TFA: "We don't care what colour you are, we don't care if we can't pronounce your names and we don't care where your money comes from. We just want you to invest in our country."

At least he's honest.

DewdropsOnTheGrass: At least he's honest.

He'd never make it in American politics

DewdropsOnTheGrass: TFA: "We don't care what colour you are, we don't care if we can't pronounce your names and we don't care where your money comes from. We just want you to invest in our country."

At least he's honest.

Looks like something any dictator might say.

That's hilarious at least he has a sense of humour, and It's not like he's making fun of cancer or somthing.

Then to be politically correct, I'm half blind 'cause I don't see in the dark. Where is my disability check and my handicap parking spot?

The problem is -if you have to explain your jokes then they probably aren't that funny. (Or your delivery sucks.)

/I know this from experience.

That pic is begging for a photoshop contest

It's like a British version of Peter Griffin got to be Trade Minister.

Alcohol may have been involved?

RanDomino: Alcohol may have been involved?

RanDomino: Alcohol may have been involved?

This
and I would like two of what he's drinking

you gotta wonder if bulimia is common in arab countries. i'd guess not.

haha im half autistic, really good at math wihout the wapner

"I'm half bulimic ... I eat a lot but don't throw up"


Well anybody who eats British food and doesn't puke is lying.

Spotted dick, anyone? I probably should get that checked out.

eliz1bef2008-03-23 03:13:25 AM
It's like a British version of Peter Griffin got to be Trade Minister. 


WIN

Which half?

shinjitsuism: That pic is begging for a photoshop contest

This is all you'll get from me

Also known as "Alzheimers Bulimia" - stuffing yourself and forgetting to throw up afterwards.

EL_FABREZ: shinjitsuism: That pic is begging for a photoshop contest

This is all you'll get from me

That wasn't very satisfying.

Oroblanco: That wasn't very satisfying.

That's what SHE said!

/try the veil

xlbrooklyn: That's what SHE SHIA said sayyid!

Do more puns make it better?

Hey, that bulimia joke was good stuff. I'd love to see the look on the face of them humorless ambassadors and whomsever.

*whomsever* Yeah, I made it up and I like it. Wanna fight about it?

FTA: "I didn't see him eat anything. It was very insensitive and embarrassing."

So, if he had proved it, they wouldn't have been offended anymore?

It's ok everyone, the guests were a-rabs! They were too busy blowing up Israeli children to notice.

As someone who is half idiot-savant, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Barfmaker: As someone who is half idiot-savant, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

So you're not good at math?

He did not have a drink at the lunch or at any ministerial event that day.

I disagree.

gigamortis: That's hilarious at least he has a sense of humour, and It's not like he's making fun of cancer or somthing.

i bet if hed made fun of cancer, they would have laughed.

so can he half read minds?

Good for him! Nothing like a few incomprehensible in-jokes to liven up a party (the goat joke - not the bulimia one).

To quote a very similar morning-after statement: "Mr George Brown was tired and emotional".

I knew a bulimic girl who tried to kill herself by overdosing on pills. Then she started to puke out of unshakeable habit... Flail.

roki: I knew a bulimic girl who tried to kill herself by overdosing on pills. Then she started to puke out of unshakeable habit... Flail.

I don't know if that was intentional or not, but it made me lol

First we get this little snit whining: "He spoke with great vigour but there were some very puzzled looks when he started talking about people's colour and not being able pronounce Arab names.

Then the article says: Invitations to the lunch were sent to senior Arab businessmen and diplomats including Dr Alia Hatoug-Bouran, ambassador of Jordan; Yigit Alpogan, ambassador of Turkey; Hussain Ali Abdullatif, ambassador of Oman; Hamida Mrabet Labidi, ambassador of Tunisia; and Shaikh Khalifa Al Khalifa, ambassador of Bahrain.

Yeah, those are names that you run into in the House of Lords every day.

I don't know who the guy is, but I admire any politician that doesn't spout the usual crap. He wants them to invest their money. What's the big deal?

He looks like Benny Hill's retarded cousin.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. These people have no farking sense of humor (humour?). It was a bad joke. How can you be offended by a bad joke? You just don't laugh. Maybe the part about color (colour?) and name pronounciation, but that was just to prove a point. It wasn't a dig.

Hehe, if I was there, I'd be cackling.

I meant the arabs. Yes - I mean that to be offensive. Life is hard, wear a helmet.

Love when you hear people say: I wish politicians would just be themselves and say what they think.

Then, I love it when people jump all over a guy like this (or Bush, or Obama, or anyone who diverges from the script) with faux outrage for doing exactly that.

The reason politicians don't just "act normal" isn't because they can't, it's because asshats who simply don't like them will exploit any "difference" for their political advantage.

The result? The same bland pap in every country, everywhere, about "going forward" and "supporting democracy". The Denny-fication of discourse.

Try this - next time someone you don't like cracks a funny, how about you laugh or at least shut yer yap.

At least he didn't call them a bunch of "Sand Brothers"

What was offensive about the statement? The British are xenophobic except where money outweighs their distrust.

Just like every farking group of people on the planet.

so by "half bulimic" i'm guessing that means literally? ok, so they only puke half way, into their mouths say, merrily munch on it awhile like a cow and swallow the soggy mess again rinse and repeat?

Ya know, there actually is an eating disorder called obsessive-compulsive binge-eating disorder, which is essentially binging without purging. People feel compelled to eat ginormous amounts of food, and they end up getting ginormously obese. It goes beyond just enjoying food or eating too much. It's a psychiatric disorder.

Some people are just fatties, but some people are fatties because they're messed up. It has the same sort of causes as other eating dsorders -- childhood sexual abuse, body dysmorphic syndrome, etc.

That's okay. I know I'm anorexic because every time I look in the mirror I see a fat person.

Cocaine.