The problem resides with an individual rather than an entire nation. He spreads across all topics like a fungal infection and yet his only area of expertise is himself. He is a lout.

Ha.Ha.

@Napoleon: You are right. This is silly. I just wish those that love the USA so much could restrain their enthusiasm a bit. It really isn't necessary to wildly engage in Newspeak polemics about the USA in this forum or load up every thread with nonsense.

Whacking the US is great sport if you like doing easy things. Assuming a facade of authority whilst engaging in endless ignorant fabrications is a bit more challenging. To do this whilst proclaiming love and loyalty is somewhat bizarre.

As an American. I resent fabricated BS rantings about my country and my people. There are enough sad truths about my country, and it's foibles, to fill hundreds of threads. I agree these failings, true or not, are tiresome and out of place here.

@geezer
You get bent out of shape, because you resent perceived fabricated BS rantings. I get bent out of shape, because of people like you, marginalizing major issues with our government that have been building and growing for decades, like an insidious cancer.

You call my rantings fabricated BS - yet your responses - although eloquent, informative, and academic - are fraudulently misleading.

I'm like the man who says - "the house is on fire" - perhaps sensationalist and alarmist, depending on one's perspective.

You're the man - who points at a single room and contends "Laotou is a fabricating BS artist. Look - the house isn't on fire - look at this room - no fire!"

The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. You can claim your isolated incidences until the end of time - but the fruits of those corporate and accounting behaviors are irrefutable. The fruits of our government's foreign policies are irrefutable - if one would only look at history and consider BOTH perspectives instead of the USA only blinders.

You contend whacking the USA is a great sport - as though the USA were some kind of victimized virgin.

Let's look REALLy briefly at why some in the world aren't too happy with us and why I'm really bent out of shape.

IRAN
We supported an increasingly violently oppressive and repressive regime for over a century. You think they hate us because of Allah? Yet, you claim I'm a fabricating BS ranter and "whacking the USA is great sport". You are amazing.

IRAQ
We invaded Panama and put Noriega in prison. We invaded Iraq and allowed the Iraqis to hang Saddam. Why? Both were allegedly on CIA payroll - but why allow Saddam to be hanged and not Noriega. The US rhetoric on Noriega should have applied to Saddam - but it didn't. And let's not even address the fact that we totally destabilized the fragile peace that was the middle east, just so we could stick it to OPEC. ISIS, Al Qaida, Taliban - most trained by the USA. It's now known that many of the senior leaders of ISIS - former military heads of Iraq. Massive misery, suffering and death - which you pooh pooh as "whacking the USA is great sport". You are amazing.

US SAVINGS & LOAN CRISIS 1986-1995
This was the first case of truly massive banking fraud, which almost collapsed the US economy, nearly wiped out normal working people's savings, and obliterated the US Saving & Loan industry. Roughly 1000 of the over 3000 S&L institutions went under. All those people, all those jobs - all those dreams, retirements, gone. And you claim I'm a BS fabricating ranter. You are amazing. "Whacking the USA is great sport"...

GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS 2007-2008
Also - as a direct result of legal, but unethical accounting practices - selling toxic debt wrapped as investment grade. Almost collapsed the global economy. We bailed out the banks with taxpayer funds, because they were "too big to fail". Immediately after the banks recovered - they legally exited government control and paid themselves obscene bonuses. More of my obviously fabricated BS rantings, as I'm sure you can pull at least ONE isolated incidences of corporate good responsibility, to prove me wrong yet again - and continue to resent me as a fabricating BS ranter. You are utterly and spectacularly amazing. "Whacking the USA is great sport".

Fabricated BS rantings? Your penchant for pulling out isolated cases to rebut massive and pervasive corporate and governmental malfeasance is utterly amazing and incredulous. Your ability to marginalize massive and pervasive fraud, waste, and corruption, ethical and moral wrongdoing - as "whacking the USA is great sport" - historically and epically amazing.

As US citizens, we SHOULD be severely bent out of shape at what we've collectively done as a nation and want to fix it - but instead - you quote a single 2014 BoA Annual Report as evidence that BoA pays its taxes, like a responsible corporate citizen, at a rate of 29.5%, when the reality is they clawed back about USD 1 billion the following year. You are utterly and incredibly amazing and YOU probably represent most of America and THAT's why I get all bent out of shape. You DEFINITELY represent today's corporate America - in a state of perpetual denial of corporate malfeasance, because you obey the law (which you and your ilk lobbied to change so you could circumvent the laws designed to protect consumers) and are US GAAP compliant. Yes - you're legal and compliant - and you're morally and ethically bankrupt. I'm shocked and disappointed that you may actually represent most of mainstream America. You resent the truth, you marginalize it as BS fabrications, and, ever the optimist - can always cite at least one incidence of goody goody goody. Absolutely and spectacularly amazing. In the same breath you can allude to America's ills, marginalize the global impacts of those ills, and claim the victim's role "whacking the USA is great sport"...absolutely amazing. I'm in awe.

But you, noble, and Liumingke1234 are right - I'm just a "fabricating BS ranting lout", deserving of resentment from REAL Americans. I doubt I represent mainstream REAL americans - they'd probably all want to lynch me for speaking the truth, which you can label as BS ranting, in spite of the historical global impacts of those behaviors. Your combined abilities to minimize massive, pervasive, and globally egregious behavior is spectacularly impressive.

I must be one seriously deluded and misguided individual when I think our nation is in serious jeopardy and y'all resent comments as "fabricated BS rantings".

