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(International Herald Tribune) Spiffy Iceland's new prime minister is first openly gay head of state. Hopes to strap on and tackle her nation's canyon of debt   (iht.com) divider line 62
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Iwouldhitit [TotalFark] 2009-02-01 08:20:59 PM  
I apparently have to do everything myself on this site:

i154.photobucket.com

 
NihilisticShrew 2009-02-01 08:25:22 PM  
I'm assuming Iwouldhitit that you would in fact, not hit it. But I've completely misjudged people before.

 
Terrified Asexual Forcemeat 2009-02-01 09:33:12 PM  
NihilisticShrew: I'm assuming Iwouldhitit that you would in fact, not hit it. But I've completely misjudged people before.

Ice what you did there.

 
Karma Chameleon 2009-02-01 09:33:51 PM  
I knew things were shiatty there, but this is how desparate the times are? Putting a gay in power?

Mark my words, Iceland won't be afloat this time next year.

 
ruthlessliberal 2009-02-01 09:37:29 PM  
Karma Chameleon: I knew things were shiatty there, but this is how desparate the times are?

The Onion says "Yes"

 
thefais 2009-02-01 09:37:32 PM  
Fabulous.

 
ruthlessliberal 2009-02-01 09:38:29 PM  
ruthlessliberal: The Onion says "Yes"

God damnit.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nation_finally_shiatty_enough_to

 
Karma Chameleon 2009-02-01 09:40:59 PM  
ruthlessliberal: ruthlessliberal: The Onion says "Yes"

God damnit.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nation_finally_shiatty_enough_to


You expect me to copy and paste? Link that shiat like a real Farker.

 
ExperianScaresCthulhu 2009-02-01 09:41:31 PM  
Wake me when there's an openly homosexual male gay head of state.

 
Peter von Nostrand 2009-02-01 09:41:36 PM  
Iceland's new prime minister is first openly gay head of state. Hopes to strap on and tackle lick her nation's canyon of debt

 
Falcc 2009-02-01 09:41:47 PM  
So what happens when the US has a gay president? Icelandic Cyborgs?

 
Ass Loser Communist 2009-02-01 09:42:57 PM  
Peter von Nostrand: Iceland's new prime minister is first openly gay head of state. Hopes to strap on and tackle lick her nation's canyon of debt

So Iceland's gonna get a threesome with the PM and her lesbian lover?

 
KajakPro 2009-02-01 09:47:14 PM  
Karma Chameleon: I knew things were shiatty there, but this is how desparate the times are? Putting a gay in power?

Mark my words, Iceland won't be afloat this time next year.


I'm sure God's Vengeance will be swift.

 
Breunthor 2009-02-01 09:48:00 PM  
Karma Chameleon: I knew things were shiatty there, but this is how desparate the times are? Putting a gay in power?

Mark my words, Iceland won't be afloat this time next year.


Iceland has had a very nice track record for their standard of living, gdp per capita, etc.
If Iceland ever got their hands on a large military force and some WMDs, we'd be well and truly farked.

 
Nurglitch 2009-02-01 09:51:12 PM  
Ha ha, she is homosexual so she is licentious, ha ha!

Is funny!

 
KajakPro 2009-02-01 09:52:44 PM  
Breunthor: Karma Chameleon: I knew things were shiatty there, but this is how desparate the times are? Putting a gay in power?

Mark my words, Iceland won't be afloat this time next year.

Iceland has had a very nice track record for their standard of living, gdp per capita, etc.
If Iceland ever got their hands on a large military force and some WMDs, we'd be well and truly farked.fark, here come the vikings again.

 
robbiedo 2009-02-01 09:53:26 PM  
Are we past the point where someone's sexual orientation is not important in political office as long as it involves two hot women?

Well...how about 1 hot woman?

 
CurvedGirdle 2009-02-01 10:00:13 PM  
Tell me when Yulia Timoshenko does this.

 
bravian 2009-02-01 10:15:52 PM  
Breunthor: Iceland has had a very nice track record for their standard of living, gdp per capita, etc.

