aw man, get your friggin act together will ya?
Its mere days before I get on a plane down to the States and honestly the Americans aren't exactly giving me very high hopes on what to expect from them when I finaly get there. They seem to be hell bent on pissing off the rest of the world just by their sheer buffoonery. I'm not sure if such a word actually exists but you get what I mean.
A few weeks ago I thought American idiocy couldn't get any worse after I found out about the proposed launch of PLAYBOY magazine in INDONESIA!!! Like wth. As if their reputation as the Great Satan within the Islamic world wasn't enough, they had to go and exacerbate the situation? Their excuse? The Indonesian edition of Playboy has no nudity. Err..then what was the whole point of having an Indonesian Playboy in the first place? Now there are clerics calling for protests and burning of any copy of Playboy on the streets.
Real smart right?
It gets better. Check out the front page of the World section in the Straits Times today. As if their relations with the Chinese in general weren't bad enough, these bumbling Yanks went and humiliated Hu Jintao (PRC leader; refuse to call him president because he's still a frikkin commie) on public tv with an endless stream of cock-ups. First the band announced the playing of the ROC (Taiwan) anthem rather than the PRC's. Then when Hu proceeded to make his speech, he was rather rudely interrupted by a Falungong supporter within the press crew hollering at the top of her voice and making a scene. The American excuse for letting her slip through the checks? She was a fully certified journalist. Yes she was. A fully certified journalist with a FALUGONG newspaper and who had actually been arrested before for doing something similar to the Hu's predecessor, Jiang Zemin, on another occasion. What was that about sparing no effort again?
There was a whole bunch of other stuff so you can go read it yourself, but the worst part about this is that even though most of us realise this is just a result of the usual American "you can speak English!?!?!?!" attitude, most of the 1 billion Chinese are overly serious and unforgiving arses. These Yanks have just given the PRC government another grievance to shed crocodile tears over and stoke the fires of anti-American sentiment again.
And I just hate it when those arrogant Chinese sons of bitches start whining to the newpapers about how the world owes them a living again. Makes for a really bad read.
A few weeks ago I thought American idiocy couldn't get any worse after I found out about the proposed launch of PLAYBOY magazine in INDONESIA!!! Like wth. As if their reputation as the Great Satan within the Islamic world wasn't enough, they had to go and exacerbate the situation? Their excuse? The Indonesian edition of Playboy has no nudity. Err..then what was the whole point of having an Indonesian Playboy in the first place? Now there are clerics calling for protests and burning of any copy of Playboy on the streets.
Real smart right?
It gets better. Check out the front page of the World section in the Straits Times today. As if their relations with the Chinese in general weren't bad enough, these bumbling Yanks went and humiliated Hu Jintao (PRC leader; refuse to call him president because he's still a frikkin commie) on public tv with an endless stream of cock-ups. First the band announced the playing of the ROC (Taiwan) anthem rather than the PRC's. Then when Hu proceeded to make his speech, he was rather rudely interrupted by a Falungong supporter within the press crew hollering at the top of her voice and making a scene. The American excuse for letting her slip through the checks? She was a fully certified journalist. Yes she was. A fully certified journalist with a FALUGONG newspaper and who had actually been arrested before for doing something similar to the Hu's predecessor, Jiang Zemin, on another occasion. What was that about sparing no effort again?
There was a whole bunch of other stuff so you can go read it yourself, but the worst part about this is that even though most of us realise this is just a result of the usual American "you can speak English!?!?!?!" attitude, most of the 1 billion Chinese are overly serious and unforgiving arses. These Yanks have just given the PRC government another grievance to shed crocodile tears over and stoke the fires of anti-American sentiment again.
And I just hate it when those arrogant Chinese sons of bitches start whining to the newpapers about how the world owes them a living again. Makes for a really bad read.
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