The Icelandic Prime Minister Using A Fountain Pen?

[SnorriRafn]

I have seen some topics here on various queens and presidents using this or that pen or brand for signing important documents. Here in Iceland the selection of fountain pens available is dismal, to say the least but I present the Icelandic Prime Minister using a blue Pilot Varsity/V-Pen to sign a Christmas card while drinking the traditional Icelandic christmas drink poured from a can into a plastic cup:

[SnorriRafn]

The picture is taken before he became prime minister.

[Paul80]

They elected a man who drinks warm beer from a plastic cup!!!!!!!!!.

 

How bad must the other guy have been

 

Paul

[richardandtracy]

Given the price of drinks in Iceland, he's not a cheapskate even if it's drunk from a plastic cup...

And what's wrong with warm beer anyway? OK, I think it's foul muck, but millions in the UK drink warm beer & claim to like it.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

[Uncle Red]

Real Ale is drunk at cellar temperature not warm.

 

I hope the can isn't traditional, it's hard to imagine your Scandinavian ancestors with cans.

[Paul80]

Given the price of drinks in Iceland, he's not a cheapskate even if it's drunk from a plastic cup...

And what's wrong with warm beer anyway? OK, I think it's foul muck, but millions in the UK drink warm beer & claim to like it.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

 

But then again everyone who drinks beer warm or cold claim they like it when in private no one actually likes the stuff, the same with that awful Red Wine Muck.

[BrandonA]

They elected a man who drinks warm beer from a plastic cup!!!!!!!!!.

How bad must the other guy have been

Paul

Those were my exact impressions too. I wonder if he had any input into the banking system in Iceland?

 

I guess they can't win because one of our MPs (i cant remember who - i think it was either the PM or the Chancellor) were critised for eating a burger from an "expensive burger" place.

[Blade Runner]

Warm beer goes perfectly well with Hakari.

[Vendome]

Warm beer goes fine with a kebab.

[inkstainedruth]

Well, I can't say for warm beer (I like *my* Guiness cold, thanks) -- but this thread is making me think of the lyrics of an old Christine Lavin song:

 

Cold Pizza for Breakfast
Warm Coke to wash it down

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[SnorriRafn]

They elected a man who drinks warm beer from a plastic cup!!!!!!!!!.

 

How bad must the other guy have been

 

Paul

The others didn't give insane and unrealistic promises about giving everybody free money. (That's actually pretty close to what actually got him elected.)

 

I guess I live in a country with opportunistic idiots and almost no fountain pens. Oh how I can't wait to move to continental Europe!

[Tresconik]

I just had to post this here.
Check the pic out.

http://9gag.com/gag/ab5pryE

[Sh.Andrews]

What do you mean, warm beer? It's Iceland! Wouldn't it at least be chilled?

[TubeampChuck]

Good for the PM! Plastic cups, running shoe and a fountain pen... A rather eccentric chap.