Comments on: All I’m sayin’

By: Irk

Irk — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:56:49 +0000

Well, actually… back when I was little… there were these big buildings… (almost every town had one) and they were filled with these things we’ll call them… “books” and these “books” were, in turn, filled with information. Some companies would even put together these things… we’ll call them… Encyclopedias… which were full of information on a broad range of topics… and had fact checkers and everything.

So, really, what I’m saying here is… get off your lazy ass, walk outside and go find information. If you expect other people to hand you information you deserve inaccuracy and bias because you don’t know any better, since you didn’t go learn it for yourself.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:07:55 +0000

Why would you need a stake for Mandelson? I’m thinking a box of matches is more likely for someone that oily!

By: bill

bill — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:14:54 +0000

that’s because noone’s put the steak in his heart yet.

By: Malligant

Malligant — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:34:10 +0000

Do you remember, In England, when we used to behead the leaders that pissed us off?

By: no1askedme

no1askedme — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:38:35 +0000

They’re portraying him as a mobster extorting “protection money” from the Gov’t. It’s unfortunately quite correct.

By: JEfe

JEfe — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:28:34 +0000

So…Gordon Brown has a Brooklyn accent?

By: tyler

tyler — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:53:05 +0000

What he means is “Barnum and Bailey”.
It’s also known as the “Ringling Brothers’ Circus”
It’s very famous over here, but he confused me too.

By: tyler

tyler — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:51:44 +0000

Truth, Jane.

By: tyler

tyler — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:49:48 +0000

Also, it’s not saying he’s not the Prime Minister of Great Britain, it’s only saying that in this picture, he looks like a mob boss. Why can’t the people asking understand that? it’s supposed to be a FUNNY caption, it’s not saying we actually think he’s a mob boss.

By: Lib

Lib — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:39:18 +0000

lol I’d be interested to see what kind of circus ‘Bradford and Bingley’ is in the U.S.A…

By: Tim C

Tim C — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:33:54 +0000

It’d be a shame if sumpin should happen to your houses…oh, wait…it did.
I want the banks dead! I want the stock market dead! I want the economy burned to the ground!
- Robert “DiNero” as Al Capone

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:39:18 +0000

Wow, I hate when people write like that…

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:11:50 +0000

oops, i wouldn’t have picked up on the godfather thing until i read the comments – i saw it was gordon brown and read the caption in a scottish accent :S!

By: El

El — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:04:55 +0000

Time for a Boris spree??

By: CDthe

CDthe — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:56:50 +0000

Just great to see some UK politics being taken the mickey out of

(We have some hysterical people over here, why do you think Have I Got News for You is so popular?)

By: Tessie

Tessie — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:09:29 +0000

Oh… and ya might wanna have yer banker start yer car for the next few days or so… I’m just sayin’.

By: Ma.Belle.Fleur

Ma.Belle.Fleur — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:37:52 +0000

I’m pretty sure you should have read all the above comments because the guy who captioned it explained the photo.

By: fjaradvax

fjaradvax — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:41:23 +0000

That’s what *she* said!

By: its Amy lovies!!

its Amy lovies!! — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:08:19 +0000

yes, yes he is

By: Frankii

Frankii — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:37:56 +0000

I can’t tell from this if you’re American, but if you are, I would like to point out, while you claim to be running the world and you also claim to be the supreme power, tiny little England is pretty far up there despite being about 1/20 of the size of America.

By: Frankii

Frankii — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:33:48 +0000

Sorry, no offense intended, some people kept saying “Who the hell is that?”. So I apologise.

By: Louise

Louise — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:48:43 +0000

Seconding the Miliband appreciation; if you thought that Blair was slimy, just wait till you get a load of Cameron…

By: Ceefax

Ceefax — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:52:31 +0000

Hopefully never, I’d rather you sent Bush over here when you’ve finished with him than have that Tory **** Cameron in charge.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:44:40 +0000

I wonder how much all of us unix users are going to read into this particular lol….

Goodness knows windows can break itself without the mafia’s help

By: daveman

daveman — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:36:31 +0000

ganwil, I thought the caption was brilliant. Gordon Brown doesn’t speak with an Italian accent no, but these politicians are demanding billions of dollars from us under threat in order to bail out their cronies. Seems pretty gangsterish to me.

