Liking girls beats being gay - Berlusconi

Agent Smith

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi dismissed calls to resign today over reports he helped a 17-year-old girl who attended parties at his house, saying it was "better to like beautiful girls than to be gay".
He refused to apologise for his fondness for young women and denied doing anything improper, after the case of the girl known as Ruby filled Italian newspapers last week and opposition politicians called for him to resign.
"As always, I work without interruption and if occasionally I happen to look a beautiful girl in the face, it's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay," he told a meeting at a motorcycle industry show in Milan.
"You should be completely reassured about the government and about the fact that it's a government that still has a majority that intends to govern until the end of its term," he said.
Mr Berlusconi, who has tangled with the media over parties and women in the past, has been under increasing pressure since newspapers last week carried reports about the teenager who attended parties at his sumptuous villa at Arcore near Milan.
The Corriere della Sera newspaper reported details of a phone call it said Mr Berlusconi made to a Milan police chief on Ruby's behalf when she was detained over a separate theft incident in May, raising questions of whether he improperly intervened.
Mr Berlusconi says he helped Ruby, whose real name is reported by Italian newspapers to be Karima El Mahroug, but he denies exerting any improper pressure on police officers.
"This recent storm in the newspapers is a paper storm," Mr Berlusconi said. "You will see in the end that nothing else happened apart from an act of solidarity by the prime minister, which I would have been ashamed not to do."
The teenager, who has since turned 18, has told newspapers she received €7,000 from Mr Berlusconi after attending two parties. She has denied having sex with the 74 year-old premier.

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Why was nobody give me 7k to go to a party when i was 17.


I'd have been happy with a 6 pack of dutch and a naggin...

bigwormbundoran

Agent Smith wrote: »

I'd have been happy with a 6 pack of dutch and a naggin...

I still would be

starbelgrade

Himself & Stephen Fry should get together.

Zillah

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi dismissed calls to resign today over reports he helped a 17-year-old girl who attended parties at his house

Is this a crude translation from Italian or something? Has he given an explanation for why he gave this girl thousands of euro?

thebigbiffo

yep - in my mind, being straight is sooooooo much better than being gay...i agree with berlo

Stinicker

Respect Silvio

Dyr

i believe he is correct.

Also: He paid her 7000k and did'nt get his swiss? And he's in charge of their economy?

Sea Sharp

So long as it's all legal: Legend!

artanevilla

This man is a hero.

Nodin

Agent Smith wrote: »

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Why was nobody give me 7k to go to a party when i was 17.


I'd have been happy with a 6 pack of dutch and a naggin...

Possibly because - like me - you were male and an evil looking bastard....?

Zilah wrote:

Has he given an explanation for why he gave this girl thousands of euro? ...

I'm glad you asked that question.

Mr Berlusconi has admitted sending an aide to take custody of Ruby from the Milan police station.
"I'm a person of the heart, and I take action whenever there is someone in need of help," he said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11667949

The heart, sez he. Funny name for a langer. Presumably a nice face, long legs and a good sized set of bosoms helps win the "heart" over.

Morlar

artanevilla wrote: »

This man is a hero.

I am starting to think so too. Says what he wants does what he wants and despite pissing off liberals and media around the world doesn't give a ****. Plus the people/voters still love him.

Manach

Mr Berlusconi seems to giving Prince Philip a run for his money - fair play to him.

Lab_Mouse

He makes our politicians look like amateurs

MrStuffins

Pfffffft! So he gave a 17 year old a load of money, possibly in hope of getting his Rock 'n' Roll, so what?

Here, they just take the money and everyone else in the country end up being the ones getting ****ed!

Cookie_Monster

that man just gets cooler and cooler

the_syco

Morlar wrote: »

Says what he wants does what he wants and despite pissing off liberals and media around the world doesn't give a ****. Plus the people/voters still love him.

