This is a cool picture but what we don’t recognize is he’s actually drawing all the old super offensive Disney cartoons

He was also adept at laying brick! Not easy for an amateur!

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Woooosh

You know who else used to paint?

Yeah and most of the offensive Disney bits were from WW2 or before anyways, you wanna poke any more holes in my joke or

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Not strictly true, OP. After WWII he was Leader of the Opposition from 1945-1951, then Prime Minister from 1951-1955.

He retired ten years after WWII ended in 1955 and later died in 1965.

Fun fact, the alcohol thing was staged and overstated. Part of late Victorian norms. His own employees said it was basically a single rocks glass that was mostly ice and soda water, refreshed over the day with again mostly ice and soda water, and at most ten fingers over the course of his typical sixteen hour day. Not to say he could not hold his liquor. He could. But it was performance art that was hardly unusual at the time.

Georgia O'Keefe? Andy Warhol? George W. Bush?

He also very much enjoyed brick-laying.

I really prefer to think of Churchill planning British WW2 strategy while blackout drunk.

He did write and publish a how-to book on painting before he died.

High as balls on Amphetamines, too

He also painted and travelled.

My point was for ten years after WWII he was still a politician. OP's title is misleading.

Well he also drank.

A LOT

Heh. No. WC was in fact probably one of the most competent men of his age with the power and money behind him to make it stick. In early years he was a glory and attention seeker, lied extravagantly to get what he wanted. He was what Mark Twain would have called the perfect humbug, a liar to get what he wanted but once there a competent beast who changed the direction of world history. Just like Mark Twain.

Churchill was basically one of the last scions who had to endure Americans propping up their lifestyle. His mother was a rich American who, by the terms of the day, whored herself across European aristocracy to claim titles not available in centuries before. They sought her out for her acumen with money and power, and she was an intelligent woman who understood the times and her powers. I admire her but she was not a nice person.

She built up a rich and broad network of lovers with circumspect values and neglected young Winston but in later years as she grew up enlisted them all to launch Winston. His meteoric career would not have been possible without it.

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And playing the tambourine.

We're making stuff up, right?

People forget you could buy Amphetamines OTC up until the 70s.

I hold the opinion that he was actually strategically one of the least competent.

No, bricklaying - Google Churchill / bricklaying. A brilliant man.

I read some of his books. I never heard that mentioned. It's one of those fascinating things to watch how they can be so perfect, yet still smooth and efficient.

I do not remember him writing a book on bricklaying, no !

Last year, his painting "Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque" sold st auction for $11.5 million.

And smoking. And drinking. And repeat.

Did he paint though?

The runner-up in WW2?

Hey, that’s more or less standard operating procedure for the Tories these days.

Username checks out.

All that shit took a toll on him, had to relax

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The Churchill fact which impresses me most is that he is a Nobel Prize winner, however not for his incommensurable contribution to Allied victory in WWII, but for Literature, mostly for his History of Britain. What a genius!

Why history lionizes this guy is beyond me. But ok he smokes and drinks and paints.

There is no denying that he had an objectively remarkable life.

I liked the joke. Seems it went over some heads.😀

Here we see the reflection of the prime minister, after winning the second world war.

ten fingers is like half a bottle of whiskey

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Yeah people get touchy about Churchill, the British must have found this post