Caley Jim Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Newspaper headline Jim 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 8, 2020 Hmm. How would he get on standing for election to South Ayrshire council? 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted November 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2020 9 hours ago, Caley Jim said: Newspaper headline He wasn’t the first rightwing nutjob to lose power in a bunker... 4 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 17 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Just sit back and enjoy the Four Seasons press conference. That press conference was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Peculiarly apt as a dispenser of manure held a press conference in a place that sells it. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 (edited) The Garden Centre was in an interesting location – sandwiched between a crematorium and a warehouse full of dildos. I'm sure someone could construct an elaborate metaphor out of that. Edited November 9, 2020 by wagonman 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Had a quick glimpse at the 0 gauge film, which I've never seen before, and will savour it at length later. Is it just me, or did the guy somehow manage to be himself and Louis Theroux doing one of his 'getting people to make people look more than a tad eccentric' interviews, both at the same time? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Today, in the West Wing ..... 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2020 I'm looking forward to seeing him on the deck of a British warship in Torbay. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 8 hours ago, Nearholmer said: Had a quick glimpse at the 0 gauge film, which I've never seen before, and will savour it at length later. Is it just me, or did the guy somehow manage to be himself and Louis Theroux doing one of his 'getting people to make people look more than a tad eccentric' interviews, both at the same time? I recall Dave Allen did a programme in the same Louis Theroux style about English eccentrics. It included a husband and wife who ran their model railway to a strict timetable, while dressed for the part. And Ivor Cutler, the forgotten Scottish Shakespeare. Thank you youtube, here it is. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2020 Sorry to keep picking over the Trump / Napoleon comparison but I did read a suggestion that Trump might live in exile on one of his Scottish golf courses. That would be St Helena-ish enough at certain times of year! I once went to a conference organised by on of the American scientific societies at the SCC. I couldn't help suspecting that whoever had suggested Scotland in the Fall as the ideal place for a conference had been thinking of the Trossachs in September, not in Glasgow in November. 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 47 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: I did read a suggestion that Trump might live in exile on one of his Scottish golf courses If the stories about the state of his business finances are true, the the cry o'er the links might soon be "Fore ......... closure!". Which made me think of Miss Joan Hunter Dunn and her beau, nesting in a Rover till twenty to one, in golf club carpark. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 I'd expected that bit from 'Downfall' that everybody changes the sub-titles to suit comedy circumstances, where Adolf cracks a wobbly when he discovers that his army is rapidly eroding would have shown up by now with Trump railing against various states and Fox News turning on him, but I've yet to see one . May be its a bit obvious and internet humour is more subtle and nuanced. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 2 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: I recall Dave Allen did a programme in the same Louis Theroux style about English eccentrics. It included a husband and wife who ran their model railway to a strict timetable, while dressed for the part. And Ivor Cutler, the forgotten Scottish Shakespeare. Thank you youtube, here it is. Oh that is priceless; central heating in the railway shed (but not in the house!) and mice stealing the passengers! What a lovely old fellow. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted November 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 9, 2020 49 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: I'd expected that bit from 'Downfall' that everybody changes the sub-titles to suit comedy circumstances, where Adolf cracks a wobbly when he discovers that his army is rapidly eroding would have shown up by now with Trump railing against various states and Fox News turning on him, but I've yet to see one . May be its a bit obvious and internet humour is more subtle and nuanced. https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/11/05/trump-realising-he-cant-stop-count-greatest-downfall-meme/ 4 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 12 minutes ago, Northroader said: https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/11/05/trump-realising-he-cant-stop-count-greatest-downfall-meme/ Thanks, I liked Jared! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schooner Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, Compound2632 said: a British warship Oh good, have we got one that works now? Or must we strap him to a submarine? Edited November 10, 2020 by Schooner 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 The latest news I've heard is that the Secret Service has just increased the height of the walls of his play pen to save them from having to throw the toys back in ........ I was impressed by the way that the US networks cut away from the overnight (my time) Kayleigh McEnany press conference when she started with the now boring grab bag of false assertions about fraud etc. Looks like the US press is getting some pleasure out of demanding that Trump stick to facts rather than unsubstantiated assertions. In any case I thought that McEnany had quit some weeks back due to her husband joining the ranks of the Republicans who have disowned Trump. But back to the now infamous Giuliani press conference at the Four Seasons the expression on his face when the reporter completely blind sided him with the announcement about the Pennsylvania win for Biden was priceless. Let's face it even Nixon managed to depart the White House with more dignity ..... Oh well the perils of populism - after you've voted for the free beer candidate you always find that they're a one trick pony. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted November 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 10, 2020 I think that Fox and the others are cutting him off because they are concerned about being sued for publishing a defamation. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 I watched the Four Seasons press conference, or as much as I could stand, though I did reach the Moment of Tuth. What an unprepossessing venue! I suspect that the intention was that Guiliani would be filmed front-on against the back-drop of Republican posters. Instead he was filmed obliquely, showing off the locale in all its depressing @rse-end-of-a-factory-where-they-put-the-bins-out aesthetic. Guiliani cut a sorry figure; in semi-profile, short, stocky and hunched, he looked like a mournful goblin explaining that the Dark Lord did not concede defeat and was filing suit challenging the fraudulent destruction of the Ring of Power just when he thought he had destroyed the World of Men in battle. I find it very striking that the mainstream media, almost simultaneously, has sensed that the lies, which were always lies, had reached such a point of such comic unsustainability that, rather than report and bemoan, they could just do the broadcast equivalent of "la-la-la, I'm not listening". 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 (edited) Brilliant line from US academic on The Long View a moment ago: ”President Trump has been offered many opportunities in recent years to show his better side; he has almost always declined.” Edited November 10, 2020 by Nearholmer 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 10, 2020 28 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Brilliant line from US academic on The Long View a moment ago: ”President Trump has been offered many opportunities in recent years to show his better side; he has almost always declined.” What was the (implied) exception? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 She deliberately left it for listeners to scour their memories, but in fairness I do remember once or twice thinking that he'd said something appropriate, comforting people after natural disasters IIRC. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted November 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 10, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: What was the (implied) exception? Probably to cover herself against a Trumped-up law suit. Edited November 10, 2020 by ian 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 3 hours ago, Nearholmer said: ”President Trump has been offered many opportunities in recent years to show his better side; he has almost always declined.” According to Mary Trump he doesn't have a better side: they're both just as bad. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Fast forward to 19th January... 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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