Putin kissed boy 'like a kitten'

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"People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy. He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenseless so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy," Putin told the Web cast.

(lost Sugarcubes lyrics?)

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

a "kitten", eh?

gear (gear), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

One wonders how would Reagan kiss a very nice little boy?

Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

in america stomach kisses you

laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

I saw the footage of this, it seemed really sweet and genuine!

teeny (teeny), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Teeny, don't listen to the oxytocin -- Putin is evil.

Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

i somehow can't see stalin doing this.

lenin, maybe.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Was Lenin supposed to be "nice"?

Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

oh I admit he's probably in some terribly dark place and reached out to a little boy as a way to try to hang on to his humanity, but this grasping at the tattered remnant of his soul was quite sweet.

teeny (teeny), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

TS: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2001/07/20/putin.GIF vs http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/lenin.2.gif

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

"People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy. He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenseless so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy,"

SHOUTING LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER
MEGA MEGA WHITE THING

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

WTF!

Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

This reminds me of somehing in a Dostoevsky novel. And also, how totally awesome is it that there's an entire news story dedicated to somebody kissing a boy on the stomach "like a kitten"?

like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

here's a video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nd2Z3nXnLD0&search=putin

lf (lfam), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

i think i might be w/teeny. maybe. regardless, even if it was just a sweet gesture, you'd have to be crazy to think that the media would ever let you get away with it. american politicians kiss babies all the time. just not 5 yr olds, and not on the stomach. after lifting their shirt.


you know what, maybe it IS crepey.

gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Why is this news story being rapidly replaced in my mind with the mental image of Dick Cheney eating a live kitten?

Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

I would've quoted Two Weeks Off for that text, actually.

Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

or is it Months...?

Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Either way I am pretty sure that the person with the heart on the backpack is Putin.

Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Hahahahaha

"People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy. He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenseless so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy,"

YOU BRING LIGHT INTO A DARK PLACE

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

"I just wanted to touch him like a kitten"
I WANT TO FEEL YOU FROM THE INSIDE
MY WHOLE EXISTENCE IS FLAWED

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man if that was the MTV edit that song would be so amazing.

Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

The strange thing about that video, though, is that you can watch him spend several seconds trying to create an opportunity to lift the shirt and kiss. He looks like he's about to attempt it early on (he kind of tests the shirt), but then some stuff happens, and he has to resituate. And then he does it so quickly -- as if to get the whole thing over with before anyone can react -- and then immediately gets up, pats the head, and walks off. Very quickly and "casually."

I dunno.

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

IM WITH NABISCO

SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, I just watched again: he spends the entire time getting thumbs on that shirt and working himself up to it. Notice toward the end he clips either side of the shirt, like he's readying things for a quick upsweep. Then he waits for it ... ("c'mon, Vlad, you can do this, just lift it real quick, act casual") ... and then boom, lift, kiss, he's out of there.

That's not necessarily creepy, but he definitely premeditates the move, and he definitely has a sense of it being unusual, because he seems hesitant and/or anxious about actually going through with it.

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

"I just liked him and he liked me very much."
HE JUST HAD SIDEBURNS
AND A QUIFF

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

oh man dan and trent put it WAY better than I did.

teeny (teeny), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

I'm with Dan.

EINAR: People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy. He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenseless so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy...

BJORK: Oh-oh-OH-oh...kissed like a kit-ten...

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck off McSweeney's

Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'm playing a game in my head where I replace the words "King of Snake" with "Kiss of Putin," everyone else do it too.

xpost sorry, let's go back to discussing how this means Putin is a child pornographer, you grousy douche.

Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

DAILY DAILY DAILY DREAM BOY
TOM AND JERRY THING
24 HOURS WITH THE KISS OF PUTIN

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'M HAVING A KISS
ON A KITTEN
TAKE YOUR TOP OFF
TAKE YOUR TOP OFF

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

HO SNAP GROUSY DOUCHE

SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

Putin kind of slightly rhymes "thing" better anyway.

Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

RIOJA RIOJA
REVEREND VLADIMIR
DEEP BLUE MORROCCO
THE KITTEN ON STONE
THE KITTEN ON CONCRETE
THE KITTEN ON SAND
THE KITTEN ON GLASS
FIRE
THE RAIN
THE SALT
THE YOUNG BOY STARING
VLAD GRABS THE T-SHIRT
OLD MAN PUTIN ON TOP OF THAT BOY
WIDE DEEP BLUE
ANDALUSIA
RED YELLOW
RED YELLOW
BLACK CAR
RED LIGHT
FAR BACK BLAZE WALLS
BLUE CHAIR MORROCCO
HAMBURG KITTEN
THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE AWAITING
THE WATER ON THE DARK BOATS GLIDING
THE DARK BOATS GONE OUT TO KISS
AND VLAD IS FLOATING
VLAD IS FLOATING
LIKE OLD MAN PUTIN
CRAZY FOR A KITTN

CRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZY
CRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZY
CRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZY
CRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZY
CRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZY
CRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZY
CRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZY
CRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZY

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

(If I knew any Coctaeu Twins lyrics I'd be doing them, too)

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Of course, the interesting thing is that the hesitation (if indeed he was hesitating) was not about the appropriateness of the act itself but about...what? The hint of some kind of crazy possible interpretation?

Ironically, it would have looked less strange if there had been no apparent hesitation.

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

don't forget about the striding away

jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

and what's with the guy trying to pull him away from putin? but oh no uncle vlady won't let you get away that easy not before i eat your stomach amrmmrmrmyummamsmm.

jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck off McSweeney's
-- Machibuse '80 (jo...), July 6th, 2006 3:30 PM. (ex machina) (link)

(wizardneedsanap.com)

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck off McSweeney's
-- Machibuse '80 (jo...), July 6th, 2006 3:30 PM. (ex machina) (link)

(jon@wizardneedsanap.com)

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

How do I shot blah blah blah

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, it was going to sound terribly clever, before the stutter.

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Good thing that crying face wasn't hosted by Tripod, tho.

Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/07/07/putin_wideweb__470x351,0.jpg
seems perfectly normal to me to want to stroke yung boyz like kittenz

dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 7 July 2006 06:19 (eighteen years ago)

I am having a horrible mental picture about how Pooty-Poot might have got his name from Dubya.

suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/07/07/putin_wideweb__470x351,0.jpg

TOUCH IT
BRING IT
PAY IT
WATCH IT
TURN IT
LEAVE IT
STOP
FORMAT IT

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Check out that kid wearing the hip, retro, constructivist t-shirt.

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

I like the kid just scratchin' his head, all WTF about it.

Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

What about the kid in the white hat going, "Oh, maybe he'll do me next! Squee! Cuddlestein Mountain!"?

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHA. I think that's his security agent on the far right. "Cuddlestein is on the move."

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

So wait is it Putin that is Ian Riese-Moraine or the kid???

Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

cuddlestein mountain

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

I was thinking the background kid in the white hat but Putin works, too.

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

"People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy. He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenseless so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy, [squee!]"

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

defenseless so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy! is pretty much a IRM screenname?

Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

So many reasons to keep your children away from the Internet. And events featuring politicians, apparently.

Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

(I think I've ruined "Pearl's Girl" forever for myself.)

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/46/184119214_8736f31808.jpg?v=0

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, that wins the entire universe.

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Notice how everybody's expression still makes sense. SPOOKY.

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Did we ever find out what happened to Ian R-M?

Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Probably he finally said "FUCK THIS" and left.

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

I am dying over here.

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Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.enchantedbythebeast.com/mickey_mouse_scaring_child.jpg

jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Just so everyone knows, the Today Show is taking questions from the general populace to pose to Mr. Putin.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13731253/

Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/44/184236649_d303abffbb_o.jpg

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

how did i know i would see a thread with 50+ posts on this subject when i got to work today?

grady (grady), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

PLEASE TELL ME YOU SUBMITTED THAT

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

I would really like it if a stone-faced Matt Lauer announced that the internet ruined their "e-mail your questions for Vladimir Putin" segment.

Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

In First Person [his biography] , Putin described to journalists his early duties in the KGB, which included suppressing dissident activities in Leningrad.

So, WHY is anyone this concerned about his awkward showing of weird affection? Dude used to be the guy with the cigarette standing behind the two GIANT bears beating the shit out of your dissident ass, saying "Vee have vays of making you talk." Putin could not scare me anymore than he did when he took over 7 years ago. All the rest of this is just oddly played distraction tactics.

Big Loud Ape Mountain (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

Are you perhaps confusing "concerned about" with "amused by"?

Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/75/184300458_0a930bb0d3_o.gif

Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

"enchanted by the beast" sounds like an iron maiden bootleg

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

Are you perhaps confusing "concerned about" with "amused by"?
-- Jesus Dan (djperr...) (webmail), July 7th, 2006 8:06 PM

Leaving out the part of the equation whereby people are either insinuating or stating outright that it was crepey.

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.cindus.com/crepe/crepe/l36_boo.jpg

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

Leaving out the part of the equation whereby people are either insinuating or stating outright that it was crepey.

indeed. http://www.miamist.com/attachments/miami_rachael/crepe.jpg

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

Bwahahahahaaaaaa!

http://www.centurynovelty.com/catImages/014-01390_large.jpg

Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

Devendra Banhart: "i see so many little boys I want to marry"

jed_ (jed), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

In my groggy state I only just saw this thread. I clearly wouldn't have needed coffee this morning to beat the travel tiredness.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...
(The Foley situation reminded me of this thread.)

Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 October 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

kekeke

roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

putin is apparently envious of israel's rapist president, wishes he had raped 10 women...

WHAT A CREEP (NOT CREPE)

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Feurope%2F6069136.stm

mucho (mucho), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

"Russian is a very complicated language, sometimes it is very sensitive from the point of view of phrasing.

"I don't think that the proper translation is able to reflect the meaning of the joke."

gear (gear), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

that didn't work when i said fuck to my mom!!

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...
You have been eaten by Vladimir Putin.

THE END

say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Brokeback Putin

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

prince albert lol

teeny, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago)

RuMBLA

Heave Ho, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

Um... HOTT. Disturbingly so.

Masonic Boom, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

RuMBLA in Da Jungla

Heave Ho, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

whoa!

rrrobyn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

weird, i always assumed he'd b leaner from the way he wears a suit

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

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According to Arizona Wilder, in the sacrifice rituals of the global elite, the belly of the victim (often a child) is a prized area for consumption by the reptiles. Perhaps he even tried to manipulate the boys energy.

Simply the natural behaviour of a hungry reptilian shape shifter then...

onimo, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

I lub u, giant peasant ribcage. Peasant physiques everywhere are like the homeland of my people.

Laurel, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

http://m1.freeshare.us/170fs98357.jpg

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 23 August 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago)

All that's missing is the smell of napalm.

da croupier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago)

So man-boobs are hot, ladies?

milo z, Friday, 24 August 2007 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

weird manly physique plus huge forehead and weak chin = PEDERAST

Heave Ho, Friday, 24 August 2007 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

haha he does not have manboobs!
i think i just thought it was a hot photo for a second because it reminded me of photos of marlon brando in his prime, but then looking closer, not so much. at least now i am thinking of photos of marlon brando in his prime tho.

rrrobyn, Friday, 24 August 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

wtf, Putin plz stop molesting everything

HI DERE, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

what has he molested NOW???

deeznuts, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago)

CFE (campaign for facial expressions)

Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago)

I only just saw the picture of him tonguing down that aquatic thing, although I'm sure he's got his lips on some poor unsuspecting vaguely-phallus-shaped thing right now.

