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French president Nick Sarko has once again demonstrated his touchiness about his lack of international standing by sending operatives ahead of a planned factory visit to make sure he isn't overshadowed by less vertically-challenged workers. According to the La République des Pyrénées, Le Prez is due to pop into the Turbomeca …

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  1. Steen Hive
    FAIL

    Nork

    Sounds like a transcript of Kim Jong-Il visiting the People's Glorious Revolutionary Aeronautical Works, really.

  2. blackworx
    Happy

    That last paragraph

    Made me think of a line in the *ahem* classic midget spy spoof "For Y'Ur Height Only". It went something like "what I lack in height I make up for in other departments, hur hur hur hur".

    Also, I wonder what Sarkozy's reaction would be if someone were to rub his head and say "awww, does the wittle pwesident feel all self consciouscy wonsciousy about his wittle weggy wegs".

    1. The Vociferous Time Waster

      simples

      he'd have you shot

    2. dogged

      Answer:

      "Non. Moi, je suis shagging Carla Bruni. En coulez".

      1. Captain TickTock
        Headmaster

        En coulez?

        I think encule' - is the word you're after : http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encul%C3%A9

        Bon baisers,

        Le Maquis de Grammaire et Vocabulaire.

        1. dogged
          Stop

          pedantry

          If I'd meant a proper French answer, I'd hardly have used the term "shagging".

          et "bon baisers" à toi, aussi.

          1. Captain TickTock
            Pint

            Hard to tell...

            With all the word stealing that goes on ;-)

            (in both directions across the channel)

            And who in their right mind would use the same word to mean kiss and f*ck?

            une biere SVP

            1. Captain TickTock
              Pint

              et une

              pour mon ami.

  3. Dazed and Confused

    Discrimination

    Doesn't this count as discrimination? I'm sure the would be up roar if he'd said "get all the ??? people out of the room"

    ??? choose your own ethnic/gender/... group to insert in here.

  4. JohnG

    Putin same height

    Vladimir Putin is also 5' 5" but it doesn't appear to bother him at all.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Black Helicopters

      For some reason

      I expect people to be less inclined to tease Putin about his height.

      Mumble mumble KGB mumble mumble polonium tea mumble mumble Anna Politkovskaya mumble mumble...

  5. Winkypop Silver badge
    Flame

    Bring your kid to work day

    Hey sonny, would you like me to lift you up so's you can see?

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Literally in de Gaulle's shadow

    As "the one with the big 'ooter" was 6ft 5in

  7. Ball boy Silver badge
    Thumb Up

    Wrong measurement

    Where I come from, the critical meansurement is the one from the neck UP. Oh hold on, he still loses out by a country mile. Poor man - he just can't win, can he?

    The hand because that's how they measure their lunch in France.

  8. Trokair 1
    Coat

    Had to be said

    Napoleon complex.

    The one with the paintball gun in the pocket please.

  9. Graham Marsden
    FAIL

    How tall was Napoleon Bonaparte...?

    Boney surrounded himself with members of the Imperial Guard who all stood at least 6' tall and it didn't seem to cause him a problem!

    (Although that begs the question "How tall was the Duke of Wellington"... ;-) )

    1. Captain TickTock
      Headmaster

      How tall?

      Not that short apparently... he was of average height for his time. It was the British press which caricaturised him as being short and it stuck.

    2. dogged

      Wellington

      was about six foot two, according to wikianswers.

  10. pedrodude
    Coffee/keyboard

    Keyboard now, please.

    Just seen the "shortarse" tag. That's why I read El Reg.

  11. Rogerborg

    Wellington cheated as well though

    He only ever walked on mounds of dead Frenchmen.

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    He just needs a big top hat

    Doesn't really matter if you're not at all well bred, etc...

  13. hamcheeseandonion
    Pint

    Telling it like it is - right on, far out and solid Bob

    Four words:

    Randy

    Newman

    Short

    People

    'Nuff said

  14. Mr Young
    Go

    I sometimes wish I had small man syndrome

    But all I got was knackered knees and a sore back instead. Bah

  15. Nick Kew
    Coat

    Would you sneer at Obama for his colour?

    No? Thought not. So why this mockery of another physical characteristic?

    Mine's the shabby one of indeterminate size.

    1. Svantevid
      Thumb Up

      You've missed the point

      It's not about the height, Nick. It's about him desperately trying to hide it, to the point of removing all non-dwarfish workers from the room he is in.

      _That_ fully deserves ridicule.

      Kudos for the "shortarse" tag, El Reg.

    2. ratfox
      Pint

      The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

      I guess the difference is that Obama does not pick people of the right color to appear with him so as to make him look good...

      Cheers!

    3. Rattus Rattus

      Why the mockery?

      Does Obama forbid light-skinned people around him on a photo-op so he doesn't look too dark by comparison? No? And yet Sarko won't allow tall people in a photo with him because he doesn't want to look too short. Well, there's your difference then. Sarkozy himself has made this physical characteristic an issue, we're just running with it.

    4. Doogs

      Why?

      Because he doesn't get everyone to "black up" to make himself feel better, perhaps?

      They're not mocking his physical characteristics, They're mocking his mental problems. So much more acceptable nowadays...

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