Retards on the internet.

This thread really pissed me off. For those of you lazy buggers who won’t click the link, its a forum thread dedicated to dissing Jeremy Nell’s work, even going as far as comparing him to (yuck!) Zapiro and accusing Jeremy of being a wannabe.

First off, I would have replied to that thread had the forum actually allowed me to, but after registering and then having to request a resend of the confirmation email, I was booted out each time I clicked the reply to thread button [yo, dudes, you should probably fix that- it sucks quite a bit] which obviously lead me to thinking ‘fuck it’ and then, ranting in my own blog.

Look, I get that Jeremy is my number one fan I’m Jeremy’s number one fan (well, I probably take turns of sharing it with his girlfriend Janel, but I’m the Chief Pom-pomerer , I’m sure she gets that) so this might sound a bit biased, but here’s my point of view:

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Obamarama: Zapiro's version.

Obamarama: Jeremy's version.

Right, so Jeremy apparently copied Zapiro since the latter cartoonist published on a Sunday and Jeremy on a Monday.  I have an issue with this for the following reasons:

1. Those twits completely missed the point:  Zapiro portrays shoes being chucked at the podium while, to me, Jeremy is pointing out that Bush’s shoes aren’t really that big to fill in the first place.  Look at the size of Obama’s feet man!  And his look of incredulance at the size of Bush’s tiny, tiny shoes.  He doesn’t reference that shoe throwing incident at all.
2. Obama is big news right now.  At this very moment I am watching (mostly with glazed-over eyes) his inauguration on TV.  The whole world is talking about him and of course with that, comes the topic of Bush and also, maybe, shoes.  So if Jeremy (shock, horror, gasp!) made a reference to shoes, because “oh dear, look, there was a shoe reference in The Sunday Times!” naturally this means he’s trying to be Zapiro?  Yawn.
3. Never once have I ever heard, read or seen Jeremy Nell refer to himself as a political cartoonist.  If anything he’s an anti-cartoonist.  Controversial and in your face. He’s not trying to be anyone but himself which is what irks people, I think.
4. Just for the record, Jeremy did do his own cartoon about the Bush shoe throwing incident, over a month ago.
5. And also, I don’t know if you’d noticed, but big news items happen to be repeated, rewritten and in this case, redrawn over and over again with each different person’s perspective.  Especially in cartoonism – most cartoonists think alike from what I can see.
6. “Oh but he’s just young”, they say.  And your point?  I think its fabulous that in less than three years this “young” cartoonist has made such a mark.  I think it is just AWESOME that Zapiro’s fans seem to think there’s someone out there of the same caliber, because he is.  Zapiro may not be my favourite but he’s certainly distinguished himself hasn’t he, and if Jeremy is right up there being nominated for the same awards, at the same functions and in the same interviews I can just cheer right along with the best of The Nell Fans and say to the ballie cartoonist, move over old man – your retirement is nigh!

Sadly, one of my readers is one of the main instigators.  I’ll have to catch him in private, tie him down and have my way with a word with him.  It’s absolutely fine to have a difference of opinion, in my opinion, as long as your opinion matches mine.  No seriously though, I think they went a bit overboard. But then again…

I won the war against Wimpy

And now I am smug.  Bitching sometimes does come in handy, especially when you order a sandwhich and it takes one hour, forty five minutes, three phone calls and a sparring insult-swapping session with the manager.

I sit here munching on a free bacon, cheese, tomato & onion sandwhich which I will wash down with my free coke.

Take that, mofo’s!

Pet hates.

1. People calling me Ma’am when they are clearly a few years my senior. It makes me feel uncomfortable.
2. Spit. I hate it. In a mouth or out. It is best ignored.
3. Why does tea go so cold so quickly? Coffee doesn’t. Its only tea. Annoying.
4. Taxi drivers. No matter how new or old their taxi is, they were put on earth to be bad drivers.
5. Hooting to greet. Didn’t people realize that when it gives you the multiple question and answers in the learner driver test, it was a trick question? Blowing your horn is not meant for greeting. Emergencies only, people!
6. Egg shells in my scrambled eggs from mugg n bean. Seriously, this is just not on.
7. Every single clothing company that sells underwear. They need to realise that just because my boobs are gigantic, it doesn’t give them the right to make the bra straps big enough to fit around a tree trunk. Think about it, manufacturers!
8. Fat free cream. That is a fucking impossibility. Cream is a form of fat! Do people really fall for that?
9. The smell of blown out candles. It smells terrible.
10. Nail polish that peels off quickly. What a waste of time, effort and money. It takes ages to apply it, forever for it to dry, then you get up and a day later half of it flakes off.

Wednesday shmednesday. I’m grumpy.