By: Dustin O

Dustin O — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:07:05 +0000

Outliers happen in a population ranging into the hundreds of millions.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:03:01 +0000

Yeah, half the time on PK we’re not even talking about the lol, we just use it as a jumping off point for a throw down.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:38 +0000

And yet, you’re here on an ICHC offshoot before five. Hmmmmmmmm…

By: Rosie

Rosie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:28:28 +0000

I was going to ask what accent that was supposed to be. I thought it might have been Irish… O_o

By: Rory McCarthy

Rory McCarthy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:19:09 +0000

Umm, Gordon brown was raised in Edinburgh and went to higher education at, i think, an oxbridge uni, so why would he have that sort of accent? His is extremely posh. And i’m amazed if people honestly don’t know who he is. And, i reckon David Milliband should take over his position – I can’t see one good aspect of David Cameron at all.

By: Bucky O'Hare

Bucky O'Hare — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:11:28 +0000

LOL Wow forget the Fed. We should worry about Great Britain getting to involved America’s economy! Citizenship fail!

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:48:31 +0000

Precisely.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:48:04 +0000

In bed

By: Lolnathan

Lolnathan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:45:52 +0000

Your first mistake was giving a crap what people said about your lol.

By: ganwil

ganwil — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:41:45 +0000

I made this caption over on icanhascheezburger because the visual was so reminiscent of Godfather-esque mannerisms and slack-jawed mobster types. I matched up what I thought was amusing dialogue (albeit American-centric in content) to make what seemed to be a funny picture. It never occurred to me that I’d start a dust-up about how “unrealistic” the image was. My fault, really, as out of all the captioned pictures I’ve made using cats, nobody ever took me to task in the comments section with accusations like, “Nuh-UH! Cats don’t DRIVE racecars, idiot!”, and I was clearly spoiled by that. Incidentally, I don’t want to appear contrary, but I’m PRETTY sure Bradford and Bingley is a big-top circus that travels the United States.

By: fjaradvax

fjaradvax — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:37:12 +0000

You’d be better off counting the non-indignance and subtracting

By: Jenessa

Jenessa — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:13:13 +0000

I got it lol. It’s like Joe Pesci as a politician haha

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:08:36 +0000

I wonder if I should count all the indignance coming into this comment forum.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:01:16 +0000

That’s Gordon Brown you twats. That is not a British accent.

By: tommu

tommu — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:51:21 +0000

“Brown isn’t the one asking Congress for $700 billion. ”

He is as it goes. That’s half the reason he went to the new world last week.

By: rewboss

rewboss — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:03:33 +0000

ganwil, I think what’s confusing people here is that a) there’s a note on this submission that asks us to tell them who’s in the picture; and b) Gordon Brown isn’t the one asking Congress for $700 billion. So it’s not a great stretch of the imagination to jump to the conclusion that you didn’t know who was in the picture.

Now, if the caption had made the same joke about something in British politics — say, the nationalisation of Bradford and Bingley — it would have made sense to the Brits and they would have congratulated you on your unsurpassed knowledge. (Admittedly, it would also have mystified everyone else, but you can’t have everything.)

By: Lolnathan

Lolnathan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:40:44 +0000

Except this isn’t Failblog… well, it wasn’t until you came in here and gave us a “Remembering what site you’re on” FAIL. You’ve failed our page all up. Thanks a lot!!

By: n8

n8 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:17:36 +0000

Yes, we know who the hell Gordon Brown is. He’s Tony’s cheeky little upstart who found out to his peril that governing really isn’t so easy after all. When’s Gordon going to accept reality and just hand over the keys of #10 to David Cameron?

By: ganwil

ganwil — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:52:28 +0000

Merci, Dustin O.

By: ganwil

ganwil — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:50:54 +0000

Holy cow, folks, calm down! Yeah, I’m the guy who captioned this. Frankly, I never thought it would generate any interest at all. Contrary to the opinions of some, I wasn’t being a know-nothing Yank when I captioned it. The ONLY reason I chose that text is because Brown looks completely “Goodfellas” in that photo, and the economic crisis was very much on my mind. What’s with all the jumping to judgement about people you don’t even know? Cut me a little slack!

By: Dustin O

Dustin O — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:48:03 +0000

I also find it amusing that you people all assume whoever captioned this thought it was George Bush, out of your own preconceived notions. Its pretty obvious that George Bush doesn’t talk like that caption would insist, and that the man is making a gesture often recreated in “mob movies”.

By: robinhoo

robinhoo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:46:34 +0000

Um, seriously? Failblog? You did not recognize the prime minister of Great Britain? Wow. Apt blog title, then….

By: Dustin O

Dustin O — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:44:38 +0000

Occasionally of course you can find people on the internet who are intelligent, Im just saying, offshoots of “Icanhascheezburger” are not the first place I would start looking. Especially on a weekday afternoon before 5 oclock lol…

By: Dick

Dick — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:14:44 +0000

What a twat. It should be apparent it was a typo.

By: Frankii

Frankii — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:52:07 +0000

It’s Gordon Brown, are you really so isolated that you don’t know that?