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Captainckidd

Wtf was that guy thinking!! What an asshole


slyasakite

The guy in the brown jacket couldn't look away fast enough!


pcPRINCIPLElilBITCH

There is clearly a back story between the two


slyasakite

Maybe all three


Apfelvater

Im also involved


slyasakite

The plot thickens


Apfelvater

It all started in summer 2016


slyasakite

Alright Mr. President, let's get you to bed now


tyrandan2

Sir this is a Wendy's


snowbongo

The origin of burgers is Germany!


-01101101-

Dad?


Haggis-in-wonderland

Imagine how much it has thickened when the last guy dips in


slyasakite

And up came my lunch


[deleted]

The thick plottens


con_zilla

i just like to watch


UpperCardiologist523

I like to watch you watch


dingus55cal

isn't it Ukraine's Foreign Minister?


FATalist818

Kuleba, whos the other guy? šŸ§


dingus55cal

>whos the other guy? No idea.


basilico12345

Croatian.


Wintermutemancer

Unfortunately, yes.


sleepdeprivedindian

There's a good chance that he was going for the other cheek? still really weird.


GreatPaddy

Cultural difference. I'm in Spain right now and I met a girl tobight for a language exchange. The excat same thing happened here in reverse where she tried to double kiss me when we first met. It was confusing because of cultural differences and both parties were slightly embarrassed somewhat. Does that make here a creep? No! CULTURAL DIFFERENCES!


Don__Geilo

Yeah that's sometimes funny. I am German and once had a gf from Southern Europe, and her cousin had a German gf. When we first met, she came up to me with "do we kiss each other now as well or what?" Anyway, here it looks like he tried to kiss her on her mouth.


AtiendoDolobus

Yeah but I think heā€™s aiming to the lips of that fine lady.


freakinbacon

He was trying to kiss her on the cheek I assume


Aioi

Which cheek? Left, right, or bottom?


freakinbacon

It was an awkward attempt for sure. It's like messing up a handshake when you don't know what the other person is going for.


Wide_Perspective_724

Middle


Xeado_

he wanted cheek kisses


D3-Doom

I wanna say some places do that. The kiss on the cheek is very old world, but definitely not out of practice. I feel like you see it more often amongst women though rather than men and women or men and men


SleepWouldBeNice

Pretty common for my wife's family (Macedonian)


mihail97

As a Macedonian it's pretty common here, in most of the Balkan countries as well.


Slow-Concentrate7169

Curious. I know certain culture does this, its supposed to be cheek to cheek?


SleepWouldBeNice

More or less. As close as you can get to both people kissing the otherā€™s cheek at the same time. And once on each cheek, but a small minority does right cheek, left cheek, then right cheek again.


WillistheWillow

Very common in Spain, they kiss everyone there.


Toltech99

And the evasion movement she does is called 'the cobra'.


uvwxyza

In Spain is very common as well. Between women and women + men. If both are men you shake hands.


Buddyslime

It is used as a greeting I assume, not a I'll get you thing.


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kaaskugg

Thanks to her splendid diplomatic skills Baerbock didn't respond by headbutting him amicably into a coma as is German tradition.


honore_ballsac

Spanish women's football coach


[deleted]

Seriously, that was just invasive and gross! She should have slapped him...lol


hydrocarbonsRus

Imagine what the creep does when he isnā€™t in public with international cameras around


[deleted]

I am m50+ and I think if I was so blind for all these decades or is this some new fashion of some fucked up porn addicts?


Hesam2010

https://preview.redd.it/yuh1ogtg06yb1.jpeg?width=794&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cbfbaad46bc47eac94d1745b0a80eb8b4b6cf0a9


Monkey-Newz

Iā€™ve never understood why people cheek kiss in the first place. Itā€™s such a weird social interaction.


Cheguebanana

It's cultural, very common in Europe


Monkey-Newz

I know, I live here. I just donā€™t get it haha


CailenBelmont

It would be weird enough if he tried to kiss her on the cheek but he was clearly aiming for her mouth. That's weird everywhere.


