2008 Olympic games

Why is there all this dislike for China?

None of you have ever lived or worked there.

Your comments are complete and utter ignorance.

Your bads! 😠

Originally posted by mikelom
Why is there all this dislike for China?

None of you have ever lived or worked there.

Your comments are complete and utter ignorance.

Your bads! 😠

You have to respect a government that sends people to labour camps for 'reeducation' when they dare to ask questions about why so many schools fell down in the earthquake.

Please tell me how forced 'reeducation' without leave to appeal is a good thing.

I don't need to have lived and worked in Chile to know that life under Pinochet was oppressive.

Originally posted by Nietzsche1844
Any favorite sport you would like to watch?🙂

Man ... the Olympics leaves me dead cold.

Maybe the wrestling.

Originally posted by Crowley
You should get off your fat ass once in a while.

Hey buddy, that beer doesn't just come walking up to me, you know!

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
Tennis. We Scots might get a medal in that 😛

God damn boy, I certainly hope you're not a gambler!

Originally posted by shavixmir
Hey buddy, that beer doesn't just come walking up to me, you know!

Leaning over a bar doesn't count.

Originally posted by shavixmir
God damn boy, I certainly hope you're not a gambler!

What you talking about....Andy Murray's over there 😛

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
What you talking about....Andy Murray's over there 😛

I will be too! 🙂

I'm in the synchronised swimming competition.

Tread water drinking a bottle of scotch in each hand.

I've been practising for years and finally made it.

I was in A&E four times whilst practising, cos I drank the pool too and hit my head on the bottom.

This time I'll tread carefully! 😉

Originally posted by leisurelysloth
When China starts treating its own people with respect for their basic human rights, stops occupying and oppressing Tibet, and stops threatening war against Taiwan then I'll possibly consider giving them a little respect. Until that day, they will richly deserve all of the scorn that can be heaped upon them. And I think that the IOC deserves every b ...[text shortened]... an oppressive regime. That was an absolute travesty and I will not be watching that spectacle.

I have two words for you......Guantanamo Bay.

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I have two words for you......Guantanamo Bay.

Yes, the USA increasingly resembles a totalitarian regime, like China. A disgrace, isn't it.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Yes, the USA increasingly resembles a totalitarian regime, like China. A disgrace, isn't it.

You ever been to China? Or you just believe all you read?

Originally posted by mikelom
You ever been to China? Or you just believe all you read?

Will they let me into a labour camp?

Please let me know what I'm failing to understand about this story:

"A Chinese teacher has been sent to a labour camp over his internet photographs of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, a rights group said on Wednesday.

Liu Shaokun was ordered to serve a year of "re-education through labour", according to Human Rights in China. The system does not require a formal charge or criminal trial and there is no appeal."

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Will they let me into a labour camp?

Only if you fart!

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Will they let me into a labour camp?

A labour camp sounds like the youth movement of Gordon Brown's party on a holiday.

Originally posted by mikelom
Only if you fart!

You're not defending your adopted country's practices very well.

Maybe I've got it entirely wrong; maybe you could put me straight.