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Post by miokalia on Mar 12, 2008 0:38:35 GMT -5
This is a thread about FFed leaders/luminaires/mensch/people visiting other places far and wide that are not in the FFed.
I originally thought this might be a way to play out scenarios where ffed leaders interact with RL world leaders/figures. But it could be on *any* scale, it doesn't have to specifically be power elite. It could be anyone. Really. The basic theme is just Ffed people interacting with non-ffed people.
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Post by miokalia on Mar 12, 2008 1:55:32 GMT -5
An American Werewolf Dinosaur, hamster and hipster in Paris (and other places in Europe)
The Netherlands
Lady Sorenson did shake Prime Minister Balkenede's hand upon arrival in Hague. He made his awkward nod to Andertol. As despite the political values of the two nations being very compatible, the two politicians had somewhat different values themselves. Making light of this, Balkenede said, as he did every time they met, "I'm sure glad I don't have to win an election against you. You would sweep the homosexual and stoner votes." There was a dry laugh. And Sorenson finished it with a weird high-pitched cackle and then a single clap to break the awkwardness.
It usually took a few hours before it clicked with Andertol that he was supposed to turn off partisan political matters while abroad. Fortunately, Secretariat Pickford was able to keep him quiet until then.
They weren't going to stay long. Typically the extent of international talking and diplomatic business Andertol had with Balkenede was often little more than the two just pleasently smiling at eachother for a long time. Lady Sorenson thought that maybe the two had some strange, supressed attraction to eachother. That maybe Balkenede wanted to take Andertol away to one of those vicey Amsterdam hotels and... do something with the Allosaurus. She never did ask him, and was also fairly sure that this was just some weird thing that they did that only they understood.
Foretunately, The Netherlands was one of the places where Andertol was steadfast on not causing any kind of trouble or abusing diplomatic immunity. And his reasoning, as he explained to Secretariat Pickford while talking to her through a bathroom stall in the public restroom of a pub (she doesn't really care much about that, it's not too uncommon back home because of the unisex restrooms), "I'm not even going to write something on the walls of their bathroom stalls. Because they're like Cal. I don't do that there either. They're probably one of our closest non-fur-fed allies politically".
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Post by miokalia on Mar 16, 2008 23:55:24 GMT -5
Business again. It was off to Amsterdam for a bunch of photo-ops recommended primarily by partisan public relations and marketting organizations in both nations. The kinds of photos which feature two or more politicians in a single picture in some garden or in some super extravagant and historically-adorned room smiling and looking like they are just having a dandy old time. The D66 party of the Netherlands and the Bizlocsun party of Miokalia had organized a photographic social libertarian love-fest. Andertol's cooperation with more European political photography methods was tenuous and awkward. It worked both ways though. Alex Pechtold didn't really want to do the whole central-euro custom salutational 'hug' with Andertol, but he was better at hiding it. Andertol was diplomatically, French-style shoulder-hugged by him as if he were hugging a taxidermied, stuffed dinosaur prop. That is, Andertol didn't know what to do and just kinda stood there shocked and not reciprocating. They did another, this time, the two were allowed greater personal space and then Andertol came back to life in the pictures. International-style 'subjects not looking at the camera and standing in some garden somewhere' pictures were taken with greater sucess. Andertol explained to Pechtold, during one of the shots where they looked like they were discussing some political thing, "Sorry about the hugging thing. But I just don't know how to deal with being touched." Andertol was somewhat disappointed with the meeting. He had envisioned a situation where he and the leader of the most socially liberal party in one of the most socially liberal nations in the world could get together and jam or something. When he was still on the plane, he indeed envisioned this particular meeting to involve pulling out guitars and spontaneously jaming up a colorful, psychedelic cloud of 'civil liberty rock' so thick it would cause all within earshot tear off their clothes, paint themselves and start dancing and making out in the streets. It would also result in at least 15 marriages between people and inanimate objects or pets before the day was through. He didn't care if it was ultra unrealistic, it would have been awesome. He told this to Pechtold and he laughed intermittently for about 4 minutes. Finally the two got to do their recorded public statements and such. Pechtold said that Andertol and the rest of Phong's administration were probably, literally, accounted for amoung the highest concentrations of teeth for the social liberal ideal, politically. But also anatomically. Andertol didn't get the pun for about 3 minutes. For his public statement about the joint partisan public-relations event, Andertol endorsed Pechtold's D66 party. He was advised against saying much else, since while he might mean the best, he had a history of saying things which could be somewhat inflammatory. Possible cultural differences heightened that concern.
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Post by The Union of Tinis on Mar 17, 2008 0:34:25 GMT -5
Balkenede hadn't had the pleasure of meeting Secretary Waldo on his previous visit due to being out of country at the time. The Christian Democrat was a tad surprised by the very meek handshake of the raccoon. Almost like the Tinisian was trying not to make physical contact at all.
The greetings were cordial, despite the language barrier. Each had practiced the basic hellos in each others language but relied entirely on translators after that. Waldo was known for studying many languages to at least become proficient enough in them to not get in trouble in intense negotiations, but his dutch was non-existant. His English was better, but Balkenede was well aware that Tinisians considered it insulting to ask the other party to use a third language for negotiations unless both sides were fluent in it.
Thankfully these were not intense negotiations.
Waldo of Tinis was in the Netherlands today to talk with Balkenede about Turkey. After the photo opt they both went to one of the conferences room in The Hague. Waldo began things by urging the Prime Minister to hear him out and not to just ignore his position as outsider opposition. Then he got to the point.
"The reason we'd like you to think long and hard about letting Turkey into the EU. I understand your position is to push towards Turkey coming in. But you are being way to hasty. We all know the problems the Americans are having in that part of the world. Until they are gone and Turkey has stopped their insane crack down on minority groups and figured out how to live with them, and those groups with Turkey, then Turkey joining the EU will appear as a legitimization of the policy of conquest in the middle east. I see the radicals of the region suddenly becoming best friends with the Kurdies... Kurds... and directing their efforts against the much softer target of Turkey. They are opportunists. Its not hard for them to see hurting the EU as hurting Turkey. Don't let them do that. Don't become America."
The Prime Minister took this all in before replying. Having a few sips of his tea.
"I... I see your point. But one could argue that by dangling the carrot of EU membership in front of Turkey, they're more likely to help in our efforts to stop radical Islam. I shouldn't need to tell you that extremists don't have to have a reason to attack third parties."
Waldo frowned. His tail fur seemed to grow slightly. "With all due respect. One of the weaknesses of the Furry Federation is that not all its members are as freedom loving as your nation or the other members of the EU. We keep our monsters isolated and free from the interventions that could cost the entire world some serious deaths. The price we pay for it is ours to burden. Turkey isn't a major threat to large parts of the world. Its a minor nation that has an interest in joining a larger pseudo nation."
The negotiations after that were cool but courteous. Eventually they parted ways.
When asked later, Waldo was very upbeat about the meeting and hoped that his urging of caution had stuck. In private meeting with Izixs later that week he was less enthusiastic.
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