The Off Topic Topic

[mongers]

Mr. Nabbach will soon be accidentally poked in the ass by an umbrella, I'm afraid.

IIRC, it's fairly recently emerged that it wasn't an umbrella, but some form of low powered pistol/injector/nail gun type arrangement.  I think details were found in Bulgarian archives, but I could be wrong

[Sheilbh]

I liked the Daily Mail story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2605047/Hairdresser-used-jokey-poster-Kim-Jong-promote-salon-targeted-North-Korean-embassy-officials-demanded-disrespected-leader.html

He said: 'The funny thing is, it's not a bad haircut if he styled it correctly.
'Lots of men are walking around with hair shaved short at the back and the sides, long on the top and big beards - in fact it's quite like my own style, though it's all about the face shape.'

Diplomatic incident: Barber Karim Nabbach says his brother Mo was forced to go the police because the rogue state's officials put him under surveillance

State headquarters: North Korea's embassy is based inside this semi in Gunnersbury, west London, pictured here with its flag flying

[mongers]

Gotta bring down the local property prices.

[mongers]

GWB's portrait of Angela Merkel:







Not his best, by a long chalk.

[Zanza]

I can't pinpoint it, but her eyes somehow look a bit off.

[Ed Anger]

His Pootie Poot one is the best. I'd hang one next to the shitter.

[Syt]

A commentator recently noted that it seems that GWB used for his paintings no images from the doubtlessly large archives from his presidency, but rather one of the first Google images that comes up for the persons in question, often the one from their Wikipedia page.

[Zanza]

He should have used this one of Merkel:

[Josephus]

GWB's portrait of Angela Merkel:







Not his best, by a long chalk.

Only reason he got an art show is....well because the gallery is named after him.

[Norgy]

I hope the CDU fails miserably and Germany gets a real government again soon.

[Valmy]

I hope the CDU fails miserably and Germany gets a real government again soon.

Schroder wasn't finished giving Russia complete and total control over central Europe.  The SDP deserves another shot at it.

[Norgy]

I hope the CDU fails miserably and Germany gets a real government again soon.

Schroder wasn't finished giving Russia complete and total control over central Europe.  The SDP deserves another shot at it.

Tell me how German foreign policy has improved with Merkel.
Like most countries in Europe, foreign policy is a fundamental cross-aisle thing between the big parties. An inheritance from the Cold War, mostly, but still true. The only significant change in German foreign policy happened during Willy Brandt's chancellorship.

Now, of course, I'd like all of Europe to elect leftist-centrist governments and shed the right-wingers to where they belong; the scrapheap.

[Barrister]

Now, of course, I'd like all of Europe to elect leftist-centrist governments and shed the right-wingers to where they belong; the scrapheap.

[Sheilbh]

Tell me how German foreign policy has improved with Merkel.
Like most countries in Europe, foreign policy is a fundamental cross-aisle thing between the big parties. An inheritance from the Cold War, mostly, but still true. The only significant change in German foreign policy happened during Willy Brandt's chancellorship.

Not strictly on topic, but I found this interesting:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/conflict-with-russia-raises-buried-questions-of-german-identity-a-963014.html

[Jacob]

This is one bad-ass girl: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26969150

13 years old; hunts with a golden eagle in -40 degrees (F or C).