# If Putin gets any more manly he's going to need a wheelbarrow for his 'nads
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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 26, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566 "2010-08-26T18:20:27Z")
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/1 "2010-08-26T18:20:27Z")
Here’s the latest [MANLY VLADIMIR](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100825/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_putin_whales) adventure.
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> Putin fires darts at gray whale from crossbow
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/2 "2010-08-26T20:32:33Z")
If he manages to bag a manbearpig barehanded he has my vote.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/3 "2010-08-26T20:39:55Z")
He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, he usually prefers Dos Equis.
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### Author:  [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/4 "2010-08-26T20:43:47Z")
I would like to see him in a MMA match with Chuck Norris.
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/5 "2010-08-26T21:07:20Z")
Все возможно, когда человек, как пахнет Old Spice, а не дама, я нахожусь на лошади.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/6 "2010-08-26T22:07:48Z")
Why does he hates whales?
Probably some reason that starts out "In Soviet Russia, whales …
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### Author:  [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/7 "2010-08-26T22:14:14Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> Why does he hates whales?
Probably because whales attacked Leningrad… or was it cow and chicken?
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/8 "2010-08-27T03:07:45Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> Why does he hates whales?
> Probably some reason that starts out "In Soviet Russia, whales …
…humpback you.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/9 "2010-08-27T03:09:47Z")
KGB asshole.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/10 "2010-08-27T09:18:44Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#):
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> Все возможно, когда человек, как пахнет Old Spice, а не дама, я нахожусь на лошади.
Now in understandable?
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### Author:  [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/11 "2010-08-27T11:59:09Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> KGB asshole.
Jealous that he’s more fit than you’ll ever be, yanqui okie ?
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### Author:  [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/12 "2010-08-27T12:52:17Z")
> [@Nava](#):
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> > [@A Monkey With a Gun](#):
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> > Все возможно, когда человек, как пахнет Old Spice, а не дама, я нахожусь на лошади.
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> Now in understandable?
“Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice, and not a lady. I’m on a horse”.
The [ad](http://lybio.net/old-spice-the-man-your-man-could-smell-like/commercials/) it was taken from may or may not make the quote more comprehensible.
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### Author:  [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/13 "2010-08-27T12:53:01Z")
> [@Nava](#):
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> > [@A Monkey With a Gun](#):
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> > Все возможно, когда человек, как пахнет Old Spice, а не дама, я нахожусь на лошади.
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> Now in understandable?
Смотрите вниз, ищите, где - Вы? Вы находитесь на лодке.
Seriously, Запах как человек, человек.
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/14 "2010-08-27T13:03:48Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/15 "2010-08-27T13:12:27Z")
Not just manly…but [sexy](http://i.imgur.com/mNfAo.jpg) too, apparently (SFW)
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### Author:  [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/16 "2010-08-27T14:37:15Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/17 "2010-08-27T16:59:16Z")
> [@runner pat](#):
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> > [@Wile\_E](#):
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> > Why does he hates whales?
> > Probably some reason that starts out "In Soviet Russia, whales …
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> …humpback you.
Excellent
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/18 "2010-08-27T17:00:32Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#):
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> > [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> > KGB asshole.
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> Jealous that he’s more fit than you’ll ever be, yanqui okie ?
Okie’s are next door in Oklahoma. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/19 "2010-08-27T17:11:50Z")
> [@Surok](#):
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> Not just manly…but [sexy](http://i.imgur.com/mNfAo.jpg) too, apparently (SFW)
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](#):
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> 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
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> _Leaves to catch her breath and take a cold shower_
> [@bad faerie](#):
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> don’t forget cleaning the pool too.
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> i’ll be in my bunk!
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> “riding your tractor” Is that what you kids are calling it these days?
> [@Lady.Khrystal](#):
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> I hope so bad that my Russian fiancee is still that ROWR!!! when he’s older. :3
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> WANT. oh yes. Want. Action figure? It’s only an action figure? DAMNIT! Still want!
I don’t entirely get it, but…
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### Author:  [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-putin-gets-any-more-manly-hes-going-to-need-a-wheelbarrow-for-his-nads/551566/20 "2010-08-27T17:15:50Z")
> [@spark240](#):
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> > [@Nava](#):
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> > Now in understandable?
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> Смотрите вниз, ищите, где - Вы? Вы находитесь на лодке.
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> Seriously, Запах как человек, человек.
Look downwards, look for, where - you? You are by a boat.
Seriously, the Smell as the person, the person.
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