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Errr...which people are you talking about? The suicide-spectacle-mass-killing ones? The feeding-essentially-wood-alcohol-to-babies ones? The beating-up-incorruptible-officials ones? I can honestly say that I have fantasized about many things, but never any of the above.

Incompetence is so wide-spread and expected that it's just assumed feeding the baby baijiu wasn't on purpose. A potentially interesting way of getting away with things.

Do you think it would be assumed in your country?

I've been thinking about this a lot, Stil. What are the differences when it comes to comparing this story in regards to it coming from China....as opposed to if it came from any other country (which it easily could have)?

1.The excuses coming from the hospital are just SOOOOOOO lame. You think you are saving face by making excuses? Uh-uh. You are LOSING it. Hang the nurse out to dry. That's we'd do in Canada.

2.They don't have baijiu in other countries. 

They also don't have alcohol in unlabeled bottles sitting in the hospital room. Bad as what the nurse did was, it is clearly a comedy of errors, reflecting systemic failures more than just the actions of one person

Stuff that outrageous happens in US hospitals every day, also in UK, but they're good at covering it up, paying off, etc. They generally don't try and slide over it with unbelievable excuses because non-disclosure clauses for insurance settlements work much better.

@ ericthered

I'm okay with "The beating-up-incorruptible-officials", even the beating-up-of any-officials.

As for Nurse Incompetent, all I can say is thank God it wasn't some kind of medication. This is job dammit, you don't give an infant something you don't know. Sheer laziness if she couldn't go to get real water or check what she had. This isn't a taxi that missed a cut-off and your bill is going to be 2 kwai more

As much as I like China, one thing this country excells at is making excuses and divesting of culpability

BTW, nice name change Guangzhou Writer, I never liked "gzwriter" - sounded too much like gizz writer, what, you doing porn? The old avatar was great

Thanks for the feedback, DD. Sorta experimenting with the correct online "branding", lol.

Errr...which people are you talking about? The suicide-spectacle-mass-killing ones? The feeding-essentially-wood-alcohol-to-babies ones? The beating-up-incorruptible-officials ones? I can honestly say that I have fantasized about many things, but never any of the above.

I was referring to the suicide bombings/massacres

You never have Quentin Tarantino style revenge fantasies?

If some of these suicidal idiots just want attention, the glass booth or 30 story high dive offer it.  We can set up live broadcasts and have people submit ratings in various categories for each death (most unusual, messiest, etc., etc.).  They all are guaranteed to get at least 15 seconds of posthumous fame.

Will it stop all homicidal/suicidal maniacs from harming innocent people?  No.  Will it stop at least some of them from harming innocent people?  Very likely.

Quote from: ericthered on June 13, 2013, 12:54:03 AM

Errr...which people are you talking about? The suicide-spectacle-mass-killing ones? The feeding-essentially-wood-alcohol-to-babies ones? The beating-up-incorruptible-officials ones? I can honestly say that I have fantasized about many things, but never any of the above.

I was referring to the suicide bombings/massacres

You never have Quentin Tarantino style revenge fantasies?

No, and these idiots don't either. There is no revenge here, just plain idiocy.

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It is OK now.

My Vice President of the Navy of the aforementioned company is still not working, and the basic internet connection is so slow that it's almost unusable. Normally, I have 700+ KB/s (6 Mb/s ADSL).

It's back up for me.  Tech support sent me an explanation that only said the servers were over capacity and they were working to increase capacity.