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The UK riots

Chip Bok | 8.26.2011 7:00 AM

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WWNGD? 14 years ago

I dislike this cartoon because of the thickness of the lines in the drawing.
Have a good weekend Reasonites!
1. Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
  
  Too much to hope this was the real Nick Gillespie?
Aqua Buddha 14 years ago

At least it was funnier than the riots themselves.
Aqua Buddha 14 years ago

Everyone in the cartoon is white. Bok is therefore racist, and therefore all libertarians are racist, and therefore any attempt to cut the size of govt is racist.
1. Mr Whipple 14 years ago
  
  BINGO
2. Your Teacher 14 years ago
  
  D- for multiple clich? violations.
dbcooper 14 years ago

Joke's on you Bok, we ain't got no LTE here yet. Cop that!
sage 14 years ago

I thought ipads were 4G.
Aqua Buddha 14 years ago

This is funnier:

No shooting events in front of the kids
Boris wants to stop yoof from watching Olympic shooting events because of their gun-glorifying effect. Is he joking?
1. dbcooper 14 years ago
  
  Boris is a toffee-nosed clown.
  
  My buddy saw him riding his bike the other day and managed to get his attention by yelling "Boris ya bloody wanker!" My mate was quite chopped at the time.
  1. Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
    
    'Chopped'? I'm assuming this is slang for 'pissed'?
    1. Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
      
      'Pissed (UK)'
      1. dbcooper 14 years ago
        
        Yup. It's antipodean slang, but I think it's entered the UK vernacular now too.
  2. Greer 14 years ago
    
    Mate, chopped, wanker? What language are you speaking?
    1. Paul 14 years ago
      
      He pulled his motor over to the curb, put a few coppers in the box, rang up the clark and said there's been a bit of a cock-up, a kerfuffle, and he'd appreciate it if it could be put straight.
      1. PermaLurker 14 years ago
        
        that would be kerb, you wanker
2. goober1223 14 years ago
  
  Boris! Why always Boris...
Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago

So now it's a crime to carry around an Etch A Sketch and a block of Swiss cheese? Fuckin' police state.
1. Doktor Kapitalism 14 years ago
  
  I don't know what color *your* cheese is...
  1. Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago
    
    Are you coming on to me?
Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago

S'addite.
Aqua Buddha 14 years ago

Video: If Educational Kids Shows Were Honest
1. Some Internet Lurker 14 years ago
  
  The lawyer had a nice rack
Bee Tagger 14 years ago

Teeth are too straight.
dbcooper 14 years ago

The Onion has a rather amusing send-up of libertarians here:

http://www.theonion.com/articl.....and,21205/
1. Oprah 14 years ago
  
  Annual contest to see which island-dweller can best hijack a normal conversation with a tirade about the corrupt U.S. tax code
  
  I nominate Aqua Buddha, with honorable mention to John.
  1. dbcooper 14 years ago
    
    This was a nice detail:
    
    Emergency blue-light phones that connect directly to the Cato Institute
    1. Oprah 14 years ago
      
      Ha! The joke's on them. Reason libertarians know that Cato is too intellectual.
      1. Paul 14 years ago
        
        Cato's that guy who attacked Inspector Clouseau every night, right?
        
        Jimbo 14 years ago
        
        No, he's O.J.'s right hand man.
        
        Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
        
        So sad to go from working for the Green Hornet to working for OJ.
2. sarcasmic 14 years ago
  
  Penn and Teller, every Thursday night
  
  Sign me up!
  1. Bill 14 years ago
    
    What! No, Bill Maher?
3. WWNGD? 14 years ago
  
  A bunch of Republicans anyway
  
  le sigh.
4. Bucky 14 years ago
  
  i thought the horrible-scopes were funnier...
  then again, i was very sad when Life was cancelled...
5. Paul 14 years ago
  
  Huge pile of free guns right in the middle of each island
  
  That's not funny, that would kick ass!
  1. yonemoto 14 years ago
    
    free guns
    
    What are we, socialists?
    1. Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
      
