Dnarever wrote on Jan 7
th, 2013 at 6:22am:
Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 6
th, 2013 at 9:36pm:
What's your point Freediver?
Mine is that a developing country like this one is providing better services and better standards than Australia.
You can't even deny that the Chinese run it like clockwork and keep a standard of cleanliness that shames the Aussie standards.
Any wonder we accept being forced to the polls and being told all the time we can't do things.
You must like the Chineese political systen then if it is producing such good results?
Are you saying that democracy is over rated?
I can not see any relivant connection between WiFi, cleanliness, the Chineese political ragime and manditory voting.
With optional v's manditory voting the major consideration in Australia relates directly to the number of tooth paste brands available and their flaviours, this to me looks like a different way of expressing what you are saying.
Disappointing I have to point out the correlation here.
Aussies are apathetic, lazy and as a result just accept things - be it bad service, be it nanny state interference or be it being told to vote and fined if you don't.
The fact that I come to Australia and can't bet online whereas every other country in the world I have been to lately I can shows you are a nanny state.
My dad said last year when he came back from Australia "what's happened to the place. Now its don't do this, don't do that, you can't do this, can't do that. They have laws and rules for everything now and fines with it!"
Now on my comparison of strolling around China, both Beijing and Hong Kong this week. Frankly the level of service in Australia compared to the Chinese is embarrassing.
The Chinese have people on hand to help with anything, they are polite, courteous, they go out of their way to help, they staff their places correctly and the place is spotless.
Now the fact Aussies put up with being told to vote and being fined if you don't shows a level of apathy.
That level is obvious by the fact a developing world nation has standards far in excess of Australia's.
WiFi was merely the example.
The speed and cost of China's sh*ts all over the crap I got in Australia.
Are you not suitably embarrassed a developing nation is leaving you behind?
It is all interlinked. You accept being bullied to vote, you accept nanny state and you accept bad service.
You are your own worst enemies.
Still pay to use another bank's ATM?
That was taken out in the UK within 2 weeks of implementation because of customer outrage?
Australia? Nah, we'll pay it.
I agree with you, although you have always been quick to denigrate China, but now you've seen it for yourself as a modern new world, it seems you have changed your opinion. Human rights abuses aside, they will sort that out eventually, after all we've taken 200 years and we still have a bad reputation.
That's what I've been saying all along, the East is the new West. We've spent all our money now, so we can't advance at the rate they are, not that we ever did when the time was right and we had the money to do it.
The service is bad here, that's why I holiday in Asia, and you get more bang for your buck. You can stay for a week in a five star for what it costs for one night here.
We do seem to take being ripped off by banks as a given. The banks are laughing....all the way to the bank
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