With the swarm of anti-France/boycott-Carrefour messages still plaguing the wireless networks, IM chats and BBSes, it was a pleasant surprise to run across Jason’s post at Over and Out sharing a QQ forward he received that – shockingly – doesn’t rise up and call to arms the seething masses of ultra-nationalists. For this laowai, I [...]
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Carrefour needs catchy mobile meme
Hot off the extremely reliable mobile SMS chain comes news that Carrefour and the French government have banned together to concoct a special May Holiday sale to lure Chinese customers away from their boycott. And not just that, French TV is hoping to catch it all for the 6-o’clock news, presumably to put the French [...]
Sports + Politics = No French Bread
The lead-up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics has spun so totally out of whack that I believe they need to add a new sport to the Games – Puerile Ping Pong. The event pits countries from across the globe against each other in a balls-out relay race to see who can reach absolute absurdity first, [...]
