Lazy Russian Wins Election
today’s bbc gossip page features this gem…
Tottenham’s Russian forward Roman Pavlyuchenko has been elected a deputy for Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party after winning a seat on the regional council in his home town of Stavropol. (The Guardian)
further background…
Implausibly, Pavlyuchenko has been elected a deputy for Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party in his home town of Stavropol, in the northern Caucasus. The 26-year-old secured a seat on the regional council as his party won 63 per cent of the vote in polls in the Russian south.
russian constituents: don’t get your hopes up though, dude is a lazy sack of shit…
I looked at my watch and saw that the training session had gone on for exactly two hours! Then, there is another half an hour in the gym. Two and a half hours. Can you imagine that?
The weights started to get to me, and I stopped and said to the trainer, ‘I can’t do this’. That’s how they work - I’m shocked. I thought it would be a lot easier.”
