We all know better! Let’s start acting that way!

From what you see, you can be fairly sure even if “Chinese Whisper” wasn’t meant to be racist, most of us Chinese do take it as it is

It is safe to say that whatever phrases that contains any possibility for it being racist is best left unspoken/ unused. To me it will sound quite ignorant if someone is trying to find excuses to use phrases they themselves have doubt with.

On the other hand, I have to agree with what mycount3 said, we used to be taught how important it is to be polite and such since really young, so its unacceptable to flare out in a discussion like this. Can’t we just be a bit more sensible and try to explain or have a calm discussion?

Regarding what Vivi said, we Chinese use quite alot of Japanese products as well, do we feel ashamed of it? I believe there were arguments going on claiming that Chinese will not survive without the Japanese made air-cons, food, fashion, etc. I don’t really see a point getting all upset over the past when its got nothing to do with our generation really.

Neither do I think we should be so arrogant regarding how strong our country is, have you seen the latest news regarding intoxic milk? I’m still trying to get over that…

Anyway, all races have their strong and weak points, we should just accept that we are all different and try to get along with each other.

I bought a refurbished acer laptop from acerdirect.co.uk last year. From day one, it ran very hot and shut itself off occasionally. A few months ago, it started shutting itself off every 10 or 15 minutes, and it melted a laptop tray it was sitting on.

I contacted buyitdirect.co.uk as instructed via their e-messageing system with my order number and a description of the problem. I was advised to contact Acer directly. I rang Acer, gave a description of the problem and they tried to arrange collection and repair, but when I gave them the serial number, they told me the machine was registered to someone else so they couldn’t help me. I figured this was to do with the ‘refurb’ part of the laptop description, so I sent buyitdirect.co.uk another emessage. The reply stated that they would deal with the issue, and they arranged collection of the laptop last month.

A couple of weeks later, I get a message that my laptop is being processed, then that it is being returned. I ask if it was replaced or repaired, the reply was “this is being returned, you should have confirmation of dispatch within 48 hours”. Informative. So I wait, now today, a week later, I send them a message asking for the tracking number and for a description of what was wrong and repaired on the laptop (I’m an IT manager by trade, I know my way around a laptop). The idiot on the other end tells me it’ll be with me in a few days (not what I asked) and that it was being returned because they couldn’t find a fault with it. Seriously, they must not have switched the damned thing on for more than 2 minutes. I’m so angry. I called the support number for Ireland, customer service just tells you to use the emessaging system. So I rang the UK number (imagine the cost), customer services aren’t taking calls because of the snow. How convenient that their sales department were able to brave the bad weather and make it in, but customer services couldn’t? That should tell you a lot about their priorities right there. I’m angry and I feel like I can’t speak to a human being to find out what is happening. Sending it straight back again (which I will be doing) will only use up more time, and my warranty expires in a month, which I’m sure is what they are banking on.

Folks, avoid Laptops Direct / Appliances Direct / Direct TVs / Servers Direct / Acer Direct / AirCon Direct / Shop Targus and anything else this crowd of imbeciles run. They are a joke.

Most of what Mike says makes little sense but I recall “Radius…. very …hard …problem” at around the time when he was working on radius servers at Demon.

I sympathise. I dream about work too.

A far better advertisement would ‘feature’ IE6 and show the better path (and show firefox).

I guess they are going for the maximum exposure might make people visit the web address. It’s not just the tube where these ad’s are posted, you can’t move in the UK for billboards with them on.