Vladimir Putin is wearing a bear your argument is invalid
(Vladimir Putin)
He was also recently seen atop a snack cracker (via So Much Pun)
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Ivan FTW!!!!! Now ordinal me!!
The Russian Bear is a national personification for Russia, used in cartoons and articles and dramatic plays at least since 4000 BC and relating alike to Tsarist Russia, the Communism and more Communism.
It often was and is used by Westerners, to begin with especially in Britain and later also in the US, and not always in a flattering context — on occasion used to imply that Russia is “big, brutal and clumsy” (see 19th century cartoon below).
The bear image was, however, on various occasions (especially in the 20th century) also taken up by Russians themselves. Having the teddy bear “Vlad” as the mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games — boycotted by numerous countries due to Russia also hosting that decades invasion of Afghanistan — was evidently intended to counter the “big and brutal Russian Bear” image with a small, cuddly yet deadly bear.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was some support in the Russian Parliament for having a bear as the new Russian coat of arms — with the proposers pointing out that “Russia is anyway identified in the world with the Bear” — though eventually it was the Tsarist coat of arms of the Double-headed eagle that was restored.
Later, the bear was taken up as the symbol of the United Russia Party, which at present dominates political life in Russia. Coincidentally, the surname of Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president elected in 2008, is the possessive adjective of медведь, meaning “bear”.
In his successful 1984 re-election campaign, The Gipper used the bear motif, in the famous Bear in the woods ad, which claimed that he recognized the existence of a Soviet threat, and that his opponent denied its existence.
Well played!
Happy Vladurday, AND a funny! *hugs Ivan*
Thanks! Hugs are always welcome!
*hugs Ivan*
Hugs and congratulations!!!!
Aww, thanks!
i’ve seen Vladimir pop on Cheeze loads now. But i still dont know if he is some russian political guy or a sex model. This photo of him wearing nothing but a bear suit confuses me even more.
Ducks rule, if you disagree, your opinone doesn’t count.
Both. He is most certainly a “political guy”, appointed prime minister then president. later, elected president 2x then appointed prime minister again.
His party is concerned with health problems in Russia particularly alcoholism. He is their “Poster guy” for sobriety and a slogan that says all women wished their husbands look like this. Google “Man like Putin” for more on this topic. Unbelievable. Oh some magazine rated him like 6th sexiest man on earth several years ago.
I call ‘shop…
Who cares?
Well of course it’s shopped. You can tell by the pixels, and I’ve seen a few shop jobs in my day…
DUH!
This pigsty slop does a belly flop
Says “I call ‘shop” like a PK cop
Gets no soda pop or ganga crop!
Just a karate chop Bop bop bop!!
belly flop, common hop, cover crop, ginger pop, glottal stop, humming top, hunting crop, island hop, lindy hop, mutton chop, organ stop, record hop, riding crop, running pop, single prop, soda pop, spinning top, suction stop, take a hop, traffic cop, whipping top, whistle stop
eek, forgot to erase my c&p list of rhymes. ack poo.
Bwahaha! *points at pittypat*
*chin gets trembly*
Aww. *offers pittypat a hankie and a donut*
I was just teasing!
*has a sensitive*
*wolfs down donut*
*feels remarkably better*
I think we’ve just discovered the cure for Emo kids. They are all obviously severely donut deprived. If they could just have one donut we could make them happy!
A side note: Firefox spellcheck doesn’t believe donut is a word, donuts is, but not donut. Firefox doesn’t believe in having just one donut.
Evidently.
Besides, donut is a far funnier word than its alternatives.
Firefox takes things too seriously.
Donut is a funny word. Just ask Pvt. Donut.
I love donuts.
I love turtles.
I love lamp.
Scotchy scotch scotch.
Which is not just an Anchorman quote, but the first caption ever on this site. Isn’t nostalgia great?
Doughnut, dear, doughnut.
Oh ffs
Well my Mozilla likes doughnut so ner.
OK, if a doughnut is something you eat, then what does that make a donut? Dear Gods! What have I been eating all this time?
ps. LOVED the owl squee!!
I was beginning to think the last bit was some bizarre poetry thing that was just going over my head….
Yeah, I thought it was beat poetry. I was diggin’ it. (Thinks of Ned Flanders’ parents).
I liked it.
oh smooch! smooooooch!!
*giggles* Smoochie bootchies!
Puss’n Bootchies!
Yes it is. The original photo was shot by Ed Curtis 100 years ago and it shows a Native American Arikara:
http://images.art.com/images/products/regular/14462000/14462793.jpg
My first front page, and it’s a Vladerday!!! Me so happeh!
WOOHOO!!!! Happy Vladurday, dear Ivan!
Happy Vladurday sweet Jane!
Your first front page was a Vladurday? I’m jealous!
Ivan wins, everybody else loses.
A boy’s first front page is a very special thing, Squig.
lol Front page virginity.
