conservative slams into Conservative. great.
― The north-east's Number 2 children's party magician (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 March 2011 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
"The International Atomic Energy Authority website appears to have suffered a meltdown amid a surge in traffic..."
great work chaps
― history mayne, Monday, 14 March 2011 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
some kind of web 3 Mile Island presumably?
― Neil S, Monday, 14 March 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"Unable to cope with the flood of requests, its server literally died"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
when I worked for MLB we were expressly forbidden from using any violent metaphor to describe the action of a game, i.e. "Blue Jays erupt in fifth inning" or "Royals explode for sixteen in Tampa" or "Bucs whip Bosox". It may have been a post-Sep 11 thing or it may have been to avoid unintended juxtapositions like the above. In retrospect I think it's just good practice.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Constantly describing people, sports teams, organisations etc. as "stunned" also falls into that category.
― Neil S, Monday, 14 March 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/3/11/1299865906886/Steve-Bells-If-.-.-.-008.jpg
Really classy stuff here.
― Matt DC, Monday, 14 March 2011 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I get it, he misheard Cameron when Cameron said "go home!" Ha! Ahaha! Hahahaha! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
why is cameron's head a condom?
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Monday, 14 March 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Steve Bell needs a lie down :(
― blvd money (sic), Monday, 14 March 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Judging by many recent headlines I've noticed, perhaps this thread should be called "Are the Guardian worse than they used to be?"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
can't stand steve bell...that cartoon is a new low though.
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
would anyone pay to read the guardian if they decided to drop a paywall?
I'm not sure I wouldn't actually. would the guardian ever do it tho?
― cozen, Friday, 18 March 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I probably would pay. The website loses a huge amount of money at the moment, as far as i am aware, but i'm not sure whether a paywall would generate any more than advertising revenue does.
― Ha ha ha ha. Jack my swag. (ShariVari), Friday, 18 March 2011 08:44 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe the website would lose less money if say, they sack all the shit writers from it?
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2011 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I paid for the app without even thinking about it.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
to read articles that were written in a similar way
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2011 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
glad the hackney tourist board is so keen to pony up but i'm not, seem to remember some smug article abt how paywalls are bad
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.iwradio.co.uk/newscentre/national-news/wootton-bassett-cartoon-sparks-outrage-15954542
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/3/16/1300318427436/Steve-Bell-17.03.11-001.jpg
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I get it now.. is cameron's head a condom because he's a dickhead??
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Or because Bell can't draw him?
― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
are his eyes not in the condom?
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Bell explained it as stemming from Cameron being presented as a 'Safe' Tory.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
dreadful
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
it's because he wants to keep out the jonny foreigners
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Not even Bell would use that joke
― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
that's where bell ends and where i begin
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that a bellend reference?
― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I saw something about it evolving from Bell noticing his curious shiny smoothness when he met him.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Defence Secretary Liam Fox told the Sun: "It's tasteless and offensive. It shows a total lack of respect for our fallen.
"It's cowardly and bad taste which stands in stark contrast to the pride of the people of Royal Wootton Bassett."
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually agree it's offensive. it also isn't even that cutting, it's a fairly confused message.
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
the subject is fair
cartoon is typically shit
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't get it tbh
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it's potentially fair except the lack of a clear punchline or meaning just makes it seem gratuitous. plus you know, d-cam didn't start that war, much and all as i think he's a total cunt.
x-post otm...can anyone explain directly what it means?
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the 'war on language' bit applies to the nhs poster, sort of, but... not the other thing. does it?
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Cameron has a condom on his head cos he is head of the condems geddit?
― ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Cameron has a condom on his head cos he is pretending to be one of our mates geddit?
it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a ruddy disgrace!
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/eL3bY.jpg
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha he looks like a chimp! lol! steve bell for prime minister! charlie brooker as chancellor!!!
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/5316/ffsp.png
HURRRRRR
yeah im not going to click that
― BIG GERTRUDE aka the steindriver (history mayne), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.annastoydepot.com/images/martianpopping.jpg
Steve Bell is missing a trick here, I think.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
The Hadley Freeman article is worse than it sounds.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 March 2011 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
* News * World news * Silvio Berlusconi
Series: Pass notesPrevious | IndexPass notes No 2,948: Bunga bunga
Silvio Berlusconi is alleged to be keen on this particular kind of party
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* guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 March 2011 20.00 BST * Article history
Karima el-Mahroug Karima 'Ruby' el-Mahroug claims Berlusconi heard about bunga bunga parties from Gaddafi. Photograph: Kerstin Joensson/AP
Appearance: Sweaty.
Age: 17 to 80. Preferably 17.
Sorry, what are we talking about here? Bunga bunga.
Oh. They drink it on the Humber, I suppose? That's Um Bongo.
I thought they drank that in the Congo. They did, apocryphally. But look, bunga bunga is something different.
How so? Um Bongo is a memorably advertised fruit juice drink. Bunga bunga is a type of orgy where many naked teenage girls cavort for the pleasure of a few old men.
Yes, that is different. Yes, it is.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/27/pass-notes-bunga-bunga-berlusconi
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 March 2011 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960 by Gary Gutting – review
The theories of Derrida and Foucault are revisited in this fair-minded history of French deconstructionism, and guess what? It wasn't all bunkum…
― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes i hate british people
― Packie Bonner (Local Garda), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Cockroach News of Cockroach England
― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Are the theory wars over? Twenty-five years ago you couldn't cocoa your cappuccino without someone accusing you of floating a signifier, much less close down the, ahem, discourse with a simple "I prefer my coffee that way"
― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link