Category: Rants
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Some real posters seen in Hong Kong: Ready to school? No, no, no. In the same vein, we have this: This is one of a series. The first is “Sense of Chic”, but someone got over-confident after that and decided that prepositions are fully interchangeable, so we have the meaningless “Savor of Joy” and absurdity…
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First they put up a new display screen with the times of the next few trains and other useful information (to replace the old smaller displays). Then they installed a large metal sign that largely blocks views of the screen (from one direction). This new sign marks what will be the front of the 9-car…
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Relatives booked flights to Hong Kong on a Very Famous Hong Kong Airline (VFHKA). Next we booked a package (flights and hotels), also with VFHKA – so that we could all go together to another city in Asia. Then last week VFHKA cancelled relative’s flights to Hong Kong, so we have to cancel the package. …
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Honest Bee, sorry that you are closing down.I placed several orders with youBut items were always missingOr the wrong item was deliveredSo, honestly, I'm not surprised My last order was for five products. They only delivered one of them. One! Then there was the time when I happened to go to the supermarket a few…
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The instructions are in English. But the touchscreen isn’t. So, that icon on the ‘pick up procedure’ with an arrow pointing up… This one: Don’t see anything like on the touchscreen. Gotta be the green one with an arrow pointing up? No. It’s the orange one with an arrow pointing down. Now, yes, since…
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A small follow up to my post on HKTVMall. Just to say that their customer service really isn’t great. I ordered something that was supposed to be available within 4-7 working days. Then just two days later I noticed that they had updated the order with a delivery date – the following day, at a…
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Last time I was in London, I didn’t swipe my card correctly and so I got charged for several “incomplete journeys”. I filled in an online form explaining what had happened, and received a refund a day or two later. Great service. Then, back in Hong Kong I went to meet my wife on an…
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I received an email from Spotify (entirely in Chinese). Ignored it. Turns out that it was telling me that I have to change my password. But no English translation!! This is what it says (courtesy of Google translate): Please update your Spotify account password Hello Spotify the User: To protect your Spotify account, we have…
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This is ridiculous (from The Guardian): Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes – WHO UN health body says bacon, sausages and ham among most carcinogenic substances along with cigarettes, alcohol, asbestos and arsenic Bacon, ham and sausages rank alongside cigarettes as a major cause of cancer, the World Health Organisation has said, placing…
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If you live in Greater China you will know that stuff (phones, tablets, etc.) often comes with Chinese as the default setting. And the (pitifully) few Chinese characters I might recognize are nowhere near enough to navigate through the menus to find the option to change to English. Yes it’s my own fault for buying…
Ordinary Gweilo 