The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

American democracy is older than European democracy. But no, it isn't older than the concept of European democracy. So to the extent that anybody is seriously bothered by the comment I'd say they were going out of their way to have bruised feelings. Besides, since when do you care what other countries think and if their feelings are hurt?

The reset button was stupid for many reasons. Though I'm told by my Russian speaking friend that the mistaken word doesn't so much have a meaning of paying too much but is more an electrical term and closer to "overloaded." Search the term (in Cyrillic) and you'll find mostly pictures of electrical diagrams and things carrying too much weight.

And unless she was meeting people she didn't know she would be meeting, mispronouncing names is embarrassing.