Thanks to the banking crisis and Iceland's huge role in it - the wonderful "gdp per capita" and "standard of living" is about to take a nosedive.

/iceland is toast

 
soy_bomb 2009-02-01 10:19:01 PM  
I expect no thaw to occur.

 
centrifugal bumblepuppy 2009-02-01 10:23:04 PM  
Wide right eyel
:
www.ontopmag.com

 
Halli [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-02-01 10:29:09 PM  
bravian: Breunthor: Iceland has had a very nice track record for their standard of living, gdp per capita, etc.

Thanks to the banking crisis and Iceland's huge role in it - the wonderful "gdp per capita" and "standard of living" is about to take a nosedive.

/iceland is toast


Why don't you add some more hyperbole on top of that champ.

 
TheSpaceAdmiral [TotalFark] 2009-02-01 10:30:48 PM  
I think it would be more appropriate to call Iceland's president the "head of state" (like the IHT article did). The new openly gay prime minister should probably be thought of more as the "head of government."

I realize this is a pretty minor point, but it pains me to see a Fark thread without a lot of arguing in it.

 
kabloink 2009-02-01 10:32:27 PM  
bravian: Breunthor: Iceland has had a very nice track record for their standard of living, gdp per capita, etc.

Thanks to the banking crisis and Iceland's huge role in it - the wonderful "gdp per capita" and "standard of living" is about to take a nosedive.

/iceland is toast


Are you saying their standard of living is going to fall to that of the average American? God help them!

 
orclover 2009-02-01 10:34:44 PM  
i154.photobucket.com
Would not hit.

www.ontopmag.com
Might hit with a few drinks in me....

Whats her "room-mate" look like? could even the odds up a bit.

 
Halli [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-02-01 10:37:52 PM  
orclover: Whats her "room-mate" look like? could even the odds up a bit.

This is her partner:

Link (new window)

 
MooHeiferGhandi 2009-02-01 10:40:15 PM  
"Sigurdardottir also is the first openly gay national leader of modern times, apart from Per-Kristian Foss, a Norwegian politician who briefly served as his country's prime minister in 2002."

Sooo that actually makes her the second, yes? The other guy didn't count? Not gay enough?

 
bravian 2009-02-01 10:44:33 PM  
Halli: Why don't you add some more hyperbole on top of that champ.

There was none intended. But its interesting that you read so much into that comment...

/gay
//iceland is still toast

 
ridcullylives 2009-02-01 10:45:13 PM  
Halli: orclover: Whats her "room-mate" look like? could even the odds up a bit.

This is her partner:

Link (new window)


I'm sorry, I can't read Elvish.

 
Halli [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-02-01 10:45:50 PM  
ridcullylives: Halli: orclover: Whats her "room-mate" look like? could even the odds up a bit.

This is her partner:

Link (new window)

I'm sorry, I can't read Elvish.


But you can look at pictures?

 
D_Moran 2009-02-01 10:46:47 PM  
I hear she's unimpressed with the size of Obama's stimulus package and she loves Bush.

 
Falcc 2009-02-01 10:47:12 PM  
MooHeiferGhandi: "Sigurdardottir also is the first openly gay national leader of modern times, apart from Per-Kristian Foss, a Norwegian politician who briefly served as his country's prime minister in 2002."

Sooo that actually makes her the second, yes? The other guy didn't count? Not gay enough?


Norwegia isn't a real country. Duh. That's what it isn't on any maps and such as.

 
Verrai 2009-02-01 10:56:36 PM  
MooHeiferGhandi: "Sigurdardottir also is the first openly gay national leader of modern times, apart from Per-Kristian Foss, a Norwegian politician who briefly served as his country's prime minister in 2002."

Sooo that actually makes her the second, yes? The other guy didn't count? Not gay enough?


He was acting Prime Minister for a few days while the real Prime Minister took sick leave for mental problems. It doesn't really count; he's not counted on official Norwegian government lists of Prime Ministers.

 
12349876 2009-02-01 11:03:47 PM  
I guess since there are no black people in Iceland, a crisis calls for a gay head of state.