HI DERE, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

PUTIN LUV U PLAYER
Putin tells press he 'likes all Russian women'

jergïns, Friday, 18 April 2008 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

Vlad OTM

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 18 April 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/kremlin/18-04-2008/104951-putin_kabaeva-0

Controversial article in the Moskovsky Correspondent may lead to lamentable consequences for the newspaper

http://english.pravda.ru/society/showbiz/24-08-2006/84075-madonna_putin-0

It is rumoured that Madonna would like to talk to Putin about world problems

and of course

Putin easily mingles in animal world

Milton Parker, Friday, 18 April 2008 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

i was sure this was gonna be the onion but no:

Russia's Putin saves TV crew from Siberian tiger

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was feted by Russian media on Sunday for saving a television crew from an attack by a Siberian tiger in the wilds of the Far East.

Putin, taking a break from lambasting the West over Georgia, apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild.

Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station said. Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun.

"Vladimir Putin not only managed to see the giant predator up close but also saved our television crew too," a presenter on Rossiya television said at the start of the main evening news.

jergins, Monday, 1 September 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago)

he is a badass, scary tho.

internet person, Monday, 1 September 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago)

Dude is like some fucked-up superhero. Ozymandias, but with brawn and less ability to watch 40 TVs simultaneously? I don't know.

wow wow wow

Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago)

Don't you think stories like that are nationalist plants?

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 1 September 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v76/zscout370/02.jpg

DavidM, Monday, 1 September 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago)

Dude is like some fucked-up superhero. Ozymandias, but with brawn and less ability to watch 40 TVs simultaneously? I don't know.

wow wow wow

-- Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 21:17

russia must be made to stop its "giant exploding alien bee" program.

internet person, Monday, 1 September 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

Nothing like a giant screen featuring a bored Putin to make a body get all makey-outey.

Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

The fact that so many women find Putin hot kind of diminishes my hope for humanity, but I guess a lot of women probably feel the same way about dudes finding Sarah Palin hot.

Hurting 2, Monday, 1 September 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago)

I never understood whether the original story means that Putin kissed the boy the way a person might kiss a kitten, or the way that a kitten kisses. Neither really make much sense, I guess.

dowd, Monday, 1 September 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago)

http://lh5.ggpht.com/smilehosting/RfkJsw-0oSI/AAAAAAAAAD0/3vHuXSJnDBc/putin_kim.jpg

DavidM, Monday, 1 September 2008 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

Or he kissed a boy whom he found to be kitten-like

Hurting 2, Monday, 1 September 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah I assume that story is at least exaggerated, but the fact that it's appeared at all is fucking bizarre.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 1 September 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago)

clearly putin is putin and the boy is the kitten.

Super Cub, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago)

this tiger nonsense is an allegory

Just got offed, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago)

the beast is america

Just got offed, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago)

or possibly Georgia...

Dr. Superman, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 06:18 (sixteen years ago)

anyway, TAKE THAT CHERRY TREE!

Dr. Superman, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 06:18 (sixteen years ago)

i know putin's kinda evil and all but i would vote for him in a heartbeat imo

cankles, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 06:21 (sixteen years ago)

Sometimes I felt like that about Cheney in 2004. Pure, unadulterated evil - but competent evil. Evil that knows it's evil. Compared to Bush/Kerry/Edwards, that was kind of a nice change.

milo z, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 06:23 (sixteen years ago)

I think Putin secretly admires, and agrees with Jack Kerouac:

"Frightening ravishing mysterious beings concealing their sex
Pieces of the Buddha-material frozen and sliced microscopically in Morgues of the North
Penis apples going to seed
The severed gullets more numerous than sands
Like kissing my kitten in the belly,
the softness of our reward."

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 06:39 (sixteen years ago)

Putin shot a tiger in the face 'like a kitten'

Dan I., Tuesday, 2 September 2008 07:39 (sixteen years ago)

Just in: Gary Glitter accepts Kremlin Cabinet post. "Tigerphilia? That's my kind of people!" quipped the ex-"glam" rocker en route to the airport at 300 mph, pursued by a panting Jacqui Smith screeching "Stop him! He hasn't paid his dues!"

