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arista 31-10-2018 02:27 PM
Boris Johnson effigy to go up in flames on bonfire night in Edenbridge
 
[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/...20181031125242


https://news.sky.com/story/boris-joh...ridge-11540850


easy pick.

Maru 31-10-2018 08:27 PM
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 31-10-2018 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Maru (Post 10325844)
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 31-10-2018 10:31 PM
Oop, bet the snowflakes are offended again

Maru 31-10-2018 10:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Oliver_W (Post 10325941)
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. 31-10-2018 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Withano (Post 10326140)
Oop, bet the snowflakes are offended again
:joker:

Marsh. 31-10-2018 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Maru (Post 10326167)
It looks crappy.
Of course it does. It's an effigy, it's gonna get burned.

Maru 31-10-2018 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 10326215)
Of course it does. It's an effigy, it's gonna get burned.
Yay paint fumes

Maru 31-10-2018 11:41 PM
I have to say though, the touch on the cake where it says "FU" instead of EU is pretty witty

Livia 01-11-2018 10:18 AM
Burning the guy was always political. Don't see why this should offend. Seems a little childish, but whatever floats their boat.

Twosugars 01-11-2018 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Maru (Post 10325844)
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 01-11-2018 12:40 PM
I shall bring my marshmallows!

LeatherTrumpet 01-11-2018 12:55 PM
I like to stick to burning Catholics like what we oughta

Twosugars 01-11-2018 01:05 PM
we should have a bonfire like that on the forum
I could suggest a few candidates for burning :D

Livia 01-11-2018 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Twosugars (Post 10326779)
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 01-11-2018 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Underscore (Post 10326730)
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 01-11-2018 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 10326797)
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 01-11-2018 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Twosugars (Post 10326817)
you're not on my list either, not anymore ;)
LOL... phew....

Twosugars 01-11-2018 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 10326839)
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 01-11-2018 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Twosugars (Post 10326848)
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 01-11-2018 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 10326882)
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 01-11-2018 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Twosugars (Post 10326887)
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:

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 10318379)
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 01-11-2018 02:13 PM
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

bitontheslide 01-11-2018 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 10326762)
I like to stick to burning Catholics like what we oughta
and no-one commented on this? :joker:

Twosugars 01-11-2018 02:20 PM
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Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 10326909)
and no-one commented on this? :joker:
it's only LT being himself
I've given up :shrug:


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