Putin kissed boy 'like a kitten'

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/06/russia.putin.reut/index.html

"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)

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

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)

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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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

lol

― sktsh, Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:04 (eleven 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 (eleven 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...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/02/04/putin-aspergers-syndrome-study-pentagon/22855927/

― how's life, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:14 (ten years ago)

eight months pass...

https://pod.geraspora.de/camo/a82215f167b8dd4c95366247339fa1058ca72237/68747470733a2f2f706f642e6f726b7a2e6e65742f75706c6f6164732f696d616765732f7363616c65645f66756c6c5f64303663633062343730663232393661643936652e676966

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 26 October 2015 03:17 (nine years ago)

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...

wtf!? https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/10/1697580/-Back-in-1982-I-was-selling-acid-at-Jim-Morrison-s-grave-that-s-when-I-first-met-Vladimir-Putin

― Dan I., Tuesday, 12 September 2017 16:23 (seven years ago)

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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