Count Binface

(countbinface.com)

95 points | by mooreds 1 hour ago

10 comments

  • JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago
    "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

  • BLKNSLVR 1 hour ago
    I wish Count Binface all the best for the Clacton by-election.

    Edited to add: Some of my favourite commentary around this by-election is along the lines of:

    A fundamentally un-serious candidate with no coherent policies or political experience running against Count Binface.

  • wxw 1 hour ago
    > I’m an intergalactic space warrior and leader of the Recyclons from planet Sigma IX.

    Ok you have my vote.

  • llimos 33 minutes ago
    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.

    • onion2k 5 minutes ago
      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.

  • mellosouls 53 minutes ago
    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

  • WalterGR 1 hour ago
    (In the US, his name would translate as Count Trash Can-Face or Count Garbage Can-Face.)
    • JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago
      "Bin," generally, isn't British English. We have recycling bins, for instance.
      • gwerbin 1 hour ago
        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.
      • zabzonk 53 minutes ago
        > isn't British English.

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

        • titanomachy 33 minutes ago
          He means not exclusively British English
    • josemanuel 1 hour ago
      Same in the UK. If you look at his pic, you’ll see it’s literal!
    • gwerbin 1 hour ago
      Or in Massachusetts, Count Barrelface.
  • dyauspitr 1 hour ago
    With this much memery he would probably win the presidential election in the US.
  • JammyDodgeIt 1 hour ago
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  • blast 59 minutes ago