Why is Vladimir Putin Arm Wrestling and Trying to Bend a Frying Pan?
- Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:09am by
Tiffany Gabbay
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You might have to try hard to suppress the laughter that will surely begin to bubble over as you read the latest about 58 year old Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin.
Putin is allegedly trying to show off his physical prowess by partaking in a strongman competition at a pro-Kremlin youth camp where he attempted to scale an alpinist climbing wall without safety gear, partake in an arm-wrestling match with a fellow nearly twice his size and bend a frying pan with his bare hands. He was reportedly unsuccessful with the latter.
What’s more, the chino-clad Russian PM tried to sound tough too, reportedly calling the U.S. a parasite on the global economy.
The Telegraph gives us more into the ludicrous:
The 58-year-old Russian prime minister put in his latest display of physical prowess at a Kremlin youth camp 230 miles northwest of Moscow in front of thousands of patriotic young Russians who are encouraged by organisers each year to put the strongman politician on a pedestal. Dressed in chinos and a light-coloured striped shirt, Mr Putin talked tough too, calling the United States a parasite on the global economy.
But it was his physical feats that seemed to wow his young audience more than anything.
Photographs of the event, which took place on Monday, showed Mr Putin trying to crush a frying pan with his bare hands as young admirers looked on. It is not clear whether he succeeded.
Another image of a man many Russians regard as the father of the nation showed him shimmying up an artificial climbing wall spider man-style without a safety harness or helmet. Mr Putin leapt off the wall before reaching the top, jokingly muttering something about cowardice.
Other images showed he had adjudicated an arm wrestling contest between two young men, taken part in a contest himself, and looked on as a weight lifter balanced a barbell loaded with heavy weight plates on his back.
But Putin’s attention-seeking antics might be an omen of what’s in store for the PM as many speculate he will contest a presidential election next March. And if a campaign video released by the ruling United Russia party this week called “We are building a new Russia. V. Putin” is any indication, Putin may very well be considering it. The campaign video, by the way, reportedly casts Putin as the architect of a most awe-inspiring post-Soviet renaissance.
But the Telegraph tell us more:
He has also emerged as the key figure in a new political movement called the All-Russian People’s Front whose stated aim is to revitalise the flagging fortunes of the ruling party. Young female supporters have done their bit for his publicity campaign too with bikini-clad young girls organising a free car wash in Moscow in his honour.
Meanwhile, an affiliated young female fan group, calling itself “the Army of Putin,” has released a raunchy video challenging girls to rip off their tops or lay into his critics in a show of support.
It is a story filled with narcissism and perhaps a touch of the bizarre. Watch the video below:
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Comments (153)
Attention2Detail
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:49amI don’t know about you, but frying pan bending is the first thing I look for in a leader. And if he can make it half way up a climbing wall, then he’s the guy. What a jackass!
Report Post »Crocketgirl
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:57amI agree with you but the biggest jackass in the Oval Office.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:08amHe’s always come across to me as very insecure in his own identity. Stunts like this are not new for him, he’s always out *in front of the cameras* trying to prove how manly he is. If a normal guy was always screeching “look at me look at me look at me” while strutting around like a gelding trying to pretend it’s a stallion, we’d all shake our heads and recommend this person to a good psychiatrist.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:25amPSST! We call that “little” mans syndrome!
Report Post »ZTedster
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:35am@Ghost of Jefferson:
Russians have not been deballed like the American male has been for the last 40 years. They respect strength and masculinity. He’s playing to their cultural beliefs in these displays of strength. Stalin translates to “Man of Steel.”
Seeing how many Americans poo-poo Putin for this saddens me. It shows how effete America has become.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:47amI think he is trying to surpress some homosexual tendencies
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:25amAnd while Putin was doing stunts to prove he is a man and a leader, Obama killed Bin Laden.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:32pm@encinom, so Obumbler is now part of SEAL Team 6? Who knew?
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:48pmI could agree with you more ZTEDSTER.
Report Post »American politicians are like nuetured cats.
Citizen7154
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 2:54pmThat is why you don’t buy Russian frying pans.
Report Post »CLM
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 2:57pmWell, he is closing in on 60. Probably feeling a little insecure? It is difficult to have to come to terms with the fact that you are no longer the “man” you were, that is, if you ever were. Which in his case probably never was.
Report Post »Cornel33
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 3:44pmPutin (Pootin’) is a wet turd.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 5:12pm… this dork is nothing but a coward and an assassin … and don‘t call America a ’parasite’ you commie puke pile! Our so called ‘responsible politicians’ maybe, like NAZI PELOZI, HAIRY REED, BAWNEE FWANKS and last but not least BRICK OBAMMY, but not America! Creep!
Report Post »Doc_Slammin
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 6:01pmPutin is saying what I have wrote in regards to the damage quantitative easing is doing to their own countries back in February, 2011.
http://theindependentrant.com/2011/02/04/the-adjustment-of-faulty-structural-relationships-by-manual-means/
You have to wonder if and/or when a war between the United States and another superpower will occur over a “REAL” default?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:12pmWas that frying pan made in China? If so, it should bend like butter. Where do the Russains get their cookware? America get them from China for the most part.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:49amKarnak.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:49amprobably because he is bored..
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:39amMaybe it’s an intimidation technique. How many of his opponents will let him win because he’s prime minister?
Report Post »nostromo
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:48amIn one respect Putin is right. The US economy is a parasite in that all its so called growth is a result of borrowing someone else’s money. Sooner or later this will stop and major financial dislocation will be the result.
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:53amRight on! I hate Putin for the Nazi he is, but you can’t argue with the truth.
The majority of the U.S. Population is made up of blood sucking parasites.
