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nine-gear crow posted:Obama gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod and everyone freaked the gently caress out over HOW DARE HE GIVE THE QUEEN MODERN PEASANT TECHNOLOGY, and the Queen said it was actually the perfect gift because her old iPod was starting to crap out and she was thinking of getting a new one anyway. Obama also gave Gordon Brown a bunch of DVDs that iirc were region locked and so he couldn't actually watch them.
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# ? Jan 20, 2021 15:55 |
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# ? May 9, 2024 13:59 |
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I still briefly chuckle sometimes at the fact that there's a copy of The Witcher II hanging out somewhere in the Obama archives after the president of Poland gave it as a state gift. Something tells me Biden probably won't get a copy of Cyberpunk at the next Polish state dinner though.
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# ? Jan 22, 2021 03:43 |
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Bush does Hook 'em Horns, confuses Norwegians.NBC posted:President Bush’s “Hook ’em, ’horns” salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan.
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# ? Jan 22, 2021 04:01 |
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evilbastard posted:
It's really funny how everything Republicans did to criticize Obama was absolute loony tunes nonsense because did everything he did that was actually bad the Republicans agreed with doing 100%.
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# ? Jan 22, 2021 04:28 |
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Helsing posted:"The fact of the matter is that I've always—and you'll know this—been more enthusiastic about costumes than is sometimes appropriate.. When I was in high school, I dressed up at a talent show and sang Dale—with makeup on." How was this not mentioned yet It led to at least 3 weeks of sustained jokes in CanPol, each one funnier than the last
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# ? Jan 22, 2021 06:47 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Obama gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod and everyone freaked the gently caress out over HOW DARE HE GIVE THE QUEEN MODERN PEASANT TECHNOLOGY, and the Queen said it was actually the perfect gift because her old iPod was starting to crap out and she was thinking of getting a new one anyway. I really, really want to know what HM the Queen's playlists look like.
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# ? Jan 22, 2021 09:39 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I really, really want to know what HM the Queen's playlists look like. Here ya go: https://www.readersdigest.ca/culture/queen-elizabeth-favourite-music/ Tl;dr - showtunes, Elton John, Beach Boys, etc
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# ? Jan 22, 2021 09:52 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Obama gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod and everyone freaked the gently caress out over HOW DARE HE GIVE THE QUEEN MODERN PEASANT TECHNOLOGY, and the Queen said it was actually the perfect gift because her old iPod was starting to crap out and she was thinking of getting a new one anyway. Sure, but that’s the gracious “allow him to save face” response you were always going to get from someone who has multiple full time staff dedicated to etiquette and protocol, even if behind the scenes the queen was steaming mad because she actually wanted a Zune, or at least decorative carving made from bits of a British ship we captured during the revolutionary war.
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# ? Jan 22, 2021 14:03 |
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Gotta go with CA state senator Leland Yee, who passed legislation restricting the sale of violent video games at the same time he was trafficking weapons from Philippine Islamists to the San Francisco Triads. His Triad contact was a guy named "Shrimp Boy," while the guns (and missiles!) were purchased from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or MILF. He still got 9.8% of the primary vote for Secretary of State, even after withdrawing from the race awaiting trial.
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# ? Jan 23, 2021 07:39 |
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lol, they should see the poo poo i have done with photo mode and posted online. https://twitter.com/pengun101/status/1344817332762398721 https://twitter.com/pengun101/status/1343422377405906947 https://twitter.com/pengun101/status/1322607877677293568 i dont think i am getting elected anywhere. Nameless Pete posted:Gotta go with CA state senator Leland Yee, who passed legislation restricting the sale of violent video games at the same time he was trafficking weapons from Philippine Islamists to the San Francisco Triads. His Triad contact was a guy named "Shrimp Boy," while the guns (and missiles!) were purchased from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or MILF. i was gonna bring him up. i knew about the gun stuff but i didnt know it to loving islamist chuds.
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# ? Jan 23, 2021 21:19 |
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evilbastard posted:
Yes, the President of the United States of America had a boot Corporal hold an umbrella for him while he gave a speech. The reactions were interesting because people let their political boothurtedness flow into their opinions on the matter. People seem to forget that we’re Marines, and this is exactly the kind of poo poo that Marines do.
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# ? Jan 24, 2021 17:18 |
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lmao Incredible. After all these years there's still bits and pieces of the Bush presidency I haven't heard about.
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# ? Jan 24, 2021 17:23 |
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Wait, that was supposed to be bad? You'd think Norwegians, of all people, would actually appreciate it.
