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Originally Posted by Coramoor
What is petty and uninformed is giving the British PM a box set of Bond DVDs from the wrong region.
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Just one question: Does anyone actually know that the DVDs were for the wrong region? I haven't seen that in any credible news report. All I've seen is comments in pieces like the one starang quoted where they say things like "It's worth noting that American DVDs won't play in European DVD players." That may be worth noting, but that doesn't mean that the DVDs were, in fact, not compatible with European players, only that the writer is assuming that they were not.
I agree that it was a major gaffe by the Protocol Office (even though Brown is not a head of state). But there sure seems to be a whiff of truthiness about some of the more outraged reports.
ETA: Maybe the Protocol Office was just following precedent.
According to The Daily Mail, Bush gave Brown a fur-trimmed bomber jacket.
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