Bullring
- 2011-02-07
"The 10 best ways to clear your nose or throat in public in the PRC."
Given that those packs of handkerchief tissues are so cheap and widely available in shops in China, I really find this habit utterly disgusting and not needed. What money for cigs and baijiu, but not even 1 rmb for a tissue packet?!?!
cunning liguist
- 2011-02-07
Ha Ha. You could perhaps follow it up with a book - "The 10 best ways to clear your nose or throat in public in the PRC."
It raises a question of whether people pass wind more in democratic countries than those ruled by a dictator, as in North Korea. Or is it possible that with food shortages, the poor people of N. Korea cannot produce enough gastrointestinal by-products? An interesting area of research for social anthropologists?
For the revised law in Malawi to be effective, there would have to be degrees of offensive behaviour with a scale of penalties dependent on both volume and "aroma." I can just imagine the civil servants in Malawi, tasked with the job of drafting the legislation, having some dificulty in defining individual offences.
With a country as poor as Malawi, there are better things for the government to get worked-up about! What's next - belching?