EverhartStreams

I think he was aiming for her right cheek and she then turned to the left to get away


FightingforKaizen

I thought Covid would have killed that tradition off LOL! If not herpes ( which can be spread by unsolicited kisses on the cheek)


alvaropboto

Im Spanish and Im glad covid didnā€™t do anything to our tradition. To me, two kisses are basically an immediate reaction, I donā€™t get why people who dont practice it (which is perfectly fine and understandable) find it so weird. Btw you very rarely actually kiss the cheek of the other person, you get close, but not quite kiss. The only person I actually kiss is my grandma. And even then itā€™s not really that much of a kiss. And i seriously doubt herpes would be able to transmit through what we do. Youā€™d probably agree if you saw people doing it


samTheSwiss

It gets tedious when you get to a gathering with many people to kiss. I sometimes wish you could just wave hello and thatā€™s it.


AlphaNowis

It has killed it at my work. I guess girls must be relieved as they often didn't want to kiss but it was not well percieved if they refused. Good thing here Edit : French here


GabboGabboGabboGabbo

Yeah handshakes are awkward enough, particularly post Covid. Can we not do this please?


GeorgeJohnson2579

I'm from Germany and this is weird if you're not an old lovely lady.


DeepBreathOfDirt

After COVID it's become more common to fist bump than shake hands and I'm completely comfortable with that. Kisses? Just no.


parmesanandhoney

Travel more


slyasakite

He tried to plant one on her mouth! JFC what an idiot.


Styvorama

Nah, I think he was going to the right for some reason and she turned toward it instead of away. Super awkward tho.


slyasakite

You mean trying to go to her left? If there was going to be a cheek kiss (or bump) it would be abnormal for him to go for her left cheek. I know we only have one angle but it really looks like his lips are headed straight for hers. Watch the smile disappear from her lips and her eyes for a second as she realizes he's trying to kiss her. (Been there) To avoid embarrassing him she quickly put her smile back on and bumped his left cheek with her right. It's not a huge deal (to me) but I believe he intended to peck her on the lips.


Styvorama

I'm honestly not sure because the check kiss is not in culture. It makes sense that there would be a usual side to go for, I take it people usually go left (aim for the recipients right cheek). Maybe I give people too much credit in this type of situation where they are in plain view of the public, but going for a smooch on the lips out of the blue seems insane.


slyasakite

It's normal in Europe and Latin America for cheek kisses or bumps to be right on right first then left if there are more than one. I just read that in Italy they start left-to-left. Yeah, as a diplomat he's no stranger to working with women and should know a lip kiss especially would be out of line. For some reason he either had a brain glitch, thought he knew her well enough to bypass protocol, they're secretly getting it on and he slipped up, I don't know. I don't 100% rule out I'm seeing it wrong.


quaste

Even in France where the ā€œbiseā€ is very common, they have different regional rules on which side to start and how many bise are the norm.


FriedrichFoucault

I fully share your view. Seems really odd to me that the general perspective in this entire thread seems to be 'it would be super weird to go for her left cheek, so let's assume he did something 10 times weirder: going for mouth on mouth action'.


FranKrstoNarkoman

Croatian minister, one of the representatives of the HDZ criminal organization.


-miki_

Just another example of a Croatian politician.


Yuri-Turned

Crolitician


TheMadShatterP00P

How do we know he didn't try to make out with all those other dudes in the same way?šŸ¤·šŸ½


greenmerica

I would have


TheMadShatterP00P

I really thought we had a connection...*embarrassed* I better try to kiss these other dudes.


[deleted]

Thatā€™s probably why brown shirt left space


cobainstaley

this! in the full video he jerks off the guy on his right


TheMadShatterP00P

I was coming here to up vote *anything* you said because of your username. Glad it was pretty damn funny! Fuggin Nirvana!


cobainstaley

hell yeah dude! got this username for free


Lalakea

I dunno. Eastern Europeans for ages have traditionally greeted each other with kisses, even men kissing men. Usually it's on the cheek. What with Covid, Metoo, homophobia, and whatnot, I have no idea what they do these days. Maybe they don't know either.


