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Presenting today's main feature: The London Bombings and reactions to them
Flickr offers some dry (gallows?) humour in one of the photos from its set (community?) of photos relating to the bombings.
One more I will plug Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index, which has themed round-ups of cartoons from around the world. The cartoons on the London bombings are a typically good lot. Note the few that go straight for the Al-Qaeda link (despite the fact this is totally uncorroborated folly which most people are very wary of paying any heed to).
The cartoon index has several excellent images (and one freaky confusing one) but my favourite is from a cartoonist called Steve Breen. remonstrare thinks the lion is looking subservient but I think this is a classic example of the sort of paranoid, insecure nonsense most British people seem to fall into sooner or later (and yes, I do, too) with regards national pride. I think the cartoon is a lovely illustration of a saddened, noble Britain being offered sympathy. It's not that I can't see what remonstrare means, it's just well - the lion could take out Uncle Sam real easy, no?
Anyway, if we want patronising, offensive rubbish, how about putting the Blitz on a level with the bombing of the Twin Towers. I'm glad for America that "9/11" is the worst they've suffered. Anyway, there are some excellent cartoons, one bringing a fantastically witty, dark, edgy comparison with winning the honour of hosting the Olympics. I'll let you find them yourselves. Oh, but another annoyance. In the Churchill-themed cartoons there's a quote hiding that claims he said "honor". That's just annoying. Still, it's fantastic to see the resolute, calm response of everyday Londoners being honoured. Note, honoured. That's how we Brits speak, y'all hear?
In other news, apparently the vat-grown KFC hoax has taken one step closer to being made real.
As a side note, an interesting quote from the linked article: (my link above takes you to a longer article but with a less sensational headline)"Writing in this month's Physics World, British physicist Alan Calvert calculated that the animals eaten by people produce 21 percent of the carbon dioxide that can be attributed to human activity. He recommends people switch to a vegetarian diet as a way to battle global warming. Worldwide reduction of meat production in the pursuit of the targets set in the Kyoto treaty seems to carry fewer political unknowns than cutting our consumption of fossil fuels," he said in a statement."
By 1917, there were more vibrators than toasters in American homes. FWIW, yes, I did know about the Good Vibrations shop/museum when I visited SF and no I didn't get a chance to go there :( Next time!
Flickr offers some dry (gallows?) humour in one of the photos from its set (community?) of photos relating to the bombings.
One more I will plug Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index, which has themed round-ups of cartoons from around the world. The cartoons on the London bombings are a typically good lot. Note the few that go straight for the Al-Qaeda link (despite the fact this is totally uncorroborated folly which most people are very wary of paying any heed to).
The cartoon index has several excellent images (and one freaky confusing one) but my favourite is from a cartoonist called Steve Breen. remonstrare thinks the lion is looking subservient but I think this is a classic example of the sort of paranoid, insecure nonsense most British people seem to fall into sooner or later (and yes, I do, too) with regards national pride. I think the cartoon is a lovely illustration of a saddened, noble Britain being offered sympathy. It's not that I can't see what remonstrare means, it's just well - the lion could take out Uncle Sam real easy, no?
Anyway, if we want patronising, offensive rubbish, how about putting the Blitz on a level with the bombing of the Twin Towers. I'm glad for America that "9/11" is the worst they've suffered. Anyway, there are some excellent cartoons, one bringing a fantastically witty, dark, edgy comparison with winning the honour of hosting the Olympics. I'll let you find them yourselves. Oh, but another annoyance. In the Churchill-themed cartoons there's a quote hiding that claims he said "honor". That's just annoying. Still, it's fantastic to see the resolute, calm response of everyday Londoners being honoured. Note, honoured. That's how we Brits speak, y'all hear?
In other news, apparently the vat-grown KFC hoax has taken one step closer to being made real.
As a side note, an interesting quote from the linked article: (my link above takes you to a longer article but with a less sensational headline)"Writing in this month's Physics World, British physicist Alan Calvert calculated that the animals eaten by people produce 21 percent of the carbon dioxide that can be attributed to human activity. He recommends people switch to a vegetarian diet as a way to battle global warming. Worldwide reduction of meat production in the pursuit of the targets set in the Kyoto treaty seems to carry fewer political unknowns than cutting our consumption of fossil fuels," he said in a statement."
By 1917, there were more vibrators than toasters in American homes. FWIW, yes, I did know about the Good Vibrations shop/museum when I visited SF and no I didn't get a chance to go there :( Next time!