The invested interests spend so much national wealth in preparing the Olympic Games to blandish the international, launch so much propaganda about the 2008 Olympics to gloss over official corruption and social inequality!
At the last National People's Congress session, China's Wen wowed discretionarily for the "Chinese's enthusiasm for the 2008 Olympics" - ignoring the voices of naysayers.
Many feel the GDP comes from inflation. houses and food are all more expensive. China is falling into the capitalism seen in the 1800s, before the October Revolution.
Most recent and upcoming college graduates from all over China squash in fancy metropolises, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc, while other provinces remain stagnant.
Next spring, Chinese colleges and universities expect a record 4.95 million graduates, up 820,000 from this year. More than a million of them will wind up jobless, according to estimates.
The proportion of people's salaries to GDP has been falling year after year.The M2/GDP ratio is unusually high, 200% in 2005.All money is the ruling group's money,all hardship is the mass's hardship.Fight ,or die!
"Terrible idea. Please think of the athletes"? Some athletes,poor kids,just run a risk for money at the expense of life,health!Look forward to a better world.
"We should be embracing China at every possible opportunity. What possible bad could come from befriending such a massive power"?Don't think China is going into capitalism at all.It is an officialdom-economy.And the Stalinists won't change its autarchy without pressure.
No participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympics! No watch the games! No buy the mementos! If you come to Beijing to see the games,wear a T-shirt bearing the logo above at least?
Can we please keep this one?
Agreed, this one is priceless. We should adopt it.
I dunno... is it housebroken? And will it bite? Looks a bit mangy too.
If it befouls my floor, I'm not cleaning it. You want it, you take care of it!
Quote from: 冯志焜No participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympics! No watch the games! No buy the mementos!
Tee-hee! They're so cute when they're at this stage.
I agree -- we should embrace comrade 冯志焜.
!i!
Quote from: 冯志焜No participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympics! No watch the games! No buy the mementos! If you come to Beijing to see the games,wear a T-shirt bearing the logo above at least?
Sir, I personally promise that I most assuredly
will not participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympics in
any form or function; I
will not watch the games (I do not own a television set, so I don't foresee any problems here), and, if circumstances prompt me to visit lovely Beijing, I will
definitely wear one of the T-shirts you refer to.
All the best,
Melan
I won't watch'em anyway. At least as long as Fingerhakeln (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFingerhakeln&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF8), drinking games and pro wrestling don't get acknowledged as olympic disciplines.
Quote from: 冯志焜The invested interests spend so much national wealth in preparing the Olympic Games to blandish the international, launch so much propaganda about the 2008 Olympics to gloss over official corruption and social inequality!
At the last National People's Congress session, China's Wen wowed discretionarily for the "Chinese's enthusiasm for the 2008 Olympics" - ignoring the voices of naysayers.
Many feel the GDP comes from inflation. houses and food are all more expensive. China is falling into the capitalism seen in the 1800s, before the October Revolution.
Most recent and upcoming college graduates from all over China squash in fancy metropolises, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc, while other provinces remain stagnant.
This is different from Vancouver and the 2010 Winter Olympics how?
How did he get a screenname in chinese? Cool.
I always have and always will boycott the Olympics, mainly because they are so freaking boring and so surrounded by hype and b.s.
I avoid the Olympics because they're nationalist propaganda for individual members of the state system. I actually did refuse to go to the 2008 Olympics over the human rights abuses of the Chinese government (A relative does import/export to China and was thinking of getting a few tickets).
Oh, all right, if we're going to take this all serously -- I gave up on the Olympics over the 1980/84 bullshit nationalist bloc boycotts of the Moscow and Los Angeles Summer Games. The real nail in the coffin, though, was when IOC decided to stagger the Summer and Winter Games in order to maximise marketing potential. Every four years was kind of cool -- you'd build up a real sense of anticipation. Every two, though, became irritating.
Oh, and as far as the Beijing Olympics go? Should be a grand propaganda-fest.
!i!
I'm boycotting the Olympics until DnD is an event.
Out of curiousity, does anyone know what those Chinese characters mean? I wouldn't want to show up in China in a tee-shirt that read "Death to Mao" or "I'm stupid, take my cash".
Quote from: Ian AbsentiaThe real nail in the coffin, though, was when IOC decided to stagger the Summer and Winter Games in order to maximise marketing potential. Every four years was kind of cool -- you'd build up a real sense of anticipation. Every two, though, became irritating.