      I think they just mean 'free' in the sense that the guns are also libertarian.
Sinic 14 years ago

The looter's teeth are too straight.
1. Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
  
  Goosebumps.
Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago

I give Bok +1 point for not drawing Big Ben.
Mr Whipple 14 years ago

Is this supposed to be about the rioting in London, or the flash mobs in Philly? This seems like a mixed metaphor to me.
1. sloopyinca 14 years ago
  
  rioting in London
  
  Needs moar ay-rabs
  
  flash mobs in Philly
  
  Needs more negroes
  1. Mr Whipple 14 years ago
    
    Exactly
Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago

Plus, the chav's teeth are not crooked enough.
1. Bee Tagger 14 years ago
  
  It wouldn't be reason.com if the cops weren't more crooked than a brit's teeth.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago
    
    The bobbies are leaning a bit, although that might be them backing away from that soul-stealing portable recording device.
Frak Monanh 14 years ago

Friday Friday dont we all love Friday.
http://www.anon-stuff.at.tc
Fluffy 14 years ago

The British police are too masculine. They look like cement head American cops.

Since they're British, shouldn't they be mincing around with cups of tea, doing silly walks and shit?
1. dbcooper 14 years ago
  
  Most brit cops are bald, endomorphic types.
  1. Fluffy 14 years ago
    
    Funny, I always thought they looked like Mr. Bean.
  2. Paul 14 years ago
    
    British cops.
Warty 14 years ago

I don't get it.
1. NeonCat 14 years ago
  
  This cartoon is a take-off of an AT&T ad in which a bunch of people in trench coats, black t-shirts and jeans are in a train station. Noon comes, and a loser white dude starts doing a dance routine as everyone stares at him. He looks up and realizes he is the only one dancing. His phone blurps at him and he sees that the flash mob has been moved to 12:30. He apologizes to the p.o.'d looking white woman and disappointed black guy nearby.
  1. Almanian 14 years ago
    
    *gives the "Jesus Fucking Christ - REALLY?" stare*
    1. Fatty Bolger 14 years ago
      
      The ad's not bad, but it's hardly iconic enough to base a cartoon on.
      1. goober1223 14 years ago
        
        It is bad because what sort of organizational skills would you have to move a flash mob time at the last moment? And what sort of douchnozzle would only watch the clock instead of looking around at all of the other people that were supposed to do it.
        
        Not the worst ever. Certainly at least partially entertaining.
        
        Solid "C".
Fluffy 14 years ago

Also, since this is an internet cartoon, there's really no reason you couldn't have embedded a sound file into the page to play the Benny Hill theme.

-1 for missing the obvious.
1. Bee Tagger 14 years ago
  
  You want just the sound from Benny Hill???
2. Hank 14 years ago
  
  All my lands and titles to the man who can attach that sound file to every archived clip of Dems and Reps "debating" the debt ceiling.
  1. Ska 14 years ago
    
    Yakkity Sax should always be playing in the background on CSPAN 2.
    1. Paul 14 years ago
      
      This.
Late 14 years ago

Has anyone mentioned crooked teeth yet?
1. Paul 14 years ago
  
  No, please do.
  1. Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
    
    I honestly think this was only the first (OK, maybe second) crooked teeth joke in this thread that was self-consciously ironic.
Lord Humungus 14 years ago

har har.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-as.....1313634148
Fluffy 14 years ago

In addition to my earlier remarks, let me note in passing that the teeth of the UK residents portrayed in this cartoon are far too straight.
rather not 14 years ago

One eyed rioter and a bobby who has a scrotum chin.
sarcasmic 14 years ago

I like the subtle commentary on how the Brit rioters are rich kids.
No low or middle class Brit has teeth that straight.
1. Bucky 14 years ago
  
  well, at least he wasn't wearing a white and black checkered scarf on his face...
Tim 14 years ago

I split my sides laughing. Reason should also run Family Circus.
1. FlyoverCountry 14 years ago
  
  Make it a trifecta of funny with Marmaduke!
  1. R 14 years ago
    
    Add Garfield and I'll be sure to read it...
    1. Almanian 14 years ago
      
      What, no "Cathy"?
      1. Paul 14 years ago
        
        Throw in something from Gary Trudeau and I'll never cancel my subscription.
        
        Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
        
        Trudeau, Larson, MacGruder, Watterson, Schultz and a handful of others have successfully created good art and good storytelling where it seemed unlikely, given the format.
        
        Cartoons like Marmaduke and Family Circus on the other hand, survive by being 'relatable' instead of good.
  2. emerson 14 years ago
    
    What is that dog going to sit on next?
  3. goober1223 14 years ago
    
    Come on, they have to add something that's got a really long story line that's never worth it, like Gil Thorp or Mark Trail or Dick Tracy. And I only know of those because of the Comics Curmudgeon.
Jerry 14 years ago

The teeth are too white.
Hank 14 years ago

I should have looted a 4G.

So this will be his second flash mob so far? Ambitious bugger.

Also, teeth.
1. goober1223 14 years ago
  
  Yeah, didn't make sense to me either. Serial flash mobbing is just another way of saying "looting with friends". Now THERE'S an app idea!
Aqua Buddha 14 years ago

I split my sides laughing. Reason should also run Family Circus.

I vote we create a "Dysfunctional Friday Funnies" website. Other than this one, of course.
1. Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
  
  We should see if we can get Seanbaby to provide the captions.
Mike M. 14 years ago

Why did Bok put a roller coaster in the background?
guy in the back row 14 years ago

Haven't we moved on to the next crisis? Those riots were so two weeks ago.
Opie 14 years ago

What's with the nice teeth?
Sparky 14 years ago

I think these cartoons are intentionally bad to allow the comedic genius of the H&R posters to shine through. Or maybe I'm giving him too much credit. Oh and what's with the straight teeth?
1. H&R posters 14 years ago
  
  Genius is relative, of course. On the family tree, we're the baboons.
  1. The Non-frakers 14 years ago
    
    We're the amoebas.
P Brooks 14 years ago

Needs more labels.
Alan Vanneman 14 years ago

Funniest "Reason" cartoon eveah!

On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being "The General" and 10 being "The Three Stooges Fuck Meet Snow White," this ranks a good -38, much higher than any previous Friday Funnie!*

*Is it possible that someday "Reason" might try some, you know, market forces on the whole cartoon thing, instead of this lousy stinking monopoly shit they've got going now?
1. Victorkhan 14 years ago
  
  I just paid $22.87 for an iPad2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $675 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, HitPenny.?om
  1. Doktor Kapitalism 14 years ago
    
    What's with the ce*dille?
    
    *Accent acute
Alan Vanneman 14 years ago

OK, mathematically that's incoherent, but you get the point. Down is up, up is down.
1. Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
  
  Well, you were being deliberately hyperbolic, so it works.
Almanian 14 years ago

If I were sage, I would say

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
1. I 14 years ago
  
  I thought that was Episiarch's schtick.
squishua 14 years ago

Bok copies an ad I saw on tv last night. Boooo!
1. Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
  
  Well, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and say he probably independently arrived at the same joke.
  1. Art-P.O.G. 14 years ago
    
    Whoops, never mind. But I think 'reference' is more apt than 'rip-off'.
Todd 14 years ago

I love this cartoon, this is literally what this rioting was about. Bunch of hooligans trying to loot and steal instead of getting jobs.
Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago

Teeth.
C. Al Currier 14 years ago

"Annual contest to see which island-dweller...." Oprah|8.26.11 @ 7:57AM

Self-employed individuals file quarterly, not yearly (annual). The contest should be monthly, or at the absolute very least, quarterly.
Bob 14 years ago

Well they got the Friday part right
Blue sky 14 years ago

Haha, good idea.
Moncler 14 years ago

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