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How Do You Say ‘Gaffe’ in British?

I kinda get the feeling that beer summit between Joe Biden and the BP CEO would be fairly entertaining. When it’s over, their conversation would make no sense except to each other.

How do these people get this kind of power with their feet so stuck in their mouths?

Posted by Wendy at 1622 hrs
Foreign Affairs + Politics + Politics - General

1. Big people have $20 billion.  Small people don’t have $20 billion.  But, small people would be more than happy to receive $20 billion from big people, so they too, could be considered big people.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 16, 2010 at 1632 hrs
   
   
   

2. It’s a translation error, nothing more.  If people want to make hay of it, whatever.  As someone who used to live in Scandinavia, I wouldn’t think anything of hearing this.  He was using small as a modifier to contrast with his use of large one sentence earlier.  That’s not offensive.  But yet if he just spoke in Swedish all the time, those folks on the gulf coast would bitch that he was being arrogant then as well.

   Too bad Biden isn’t Swedish or he’d have an excuse too.

   Posted by Recess Supervisor on June 16, 2010 at 1642 hrs
   
   
   

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