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RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 5:16 pm
(November 4, 2012 at 5:13 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: can go the other way arround. like in the austrian parlament with helene jarmer, a deaf and dumb member of the austrian parlament. it`s weird to then see the translater not doing anything at all.

How so?
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RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Ohhhh for fucks sake!!!! In my german - english dictonary it says that the english word for "Stumm" is dumb.
Now i looked in the internet dictonary - it means mute!
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RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 5:28 pm
(November 4, 2012 at 5:26 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: Ohhhh for fucks sake!!!! In my german - english dictonary it says that the english word for "Stumm" is dumb.
Now i looked in the internet dictonary - it means mute!

It's outdated slang. No worries.
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RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 5:34 pm
are there any politicians in the US with physical disabilities?
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RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 5:39 pm
I can't think of any current ones right now, but I don't doubt they are out there.

We have a famous president who was wheelchair-bound. His name was F. D. Roosevelt (not to be confused with Teddy).
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RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 5:48 pm
we have a weelchairbound minister of finance - Schäuble (who survived a assasination attempt in the 90s)
and a governor (Ministerpresident in german) (of Reihnland Pfalz) Malu Dreyer who suffers from MS and is weelchairbound.
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RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 5:49 pm
(November 4, 2012 at 5:34 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: are there any politicians in the US with physical disabilities?

Quite a few mentally challenged.
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RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 6:34 pm
(November 4, 2012 at 5:34 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: are there any politicians in the US with physical disabilities?

Daniel Inouye - President pro tempore of the US Senate. Missing an arm.
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RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 7:23 pm
(November 4, 2012 at 5:34 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: are there any politicians in the US with physical disabilities?

Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) is quadriplegic
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RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 10:28 pm
(November 4, 2012 at 5:13 pm)5thHorseman Wrote:
(November 4, 2012 at 4:49 pm)Tino Wrote: Rage on dude.

You must be new here. I'm not being serious.

It turns me on when you're raging, though.
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