you have to reelect him just so my sports teams can win things & meet him

[meitachi]

OMG. MY PRESIDENT IS SO CUTE.

Obama jokes about David Beckham’s underwear line during LA Galaxy’s White House visit

Obama introduced the 37-year-old Beckham as a "young up-and-comer on the team" before inviting everyone to giggle at Beckham's line of underwear.

"I have to say, I gave David a hard time. I said half his teammates could be his kids. We're getting old, David. Although you're holding up better than me.

"Last year at the age of 36, David had his best year in MLS. Leading the team with 15 assists He did it despite fracturing his spine halfway through the season and injuring his hamstring a week before the championship game. He is tough. It is a rare man who can be that tough on the field and have his own line of underwear. David Beckham is that man."

forochel: oh becks
people never give him enough credit as a footballer ):
though perhaps he ought to ... cut down on the ... underwear lines...
meiface: NO. NEVER.

UGH I LOVE BECKS AND HIS STUPID FACE AND HIS STUPID BODY AND HIS ADORABLE KIDS.

Victoria Beckham? Forgetting Something?

“I got up in the morning, and I knew that I had a whole morning full of conference calls. So I got up early with Harper, sorted Harper out, got all the kids their breakfast, got them ready for school, put Harper in the car seat, and said, “Come on, kids, we have to get going or we’re going to be late”—every morning I take Brooklyn, and David takes the little boys to school. We take it in turns because they go to two different schools.

So I jump in my Range Rover, put the car seat in, put my iPod on—obviously very important—and I drive to school. And then I realize, I’d left Brooklyn in the kitchen. I was driving along, talking away, and all the sudden, I looked at the front seat, and I was like, “Shit! Shit! I’ve forgot something!”

I’d gotten down the road, and I literally had to turn around and drive back up the driveway. And David was standing there in the driveway with all three boys, just [shakes her head]. And I felt like such an idiot because I was in such a rush. Harper was in the car, I was in the car, and we were on the way to school. But we did not have the child who needed to go to school.”

WHERE IS MY 60,000 WORDS OF DANNY/CLAUDE AU WHERE CLAUDE THE COLLEGE KID IS HIRED AS A FRENCH TUTOR FOR DANNY'S BOYS AND THEN THEY DISCOVER A MUTUAL LOVE OF HOCKEY AND THEN DANNY IS LIKE, OH GOD, INAPPROPRIATE FEELINGS AND THERE IS DOMESTIC KIDFIC SCHMOOP AND LONGING AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND SCORCHING UST??

Just in my head then? OK.

Comments

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Posh Spice is forever fabulous and all the haters just wish they could be half as great as she is. With three? Four! kids. JFC.

She's so on top of it all. *__*

[celerywench.livejournal.com]

CLAUDE THE COLLEGE KID IS HIRED AS A FRENCH TUTOR FOR DANNY'S BOYS

OH MY GOD. I WANT THAT. I WANT THAT I WANT THAT I WANT THAT. Tell em how that would goooo Mei. Chat fic it if you won't write it. IT MUST BE WILLED INTO EXISTENCE.

Or like, at least crack about how Claude has a really wacky dream (when he's out w his concussion) in which he is Maria - dress and singing and all - and taking care of the Van Trapp children but the Captain is Danny and the kids are the 3 boys and the 2 girl dogs in human girl form and it's the scene where Claude-Maria runs away but comes back because the kids really missed her and Captain is really awkward but clearly in love and Claude wakes up and REALIZES THE HORRIBLE MISTAKE HE'S MADE AND NOW MUST WIN DANNY BACK!!

Also awwww ♥ Becks family!! Obama continuing to be awesome. Does commenting on their age count as, when I was your age, hipsterdom? Did Hipster!Obama strike again?

[meiface.livejournal.com]

HIPSTER OBAMA IS GREAT. THE BECKS FAMILY IS GREAT.

I will try to chatfic it at you tomorrow or something. :(

UGH I LOVE CLAUDE. GET ON ME.

[sweetcherrytree.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL THE BECKHAMS ARE GREAT

is it like a requirement for whoever moves into Danny's home to speak French? At first I was unconvinced that Sean Couturier spoke French but it turns out he does.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

It is my headcanon obviously everyone thinks if they stay with Danny and his kids they will magically become awesome at hockey and score hat tricks during playoffs. So everyone is like OOH ME NEXT I WANT TO MOVE IN WITH DANNY.

