Asia

[Guest fountainhall]

Interesting (slightly tongue-in-cheek) article on the CNN website that is a variation on the Seven Deadly Sins. I suppose it’s odd that Bangkok does not feature, but then sex is not a deadly sin!

 

The seven are –

 

Gluttony: Taipei

- “Cheap eats, everywhere, day or night”

 

Sloth: Seoul

- “Seoul’s Internet has been honed, sculpted, streamlined and sped up to such a degree that no one really needs to move”

 

Pride: Manila

- “Filipino men -- they're too busy gazing lustfully into the mirror”

 

Greed: Shenzen

- “Shenzhen's philosophy: if you can't make a million, make a billion”

 

Lust: Tokyo

- “Tokyo is like a dirty old man in a teenager's body

 

Envy: New Delhi

- “India, and its capital New Delhi, has the world's worst case of grass-is-greener syndrome”

 

Wrath: Pyongyang

- “Pugnacious, belligerent, quarrelsome ... the North Korean capital is the moody adolescent of the continent”

 

http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/asias-most-sinful-cities-174006?hpt=Sbin

 

And it adds a nice little anecdote about the Deal Leader -

 

"Kim Jong Il does claim to have made the world's best ever golf score - an astonishing 38 under par on a regulation 18-hole course incuding five holes-in-one. And that on his first ever attempt, too"

 

Now, how come he wasn't at The Masters?

[Guest]

What kind of sin do we want to discuss?

 

There's the kind that involves having fun & should be encouraged. Sex, alcohol in moderation etc.....

 

Then there are the truly sinful cities, where people are repressed and may even be executed for no good reason. Tehran anyone?