Count Binface
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1 hour ago
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JumpCrisscross
1 hour ago
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"Harvey previously stood as a similar character, Lord Buckethead, but was forced to create a new character due to a dispute with the filmmaker Todd Durham, who owns the Buckethead character" [1].

(The videos on this website are worth the watch. Hilarious, of course. But also...Binface conjugates Latin to Sky News, and not just as a bit. I don't know how I feel about the British comedy candidate outclassing half of the American elected leadership–and a good fraction of its industrial leadership–on IQ.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface

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llimos
29 minutes ago
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There's a long tradition in the UK of comedy candidates, notably the Monster Raving Loony Party.

There's even some talk of a potential Loony-Bin alliance.

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onion2k
34 seconds ago
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The difference in this instance is that all of the major parties have stood aside, leaving the Clacton by-election as a race between Nigel Farage and Count Binface. Essentially it's turned into an election between Farage and anyone-but-Farage.

I sincerely hope the best alien wins.

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BLKNSLVR
1 hour ago
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I wish Count Binface all the best for the Clacton by-election.
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wxw
1 hour ago
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> I’m an intergalactic space warrior and leader of the Recyclons from planet Sigma IX.

Ok you have my vote.

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mellosouls
48 minutes ago
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Related mini-discussion the other day:

Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist's election gamble backfires

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848034

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WalterGR
1 hour ago
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(In the US, his name would translate as Count Trash Can-Face or Count Garbage Can-Face.)
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JumpCrisscross
1 hour ago
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"Bin," generally, isn't British English. We have recycling bins, for instance.
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gwerbin
1 hour ago
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Yes but in the USA a "bin" usually refers to a generic category of containers, often rectangular. A "recycling bin" is a specific kind of bin, and it's almost always qualified as such. If you called it a "bin" out of context people would be confused or think you're trying to be British or something.
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LoganDark
11 seconds ago
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Count Trash Non-Panda
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zabzonk
48 minutes ago
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> isn't British English.

Eh? Most commonly uttered words in UK English: "Have you put the bins out?"

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titanomachy
28 minutes ago
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He means not exclusively British English
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josemanuel
1 hour ago
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Same in the UK. If you look at his pic, you’ll see it’s literal!
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gwerbin
1 hour ago
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Or in Massachusetts, Count Barrelface.
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dyauspitr
1 hour ago
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With this much memery he would probably win the presidential election in the US.
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blast
55 minutes ago
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rf15
21 minutes ago
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Lord Buckethead is much older than Boaty McBoatface.
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breppp
44 minutes ago
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I thought that's the prior art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waldo_Moment
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