Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writiing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Category: Rants
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What I want to know is this. Is it possible to wear a bluetooth headset on a semi-permanent basis and not look like a complete idiot? I can understand people wearing them when driving, and I suppose they are very useful if you are a courier, but is there any other excuse? Put it on…
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Changing a fuse should be easy, right? Not in my kitchen, it isn’t. The kitchen has a built-in fridge, washing machine and microwave oven (all from the same manufacturer). Which is all fine and dandy, but which idiot decided that each appliance should have its own electrical socket? Fuses are designed to blow if there…
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This comment about a recent post reminded of an article some time ago in The Economist (subscription required as this is so old): MEET your airline’s latest employee: you. You may not have noticed, but you are also now working for your phone company and your bank. Why? Because of the growth of the self-service…
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My wife is a techno-phobe. She doesn’t like computers, and only uses them because she has no choice. If something doesn’t work, she gives up – and, of course, this provides makes her even more convinced that computers are best avoided. Me, I will try to find out what is wrong and how to solve…
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There was a letter in the SCMP a while back from someone complaining about the way people use mobile phones in Hong Kong. I was expecting it to generate some response, but I haven’t seen anything (and the letter is no longer anywhere to be found on the new improved website): I cannot help but…
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Someone decided that it was a good idea to advertise these shoes to the "upmarket" (and presumably English speaking) readers of Post Magazine. Wouldn’t it have been worth checking the copy before submitting it?
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I regard the charges for using a mobile phone overseas (international roaming) as a big rip-off, as I’ve mentioned before, so I was interested by this report in The Guardian on Tuesday: The mobile phone company 3 will attempt today to head off a possible clampdown by the European commission on the prices that operators charge to call…
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Someone in the management of Park’n’Shop has clearly gone mad. They have decided that what shoppers really want is reductions on all “yellow label” products (please don’t ask me what a “yellow label” product might be, but there are a lot of them). The problem is that a large number of these reductions seem to be a nominal…
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RTHK have an RSS feed called “Instant News”. Currently these are the 5 stories at the top of the feed: Serbia and Montengro reach knock-out stages of WBC Milan make offer for Ronaldo Keane set for Sunderland Boro stun Chelsea in Premiership Ajax out as Arsenal progress What’s the point of that? I expect RTHK to…
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Amusing to see that Simon Patkin seems to be rather upset with me and Mr Fumier. Having previously accused me (wrongly) of ad hominem attacks on his character, can you guess what he does? Yes, that’s right: Hong Kong’s less reputable bloggers…anonymous authors…live their lives in the gutter…a stream of hatred, sarcasm and moral relativity.…
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