We get that British tabloids work differently than ours. Whereas the New York Post et al. are forced to make ends meet with cartoon speech bubbles and uncle-grade puns, English trash rags like The Sun and Daily Mail have a full arsenal of tits and swear words and even completely made-up lies at their disposal. And we like that. All that stuff is great, but it fails to explain what in the wide world of fuck is going on with this weird picture-story in today's Telegraph.
Seriously, what is this shit? I guess if you overlook the part where something in an open vat causes a nuclear explosion, the part where the mushroom cloud from that nuclear explosion is only like 30 stories high, and the fact that the whole deal looks like it was photoshopped together by a time traveller from the year 14shitty2, it's sort of like a live-action comic strip or maybe a still-photo TV show. Regardless, is this another one of those things like Little Britain that limeys enjoy for some totally inscrutable reason? Or did the Culture Editor just say "Fuck it, it's Monday. Let's just run the next thing that comes in through email"? Honest question there, England. Don't make us wait until part II to find out....
They spent more time making up the fake company name (New Dawn Presentations) than they did with the Photoshopping.
Posted by: Mike | 12/01/2009 at 17:26
this looks like cloverfield except with a budget of two dollars and half-eaten plate of bangers and mash
Posted by: | 12/01/2009 at 17:50
there's really not much to understand about the telegraph other than it's a piece of rubbish that barely covers real news. i am quite interested to see what they do to new york, however.
Posted by: gideon | 12/01/2009 at 18:05
the shadow of the can doesn't even line up correctly.
Posted by: cecil | 12/01/2009 at 18:30
was cloverfield finally released in london or something?
Posted by: dumplings | 12/01/2009 at 18:57
The NYC photos looks exactly like a shot from Baraka. In fact, I think they may have ripped it from the movie.
Posted by: Baraka | 12/01/2009 at 19:08
Believe me, we in the UK are as baffled by this 'story' as you guys. I've tried to phoned The Telegraph to ask who wrote this and why, but I couldn't get a straight answer.
Posted by: Alistair | 12/01/2009 at 23:51
What an earth is that? Why? Why they putting that weird conspiracy shit in the Telegraph? I mean it is a very right wing paper but its still weird
Posted by: D | 17/06/2009 at 18:00