Comments on: POLITICAL INDICATOR

By: sarcastic_sally

sarcastic_sally — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:07:47 +0000

It’s kind of hard when there is NO humor in it, don’t you think?

By: Harpuia

Harpuia — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:58:04 +0000

I think that the idea is that it’s supposed to be a current picture, and it’s in black and white to comment on the state of the economy. Yes, I know this is from around the time of the Great Depression, but that merely adds to the caption.
Thus speaks X’s Peter. (If you don’t get it, Peter was the disciple who was supposed to be closest to Jesus.)

By: obviologist

obviologist — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:18:58 +0000

did anyone catch the racial nature of the photo of Black people, and not being able to afford color- or am I the only one who actually got the bad joke

By: Wholesome

Wholesome — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:05:45 +0000

BWHAHAHA!!!

By: Seth

Seth — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:38:42 +0000

Hehe, yeah, that was it! Best. Comic. Evar. Pogo comes close, but Watterson is a true master of the art form.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:07:01 +0000

@fish: Well, hence the “erroneous presumptions” part. But at least you know how to spell “color” properly.

By: fish

fish — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:04:02 +0000

Ah, didn’t know he was english, sry about that. :F I really don’t know the orogin on anyone here, didn’t think I had to… :/ I just called it as i saw it.

By: Aedriel

Aedriel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:57:16 +0000

Hypocrisy because your use of the language is terrible.

Also note that nobody who’s responded to you is American.

By: AC

AC — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:53:00 +0000

“Erroneus presumptions” because Uncle Fester’s English.

By: fish

fish — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:48:47 +0000

just so that I am with you guys, you go all “hypocrisy and erroneous presumptions” over my little comment about the US? Get some self distance please. (

By: Tessie

Tessie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:39:19 +0000

*kidnaps U’s*
*holds them hostage*

By: Aedriel

Aedriel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:33:02 +0000

There’s so much ignorance and hypocrisy packed into that statement… I don’t even know where to begin…

I’m with Danbala.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:48:05 +0000

Ok… I hate the “fail/win” meme, but since you introduced into the thread here, I’ll have to say:
Making erroneous presumptions and making yourself look an arse WIN.

By: fish

fish — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:33:52 +0000

nice, a stingy french guy tired of people making fun of
french military history strikes down on any remotely connected
comment ^_^

relevance FAIL

History is written by the victor, and in this case the victor is
brittain (english is after all the world language) and in english
it is spelled colour. (not in the US, but they are not to be
trusted around culture. :F

By: AC

AC — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:49:02 +0000

1/2 Hibernian….
Nationalistic bull?
Also, fulfilling stereotypes -yer doin it rite….

By: Danbala

Danbala — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:27:13 +0000

Damnit. With this post “Recent Comments” got completely filled with “Uncle Fester on POLITICAL INDICATOR”. So… I just have to post something here so I can have a little “marker” there again to see the progress of postings and see if anything might be new. :p

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:19:21 +0000

Ynnedeyd.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:18:07 +0000

The reply below yours covers it. Of course it’s a bastard
dialect of Norman French… even worse, after Chaucer,
it became the Kentish dialect version of Bastardised French,
mixed with Germanic bits, Viking bits, Latin bits, Greek bits
(from Latin and the coal trade)…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:13:56 +0000

I think it’s a tad better than choosing one’s leader
from Special Schools or from the FBI most wanted
white collar criminals list…
only a tiny bit mind.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:10:14 +0000

Longshanks was simply vindictive and a fool…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:08:56 +0000

The only good reason ever to get a Catholic monarch would be to be rid of Scotland…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:07:23 +0000

I use the word colony to piss off Americans…
As to the american involvement in WW2, you
were well paid, both in cash and diplomatically,
for that, so I’d keep the posturing down to
whooping and shouting ‘kick ass!’ if I were you.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:59:51 +0000

I don’t count you at all, you sad little hibernian.
The empty nationalistic bull you spout is simply
embarrassing…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:58:01 +0000

The French…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:57:01 +0000

Paediatrician and foetus, since they are from a classical
etymology (former Greek, latter Latin) can only be
correctly rendered thus…
The ae and oe are technically single letters (a bit like ff or
dd in Welsh, or ij in Dutch). It’s only typesetting
limitations that have made them into combinations.

