Bush confuses UK PM Gordon Brown with "hip-hop-style" handshake

[sabra]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2143451/Gordon-Brown-thrown-by-George-Bush's-hip-hop-handshake.html

Gordon Brown thrown by George Bush's hip-hop handshake



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Mr Bush threw the Prime Minister off balance with his hip-hop-style handshake when the pair met during the outgoing President's farewell tour of Britain.

Instead of going in for a straight grip-and-pump, with the fingers slipping under the wrist, Mr Bush gripped around Mr Brown's thumb, to the obvious confusion of his partner in the War on Terror.

The unusual, "street"-style greeting, more commonly used by young sports stars and musicians than middle-aged heads of state, so perplexed Mr Brown that three of his fingers somehow slipped inside Mr Bush's jacket sleeve.

His open-mouthed expression of surprise also demonstrates his discomfort with the situation.

Wonder how Faux news will describe this one? :sarcasm:

[Jokerman]

1. It's a "Terrorist Thumb Grab". n/t

[gratuitous]

5. My first thought, too

Where's Fox? I need to know if our president is a terrorist thumb grabber! Or if he has terrorist sympathies. Or is a fellow traveler with terrorists.

[Sal Minella]

13. Absolutely, a Terrorist-Brotherhood Solidarity Thumb Grip.

I recognized it right away from watching my neighbors' family reunion.

[SpiralHawk]

15. It's the occult Skull & Boner Gesticular Grab

Preferred by republicon occultists everywhere in the Netherworld.

[thereismore]

2. Idiot. nt

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. He's getting worse

He's beyond inappropriate. He's worse than ever. How bad is it when you fuck up a HANDSHAKE?

Let's hope he's deteriorating, that it has a deadly, organic cause............

[madrchsod]

9. do`t worry he is deteriorating

years of drugs, booze, and eight years of pure evil takes a toll on the body and mind. he`s going faster than reagan did if you factor in age difference

[Tangerine LaBamba]

11. Don't toy with me

You're getting my hopes up. At least that's something positive I can hold on to.

Thank you............

[Demit]

18. I think he's doing it on purpose. He knows he's a schmuck. And he revels in it.

He will soon be out of the limelight. He won't have the power anymore. This way he gets to thumb his nose at everyone AND get the attention he craves.

[RayOfHope]

21. Nah. He just doesn't give a shit.

Not that he ever did, but he's done in a few months anyway.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Hip-hop!?

That's a hip-hop handshake?

That so smacks of racism.

[sabra]

8. seems like UK's Independent is using Faux News approach?

[ColbertWatcher]

17. Looks like it.

Murdoch is everywhere.

[prole_for_peace]

6. hate...him....so...much....

he does something EVERY DAY to embarrass us and show what an idiotic overgrown frat boy he is

[smoogatz]

7. How's it hanging' Brownie?

Now let's make with the Jack and Coke, chop-chop!

[wryter2000]

10. A-hole

Why didn't he just grope the man? What an effing embarrassment he is.

[terrya]

12. How about just shaking his hand?

[peekaloo]

14. Good lord that "greeting" dates back to the '70's (if not earlier)

methinks Pickles' told DimWeed that you can measure a man's hoo hoo dilly by the length of his thumb.

:hide:

[PBS Poll-435]

20. ...

:thumbsup:




:rofl::rofl:

[arcadian]

16. It's the secret Illuminati handshake

Gordon Brown's failure to reciprocate with the appropriate handshake response means he will be sacrificed at the next Bohemian Grove gathering.

[Mist]

19. Butthead, eternally searching for a Beavis. nt

[rocktivity]

22. That happened to me once

but at least the guy thought that I might know what he was doing because I'm black.

Last time around he massaged the German president, now he's doing this. More lack of self-control on his part.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Snarkturian Clone]

23. This reminds me of when I was in college and

I would meet some of the older fraternity brothers that would come to visit. My fraternity at that point had a pretty convoluted hiphoppish handshake and I had thought that they always had it. When I would shake the hands of the old heads like that, they would say "What the fuck is this <n-word> shake?" and I would be surprised at how it was such an offense to them.

yeah yeah yeah no true progressive would be in a fraternity blah blah blah I must be a freeper/bushbot/troll/informant/agent choke choke choke... save it.