Is There No Corner The Chinese Will Not Cut

[Elok]

Well, this is roughly the eightieth lead-paint China scare and we're still buying stuff from them, so maybe they know their market pretty well after all.

[DinoDoc]

Oh man, the Chinese still use manufacturing techniques that were only abandoned by the West after it got rich! The horror!

Know your market. It's a problem if you sell toxic products to people that don't want them.

[Kuciwalker]

What, political prisoners and virtual slave labour?

Did you read the OP?

[Snotty]

If the Chinese are still legally using lead pipes and lead based paints then you might have a point

[Provost Harrison]

What, political prisoners and virtual slave labour?

[Kuciwalker]

Oh man, the Chinese still use manufacturing techniques that were only abandoned by the West after it got rich! The horror!

[Provost Harrison]

China - providing a respectable outlet for self-righteous racial hatred for decades.

It's racism for pointing out that the Chinese pump out dodgy sh*t at bargain basement prices?

[Snotty]

You's trollin'.

It should be an implicit expectation that an interactive art piece would not contain hazardous materials. The contractor has been negligent in 2 significant ways, and the use of lead based paint is inexcusable due to the expected pattern of use of the product.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

Yeah, have seen those sunflower pits. Anyways, the English have a way of making a big boo-boo out of anything, and the Chinese are in the habit of cutting corners. What's new?

[Elok]

The turbine hall being full of poisonous ceramic sunflower seeds. Now that really is some challenging modern art

That explains it. The whole point is that the seeds, being seeds, are an emblem of new life, but contain within them hidden, unseen things--"dormant seeds," if you will--that induce an unpleasant death! It's a paradox demonstrating the inseparability of life and death. Brilliant!

Now they just need somebody to urinate on a traditional Chinese religious artifact, and they'll be tearing up the art world.

[Lorizael]

Those sunflowers, with their bright and sunny petals...who'd have thought they'd be a yellow peril?

[kittenOFchaos]

Chinese products are ****, particularly computer components and car parts from what I've heard and experienced.

[Snotty]

I was really excited when I first heard about this installation, but then they closed it the next day.

The turbine hall being full of poisonous ceramic sunflower seeds. Now that really is some challenging modern art

[Elok]

Those sunflowers, with their bright and sunny petals...who'd have thought they'd be a yellow peril?

Seriously, they're a developing country run by a pack of crooked, nominally-socialist bureaucrats. What do you expect?

[Cort Haus]

China - providing a respectable outlet for self-righteous racial hatred for decades.