WTF! GW Bush made me laughFollow

In a good way

His speech with Queen Elizabeth was as slick and coreographed as we'd expect, but when he made a genuine (and understandable) gaffe, his recovery was priceless.


. . . brief pause. .

Queen Lizzie gives him a quirky look.

He winks at her and says she gave him "a look that only a mother could give a child".

I've been first to rip the **** out of some of his stupidity, but that was pretty slick.

hahahah nice bush

it wasnt a gaffa.

it was intentional. including the wink and remark. a jab in jest. "we kicked you out...errr....partied with you to celebrate....

happens all the time in politics.

Yeah, totally.

I'm sure the Queen was all like "Damn that George Bush and his evil ways, he sooo got me there, reminding me of how we lost the war and all that. Grrrr, well, better make another cup of tea, maybe I'll just go to Canada next time to show him what they didn't get! Haha..." and then Bush was like "Ah man, I like totally got the Queen there! Haha, IN YOUR FACE GRANDMA, thinking she's so high mighty just cos she was born with a silver spoon up her *** and her stupid accent, well, now I need get that Obama guy, maybe I'll just spit in his soda when he's not looking..."

And stuff.

i guess you missed the last time he saw the queen. he wore a pair of cowboy boots he had specially made for the ocaision.

you get into the big boys club, and they trade jabs all the time. its a sport where subtlety is king.

like the time an arab price came over here for some meeting and used his left hand to shake Georges hand. ill let a muslim tell you what that means.

happens all the time.

One of the basic rules of Islam is that men and women who are not intimately related are not allowed to have any form of physical contact. So when I got to a business meeting I am in a terrible dilemma when a man extends his hand, in the normal manner, for me to shake.



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we all know

You can't be that much of a sheep, can you?

You failed the whole blank is to blank section of your SATs didn't you.

It's a cultural thing, really. It does have its origins in the whole "wipe with one hand, eat with the other" concept, but I'm reasonbly sure that toilet paper is mostly available in the Middle East, and certainly would be to anyone in a position to shake the US President's hand.

There are some areas where it's still important though. My former roomate went on a dig in Jordan a few years ago. The entire camp ended up with dissentary (her description of the busride to the hospital in Amman is a real appetite breaker), and she still carries with her some bugs in her intestines that will forever affect her digestive system. All as a result of someone not following proper water usage methods. We tend to take for granted that we'll have clean running water wherever we go, so we don't worry too much about things like which hand we use for what. In this case they did have toilet paper, but no running water. In a situation like that *anything* you get on your hands will fester in the water so you have to be constantly aware of where you put your hands and what you touch.

It's somewhat irrelevant outside of that situation except as an insult.