http://www.metafilter.com/tags/gaffes Posts tagged with 'gaffes' at MetaFilter. Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:18:01 -0800 Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:18:01 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/39024/Etiquette%2DHell <a href="http://www.etiquettehell.com/">Etiquette Hell</a> For those who throw good manners, common decency, and proper etiquette to the wind, here is a website collecting stories about social gaffes that are often hilarious. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.39024 Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:18:01 -0800 etiquette gaffes hell manners polite social livingsanctuary http://www.metafilter.com/14940/ <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1825000/1825593.stm">Did I say devaluation?</a> Nothing important, just another presidential blunder that caused a bit of confussion among Japan traders. Here in Europe it's been all over the place in the news and I am surprised that that little detail has been absent of the main USA media. I'm sure I didn't do my (online) homework well, could you please help me?<br> <br> Maybe is that the European media jumps at every oportunity to ridiculize Bush? Or is the american media protecting Bush image <i>inside</i> the USA?<br> <br> Could things like this <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35664-2002Feb19.html">controversial Pentagon plan</a> be the beguinning of a New Media War? We begin by hidding the little things and then we'll go for bigger and bigger <i>blackouts</i>, and then even lies? tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.14940 Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:52:57 -0800 bush currency gaffes georgebush georgewbush japan trading yen samelborp