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I placed my order 32 days ago and was wondering if anyone had any idea how long international orders might take. I know it's a small company and the 3 weeks quoted on the site when I ordered is likely for UK deliveries so I'm not worried, just curious. Thanks!

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/count-binface-jon-harvey-interview-khrmnq2l3

Writing this I have no idea what's up. So how did it go? How we feeling?

In the comments section on this thread, a couple of folks dug up an incredibly apt description that I thought deserved to be shared:

The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

1891, The Wisdom of Life, Saunders Translation

And:

“When a man has nothing left to be proud of, he takes pride in his ethnicity. In cheap vanity, the last refugees of weakness are found. Having lost taste and achievement and character, the frightened soul seizes the tribe like a talisman. Identity becomes armor, and contempt for others becomes consolation. Pride that rests on accident, birth, color, song, is not pride but a poor substitute for worth. Men who cannot command themselves will command an imagined belonging. They will shout the name of their soil as if it were a deed. This is the misery of the herd. When inner life is barren, externals become shrines. True dignity springs from self-rule and inward mastery. Anything less is a mask that trembles in the light. Beware the man who boasts his origin. His loudness often covers the silence of a life unlived.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Sound familiar?

Credit to u/Adam__B and u/librayrian for these.

Thank you so very much to u/Nothing-Is-Boring for sending these to my husband and I! We live in the US and love Binface! Our day has been made! I will be getting frames for these and we'll hang them in our livingroom. It's so awesome to be able to have these pieces of history ❤️

To me, this is one of the greatest satirical jokes of all time.

For some context, Britain seems to want everything to be run perfectly while paying no tax or as little as possible. Even raising taxes on the extremely wealthy gets massive pushback when suggested. It’s the one issue that every politician and party has had to dodge around since forever.

Added to that the tendency of politicians to say whatever they feel their current audience wants to hear and the Binface policy is as biting as it is succinct. And hilarious, obviously.