Boris Johnson effigy to go up in flames on bonfire night in Edenbridge

[arista]

[An enormous effigy of Boris Johnson having his cake and eating it will go up in flames at an annual bonfire celebration.]


https://e3.365dm.com/18/10/1096x616/skynews-boris-johnson-effigy_4471368.jpg?bypass-service-worker&20181031125242


https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-effigy-to-go-up-in-flames-on-bonfire-night-in-edenbridge-11540850


easy pick.

[Maru]

Might as well. Politics brings out the ugly in just about anyone these days.

Admittedly, that's a pretty terrible looking... doll? Looks like a 3d painting.

[Oliver_W]

Might as well. Politics brings out the ugly in just about anyone these days.

Admittedly, that's a pretty terrible looking... doll? Looks like a 3d painting.

It barely even looks 3D, it just looks like a huge cardboard cutout.

Still, if it gives them pleasure...

[Withano]

Oop, bet the snowflakes are offended again

[Maru]

It barely even looks 3D, it just looks like a huge cardboard cutout.

Still, if it gives them pleasure...

Yeah, I thought it was 2D at first, until I realized there's something installed behind the hand and the face is "floating"... but you're right. It looks crappy. Kill it with fire I guess.

[Marsh.]

Oop, bet the snowflakes are offended again

:joker:

[Marsh.]

It looks crappy.

Of course it does. It's an effigy, it's gonna get burned.

[Maru]

Of course it does. It's an effigy, it's gonna get burned.

Yay paint fumes

[Maru]

I have to say though, the touch on the cake where it says "FU" instead of EU is pretty witty

[Livia]

Burning the guy was always political. Don't see why this should offend. Seems a little childish, but whatever floats their boat.

[Twosugars]

Might as well. Politics brings out the ugly in just about anyone these days.

Admittedly, that's a pretty terrible looking... doll? Looks like a 3d painting.

it's a tradition, going back decades if not longer
in some places they always burn a current hate figure
nothing to do with the deterioration in public discourse brought by alt right

[Underscore]

I shall bring my marshmallows!

[Crimson Dynamo]

I like to stick to burning Catholics like what we oughta

[Twosugars]

we should have a bonfire like that on the forum
I could suggest a few candidates for burning :D

[Livia]

we should have a bonfire like that on the forum
I could suggest a few candidates for burning :D

Similarly, I have a fair few candidates I wouldn't waste a match on.

You're safe... so long as you keep providing the eye candy via your avi...

[Livia]

I shall bring my marshmallows!

I've just bought a couple of bags of marshmallows for Saturday night and they're as big as my fist. I wonder if they will all survive intact all the way to Saturday.

[Twosugars]

Similarly, I have a fair few candidates I wouldn't waste a match on.

You're safe... so long as you keep providing the eye candy via your avi...
you're not on my list either, not anymore ;)

[Livia]

you're not on my list either, not anymore ;)

LOL... phew....

[Twosugars]

LOL... phew....

I know, no more sleepless nights worrying about it, huh? :laugh:

do you still watch bb? I'd love to hear you on this Lewis business

[Livia]

I know, no more sleepless nights worrying about it, huh? :laugh:

do you still watch bb? I'd love to hear you on this Lewis business

No, I lost interest in BB I'm afraid. Is Lewis the one at the centre of the Auschwitz/Outfits controversy?

[Twosugars]

No, I lost interest in BB I'm afraid. Is Lewis the one at the centre of the Auschwitz/Outfits controversy?

Yes. He followed it up with impersonating Hitler and saying "kill the Jews"
which he saw as ridiculing his original slip, i.e. a joke
that's the line his fans take too, plus freedom of speech
others (incl. me) argue it was not funny and could be seen as hate speech

[Livia]

Yes. He followed it up with impersonating Hitler and saying "kill the Jews"
which he saw as ridiculing his original slip, i.e. a joke
that's the line his fans take too, plus freedom of speech
others (incl. me) argue it was not funny and could be seen as hate speech

Oh... more than I originally thought then. Well, I suppose even after that my reaction would be the same. I wrote a post about it, even though I hadn't seen it:

Anti-Semitism is at an all-time high in the UK. There are hundreds of attacks every year with more going unreported. Synagogues have had swastikas spray painted on them, graves have been desecrated, an 11 year old boy was chased and beaten by other kids shouting stuff like "Hitler was ****ing awesome"... In the USA 11 Jews have just been slaughtered while attending a baby naming ceremony at their synagogue.... And some people I talk to are unaware of the current situation.

Wouldn't it be more helpful, if he did make an anti-Semitic comment, to keep him in the house and ask the housemates to have a conversation about what was said and what it means? Rather than brush it under the carpet?

Trouble is, it's difficult to know if he is actually an anti-Semite or just a plain old, common or garden dickhead.

[Twosugars]

thank you, don't think i saw your post att
my money is on him being a dick rather than anti-Semite, but I do understand why Ch5 would shy away from all this, especially as the US synagogue killings happened at the same time and their disinterest in the programme's future

[bots]

I like to stick to burning Catholics like what we oughta

and no-one commented on this? :joker:

[Twosugars]

and no-one commented on this? :joker:
it's only LT being himself
I've given up :shrug:

[Oliver_W]

Yes. He followed it up with impersonating Hitler and saying "kill the Jews"
which he saw as ridiculing his original slip, i.e. a joke
that's the line his fans take too, plus freedom of speech
others (incl. me) argue it was not funny and could be seen as hate speech

Jeez, I hadn't heard all that ... A mangled pronunciation of outfits sounding like Auschwitz? That alone I'd be cautiously forgiving of. But if that happens you call yourself an idiot, pretend to put your false teeth back in, and say the sentence properly.

Unless you're Basil Fawlty, don't impersonate Hitler, and just don't say "kill the Jews" even if you're "joking".

[Twosugars]

exactly, Oliver

[Cherie]

and no-one commented on this? :joker:

LT likes hot catholics, is anyone surprised :laugh:

[Maru]

When I think effigies, I usually think scarecrow looking things. They look more foreboding imo. But my memory may not be on trend. :laugh: Admittedly, I only commented because of the artistic aspect... it looks too silly to be damning. It's kind of cute... in an ugly way.