Quipped Holly Johnson: "Putin passed over my extensive experience? Harrumph!"

Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 08:35 (sixteen years ago)

GREATEST THREAD TITLE EVER

VeronaInTheClub, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago)

One must first taste the child to make sure it's fresh, then gut it and roast it long and slow....

Child of the 70's-80's, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago)

Putin shot a tiger in the face 'like a kitten'

IRL lolz

HI DERE, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago)

hahaa

rrrobyn, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

ok if i had to love a man it might be him
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1071392/Macho-Putin-releases-Lets-learn-judo-Vladimir-DVD.html

h.i.m. (jergins), Thursday, 9 October 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/putinjudo.jpg

h.i.m. (jergins), Thursday, 9 October 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

дзюдо

yeah i really like vlad, thought i was the only one jergy!

lil yawne (harbl), Thursday, 9 October 2008 00:05 (sixteen years ago)

He kissed me and it felt like a kitten

Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 October 2008 00:35 (sixteen years ago)

The cool thing is that it's not a gimmick, and that he's totally qualified to make a judo tutorial video.

Dan I., Thursday, 9 October 2008 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

no the cool thing is that he is the boss of russia

the valves of houston (gbx), Thursday, 9 October 2008 00:46 (sixteen years ago)

vald putin told me he is qualified to make a judo video therefor he is qualified to make a judo video when i looked into his eyes i saw four letters j-u-d-o

joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Thursday, 9 October 2008 00:57 (sixteen years ago)

oh man I wish this story had broken before last night and someone had asked McCain what he thought of Putin's judo video

Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Thursday, 9 October 2008 02:07 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/04/world/05russia_650a.JPG

Manchego Bay (G00blar), Friday, 5 December 2008 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Putin paints picture 'like a kitten'

^likes black girls (HI DERE), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:56 (sixteen years ago)

also hahaha I missed G00blar's pic before now, what the hell

^likes black girls (HI DERE), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:01 (sixteen years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/14/business/14gazprom-650.jpg

Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:40 (sixteen years ago)

the man simply cannot take a bad picture

Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:40 (sixteen years ago)

hahahaha

also, this:
http://www.nylamatuk.ca/kittens_kissing.jpg

warmsherry, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:51 (sixteen years ago)

putin passes gas 'like a kitten'.

t**t, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 20:31 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/02/06/vladimir.putin.abba.fan/index.html

nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Friday, 6 February 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

This is the kind of batshit insanity I can get behind.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 February 2009 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

Putin denies dancing to Abba hits

Alba, Friday, 6 February 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who succeeded Mr Putin last May, is a well-known fan of British band Deep Purple.

lol what the hell does this have to do with anything

nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Friday, 6 February 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

Abba got a song called Ra Ra Rasputin. at least that's what google tells me.
it starts like this:
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstacy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire

Ludo, Friday, 6 February 2009 20:08 (sixteen years ago)

x-post "Smoke on the Volga..."

Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 February 2009 20:27 (sixteen years ago)

http://pit.dirty.ru/d3/1/2007/09/03/15873-093613-6a0c95d9f6c875aec8b2a79932430e4d.jpg

DavidM, Friday, 6 February 2009 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/files/images/Putin

DavidM, Friday, 6 February 2009 21:05 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.lindsayfincher.com/gallery/d/12665-1/madame_tussauds_putin_crystal.jpg

DavidM, Friday, 6 February 2009 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/Mar/Week3/15244325.jpg

:O

steve "no neck" yamaguchi (vermonter), Thursday, 19 March 2009 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

Ludo, that track is not ABBA. it is the wonderful and amazing Boney M.

the table is the table, Thursday, 19 March 2009 20:37 (sixteen years ago)

Haha, just coming to post that, vermonter.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 20 March 2009 18:04 (sixteen years ago)

A meeting of the minds:

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp3-20-09i.jpg

Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 March 2009 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

