)
# :)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:49, archived)
# "Raymond Briggs was doing time until he dun a bunk,
now he says he's seen the light and sold his soul to Punk!"
;)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:52, archived)
# \o/
:)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:59, archived)
# Ah yes!
Of course! He illustrated the Allan Ahlberg books, like Happy Families and the like didn't he?

As well as The Snowman obviously....
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:47, archived)
# you're thinking
of janet ahlberg.

appart from about the snowman, that is briggs, obviously.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:56, archived)
# Oh I see!
You live and learn :D

Their styles are quite similar though, aren't they?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:58, archived)
# they are
more or less the same era of kids illustration
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:08, archived)
# Now there's a film I never need to see again
who'd of thunk that old people slowly dying of radiation poisoning would be so depressing?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:43, archived)
#
of have
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:45, archived)
# You're not bothered by "thunk" though?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:46, archived)
# No, not really :)
I suspect that it will be accepted as the past tense of to think before long, if it isn't already, by the OED. Using of in that sentence though shoudl be punishable by death! Or at least chemical castration....
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:49, archived)
#
shoudl should

well, you started it
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:50, archived)
# Ha ha, you spelt "Should" wrong
*points*

(I am joking of course, spell it any way you like)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:51, archived)
# Pfft!
toypos aer aeccpabtle as fra as I am croncened!
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:52, archived)
# Yes, people should only ever use rigid standard english.
In all circumstances.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:52, archived)
# Exactly Mu.
I am glad you agree :P
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:53, archived)
# Whilst maintaining a stiff upper lip.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:53, archived)
# and a full morning dress suit
naturally
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:53, archived)
# Do you mean morning dress or a morning suit?
Because they're quite different, don't you know?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:55, archived)
# both at once
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:08, archived)
# I think you mean "use of it", or alternatively, "its use".
"Using of it" is both grammatically and vernacularly incorrect.
I bite my thumb at you sir.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:54, archived)
# Perhaps one should have put parentheses
around the word to aid our learned ex-pat friend? ;)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:56, archived)
# My thumb sir. I bite it. At you sir.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:57, archived)
# Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:00, archived)
# "NO U"
as I'm sure the Bard would have said had he lived today.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:16, archived)
# Leave
mumth & dadth out of thith
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 16:14, archived)
# The book's better
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:01, archived)
# Damn, that gave me chills.
WTWB, Plague Dogs and Grave of the Fireflies all finished with credits rolling and me bawling my eyes out - but WTWB gave me the emptiest, most hollow feeling inside of those 3 movies. Fucking scary poster you've got there, and no less so for all the bright and pretty colors.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 9:42, archived)
# THREADS
that is all.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 13:58, archived)
# this
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 0:22, archived)
# Seconded
(, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 0:53, archived)