That is right. You heard correctly. The smoking ban was an elaborate trap- to draw in more revenue from the ticketing of littered cigarette butts. The logic is quite simple:
Smokers need to head outdoors to smoke -> Only put 1 ashtray per square mile -> Cigarette butts will be put out on the floor -> HK Police force gets HKD$1,500.
Take it at face value- that the smoking ban is helping to clean the air inside of bars, keeping everyone that drinks too much, or works in the evening entertainment industry a bit healthier. Behind the scenes, the new increase in Health and Food Safety officers (wearing white police tops) are on the prowl like sneaky ninjas to catch you dropping that butt.
Just remember to look all around you before you litter- or just don’t do it. That is easy too.
This makes us proud. Today the Standard reports about the police attacking compensated dating head on. Turns out a 17 year old teenager (what’s up with those 17 year olds?) has been put on probation for being caught offering her services. A policeman faked being a potential client and voila, gotcha. Bravo!
Kinda makes you wonder though whether the police noticed websites such as this one on which about 10.000 local girls offer their services for HK$ 200 – HK$ 800. Wouldn’t that fall under soliciting for ‘immoral purposes’? Those HK$ 200 bj’s are ruining the market! Plus our Filipino and Thai girlfriends might not have to drug ‘innocent’ businessmen in Wan Chai that often anymore. But then again, it might be much more fun to chase a bunch of screaming mainland prostitutes at sea.
If you are like most some of us, working with others is a testament to redundancy. Working next to someone for hours on end, you learn their habits, and despise the little things everyone does sub-consciously. If you leave the office wondering how in the world person X Y and/or Z is even employed, let alone allowed to use machinery or be around sharp objects, like pens; you may need to consider a new approach to your lifestyle… or 62% of you will have heart attacks.
A lot has been said about the Nina Wang/Tony Chan case. But hey, who doesn’t like hearing about a story of a rich, old and crackpot woman worth billions who gets seduced by a young bachelor claiming to be a ‘Fung Shui master’? The Standard reports that the court battle has finally lifted the lid on this city’s obsession with this ancient Chinese energy system. Turns out a consultant can charge several thousand Honkie dollars to look at a typical 500-square-foot flat, with the best-known masters charging much more. Bling indeed.
The Wang family has been nothing short of pissed off of course, Nina’s sister proclaiming that Chan was nothing more than a eunuch (castrated servant) to Cash Cow Nina. Snap! But angry the Wangs may be, we still give Tony an A+ for effort in his noble endeavor to get the cash. A man with a smile like this and able to convince retarded white collar workers seeking luck and fortune to literally burn their money is a special type of douche. With a son named ‘Wealthee‘ (the name ‘Wealthy’ was apparently denied by government officials, prompting this creative twist), you’d reckon some eyebrows would have been raised at one point. But no. Fung Shui masters are too awesome to touch, at least until now.
Tony is of course only his English name, we discovered a while ago that his real Chinese name is ‘Gah Chu suk-Ah’. Something Macau’s last Portugese Governor Vasco Joaquim Rocha and HK Lawmaker Abraham Shek-Lai-him probably also realised at one point. Hey Tony, in exchange for our support (and face it buddy, you ain’t got much of that), can we borrow the private jet for the weekend? Cheers.
With the smoking ban in effect as of yesterday, we can’t help but be slightly envious of those places where people actually obtain more civil liberties than less. Take the good country of Sweden for example. Yesterday women in Malmö were given the right to bathe topless in the swimming pools of Sweden’s third largest city, as the city’s sports and recreation committee voted against a motion entitled: “Women with two-piece swimsuits ought to wear a top piece.”
Bengt Forsberg , chair of the sports and recreation committee provided his view on the matter: “I’m satisfied with the decision. We don’t define what bathing suits men should wear so it doesn’t make much sense to do it for women. And besides, it’s not unusual for men to have large breasts that resemble women’s breasts.”
It’s impossible to argue against such impeccable reasoning. TDS strongly advocates the placement of webcams in all Malmö pools to verify whether the law is upheld, as the world would agree that the women of Sweden should never be denied the basic right to show their tits. Shame China is lagging a bit regarding the latest swimwear fashion..