The Truth hurts America!!!
Report Post »Reptillica
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:48amHe‘s an aging creep that has to keep proving he hasn’t lost it to his wife Dimitri.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:46amI’d love to see a MMA-style steel cage match between Putin and Obama. Any takers on who comes out on a stretcher?
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:57amI would pay to see that!
Report Post »DLG123
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:01amI would pay my last dime to see that. Putin would mop the floor with the man-child
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:12amIn a guillotine match, where the winner is the last one with a head still attached to their body.
Report Post »Mark Tripp
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:15amPutin is a legitimate expert in both Judo and Sambo… he would kill the skinny twerp in the White House.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:15amActually, let‘s line ’em up to take on Vlad the Putin. First up: Nancy Pelosi. Second, the Cracked-Head Boy himself, Joe Biden. After up, the ticket can include everyone from Harry Reid and Chris Matthews to Steny Hoyer and Rachel Madcow. We could put it all on PPV with proceeds to go towards taking our friggin’ country back from the liberal pansies who have do so much to try and destroy us from within.
Yes, it would be a delightful thing to behold. Ah, a girl can dream, can’t she? :)
Report Post »ZTedster
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:36amHe’d slap Messiah around and call her Suzie.
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:05pmI hate Putin… but i would love to watch him tear Obama’s head off.
Report Post »jdw2469
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:33pmP-BO would look like Fred Ettish in there! No offense, but he‘s not exactly the most masculine commander in chief we’ve ever had!!! I would no doubt be in his corner because he is my president whether I agree with him or not!!!
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 3:47pm@ swampy , thanks for clarifying… I was confused about who the winner would be
Report Post »chazman
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 5:36pmIt would be OBAMMY. Putin is a black belt in Karate … and a KGB assassin.
Report Post »ryguy1985
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:44amAwww, too bad, I was hoping he would fall head first off the rock wall!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:42amObama had better start lifting those weights. Putin, the self-loving, strongman might come over here and kick his bony butt. Obama, could use his hypnotic powers of Hope and Change, along with the member of the Cracked-Head Club, Craneotomy-man, to distract and confuse Putin long enough for Border **** to sit on him, and lie him into unconsciousness.
Report Post »Putin’s plot, foiled again. “If it weren’t for those meddling progressives.” he was heard saying as he was led away by the TSA. “Next time, I will bring Hitler-mite, the dwarf Iranian, with me.”
Todays story was brought to you by the makers of Mush.
oldchevyguy
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:49pmHe should start to lift weights.It’s easy.He surrounds himself with dumbells.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:42amI hate to admit it but, he’s not too far off on that one. Let’s hope we can right the ship before it sinks.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:34pmsinks? 20,000 leagues under the sea. that be us.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:42amScary…….a leader who does things like this in public, most likely has a small weiner.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:35pmAnothy Weiner?
Report Post »Gideon300
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 3:38pmThe name Putin translates to English as Small Peter.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:40amHe should have gotten his frying pan at WalMart, the handle will break off if a loaf of bread touches it on the way home from the store.
Report Post »jtm
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:36amMoron
Report Post »avi8tor
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:35amSuprised old poot didn’t try this shirtless…what a maroon !
Report Post »Hoax And Chains
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:32amRussia has a man like Putin and we have… well… a nutless wonder of a pretender in the WH.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:31amWhen one of us flies a helicopter towing buckets of water to put out rampant forest fires while being the head of state, then I’ll feel at home making fun of Putin. The guy might look nuts, but really… he’s Russian. He’s hardcore, and he loves his country. Those things have pros and cons, but I don‘t think I’d “bubble over with laughter” if he was standing next to me.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:42amI agree he reminds me of Daniel Craig, tough.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:40amHe is a commie – but I would like to have a beer with him rather than our POTUS!
Report Post »Commando
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:30amPooty-poot power has gone to his tiny head and not his tiny muscles..
Report Post »Hoax And Chains
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:34am@COMMANDO, I don’t like the guy either but he holds an advanced belt in Judo (I think). Compare him to Obama. What do you hahve?
Report Post »Mark Tripp
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:16amYes, legit Judo expert
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:29amState Capitalist China, and Russian democracy. Glenn was correct when talking about how Van Jones changed his image, but nothing changed about his ideology. The same goes for China and Russia, they’re Communists and world domination and control are their goals.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:29amOnce a KGB, always a KGB…
Report Post »NotFooled
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:27amI love old style Communist Propaganda.
Meet the new “Dear Leader” same as the Old “Dear Leader”.
Democratic Socialism is in Russia? Wow, were have I seen that type of Government? That’s right in the White House, were people are ruled and not lead.
You silly commoners think you have a voice in this Government? HA! You’re silly and delusional. (Sarcasm)
But as Obama said yesterday. “Thank you to all that called your representatives to get this debt ceiling bill passed”… As if we had a choice in the bill. When all parties agree the people lose. The debt is still on its way “Leaning Forward” over a cliff.
Thanks for destroying our Country Liberal morons.
Report Post »bigfatslob
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:27amThe d@mn frying pan was made of ALUMINUM, even Obama could do that.
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:25amDo that to your HEAD
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:24amHe’s too sexy for his shirt..
Report Post »http://www.rightsaidfred.com
freeweever
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:23amIt is the kim jung ill affect he like obama is trying to make himself out to be a demi-god.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:21am.
What’s more, the chino-clad Russian PM tried to sound tough too, reportedly calling the U.S. a parasite on the global economy.
Well Vlad your like a Small dog humping the leg of the World!…………
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:18am.
Report Post »Could be lil’ Vlad complaining about his grip………