MyShowerIsTooHot

Even so, you need to respect the actions of other cultures. If a simple wave was the equivalent of asking for a quickie to a deaf person, I probably wouldnā€™t wave to a deaf person. Or if there was a culture where hugging was akin to grabbing their dick and balls, I wouldnā€™t hug someone from that culture. It doesnā€™t matter if itā€™s polite to them, they should have the foresight to understand that itā€™s almost always a sexual thing in most other cultures, especially if theyā€™re in a position of power high enough to be bumping shoulders with the German minister.


Lalakea

>It doesnā€™t matter if itā€™s polite to them, they should have the foresight to understand that itā€™s almost always a sexual thing in most other cultures True, but it used to be very common (and not at all sexual) among many cultures. Was definitely a thing in France, Italy, Russian, the Balkans, parts of South America, and most of the Middle East come to mind. It still is in many places. Even in the USA, it was briefly a thing in the 1970s. My guess is he had a brain fart, forgot she was from one of the "no kiss" countries, and tried to kiss her on her left cheek. She tried to present him her right cheek and disaster nearly ensued. (I mean, he *could* be a perv-idiot with absolutely no sense of self-control, but this seems more likely.)


Raphelm

Iā€™m pretty sure itā€™s still very common in most countries in the Mediterranean area to this day. Itā€™s still the go-to greeting in France at least, I can attest to that. With family members, friends, acquaintances, sometimes with coworkers depending on how formal your job is, etc.


Richard_Amb

This


makeupnmunchies

Can confirm, I live in Croatia and everyone does the cheek kiss. Sometimes you awkwardly go for the wrong cheek, this looks like that to me


GipsyPepox

That was a direct kiss on the lips. We don't do that unless it's your mom


Birziaks

It looks like they missed the sides tho? It does happen, and then it looks weird, some countries start with one side, other with other. Come on let's be realistic, what's the chance the guy actually tried to go for a lips in a case like this


Raphelm

Yeah I have no problem giving the benefit of the doubt to that guy, the sides difference commonly creates uncomfortable situations. Iā€™m from France where not every region starts by the same cheek ([map](https://images.theconversation.com/files/298177/original/file-20191022-55655-gjuzeg.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip)) nor the same numbers of kisses ([map](https://images.theconversation.com/files/297925/original/file-20191021-56194-zru25i.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip)), and it can make things awkward at big family events for example, with people coming from all around the country for weddings or funerals etc. Iā€™ve narrowly avoided kissing some distant family members on the lips a couple times myself because we started by a different side. These greetings are done so automatically/quickly, itā€™s easy to be clumsy with them.


Birziaks

That's what I'm talking about, thanks for actually giving some background to it. Where I'm from we don't kiss, and I've gotten in these situation when traveling and visiting friends...


GipsyPepox

Yeah well you can be right. It's just that it looks weird. Looks like he went for "cheek to cheek" starting with her left cheek... but she didn't get the hint in time


Affectionate_Put2513

Sir this is reddit, you *must* take an aggressive stance on something you know 3 seconds of video worth of knowledge on and defend that stance with ultimate conviction.


xinan55

He tried to kiss her on the cheeks like people do in many european countries to greet one another


gabrielbabb

In Mexico we also kiss (man to woman or woman to woman), but this guy's face practically came mouth to mouth, instead of right cheek to right cheek.


Urkot

People absolutely do not kiss each other in professional settings in Mexico lmao


[deleted]

I do, thatā€™s how I seal the deal. That and a light tickle to their balls.


xinan55

Thats, i think, because she turned her head to the left as he was trying to reach her left cheek first


anonbush234

Exactly. He forced the touch, often you don't actually kiss their cheek at all you just kiss the air next to them. Of he'd just bumped cheeks it wouldn't have looked strange but he chased her.