Putinger

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 20 March 2009 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Jul/Week4/15670577.jpg

James Mitchell, Sunday, 25 July 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

He personally put out two forest fires! (this calls for a remake of Independence Day with Vladimir flying the victorious jet)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100810/160145818.html

StanM, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

more kissing

the caroline notsaying memorial displayname (kkvgz), Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago)

omigod dude has a habit of doing this ... i'm going to bulgaria and gettin' me one of those

the caroline notsaying memorial displayname (kkvgz), Thursday, 18 November 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago)

http://imgur.com/1aOU4.jpg

another al3x, Thursday, 18 November 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago)

Putin kissed puppy 'like a kitten'

ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 18 November 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/11/22/world/TIGER/TIGER-articleLarge.jpg

buzza, Monday, 22 November 2010 10:10 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Get down!

http://chatter.latimes.com/chatter/2010/12/vladimir-putin.html

Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 December 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago)

can't tell if that's Gerard Depardieu or a beached walrus in the audience

twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 December 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago)

I always misread this thread title as Putin killed boy 'like a kitten'

twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 December 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

This guy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/world/europe/putin-pulls-off-his-latest-feat-flying-with-migratory-birds.html

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2012 04:27 (twelve years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/09/06/world/subPUTIN1/subPUTIN1-popup-v2.jpg

(✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 6 September 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago)

Putin is like Batman- with a dictatorial punk rock hating flair

Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/EGUD6.jpg

'have you ever been kissed like a kitten'

panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:40 (twelve years ago)

After I send you to gulag, you'll never grow any higher than Arshavin.

Canaille help you (Michael White), Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:44 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/aQ7mY.jpg

Remains a favourite. The number of world leaders who can fuck up two ten-year-olds at the same damn time must be pretty small.

Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:50 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

Putins are getting divorced! I look forward to a future featuring epic photos of putin on dates with sexy secret agent type women.

panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:41 (twelve years ago)

"darling, why don't you enjoy your coffee while I judo flip this tiger"

they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:43 (twelve years ago)

this thread title is my immediate thought whenever i see putin mentioned.

Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:16 (twelve years ago)

Lol, there was a Daily Mail story last year that claimed he was dating "Anna Chapman", xxp

хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:17 (twelve years ago)

... whn of course everyone knows it's Alina Kabayeva (feel free to GIS)

Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:21 (twelve years ago)

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on-football/22429359/patriots-owner-robert-kraft-vladimir-putin-stole-my-super-bowl-ring

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 15 June 2013 19:34 (twelve years ago)

"I took out the ring and showed it to (Putin), and he put it on and he goes, 'I can kill someone with this ring,'" Kraft said

'can' instead of 'could' is just fucking next-level

sktsh, Sunday, 16 June 2013 13:41 (twelve years ago)

::tries on pants:: "I can kill someone with these pants" ::tastes coffee:: "I can kill someone with this coffee"

ramona & yeezus (some dude), Sunday, 16 June 2013 14:19 (twelve years ago)

lol

sktsh, Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:04 (twelve years ago)

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/6e8038d5666a7d4c164f403c84689364/tumblr_mo1fyrmjQz1qzy531o1_500.jpg

what people are always in a hurry?

mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 04:15 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

"dealing with snowden is like shearing a piglet... too much squealing and too little wool"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 July 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago)

russian people, batman xp

mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZxrBmYVa52c&t=173

PUTIN KISSES FISH

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 26 July 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago)

Lukashenko has upped the stakes by catching a 57kg catfish. Expect Putin to wade into the Black Sea to club a shark to death with his fists by the middle of next week.

Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 11:21 (eleven years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Vladimir_Putin_21_February_2001-2.jpg

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/vp9mIXd.gif

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 August 2013 09:13 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2013/12/17/is-putin-one-of-us-n1764094/page/full

balls, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

18.Jan 2014
At a meeting with the volunteers of the Sochi Olympics, Vladimir Putin was clearly in a good mood . The head of state promised one volunteer that he would spend a work day with him, which was the volunteer’s longtime dream. He also pinched one of the women who flew in from China.

friend to all animals (anky), Monday, 20 January 2014 06:46 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72751000/jpg/_72751734_putinafp.jpg

Euler, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:51 (eleven years ago)

eight months pass...

https://40.media.tumblr.com/aeb6a4816c4f26484de0a25f35dc6116/tumblr_nc18sanaUE1qhfj8zo1_500.jpg

painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Friday, 31 October 2014 14:52 (ten years ago)

lol

kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Friday, 31 October 2014 20:22 (ten years ago)

Amazing photo tbh

a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 31 October 2014 20:33 (ten years ago)

thread titles that haunt me

mookieproof, Friday, 31 October 2014 20:54 (ten years ago)

http://f.cl.ly/items/3m0131042B3P3I0R3H0J/458737794.jpg

Putin to bridge, three to beam

sktsh, Monday, 10 November 2014 22:26 (ten years ago)

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/nov/10/putin-nostalgia-stalin-hitler/

I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2014 23:17 (ten years ago)

Lol. I knew who wrote that from the URL.

Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 10 November 2014 23:33 (ten years ago)

http://en.tass.ru/russia/761152

a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Monday, 24 November 2014 19:09 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

https://38.media.tumblr.com/dbcac310522de7a6f151bb18bf2f0410/tumblr_nhz058YAiN1rsxqqio1_400.gif

painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 10 January 2015 23:40 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...
eight months pass...

lol

Mordy, Monday, 26 October 2015 14:37 (nine years ago)

did he give her a double thumbs-up????

when did life become a comedy

I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 26 October 2015 15:49 (nine years ago)

He did too, he's been hanging about with Berlusconi too long. Poor old Angela Merkel though, eh?

Riga Tony (Tom D.), Monday, 26 October 2015 15:54 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK4PcBSDFiA

pplains, Monday, 26 October 2015 16:52 (nine years ago)

http://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 26 October 2015 17:41 (nine years ago)

five months pass...

Murdoch, Blair (allegedly), Putin (also allegedly). Shocking taste in men.

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 March 2016 22:09 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

An 11-year-old caller asked Putin, “How do you view porridge for breakfast?”

Putin replied: “I eat porridge with pleasure. Every day.”

But asked whether his parents had forced him to eat it as a child, Putin said, “I generally don’t do what I don’t want.”

earlnash, Friday, 15 April 2016 00:38 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

http://img1.joyreactor.com/pics/post/putin-pigeon-gif-3877049.gif

it's just locker room treason (Sanpaku), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:30 (eight years ago)

kind of funny but not even remotely a good shop

El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:53 (eight years ago)

three months pass...

loooooooooool

The author is all "you guys, of course this is fake" in the comments

this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 16:49 (seven years ago)

four weeks pass...

The Russian president, who turned 65 on October 7, picked up the dog and kissed it on the head https://t.co/vvRVObM4U5

— POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) October 11, 2017

mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:14 (seven years ago)

three years pass...

Lost in the midst of the election was Friday rumor reporting that Putin will be stepping down next year due to Parkinson's, delivered by Kremlin denial via those august bastions of journalism (checks notes) The U.S. Sun, Newsweek, the NY Post and Washington Times.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1755332/does-putin-have-parkinsons-who-replace-resigns/

Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 November 2020 08:14 (four years ago)

damn, double christmas

lukas, Sunday, 8 November 2020 10:47 (four years ago)

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 November 2020 11:55 (four years ago)

I haven't yet seen this widely reported enough to believe it.

chap, Sunday, 8 November 2020 12:26 (four years ago)

Oh i don’t mean to suggest it’s necessarily accurate.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 8 November 2020 12:48 (four years ago)

Q: is it possible to develop Parkinson's as a result of regularly poisoning yr enemies

Follow up Q: should I get checked for Parkinson's

OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Sunday, 8 November 2020 12:56 (four years ago)


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