Interesting to see some visuals for the clips.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 21:33, Reply)
with Electrolux ZA65 accompaniment
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 19:05, Reply)
I prefer Larry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXoWmidpciU
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 20:53, Reply)
They put to instead of too and so imagine that they'd had capslock on for the initial draft before someone told them to tone it down and put on some goddamned trousers and that mess was the result.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 23:44, Reply)
after he saw some interesting tracks near his house
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 14:50, Reply)
"Don't look at another man's portal gun history. We all go to weird places."
(, Sun 7 Jul 2024, 2:26, Reply)
If you like cinematic bachelor pad/lounge/easy-italodisco-progrock-jazz-classical fusion, this is just the thing.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 2:22, Reply)
Jonathan Pie: 'It's 50 Shades of Beige.' Meet Britain's New Prime Minister.
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 19:10, Reply)
and not good enough to be the hard-hitting social commentator he aspires to be. Frankly, he's just not good enough.
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 20:24, Reply)
Is your satire more critically approved?
I'm not a fan but he's significantly funnier than several other professional comedians, and much less of a cunt than Francis Wheen, Ian Hislop, or John Sessions.
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 20:34, Reply)
Unlike him, I know the limits of my talent. He comes across as a faux self-righteous twat.
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 20:52, Reply)
he's a cunt
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It's just one of those things, nothing could have stopped it.
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Also pro wrestling is predetermined and there's no Father Christmas.
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 22:48, Reply)
From what I've seen he's consistently held up a mirror to those in power, whoever they are, and repeatedly put himself in the legal firing line in the process. Sure, I can see he might be irritating to some people but that doesn't make him a cunt IMO.
I might be missing something, in which case I'm genuinely interested what it is!
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 9:15, Reply)
Speaking as someone who has watched HIGNFY for about 30 years - tory? Really?
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I'm not sure he claims to be a comedian. However, launching BJ's career is another thing entirely - when did this happen? I must have missed it!
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 18:51, Reply)
It’s the same situation with Nerine Skinner, a.k.a. Liv Struss/Navine Borries; the Tories are out so now they’ll need to change their acts.
In the case of the latter she can switch to Rayner or Phillips (she’s already done some videos in these personae) but Pie will struggle without a target so universally hated as the Tories.
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 22:24, Reply)
Pie is not a Labour character, he gets flabbergasted by corruption, lies and incompetence. Labour are capable of providing him ample material, but hopefully less criminal and fascistic.
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Do the joke, pull the face, done.
Pie rambles and labours the point.
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- but that doesn't stop him being an annoying shit.
Entertainment is a matter of taste, and taste is famously highly variable.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 15:38, Reply)
But if you claimed he wasn't good enough to be a comedian then I could simply point to his success to prove your claim to be false.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 16:35, Reply)
Just not my taste, too much angry rant, not enough wit.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 17:46, Reply)
and he's cut through for a mostly short video consuming generation that some of the old satirical mainstays like private eye no longer can. It's his videos that are getting widely shared around this election, not other comedians. People are familiar with the "off-camera reporter" conceit, and can just enjoy his take.
As to his predicted demise now the tories are smashed, people made similar predictions about the crowded gaggle of american late night satire hosts when trump lost, kimmel and that bloke who does a closer look et al, but they're all still around
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 0:00, Reply)
but at the same time is very careful to not say anything his (centrist/mainstream) audience will bristle at, for example he will always say "populism" rather than "fascism" because you'll get pearl-clutching if anyone says anyone else in politics or the media (or voters!) is fascist or racist.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 14:24, Reply)
Umberto Eco's list of fascist traits is useful on this point - www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for-identifying-fascists
After WWII we said "never again" and we should have our eyes open to it happening again.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 15:27, Reply)
“The question was taken up by the recently deceased Italian novelist and semiotician”
Zombie Eco sez you is all fascists
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 23:20, Reply)
Apparently he gets all sorts turning up to his live shows and he used to worry that the pro-Brexit morons would get offended and leave when he called them cunts, but everyone laughs along at everything.
ETA: Turns out I hadn't noticed it because it's simply not true:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hrn6vnOjRs
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 15:15, Reply)
Based on
* Boris was twice voted mayor of London (so what?)
* They care about Brexit (so what?)
* People voted for JRM and it "fans the flames of division" to suggest that they "voted for a nazi by mistake" (this is exactly the pearl-clutching I was talking about)
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Once the Tories are out, the left of center resume fighting each other.
This is why we can't have nice things.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 16:43, Reply)
Before conceding that they're just as self-serving and incompetent as the Tories they're replacing.
Rayner the Usurper's first proper go at knocking Starmer out of office should start the ball rolling, I reckon.
Also, I've just put £500 down on Kemi Badenoch to replace Rishi Sunack. I'm convinced that the Tories will see putting a relatively young black woman in the driving seat as being a 100% surefire way to win over young voters as Labour flounder under the suffocating weight of 'Great British Energy' and the fact they'll have fuck all money to do anything without raising everybody's taxes.
The £1200 might take some of the sting out of that for a month or two. For me, at least.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 17:20, Reply)
They will need to work out a new system for choosing a leader anyway, maybe they won't ask them this time.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 17:41, Reply)
I'd prefer a more boring politics where people fixed stuff rather than jockeying for position most of the time. Fighting culture wars and thinly disguised corruption should be left to the Americans, we have our own British class system to oppress each other with.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 20:07, Reply)
she'd probably pull a few back from reform, granted, but she's pretty fringe with her views. hardline thatcher-poster-on-the-wall ex-fund manager brexiteer who hates teh gays isn't going to appealing to the centre left despite her well documented blackness. Kemi got the least number of backers in the last leadership spill, knocked out in the first round. Glad it's your money, though given all the scratchings I guess she's in with a chance
(, Sun 7 Jul 2024, 1:15, Reply)
The right's emphasis on loyalty and unity leads to mindless uniformity and blind faith in their ideological authorities. Leftist philosophy attempts a more scientific approach. Think of the bickering as peer review, or active error testing and correcting.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 17:30, Reply)
...the social cohesiveness required for a party usually leads to tribalistic groups which then define their identity by infighting and hampering progress; See also competitiveness.
A few hundred thousand years or so of adaptation might sort it.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 19:54, Reply)
Wait until they've had time to settle in
Wait a bit longer, they still haven't had enough time yet
etc.
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 17:37, Reply)
"We won't begin seeing real change until we reach the Overcast Brunch of Discontent."
(, Sat 6 Jul 2024, 17:57, Reply)
if I could be bothered I'd make up a newspaper front page that said:
"Election: Different bunch of lying useless bastards with second homes, hostages to fortune of the global economy, win majority"
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 14:51, Reply)
news.rr.nihalnavath.com/news/Axinos-Polling-Report-3eb4a6c7
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 19:16, Reply)
a massive zoom out to show all the other countries on the planet electing the fash.
The Frankie Two Tribes ending.
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 13:23, Reply)
I guess it's going to be less comfortable pointing out the flaws in your own team.
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 19:43, Reply)
(play with sound)
Made this yeaaaaaaaars ago and just found it. Tracking a bit wonky the original vid was very low quality
(, Fri 5 Jul 2024, 9:55, Reply)
in turn (sort of), Welsh Nationalist, Labour, Conservative and the female vote
(, Thu 4 Jul 2024, 23:43, Reply)
And back by “popular” demand: b3ta.com/links/1581218
(, Thu 4 Jul 2024, 22:11, Reply)
but the headlights seem crap.
(, Thu 4 Jul 2024, 17:03, Reply)
If someone jumps in front of you in the dark or in bright light, you still won't be able to do anything about it.
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