You know how President Obama is visiting the UK right now? I’m sure you know. There are lots of pictures about it everywhere. And something about his limo getting stuck. And writing the wrong year in a guest book. And now a different thing? Basically it’s like Meet the Parents meets The Queen. “I’ve got nipples, President Obama, can you milk The Queen of England?” – The Queen of England. Gross!

Last night at some kind of event (?) at Buckingham Palace, President Obama committed a major y’oops by speaking over the national anthem while he was toasting the Queen. And touched his glass before her or something? I don’t know. “YOU’RE KIDDING ME.” I’m not! The extent of my knowledge of what you can and cannot do in front of royalty comes pretty much exclusively from the Blair-marrying-a-prince plotline on the most recent season of Gossip Girl. And even then I wasn’t paying attention. You can’t look at the Royal Family below the waist? You can’t touch your hair until the Queen touches her arm? You have to walk backwards at the youngest male child in the Royal Family until you get three paces away and then you turn around with your scariest face, and if you scare him successfully you get to ask him a question? I have no idea, but it all sounds VERY complicated. In any case, here it is:

I can’t believe he did that? That thing? That he did wrong? How could he! (via Dlisted)

Comments (44)
  1. I heard he keeps going around talking about “trucks” and “cookies”, too.

  2. One
    Big
    Ass
    Mistake
    America

  3. This whole time I thought he was Dennis Quaid it turns out he’s Randy Quaid

  4. Did you know that the British version of Goofus & Gallant is over 1100 pages long?

  5. Wait until they bring out the dessert course. I hear it’s Spotted Dick.

  6. Something something Common something something Buckingham Palace.

  7. I told him to read my book:

  8. To be fair, she was asking for it.

  9. “Wait till they get a load of me.” – The Joker, 1989

  10. “Its not about if you fall down… its about how you get back up.”

    -some drag queen somewhere

  11. If he keeps this up, David Cameron is going to have to make a big speech in front of President Obama about David Beckham’s feet that undermines Anglo-American relations all because David Cameron wants to impress a girl.

  12. You’re doing that wrong, England.

  13. What the F was up with that muscial cue anyway? Obama was like, “Hey, I’m going to Vin DIesel the Queen now, everybody! Here I go.” He starts giving his Vin DIesel, then they start playing music overtop of him that he’s not allowed to speak over? How does that work?

  14. Definitely the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to a president at a foreign dinner

  15. Send him to gaol in the boot of a bobby’s lorry or sum’it like that

  16. AND ANOTHER THING- Why is it whenever something really lampoon-worthy happens, rife with comedic opportunity, the fucking DAILY SHOW and COLBERT are always on a goddamned break?! They love making fun of the British! John Oliver would be destroying right now!

  17. So I’m guessing this whole trip is just one big game of “Asshole”. I wonder who the Thumbmaster is.

  18. Ireland’s not in the UK.

  19. Didn’t Obama get yelled at for bowing to some other monarch awhile back? By that logic he should be getting praised for not caring about irrelevant and archaic shit like this, right?

  20. I wish he woulda gave the Frank Drebin press conference speech instead.

  21. They should have known he would have done something like this. They were the ones that code named him Smart Aleck

  22. Say what you will but have you ever seen the Queen land a 3-pointer?
    Case rested.

  23. It isn’t the year 700B? Someone set the hot tub time machine wrong again!

  24. Ummm…isn’t it the band’s faux pas for beginning to play before the foreign dignitary finished his toast?

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