Obligatory.

And good luck to British Libertarians. From what I've read of them, they seem to have a lot less problems with conspiracy theorists and similar nutters that plague the American LP. They seem to be more intellectual than emotional, which is a good sign.

Farkin' A.

The UKLP website, if you're curious. Looks much more sensible as far as presenting a message that's palatable to outsiders than anything I've ever seen come out of the USLP, with a few notable single-candidate exceptions. Hell, even their site design is better and more professional.

Though of course the party is still extremely small. It wast just founded earlier this year. The British libertarian movement has in the past consistently rejected the idea of forming a distinct political party, often negatively citing the example of the USLP. The idea's still controversial in British libertarian circles.

I'm related to Guy Fawkes, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you don't know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do. Cos some people believe anything they hear.

I didn't release Fark organized and formed a political party in Britain.

Came in for "V" mask. Got bonus dancing V guy.

/sweet

Now That's What I Call a Taco!: I'm related to Guy Fawkes, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you don't know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do. Cos some people believe anything they hear.

What are you talking about?

NaugahydeDonkey: Now That's What I Call a Taco!: I'm related to Guy Fawkes, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you don't know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do. Cos some people believe anything they hear.

What are you talking about?

Classic Fark cliche.

NaugahydeDonkey: What are you talking about?

It's a Fark meme. I don't have the original bookmarked, but someone came into a thread (about no-bid contracts in Iraq, I think) and posted that, except with "I work for Halliburton" instead of "I'm related to Guy Fawkes"...

Bravo, good sirs. Bravo.

Anaxphone: NaugahydeDonkey: What are you talking about?

It's a Fark meme. I don't have the original bookmarked, but someone came into a thread (about no-bid contracts in Iraq, I think) and posted that, except with "I work for Halliburton" instead of "I'm related to Guy Fawkes"...

I think it was about the new $10 bill...

This is actually a good idea.

CaesarSneezy: Anaxphone: NaugahydeDonkey: What are you talking about?

It's a Fark meme. I don't have the original bookmarked, but someone came into a thread (about no-bid contracts in Iraq, I think) and posted that, except with "I work for Halliburton" instead of "I'm related to Guy Fawkes"...

I think it was about the new $10 bill...

Really? I thought it started in a Tom Cruise thread.

CaesarSneezy:I think it was about the new $10 bill...

IIRC correctly, it was a Britney / K-Fed thread, but I can't be arsed digging it up. And I could be smoking crack.

Yay for epic fail guy!

HomoHabilis: Came in for "V" mask. Got bonus dancing V guy.

/sweet

"dancing V guy"? EPIC FAIL!

Librarians are hiding something: CaesarSneezy: Anaxphone: NaugahydeDonkey: What are you talking about?

It's a Fark meme. I don't have the original bookmarked, but someone came into a thread (about no-bid contracts in Iraq, I think) and posted that, except with "I work for Halliburton" instead of "I'm related to Guy Fawkes"...

I think it was about the new $10 bill...

Really? I thought it started in a Tom Cruise thread.

IIRC it was the tom cruise thread. we'll see who else remembers. it was quite a few years ago.

Give the government a profit margin, and the libertarians would stop complaining.

leperboy69: CaesarSneezy:I think it was about the new $10 bill...

IIRC correctly, it was a Britney / K-Fed thread, but I can't be arsed digging it up. And I could be smoking crack.

It was definitely a Microsoft thread.

/Or was it?
//The world may never know.

The only thing that book was a warning for is hyperbolic, attention seeking British asshats.

I know the guy that started this meme, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you don't know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do. Cos some people believe anything they hear.

Anaxphone: NaugahydeDonkey: What are you talking about?

It's a Fark meme. I don't have the original bookmarked, but someone came into a thread (about no-bid contracts in Iraq, I think) and posted that, except with "I work for Halliburton" instead of "I'm related to Guy Fawkes"...

it was Mikey-Mop in some thread about the US mint.

