I am not part of some [edited] group, and frankly I do not see how you can possibly label me as one so as to make me someone who you can safely ignore, as there is no good reason for you to do this. At least in my opinion, using something heavy such as the agendas of the [edited] or [edited] as an excuse to ignore what they say in order to justify your position of working in china certainly would not make any logical sense. Also, if there really was a [edited] or [edited] type who came on this board I would give him/her the right to state their opinion just the same. This board isn't reserved for people who only agree with you yourself.

Your "Britaindarin" interpretation of "am I right or am I right" is just one of many things I use to believe that I understand China better than you. Again, this is just relative to you only and not necessarily to others. It doesn't help the fact that the personal history that you have given me and others just doesn't add up. You had said to me under the "mancunian" alias that you were in the service for 30+ years and you have traveled to more than 80 countries. Then, as the "beelzebub" poster you said you worked at a funeral home for 20+ years. You also said you have lived in China for 10+ years. It would seem that the harsh lucks of both Oliver Twist and Cosette got together and had a baby, then this bad luck spirit was planted onto you that became your life. I am not saying you haven't had a tough life, but having been through some things myself I would say that at some point instead of becoming more judgmental I became less likely to jump to conclusions about others. Your own attitude towards those who criticize China suggests you are too arrogant to know what meek is, which life should have taught you by now shouldn't it?

There have been many lying types who have come on here in the past, and some of the patterns in their posts in the way they conflict resemble some of your own posts. The good liars always try to extract pity with saying how dire their own situation is, then will be honest most of the time save a few times when they "slip one in" and see if they can get away with it. It doesn't help that you would want a younger teacher such as me to allow myself to be given advice by someone that is you who is supposedly believes that there is no problem working on a fake degree and smoking purifies the air of germs. This is what being older and knowing better taught you? I'd say your posts aren't worth taking seriously, especially the responses that tell people to just grin and bear it as that is the marker of a typical grovelling weasel.