tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post7227773469815649575..comments2024-03-20T09:40:08.593+01:00Comments on Stepping Stones: Midweek MiscellanyMiss Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755376182972818159noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-19034269387476972292007-05-06T04:43:00.000+02:002007-05-06T04:43:00.000+02:00finally we have someone refined like you to teach ...finally we have someone refined like you to teach us to be civilizedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-61613363456478357952007-01-29T19:51:00.000+01:002007-01-29T19:51:00.000+01:00Anonymous-- thanks for such a fascinating story!!!...Anonymous-- thanks for such a fascinating story!!!!!!!Miss Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05755376182972818159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-54372876690749370482007-01-29T19:30:00.000+01:002007-01-29T19:30:00.000+01:00SHANGHAI, Jan 27 (Reuters Life!) - Foreigners are ...SHANGHAI, Jan 27 (Reuters Life!) - Foreigners are spewing bile at China's latest plan to curb spitting in Shanghai, the country's financial capital, which is slated to host the 2010 World Expo.<br /><br />Authorities here -- eager to put the city's best face forward while under the international spotlight -- plan to distribute 45,000 "spit sacks" to Shanghai cabbies, to curb the common habit of rolling down the cab window and expectorating onto the street.<br /><br />But the proposal has foreigners spluttering with rage.<br /><br />"This solution is a recipe for disaster," seethed one reader in an email printed in the Shanghai Daily on Saturday.<br /><br /><br />Reuters Pictures<br /> <br />Editors Choice: Best pictures<br />from the last 24 hours.<br />View Slideshow<br /><br />One of the many risks of the plan -- which involves fixing a sack to the metal grill which surrounds the driver's seat -- is that the bag may spill and unleash the "malodorous aroma of spit," the reader added.<br /><br />Another respondent said he was afraid drivers might toss the bags out of their windows and be encouraged to hawk even more.<br /><br />Local authorities are stunned by the livid reaction, the paper reported.<br /><br />"We will persuade the drivers not to spit in the presence of passengers, and consider stabilizing the paper bags in unnoticeable corners near the driver's seat as improvements to our plan," health promotion campaign official Ni Yanhua was quoted as saying.<br /><br />The "spit sack" follows an earlier innovation in Shanghai's public hygiene, after the city attached spittoons to garbage cans on sidewalks.<br /><br />The spittoons were not seen as a success, since residents mistook them for ashtrays.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-5492121695768614472007-01-19T07:32:00.000+01:002007-01-19T07:32:00.000+01:00Sounds like you're doing fine there.
The "develop...Sounds like you're doing fine there.<br /><br />The "developing world" (where I live, too) is sometimes a nice way of describing an uncivilized place.<br /><br />Lotsa similarities between Albania & Kenya!paulmerrillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03555284589007691780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-71023262349646336832007-01-18T15:53:00.000+01:002007-01-18T15:53:00.000+01:00Ewwww Diamond-- red gobs would be worse!
Ginnie-- ...Ewwww Diamond-- red gobs would be worse!<br />Ginnie-- I think that more outside contact might help improve the situation. However over the holidays there were 1000's of emmigrants back in the city and they seem to revert back to the local customs.<br />James-- hey I lived in Holland and believe me there are a few rude people there as well. But sometimes the dutch call their rudeness "bluntness".<br />Judith-- my friend Anna says she now considers crossing the street here her newest "Extreme Sport"!!Miss Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05755376182972818159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-84205926086591257352007-01-18T15:16:00.000+01:002007-01-18T15:16:00.000+01:00Re: crossing in traffic. I suggest you get a scub...Re: crossing in traffic. I suggest you get a scuba spear gun, wait for the green man, and then if someone bears down on you running the light, shoot his tire out.<br />James, I went to Dusselforf and was treated delightfully. Maybe you need to be female?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-66766270613515124632007-01-18T13:17:00.000+01:002007-01-18T13:17:00.000+01:00Interesting post...I see a difference in civility ...Interesting post...I see a difference in civility between Germany and the Netherlands. It seems the Dutch are just nicer people than the Germans. Maybe because I lived in Duesseldorf and that area of the country they are ruder??Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03778794318739080375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-24608610614824637322007-01-18T12:04:00.000+01:002007-01-18T12:04:00.000+01:00Great post, Kim, of what are the simplest of "evil...Great post, Kim, of what are the simplest of "evils" that can disturb our way of life. Does it take traveling outside their world to understand how things really could be better?Ginnie Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014434422568561157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-41378068299985654322007-01-18T05:17:00.000+01:002007-01-18T05:17:00.000+01:00Hi Kim,
Great reading, I can relate to all here in...Hi Kim,<br />Great reading, I can relate to all here in Mumbai, noise, spitting and here they chew that red nut so all over the place you see these big blobs of red!<br />Will try call soon.<br />Love Diamond!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-8261828596961842212007-01-17T17:08:00.000+01:002007-01-17T17:08:00.000+01:00Oh for sure that's an important part of the defini...Oh for sure that's an important part of the definition! A civilized society is a benevolent society in which the needs of the citizens are recognised and met. It's actually very hard to think of even one so-called civilized country that actually is. What we call primitive societies may honestly be the more civilized.Miss Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05755376182972818159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858228.post-85713964249548112882007-01-17T16:07:00.000+01:002007-01-17T16:07:00.000+01:00I would define a civilized society as one that had...I would define a civilized society as one that had, as habit and manner, concern for others rather than a single minded pursuit of the self. This goes from litter, to giving seats to the elderly, to spitting to greater cultural issues. A culture that not loves kids, understands them and accomodates their needs. Same for seniors. This rules out some societies that are generally viewed as civilized. I don't think it has to do with an economic lack of infrastructure, so much as an attitude.orenetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616103982088424715noreply@blogger.com