Churchill2004: The UKLP website, if you're curious. Looks much more sensible as far as presenting a message that's palatable to outsiders than anything I've ever seen come out of the USLP, with a few notable single-candidate exceptions. Hell, even their site design is better and more professional.

Though of course the party is still extremely small. It wast just founded earlier this year. The British libertarian movement has in the past consistently rejected the idea of forming a distinct political party, often negatively citing the example of the USLP. The idea's still controversial in British libertarian circles.

Nice. We're exporting democracy, after all!

Mostly annoyed at the Labour party tendency to claim that "a lot of constituents contact me asking me to do exactly what I'm currently doing" which is a blatantly obvious - but completely unprovable - lie. Newsflash, butthead - People who don't like what you're doing don't contact you to complain because they probably didn't vote for you, so you most likely won't listen to them.

Churchill2004: The UKLP website, if you're curious. Looks much more sensible as far as presenting a message that's palatable to outsiders than anything I've ever seen come out of the USLP, with a few notable single-candidate exceptions. Hell, even their site design is better and more professional.

Huh. I didn't even realise we had a libertarian party. They haven't made much impact yet then. Looking through their website, I'm fairly sure I wouldn't vote for them, mostly because of their economics and isolationism, but it's good to know they're out there.

We need more people tackling the government on issues of civil liberties.

Labour are turning into authoritarians, the Tories are (with a couple of exceptions) wetting themselves with delight at the idea of that much control when they get into power, and the Lib Dems have their hearts in the right place but are, frankly, pussies.

I might grow to be able to swallow the LP's neoliberal economics if they represent the only party that's seriously opposed to the encroaching authoratarianism.

Cheers for the link.

//hotlinked

Churchill2004: Obligatory.

And good luck to British Libertarians. From what I've read of them, they seem to have a lot less problems with conspiracy theorists and similar nutters that plague the American LP. They seem to be more intellectual than emotional, which is a good sign.

I ran in here to biatch about conspiracy theorists and nutjobs whose bogeyman is just an unfounded strawman, and you made me stub my toe.

I'm more concerned about Rex Manning Day.

Now That's What I Call a Taco!: I'm related to Guy Fawkes, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you don't know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do. Cos some people believe anything they hear.

You think you hate a cliche, but then someone comes along and plays it very skillfully.

Bravo, good sir.

RemyDuron: HomoHabilis: Came in for "V" mask. Got bonus dancing V guy.

/sweet

"dancing V guy"? EPIC FAIL!

Huh huh, yeah, he doesn't hang out on 4chan/b/ with us 'cool' people.

Funk Brothers: RON PAUL

stfu. Furthermore go back to whatever internet forum Ron Paul's disciples hang out in these days fellating eachother over the latest Alex Jones interview and tell them to get their fat paranoid asses outside to take down the farking "RON PAUL 2008" campaign paraphernalia that's been left strewn about America's cities.

leperboy69: CaesarSneezy:I think it was about the new $10 bill...

IIRC correctly, it was a Britney / K-Fed thread, but I can't be arsed digging it up. And I could be smoking crack.

I recall initially seeing it in a discussion regarding Tom DeLay's arrest. If that was not the origin of the meme, it was an early use of it as no one else in the discussion recognized it as a play upon a previous posting.

noobcake: leperboy69: CaesarSneezy:I think it was about the new $10 bill...

IIRC correctly, it was a Britney / K-Fed thread, but I can't be arsed digging it up. And I could be smoking crack.

It was definitely a Microsoft thread.

/Or was it?
//The world may never know.

IIRC it was a Microsoft thread for sure.

Oh sweet, I didn't know about them. I might actually join.

Instagodwin. You can tell that a political party has no ideas when the best thing they can come up with is being anti-1984. I mean sure, Orwell'S distopia is not a Good Thing, etc, but that's a no-brainer isn't it? Anyone have any non-no-brainer arguments they can trot out? No? Well never mind.

ilambiquated: Instagodwin. You can tell that a political party has no ideas when the best thing they can come up with is being anti-1984. I mean sure, Orwell'S distopia is not a Good Thing, etc, but that's a no-brainer isn't it? Anyone have any non-no-brainer arguments they can trot out? No? Well never mind.