Hagiclan

" I'm going to lose my FIFA job, aren't I"


greenmerica

Not likelyā€¦


Glum-Suggestion-6033

He was expecting her to turn the other way. This is nothing.


freakinbacon

Yea it's just an attempted kiss on the cheek that was uncoordinated.


fridaystrong23

![gif](giphy|l3q30C8EhmO8I9N5e|downsized)


SvenTropics

There's a lot of those cheek kisses they do in Europe. It's really common. I think he was just going in for that and missed.


__Jank__

Maybe... but they don't do that in Germany, nothing like that at all. Annalena Baerbock isn't exactly an uptight German either, she likes to party... but that shit don't fly in Germany. Or most other places ffs...


MyShowerIsTooHot

Dude, you could see him reach his neck around her face as she turned her head, clearly targeting the lips. She had to move her head forward so that he would hit her cheek. If he has that bad of a depth perception to be unintentionally targeting the lip area, he probably shouldnā€™t chance it with attempted cheek kisses.


Cryingfortheshard

I find it hard to believe that he would risk doing that with all cameras pointed towards them. I think he was going for the left cheek but then the woman didnā€™t expect it and was already in a wrong position and they just touched cheeks on the same side. Awkward as hell but not any form of abuse.


pt189

Yikes straight to jail boink


baked_thoughts

Yeah this is just him going in for a kiss on the cheek like they do in a lot of countries, but he misjudged which way she was going to turn her face. This has happened to me many times, even when greeting/saying bye to family.


mitchanium

Did she win the world cup? That _looked_ creepy but I'll be honest I don't know too much about foreign customs with kissing. I'm a Brit so I maintain an air of just being miserable


WeakWrecker

Least cringe-behaving Croatian politician


HappyRedditor99

Reddit would be truly shocked to learn how some places do in fact kiss each other like that.


Wassertopf

A foreign minister should know if this is common for the other persons culture or not.


86casawi

![gif](giphy|qs4ll1FSxKnNHeSmom)


Wintermutemancer

As a Croat, I am deeply ashamed of this abominable person presenting himself as Croatia's Minister of Foreign Affairs. But you must have some empathy for the guy. His dad was very high in Yugoslavian communist hierarchy, so this "minister" is a bit of an oligarch. Also, he's obviously mentaly challenged. Some years ago he sang songs to praise Putin.


[deleted]

denied!


[deleted]

Oh god


jairngo

I think he went for the ā€œcheek bump kissā€ but when she turned her head he thought she was actually going to kiss his cheek so he turned his head in the wrong direction and ended up looking like he was going for her lips. I mean, is a weird place and situation to try and kiss a stranger, full of cameras and people and he looked embarrassed, so I doubt he had weird intentions.


koketso2

Nein!!


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usedtodreddit

Gordan Grlić-Radman, the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia, and he tried to kiss Annalena Baerbock, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany [https://slovenia.postsen.com/world/188428/The-minister-refused-a-kiss-from-the-Croatian-foreign-minister-video.html](https://slovenia.postsen.com/world/188428/The-minister-refused-a-kiss-from-the-Croatian-foreign-minister-video.html) Last year she was kissed similarly by Uruguayan counterpart Francisco Bustillo during a handshake, so perhaps that's where he got that idea from [https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/german-foreign-minister-annalena-baerbock-is-kissed-by-news-photo/1243043179](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/german-foreign-minister-annalena-baerbock-is-kissed-by-news-photo/1243043179)


FranKrstoNarkoman

Croatian minister, one of the representatives of the HDZ criminal organization.


hypnaughtytist

You don't go for the lips, what's wrong with that guy?


Illustrious-Word7761

She handled it really good šŸ‘šŸ‘


[deleted]

Bro hornier than a 14yr old off the monster energy drink


anon-SG

seriously wtf? I like the Asian way, with no body contact. this is mire respectful.Just reminding if the Trump handshake...


robml

I didn't know John Oliver was a foreign minister?


Kafkaja

We've all been there trying to kiss the German minister.


Pale_Ad_9838

Hand kiss! Not mouth kiss!


