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[marybourg]

1. If true, Biden is in good shape.

I’m his age and would fall over if I tried that.

[Hoyt]

9. Biden kneeled down again yesterday during the Medal of Honor presentation. He got up easily.

I was surprised too.

[marybourg]

14. Can you imagine trump'o lard trying that?

[Hoyt]

15. Now, that made me laugh.

[left-of-center2012]

19. This

“Once Biden bestowed the medal on Puckett, he asked his extended family to come up for photos and invited Moon to jump in for a shot as well, with both men kneeling down on either side of Puckett's wheelchair.”

[Caliman73]

30. His ability to do this speaks to 2 things in my mind.

1. His physical fitness at his age is pretty good. He feels confident in his physical abilities to put himself in that position knowing that he can get up without effort and assistance.

2. He is a humble man. While the common idea is that any person with the audacity to run for President is somewhat full of themselves is a fairly valid one, Biden shows us again and again that he is really aware of honor, service, and humility. He is THE PRESIDENT, the Commander in Chief, and very often, the most important person in the room. However, he very often, and genuinely puts himself in an equal if not deferential position to others. This man was awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary service to his country and Joe was aware that the man deserved to be at the center of the picture and because of the man's age would be seated. Joe did not want to stand next to him and block out family of force one of them to take a knee.

Perhaps I am reading too much into this, but I think my assessment is pretty accurate.

[soothsayer]

2. Cute!

[underpants]

3. I hope there isn't an Ottoman in the Oval

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[Diamond_Dog]

4. We watched him do that every week when I was a kid!

[underpants]

5. On reruns for me

That show had so many inside tricks and genre shaping changes that we viewers had no idea about.

[Diamond_Dog]

6. Absolutely

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Ottomans were done after WWI. Watch out for the little padded popcorn table. nt

[underpants]

8. I loved my ottoman

Now I have and electric recliner with a USB charging port.

[Hoyt]

10. Me too. I'm starting to think I should have opted for the lift chair.

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[True Blue American]

11. I have 2 electric recliners

Am ready to trade them for my old Lazy Boys. One flip and I was back!

[LittleGirl]

16. I love my reclining Lazy Boy sofa

Can’t find anything like that over here in Europe!

[True Blue American]

12. That would flip me on my butt!:)

[zipplewrath]

13. Hassock

It may have been a hassock. That's what we had growing up.

https://www.homestratosphere.com/hassock-vs-ottoman-vs-pouf-vs-footstool/

[Generic Brad]

21. Ottomans rule

That is why there was once an ottoman empire.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. With the name "Ottoman Empire", it should be a very laid-back form of government.

So you want to be a citizen?

Can you kick back and put up your feet?

You're in!

[ProfessorGAC]

32. If It's Season 3 Dick...

...he nimbly sidesteps the thing instead of tripping over it.
In later years, I admired the attention to detail where the reshot the opening nearly identically, except "Rob" skips around it instead of tumbling over it.
Obviously, my awareness of production was not sufficiently tuned when I was 7. But, everyone noticed him not tripping over it when it first happened!

[smb]

33. LOL

I was reminded of that bit by the parody at the beginning of WandaVision.

[underpants]

34. Yes.

[Sneederbunk]

17. Heard Dotard did the same thing for Weird Al Yankovic.

[catrose]

18. So the president shows us what taking a knee means? Cool.

[left-of-center2012]

20. I don't believe it

I met Dick Van Dyke once back around 1979 when he came into the lobby of the Town and Country Hotel in San Diego.
I, along with about six others, was working the front desk

It was late evening, around 9 PM, and he was so drunk he actually fell onto the floor. He got up OK.

At the time news about him was that he was 'on the wagon' and had quit drinking.

[FakeNoose]

23. He used to be a drunk

... but he gave it up years ago. I don't think he would have lived into his 90's if he were still drinking like that. I guess the term for him is recovered alcoholic.

It's hard to believe that Dick Van Dyke has outlived most of his contemporaries. Carl Reiner died last year, Mary Tyler Moore passed a few years ago. I believe Mel Brooks wrote for the DVD show (?) and he's still kickin' around.

[ChubbyStar]

26. So DVD was drunk and news was he was sober

What the hell does that have to do with this incident?

[left-of-center2012]

27. That gave me a laugh. Thanks !

[left-of-center2012]

28. Oh, and this ...

It means van D is a liar and not to be believed.

[ChubbyStar]

29. Thank fucking GOD for ignore

I won't be seeing you again, ta ta

[left-of-center2012]

35. Ta ta ?

[RegularJam]

31. I don't know very much about DVD....

But many of us consider recovery to be extremely admirable. Additionally, so many of those I know through programs have dedicated themselves to honesty.

[Bucky]

37. Breaking 'news' on Sean Hannity!!!1!!

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. 3.....2.......1.......

"LOOK AT BIDEN WORSHIPPING AND SHOWING HIS FEALTY TO A STALWART OF THE HOLLYWOOD LIBERAL ELITE ROYALTY!"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Joe is a kind and decent person

This does not surprise me

[PCIntern]

36. And you know what?

Even if he still drinking, so what? He has brought so much happiness and joy and common sense good humor to the world that he can do anything he wants as far as I’m concerned. If he made it this far and he’s pickled and he seems to be fully sentient and functioning and never hurt anyone to our knowledge in the public sphere, then that’s all that really matters.

He is a gifted talented man with Foibles just like the rest of us.