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# ? Jan 25, 2021 10:43 |
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Cant believe no one has posted this all time gem.https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-bush-vomits-on-prime-minister-of-japan posted:One of the most widely ridiculed and memorable gaffes in the history of the United States Presidency occurred in Japan on the evening of January 8, 1992, when President George H.W. Bush vomits on the Prime Minister of Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_KVL-wtpgg
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# ? Jan 25, 2021 11:47 |
mobby_6kl posted:If we can do British scandals, how about #piggate, where this fine lad supposedly put his dick in a pig's mouth (not this one)
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 03:27 |
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How are u posted:"Homophobe lawmaker who fucks men on the DL" is one of my favorite genres. My favourite of this genre is, (and forgive me for forgetting practically all of the details), the 70 odd year old US Republican senator who would always travel with a rent boy. But his excuse for always having a young, male travelling companion, (that stayed in the same room with him if I remember my salacious details correctly), was "I'm an old man, so I need this fit young muscular 20 year old to carry my luggage." And as far as I remember he didn't get in any real trouble for it. Even for the misappropriation of funds, which he was using to buy his lover, (once again if I remember my gossip correctly they weren't even in a relationship, the old dude was straight up paying the younger dude to be an escort), plane tickets and assorted gifts etc.
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 03:50 |
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Folks, how can we ever forget Rob Ford and how he defends his marriage?? https://youtu.be/hMIQWRsYxak
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 06:17 |
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Barack Obama wore a tan suit that one time
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HashtagGirlboss posted:One of my favorite political scandals is Oregon Rep David Wu. Beyond people in the Portland suburbs and Susan Bonamici, who owes her job to his meltdown, I’m not sure how many folks remember him. The scandal itself wasn’t what I’d call funny in any sense—it was about sexual assault back when the Democratic Party was still occasionally willing to take their members to task for such things. But what sets Mr. Wu apart was the odd emails he sent out during his final congressional campaig, including this one where he’s dressed up like his fursona I always remember David Wu, despite being from Illinois and having no connection to Portland at all, entirely because he was such a loving nerd. During the Bush years, he went on a rant on the house floor about how Condaleeza Rice and a few other ghouls called themselves "Vulcans" as a reference to a statue of Vulcan on the campus of her alma mater. Wu decided to start calling them Klingons instead and started babbling about Star Trek and everyone who knew what he was talking about just sat and cringed.
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BrigadierSensible posted:My favourite of this genre is, (and forgive me for forgetting practically all of the details), the 70 odd year old US Republican senator who would always travel with a rent boy. But his excuse for always having a young, male travelling companion, (that stayed in the same room with him if I remember my salacious details correctly), was "I'm an old man, so I need this fit young muscular 20 year old to carry my luggage." https://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/05/04/whatever-lifts-your-luggage-george George Alan Rekers. Not a Senator.
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# ? Apr 20, 2021 20:15 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Barack Obama wore a tan suit that one time Was that before or after MUSTARD-GATE? Remember when the fury of America was raised at Obama for asking for spicy mustard instead of regular old French's yellow? The son-of-a-bitch thinks he's too good for mustard! GRAAAAR! I mean, they're even selling that anti-American spicy poo poo in the grocery stores now, for God's sake!
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# ? Apr 22, 2021 15:19 |
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HashtagGirlboss posted:including this one where he’s dressed up like his fursona Let's Remember Furry Political Scandals
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# ? Apr 23, 2021 23:00 |
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DrSunshine posted:Let's Remember Furry Political Scandals Please do.
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# ? Apr 24, 2021 09:59 |
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DrSunshine posted:Let's Remember Furry Political Scandals Vincent Van Goatse posted:Please do. https://nypost.com/2017/09/08/counc...=site%20buttons quote:“It’s nothing to do with sex; it’s an interest in cartoon animals,” Chamberlain told the newspaper Thursday.
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# ? Apr 24, 2021 16:35 |
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Does "Homophobic Idaho Senator caught cruising for sex in airport bathroom" count? In 2007, Larry Craig was arrested after an undercover police officer at the Minneapolis airport (who was there because of complaints about sexual activity in the bathrooms) observed Craig: "At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. ... The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area. Craig then proceeded to swipe his left hand under the stall divider several times, with the palm of his hand facing upward." Craig claimed that he was actually picking up some paper from the floor, and that his foot movements were explained by the fact that " I'm a fairly wide guy." He then pled guilty to disorderly conduct, said he'd resign from the Senate, and then immediately tried to withdraw the guilty plea and refused to resign, but didn't run for re-election in 2008 when his term ended.
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azflyboy posted:Does "Homophobic Idaho Senator caught cruising for sex in airport bathroom" count? The Larry Craig Memorial Bathroom was renovated a few years back at MSP and they removed the Larry Craig Memorial Stall.
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# ? Apr 24, 2021 18:19 |
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karthun posted:The Larry Craig Memorial Bathroom was renovated a few years back at MSP and they removed the Larry Craig Memorial Stall. Weird how the racist monument protectors said nothing...
