Referendum on Scottish Independence

[Arakhor]

Noooo! Get Glarthir out of the thread! He made my vampire assassin ashamed to be a Bosmer!

 

[Mise]

I don't think I could pass off as a Breton if I'm honest.

 

[Arakhor]

"My, Granddad, what a fine tan you have there. Have you been spending time in Marseille?"

Spoiler :

I really hope this doesn't sound racist!

 

[Pangur Bán]

Strange how British anti-Scottish iconography has changed so little after three centuries of 'marriage':

2014:

1779:

1745:

 

[Traitorfish]

You've gotta love how, in the 1745 cartoon, the artist clearly doesn't know what tartan is, just that it involves intersecting stripes in some way.

 

[Borachio]

I've never felt much personal ire from Scottish people that I've met.

There is, though, an undercurrent of anti-English feeling which has deep, deep roots. Probably something to do with all that slicing, kilt-wise, that went on.

Similar to the undercurrent of anti-French feeling that there is in England.

"Yeah, yeah, French people are our closest allies, honestly. (They're still French, though, if you know what I mean.)"

 

[Tee Kay]

No, the Americans are your closest allies. And your next closest allies. And the next. Followed by Canada.

The French don't have allies, they have partners.

 

[Borachio]

That's why as soon as the Germans look like they're getting a bit uppity with the French the British immediately leap into their boats to cross the Channel and join in with the French? Never mind waiting to see what the US will do.

Ah, for the heady days of the beginning of the C19th, when this wasn't true! (Still, it wasn't true in 1870 either. So, I've no idea what I'm saying now.)

 

[Farm Boy]

No, the Americans are your closest allies. And your next closest allies. And the next. Followed by Canada.

The French don't have allies, they have partners.

Britain needs a besties barge of tobacco, handguns, and Skyrim dvds? We have a delivery to make. GET TO THE CHOPPA!

Never mind waiting to see what the US will do.

I love the smell of Europe in the morning.

 

[GinandTonic]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29915270

Some greatest hits of Lewis Guys.

 

[JohannaK]

The French don't have allies, they have partners.

I thought that was the British! D:

 

[bhsup]

Never mind waiting to see what the US will do.

Sure, but then when we do finally do something, you guys freak out.

Spoiler :

 

[SeekTruthFromFacts]

Who are the guitarist (PIC 3) and the baby?
EDIT: I've just seen the DPRK flag, so the navy must be Kim Jung-un.

 

[Samson]

Who are the guitarist (PIC 3) and the baby?
EDIT: I've just seen the DPRK flag, so the navy must be Kim Jung-un.

Pic 3 is Assad with a minigun and chemical weapons.

 

[Arakhor]

Photo 3 is Bashar al-Assad.

 

[Traitorfish]

I'm not really sure what the other effigies prove. Most of them don't make any particular reference to ethnic or national background; the only one that does, the effigy of Merkel, is considerably more offensive than the effigy of Salmond. In fact, I'd say it manages the impressive feat of being offensive to both Germans and to Jews at once, on the one hand because it conflates Germanness with Nazism, and on the other because it suggests that ruthless fiscal police is more or less as objectionable as the Holocaust.

The effigy of the Pope is also a bit unpleasant, given the sectarian history of the holiday, which is apparently particularly strong in Lewes. It also seems that they previously burned an effigy of a Roma carivan, which is ironic given the Merkel thing.

So I guess the main thing to take away from all this is that people in Lewes don't really have a well-developed sense of comedic propriety?

 

[Flying Pig]

So I guess the main thing to take away from all this is that people in Lewes don't really have a well-developed sense of comedic propriety?

I rather suspect that's the whole point.

 

[Traitorfish]

See, that just leads us back to the whole "don't be a dick" issue. The people of Lewes are, apparently, dicks as a matter of habit and principle, and the rest of the world is simply expected to take this in stride?

It's hard to see what the rest of us get out of this arrangement.

 

[Flying Pig]

Frankie Boyle makes a career out of it - some people find him funny, others just ignore him.

 

[GinandTonic]

Ok we're cross editing a lot here but...

So you have no problem with a bunch of lib-dems burning caricatures, but you object to their being lazy caricatures?

Well that's the problem with the provinces, all the big talent gets sucked to London. So long as you realise the caricatures of Cameron, Miliband, Obama and Benedict will be equally lazy and offensive.

So I guess the main thing to take away from all this is that people in Lewes don't really have a well-developed sense of comedic propriety?

Was rather the point I was making.