astro
August 26, 2010, 6:20pm
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Here’s the latest MANLY VLADIMIR adventure.
Putin fires darts at gray whale from crossbow
MOSCOW – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin fired darts from a crossbow at a gray whale off Russia’s Far Eastern coast on Wednesday in the latest in a series of man-versus-nature stunts designed to cultivate the image of a macho leader.
Putin, meanwhile, during his eight years as president and the past two as prime minister, has learned to use television to cultivate the image of a rugged leader beloved by the Russian people.
His mastery of the medium has been on full display in recent weeks as he has taken command of efforts to extinguish the wildfires that swept across much of western Russia and to help the thousands of people who lost their homes.
The message has been that it is Putin, rather than his junior co-leader President Dmitry Medvedev, who is equipped to look after Russia, its people and environment. Putin has been canny about his plans to run in the 2012 presidential election, but has excluded running against Medvedev, saying the two will come to an agreement. Whatever the decision, his action-man lifestyle shows he is not about to recede from public view.
He has been photographed fishing bare-chested in Russia’s Altai region, and was shown on television diving into an icy river and swimming the butterfly stroke.
In April he attached a satellite-tracking collar on a tranquilized polar bear. He also has shot a Siberian tiger with a tranquilizer gun and released leopards into a wildlife sanctuary.
If he manages to bag a manbearpig barehanded he has my vote.
He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, he usually prefers Dos Equis.
I would like to see him in a MMA match with Chuck Norris.
Все возможно, когда человек, как пахнет Old Spice, а не дама, я нахожусь на лошади.
Wile_E
August 26, 2010, 10:07pm
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Why does he hates whales?
Probably because whales attacked Leningrad… or was it cow and chicken?
carnivorousplant:
KGB asshole.
Jealous that he’s more fit than you’ll ever be, yanqui okie ?
Surok
August 27, 2010, 12:52pm
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Nava:
Все возможно, когда человек, как пахнет Old Spice, а не дама, я нахожусь на лошади.
Now in understandable?
“Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice, and not a lady. I’m on a horse”.
The ad it was taken from may or may not make the quote more comprehensible.
Nava:
Все возможно, когда человек, как пахнет Old Spice, а не дама, я нахожусь на лошади.
Now in understandable?
Смотрите вниз, ищите, где - Вы? Вы находитесь на лодке.
Seriously, Запах как человек, человек.
Cicero
August 27, 2010, 1:03pm
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I admit I don’t understand it- is it supposed to make him more appealing- and to who? I didn’t think the opposition was that strong over there.
Surok
August 27, 2010, 1:12pm
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Not just manly…but sexy too, apparently (SFW)
I’ve been reading about Teddy Roosevelt a lot lately and this sounds similar to his manly image building. Maybe Putin has studied his Teddy.
Okie’s are next door in Oklahoma.
Western, as well as Russian, women are swooning. A page about the Putin “action figure,” modeled on his shirtless-fishing photo op, included these comments,
Clueless:
Forget the action figure. I want that man as my garden ornament. I think he would look fantastic, hauling compost, digging weeds, cleaning the duck yard, riding my tractor, oh yes, yes, oh
Leaves to catch her breath and take a cold shower
I don’t entirely get it, but…
Nava:
Now in understandable?
Смотрите вниз, ищите, где - Вы? Вы находитесь на лодке.
Seriously, Запах как человек, человек.
Look downwards, look for, where - you? You are by a boat.
Seriously, the Smell as the person, the person.
