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logroller
11-12-2011, 04:56 PM
Certainly for the politicians.

Italy's PM Berlusconi resigns. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/11/italy-silvio-berlusconi-resigns.html


Let's see. Egypt, Greece, Italy, Libya, and possibly Syria to come...It's been a bad year to be an executive politician in the Med this year huh?
Noir
11-12-2011, 05:14 PM
Idk how much you guys hear of Berlusconi, but if it's Not much then I suggest looking him up for light relief, almost everything he did/said was funny in some way.

Like when he as addressing the public after meeting Obama he said something like 'He was young and handsome, with a good tan'
And then on another occasion said something like 'I just talk to, oh what's his name, some tanned guy, ah! Barrack Obama, thats it. His wife is tanned too you know' xD

Mr B leaving is the end of an era in euro politics lol
logroller
11-12-2011, 05:28 PM
Idk how much you guys hear of Berlusconi, but if it's Not much then I suggest looking him up for light relief, almost everything he did/said was funny in some way.

Like when he as addressing the public after meeting Obama he said something like 'He was young and handsome, with a good tan'
And then on another occasion said something like 'I just talk to, oh what's his name, some tanned guy, ah! Barrack Obama, thats it. His wife is tanned too you know' xD

Mr B leaving is the end of an era in euro politics lol

that is pretty funny-- now he can do stand up full-time. Now if they could just get a PM that's a magician to make their debt disappear.:ba-dum-tish:
Noir
11-12-2011, 05:50 PM
that is pretty funny-- now he can do stand up full-time. Now if they could just get a PM that's a magician to make their debt disappear.:ba-dum-tish:

Naw he'll prob do what he does best, through 'bunga-bunga' (sp?) parties which involve him, some friends and dozens of naked 18 year old girls.
jimnyc
11-12-2011, 06:28 PM
How can you not like Berlusconi? Now THIS speaks "leader" all over it. I think him, Clinton and I would have fun out on the town with some beers! LOL

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logroller
11-12-2011, 07:37 PM
How can you not like Berlusconi? Now THIS speaks "leader" all over it. I think him, Clinton and I would have fun out on the town with some beers! LOL

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...and cigars:laugh2:
fj1200
11-12-2011, 09:49 PM
How can you not like Berlusconi? Now THIS speaks "leader" all over it. I think him, Clinton and I would have fun out on the town with some beers! LOL

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Aaaaaaahhhh, my eyes!!!

Fellini flashback gone wrong.
Noir
11-12-2011, 10:04 PM
Anyother one of my favs was at the g8 meeting (The one greenpeace made a big fuss at) as the members took to their seats he went to the German Chancellor Merkle and started giving her a shoulder massage, to which she could only say "Ah, Silvio" xD
Noir
11-12-2011, 10:11 PM
He was big news on a weekly political satire show here called 'Have I Got News For You?' got a good few minutes of stuff on him, his quotes are amazing xD

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logroller
11-13-2011, 02:11 AM
My opinion on his quotes vary, simultaneously, between disgust, disbelief and envy.

My favorite: "[All] They can say about me [is] that I screw. It's the only thing they can say about me. Is that clear?" he said to the man allegedly blackmailing him. "They can put listening devices where they like. They can tap my telephone calls. I don't give a fuck. I … In a few months, I'm getting out to mind my own fucking business, from somewhere else, and so I'm leaving this shitty country of which I'm sickened." -July 13, 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/01/berlusconi-vows-leave-shitty-italy
jimnyc
11-13-2011, 07:26 AM
Aaaaaaahhhh, my eyes!!!

Fellini flashback gone wrong.

C'mon now, ya gotta love Berlusconi! How many world leaders could have gotten away with that? Can you imagine if Obama or GWB did it? LOL
sundaydriver
11-13-2011, 10:04 AM
Why does it appear to me that the leadership changes in Europe are a coup by bankers & investors?
fj1200
11-13-2011, 01:52 PM
^Because you see everything as a conspiracy?