Geez,
The alleged impropriety of Monsieur IMF has been fuelled by yet another allegation of conduct unbecoming of the president of the IMF.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/17/3218630.htm?section=justin
Can you believe it? This time the woman alleges he ‘attacked me like a rutting chimp’. She certainly has a way with words. She is an ‘auteur’.
Imagine him coming out of the shower, no doubt having scrubbed himself up vigourishly, et voila, the maid was there and sans un moment to lose, he chucks out all caution to the wind, hurls himself onto the maid. Afterwards, hurries to catch the plane but with ten minutes to go he is led away by the police. His wife stands by her man. Hundreds of Billions are wiped off share markets world wide. How stupid.
Still, ‘ he attacked me like a rutting chimp’ really was a good description.
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Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Dear gerard, one cannot write “chucks out”, and, ‘” to the wind”!
Atomou will explain it. I can’t really; it’s just my pommie intuition.
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Bye The Bye Voice: Are you HASP (in THe Drum)? If you don’t know what the acronym stands for…I guess you aren’t.
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No doubt this HASP person is uproariously amusing, intellectually out of the ordinary and subtly subversive. If I find out otherwise I shall not be amused. But in any case your batting average of zero on this point remains unblemished, Jules.
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Heavily armed spelling police.
I’m surprised that you didn’t note it, even though it turns out, that it is not, indeed, your very good self 🙂
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Of course I can write what I like. I haven’t exactly been unsuccessful with my words.’ Chucks out’ or ‘in the wind’ here we come.
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Indeed, for this topic, the combination of chuck and hurl in the same sentence seemed singularly appropriate to me.
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Maybe I’m wrong then voice? As Blob Bellies would write.
You see it is a well known phrase. Like throwing the baby out with the bath water.
One wouldn’t write, or say, ” chucking and throwing away the baby with the bath water.” Or, throwing ‘and tossing’ the baby with the bath water.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter. I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG…So there.
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Of COURSE you are right, dear. And I am wrong. Now where are your pills?
I basically moved the subject sideways, JL, as is my wont.
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You and Humphrey Godspell must be having quite a tête a tête, sitting on the fence.
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If you were to call HG a long-winded, mealy-mouthed, intellectually challenged, insinuating, self-fornicator who regularly re-routes his PC, there is a possibility that some people might consider that remark a deathly insult.
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Gez, I reckon a rutting chimp in an enclosed space would render anybody in any language stuck for words. I understand your impressionable take on this translation.
Mate … ‘and sans un moment to lose, he chucks out all caution to the wind, hurls himself onto the maid’ … you excel. Voice had something to say in admiration of this choice of words as ‘appropriate’. Too right. I wonder too many steaks at the barbecue and prawns and a few tinnies. 😉
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That poor New York maid. DSK apparently has six lawyers, and an effectively infinite amount of money available to investigate and discredit her. She will certainly be viciously abused in court. Having been assaulted myself (not sexually) my heart goes out to her. She will need strong emotional support. At least in such a high profile case she’ll have strongly focused and high quality legal support,
I have a friend who was sexually assaulted sixty years ago, and despite a successful marriage and career and strong personality and personal qualities she has struggled intermittently with bouts of depression and low self worth, which she largely attributes to the abusive legal process.
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It’s a good point Voice. The court process is demeaning in lots of ways. It’s the same for witnesses in trials. That’s why I wasn’t sorry that Osama didn’t live to go to trial. Of course I wouldn’t object to a trial, but the thought of all those victims and families being dragged through the world’s media, just leaves me wondering if it would have been worht it.
In the case of this banker, what seems quite unbelievable, is that he seems to have gone from a lucid, highly intelligent thinker, to an attacker; abandoning his senses.
No doubt they will try to say that he was either set up, or led on.,,,Any way his career is over: he’s gone from banker to wanker. Corny I know, bit I couldn’t resist it 🙂
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If only that were true, JL, the wanker thing I mean. Better for everybody.
When something like this happens, everyone views it through the lens of their own experience and projects that experience onto the events.
In my experience lucidity and intelligence only make things worse; they enable the man to justify intellectually the actions to which he already feels emotionally entitled.
Wealth and power leading to a feeling of sexual entitlement is a common theme. I don’t see the assault as dissimilar to rugby player syndrome.