It’s about nuance…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:49:44 +0000

The French have won more wars in Europe than
anyone else, including the British. I think it’s down
to them knowing from the bat when they’re going
to get snotted… Austerlitz being one exception that
proved the rule. On paper, it should have been a
French win. Instead it was a bloody draw that, long
term damaged France…
If the French have walked away from a fight, it’s
because it’s an insane battle from the outset…

By: lolo

lolo — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:25:25 +0000

I say, ts spelled that way in England old chap.English was invented here.
I guess Americans just change the words slightly as a teensy little rebellion against…well, reality.
Its callled denial

By: Danbala

Danbala — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:53:52 +0000

I’d really love to have a keyboard that could change the actual visible letters on the keys as easily as settings can change. That way, it’d be possible to do Dvorak keyboard more sensibly – I guesstimate my typing to be 50/50 English/Swedish, and the various letters aren’t equally common in each language. Still, an English Dvorak keyboard would probably still be better for Swedish than the qwerty is.

By: Milo

Milo — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:09:02 +0000

I thought he said that the painters painted it in black and white but it the paint changed to color when the world did. And that the photos didn’t change because they were color photographs of a black and white world.

By: lowly grunt

lowly grunt — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:20:22 +0000

I laughed at the lol.
And then I laughed at the confusion.
LOL!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:46:11 +0000

I got my father’s engineering hand-me-downs, which I’ve used for everything. Drives me crazy when I have to use that bizzarro “=” key!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:42:27 +0000

It’s a mix of Nordic and French. Good old Anglo-Saxon (you can thank the vikings for ‘fsck’ and the basics like flesh and bread), plus French for ‘beef’ and fancy stuff like that.

By: ubr

ubr — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:38:27 +0000

@ viking gal – i didn’t know that TIs used RPN… the only calcs i remember using that were the HP48s and above…

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:36:29 +0000

Chicken pox, smallpox, or ‘the French pox’?

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:35:20 +0000

I’m already doing it with calculators–my preference is the old Texa Instrument’s ‘reverse polish notation’. But if I have to borrow someoneelse’s, , then I’m stuck coping without my beloved ‘enter’ key!

By: Aedriel

Aedriel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:30:19 +0000

I’ve screenshotted desktops and deleted all the icons… I’ve switched keyboard keys… never thought about actually switching the comp settings to dvorak though… I’ll keep that in mind next time I want to play a joke

By: IowaSucks

IowaSucks — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:29:34 +0000

Sieg Heil!

By: ubr

ubr — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:27:08 +0000

@aed – that or you could just switch everyone’s keyboard over to dvorak… that would be quite interesting in my office… i’m pretty sure my boss would come in and say “my computer is broken” in about… 2 hrs…

By: Aedriel

Aedriel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:24:38 +0000

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By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:17:08 +0000

… I should smack the lot of you. With love, of course.

By: IowaSocks

IowaSocks — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:15:13 +0000

@Aedriel
doesn’t british english already do that?
.
.
Ban U!

By: Aedriel

Aedriel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:13:07 +0000

I agree with the Dvorak thing, I’m just too accustomed to mine to make the change, also I’d have to constantly make the switch back every time I used someone else’s machine

By: Aedriel

Aedriel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:11:38 +0000

haha… Nouw you’re oun the coumplete ouppousite ouf the spectrum…

Now, to balance the fource, I must stick additiounal Us after every O(u)….

By: ubr

ubr — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:11:12 +0000

i think we should all switch over to dvorak keyboards.

By: IowaSocks

IowaSocks — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:09:31 +0000

Danbala
the new rallying cry
Ban U!

By: Danbala

Danbala — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:06:11 +0000

Sholdn’t that be flondering?
*goes further than anyone ever before!!!* ;p

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:56:23 +0000

That could just be me floundering with spelling on little sleep. Don’t look too deep into it.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:52:40 +0000

Perhaps, it is one of those, had to be there situations when the word rape was being discussed. Long dead issue, technically.

By: Aedriel

Aedriel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:50:18 +0000

Love how you spelled “animousity” btw – even the Brits don’t stick a ‘u’ in that one. I see you’re coming around… maybe coming around a little too far…

By: Aedriel

Aedriel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:47:57 +0000

Well I’m (mostly) a Scot, born in England, who has lived in the US since 1981… so I have a very elastic view of these things.

Also, not to perpetuate a settled argument, but an earlier quote from AC, farther down the page:

“Well bastardised English is, I suppose, doubly bastardised since English is just a great big bastardisation…
Respect our bastardistions! “Tellt” is a word!”

I think that implies some level of understanding of the evolution of language