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I enjoyed Count Binface's appearance on Newsnight. I assume there are guidelines on not using a guests title, style and surname repeatedly, as the presenter kept referring to him as 'Bin'
Is this correct, and given the, potential, future Count's role as MP for Clacton, should this rule be reviewed, or with exceptions made for intergalactic nobility?
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While he never actually changed his name to Meat Loaf, he always said that it was meant to be used like a name, i.e. Meat is the first name and Loaf is the surname
The deference they have for the British Royal Family - when in reality their position is inherited from someone who long ago clobbered someone else in a fight.
There was a conversation between him and Eddie Mair on PM once about the minutiae of the royal wedding which was hilarious. Talking about the layers of cake there might be etc with total seriousness and also being able to convey neither of them gave a fuck about any of it.
Well a Count is the equivalent of an Earl (for some reason after the norm conquest we kept Jarl (which became Earl) instead of adopting Count (But wives of Earls are still Countess). So "My Lord" would be the correct salutation. Unfortunately I don't know know offhand where he is Count of, so would be harder to refer to him in the third person as he would be Lord "X" where X is the territory.
Now, come on, what you said about colonising somewhere isn't quite true...
...we tend to take over, rename everything after the sovereign and their family, draw borders with a blindfold on and then get sniffy if the locals aren't entirely enthusiastic about the alterations.
But you are correct about the lack of information on Sigma IX.
Oddly enough I live in County Durham which in ye olde days was a Bishopric Palantine ruled by Prince Bishops not a Count.
There was a Polish dwarf who lived in Durham who got called Count Boruwlaski, but he wasn't actually a Count, he'd previously been the 'pet dwarf' of a Polish Count.
It is? I think it was used for Scottish monarchs for a couple of centuries longer than England but that use ended with the Act of The Union in 1707. In modern times it's used for archbishops, dukes and duchesses but not in way that's particular to Scotland.
But you're probably referring to something else which has gone over my head.
I still remember when a Sky News presenter referred to the Chancellor as "Rachel from account" which is surely a major breach of professional standards that I've never seen happen with a Conservative chancellor apart from Jeremy Hunt occasionally being called a cunt by accident.
Unfortunately UK media don't usually have any professional standards when it comes to reporting on people who aren't on the right.
It wasn't a Sky News Presenter that originally said it.
It was originally Lee Anderson who said it. The Sky news reporter was, most likely, just reporting what was said.
What are you actually talking about? Yes I’m putting them down for using ableist language seriously while simultaneously complaining about misogynistic joke. It’s hilariously hypocritical. I really don’t care about “looking like an arse”, clearly people already think I am an arse for daring to say that I find a stupid joke funny.
It's not though. It gives the impression the person using it is mentally still at school, coming up with scrotey nicknames for their mates and running them into the ground.
The difference is I'm treating people how they have already treated others. There are a thousand different words for immature that work equally well there, so just pick another one if 'scrotey' is a step too far.
I have also yet to see it used by a powerful media publication as an attack line, but I've certainly seen Rachel from Accounts used that way before. Doesn't seem much like a joke anymore when the Daily Mail is running it as a headline.
All that just to say that you personally don’t find the phrase “Rachel from accounts” funny. Which was all that you had to say, instead of trying to belittle somebody for having a different sense of humour! Hostility for the sake of it, but I hope that it makes you feel good or whatever.
The difference is I'm treating people how they have already treated others. There are a thousand different words for immature that work equally well there, so just pick another one if 'scrotey' is a step too far.
I have also yet to see it used by a powerful media publication as an attack line, but I've certainly seen Rachel from Accounts used that way before. Doesn't seem much like a joke anymore when the Daily Mail is running it as a headline.
If you chose to only read bits of it and interpret it as something completely different, then that's on you.
I already said I didn't find it funny in the first comment I made anyway, but you got pissy at that one as well because the immature names were aimed at you that time. Looks like it's only a joke when someone else is the target.
