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Listen buddy, I love food, and I especially love Chinese food. But these things really piss me off:
1. No chopsticks. What the fuck is up with that? More and more Chinese restaurants do not put chopsticks on the table by default. You have to ask for them. Hell, there's this restaurant I used to go to. It was *called* chopsticks - and you still had to ask for some. You'd think, that, as a marketing gimmick, they would use chopsticks in there. But no. It's always this big hassle. You always have to ask. What, you think we can't eat with chopsticks, or something?
2. The jokes. I am tired of hearing dog jokes in Chinese restaurants. It's fucking rude. There is always an idiot seated 10 feet across who cracks Chinese restaurant jokes in the middle of your meal. "Do you like your dog? Yeah, especially in Moo Goo Gai Pan". That shit ain't funny. See, if it were funny, people would laugh. That's the expected reaction to funny jokes. If people are not laughing, what can you deduct, shit for brains? Another one I always hear is "The Chinese Restaurant is the only restaurant where they welcome your dog." Fucking hilarious, I tell you. Want to hear something funny? The latest Chinese restaurant that opened in my street is located 200 yards away from the humane society. Now *that* is a marketing genius at work.
3. The numbers deal. What the fuck is up with the numbers and letters to designate the dishes? We can read, you know. We don't sign our credit card with a "X". We are not totally illiterate, for Pete's sake. I am tired of seeing those people say "I'll have the C32, mild, with fried rice on the side." Hey asswipe, it's a Chicken Low Mein. What's so fucking hard to say? I just don't get it. I find it stupid at best, and insulting at worse.
4. Why do all Chinese restaurants have a fish tank? It's a catch 22. When they have one, it's a cliché. When they don't, they look like they are not successful enough to afford one. The whole fish tank thing is a pain in the ass. I always have the sneaking sensation that someone in the room is eating the fish I was checking out while waiting to be seated.
5. The staff has to make an effort to speak English while around customers. It's fucking rude to see them talk to each other in Chinese - Mandarin to be more precise - right in your face. You never know if they're talking about the weather or if they are insulting your ancestry. Fucking little dweebs come here to live, great. Now learn to be polite. Hey, English is not my mother tongue, it's my third language. But I still make an effort to speak it while in the company of others. It's called courtesy, asswipe.
6. Is Tso a General, a corporal, or a colonel? Every other restaurant has a different rank for the guy. Just choose one and stick to it, for God's sake! Hell, some even spell his name Tsao, to further confuse the situation. Little fuckers can't get their facts straight.
7. Why do fortune cookies have to taste like sand? Can't they make a fortune cookie worth eating? The only thing people do with those is crumble them into pieces and read the "fortune" in there. The latest one I got - I shit you not - said "Everyone agrees that you're the best". No shit. Not only I don't get to eat the cookie, on account of the fact that I don't like the taste of sand in my mouth, but on top of that the thing spells the obvious. Check, please!
8. Why does the wonton soup usually look like a microcosm of a turd floating in a toilet bowl? That's just nasty, man. Surely, they could change the presentation so that you don't wonder who shit in your soup. Really. I mean, this being a restaurant, and all, and this being the first dish that you are served, that's not exactly the most appealing way to start a meal.
9. The buffet that serves other food than Chinese. What's up with that? I was in Florida recently, and we decided to have lunch in a Chinese joint that featured an all you can eat buffet. Half the dishes were stuff like pizza, crayfish, Jell-O, etc... It's a
So do not mod him down! Chinese places are just like this and good ones are hard to come by! This is more news than Slashdot has had in ages.
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The moderation system is not to keep the conversation on topic. It's to weed the good out from the bad. If you thought this comment was a waste of time, fine, mark it offtopic, but don't automatically mark it that way just because it has nothing to do with the story. Sometimes the best comments can be OT.
And of course i'll now be instantly -1 offtopiced, evenly from people who didn't read this, just thought it was OT (relevant to the parent is not OT!) and those who have a twisted sense of irony. *sigh* ;-)
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I just signed up for a paypal account, and after sending 4 people money via my credit card, they have "limited" my account.
They refuse to tell me why my account is restricted, but they demanded that I fax them more personal information.
I faxed them my drivers license and a utility bill, but they claim they never received them! Since my fax log assures me the fax was successful, I can only assume that my personal information is now floating around somewhere for all to see.
Again I insisted that they tell me why my account was being "limited", so we could both work toward a solution, but their reasons continue to be a big secret.
After many either unanswered or unrelated replies, I decided to close my account. Oh, but you cannot close your account while it is "limited".
Paypal will not reactivate my account unless I give them all of my checking account information. Enough information to transfer funds from my checking account.
Since Paypal has been extremely unprofessional, if not worse, in it's actions so far, there is no way I'm going to send these morons more personal information to loose or share.
I called and requested they close my account. They informed me that they cannot close my account until I send them the checking account information. I then became very agitated and demanded they close my account.
They put me through to the dispute resolution department that they said would be able to close my account. That person requested I fax them my request, and they would close it.
I sent the fax 10 times, since they lost my faxes before, but surprise, surprise, they have yet to close my account.
They have now changed their story again; the lady (if you can call her that) on the phone told me that they will not close my account until I Give them my checking account information. Her logic was, they want to make sure the account is mine before they close it! isn't that rich!
When I asked her why the person before her told my they would close my account, she got very defensive and rather rude. After listening to her lengthy explanation that had little to do with my situation, I again asked her if the person I talked to before was wrong and should not of told me that they would close my account. She became very upset at this point and threatened to hang-up the phone on me.
She said "how would I know if that person told you the wrong thing?" Gee.. I don't know, maybe because you just gave me a ten minute speach on Paypal everchanging policy, and I just told you exactly what the other person said!
She at least was able to give me a reason for my account being "limited", unfortunately the reason violates their own user agreement.
You see, I travel for business and log-on to the net from many countries. On this page of Paypals Website: http://www.paypal.com/ebay/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/g
"ANY COUNTRY". So the lady (again questionable) on the phone says my account was probably "limited" because I logged-in from Poland.
So when thay say "any country" they must mean any country except Poland.
They also claim that they will reinstate my account if I fax them a utility bill, and driver's license, something I have already done.
In fact, when I log into my account, there is a checklist of things I must do to fix my account. One is fax them all my personal info, that one is checked-off, the other is give them my checking account info, that's never going to happen.
Paypal's response to the BBB said they have not received my utility bill and driver's license. Clearly they are stupid or lying, and I'm leaning toward the latter.
Paypal has no intention of fixing my account; they just don't do that. They limit your account, steal your money, and blow you off, in that order.