> You must realize that for a person of Mr. Lee’s years, in his condition of health, the possibility of acquiring a potentially fatal deep-vein thrombosis through a very long flight to NZ is quite real.
Sure it is — NZ is about as far away from the UK as you can get.
> So tell us, do you usually insult everybody who chooses not to visit your beautiful country?
See #13, which explains the rationale of my viewpoint thoroughly. I don’t think it is an insulting viewpoint at all.
> That would mean that you’d have to hate nearly six billion people.
I don’t hate Mr Lee. However I do wish that our erstwhile guest hadn’t burst into print over his not being “interested” in returning. Even if he didn’t intend to return, there was no need for him to announce that.
That’s just plain bad manners.
It’s not bad manners to not want to shorten the tail end of your life with an around the world trip. It IS on the other hand HIDEOUSLY bad manners to insult an old guy for not wanting to fly to the other side of the planet. So much for those famous NZ hosts.