For mailman - I know i said that i wanted to critisise your leaders and their families in response to your offensive comments about my royal family, but on second consideration, i feel that if i did so then i would be only reducing myself to your (and Cartman's) level. But believe me, there is plenty i could say about them if i wanted to. It was nice of you to admit that the royal wedding was shown on Russian TV though.
For mailman- Did you even read my posting? I don't understand your logic. If what you say is true, then why did so many people watch the royal wedding? It even made the front page of the local newspaper here in the west of Red China. If the only response you can give to my posting is to make puerile comments about the royal family, then i can only presume that all those episodes of South Park have had a very negative effect on you. But considering the content of the average episode, that is hardly surprising.
And another thing, please let me know which country you are from, so that i can rip into your head of state and their family, just like you have done to mine. It's only fair.
For Mailman - Who gives a damn? Maybe the million people who lined the procession route from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace. Or maybe the estmated two billion people who tuned into the live broadcast, making it one of the most viewed events in history. Or maybe all the people who watched it on the internet, with Akamai (who handled the transmission of live streams from the wedding for dozens of websites around the world, most notably Fox News and CBS) reporting a record traffic with a peak of 2.9 million live streams over it's entire network, which easily beat the previous record of 1.6 million streams during the World Cup in South Africa.
Don't presume that everyone in the world shares your cynical, sneering views. Maybe now you can get back to watching your asinine cartoon.
Laotou, just because you are obsessed with the Opium Wars, doesn't mean the people of Hong Kong are as well. And if you are so against the selling of dangerous addictive drugs, then why come to Yunnan, the largest traders of cigarettes in the country. More people have died, are dying and will die from smoke related deaths in China then ever did from opium. Not to mention the fact that it is so socially acceptable to smoke here, leading to even more deaths through passive smoking.
And as for the summer palace, didn't the Chinese burn down and loot Kublai Khan's summer palace (Xanadu, or Shangdu), which was also one of the great wonders of the world, so great in fact, that it is mentioned in Samuel Coleridge's excellent poem 'Kubla Khan'?
Also, if you want to read something about what was going through the minds of the soldiers who took part in the Yuanmingyuan burning, then look up 'the Parkes Party' or 'the Parkes delegation'. You won't find it in any Chinese sources i am sure, but you will find it in more neutral places.
Debaser and Rejected Goods, thank you for bringing some sense to the proceedings. Reading Gaoxing and aiyaryarr's posts, i was beginning to think the world had gone mad.
But seriously, i also have friends from Hong Kong, who i got in contact with after reading aiyaryarr's overly long posts above. And they basically said the same. They don't understand where aiyaryarr is coming from. They hold no grudge towards the British, and they certainly don't superficially kowtow to Caucasians, which they actually found quite offensive. And aiyaryarr's views on self censorship in Hong Kong they found laughable. As they did with his prediction of future universal suffrage to choose the Hong Kong chief executive (or the Chinese Governor, as they cheekily call him).
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