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[Adrian Bamforth - ChopperAlbion - Chopperallied72 - Zapallistermac - ChopperAndy Lambert1 - Chopper's Night InAndy Lambert2 - Flight to the Death!Bhuna & Neil McClements - The Midnight Surfer vs. The Silver Surfer (Moebius Tribute)Brendan Meachen1 - Chopper Brendan Meachen2 - ChopperBrian Corocoran - ChopperButtonman - Go Chop!james newell - Midnight SurferJan Lyew - Dredd & ChopperKarl Brown - Chopper RisesThe Legendary Shark - Chopper Takes the PissMark Higgins - ChopperNeil McClements - ChopperNic Freeman - ChopperPaul Moore1 - ChopperPaul Moore2 - Choppershaolin monkey - Cookie (More Pictures here)Stephen Baskerville - Marlon Shakespeare, Bard of the Board!Steven Denton - ChopperTulio Vilela - ChopperUwe de Witt1 - ChopperUwe de Witt2 - ChopperUwe de Witt3 - ChopperUwe de Witt4 - Chopper]

Please vote for one FIRST, one SECOND and one THIRD - first will get 3 points, second 2 points and third 1 point.

The vote is decided by total points accumulated overall. You can honourably mention up to five other entries and these HMs are used to decide on tied scores so use them wisely and be aware that saying "all other entries" won't be counted. The deadline is midnight this Friday the 1st.


Adrian Bamforth - Chopper


Albion - Chopper


allied72 - Zap


allistermac - Chopper


Andy Lambert1 - Chopper's Night In


Andy Lambert2 - Flight to the Death!


Bhuna & Neil McClements - The Midnight Surfer vs. The Silver Surfer (Moebius Tribute)


Brendan Meachen1 - Chopper


Brendan Meachen2 - Chopper


Brian Corocoran - Chopper


Buttonman - Go Chop!


james newell - Midnight Surfer


Jan Lyew - Dredd & Chopper


Karl Brown - Chopper Rises


The Legendary Shark - Chopper Takes the Piss


Mark Higgins - Chopper


Neil McClements - Chopper


Nic Freeman - Chopper


Paul Moore1 - Chopper


Paul Moore2 - Chopper


shaolin monkey - Cookie (More Pictures here)


Stephen Baskerville - Marlon Shakespeare, Bard of the Board!


Steven Denton - Chopper


Tulio Vilela - Chopper


Uwe de Witt1 - Chopper


Uwe de Witt2 - Chopper


Uwe de Witt3 - Chopper


Uwe de Witt4 - Chopper


YOU HAVE 'TIL FRIDAY!

[Uwe de Witt]

Uwe de Witt's fourth fabulous Chopper


and this spectacular one was just posted on our timeline by one Mark Higgins:

On another note, listening to Cameron joking away on Today in Parliament as he eyes his pension, property portfolio and speaking engagements with glee, made me very, very angry. I'm all for gallows humour, but he isn't one of the ones that's going to hang.

Yeah - brilliantly worded TB. It's a different world for him.

A Polish colleague of mine woke up after the referendum to a note on his car windscreen saying "Go home now" - this is the world that smug disaffected class has created for us.

[Stephen Baskerville]

I HAVE RETURNED! Here's a clutch from FB, posted since I've been awaaaay:

Stephen Baskerville - "Marlon Shakespeare, Bard of the Board"



Karl Brown - "Chopper Rises"



...and a third Chopper from our theme-chooser Uwe de Witt

[Facebook]

Alright chaps,

I'm going orf to the central-Somerset-mud-and-cider-carnival until at least afternoon Monday.

So continue to enter as usual but I will be unable to update Facebook and Tumblr til then!

Visually stunning battle scenes throughout but still continuing this series' frustratingly linear almost "wish-fulfillment-ey" structure. The scene with [spoiler]Daenerys and Asha[/spoiler] felt like pure fanfic, which, without the books as guidance the majority of this series could debatably be described.

[Brendan Meachem]

Two entries here from Brendan Meachem

Perhaps it would go

Month 1 - Story Comp as per normal
Month 2 - Art Comp, pick any one of story comps stories, get doodling!

Thoughts?

That IS a real shock  So young too, utterly horrible.