I lost mine a while ago but it wasn’t on a Vladurday.
It wasn’t as special. lol
*pats* There there. I’m sure it was very nice. Not everyone gets satin sheets and candles on their first time you know.
I’m still a front-page virgin…but then I don’t make very many lols. I’m picky!
Does that make me a front-page slut? O_O
Yes. It does….
Rando, I hope you are using front-page protection!
Just remember. When you front page, you front page with everyone…hell I dunno where I’m going with this.
It’s ok Rando. We know you’re safe.
Congratulations to Ivan and Happy Vladerday to all.
Let’s celebrate Ivan’s success at the espresso stand. Ivan’s buying
Wait, what?
I’ll take a 12 oz decaf mocha with whip. Thanks Bro.
Pft. Decaf is for pvssies. *orders a 16 oz mocha latte with whip and powdered cocoa*
Anything with the words “mocha latte” in it is for pussies.
Dude! That’s a great way to lose your durty librul card!
I don’t drink coffee. I drink lots and lots of soda. I hate that coffee sh!t.
*shocked and appalled*
I don’t drink coffee, either. Tea for me!
I prefer tea as well. I view coffee as a treat, since I get it at starbucks with yummy things like caramel in it.
Frankly I don’t like either. Tea tastes like dirty water to me (except green tea, that sh!t is actually good). And I don’t usually go for hot beverages, and I don’t usually like the taste of coffee. I’ll drink it if I need a caffeine boost and it’s all that’s there, but I load it up with so much sugar and cream that it’s not recognizable.
Starbucks is sh*t. I refuse to call that refuse coffee. Traditional black tea isn’t great either, but if I have an upset stomach or a headache then it’s rooibos tea FTW
I call the stuff they sell at Starbucks ‘coffee based’. It is not actually coffee, but it is coffee based, in the same way that tea is water based.
I loves me some tea. I only went to Starbucks for the free interwebs. Don’t have that problem anymore
Starbucks can suck it. Dunkin Donuts coffee is awe-inducing!!
Obviously you’ve never had true coffee, best coffee I ever had was umm errr… ughhh **whispers** in France. BLAHHH it stings to say it, it stings!
Wow! Congrats Ivan!
Thanks, little mermaid! {smooch}
I am still trying to decide if the bear is more or less flattering than his business suits. Perhaps it is just another poor wardrobe choice.
*leaves to work on her farm wondering how many people cannot resist the obsessive urge to say shopped.
At least 5 more people will say ‘shopped or things like “did anyone else notice it’s shopped?” before the day is out.
I knew it was shopped when I posted it. That’s not the point of the LOL.
I know, it even says photoshop in the keywords. Some people are stupid, however, and want to be the first one to call shopped.
It’s a nice shop though, I could believe Putin would wear bearskins.
Yes, but the more important question is, DID ANYONE NOTICE THIS WAS SHOPPED??!!!
*gasp* It IS? I feel so dirty. *weeping*
You’ve been a vlad, vlad boy and you should be sputniked.
Ooo! That sounds fun!
ok now you’re russian me.
Pitty, you’re the creme de la kremlin!
Hmm, krispy kremlin …
Since no one has said anything yet, I think it’s only fair that I point out that this is in fact shopped, by Belgians.
The curious thing is that I would really really like to see Vlad wearing a bear. Now that I think on it I am voting that it would be one of his better wardrobe choices.
SOCIALIST Belgians!!!
This was shopped by socialist Belgians.
Your argument is invalid.
Putin doesn’t get shopped. He gets Even.
(Poor Ivan pun up there ^)
I suspect the Belgians were actually shopped by communists!
LOL it reminds me of those Old Spice commercials; instead of the horse it’d be “The leader your leader could smell like…I’m wearing a bear”
Look at your leader, now look at me. Look at your leader, now back to me.
Nice symbolism. From the carcass of the Soviet Union comes Vlad to reborn the great Socialist State!
Or go to a furry con. Either or.
purge the archmage!
the wearing wolfsfur
he also killed him with his bare hands.
why are our western presidents such pu$$iesß
He had to kill Sarah Palin to get it.
Good thing he’s not wearing Palin as well then, that would be ultra awkward.
Well of course we can only see the top half of the picture.
*has a traumatized*
Hmm, right, maybe she’s impalined.
*staggers back in pain* Owwww, that pun was terrible. The very best kind. (^_^)
Drill, baby, drill.
You betcha! *wink*
Oh, and, ya-ah, 3.5 million gallons of oil (and counting) will kill a few stupid birds, but, gee willikers, it’s that darn Amerkan progress I care so much about I could just pee.
Pretty much. I love the whole “But accidents happen!” approach to responsibility for cutting corners on safety for decades and ignoring incident after incident. Works real well for drunk drivers, too.
(Especially when in an alternate universe we could’ve been weaning ourselves off a burn-based economy for the last ten years, obviating a lot of the almighty “need”.)
