I heard Siouxsie & the Banshees ‘Hong Kong Garden’ on the wireless the other day. What leapt out at me was not the covert racism (Google it yourselves) but the following couplet:
“Would you like number twenty three? Leave your Yens on the counter please”
Now then, young Susan, the official currency of Hong Kong is the HK dollar. They take Yen in Japan, and I can’t imagine there being a Cantonese takeaway in Tokyo.
Can the Massive think of any similar nonsense for an old pedant to get in a froth about?