Tony Abbott says he will 'shirtfront' Vladimir Putin over downing of MH17

Indeed a silly thing to say..
Shirt front FFs !!!

Would be good if Putin smashes the dickhead

tomy already backed down after the russian ambassador laughed at him and told him vlad will do a judo chop on him

what does shirtfront mean?

Don't be so sure, Tony is fit and was a good boxer. It would be interesting, to say the least.

it means tony is a tard

Bullshit.

Two short arsed egomaniacs going at it?

It would be a joke.

yeah, but?

Aggressive notions indicate a total loss of diplomacy, this PM is the warmonger we had to have.

A Russian official has mocked Tony Abbott's threat to "shirt-front" Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit, contrasting the President's judo skills with the Australian Prime Minister's passion for riding bicycles.

And the Canberra embassy's second secretary, Alexander Odoevskiy, confirmed Moscow's position was that Mr Putin still planned to attend the G20 summit. He also pointed out that it may be difficult for Mr Abbott to carry out his threat at next month's Brisbane meeting because a formal bilateral meeting has not even been scheduled.

A shirt-front is a front-on charge designed to knock an opponent to the ground. It is commonly used in the AFL.

Mr Odoevskiy told Fairfax Media the comments had prompted him to do some research on what shirt-front meant and "I learned a little more about Aussie Rules football".

"As I understand, this is quite an old fashioned term which is not widely used in the modern day game," he said. "Also, it is illegal."

Mr Putin, a former KGB officer, has a black-belt in judo. Mr Abbott earned two blues for boxing while at Oxford University.

[link to www.smh.com.au]

Time to bring in leigh Matthews for the dirty work..

Russians shot the plane down.
Euros would rather forgive and forget than go without Russian gas.

Relax, people - it's a joke. The cunt's not that stupid, surely.

Wouldn't it make more sense for Abbott to lay out proof that the Russkies had something to do with the plane?

haha the dickhead got booed by the entire crowd at the rugby final and he just puts the smile on and waves.. against putin i put my money on tony only cause he is still one of us no matter how much of a silly lil fucker he may be... that being said fuck the russian.. straya^

Trust an American to say something totally stupid. Where's you evidence? Come on show the world.

Wouldn't it make more sense for Kiev or the USA which had a spy satellite over head to lay out some evidence? Nope the best the Americans have come up with is foaming mouth blather and Kiev is hiding any evidence it has.

Have you seen Canada's Harper in action? Sorry but considering the entire western worlds political "leadership" I'd say yes he/they really are that stupid.

if you're gonna start a thread over every dumb thing Tony Abbott says, well you're gonna start a lot of threads.


"TONY Abbott's admission that not everything he says off-the-cuff is the "gospel truth" has been labelled an "astonishing" cop out.

The Opposition Leader told ABC's The 7.30 Report yesterday that voters should not believe every pledge he makes unless it is written down as the "gospel truth".

Mr Abbott revealed that "in the heat of discussion" he sometimes went further with a promise than he should.

"The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.""


[link to www.heraldsun.com.au]

It never ceases to amaze me that complete idiots can get elected anywhere in the west repeatedly. No I will not start a thread every time Tony says something dumb, but this one has to be a class one example of how to make your self look bad.