I don't think that sending out the book and advocating against "1984" is the central tenet of their party platform. This was a publicity stunt... sort of like when the Republicans pledge smaller government and the democrats say they'll bring about peace and prosperity. It has nothing to do with reality, it just makes people pay attention to them.

Maybe it's just me, but Hugo Weaving as V is totally HAWT...

SemperLieSuckah: ilambiquated: Instagodwin. You can tell that a political party has no ideas when the best thing they can come up with is being anti-1984. I mean sure, Orwell'S distopia is not a Good Thing, etc, but that's a no-brainer isn't it? Anyone have any non-no-brainer arguments they can trot out? No? Well never mind.

I don't think that sending out the book and advocating against "1984" is the central tenet of their party platform. This was a publicity stunt... sort of like when the Republicans pledge smaller government and the democrats say they'll bring about peace and prosperity. It has nothing to do with reality, it just makes people pay attention to them.

Yeah, but a publicity stunt which underlines the party's probable inability to differentiate -- to find a market segment that will go their way on real-world issues.

Guy Fawkes always reminds me of the Charles Addams cartoon of the man reading a "we're all wondering what you are up to" letter from his graduating class association in front of a scale model of the Capitol building on a table--underneath is a little model of barrels of explosives.

He's just a Guy, living the American Dream, although I don't think the Class of 19** would approve.

That reminds me. I forgot to send John McCain a copy of Animal Farm inscribed: "This book is a political satire. Not a beauty manual."

Some animals are still more equal than others.

We learned these truths at seventeen
That life is meant for beauty queens...
Something, something, something....

That's a sad song, but it's hard to forget those two lines.

I managed it though.

Senior citizen moment: I can remember cartoons from generations before I was born but can't remember the sound track of my life.

Now That's What I Call a Taco!: Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you don't know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do. Cos some people believe anything they hear.

Isn't that what Fark's all about?

SemperLieSuckah: Funk Brothers: RON PAUL

stfu. Furthermore go back to whatever internet forum Ron Paul's disciples hang out in these days fellating eachother over the latest Alex Jones interview and tell them to get their fat paranoid asses outside to take down the farking "RON PAUL 2008" campaign paraphernalia that's been left strewn about America's cities.

RON PAUL 2012

spleef420: Anaxphone: NaugahydeDonkey: What are you talking about?

It's a Fark meme. I don't have the original bookmarked, but someone came into a thread (about no-bid contracts in Iraq, I think) and posted that, except with "I work for Halliburton" instead of "I'm related to Guy Fawkes"...

it was Mikey-Mop in some thread about the US mint.

It used to be easy to track down the original thread, but I can't seem to find it now. It was in fact a thread about the US Mint, and the new $10 bill if I remember correctly. The Microsoft, Tom Cruise, etc. threads all came immediately afterward as a result.

supek: SemperLieSuckah: Funk Brothers: RON PAUL

stfu. Furthermore go back to whatever internet forum Ron Paul's disciples hang out in these days fellating eachother over the latest Alex Jones interview and tell them to get their fat paranoid asses outside to take down the farking "RON PAUL 2008" campaign paraphernalia that's been left strewn about America's cities.

RON PAUL 2012

The man got fewer than 20,000 votes nationwide in 2008. Let it go.

suziequzie
I don't know how, but you are totally right.

/thank god whoever it was they originally cast was too much of an egotistical prick to want to play V...

Tom Harris: What rubbish. As I've written here before, this is all paranoid fantasy, and why so many people get off on it, I'll never know. I recently had the latest in a series of requests from constituents regarding CCTV. Requests to have the cameras removed? No, no, no... Requests for more cameras...

Wow. An asshole, a liar, and a Big Brother type all in one.

What a great way to get their point across!!! If they can keep coming up with gems like this they'll do very well.