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Syt

#70860
June 17, 2019, 06:35:59 AM
State gifts aren't what they used to be.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/17/world/xi-russian-ice-cream-putin-birthday-intl/index.html

QuoteChinese President Xi Jinping celebrated his 66th birthday Saturday alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, who surprised him with ice cream, the Kremlin said in a statement.

The two leaders met in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, where they were attending the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA).

It marks their second meeting in just under a week, following an earlier appearance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek.

"The Russian leader praised Xi Jinping's role in the development of bilateral relations and noted the success of the recent state visit by China's President to Russia," reads the Kremlin statement. "Vladimir Putin gave Xi Jinping Russian ice cream as a birthday present."

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

DGuller

#70861
June 17, 2019, 06:46:14 AM
To be fair, it's more than just a cone of ice cream, which is what it sounded like at first.

Richard Hakluyt

#70862
June 17, 2019, 06:47:46 AM
Might have got him a balloon too  :mad:

Habbaku

#70863
June 17, 2019, 07:30:54 AM
Russia must be low on ducats.  :hmm:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Tamas

#70864
June 17, 2019, 07:35:34 AM
I would NOT eat food prepared by Putin or his people.

garbon

#70865
June 17, 2019, 08:00:01 AM
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Grey Fox

#70866
June 17, 2019, 08:12:11 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 16, 2019, 08:07:44 PM
A Norwegian kid just broke Jack Nicklaus' 30 (?) year old record for low score by an amateur at the US Open.

He's just an amateur because of NCAA rules. Just like Nicklaus was in 1960.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Syt

#70867
June 17, 2019, 08:21:26 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Saladin

#70868
June 17, 2019, 09:17:59 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on June 17, 2019, 06:47:46 AM
Might have got him a balloon too  :mad:

No glowsticks?
"You'd be better served taxing your conscience for those who deserve your regret."

Tonitrus

#70869
June 17, 2019, 04:05:03 PM
Quote from: DGuller on June 17, 2019, 06:46:14 AM
To be fair, it's more than just a cone of ice cream, which is what it sounded like at first.

And there's a history to it as well.

Duque de Bragança

#70870
June 17, 2019, 04:08:47 PM
Quote from: Tamas on June 17, 2019, 07:35:34 AM
I would NOT eat food prepared by Putin or his people.

I'd rather avoid them if they carry umbrellas too.

Syt

#70871
June 18, 2019, 11:53:54 AM Last Edit: June 18, 2019, 11:56:26 AM by Syt
Hotel Imperial, well known for being a bastion of socialism. :hmm:



The replies on Twitter are amusing: https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1140917689847693312
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

#70872
June 18, 2019, 12:20:03 PM
What the hell does that have to do with anything?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

derspiess

#70873
June 18, 2019, 12:20:50 PM
Social Democracy breaks elevators.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Habbaku

#70874
June 18, 2019, 12:41:44 PM
It removes the vital, cultural impetus for elevators to compete with one another.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
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