I have heard 10 minutes of confusion on the ground in PEK just because a pilot preceeded his request with "any chance of". Personally, I'm pretty impressed they learn as much English as they do, so I don't try to confuse them by saying "oh" when I mean "zero".

Again, pilots are contributing to letting FAA get away with things they shouldn't. I am not going to say that I haven't cut things short myself from time to time, but I am going to say that, in the end, we are only hurting ourselves, and the controllers, by doing that. In the end, the ones that will take the hit for any mistakes made will be those at the pointy end and those on the other end of the radio. It's real easy to cast blame at that long table, and I don't want to be the guy with the glass of water answering questions for 20 or so people who are second guessing every breath you took on the flight.

There are a lot of cowboys out there, and in my younger days in the airline world, I'd have been saying the same things they are. Live and learn.

Oh, and for the pilot that said you're supposed to stop short of the line when exiting the runway, you might want to review those books again...