rekil
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The exchange in full, wasn't even that bad, just nitpicking.
https://twitter.com/ProletarianDem/status/336150261707976704
https://twitter.com/ProletarianDem/status/336150261707976704
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rekil
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Barry was caught vacillating between choosing a funny or serious response, or a mix, and then bang, GG lays down the block.
JimW
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You corrected the Great Man on a public forum?! Where is your revolutionary discipline? Why this bourgeois attachment to historical truth? Assigned to the reactor mopping squad for the rest of the summer.
Nigel Irritable
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Roughly how many people actually read the blog anyway? I wonder what percentage of the gags most of them get. Is it all leftist nerds like us who read, or are there people reading it who didn't previously have a clue what a Posadist is?
rekil
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No idea. 33000 views since it was set up. I reckon it would do better if it was more regular but people are too busy with real stuff. I'm not on facebook so dunno about how many 'friends' and that.
equationgirl
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not bad stats considering 
Now, where did we get to on the Oftrot ratings?
Now, where did we get to on the Oftrot ratings?
BigTom
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I reckon the collective can do better than the individual with the "names" on the poster... I actually really like the design of the original poster, I don't know whether to try to mimic it exactly but i couldn't work out in Photoshop CS6 to do the speckly thing they've done, I'm sure that used to be a standard brush but I can't find it. I'm not sure whether to make it even more different in terms of colour or even design and just keep the parodied title. I'm sure this must have been done before, the music festival type ones have been around for many years.
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I reckon the collective can do better than the individual with the "names" on the poster... I actually really like the design of the original poster, I don't know whether to try to mimic it exactly but i couldn't work out in Photoshop CS6 to do the speckly thing they've done, I'm sure that used to be a standard brush but I can't find it. I'm not sure whether to make it even more different in terms of colour or even design and just keep the parodied title. I'm sure this must have been done before, the music festival type ones have been around for many years.
Maybe "Ageing, Nostalgic 68er"?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Start it off with a single known "name".
Tariq Ali, perhaps? There was a time when Tariq turned up at every "event" with an audience larger than a pub quiz team.
Tariq Ali, perhaps? There was a time when Tariq turned up at every "event" with an audience larger than a pub quiz team.
equationgirl
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You have to put the Chuckle Brothers on there. What about adding Su Pollard on as another woman?
rekil
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BigTom
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Start it off with a single known "name".
Tariq Ali, perhaps? There was a time when Tariq turned up at every "event" with an audience larger than a pub quiz team.
Tariq Ali only managed second on the bill for the counterfire event... tony benn was even further down, but Tony is still top dog at the People's Resistance so it's all good
. Either all fake or all real I reckon, but if they were going to be all real I'd have people like Malcolm Harris, Laurie Penny, Molly, Ellie Mae, Sunny Hundal etc. and only Owen and Laurie cut across the two really, it'd want to be spoofing a different event/poster for that.
BigTom
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rekil
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Before you did this, I was thinking of PDs version of the people's assembly - with normals as speakers but calling it the Columnists, Bureaucrats, Worthies, MPs etc Assembly to get bums on seats. Can you copy a portion of the speckly thing, make a background out of it and change the colour or something?I was going to put "token working class person" but forgot it this morning
BigTom
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edit re-read my earlier post - yes I probably can but I'm sure there used to be an easy way to make a brush like that. Not sure if it's better to make the design as close as possible or obviously lifted but different.
Now that would be silly. They would feel completely out of their depth.I was going to put "token working class person" but forgot it this morning
BigTom
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You're right, I hadn't noticed that even though I'd changed the font for apostrophes because of the spacing, I'll find a different font, it was the closest one to counterfire's font that I could find quickly this morning.
rekil
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Yep the speckly pattern you referred to.
Just do each line in a progressively smaller font so longer ones can fit at towards the bottom?Weary member of justice campaign long ignored so grateful even for our blatant attempt at hijacking.
(Bit long)
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Possibly a monotype.
rekil
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Tiny PD logomen at different angles to give it a pattern if that's doable.
BigTom
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I've no idea how you make brushes for photoshop.. I'll have a look into it later this afternoon and see if it's easy.
BigTom
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No reason not to do spoof both of these things btw, people's assembly is crying out for it but I just saw the slogan for this one on twitter last night and did it.. I also thought of an intersectionality based one with a wheel of speakers that represent the oppression/privilege of that spoke.
"PD presents: A Summer Of Speaking To Bring Down Capitalism!"
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