Mark- Concerning the politically correct or incorrect comments about a Japanese buyer. The person who suggested that it may or may not be insensitive, was the very person who may or may not have made the comments in the first place. The whole thing was drummed up in one persons head who may or may not have been responding to someone who may or may not have contacted him off list, about the political correctness or incorrectness of it, whatever it was. It wouldn't have even occurred to me that there was or wasn't anything controversial about what was said (if anything controversial was even said). Maybe I'M the one who is or is not being insensitive by suggesting there is or isn't anything to worry about. On second thought......never mind. I'll just go back to eating my smorgasbord Swedish meatballs, hanging out with my blonde bimbo bikini team friends, collecting my Nobel prizes, and watching my black & white art films about death. P.S.- No offense to blonde bikini teams P.P.S.- I'm not sexist P.P.P.S.- No offense to Nobel laureates (I'm no Einstein) P.P.P.P.S.- No offense to existential film-makers P.P.P.P.P.S.- You have my full permission to ship bike parts to Sweden - Erik Olsson, Rochester NY