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| posted by skinny 220 days ago |
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wow.... such generalization, i hope it is all there is, generalization.
i've walked non english speaking japanese tourists from Cosco Tower in Sheung Wan to LKF to find a restaurant, i've translated destinations to cab drivers for visitors/foreigners. i've helped mainland tourists for directions and shared of umbrella. lifting trollers for moms, giving seat on MTR..... holding lifts/doors for others everyday.
i've learnt my manners from local parents and local education. and i'm proud to be a local.
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| posted by geraldo 220 days ago |
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and then you left ....
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who can read binary and those who don't
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| posted by puyi 220 days ago |
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quote:
Originally posted by geraldo
and then you left ....
it was good manners to do so locally
darren rudd is and never was a sinophile
but the reports were a smoggy mistake
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| posted by migao 220 days ago |
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Expats are in general whining arrogant b**ches.
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| posted by geraldo 220 days ago |
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a winner!
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who can read binary and those who don't
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| posted by The Crone 220 days ago (edited 220 days ago) |
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I'm sorry to have offended you, if you choose to feel offended. I am the first to tell everyone I am local. As in my post, I did write 'many'. Many of my friends are local and Chinese. Again, if you feel offended, please forgive me It's just that what I experienced, did happen.
By the way, did you know that it's been reported that over 1,000,000 Iraqis have died since 2002?
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| posted by smog 220 days ago (edited 220 days ago) |
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Originally posted by skinny
lifting trollers
We have a couple of those here that we'd be very grateful if you'd lift and dump very far away...
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Originally posted by skinny
i've learnt my manners from {...} local education.
With no disrespect whatsoever, I feel your "local" education may have been quite strongly influenced by some non-local input. Pity you missed the bit about capital letters 
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| posted by Lola 220 days ago |
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quote:
Originally posted by smog
quote:
Originally posted by skinny
lifting trollers
We have a copy of those here
[pedant]Couldn't resist... [/pedant]
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| posted by puyi 220 days ago |
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Is it bad manners to ask what is the difference between local and Chinese ??? isn't it like meadow lea?
darren rudd is and never was a sinophile
but the reports were a smoggy mistake
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| posted by test 220 days ago |
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By the way, did you know that it's been reported that over 1,000,000 Iraqis have died since 2002?
What does that have to do with the price of tea in china?
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| posted by Hambone Slim 220 days ago (edited 220 days ago) |
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I shall spam you with an article from Mondays Guardian and beat a cowardly retreat. The comments at the end are interesting too.
From Buses to Blogs, a Pathological Individualism Is Poisoning Public Life
Our shared spaces have become a bear pit. This ever-crumbling civility risks our wellbeing and points to a bleak future
by Madeleine Bunting
A grey weekday morning at 7.40am in Edmonton bus station in north London, and it’s teeming with schoolchildren. As the bus arrives, a crowd surge forward to squeeze their way on. People get knocked over. The children, screaming and pushing, panic. Small ones, horrified by the melee, hold back. The ones with the sharpest elbows make it. The rest have to go through the ordeal again with the next bus and the next - and get bad marks for being late when, battle-scarred, they finally make it into school.
read the rest here:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/28/6672/
click here
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| posted by The Crone 220 days ago |
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Originally posted by puyi
Is it bad manners to ask what is the difference between local and Chinese ??? isn't it like meadow lea?
Local for me being: having lived here for like eons.
Local for me being part of the heritage of the mass population and part of the heritage that was HK when it was a British colony.
HK is not just Chinese.
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| posted by The Crone 220 days ago |
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And they're going to amount to little nobodies. Although I do omit the swearing in the presence of my charges 
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(As an aside and thinking of Neil Diamond: You don't send me facebook gifts ...anymore )
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| posted by fake Britney 220 days ago (edited 220 days ago) |
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quote:
Originally posted by puyi
Is it bad manners to ask what is the difference between local and Chinese ??? isn't it like meadow lea?
You are asking the question like what is the difference betwwen Britney and fake Britney. She is local, I am chinese.
But we can swop anytime, in your language, flip..
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| posted by smog 220 days ago |
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Originally posted by Lola
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Originally posted by smog
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Originally posted by skinny
lifting trollers
We have a copy of those here
[pedant]Couldn't resist... [/pedant]
oops! How on earth did my brain say "couple" and my fingers type "copy"?
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| posted by Lola 220 days ago (edited 220 days ago) |
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Freudian slip?
On Mr B's baby ducks thread the other day, I kept typing 'f**klings' instead of ducklings'.
Of course, it could have just been a typo, 'f' right next to 'd' on keyboard etc etc.
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