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Thursday Open Thread | 200 comments (200 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Russians have no respect.... (4.00 / 3)

If I may be serious for a moment, the psychology behind all of this is absolutely fascinating. I don't even know where to begin. I'm not going to psychoanalyze Putin, but it's ironic how the media chides him for acting like a Tsar but themselves act like gossipy courtiers going on about where a vistor slept last night and what jokes were told...

And to return from seriousness, I'm sure the look on Putin's face after Sarko mused about waking up in the kremlin was just deliciously cold. hehehe

"This is nothing compared to how Putin rigged Eurovision."

by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 02:55:28 PM EST
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Re: Russians have no respect.... (4.00 / 4)

Can you psychoanalyse this picture?

Hint: Sarko was wearing 5 cm high heels.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:13:16 PM EST
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Re: Russians have no respect.... (4.00 / 2)

What kind of 5cm high heels?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:29:33 PM EST
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Re: Russians have no respect.... (4.00 / 3)

Maybe this kind:

"Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char

by Melanchthon on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:47:13 PM EST
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Re: Russians have no respect.... (4.00 / 4)

Guess this is why Sarko looks so pained in that picture!

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:49:49 PM EST
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Re: Russians have no respect.... (4.00 / 2)

well if it is those shoes, he's probably wrestling with Izzy for them just out of shot

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:59:15 PM EST
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Re: Russians have no respect.... (none / 0)

He should have just worn boots and some fashionable denim. Then again I don't have a Napoleon complex.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 04:06:23 PM EST
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Re: Russians have no respect.... (4.00 / 6)

"This is nothing compared to how Putin rigged Eurovision."

by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 03:47:45 PM EST
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Re: Russians have no respect.... (none / 1)

During the presidential campaign, Le Canard Enchaîné pointed out he was wearing 10cm ones... have his ego-propping needs diminished?

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 07:09:55 PM EST
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