Muscles
Beauty contest
A friend alerted me to a highly entertaining article in today’s Times about the mayor of Kiev: ‘Leonid M. Chernovetsky, this city’s unpredictable mayor, likes to answer his critics in his own special way.
When Parliament members said he was acting bizarrely and needed a psychiatric exam, he went to a stadium where he jogged for the cameras before yanking off his shirt and doing pull-ups. He swam laps and flexed his muscles like Charles Atlas. Then he held a news conference — in his tiny bathing suit.
“They are judging me today and want me to spend the rest of my life behind the bars of a psychiatric hospital,” Mr. Chernovetsky said. “Look at my body, at how I express my thoughts. I am absolutely healthy. I think logically and philosophically.”
True, he was in fine physical shape for a man of 57, though perhaps this was not the wisest strategy for proving one’s competence.’
In the last decades the body of the politician has become more and more important. If this trend continues, the difference between an election and a beauty contest will be a minor one.
Please, pay close attention to the picture of Kiev’s mayor in the article in the Times.
muscles
Where are the muscles?!http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8185524.stm
What is vulgarly referred to as the Russian Soul
Pjotr
Do you look like Putin?I once was in a town in Israel, where everyone looked like Putin. A very stressful experience.
Rectification
The last sentence shouldn't have made it on the website.I can only hope that you understand that I call for a response to the questions I raised before unveiling myself any further.
To Batta
Last paragraph was meant to be adressed to you.No I didn't miss it, admittedly later on, but the question still stands:
Look at his arms and legs and so on: not much a mucle man.
Are they perhaps hidden on his upper lip?
Bert
Please see the article in the NYT for the relevant picture.Oscar
Thanks!Pjotr
Which questions? The one about bribery?It's simple. It's like you were saying "I was nice to you, now you have to be my ally"
To Batta
I sense that we are losing track of each other as this lingers on.I have given it thought to continue our conversation outside the realms of virtual publicity.
Do you have an opinion on that last consideration?
Pjotr
I offered to become your therapist. You declined.To Batta
You are not being reasonable, I'm afraid:First you offer to be my therapist, later on you say that it won't satisfy our needs. To the latter you add that my subconcious is rather unpleasant.
Then you offer to become my employer.
When i ask what you - as an employer - have to offer you accuse me of bribery.
Somewhere in between you described me as being sunk deep.
After all that, you asked whether I was cute, whether I looked like Putin.
Have you ever been into analysis?
If so, I solicit the favour of reading the concluding reports.