And I thought I was alone in this. Kinda hard to tell the kids what it was like when now it's "Oh, look, the Olympics are on...again..."
I think the Olympics as a sporting event is great. As a media/political/marketing monstrosity, it sucks.
Gee, can you tell who has no sense of humor in this thread? :rolleyes:
Quote from: jeff37923Gee, can you tell who has no sense of humor in this thread? :rolleyes:
No laugh!
I joyfully watch the olympics once every four years.
In the '80s I predicted the Mary Lou Retton win....6 months before those Olympics. Also, Cincinnati has a Gymnastics school that trained at least 5 of the "Magnificent 7" of the 1996 team.
Also like that shooting and Skiing event - whatever that one is called.
- Ed C.
Quote from: GrimjackI'm boycotting the Olympics until DnD is an event.
There ya go! Now I have something to hang my righteous dislike of the Olympics on.
I here Mario AND Sonic are competing!
Quote from: KoltarAlso like that shooting and Skiing event - whatever that one is called.
Biathlon.
Somehow, most of our biathletes seem to come straight from the army, and a lot of them train here in the Black Forest area.
For some strange reason that isn't going to be displayed at the summer olympics though ;)
Quote from: GrimjackI'm boycotting the Olympics until DnD is an event.
Out of curiousity, does anyone know what those Chinese characters mean? I wouldn't want to show up in China in a tee-shirt that read "Death to Mao" or "I'm stupid, take my cash".
I think he wants the English slogan(s) inside the post to be on your T-shirt. Running the screen name through a couple online translators, the best I get is "Feng Zhi-kun". So I think it's just a name.
I love his avatar. Am I not enough of a history wonk to recognize who that is, or is it just a random Asian guy?
It's Jiang Zemin, the face of political retrenchment.
QuoteI think he wants the English slogan(s) inside the post to be on your T-shirt...
(http://assets.scribd.com/word_document_images/word_published_documents/422/422677.jpg)
Post this picture on your T-shirts? :pundit:
Is it a swastika...or a clown fish?
!i!
Quote from: 冯志焜(http://assets.scribd.com/word_document_images/word_published_documents/422/422677.jpg)
Post this picture on your T-shirts? :pundit:
Didn't see that. So what's it mean?
Quote from: Elliot WilenDidn't see that. So what's it mean?
'Please detain me for interrogation'?
Fuck--these Chinese spambots are sophisticated!
冯志焜, old chum, if you want us to wear your logo, could you post a bigger pic? Thanks.
PS How much does a spambot get?
QuoteI avoid the Olympics because they're nationalist propaganda for individual members of the state system...
China party secretaries's mine blast,105 killed.
Quote from: 冯志焜China party secretaries's mine blast,105 killed.
SO, do you play role playing games?
Or this the sole topic that you're interested in?
- Ed C.
I don't see any Chinese character's in our little visitor's name. Do I need to enable Chinese into my computer or something? All I see of his name are a few lines. :(
Since I can't read his name, I'll just call him Bob. Hi, Bob! :)
I see the same thing in Opera, Lamb. Probably don't have the character set installed/enabled in your browser.
Bob is a good name.
Quote from: HaffrungThis is different from Vancouver and the 2010 Winter Olympics how?
Well, here you can pay extra for fancy licence plates for your car to show you like spending money for sporting events in town that might as well be on the moon for all the likelihood you'll be able to afford a ticket to watch (even if you hadn't just spent that money on the l.p.).
And, after using tax money to fly city councillors (not the architects, mind you) to various European locales to investigate how to build a speed skating oval (shocking conclusion: it's an oval), the city of Richmond (just south of Vancouver and part of Greater Vancouver) has decided to build this great giant oval right beside the river. Richmond, of course, is a river delta made of silt, and the entire city will vanish under water at the first slight tremor. For added fun, parts are under sea level. The oval should last maybe four or five years before its own weight drags it down into the river. Then, a couple of years as a speed-swimming oval. Then, a couple more as a fishing platform. Then, a scuba-diving destination.
Gah. Want to support physical fitness in the community? Don't throw millions into a two-week spectator event that will only encourage maybe a half-dozen people who are already into sports. Do something to help uncoordinated, deconditioned (fat or skinny, either way) kids with poor self-confidence get into some form of exercise or sport where they're encouraged and not mocked by their more athletically-gifted peers.
(No, I'm not bitter at all about high school gym class. Why do you ask?)