Size 10 sense of humor...

[Iceman]

I don't care what anyone says really I like GWB...even when having a shoe thrown at him he is smiling....lol...what a cowboy.

Pick your prefered news agency to see story...lol

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[Skybird]

Maybe he is too dump to know what slamming somebody with your shoe does mean in the Arab world. They slammed portraits of Saddam with shoes, too, after he was kicked out of office.

[Iceman]

same ole Skybird...stupid is as stupid does huh Sky?

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Iceman

same ole Skybird...stupid is as stupid does huh Sky?

Do you mean Bush or yourself?

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

LOL, You gotta love the good old "Arab world & shoes" cliché. Because it's well known that in the western world throwing a shoe at someone's face is seen as a friendly gesture :rotfl:

Cliché? Not at all, but a reality. It is a gesture of most serious and hostile disgust and outrage, more offending than us showing the raised middle finger. This I tell you from knowledge at real location and explanations of people in those countries, not by just having read about it.

There was a much broadcasted Tv-snippet where Iraqis smacked portraits of Saddam with their shoes in their hand. Consider a Westerner urinating on a portrait, then you have a comparison of how much an overinterpreted "cliché" it is. I did not find that snippet, just these pictures as examples. the meaning is the same.

[stabiz]

Sigh.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

Well, yes, that's a cliché purported mostly by journalists, as in the MSNBC video. They just can't help it. I'm sure that if I rub my shoe on these journalists' nose they won't take it as an insult, since we know that shoes are offensive only for Arabs :rotfl:
That Arab-culture-shoe thing is a running joke for many arabs.
Oh and Musharraf is hardly and Arab.

If you really mean that, then I simply know it better than you. I was told it by Syrian, Iranian, Egyptian and Turkish people, and while being in their own countries. I do not refer to some Westernised Arab people living in the West since longer time and having a bit adapted to the different views on such things we hold in the West. We also do not often see our own portraits being urinated on, but that it happens rarely if ever does not mean it is a "chliché", nor does it mean it is a running joke. If it would happen, we would understand that it is meant as a very serious expression of sentiments regarding us, and not as a cliché at all.

Originally Posted by subchaser12

The people who knew anything about Arab culture in the government were fired by this administration in the months leading up to the invasion in 2002. It shows too.

The disaster that is Iraq is the culmination of extreme ideology and incompetence

Indeed, very well documented and displayed in this very worthwhile documentation:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ighlight=sight

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

Well, yes, that's a cliché purported mostly by journalists, as in the MSNBC video. They just can't help it. I'm sure that if I rub my shoe on these journalists' nose they won't take it as an insult, since we know that shoes are offensive only for Arabs...

Actually shoes are revered as holy by many Arab nations.

[subchaser12]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Maybe he is too dump to know what slamming somebody with your shoe does mean in the Arab world.

The people who knew anything about Arab culture in the government were fired by this administration in the months leading up to the invasion in 2002. It shows too.

The disaster that is Iraq is the culmination of extreme ideology and incompetence. Two things that are the hallmarks of the Bush administration.

This is beyond sad. The man who started this tragic disaster is sitting there grinning ear to ear. Tell Satan I said wassup when you die.

[Dowly]

I think the smile on GWB's face is more like an "Hehe, that was funny.. nothing happened, I'm not scared" kind of smile than an "Lol, good one! Give that guy a medal!" type. Nothing cowboy in that if you ask me.

EDIT: Oh wait! Now I got it! Were those the WMD's Iraq has? Pretty lame.. :p

[subchaser12]

Originally Posted by Iceman

even when having a shoe thrown at him he is smiling....lol...what a cowboy.

Notice no one else is smiling. I don't think he would have that **** eating grin if he had to go out on patrol and dodge IEDs or live with no food, water, security or sanitation.

What a scumbag.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Kipparikalle

Excuse me, but I can not longer stay out of this discussion


But can you tell me what was so coward in his actions? For me, he's quite badass for having balls to throw shoes at the ******* who ruined his country, and who apparently has couple of bodyquards with them. I'm surprised they didn't shoot him

You're surprised the Secret Service didn't shoot him? Well, that says how little you know. He's a coward because he knows full well nothing of consequence will happen to him for tossing a shoe at the US President. He doesn't have balls, anyone can be a jackass. I would have loved to seen him toss a shoe at Saddam. As for "ruining his country", he didn't have a country before the US invasion, it was a dictatorship. It was Saddam's country, no one else's.

[subchaser12]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

He's a coward because he knows full well nothing of consequence will happen to him

This pretty much sums up Bush and his cronies who started the whole war.

[Frame57]

How soon we forget how many Kurds Sadaam killed...I forget what he used on them, wasn't it some gas or something? My ex wife used to hit me with a shoe now and then. Seems like a girly thing to do IMO...

[She-Wolf]

we are not about to come to blows over this ARE we boys... me, I am English and know nothing of these things ( get back to your kitchen woman), but I look at Bush and I see a man trying to put a brave face on despite whatever he feels like inside. Heck - how would you behave if you were in his place? ( second thoughts, don't answer that - I am going back to the kitchen!)

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by She-Wolf

we are not about to come to blows over this ARE we boys... me, I am English and know nothing of these things ( get back to your kitchen woman), but I look at Bush and I see a man trying to put a brave face on despite whatever he feels like inside. Heck - how would you behave if you were in his place? ( second thoughts, don't answer that - I am going back to the kitchen!)

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