Slightly off topic of the yummies... I watched one of the women's volleyball matches this morning. It was China vs. Poland. The Chinese team basically whooped the Polish team, hands down. I was so amused watching the Polish team coach. He was trying so hard to look dignified, but it was way too obvious he was thinking "How much longer, how much longer? Lord, please put me out of my misery. I want to lay down on the floor in a fetal position and no longer see this wretched mess!"
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Security personnel 'scaring the wits' out of visitors, committee member says
Reuters
updated 6:22 a.m. ET,Mon., Aug. 11, 2008
OSLO, Norway - Chinese police and military are frightening tourists with a "stone face" at the Beijing games and should smile more, a senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) member was quoted as saying Monday.
Norwegian Gerhard Heiberg, chairman of the IOC's marketing commission, said he had taken the matter up with Chinese officials and urged a happier and more welcoming attitude.
"We think that in particular the military and police can behave in a different manner," Heiberg told the Norwegian daily Aftenposten. "They look like stone faces."
"The Chinese are scaring the wits out of foreigners. We can't have it like this," said Heiberg. "When, in addition, they have weapons and look scary, it is even worse."
Those guys aren't paid to be smiley ambassadors of good cheer. They are paid to discourage everything cept minding the party line... its a communits country after all. They probably get shot if they smile on duty.
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