China to eradicate queue jumping....and spitting!!

[matriarch]

China to eradicate queue-jumping
By Steve Jackson
BBC News

Red-sashed volunteers in Beijing in a campaign to eradicate queue-jumping
The 11th day of every month will be "no queue-jumping" in Beijing
China has launched a campaign to try to eradicate queue-jumping in the capital ahead of the Olympic games in Beijing next year.

Thousands of volunteers have been out on the streets trying to persuade people to wait in line in order to present a better image to visitors.

The campaign was launched under the slogan: "It's civilised to queue, it's glorious to be polite."

The Olympics is seen as an opportunity to showcase China to the world.

Volunteers wearing red sashes set up stages in squares and on street corners in more than a dozen districts of the city.

Hundreds of people gave clenched fist salutes to pledge their allegiance to the campaign which seemed to be enjoying wide support from members of the public.

Beijing resident Zhang Jing said: "This is very necessary because it is a sign of civilisation. China is a country with a great civilisation but we still need to improve our manners and behaviour.

"Our whole country should improve the quality of its citizens."

Another citizen, Pan Chunming, said: "The Olympics is coming... the foreigners will get a good impression of the Chinese if we behave ourselves."

The queue-jumping campaign will take place in Beijing on the 11th day of every month from now on, demonstrating that no detail is too small to escape the authorities' attention.

Officials in Beijing also want to tackle other social ills including spitting and dropping litter.

 

[impressive]

BWAH!

"It's civilised to queue..."

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned:

• Share everything.
• Play fair.
• Don't hit people.
• Put things back where you found them.
• Clean up your own mess.
• Don't take things that aren't yours.
• Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
• Wash your hands before you eat.
• Flush.
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
• Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
• Take a nap every afternoon.
• When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
• And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.


Gee ... I think this kind of summarizes the Obama campaign, too.

 

[rgraham666]

BWAH!

Gee ... I think this kind of summarizes the Obama campaign, too.

Commie!

 

[3113]

BWAH!

*Wash your hands before you eat.

*Flush.

Shouldn't these be switched?

 

[3113]

You know, I've been skeptical of the Olympics now and then, but lately I'm seeing them as really doing their job. They bring everyone together, give the world a chance to party and have a good time...and the cities/countries that host them not only end up building nice new arenas, but put things in order, spruce up transportation, and, yes, their manners.

Maybe all we need to fix the middle east is host the Olympics there?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I'm wondering if this applies to: "Cuts" and "He was saving a place for me"??

 

[rgraham666]

You know, I've been skeptical of the Olympics now and then, but lately I'm seeing them as really doing their job. They bring everyone together, give the world a chance to party and have a good time...and the cities/countries that host them not only end up building nice new arenas, but put things in order, spruce up transportation, and, yes, their manners.

Maybe all we need to fix the middle east is host the Olympics there?

Sure, give the nutbars there a target rich environment.

 

[Liar]

China to eradicate queue-jumping

Good, because you know what they say - If all in china jumped on queue (or was it cue?) ...

 

[The_Fool]

Hmmmm...wonders if this will extend to running people over with tanks being a bad thing.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Hmmmm...wonders if this will extend to running people over with tanks being a bad thing.

They will only run over the ones that are queue-jumpers.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Officials in Beijing also want to tackle other social ills including spitting and dropping litter.

In my city it is against the law to spit on the shady side of the street in the downtown area, but nobody has been charged with that crime since about the 1930's.

Usually when I see someone spitting I ask them what kinda nasty crap they been putting in thier mouths.