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loli phabay

(5,580 posts)
2. nice pike, would be interesting to spend a vacation with putin
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 05:14 AM
Jul 2013

Out og all the characters in world leadership he would be the most interesting

 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
3. Nice pike, he's lucky the fish didn't bite his fucking nose off!
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 05:18 AM
Jul 2013

After watching the video there was a link to the Tea Party asking should Obama be impeached. WTF

 

7962

(11,841 posts)
7. Got that right, East. No different than most of his other photo ops
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 07:24 AM
Jul 2013

that were setups or faked. And that fish doesnt look like it weighs 50 lbs either. The Russian bloggers are already having a field day with this one.
Remember his diving trip when he "found" the ancient jar? The faked hang gliding with the geese or flamingos? And we thought GWB was something with the carrier landing......

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
10. I wonder if the stomach kissing is a Russian tradition ?
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 07:55 AM
Jul 2013

I think in this country, that would not go over well at all.

Ino

(3,366 posts)
11. Putin wanted to pet him like a cat!
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 08:14 AM
Jul 2013

"It was an unplanned meeting — people just came up and started talking to me," Putin said. "He seemed very independent and serious. At the same time a child is always defenseless and nice. I wanted to stroke him like a cat and it came out in this gesture. There was nothing behind it."
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-07-06-putin-kiss_x.htm

 

loli phabay

(5,580 posts)
8. you know he does mot always drink beer but when he does
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 07:27 AM
Jul 2013

Its always your round. Would.love.to have a beer with this guy just to see seewhat makes him tick.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
12. Ahhhhhhh.....but WAIT!!! There's MORE to this story!!!!
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 11:35 AM
Jul 2013

People think it steenks like old fish!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/29/us-russia-putin-fish-idUSBRE96S0CU20130729?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest


Russians smell something fishy in Putin's latest stunt


....the images of the 60-year-old president hauling in a pike which the Kremlin said weighed 21 kg (46 pounds) proved too much for some Russians to swallow.

Within hours, online satirists were questioning whether the incident was staged and whether the pike was really as big as the Kremlin said.

"Wonder who planted that fish for Putin to catch," said a caption placed under two online pictures, one of Putin holding the fish and the other showing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev emerging from a river in a wetsuit with a satisfied look.

Experienced anglers posted photographs of large pike they had caught, questioning the size and weight of the ex-KGB officer's catch.
One photo caption called it "Churov's Pike" - a reference to election commission chief Vladimir Churov who is accused by the opposition of conjuring victory for Putin's party in elections which they say were marred by fraud. He denies doing so....
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