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

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:

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (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)

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

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?

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

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