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(Daily Mail) Amusing "I'm half bulimic ... I eat a lot but don't throw up," British Trade Minister tells an audience of Arab businessmen and diplomats before reminding them to try the veal   (dailymail.co.uk) divider line 44
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DewdropsOnTheGrass 2008-03-23 01:10:57 AM  
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.

 
Wil_Mahfingahdo 2008-03-23 03:01:31 AM  
DewdropsOnTheGrass: At least he's honest.

He'd never make it in American politics

 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark] 2008-03-23 03:02:02 AM  
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.

 
gigamortis [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-03-23 03:08:41 AM  
That's hilarious at least he has a sense of humour, and It's not like he's making fun of cancer or somthing.

 
cookiemama 2008-03-23 03:09:26 AM  
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?

 
Because People in power are Stupid 2008-03-23 03:09:57 AM  
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.

 
shinjitsuism 2008-03-23 03:10:57 AM  
img.dailymail.co.uk

That pic is begging for a photoshop contest

 
eliz1bef 2008-03-23 03:13:25 AM  
It's like a British version of Peter Griffin got to be Trade Minister.

 
RanDomino 2008-03-23 03:14:52 AM  
Alcohol may have been involved?

 
Gladstell 2008-03-23 03:17:25 AM  
img155.imageshack.us

 
drjekel_mrhyde 2008-03-23 03:17:42 AM  
RanDomino: Alcohol may have been involved?

RanDomino: Alcohol may have been involved?

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

 
farkwell 2008-03-23 03:22:58 AM  
you gotta wonder if bulimia is common in arab countries. i'd guess not.

 
missinglinks14 2008-03-23 03:25:32 AM  
haha im half autistic, really good at math wihout the wapner

 
EL_FABREZ 2008-03-23 03:28:08 AM  
"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.

 
knitch 2008-03-23 03:28:24 AM  
eliz1bef2008-03-23 03:13:25 AM
It's like a British version of Peter Griffin got to be Trade Minister. 


WIN

 
wowzer97pooh 2008-03-23 03:30:40 AM  
Which half?

 
EL_FABREZ 2008-03-23 03:41:09 AM  
shinjitsuism: That pic is begging for a photoshop contest

This is all you'll get from me

img254.imageshack.us

 
The Voice of Doom 2008-03-23 04:13:57 AM  
Also known as "Alzheimers Bulimia" - stuffing yourself and forgetting to throw up afterwards.

 
Oroblanco 2008-03-23 04:41:23 AM  
EL_FABREZ: shinjitsuism: That pic is begging for a photoshop contest

This is all you'll get from me


That wasn't very satisfying.

 
xlbrooklyn [TotalFark] 2008-03-23 04:50:08 AM  
Oroblanco: That wasn't very satisfying.

That's what SHE said!

/try the veil

 
Oroblanco 2008-03-23 05:26:36 AM  
xlbrooklyn: That's what SHE SHIA said sayyid!

Do more puns make it better?

 
pipco 2008-03-23 05:35:16 AM  
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?

 
leaving earth for no raisin 2008-03-23 05:51:55 AM  
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?

 
kcinkcin 2008-03-23 08:14:32 AM  
It's ok everyone, the guests were a-rabs! They were too busy blowing up Israeli children to notice.

 
Barfmaker 2008-03-23 08:18:30 AM  
As someone who is half idiot-savant, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

 
generic user 2008-03-23 08:21:46 AM  
Barfmaker: As someone who is half idiot-savant, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

So you're not good at math?

 
Scott77 2008-03-23 08:36:23 AM  
He did not have a drink at the lunch or at any ministerial event that day.

I disagree.

 
xSauronx 2008-03-23 09:17:49 AM  
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.

 
A Saucerful of Echoes 2008-03-23 09:37:48 AM  
so can he half read minds?

 
Tillmaster 2008-03-23 09:40:32 AM  
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".

 
roki 2008-03-23 10:36:43 AM  
www.splitreason.com

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

 
the voices in your head 2008-03-23 10:52:51 AM  
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

 
Rodeodoc 2008-03-23 12:30:50 PM  
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?

 
D_Moran 2008-03-23 12:39:58 PM  
He looks like Benny Hill's retarded cousin.

 
CaptainBeer 2008-03-23 12:47:24 PM  
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.

 
evilboyevil 2008-03-23 01:05:22 PM  
Hehe, if I was there, I'd be cackling.

 
CaptainBeer 2008-03-23 01:09:23 PM  
I meant the arabs. Yes - I mean that to be offensive. Life is hard, wear a helmet.

 
towatchoverme 2008-03-23 02:59:17 PM  
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.

 
Pantload 2008-03-23 04:23:53 PM  
At least he didn't call them a bunch of "Sand Brothers"

 
Bored Horde 2008-03-23 05:13:15 PM  
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.

 
blick [TotalFark] 2008-03-23 08:32:17 PM  
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?

 
Cowkitchen2 2008-03-23 10:31:40 PM  
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.

 
Night Train Express 2008-03-24 12:16:55 PM  
That's okay. I know I'm anorexic because every time I look in the mirror I see a fat person.

 
Pasty White Angst 2008-03-24 01:19:37 PM  
Cocaine.

 
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