Count Binface

85 points | by mooreds an hour ago

16 comments

  • JumpCrisscross an 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

  • wxw an hour ago

    > I’m an intergalactic space warrior and leader of the Recyclons from planet Sigma IX.

    Ok you have my vote.

  • BLKNSLVR an hour ago

    I wish Count Binface all the best for the Clacton by-election.

  • llimos 21 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.

  • mellosouls 41 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 an hour ago

    (In the US, his name would translate as Count Trash Can-Face or Count Garbage Can-Face.)

      JumpCrisscross an hour ago

      "Bin," generally, isn't British English. We have recycling bins, for instance.

        gwerbin an 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 41 minutes ago

        > isn't British English.

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

          titanomachy 21 minutes ago

          He means not exclusively British English

      josemanuel an hour ago

      Same in the UK. If you look at his pic, you’ll see it’s literal!

      gwerbin an hour ago

      Or in Massachusetts, Count Barrelface.

  • dyauspitr an hour ago

    With this much memery he would probably win the presidential election in the US.

  • blast an hour ago