But what they don't realize is it's not just moving in, it's SLEEPING WITH DANNY. :D? Possibly while speaking dirty French?

So that means both G and Couturier have been there, done that!

[rsadelle]

I think it might actually be. Danny seems to make a point of talking about how having French-speaking dudes live with him works out because that way they will also speak French to the kids.

[notbang.livejournal.com]

He fractured his spine and still played that well?! :O! Haha, being a mom can be hard.

SCHMOOP AND LONGING AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND SCORCHING UST
THE BEST COMBO. :D

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I waaaaaaaaaaaant. I want so bad. I may go hunting in other fandoms for it. Gah.

Also the Beckhams are just so great all around. Their kids are really adorable and well-dressed all the time too, lol.

Also, I'll email you about Saturday? :D

[intomorning.livejournal.com]

I can provide recs for a certain fandom if you're so inclined, cough. ;P

Seriously, their kids are stylin' it up (and of course, their parents look fab).

Roger that!

[meritjubet.livejournal.com]

Well when you have the goods, you should use them :P (re: underwear line)

I remember when her line was released and there were a lot of snarky people who were surprised that her clothes were actually pretty nice. She deigns a lot for herself, but she certainly had a sharp look.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

She is pretty great. *___*

And he is pretty hot, lol. I love his campaign for H&M because I now have a great H&M bag with shirtless Becks on it!

[nyw.livejournal.com]

hahahaha "the child who needed to go to school" sounds like a pretty ace kid's book

[meiface.livejournal.com]

haha the Becks should write that. Another market for them to conquer! :D

[nyw.livejournal.com]

yes! like madonna's kids' books venture

[rsadelle]

Victoria Beckham: ♥ (My mom once almost left my brother at a gas station on a family trip, because she didn't realize he wasn't back in the car.)

I would so read that Danny/Claude AU! Really, I would read any and all Danny/Claude domesticity and kidfic.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

haha I don't think my parents managed to leave me or my brother anywhere accidentally, though I'm sure they wanted to deliberately a few times.

I am writing this fic in chat because I want it so badly and need constant prodding to keep going, lol. It's a nice distraction from work. But I stillhold out hope someone else will write it, longer and better and full of UST. *__*

[rsadelle]

But I stillhold out hope someone else will write it, longer and better and full of UST.

Isn't that pretty much how every one of us feels about the stories we just want to read?

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Yes! Absolutely.

/looks at you hopefully :D?

[rsadelle]

Hahaha! I did get someone else to start working on an epic version of the real story, so I'm just going to count that as my contribution to Marrieds fic.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I have roughly 2000 words of French tutor!Claude. :D?

...but no idea where to go with plot now that I've introduced him to the kids. WHAT IS PLOT. WHAT ARE WORDS.

[rsadelle]

Who needs a plot when you can have Claude being good with the kids and Danny noticing him?

[meiface.livejournal.com]

So far Danny has noticed that Claude 1) has the guts to wear a pink polo and 2) wears blue that matches his eyes.

I have hope there will be more noticing down the line!

And possibly I will spend a paragraph rhapsodizing over G's arms for my own sake. Noooo not self indulgent at all.

[rsadelle]

Excellent.

Surely Danny would notice his arms.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

How can you not? (http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3qbeaWKhS1rnzorlo1_500.png)

*___*

[rsadelle]

There you go. Just write about that from Danny's perspective. (Like how he sees muscled dudes every day and he's still impressed by Claude's arms.)

[forochel.livejournal.com]

my mum once said she admired victoria beckham for standing by her husband and holding her family together through all the shit. it wasn't — and isn't — a perspective that I'd ever think of, but yeah. she's a pretty amazing lady.



I have faith in your inception skills.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I have like, 500 words of it written in chat? I still hold out hopes that someone else will write it though, lol.

Victoria Beckham is amazing in a lot of ways, I think - she's the quintessential modern woman, meeting all the ridiculously high demands society puts on women in general: to maintain a successful career, to have a family (and be active in it), to look gorgeous and always be well dressed, etc. I fangirl her competency a lot. (Mostly, though, I just hope she's satisfied and happy with her own life, regardless of how outsiders including myself evaluate it.)