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Skriven 2004-11-27 10:15:38 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
   Kommentar till text 5368 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Breaking News!
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 FS> Perhaps you have an anti-American mindset?

No, I don't. But then, I don't have to agree in everytning you do.
I'm not anti-Swedish either but be sure I don't aprove to everything
that's going on in this country as well.
All shit that can happend here can, and are, happening in USA as well.
The only difference is that when it happends in USA it's 100:s of
times bigger then here. We don't have the resources you have but
the shit is the same.
For example. The Swedish Prime Minister, Göran Persson:s partner
or "wife" Anitra Steen, who is the highest head of Systembolaget, and
that is the government own stories where we buy our spirits, is involved
in a bribe investigation that keeps increasing.
And Göran Persson himself was once caught shoplifting.
A few other ministers have been caught using their government-own
credit card for personal use and using of the Swedish Air Force One
even for personal use.
And if things like that can happend here, what can then be happening in
USA? N379P comes to my mind.

 FS> Do you have relatives living in the United States?

I once had I think.

 BF>>> And when will you free China and North Korea?

 FS>> I'm not in the loop hence I cannot answer your question honestly.

 BF>> But the question is adequate, isn't it?

 FS> Perfectly good question, but you're asking the wrong person.

I'll take it up with GWB next tim I see him.

  FS> I'll have to remember that.  Translating idiomatic expressions from one
 FS> language into another can give some strange results. For example in German
 FS> there's an expression which translated *literally* into English is "Neck
 FS> over head" while in English the translation should be "Head over heels"
 FS> ... of course it means falling down in a tumbling manner.

I do watch some American series like "Friends" aso. and many times I have
hard to translate it to Swedish to my wife. One have to understand much of
American culture to understand the jokes.

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