The picture accompanying this article (in Swedish) made me laugh. Is Julian Assange the new Swedish sex symbol?
Assange Sexy Time
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The picture accompanying this article (in Swedish) made me laugh. Is Julian Assange the new Swedish sex symbol?
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matoko_chan
i think their idea of sexy is different.
If you have seen the swedish movie of Dragon Tattoo (subtitled, but avaiable on streaming Netflix)), the guy that plays Kalle Blompkvist is not exactly a hollywood style dreamboat and some of the leading ladies are downright OLD.
Lisbeth’s casting is teh awesome tho…shes perfect…..the full jacketback dragon is simply the most spectacular tattoo i have ever seen.
El Cid
Hey, why don’t we get that anti-regulation asshole who owns the exploding West Virginia mines to run our nation’s chicken and egg suppliers?
Clearly a humble 18th century Founding Father style entrepreneur who should receive funding by the Chamber of Commerce and defended by Glenn Beck from the ACORN journalists and union thugs and eco-terrorists who are attacking him.
Violet
Ha. That’s awesome. Maybe he is the new James Bond, updated for the 21st century.
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something about him that reminds me of Neil Patrick Harris. Shape of the face? Mouth? Eyes? Not sure, but there’s some resemblance.
Cat Lady
@Violet:
Tabloids are understood no matter what language they’re in (thanks Hollywood!), and the reporter and this guy were separated at birth.
Perry Como
Relevant.
Adrienne
Umm, no. The Swedish sex symbol would be Alexander Skarsgaard. True Blood FTW!
SiubhanDuinne
You know, there are some questions you just don’t need to translate:
burnspbesq
I tend to think of the Swedes as sensible people who don’t see criminals as sexy.
Cat Lady
@SiubhanDuinne:
And from the Hardrocken Konsert reviews :
Soft power, indeed.
Violet
I put the page into Google Translate. The translation is terrible, but there were a few interesting tidbits:
At the time of the interview it doesn’t seem like he even knew who the accusers were.
Starfish
@Adrienne: He brings the sexy time and tries to kill Lady Gaga. What could he do for me to like him more?
Kay Shawn
I’ve noticed this in the British press too. Today’s Observer has a big front page photo that’s very glam.
Guster
@burnspbesq:
I tend to think of the Swedes as sensible people who manufacture Saabs.
morzer
@Guster:
IKEA! IKEA! IKEA! Flatpacks going down the field! IKEA! IKEA! IKEA!
Just sayin’.
valdivia
@Adrienne:
yum yum. Co-sign.
ETA: if we’re talking Sweden then Assange is NOT the James Bond of the 21st Century. He is the real-life Michael Bloomkist of Dragoon Tattoo Girl fame….
eemom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/21/AR2010082101591.html
I do not think that means what Dan Balz thinks it means.
cathyx
I think he has a very feminine face, therefore, he’s not a sex symbol to me.
Violet
@valdivia:
But he’s Australian and lives on the run. Is there an apt comparison in film or literature?
valdivia
@Violet:
yeah since we were on the Swedish kick I figured I would put Bloomkist on the table. Hmmm. No knowledge about Australians on the run…..
DougJ
@Violet:
He’s definitely got some Doogie all up in there.
Violet
@DougJ:
At least we know who should play him when they finally make a movie. NPH and Assange are about the same age too.
BB
He looks like Draco Malfoy.
Alwhite
@El Cid:
“Yankee Traders” used to make the rounds during the 1700 & 1800 selling whole nutmeg . . . which they turned out of dark wood like walnut, in their workshop.
Patent medicines are now rightly famous for all sorts of poisons & moonshine. At one time one bright American entrepreneur sold tape worms as a weight loss remedy.
This has been with us always and will always because there are plenty of people willing to put a marginal profit increase ahead of human well-being. We are trying desperately to prove that modern Americans are just as awful but the consequences can be so much greater thanks to modern efficiency.
AhabTRuler
I see Assange as more Mark McKinney, although I can undrstand the NPH comparison.