Unfortunately - I also believe most of mainstream USA is like you, so thank you all for showing me the ugly reality of today's USA. I didn't want to face it, didn't want to believe it - but it's true - American's believe they're the victims and "whacking the USA is" ... merely "great sport". Apathy is the paragon virtue.

At this late stage in my life - I thought I'd seen and heard it all and then I come to the back end of China - and I'm utterly amazed and shocked with awe and wonder at what I've beheld in the furthest reaches of the corner of the earth.

It's like looking into the heart of a black hole and surviving to tell the story, which of course, no one will believe, because it's so incredulous - it must be fabricated BS.

Well - thanks for today's amusement. It was incredulously amazing.

And @geezer - on a less sarcastic note - thanks for pointing out potential deficiencies in my perceptions of financial accounting - but in retrospect - straining for gnat...no. Your legal GAAP rhetoric gave us the S&L scandal and the impressively replicated global financial crisis roughly 20 years later.

Incredulously amazing. I didn't want to believe, but you've all shocked me into reality, with your online intervention.

How sad to finally have to face the reality of the root cause of my emotional imbalance and source of irritation.

Now I understand my friend's Spartan comments about bridge burning.

Well - back to other more pressing delusions ...

@old man

I think it is clear to the members of GoK at large, who's the delusional one.

Disregarding the veracity of your verbiage so far, how does any of it related to the topic of, finding printed political/religious text on a circulating RMB?

Your first post start off with:
"I never look at the ¥1 notes and if I do happen to see anything printed - assume it's names (usually correct). At children's schools - they pay for their school lunches monthly and are generally required to scribble their names (in pencil) on major bills in the clear watermark area."

And that's where it should have ended. However, you continue on a tangent with an attack on the US
"Now - in the USA, defacing US currency is actually illegal, so in theory and worst case scenario - you could expect an armed swat like invasion of your home, lead by the US Secret Service (they recently moved from Treasury to Homeland Security - so not sure if they still have the currency mandate) - be hurled to the floor with HEAVY knees...[blah blah blah]"

Again, however accurate this verbiage might be, it is irrelevant to the topic at hand which I pointed out in my follow up response, ..."I am aware that such things happen, But I don't understand what it has to do with the topic and How it's related to living in Kunming or China in general."

To which you further responded with a convoluted, self-grandiose ramblings of a crazed man:

"Why the big deal about one yuan? That would depend on one's professional career and responsibilities. To most normal people - ¥1 is negligible and not worth noticing or getting all worked up about. To a professional accountant, corporate controller, or the big boss, ¥0.01 can generate a corporate firestorm.", "Why am I so harsh with my criticism of the USA and as some pundits would posit - China's archangel Gabriel? The USA is a developed country and arguably the wealthiest nation in the world. With great wealth comes great responsibility"

"Why sing the praises of China? China is a developing nation. In 60-70 years - it has surpassed Japan as the world's second largest economy, with roughly one third of the country mobilized."

"How about the fabled M16 rifle - worked great in the lab - but it wasn't initially battle tested for southeast asia type jungle or desert use, sustained firepower engagements with massive numbers of enemies (should've learned from the Korean war), carbon fouling, cleaning, training. How do you keep a high performance, high maintenance weapon clean in a battlefield jungle environment? Is something as simple and rudimentary as "cleaning your weapon" a critical function?"

"A typical microprocessor in a typical computer today, contains BILLIONs of transistors, executing MILLIONS of instructions per second. How important is it that the device NOT have errors smaller than 10^-12 or 10^-18? What are the odds that an error of this minuscule magnitude could knock an airplane out of the sky?"

"The internet can make anyone an instant blogging expert an innumerable and diverse subjects. I used it to design one of the world's first and arguably largest 3G networks (outside of China and India), based on virtually zero information from the customer."

Need I go on?

Which brings us back to the synthesis of post, what has any of this got to do with the topic at hand? Other than to make use of any opportunity to attack your adaptive country, a country which you have gained so much from, of which you say over and over again, you dearly love?

Any further response that does not address this fundamental question is simply deflecting any culpability.

Talk about a thread going completely off rail. SHUT IT DOWN!
It went from:

1 Yuan Bill - interesting!

to I don't know what.

I've seen stuff printed and written on paper currency but I never took the trouble to learn what it said. I am sure it was nothing worth getting upset about.

20 years ago, in Hong Kong, there were 1 cent paper notes printed on one side.

One often saw business messages printed on the blank side and even name card information. A friend printed a bunch for me as a gift. Kinda cool.

Good thing it wasn't in the corrupt USA as it would have triggered a financial crisis and I might be rotting in some federal prison, deep in the heart of the country I love, dreaming of escaping to some workers paradise where nary a hint of corruption or crimes exists.

usual dick waving

Know I missed something here... but I have a sizeable collections of 1- yuan bills dating back to the 1930s. They are anything but rare at flea-markets... not at all like the various denominations of CBC Shanghai 1930 Customs Gold Notes, now being counterfeited...

@tony
Now you're behaving like me. I asked for a simple incidence of something we've done that was good in this world. You provided nothing. That's evasive.

@liumingke1234
Same to you - wanna shut me up - give me a single example of something we've done as a nation, that contributed to either domestic or global harmony.

My interpretation of ¥1 - poetic license. What - no freedom of speech? No first amendment support from fellow Americans? Farcical.

To other gokm readers
Apologies for going way off topic - I can't guarantee won't happen again, but I'll try to keep it in check. I'm sure my buddies Liumingke, noble, Dazzer, geezer - will be amply helpful in policing.