So, the financial panic in Vietnam is irrelevant?

[TrongpaiExpat]

อิจฉาตาร้อน

Henry is calling you envious or jealous in Thai.

เมตตา แล้วก็ สุภาพ Henry try

[cottmann]

I think it's kind of funny when a German accuses an American of being "anti-German."

NO, CHILDREN, WE WON'T TALK ABOUT THAT. Namely, European anti-Americanism, which has now become virulent.

WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. THAT WOULD BE RUDE.

But we CAN accuse Americans of being ANTI-GERMAN, simply because some dumb American thinks Der Spiegel is a piece of trash. Why, if that self-same American had DARED to criticise News of the World -- why, he's just some anti-English [not-to-be-mentioned].

Isn't it nice when we all get along so well? :-)

It's even funnier - I'm not German!!

Why don't you Google "American anti-Europeanism" (in quotes) and read some of the 500 plus hits that it identifies, including the one that begins "Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it." The quote is from Linda Colley's article "With Europe and America, the feeling is always mutual," from The Guardian, Thursday April 27, 2006. Then maybe some american knees will jerk less often at what was originally a perfectly innocent posting without any anti-Americanism intended. As it said in the original posting, I though you might be more interested in that report than one of the Viet Namese dong.

cr├бic

[cottmann]

อิจฉาตาร้อน

Henry is calling you envious or jealous in Thai.

เมตตา แล้วก็ สุภาพ Henry try

Envious of whom?

私は嫉妬深くないです

[Aunty]

So Dung's Dong is down, is it?