- Not using child safety seats in cars.
People can do worse than that:
- Taking babys on scooter rides.
A personal insult and a compliment. I suppose they somehow equal themselves out to zero. Anyway, you aren’t the first women to say “What a dick,” to me, it’s just that the context is usually a little different.
What the hell. It’s bad and it’s fun.
- Calling bread toast.
- Having so many good woodworking tools sold by Grizzly.com that are all made in Taiwan, yet I can’t buy them here at all!
- Scooter riders at a red light not stopping in the designated box, not even stopping between the box and the crosswalk, but right smack in the middle of the crosswalk, blocking the way of pedestrians.
- Using the water of mountain streams near roads for washing cars and, of course, polluting the streams with detergents.
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I know, I know. All you wanted to do was create a thread where you and some strangers could indirectly judge the legal morality of the behaviour of your hosts and some dick has to come in and point out that it isn’t very nice. What am I like, eh? 
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Well, I don’t think that of you, superking. For my part, I just think it’s great that in the four or five years that you’ve been away from Taiwan, you’ve developed such a positive attitude toward the place, and I’m equally glad to witness your passion to transmit that positive feeling to others.
One of the things that has irked me over the years is how the scavengers can drive their motor rickshaws on the roads and sidewalks without a driving license or registration or insurance – and with total impunity. In addition, they are often comically overloaded and driven by people who appear to have an average IQ of about 20.
I mean, every other motorized vehicle is expected to obey laws. Why are these people and their machines immune?
- Beggars who pretend to be monks or nuns. (By the way, I also think that real monks or nuns shouldn’t stand at street corners begging. I don’t see a reason for them not to work like everyone else.)
- Students standing on the back axle of bicycles.
Tea houses that sell tea legally and the girl for a bit more.
Filching an umbrella because it is now unexpectedly starting to rain.
Dogs in resteraunts.
Cops riding without a helmet and
running a red light
Presidential promises without a result
Blaring blue trucks
Kat
City garbage trucks that violate the noise ordinance
Selling my cell phone number so I can get shit messages (listen up enome)
Whoever is f’ing with my HTC stock price
The security guard slandering my good name (mmmmm - may not so slanderous but it pisses me off anyway)
Packing all their shit they dont want into the parking garage.
Mary Lou
My step-daughter who is now married and is “squatting” in my extra bedroom - grrrrrrrr
Scooters pulling a handtruck (but I can’t make a trailer for mine.)
stealing my helmet from the MRT parking lot
Moving my scooter to an illegal space and taking my own
pissing in public (actually, this is the only thing I have seen so far that I don’t think should be - and probably isn’t here - a very good non-law)
Lisa
Landlords renting an apartment that has been joined with the landlords electrical meter. GRRRRRR!
Traffic that ignores an emergency vehicle
Emergency vehicles that sound the code 3 without an emergency
Cops cooping up in a remote alley teahouse or residence garage for tea
and Hello Kitty (a real person) REALLY!
Making false and outlandish allegations without repercussions.
But they are all really nice!
And leaving out Kat, Mary Lou and Lisa, we are at No. 100!!!
OK, everyone go home :discodance:
- Voting shenanigans.
:no-no:
There’s one that could have a hundred sub-categories. Starting with the president’s campaign paying 600NT a head for people to attend his rally.
- Night Market Cops in general (I’m sure we could flesh out a few subcategories for that one
).
100 more or less, let’s go over to the 100 Great Things about Taiwan thread…