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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Tue Dec 10, 2013, 12:44 PM Dec 2013

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Obama, Cameron and Denmark Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt take a selfie

forgot link : http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/12/10/barack-michelle-obama-david-cameron-helle-thorning-schmidt/3951041/

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Obama, Cameron and Denmark Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt take a selfie (Original Post) dipsydoodle Dec 2013 OP

I don't know why, but I like that photo. TwilightGardener Dec 2013 #1

Me too which is why I searched for it. dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #2

At a memorial service? aristocles Dec 2013 #3

It was a celebratory atmosphere. madaboutharry Dec 2013 #4

Fuck some & the horse some rode in on Cirque du So-What Dec 2013 #11

Michelle looks cheery. lightcameron Dec 2013 #5

But Helle looks happy. dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #6

Daughter-in-law of the Kinnocks muriel_volestrangler Dec 2013 #12

Yes I wiki'd her out of curiousity earlier. dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #13

No, there's barely been any hereditary lordships created in the last couple of decades muriel_volestrangler Dec 2013 #14

You can tell Michelle is the grown-up in this happy little group...LOL...n/t monmouth3 Dec 2013 #7

You can tell it's her task to look appropriately somber. The Prez has to meet and mingle. TwilightGardener Dec 2013 #8

Absolutely. Also, these are people he doesn't get to see all that much, he likes them, they have a monmouth3 Dec 2013 #9

K&R Nye Bevan Dec 2013 #10

I'm embarrassed to say this but, nyquil_man Dec 2013 #15

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)

1. I don't know why, but I like that photo.

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 12:48 PM

Dec 2013

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

2. Me too which is why I searched for it.

Reply to TwilightGardener (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 12:51 PM

Dec 2013

Actually picked that up from Sky News on tv. That will be all over the world soon I guess.

aristocles

(594 posts)

3. At a memorial service?

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 12:53 PM

Dec 2013

Some will consider this inappropriate.

madaboutharry

(42,037 posts)

4. It was a celebratory atmosphere.

Reply to aristocles (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 12:56 PM

Dec 2013

People there were singing and dancing.

Cirque du So-What

(29,885 posts)

11. Fuck some & the horse some rode in on

Reply to aristocles (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 06:46 PM

Dec 2013

Sanctimonious scolds contribute to worldwide suckage.

lightcameron

(224 posts)

5. Michelle looks cheery.

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 01:00 PM

Dec 2013

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

6. But Helle looks happy.

Reply to lightcameron (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 01:03 PM

Dec 2013

I'd noticed her at EU meetings and wondered who she was. Now I know.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,599 posts)

12. Daughter-in-law of the Kinnocks

Reply to dipsydoodle (Reply #6)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 07:37 PM

Dec 2013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helle_Thorning-Schmidt

I can't help wonder if that influenced the introduction of a British boyfriend in Borgen.

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

13. Yes I wiki'd her out of curiousity earlier.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #12)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 07:44 PM

Dec 2013

Do you know if the title gets passed on ?

muriel_volestrangler

(106,599 posts)

14. No, there's barely been any hereditary lordships created in the last couple of decades

Reply to dipsydoodle (Reply #13)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 07:57 PM

Dec 2013

I think the Earl of Stockton, ie Harold Macmillan, was the last (there was the Thatcher baronetcy - so that spiv fool Mark is 'Sir', officially. At least when they sucked up to Thatcher by creating that, they knew they still had to keep him out of the Lords).

monmouth3

(3,871 posts)

7. You can tell Michelle is the grown-up in this happy little group...LOL...n/t

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 01:10 PM

Dec 2013

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)

8. You can tell it's her task to look appropriately somber. The Prez has to meet and mingle.

Reply to monmouth3 (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 01:16 PM

Dec 2013

monmouth3

(3,871 posts)

9. Absolutely. Also, these are people he doesn't get to see all that much, he likes them, they have a

Reply to TwilightGardener (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 01:20 PM

Dec 2013

camaraderie going and I love it.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

10. K&R

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 06:39 PM

Dec 2013

nyquil_man

(1,443 posts)

15. I'm embarrassed to say this but,

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 08:02 PM

Dec 2013

when I first saw those pictures, I thought that was Stephanie Cutter.

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