Eek - horrible stuff TB, good luck with all that. I have vivid memories of Al Swearengen's ordeal with them in the second season of Deadwood, I hope it's not nearly that harrowing (and sweary).

We did this a few years ago for the 35th anniversary: https://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=35279.0

It didn't quite work out but that was quite some time ago and this is something that pops up as a plan every now and then, so clearly people have a taste for it. The artists providing a spot illustration for the short stories sounds like a really nice idea actually!

hmmm

[utterly]

CFM makes a good point about emotional proximity subtly shifting the boundary between laughing at and laughing in sympathy with someone, but makes too great an assumption regarding my own intentions.

Everyone who shares a continuing interest in Thryllseekr's welfare can befriend him on social media.

Is it because you posted it simply going "I fucking love Thryllseekr" and said nowt else perhaps? It's easy to make great assumptions about your behavior because I know next to nothing about you.

Thryllseekr posted so much, a great deal, I know what that man looks like, I know his views on far far too many things. I know his name. I know it all. It's easier to feel things about him. There's far more context to that man for me.

You however, Butch, I literally had to go back in forum history to even check whether you're the same person who used to very occasionally call themselves Sauchie. I don't know what your name is, I don't know what you look like, I know nothing about you. The only rock to cling to amongst all your name-changes is that you rarely stray beyond standard-opinionated-internet-snark like ninety percent of the time. I don't know your intentions, I don't know you. Of course I made an assumption regarding your motives they're utterly alien to me.

Think about that - I've been on this on-and-off for over a decade and literally all I can draw on is "it is likely he is being sarcastic about this". A triumph to your hard-won anonymity perhaps but this is as absolutely your choice as it was to post a screenshot of the FB status of a mentally troubled man with the only remark being "I fucking love Thryllseekr" and to trust entirely that we'd all somehow view this with an understanding of your concern. So by befriending him on social media you have a passing interest in his health, is clearly what we're meant to assume - but not enough to avoid gleefully screenshot his paranoia and post it here for us to ... what?!

Feel sorry? All share a collective invisible glance that says "well this IS a concern but IT'S HEARTENING HE'S UP TO HIS OLD TRICKS OF SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS!"

This forum isn't life, I'd talk that way to co-workers about a colleague maybe, or family members together but never post it here where history and circumstance is utterly ephemeral to the majority of people viewing these posts.

I'd seriously think about that before your contextless next snark whoever you actually are.

I was sickened to get a round-robin email from Avaaz using the murder of Jo Cox to get in a "Vote Stay" message.

Naw.

It's weird to see folk baulk at people 'using' her diabolical murder 'for political point-scoring'. SHE WAS A POLITICIAN. I think it'd be disrespectful to her tireless work in life to just separate her in death from it. She went down the bloody Thames the day before holding the "IN" flag. She clearly cared about it. Activisim websites like Avaaz mentioning her to forward progressive goals just isn't offensive to me. People storming through the streets using her name to bash up suspected fascists would, I feel, be a horrendous diversion of her goals as a person. Which seemed largely positive, largely non-violent.

Here's her tribute GoFundMe supporting relevant causes - if you care enough about her aims as an individual to be offended by an e-mail, spend your energy flinging some money there: https://www.gofundme.com/jocox

I'm just saying right, but I've got a mentally ill relation who posts long ranty statuses about all sorts of things on FB. It can be funny. As a relative there's a certain private dark humour about it but most of the time it's a worry. It shows how lonely it is in his world.

I wonder how I would feel however if I found a screen shot of one of his more paranoid statuses taken and exhibited on a public forum, presumably for the purpose of making fun of him.

Thryllseekr didn't abide by the rules of the forum and for that reason he was banned. However out in reality where he continues to live he's clearly not well and I certainly didn't feel that this particular update on his troubled existence was at all worth broadcasting. He may not be able to properly "edit" his reactions to things but YOU certainly can. The content wasn't itself 'offensive' no - the act of posting it here for us to gawk at was though.

[Jo Cox MP]

The first political assassination in this country for quite, quite some time. Utterly jarring.

RIP Jo Cox MP, here she is boating with her family just yesterday.



and her husband Brendan's words are the most fitting I've heard yet:

"Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people.

She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her. Hate doesn't have a creed, race or religion, it is poisonous.

Jo would have no regrets about her life, she lived every day of it to the full."



Where do we go from here?