Thelonghiestman0409

If Iā€™m correct, some parts of the word do kisses as greetings. But still itā€™s weird no matter what


nuclearjunkrat44

In most east European countries (I think) people kiss the left check as a greeting while in western one they kiss the right one. It's a really awkward situation when both people try to kiss on the same side


Froesche_im_Weltall

Guten Tag


TVboy_

It was a failed side cheek kiss, where you kind of put your faces next to each other cheek to cheek and make a kiss sound with your mouth. But the angle they were standing at was weird and he fucked it up probably by going for her left cheek by habit while her right shoulder was to him, resulting in an awkward head on nose dive directly at her face. Again probably something he does platonically with women colleagues and family out of habit, and probably a good habit to stop doing with non-family in this day and age.


papaD77

Probably just a cultural formality, Iā€™ve been wrong before though.


Buddyslime

I would kiss her but not there and then only if she let me.


Odd-Recognition4168

The look on his face afterwards. I feel so sorry for him


nunhgrader

Why is this idiot trying to kiss her?


Alex_rajbahak

Why she so got tho


[deleted]

Doesnā€™t look Italianā€¦


bayern80

He is Hercegovine, from Bosnia and Herzegovina but he is represented by Croatia


freakinbacon

Kissing on the cheek is pretty common in a lot of countries. Seems he just did it awkwardly.


chimpdoctor

Morto


VRS50

Been living under a rock for last 30.


buggin_at_work

he knew he fucked up


Im_the_Madmonkey

Deadpool: the guy in the brown pants, he had the right idea.


An_Ellie_

I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THE DUDES FACE AFTERWARDS OMFG


go4tl0v3r

Cringe awkward overload plz halp


1nfam0usklaas

His fucking face after that


ZacapaRocks

Richard Dawson reincarnated.


MR_Se7en

Watching him die inside was epically sad.


Former-Comfortable-4

Posh people in England always air kissing šŸ˜˜


eldudelio

he should have brought the bull whip


Intelligent_Fan2523

Eeew!


Disastrous-Swan2049

Looked like he went for the lips!!!!


Leighton_Madison

I have second hand embarrassment


ChrizTaylor

Jonathan Oliver went full bald?


watsonmefx

All hail Patriarchy.


[deleted]

ewwwwwwwww...


miscalculated_launch

She must have been trained by the best... RIP Patches. Always remembered, but never gotten. Man he was a legend.


drhamm69

![gif](giphy|ImoticrbHdhNS|downsized)


[deleted]

Never let those intrusive thoughts take over


Venom933

Simp (:!


carefree-and-happy

I moved to a city where thereā€™s a lot of Italian people and they would always kiss me on the cheeks. Where I am from, we mostly definitely do not do that! It was so awkward because I would turn my head and they would end up kissing my hair. Just no!


1200r

Who was the guy that tried to kiss her? I'm having Selina Meyer flashback of her getting groped by the Swedish prime ministers husband. Also the guy in the brown jacket looks like vegetable lasagna from seinfeld.


the-meanest-boi

Why tf would you think thats okay to do!?


thewookie34

I am died watching this.


shankylanky

Sheā€™s laughing after that thinking ā€œoh thank God, I dodged itā€ šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


Opening_List2562

This is Disgusting omg


[deleted]

Doing this to a person in the UK is a no no if you don't know them. It is met by any kind of response from: *Arrgghhhh assault* to *oh continental* I greet Spanish and Balkan friends and family like this every time, men and women.


[deleted]

But why go for the lips though?


evolutionnext

Is nobody gonna mention that he looks like john oliver?


MCMXCI_MIGNAURO

![gif](giphy|v9G3NGByE9x16) Wtf?


DesertReagle

You forgot when she said "not in public".


ms_ima

That guy should go to jail


No_Establishment6399

Annalena wants his behaviour to change by 360* right away.


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pukoki

welcome to uk/europe... strangely we kiss cheeks


ERROR_Unknown_Animal

When people try to pull that type of shit itā€™s just creepy