Thread: F*ck China

Nobody is in the hotels either.

I approve of your new av JD. Actually to be fair I approved of the old one too

I lived in Seattle Washington one year when there was a recorded 4 days of Summer sunshine. Imagine waiting out the long Winter for 4 days of Sun?

Originally Posted by Mr Pants

I approve of your new av JD. Actually to be fair I approved of the old one too

Thank you very much.

^Nice avatar!!

Good links frannie, and Jd.

Has anyone posted this yet? I heard it on the news last night.

Tue. Aug. 5 2008 10:16 PM ET
Fake Olympic tickets websites shut down by U.S.

CTV.ca News Staff

An individual shows off his tickets to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Thousands of people waited for days to purchase the tickets.

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A ticket agent at the Olympic ticketing centre in Beijing gives tickets to a customer. People in China were able to purchase tickets from a box office, but international fans had to rely on buying over the internet.




Bogus websites purporting to sell tickets for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing have scammed hundreds of ticket buyers out of Olympian-sized payments.

Canadians, Americans, Australians and some athletes' families, have been duped in the scam. Some have lost as much as US$50,000.

"It had the different characters that are on the Olympic website," Chante Pathak of Windsor, Ont., told CTV News. "It had every sporting event possible, every time, a timetable, a map -- everything. It looked totally legitimate."

The International Olympic Committee and U.S. authorities have sued two websites, beijingticketing.com and beijing-2008tickets.com, and shut at least one of them down, alleging they made millions.
Authorities say the websites were illegally using Olympic trademarks to convince customers to hand over their credit card and personal information.

Consumers who ordered tickets from www.beijingticketing.com, reported receiving a mass email Monday that informed them the company did not have tickets to distribute.

An email from "Alan Scott" told customers that "our suppliers have not been able to honour their commitments to us in supplying tickets for the Summer Olympics, despite having received written assurances from these suppliers. We are given to understand that they have placed themselves in to bankruptcy, despite having been paid in full by our company" the Los Angeles Times reported.

James Moriarty, a Houston, Tex. lawyer, ordered US$12,000 worth of tickets from one of the websites, never to receive the highly sought tickets.

"My initial reaction was fear, anger, I said lots of very ugly words," he told ABC. He said the website had looked authentic so he purchased the tickets.
Some customers have been able to get their money back from their credit card companies but it's not clear yet if everyone will be paid back.
The official Beijing ticket website says as of July 27 all Olympic events within the city have sold out.

With a report from CTV's Scott Laurie


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Something extremely fishing going on there? Was it China based I'm wondering?

Originally Posted by stfranalum

doing it all for the larger good. "its not about me. its about china. so if im ugly, and everyone loves the song, its ok"

You may be correct on this one stfranalum, it's for the good of the country and so far they're doing a wonderful job. The culture is so demanding, everything must be almost perfect if not perfect.

I have a good feeling that the world will be better off after this Olympic, for whatever it is, I believe good thing will come out of this.

I agree. I would still question the translations of those things though. Reading the Chinese the story comes out quite a bit different, thanks to "slips" in translation. What came across as "faked" for the footprints in the opening ceremony seemed to be to read "specially engineered to help our foreign guests all be able to get access to the footage and show it (at equal use) around the globe." It wasn't China who edited the footage shown on NBC it was NBC. NBC was even caught having editing the parade of nations, as seen on slashdot.

China had an earth quake, where thousand of people died and many more displaced and they have the Olympics to deal with. You can just see the pride on their faces though, politic and earth quake aside, they're coming through, together, they're puting on the show, one of the best Olympic game ever, so far.

stfranalum

but i think the cultural divide is (a sheer assumption) that the kid doesnt mind at all....doing it all for the larger good. "its not about me. its about china. so if im ugly, and everyone loves the song, its ok"



why again do they deserve our respect?

You make a good point. They probably didn't even tell the girl the truth, and perhaps paid off the family or not.

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jonnydanger

Hurt for sure. I doubt if she's scared. Is this not just the kind of thing that would make the typical American/Canadian family person ill? We hate this kind of shit! I'm hoping, almost expecting, some rich and famous arts school, Julliard perhaps, would offer her a scholarship just to stick it in China's ass. This is fcukin sad.

Probably not scared, but maybe scarred. I mean she is being sent a definite message about her looks, even if she doesn't get it now. She will in the future. Their behaviour is just a total disgrace.

Originally Posted by re_fuse

Imagine Bush going into the super bowl or something and saying you can't sing the anthem you're too ugly.

Refuse. Another Gem! I am impressed. Keep em comming.

And you are right. The Chinese are complete assholes. Damn pinko commies. Shame on them.

And what? They though this would never come out? Idiots!!!

Don't exactly why you refer to Bush though. Was it the Chinese Leader Hu that told the girl she couldn't appear?