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# ? Apr 25, 2021 00:00 |
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That time Obama was an elitist for eating arugulaquote:Remarking on falling crop prices, Obama asked, “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”
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# ? May 3, 2021 14:02 |
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Lest we forget Martin Van RUIN and his fancy food and giant nipple.quote:"... In my opinion, it is time the people of the United States should know that their money goes to buy for their plain hard-handed democratic President, knives, forks, and spoons of gold, that he may dine in the style of the monarchs of Europe. … What, sir, will the honest locofoco say to Mr. Van Buren for spending the People’s cash [for] GREEN FINGER CUPS , in which to wash his pretty tapering, soft, white, lily fingers, after dining on fricandeau de veau and omelette soufflé? ...
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# ? May 5, 2021 01:38 |
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https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/1508_fraser.pdf This is a famous Australian scandal. In 1986, the then former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser wandered into a seedy Memphis hotel without his pants and checked into a room. He has always claimed he was drugged, rather than it just being another drunken night out. And he was never really pushed on the subject, nor did he volunteer much info. I suppose because the idea of a drunk, woozy, pantsless ex-PM checking in to a hotel at 7AM is funny enough on it's own. Who needs that image sullied with the facts?
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# ? May 5, 2021 12:37 |
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The guy who found Boris Yeltsin under a bridge and thought he was rescuing a homeless man.
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# ? May 6, 2021 17:27 |
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I remember when the Canadian Senate expenses scandal was going on, I actually saw (suspended Senator) Patrick Brazeau working as a bouncer at the downtown strip club in Ottawa. That always makes me laugh, that that was something I got to see first hand.
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# ? May 8, 2021 00:18 |
Remember everything Rob Ford ever did lol.
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# ? May 8, 2021 11:22 |
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Lurdiak posted:Remember everything Rob Ford ever did lol. Rest in peace sweet prince He has even more to eat up in his new home
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# ? May 8, 2021 12:57 |
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Do any other goons remember this guy. Never has an old man looked more like a baby
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# ? May 9, 2021 05:09 |
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Sir Nicholas Soames. British Tory MP, and grandson of noted genocider Winston Churchill. I don't know the details of the scandal, (I think he was having multiple affairs on his wife), but I do remember the one line that I thought was hilarious. "Sex with him was not unllike having a very large wardrobe with a small key falling on top of you repeatedly." He has since lost a tonne of weight, but I'm not showing you those pics coz they aren't as funny.
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# ? May 9, 2021 06:36 |
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Can we include non-governmental organizations? If so, I’d like to nominate former head of the FIA Max Mosley. Two words: Nazi orgy.
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# ? May 9, 2021 07:33 |
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If nongovernmental is allowed, i recently remembered: I watched Jesus Camp two weeks before the guy in it turned out to be having homosexual methamphetamine-fueled rent boy sex binges and oh that was like the biggest metacinematic plot twist you could fit
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# ? May 9, 2021 09:27 |
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Solkanar512 posted:Can we include non-governmental organizations? If so, I’d like to nominate former head of the FIA Max Mosley. In order to really get the impact across to people, you have to mention that Max is the son of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists and big big fan of Hitler.
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thekeeshman posted:In order to really get the impact across to people, you have to mention that Max is the son of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists and big big fan of Hitler. You’re absolutely right. Let me quote Wikipedia - quote:Cynthia (his first wife, with whom he cheated on with her sister and step mother) died of peritonitis in 1933, after which Mosley married his mistress Diana Guinness, née Mitford (1910–2003). They married in secret in Germany on 6 October 1936 in the Berlin home of Germany's Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Adolf Hitler was their guest of honour. Here he is pictured with Mussolini and taking notes on how to do Fascism is before going back to Britain to form the British Union of Fascists. quote:After his election failure in 1931, Mosley went on a study tour of the ’new movements’ of Italy's Benito Mussolini and other fascists, and returned convinced, particularly by Fascist Italy's economic programme,[22] that it was the way forward for Britain. He was determined to unite the existing fascist movements and created the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932. The BUF was protectionist, strongly anti-communist and nationalistic to the point of advocating authoritarianism.[23] It claimed membership as high as 50,000, and had the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror among its earliest supporters.[21][24][25] The Mirror piece was a guest article by Daily Mail owner Viscount Rothermere and an apparent one-off; despite these briefly warm words for the BUF, the paper was so vitriolic in its condemnation of European fascism that Nazi Germany added the paper's directors to a hit list in the event of a successful Operation Sea Lion.[26] The Mail continued to support the BUF until the Olympia rally in June 1934.[27] I’m certain no one is surprised to see those particular newspapers mentioned as openly supporting fascism. So yeah, dad was a total piece of poo poo.
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