sample the followin piece of tosh that almost made me choke, see emphasis:
HONG KONG - American property mogul Donald Trump's hopes of airing a Chinese version of his successful reality TV show, The Apprentice, suffered a setback after its would-be presenter quit, Chinese media said yesterday.
Chinese real estate tycoon Pan Shiyi pulled out of negotiations for the show last month, the Sunday Morning Post said, quoting a spokesman for the businessman's Soho China company.
Pan was said to have thought arrangements were 'inappropriate', the Hong Kong newspaper added.
The two tycoons struck a verbal agreement in August to set up the show, which would pit the business skills of 16 contestants against each other for a lucrative contract with Soho China.
Pan told reporters at the time he would not use Trump's catchphrase 'You're fired' when dismissing a losing competitor because it would hurt Chinese sensitivities.
Trump's show was to have gone head to head with a Chinese rip-off called Wise Man Takes All, sponsored by Hong Kong property tycoon Vincent Lo, with whom Trump is in a multi-billion-dollar dispute over a soured New York real estate deal. -- AFP
chinese *sensitivities* or that oft-quoted "losing-face" bollocks? regardless, extremely fragile ego's they have got.
em mainland chink's - ie: lower rung peasant's durin the communist era - have no respect whatsoever towards anyone or any culture they deem as more inferior to theirs. even as guest's to another country, they don't give a fig if local's are within earshot of their tirade of unjustifiable insult's. they'd carry on fobbin their gob's in their usual loud uncouth manner. even if you have made it known to em your not the least pleased, and tellin em exactly where to go.
and they expect us to be sensitive towards em?
pardon me, but - PTUI.
as enscribed by the letter b @ October 17, 2005 03:05 PM | someone's pingedoh and they say those who were born in the year of the Ox will suffer throughout their lives 'cos oxen work hard on the field ploughin from dawn to dusk - which there is some truth to it; and it also depends on and according to the time of birth. as for me though, the year of the monkey, life seems relatively good regardless. but it could be due largely to the monkey being a rather cunningly intelligent creature.
well, that is much evidenced innit :D
as blahed by the letter b @ October 18, 2005 11:56 AMMmmm, I'm the Year of the Tiger. Grrrr.
as blahed by "Alice" @ October 18, 2005 11:29 AMexactly, over ere it's only until about 20-30 years ago that baby girls were generally accepted even if they were born in the year of the tiger: fierce, difficult to find husbands, they'd make their bairn's suffer, and such other balderdash.
so they [and any other child includin boys that was deemed surplus, makes you wonder why they breed like rats in the first place when they couldn't even support the families] were given away to malay or indian families to adopt [which contributed to a large proportion of "fair" chink-lookin malays/indians] or abandoned at the gate of the convent.
as blahed by the letter b @ October 18, 2005 10:01 AMDoesn't seem like the people of China are too sensative when they leave their baby girls in orphanages, fire/police stations, or the garbage after aborting them because of the one-baby rule (as an example, of course).
as blahed by "Alice" @ October 18, 2005 09:17 AM