 
Erbo 2009-02-01 11:06:03 PM  
I hope they manage to straighten out the situation there, for EVE's sake.

/CCP Games based in Reykjavik
//and right now, an EVE ISK might very well be worth more than a real ISK
///Gallente slashies

 
DoctorWorm21045 2009-02-01 11:13:50 PM  
Verrai: MooHeiferGhandi: "Sigurdardottir also is the first openly gay national leader of modern times, apart from Per-Kristian Foss, a Norwegian politician who briefly served as his country's prime minister in 2002."

Sooo that actually makes her the second, yes? The other guy didn't count? Not gay enough?

He was acting Prime Minister for a few days while the real Prime Minister took sick leave for mental problems. It doesn't really count; he's not counted on official Norwegian government lists of Prime Ministers.


Ah, thanks for the clarification.

We'll know that prejudice is dead when this is sort of thing is no longer news. Good to see a step forward.

 
thisispete [TotalFark] 2009-02-01 11:14:40 PM  
ExperianScaresCthulhu: Wake me when there's an openly homosexual male gay head of state.

Hello, this is 336 BC. Wake up.

upload.wikimedia.org

 
Tanqueray 2009-02-01 11:17:15 PM  
Great to see her doing for gays what Gordon Brown has done for the clinically insane.

 
Daienden 2009-02-01 11:34:26 PM  
I actually saw this on GAYTV News... And was completely uninterested.

/Seriously, out of all of the Gay people in the world, you pick the ones with the least charisma to run your news show? Something's backwards here.

 
Nebulious [TotalFark] 2009-02-01 11:50:04 PM  
I'll be in my bunk.

 
Halli [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-02-01 11:56:24 PM  
Malbar: Her credentials consist of being "a former flight attendent and union organizer". Something tells me Iceland loves disaster.

She has been an MP since 1978 and has spent 10 of those years a Minister. Besides our Prime Minister before her had a Master's degree in economics from the University of Minnesota. A lot of good it did him.

 
Switchblades 2009-02-02 12:01:48 AM  
CurvedGirdle: Tell me when Yulia Timoshenko does this.

...I'll be in my bunk.

Also, this is a Yulia Tymoshenko thread now. I DON'T CARE IF SHE'S TWICE MY AGE AND I'M GAY. I WOULD HIT IT LIKE THE POLONIUM-ENCRUSTED FIST OF AN ANGRY ORANGE GOD.

 
whatshisname 2009-02-02 12:02:31 AM  
Reading those Icelandic names, it sounds like a chapter from Lord of the Rings.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2009-02-02 12:06:15 AM  
Falcc: So what happens when the US has a gay president? Icelandic Cyborgs?

It will never happen. For starters, the White House would need to be painted lavender and pink with silver trim. And no one would approve the disco ball in the Oval Office.

 
Falcc 2009-02-02 12:16:12 AM  
Gyrfalcon: Falcc: So what happens when the US has a gay president? Icelandic Cyborgs?

It will never happen. For starters, the White House would need to be painted lavender and pink with silver trim. And no one would approve the disco ball in the Oval Office.


Those are the old guard of the homosexual movement. The first gay president will be half gay on the side of whichever mother got a sperm donation, grow up in an fabulous area but be compelled to succeed, and become the first gay something at a prestigious law school.

/there's a precedent

 
WFern 2009-02-02 12:24:15 AM  
TheSpaceAdmiral: ...it pains me to see a Fark thread without a lot of arguing in it.

You're
a towel.

 
OMG Socialism 2009-02-02 12:25:50 AM  
I have a joke for those of you who have not yet read today's New York Times.

What is the capital of Iceland?

Answer: $25

 
optional 2009-02-02 12:34:23 AM  
Not bad for their age.

Sooo.... how about those Yulia Tymoshenko pics?

 
General Zang 2009-02-02 02:44:51 AM  
ExperianScaresCthulhu: Wake me when there's an openly homosexual male gay head of state.


Alexander the Great.... about 2700 years ago.

 
dbirchall [TotalFark] 2009-02-02 03:44:27 AM  
When 66 you are, look this good you will not.

 
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