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| Author: | Nitefox [ Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Anyone speak Russian? |
What the heck? |
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| Author: | Raltar [ Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:45 pm ] |
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Did...did she just flip me off? |
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| Author: | Nitefox [ Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:51 pm ] |
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Apparently she flipped off Obama. |
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| Author: | Raltar [ Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:58 pm ] |
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That's still kinda odd. |
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| Author: | Nitefox [ Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:59 pm ] |
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Yeah I know...that's why I want to know what she was saying the led to that. Crazy. |
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| Author: | Aethien [ Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:46 pm ] |
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Heh, well, all she's saying is an introduction to the piece, about Obama's visit to the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council summit, at which Medvedev, the Russian President, took over its chairmanship. Right before the "bird", she says, "The post was previously held by the U.S. President Barack Obama {bird}." The thing is, it doesn't mean the same thing in Russia as it does in America. I'm sure many folks in Russia are familiar with it nowadays, but if she really wanted to flip him off, she'd have used a different gesture. Something on the order of "curling the hand into a loose fist with the tip or first joint of the thumb poking out between the index and middle finger" (it's called "giving someone the fig"). I suspect that she was just giving a signal to the production crew to roll the tape. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I don't see any big international Obama hate here. |
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| Author: | Nitefox [ Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone speak Russian? |
I had a bubble to burst? |
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| Author: | Diamondeye [ Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone speak Russian? |
I'd like to learn Russian, but I'm still busy with Spanish at the moment. Greek, too. |
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| Author: | Aethien [ Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone speak Russian? |
Nitefox wrote: I had a bubble to burst? Well, sorry, maybe not particularly yours. But, one of the other videos that came up on YouTube after that tried to connect the gesture (a Russian remembering socialism) and Obama. The implication being that she flipped him off because he's a socialist. |
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| Author: | Lex Luthor [ Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:51 am ] |
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This made front page on www.drudgereport.com. |
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