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NEW YORK - WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS TELEGRAPH THING


We get that British tabloids work differently than ours. Whereas the New York Post et al. are forced to make ends meet with cartoon speech bubbles and uncle-grade puns, English trash rags like The Sun and Daily Mail have a full arsenal of tits and swear words and even completely made-up lies at their disposal. And we like that. All that stuff is great, but it fails to explain what in the wide world of fuck is going on with this weird picture-story in today's Telegraph.


Seriously, what is this shit? I guess if you overlook the part where something in an open vat causes a nuclear explosion, the part where the mushroom cloud from that nuclear explosion is only like 30 stories high, and the fact that the whole deal looks like it was photoshopped together by a time traveller from the year 14shitty2, it's sort of like a live-action comic strip or maybe a still-photo TV show. Regardless, is this another one of those things like Little Britain that limeys enjoy for some totally inscrutable reason? Or did the Culture Editor just say "Fuck it, it's Monday. Let's just run the next thing that comes in through email"? Honest question there, England. Don't make us wait until part II to find out….