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Hong Kong Politician Bejeweled, Unrepentant

Posted by simoniker on from the he's-a-gem dept.

Thanks to GamersWithJobs for its story revealing the Hong Kong Education Secretary was recently caught playing a puzzle game on his PDA during a 'lengthy legislative meeting.' According to the original story in the Straits Times, he was spotted playing games by "student representatives, who were seated one row behind the education chief." In addition, GamersWithJobs is delighted to note: "Being the gamer that he is, [Professor Li] even refused to apologize for playing Bejeweled on his PDA, as 'no constructive opinions' were voiced in the debate."

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  1. I can see where he's comming from.. by hookedup · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The wife and I were hooked on this game for a while, having to 'fight' for pc time to play. There is not too much thinking involved as the puzzle would show you which pieces to click if you wait long enough...

  2. Hell ya by meta-monkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's awesome. I wish more politicians would just say "you know, I did it, I meant to do it, and whatcha gonna do about it?" when this sort of thing happens. Professor Li didn't get elected saint, after all. When you can't deny it, and you can't really defend it, just say "screw it."

    It's kind of like Clinton's whole "I didn't inhale" fiasco. If he'd just said, "It was the 60's, lots of stuff was going on, I tried it a couple times and didn't like it, and I don't think anybody else should do it either," it would have all blown over, and nobody would have cared. Gore admitted to smoking pot. I think several of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for 2k4 have (Dean I know admitted it) and nobody cares. Instead, Clinton told such a ridiculously obvious lie, and became a laughing stock. Live & learn.

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  3. Setting Precedent... by zenintrude · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's going to be pretty hard to rationalize punishing Hong Kong students for playing games in class after this revelation...

    But I'm sure rampant hypocrisy will continue to reign supreme, as is the status quo in the world.

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  4. Re:Acceptable or not by cyb97 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think we've all played games or read magazines in class; but you kinda choose to go to school (at least at uni-level). Being an elected politician or scholar it's a whole different thing.

    It's scary to think that your society is run by people playing games instead of paying attention to what they're voting over.

    Norway had a similar case not long ago, where one politician was caught on camera playing games on his cellphone while in session with the parliament.It certainly didn't go down well ;-)