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Former European Council President Van Rompuy Appointed As Japan Haiku Ambassador
Remember Gollum, pardon Herman van Rompuy, the former president of the European Commission with a penchant for lugubrious drollery on both Twitter and in real life?
After disappearing from the public scene last November when his term in EC expired, the Belgian politician has re-emerged, or rather, reincarnated into his new role. And while it is not hardly as dramatic as the emergence of a Hermina van Rompuy, his new role will surely raise several (knowing) eyebrows.
Meet: Japan's new Haiku Ambassador. From the Japan Times:
The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it has named former European Council President Herman Van Rompuy as ambassador for enhancing relations between Japan and the European Union through haiku.
Van Rompuy visited Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his office the same day.
The Belgian politician said he will do more to further develop Japan-EU relations as a haiku poet and a Japanophile. Abe asked for his support for bettering bilateral ties.
Who says politicians don't have real world skills. The question now: what will DieselBOOM's job be once the (latest( artificial European monetary union is finally torn apart.
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WTF? More and more onionesque articles, becoming harder to tell if this is news or Farcews.
Which ZH?
Weird world, getting weirder.
Meanwhile, fresh upload, Reggae Flute? Uh--huh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZcFjEOr2s
Haiku!
Bless you
They should have done that 15 years ago as a full time job.
Van Rompuy was the architect of the bailout of the German and French banks....ahem.....Greece.
Dijsselbloem will either get a nice cushy job at the EU somewhere; go back to his labour party in NL that will be wiped out next time there is an election there; or will get a nice cushy position at some board of directors at some semi-public institution so he can F that up.
This Hermina van Rompuy looks like some character from a Grimms fairytale.
Hermina should get a refund and a free redo. The first go at the plastic surgery sucks.
I wish him the best
in his important new role
nah, fuck him sideways
Tinky, that was quick!
I am shamed by your slick post
Hare and the Tortise!
Never could Haiku
Takes too much effort to think
Have a beer instead
The mid-June plum rain
Moistens the bank clerk's jockey shorts
Charisma of a damp rag
Herman Von Rompuy
The Ambassador Gollum
The whole world is fucked...
Well, since van Rompuy is the "Ambassador of Haiku" (I wasn't even aware of the existence of such a post) we should put forth our best haiku efforts to honor that.
Ahem.
Global governance
Looks like Gollum found a mate
Let's enslave the Greeks
Your turn!
From the first rains of spring
Bloom delicate cherry blossoms
Greek repayments fund rent-boy bunga bunga parties.
They sure recycle clowns.
LOL, twins.
As the huge bubbles become more unstable there is greater volatility.
All this central bank printed money has bubblized all assets.
The bubbles need some pins.
Apparently, there is even a bubble in international politics...
Precious golden ring
Corrupts our mind with evil
Never lets us go
Gollum's Haiku by Jennifer Elluin, Aug 28, 2011
We keep rewarding those who have failed with new positions of leadership.
What a crazy world we live in.
The crooks are in charge from the President of the U.S. all the way down to the most lowly regulator.
I would not call that post a new position of leadership, though
Compared to the "Revolving Doors" principle or the "Pass over as Highly Paid Consultant of Lobbyists" or even only "Highly Paid Public Speaker"...
... it even smacks of a moderate, reasonable compost heap for Old Gollum for his services as glorified secretary to the EU Council
The garden gnome was never a match for Barreloso.
It' s the new Mandarins. They are never without some kind of cushy public job as long as they don't rat anyone out or get caught too obviously as a perv/pedo.
Proof that Abe is sick again. The last time he got sick as PM, he lost control of his bowels. This time, to the great misfortune of the Japanese people, he has lost control of his mental capacities.
It can only benefit the Japanese if Abe has lost control of his mental capacities. Perhaps then he will stop attempting to prop up the false front that is the Japanese economy and let it crash like it should have long ago.
fuck you Hermann Van
fuck the Rompuy family
fuck your whole life bitch
Hermann van Rumpuy
Can lick my rump. Oy!
Lick my rusty sheriff's badge clean, you bat-eared, goblin-faced punk!
Governing reduced
down to counting syllables
how appropiate
Guess it is time, to
Rehypothecate any
Words infinitely
he and blair should get together both are useless f*cks.
A flying phuq yes
Gollum took one hard in ass
Useless twat Nippon
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note the strict adherence to the 5-7-5 syllable meter.
When does he fall in to the boiling lava?
Someone be sure to send this to Nigel Farage.
Fate the Magnificent
"Push the Button, Max"
I've always said Rompuy looks like a garden gnome, so this job is right up his street given Japan's liking for garden ornaments.
Hopefully this'll keep him out of Europe for a while. Pity the Japanese.
> The question now: what will DieselBOOM's job be once the (latest( artificial European monetary union is finally torn apart.
Tragicomedy Ambassador to Greece enhancing it's relations with UE leftovers through drama
Ghastly sight on air
Liesman fellates Bernanke
Swallows at finish
Seems an awful lot of trouble to go to to hide being an asian sex tourist.
You took the words right out of my mouth, man.
::teary eyed::
;>)
Future Asahi Shimbun headline:
"House elf Dobby spotted in Akihabara buying soiled panties from schoolgirls"
Konnichiwa Motherfuckers!