I don’t see what’s so great about having a big penis. I can have sex without even waking my wife up.
Top that.
Big deal! Rise and dress in stealth, fetch the carkeys without rattling…
So what? I can pick locks, and my partner can floss during oral sex.
When I watched the video I thought she was starting to smile an instant before it ended. It was poor image quality though. Also, if she did smile I suspect that whoever posted the video made sure it ended before you could see it properly.
I think this is a minor issue. The big Bush issues are the Iraq war and the 2000 election shenanigans.
Like I said, I’m surprised to see Scylla sounding quite as stupid as he does here, but the past has suggested that he is something of a True Believer. You might think he’s trolling, but frankly, if anyone were to believe that Bush’s behavior was appropriate, Scylla would come rather high on the list.
Ah, coming in too late here, been out of town, but, anyway:
I have this picture in my head of the President’s advisors saying: “OK, George, you should give her a good message of who’s in charge, but don’t rub her the wrong way…”
And it Deciderizes to, “In Charge…shoulder…give…good massage…rub…”, and off he goes, yet again, into the limelight.
Bless his heart , he means well.
It’s really too bad that GW is either too obtuse or to naive to appreciate what he hath wrought. I would love to see him losing hair and sleep over his bullheaded blundering.
But alas, he just wanders along unaware of the carnage he leaves in his wake and I’m quite sure will go down in his own mind as one of history’s great men. After all he’s smart enough to get rich and what more is needed as proof?
He shoulda gone to Ole Miss. He would have fit right in.
Dirt she is. She died over a decade ago.
What’s so arbitrary about what I’m doing?
It’s called a theory. You observe some data, construct a hypothesis that seems to make the most sense out of the data you’ve got so far, then you continue to observe to see if new data buttresses or contradicts the theory.
I’d say it’s holding up pretty well. If you disagree, feel free to explain what the contradictory evidence is.
Because you’re just making shit up. Nothing more, nothing less.
Who gives a flip? You make shit up about what I say, then when I point out you’re wrong, you pretend we were really arguing about something else rather than coming clean.
You’re a dishonest debater.
Oh, hardly. I just don’t see the gain in pissing people off for no good reason.
Sometimes you have to do what you think is right in the world, even if it won’t win you any popularity awards. If that pisses people off, that’s life; sometimes you’ve got to do that. What you gain from doing what you have to do will be more important than offending some people.
Grabbing leaders of other countries from behind, or spraying sand on them with your bike tires - if that pisses them off, that’s all you’ve done: people think you’re an asshole, and they’re right.
This is all well and good, but it doesn’t connect with anything in this discussion.
And GWB grabbed Merkel’s shoulders “to be honest and communicate and get things done”??
You are a joke.
You’ve seen the posts from the women in this thread. The overwhelming consensus is, this is well over the line in an ordinary workplace. In a meeting between world leaders where protocol is important, this is much more over the line than it is in a regular workplace.
All I can see is, you will defend Bush in doing stuff that he had no business doing. If Clinton had made such a faux pas, everyone on the right would have been denouncing Bubba for his barnyard manners. Including people like you.
Of course she doesn’t. The gesture just might have been the reason, y’know. In which (quite likely) case, what he’s gained his her hostility.
Sweet.
No, I will interpret it as an unfortunate act, and I will let it go only because of the track record such a person had built up beforehand. But I would regard them more warily in the future.
“Good touch,” “bad touch.” Don’t you teach your daughter about such things?
If someone touches you in inappropriate ways, that’s a bad touch.
Of course, it’s quite likely that he’s created that information.
It’s odd that you should completely disregard the possibility that Bush’s gesture might’ve changed how the recipient felt about him.
Human nature can be complicated, but some parts of it are really pretty simple: if you do something nice to someone whose feelings towards you aren’t set in stone, they’ll think better of you. If you do something nasty to that person, they’ll think worse of you.
You’ll have to explain how human nature works in your universe. Which seems to be very different from the one that the women in this thread, who’ve talked about how they feel when guys do stuff like this to them, live in.
I see on reading through that Excalibre, Gorsnak, and John Mace have beaten me to the punch on most of what I said.
I also see that Scylla, in his intellectual cowardice, didn’t respond to them, but rather skipped past their posts to Sublight’s easier-to-rebut post.
Big surprise.
You did however, add some * really really nice* quote coding to the thread. Were I your creepy boss, I’d squeeze your shoulders and give you a hearty “well done RT.”
Just so long as you don’t go swinging your dick in my cubicle. 
I just realized something. Up until fairly recently most people would be screaming, “The President has handlers! What kind of incompetent fuck of a President has handlers!?!” And now people are screaming, “OMG! Where’s the President’s handlers? What kind of incompetent fuck doesn’t listen to his handlers?”
I assume every president since the start of the TV age (if not further back than that) has had handlers. Not everyone knows how to act with absolute ease while in the public view and I suspect that being a good news anchor involves an entirely different set of skills than being a good president.
She’s quite right in her quote at the bottom of the page. She does look like a transvestite, or rather, like a performing female impersonator! That was my first thought when I followed the link.
It looks as if she may be the first (and thus far only) person ever to enter and succeed in politics in order to further their porn career. The obvious jokes about sinking to even lower sleaze come to mind, but I actually prefer to go through life absurdly hopeful in believing that at least some people go into politics with a real intention of serving people.
It’s OK. Like the president, I only mark my territory after everyone’s gone home for the night.
This is crucial, Arty, and casts GeeDub’s actions in an entirely different light. He was performing an *intelligence gathering activity * (at considerable personal risk, I might add…)
That the Chancellor of Germany thinks POTUS is a dink is vital geopolitical intelligence! It means, for instance, that Germany’s leadership stands in stark contrast to the wildly enthusiastic approval of the world at large!