Plus, McKinney is gettin’ a little old for the part, but what hey?
Roger Moore
@Starfish:
Succeed?
Adrienne
@Starfish: Brings the sexy time is an understatement, to say the least. Just looking at him almost makes my love come down — as my mama would say. Old school slang for you get-off-my-lawners out there!
kommrade reproductive vigor
Um. No. And I went to Vassar so I’m wired for weedy little guys who need to get some sun.
Like the animated fuck bunnies though!
KCinDC
Is he dyeing his hair now? Didn’t it used to be white?
Omnes Omnibus
@kommrade reproductive vigor: Like Rahm?
El Cid
@Alwhite:
This is clearly unpossible because the free market would react negatively to them endangering their consumers.
gypsy howell
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
Huh. Me too.
kommrade reproductive vigor
@Omnes Omnibus: Rahm’s an animated fuck bunny!?
Violet
@KCinDC:
Was wondering the same thing. Is it just lighting? Perhaps he has light blond hair and how it looks changes with the lighting?
gypsy howell
@Violet:
My first thought was “they couldn’t find a more recent photo?”
Omnes Omnibus
@kommrade reproductive vigor: He went to Vassar, didn’t he? He’s not my type, what with being a guy and all.
kommrade reproductive vigor
@Omnes Omnibus: Man, I WISH. It would help cut the shame of going to a college that nurtured Dick Miniter and Marc Theissen. But I think he went to Sarah Lesbian.
Also2: Rahm is dark enough to be your average V.B’s shadow.
bago
Dude reminds me of Pete White, from the Venture Brothers.
Omnes Omnibus
@kommrade reproductive vigor: Ah yes, I think you are right. Mea culpa.
Arclite
Hey, I’m a happily married straight guy with gorgeous surfer wife and I think Julian is s3xy. It has less to do with has looks and everything to do with bringing to the light of day the deepest darkest secrets of the most powerful religious, corporate, and governmental agencies in the world. He’s Robin Hood, Luke Skywalker, and Neo rolled into one.
Anoniminous
Alla dina bloggar r tillhör Sverige!!!
(Links are in English for the minority of BJ Svensk utmanas :-)
Sweden drops warrant for WikiLeaks founder
http://www.thelocal.se/28504/20100821/
Assange: Pentagon could be behind rape claim
http://www.thelocal.se/28514/20100822/
I don’t know who those women are or why they accused Assange of raping them but they are in hip deep trouble. Swedes take false accusations and public defamation VERY seriously.
chaseyourtail
There’s something about his face that’s unattractive to me…he’s also a bit of a preener.
Anne Laurie
@burnspbesq:
You didn’t have a Norwegian-American mother-in-law. Folk chant:
“Ten thousand Swedes
Came through the weeds
To fight a sick Norwegian;
Ten thousand more
Stood up & swore
The fairest fight they ever saw!”
Actually all the modern Scandinavian nations benefitted, to pull a Matoko-chan, from the several hundred years during which they exported their most aggressive and least-suitable-for-civilisation individuals to pollute the gene pools of Scotland, Ireland, northern France, Russia, and possibly North America. (There is an Iroquois creation legend involving the Storm God’s runaway, redheaded daughter.)
Assange’s terrible horrible very bad no good Wikileaks doc-dump has had, so far, a positive effect on the American discussion of “our” AfghanIraqistan fustercluck. Whatever the man’s secret hidden motivations, if any, he’s helped bring to light some of the ugly details of war and would-be imperial conquest to light. Never was a Star Wars fan, but if Assange wants to play Han Solo, more power to him.
chaseyourtail
Ann,
Your points are well taken but Assange as Han Solo? Um, no. Han Solo was hot.
chaseyourtail
Oh jeez.
Joyce
People are definitley divided into two camps about Assange: outright groupie fandom or outright revulsion…case in point: http://julian-assange-fanciers-guild.tumblr.com/
Alaine
but he is sexy indeed. Julian has a high carismatic look with a confident and smooth talk..