So he's an Italian Bertie?

pickarooney

Is Berlusconi any good as a politician? I don't think I've ever read anything about him that discussed actual politics.

Morlar

the_syco wrote: »

So he's an Italian Bertie?

No.

Seaneh

Zillah wrote: »

Is this a crude translation from Italian or something? Has he given an explanation for why he gave this girl thousands of euro?

He's a billionare, 7k is a few hours interest to him.

flyton5

Does he know this from experience or is he knocking it before trying it?

Princess Peach

I'd do him

orourkeda

We all love a bit of snatch

Morlar

Princess Peach wrote: »

I'd do him

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Politics/images-2/silvio-berlusconi-adjusting-tie.jpg

Princess Peach

Morlar wrote: »

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Politics/images-2/silvio-berlusconi-adjusting-tie.jpg

Suit, accent, money.

What girl can resist?

prinz

Morlar wrote: »

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Politics/images-2/silvio-berlusconi-adjusting-tie.jpg

I know it was you Silvio.....you broke my heart...

flyton5

Princess Peach wrote: »

Suit, accent, money.

What girl can resist?

Any girls with standards who aren't moneygrabbers...I'm sure there's some out there...somewhere.

Angron

Oh Silvio, is there no end to your shenanigans.

squod

Denny M wrote: »

Oh Silvio, is there no end to your shaggings.

FYP

Stinicker

Anybody got a photo of the girl in question?

PanchoVilla

the_syco wrote: »

So he's an Italian Bertie?

Or a pedo JFK.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Morlar wrote: »

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Politics/images-2/silvio-berlusconi-adjusting-tie.jpg

Smug bastard.

aDeener

Morlar wrote: »

I am starting to think so too. Says what he wants does what he wants and despite pissing off liberals and media around the world doesn't give a ****. Plus the people/voters still love him.

+1

Alfred123

va fancula ! Berlo, he is the numero Uno. I'd do him myself - if i were gaye. Thankfully, i am not .. (really BIG heave of relief here .. sorry, Guys). I go more for the dark skinned ones that can look 19 while being 29. Whens last time you saw them apples, eh ? Capisci !?

scotchy

Stinicker wrote: »

Anybody got a photo of the girl in question?

Her name is Karima Keyek, Google her. Not a lot of non pixelated photos of her around yet.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8104980/Silvio-Berlusconis-alleged-sex-parties-Bunga-bunga-sweeps-Italian-popular-culture.html

.

Doop

thebigbiffo wrote: »

yep - in my mind, being straight is sooooooo much better than being gay...i agree with berlo

Yeah, the gays deserve your pity and maybe a bit of condemnation too just for good measure..
:rolleyes:

Morlar

The guy is a treasure trove of classic one liners ;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3041288.stm

# At a rally during the 2006 election campaign:

"Read The Black Book of Communism and you will discover that in the China of Mao, they did not eat children, but had them boiled to fertilise the fields."

# On left-wing voters at a conference of retailers during the 2006 campaign:

"I trust the intelligence of the Italian people too much to think that there are so many pricks around who would vote against their own best interests."

# At the launch of the 2006 campaign:

"I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone."

# Promising to put family values at the centre of his campaign:

"I will try to meet your expectations, and I promise from now on, two-and-a-half months of absolute sexual abstinence, until [election day on] 9 April."

# To German MEP Martin Schulz, at start of Italy's EU presidency in July 2003:

"I know that in Italy there is a man producing a film on Nazi concentration camps - I shall put you forward for the role of Kapo (guard chosen from among the prisoners) - you would be perfect."

During the controversy raging over the above remark:

"I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I am not sure I will be able to do it."

To a German newspaper:

"In Italy I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German."

# At the Brussels summit, at the end of Italy's EU presidency, in December 2003:

"Let's talk about football and women." (Turning to four-times-married German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder.) "Gerhard, why don't you start?"

# On Italian secretaries (comments made at the New York stock exchange):

"Italy is now a great country to invest in... today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries... superb girls."

