Comments on: That Marooned Balloon http://beijingcream.com/2014/01/that-marooned-balloon/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: benji http://beijingcream.com/2014/01/that-marooned-balloon/#comment-243680 Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:41:47 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=21314#comment-243680 Typical imbecilic response, like the time that the some whack job (aren’t they all) China environment ministry spokesman uttered the brilliant retort to the pollution index measurements taken from an air monitor installed in the Beijing US embassy compound that ” Its not an indicative measure of the air quality of Beijing as its taken from US territory given international treaty governing location of embassies”. Thereby implying that air quality of US is horrific. LMAO.

]]> By: FOARP http://beijingcream.com/2014/01/that-marooned-balloon/#comment-243531 Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:55:30 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=21314#comment-243531 Best thing about this story? The reason given for the Chinese Coast Guard’s failure to pick up Xu:

“A foreign ministry spokesman said the mainland coastguard had not attempted to rescue Xu because he was just a hot air balloon enthusiast”

That is: “We didn’t rescue him because, fuck balloonists, that’s why”.

For more details see here –

http://biglychee.com/blog/2014/01/03/scmp-named-most-wonderful-paper-in-solar-system/

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