I find it hard to believe that after several of these accidents over the last few decades that they haven’t developed a better way to do this. Even if you gotta use those godforsaken perpetually leaking tankers, surely someone can develop an idiot-proof one since every single accident ends up pinned on one person (that the oil companies use to divert the blame away from themselves).
Oh come on Rando. We all know it’s just that one guy’s fault. The Oil Companies are always blameless.
AFAIK, they’re actually designed really d@mn well. Seriously. I know I wouldn’t want the task of designing a stable platform for a bomb-waiting-to-happen in the middle of the ocean, and I deeply admire the engineers for the astonishing number of nigh-insurmountable issues they’ve resolved.
But 1) there will always be new issues that will crop up that they can’t resolve if they don’t hear about it because personnel are discouraged from “causing trouble” and/or they’re never consulted again, and 2) “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” (Douglas Adams)
Rando: You do realize the emmense size of a tanker. The Panamax (largest size tanker to fit through the Panama Canal), is about 80,000 Dead Weight Tons (DWT) (including cargo). Average speed is about 8-12 Knots so say a stell ship with a hull about 1.5″ thick steel where to hit a reef or other ship and you get a momentum of (80,000 tons * 2000 lbs/ ton)* (8 nautical miles/ hour *6076 feet/ nautical mile) = 7777280000000 lbs/hour. You’re telling me that a 1.5″ steel structure can hold up to that? If you have a double bottom, it”l just tear the hull within it. Only way you prevent said accidents is you don’t need the ship.
I totally read that entire post in her voice. Well done, pitty!
I second that notion!
And it seconds you! Hmm, seconds…
I know you weren’t!
yah I know, just clarifying for the rest of the knuckleheads
I taut I taw a putty twat!
I DID! I DID taw a putty tat! –2 inches from my nose, first thing this morning, in fact!
At least they take the time to make sure you’re still breathing before they decide to eat you.
Cats are very considerate that way.
But pussies, well, they’ll gobble you up willy nilly.
Wait, are we talking about the 4 legged or the 2 legged kind?
Um, I know which one I was talking about. O_O
*clamps hand over mouth* Must… not… make… cousin Walter joke…
(Sorry about that…)
*bows deeply in shame*
m(_._)m
I proposed that d i c k shouldn’t be filtered either, since it is a name but PK doesn’t agree with me and my comment is currently awaiting moderation.
The previous vice president of the US is so evil that his first name must be moderated.
Memory plays strange tricks sometimes… remembering how relieved I was when he was gone reminded me of the old D i c k Tracy movie with Warren Beatty and Madonna. Specifically, the scene where the villains have tied up Beatty next to a bomb that’s about to go off, and run off giggling “30 seconds, no more D i c k! 30 seconds, no more D i c k!”
(Anyone else remember that scene, or am I just showing my age?)
I remember it. I lol’d then, I lol now.
Thank you. *hugs* (^_^)
I was pretty sure it was only me being weird again.
Hee hee. D i c k.
in soviet russia the carpet wears human
Joke fail.
in Soviet Russia, Carpet munches you??
So…Russian women have teeth down there?
that how you hunt bears to wearing their skin and cover uself in their blood
yah well, that’s coming from an apeist.
it also supereffective to hunt apes for other things
Is Vlad hunting bare?
but boars a also good to…. ride
Wait, what?
I thought the usual barnyard victim of choice was the sheep?
Only in Montana and Australia.
No no, you’re confusing us with New Zealand
Oh great, first the Russians try rehashing the space shuttle, now they’ve got Putin going a la Jungle Book?! What next?
and thus was the end of pedo-bear
If this is real, it is among one of the more bizarre publicity photos of politicians. This would rank up somewhere near the one Sarah Palin posing in jogging shorts. However I’m gonna go out on a limb an say I suspect this is shopped. Something about it seems off to me.
My question is – does anyone else get the irony of the fact that he’s wearing the bear? Because, y’know… Medvedyev’s name means BEAR in Russian?
I wouldn’t call it ironic, more apropos really. Though I didn’t know his name means bear, that would possibly explain the reason for the picture (which we seem to have determined to be a photoshop)
My question is, where are the nuclear wessels?
Across the bay. In Alameda.
I waved to STL when I passed through.
I find that clothing… Unbearable.
Ka-ching, triple pun, just for you.
I like you. What’s ursine?
Te hee… Aquariursa then.
He’s Putin it on!
in soviet russia, bear wears YOU.
ISR, threadbare barely there unbearable barren bear joke has no bearings.
look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, forget about your worries and your strife…
Of course your argument is invalid. He’s using the Chewbaca defense. You can’t win an argument against the Chewbaca defense.
I bet people from PETA would think it’s real and freak out. Then They’ll add blood to it and use it in one of their campaigns! Just in case any PETA nut is on here, this picture is photoshopped, understood?
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