# On Mussolini:

"Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile."

# In the wake of 11 September:

"We must be aware of the superiority of our civilisation, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and - in contrast with Islamic countries - respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance...

"The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilisation, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago."

His response to worldwide condemnation of the above speech:

"They have tried to hang me on an isolated word, taken out of context from my whole speech."

"I did not say anything against the Islamic civilisation... It's the work of some people in the Italian leftist press who wanted to tarnish my image and destroy my long-standing relations with Arabs and Muslims."

# On Italian justice:

"Eighty-five per cent of the Italian press is left-wing and among the judges it is even worse... There is a cancer in Italy that we have to treat: the politicisation of the magistracy."

On judges pursuing former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on charges relating to the Mafia:

"Those judges are doubly mad! In the first place, because they are politically mad, and in the second place because they are mad anyway.

"If they do that job it is because they are anthropologically different from the rest of the human race."

On his trial, now suspended, in which he denies charges of bribing judges to prevent the sale of a state-owned food company to a rival:

"I believed and still believe that citizen Berlusconi should be praised for having prevented the state's wealth from being looted... I was expecting a Gold Medal for Civil Worthiness for ensuring the state earned 2,000bn [lire]."

# On himself:

"The best political leader in Europe and in the world."

"There is no-one on the world stage who can compete with me."

"Out of love for Italy, I felt I had to save it from the left."

"The right man in the right job."

"I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice."

# A joke about Aids told by Mr Berlusconi:

"An Aids patient asks his doctor whether the sand treatment prescribed him will do any good. 'No', the doctor replies, 'but you will get accustomed to living under the earth'."

His response to critics who said the joke was offensive:

"They have lost their minds; they really have come to the end of the line, indeed they have gone beyond it. I would advise them, too, to undergo sand treatment..."

# On his alleged conflict of interest as prime minister and one of Italy's biggest tycoons, with major media holdings:

"If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest."

# On a proposal to base an EU food standards agency in Finland, rather than the Italian city of Parma:

"Parma is synonymous with good cuisine. The Finns don't even know what prosciutto is. I cannot accept this."

FoxT

.. that we make Silvio an honorary Legend of the Boards

Bottle_of_Smoke

He's a sleazy phuck. The crap he gets away with because he's a billionaire makes me think we should consider socialism as a valid policy

scientific1982

I kinda admire how villainous he is. Its funny but scary that people like him have so much power. Its like when your younger and and you think that the good guy always wins, but then you grow older and all you can do is laugh.

Morlar

FoxT wrote: »

.. that we make Silvio an honorary Legend of the Boards

Accosento. È un tizio.

be right babelfish translator, be right.

Oblomov

As a multi billionaire business he is used to people running around doing exactly as he asks...... well, demands.... then the press get involved .. and stories galore...

The guy has done more to put Italy back on the map and part of Europe... ..call it sleaze or what ever... that's Italian business...... anyone who thinks it's any different ....... see how quickly a bung disappears into the pocket....

Next, it will be his Mafia connections and a private home for an eighteen year old.... hmm, young lady.... who will be yelling Bunga Bunga..and giving the finger to Stephen Fry...

The man gets my vote.

galwayrush

Lab_Mouse wrote: »

He makes our politicians look like amateurs

They are amateurs, highly paid chancers the lot of them.

Pace2008

galwayrush wrote: »

They are amateurs, highly paid chancers the lot of them.

It'll take some doing to steal the "Oxymoron of the week" title from this post.

Anita M.

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=657387&publicationSubCategoryId=200

Here is what women think of him, we think he must be gay as well because he is a small little

chughes

Bambi wrote: »

Also: He paid her 7000k and did'nt get his swiss? And he's in charge of their economy?

Maybe she had the swiss Guard in place to stop him.

dsmythy

I agree with Silvio. I much prefer having sex with women rather than men.