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Aaron: "In olden days, children used to whine to their parents and parents would reply by telling them how they have it so much better than those kids in China. In modern days, children whine on their blog and the kids in China tell them themselves."
Meanwhile, Mako gets a legitimate business inquiry from Nigeria that reads just like a 419 scam e-mail; from all accounts, ordinary Nigerians really do write e-mail in more or less the same style as the 419 scammers.