Count Binface

https://countbinface.com

82•mooreds•1h ago

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BLKNSLVR•1h ago

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

WalterGR•1h ago

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

josemanuel•1h ago

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

JumpCrisscross•1h ago

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

gwerbin•53m 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•38m ago

> isn't British English.

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

titanomachy•17m ago

He means not exclusively British English

gwerbin•52m ago

Or in Massachusetts, Count Barrelface.

dyauspitr•1h ago

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

wxw•1h ago

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

Ok you have my vote.

JumpCrisscross•57m 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

blast•44m ago

Prior art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface

breppp•33m ago

I thought that's the prior art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waldo_Moment

rf15•11m ago

Lord Buckethead is much older than Boaty McBoatface.

mellosouls•38m 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

llimos•18m 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.

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