Have you heard the one about the Englishman, the American, the Frenchman, the German, the Russian...?

Was anyone else slightly disturbed by the news footage of the G8 leaders at their Georgia summit? "Hey, we're just a regular bunch of guys - look, we don't always wear ties and look like stiffs, we like goofing around just as much as you do. That's how down-to-earth and in touch with the ordinary man-in-the-street we are. (Just ignore the helicopter gunships overhead)". For fuck's sake, the world is in their hands and it looked like a fucking golf club committee meeting - and that was before we were shown them whizzing around in little golf buggies like joyriding teenagers.