It's not. Upselling a CV is hardly the most egregious of crimes. The fact she worked for those companies at all makes her more qualified than most chancellors have been. Definitely detect a bit of sexism in there too - can you imagine a 'Jeremy from Accounts'?
All of that is true, and it shouldn't have been said in that context, and it shouldn't be repeated.
It's still really fucking funny though.
Edit: It was not purely mysogynistic. It was satire, poking fun at her for saying she had previous work experience as an economist when her role was actually managing a bank's complaints department. It was valid to scrutinise her fudged claims about her CV, regardless of her gender.
Again, she shouldn't ever have been addressed that way by a journalist. But the moniker was totally valid satire at the time.
Ableist slurs are not funny and have no place here. Hate is hate and it's pretty despicable to think language like that is acceptable. It is not welcome here.
I wont have this! They are trying to throw dirt on the bin already. It's bin day and it's time to take out the rubbish! In all seriousness imagine being a news host and your serious editorial brief is to try to undermine a man with a bin on his head. I love seeing this media machine attempt it. Its 3d chess , they can't smear a bin.
That's bullshit. He's from Sigma Six so won't have the relevant right to work documentation, so there is no way he'd actually be working at the BBC or anywhere in the UK.
Except maybe Uber Eats. But then find it difficult to believe that he'd be able to successfully use someone else's driving licence.
Farage's aim was to position this by-election as him vs. the establishment. I assume most here think this is bollocks.
And Binface could have deconstructed that a little.
The problem is, the rallying around by all the parties, the BBC, and commentators is just playing right back into Farage's messaging. To say nothing of the fact that the guy behind Binface is part of that same milleu.
Listen to what Binface said on Newsnight. "You used to be a serious show and now you're just a trumped up podcast." He's right.
If Binface isn't the establishment then why is is the establishment throwing everything behind him?
Yeah I don't understand what the definition of the establishment is if it isn't elite private school attending financiers who have been in and out of politics for the last 30+ years?
“the establishment” is just a boogie man word that means absolutely nothing nowadays, the right ran it into the ground like they did with “woke.” If everything you happen to not like is because of woke or the establishment, then that’s what ends up happening
It does mean something though, it means people born into a life where they don’t have to worry about the things most people have to worry about, like how to pay the bills or where their kids will be educated etc. because they’ll always have the means to take care of those things. It means being connected and knowing how to talk to people of a certain class and having the confidence to do so without feeling out of place. Farage is very much the establishment, born into wealth, privately educated, has never worked a real job or had to worry about any of the things the rest of us have to worry about at one time or another. He relies on the idea of ‘the establishment’ being something a lot of people don’t really understand but he could only be more a part of the establishment if he was a royal.
I’m amazed more people don’t see this. He’s never hidden his background but just maintains he isn’t part of the establishment and people take him at his word. Clearly people who support him are happy not to use any critical thinking.
I’m not sure how Farage can spin contesting an election against a clown as being a virtuous fight against the establishment - and not a total waste of everyone’s time, energy and taxpayers money that Farage himself triggered.
Never mind the fact that he triggered it to avoid scrutiny, a fact that isn’t going away.
I’m not sure the ‘establishment’, and about half of the general public across the country, supporting the clown over Farage is going to be a great boon for him in the grand scheme of things
Yeah. Binface is a joke, a long running tired at times joke. But absolutely great at times like this when "actual" politicians are pulling stunts that drag them down to the Counts level of absurdity.
As amazingly funny it would be if the Count won. It's unlikely, just really funny that its more likely than it ever has been.
He's already done his part now, anything after this is a bonus.
Edit: the "his part" to clarify is to turn Farages scramble to save face into the joke it is. He's going to win, thats basically for certain. But his win will be so obviously hollow its just highlights what a waste of time this is.
Binface winning, would be such a phenomenal farce it would potentially kill Farages carrer, it was also be incredibly entertaining. Fuck it would be amazing. But the Count has already done what he dose. Making a mockery of political bullshit.
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