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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:29 pm 
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I don't think PT is suggesting Harry has picked up his medals for frivolous reasons or because of who he is. I think that PT's basically doing his 'crawl up the arse of royalty' routine.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:22 am 
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Love how in yesterday's the only British 'beauty queens' are fat bald blokes in union-flag ties.

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I get what his joke is supposed to be, but I'm just seeing it as "Britain's hard-up pensioners betrayed... by their sweater-vest wearing middle-class offspring who are unbothered when told that their mother has been asking her grandchildren for money."

The brick detail is impressive though - think how long he must have spent on that house in the background!


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:47 am 
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That cartoon should carry an epilepsy warning

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sporran wrote:
That cartoon should carry an epilepsy warning


If you squint just right, the darker bricks look like letters.
We should be on the lookout for subliminal messages.


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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
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The brick detail is impressive though - think how long he must have spent on that house in the background!


Longer than he did on the joke, that's for sure!


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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:40 am 
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Bones McCoy wrote:
sporran wrote:
That cartoon should carry an epilepsy warning


If you squint just right, the darker bricks look like letters.
We should be on the lookout for subliminal messages.

I think it says "HELP ME"

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On a related matter, I have spent a certain amount of time this mrning looking for the name of a Sun cartoonist from the mid to late 1990s, who was notorious for drawing whatever celeb had been caught taking drugs, badly with crossed out eyes and flying. It got to the level of standing joke on Mark & Lard's breakfast show - "Oh, looks like X has been caught taking ecstasy, so there's probably a cartoon in the Sun by ______, wih her cross-eyed and flying...oh what a surprise, so there is."

I have a nagging feeling it may have been PT. Sausage noses seem to have featured.

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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
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Fflaps wrote:
jguazu wrote:
The brick detail is impressive though - think how long he must have spent on that house in the background!


Longer than he did on the joke, that's for sure!


And that's a pretty bad bit of constructon too, look at those badly spaced windows.

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Confused here, surely Harry is a "hero" after serving in Afghanistan? I am not a fan of the royals but he did go over their and do his job, so any uniform and medals he wears he is entitled to ?

Prince Harry has three medals the Afghanistan Campaign medal, Golden Jubilee Medal and his shiny new Diamond Jubilee Medal.
The first he got for being on active service in Afghanistan for 4 weeks, he was there for 10 weeks but you only need to be there for 4 week to get this medal. The other two are presents from his Nan for being Nana's ickle soldier.

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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
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Andy McDandy wrote:
I don't think PT is suggesting Harry has picked up his medals for frivolous reasons or because of who he is. I think that PT's basically doing his 'crawl up the arse of royalty' routine.


The caption suggests though that he did get them frivolously ,however its still a crap cartoon!

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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
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That's just... terrible :shock:

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Just.......why?

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Where are the jokes folks?


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 Post subject: Re: Critical analysis of the Express cartoon thread
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That is one of the funniest cartoons he has ever printed, unintentionally of course


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