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[Kootvela]

11: 59, I never said I knew much about Hong Kong in the first place but your (wow, you can type long sentences!) posts just show that I'd better stay where I am because I risk meeting people like you. All I wanted to say was that a person should look into the legal system of the country. Now, go ahead and write one more long post about this!

[11:59]

Well, I think it is clear you are certainly far too thin-skinned to survive the culture here if a simple and mild riposte from a fellow contributor to the forum makes you get your knickers in such a twist and throw your rattle out of your pram. And for your information, I'll make my sentences as long, or as short, as I so choose.

Look into the legal system of a HK! What a joke! Putting the two terms 'legal system' and 'HK' into the same sentence creates an immediate oxymoron. Go out to Yuen Long and watch the police cross the road to avoid confrontations with the close-to-uniformed weapon-yielding Triads on their brothel patrol duty. Note that there is no minimum wage in HK. Pay attention to the fact that few if any employees have anything even so much as remotely approaching what we in the West would term 'employees' rights'. Go and buy a plot of land and a house in the NTs and then find out that, although you own the land, you are not, somewhat strangely, necessarily guaranteed access to it. Watch as the 'Village No.1' proceeds to encircle your dwelling with a ten-foot-high wall so you are either permanently walled in or walled out, unless you pay him compensation of $2,000,000 HK. Cry in frustration when the 'police' tell you there is nothing they can do as the rest of land in the village is owned by male 'indigenous villagers' (males have special land rights not afforded women). Come and see the remains of Westerners' dogs that have had petrol sprayed on them before a lit match was thrown at them by locals. Bear witness to the masses of teachers who are quite literally forced to remain at school 3 or even 4 hours after all their work is done and all their responsibilities have been discharged, under threat of not receiving another contract. Go and tell them about 'employees' rights'!

Grow up, Kootvela. This isn't northern Europe. This is the Wild West of capitalism where everyone is but a (replaceable) number.

[Kootvela]

Your posts are too long for me on this lovely sunny day, sorry, am not going to bother reading any poison they contain. Have a nice day, too!

[Henry_Cowell]

But I thought Hong Kong was a first-world nation. Didn't somebody once write that on these forums?