Comments on: Don’t Light Firecrackers While Banging That Spitting Prostitute

By: dokdoforever

dokdoforever — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:26:56 +0000

Robert - what’s the whole story on R Elgin’s pulled thread? Did Netizens complaints lead a Korean government agency to force you to remove it? What are the rules governing admissable speach on blogs in Korea?

By: dogbert

dogbert — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:21:12 +0000

Indeed, I was usually flying to Tashkent, so that may have been it.

By: aaronm

aaronm — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:56:58 +0000

@8, If you were going to the former CIS it may have been avoiding Lop Nor the nuclear testing site in the far west of the country.

By: dogbert

dogbert — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:47:44 +0000

@1: I can’t give you an exact answer, but I used to fly regularly over China and each time noted that the flight took an oddly-shaped path that seemed to me designed to avoid certain areas of the country.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:08:20 +0000

Oh, come on — take advantage of the opportunity while it lasts.

By: swlee

swlee — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:05:22 +0000

I’d comment on this fascinating thred except it will probably be pulled tomorrow so I won’t even bother. Ooops, too late.

By: Railwaycharm

Railwaycharm — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:58:57 +0000

“entertainment” = Whore banging?

By: dda

dda — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:51:02 +0000

I was Friday and Saturday in China — in Shenzhen — and the atmosphere at the pedestrian border of Lowu is way more tense that it used to be. They installed a metal detector, which I and many others circumvented, and everyone has to put their luggage through an X-Ray machine, a formality that was mostly ignored by border-hoppers like me. Passport control took much longer, as they seemed to memorize every single page of our passports, and we had to answer questions — something I never had to do so far, and I have 50+ border crossings behind my belt.

As for the “entertainment” part, though, it doesn’t seem to be affected yet

By: Wedge

Wedge — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:47:58 +0000

I hear there are still plenty of hotel room vacancies in Beijing in August. Maybe that debutante ball won’t be so well attended, what with new and improved visa hoops to jump through and “foreigners must register with the police upon arrival”-shite going on.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:32:35 +0000

Another “don’t” on the Chinese list is “Please don’t pull down blog posts without asking Robert first.” Oh, wait…