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Maybe he’ll do an OJ?
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There are no witnesses.
The woman could fold for any number of reasons. She will be subject to gross vilification by DSK (through other people of course). It will take up a large amount of her time. DSK can drag the process out until the accumulated pressures cause her to collapse. That’s a normal technique by assaulters.
She’s just an ordinary person. Not a crusader for justice and goodness. He poses no continued threat to her in the case she changes her story to get him off. Making a complaint is normal, but there would seem to a big downside to seeing it through, and very little upside. Possibly if she were a bit brighter she wouldn’t have gone to the police. No wonder the French woman didn’t make a formal complaint, especially since her own mother didn’t support her.
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Anyone dealt with by the US system of law is poor. Poor maid and poor MSK.
The law and its justice system is as much a consumable product as Ronald McDonald’s beef burgers are. One wonders if make-up is used prior to the hearings. Are the police guards getting a bit of a roseate blush powdering over their faces, a bit of covering of blemishes with rouge? Are jury told to get haircuts, polish their shoes?
It is predicted amongst the media and those that now studiously follow the ‘show’ that a not-guilty plea will be entered into. This will ensure that Mr Dominique Strauss Kahn’s hold up in the US will continue for many more months, if not years.
No doubt this will be seen as a Mecca for the merchants of this very profitable consumable product called ‘Justice in America’.
But as the song goes; ‘winter in America is cold’.
Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn is now tucked away in an apartment with the media circus continuing. Double Decker tourist buses are now diverted past his address. “On your right ladies and gentlemen you have our Stock Exchange, on your left Mr Strauss-Kahn’s temporary abode.” Everyone is craning their necks to get a glimpse; jokes about rutting chimpanzees follow.
In the US everything has to become a show or circus, a kind of ‘Bold and Beautiful’ with touches of Oprah chucked in for extra effect.
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C’mon gerard, let us in on the chimpanzee jokes.
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This comment seems immoderate, gerard. The US is not exceptional in its strong coverage of the DSK scandal.
No doubt, even if he did it, DSK will see himself as the victim. In the case of the assault against me, the attacker felt genuinely aggrieved about the time, inconvenience, and money it cost him to mount a legal case against me in order to get away with it, including bludgeoning an emotionally vulnerable person into committing perjury for him.
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So when you say you’re en route, you have to take care with those French vowel sounds.
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Of course in England it’s root and in Austwalia it’s rowt…..nyk nyk.
It always makes me chuckle when I hear locals talking about rowting their computers 🙂
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No doubt Australians in England have a bit of a chuckle too, JL, perhaps on their side mingled with a tinge of astonishment.
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That’s because Aussies have dirty minds 😉
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Those NY cops are so rough, I almost expected them to shoot MR Strauss Kahn in the head, what was good for Osama, might be good for Strauss too…
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I wasn’t aware that Osama was shot by ‘rough’ NY cops.
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Bonne nuit.
See if Tiger woods can do this.
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I dunno about Tiger, but I can.
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Surely you’re not a closet ‘hackey-sack’ player, Vectis?
😉
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Those damned rutting chimp!
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No, I never tried using Google translate for Dutch but I bet it would be hilarious. It is really a very primitive tool when used in sentence structure. But one mainly gets the gist and meaning.
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Very unpleasant business.
P.S. Rather <>. As in, rutting, on heat.
Orniérage is to do with ruts in the road. The kind made by vehicles on a muddy track. And yes, I looked it up. The grammar was impossible.
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Read “comme un chimpanzé en rut” (So much for using French quote marks.)
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I’l have a word with Google ‘translate.’
Even so, translate it from French back into English I get ‘He attacked me like a chimpanzee rutting’.
Has the chimp merely gone back on his tracks?
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Have you ever tried Google translate with Dutch?
I tried to use it to translate an article from Le Figaro for the PA, and it reduced the typing but still needed quite a lot of intervention. Sometimes it gave the opposite meaning.
Imagine the misunderstandings if it was used for something personal or for business.
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And all this on the same day that the US reached it’s unreachable debt figure of $$Trillions. Irony.
Or planned?
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Still, ‘ he attacked me like a rutting chimp’ really was a good description.
Hard to corroborate though?
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However, she is French. Ooh la la.
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Qué?
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Qué?….The proclaimer. La nouvelle.
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