I will never understand China [Archive]

GeneChing

11-23-2011, 04:02 PM

...but also befitting of this thread

Guangzhou sex festival proves a family day out (http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20111116000002&cid=1803)

Staff Reporter
2011-11-16
08:37 (GMT+8)

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/newsphoto/2011-11-15/450/CB12N0031H_2011%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99%E7%85%A7%E7%89%8 7_N71_copy1.JPG
Two models pose in sexy lingerie at the 9th Sex Festival in Guangzhou, southern China. (Photo/CNS)

A three-day sex culture festival took place in Guangzhou in China's southern province of Guangdong last weekend, attracting hundreds of visitors including middle-aged couples, young lovers and, surprisingly, many elementary school students who came with their parents, the Chinese-language New Express Daily reports.

The annual event opened on Nov. 12, offering a variety of performances and exhibitions including body painting, lingerie catwalk shows and pole dancing.

In contrast to previous years, the visitors comprised not only middle-aged or older men but also newlyweds, middle-aged couples, young lovers and college students. Some open-minded parents even saw it fit to bring their children of elementary school age to the show. A guard at the entrance exclaimed to a reporter, "Dozens of children have come through the gates today, all about ten years old!"

A mother surnamed Zhu who brought her 10-year-old son told the newspaper, "It's for education. Sex education begins at an earlier ages in foreign countries."

Unsuprised by the development, sexpert Zhu Jiaming said, "Some elementary schools in Guangzhou have begun sex education and the authorities are looking to increase awareness."

An event organizer said that the increased variety of visitors to the show is proof that the local level of sex education has been raised.

GeneChing

10-12-2012, 01:47 PM

Great photos, yes?

Chinese sex fair shows how prudishness and liberation sit side-by-side (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/08/chinese-sex-fair-prudishness-liberation)

Decades after Mao Zedong, couples are happy to browse sex toys together – but not all attitudes have changed
Tania Branigan in Guangzhou
guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 October 2012 10.14 EDT

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Chinese shoppers at the sex culture festival in Guangzhou. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

"One-two-THREE! CONTROL! … and relax," Ma Jian urges. The 78-year-old author is addressing a few dozen men clustered around a stage in Guangzhou, but he aspires to a much bigger audience. "China has more than 2,000 years of sexual history and culture and skills. It has sexual experience which western countries have never known. I want to introduce its expertise to people here and people overseas and make all men happy," he said.

"I want all women to benefit. I take guys who shoot in three minutes and teach them to hang on for 30. That's long enough."

Until 10 years ago this evangelist was, he said, "an underground worker", toiling in strictest secrecy. He grew up in the sexually repressive society created by Mao Zedong. The chairman of the People's Republic may have shared his own bed with numerous women, but under his rule bodies were disguised in shapeless suits and holding hands in public was shocking.

Even in the 80s, after liberalisation had begun, a man was executed for organising orgies. Now Ma rattles off his advice – swimming increases sexual desire; pee in short bursts, not a stream – at a convention co-hosted by family planning authorities.

More than 30,000 visitors thronged last weekend to the 10th national (Guangzhou) sex culture festival to watch pole dancers, buy 007-brand condoms and browse porn in a resolutely unerotic exhibition centre. Couples take happy snaps with giant virility figures, and unabashed shoppers fondle realistic sex dolls (though not, this year, inflatable Obamas). The wealthiest can even choose a 100,000 yuan (£10,000) solid gold "pleasure object" – the kind of high-class product that appeals to shoppers usually found in Louis Vuitton or Dolce & Gabbana, a sales assistant said.

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Chinese sex fair catwalk Men photograph semi-clad models on a catwalk at the fair. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

But the shots of "artistic nudes" are tame by western standards. And though hordes of men photograph furiously as semi-clad models strut to a disco version of the Old Spice theme, there's no pouting or lip-licking. These days, sexual experimentation and puritanism sit side by side in China.

Qiu Shuang, a lesbian activist and sex toy saleswoman, argued that repression had only kindled passions. "Maybe we seem very conservative, but we have the biggest desires," she said.

China has an estimated six million sex workers, yet nudity is unacceptable in the cinema and there are periodic anti-porn crackdowns. Women have hymen restoration surgery so their husbands will believe they are virgins. Two years ago, an academic was jailed for hosting sex parties. It is no coincidence that the official denunciation of the disgraced politician Bo Xilai accused him of improper sexual relationships with several women.

"People still frown on serial dating … [but] there are 200,000 sex shops and these huge sexual expos. Are they prudish about sex or are they incredibly liberated?" asked Richard Burger, whose new book, Behind the Red Door, chronicles the history of sex in China.

He argues that for centuries China's leaders have swung between sexual openness and repression. In the Tang dynasty, prostitutes were registered; the late Ming saw explicit novels such as The Plum in the Golden Vase.

At times, ****sexual love has been celebrated. At other times, erotic books have been burned.

In the west, the sexual revolution was part of a wider movement of personal liberation and challenges to authority. But in China, the post-Mao shift from procreation to recreation was driven not by the Beatles and Lady Chatterley but by the Communist party.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/8/1349705243285/Sex-dolls-in-Guangzhou-009.jpgSex dolls on show in Guangzhou. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

"After the Cultural Revolution, the government's control [of people's lives] started loosening, and at the same time the one-child policy meant people could have sex lives that weren't for the purpose of giving birth. They could have sex for pleasure," said Pan Suiming of Renmin University, one of the country's leading experts on sex.

Li Yinhe, another researcher, said: "In the past, women were not allowed to like sex – sex was only for giving birth to children, or serving men. Now they can enjoy sex."

When the magazine Popular Cinema dared to print a romantic clinch in 1979, it sparked a national controversy. The publication of the kiss – a still from a Cinderella movie starring Richard Chamberlain – was "decadent, capitalist, an act meant to poison our youths", complained an irate local propaganda official. But thousands more picked up their pens to support the magazine.

But puckering up lost its subversive edge – even if the average age for a first kiss remained at 23 just a few years ago. These days premarital sex is very common and has spread to rural areas too.

Yet even now, most assume that sexual relationships end in marriage. Half the men Pan surveyed in 2007 reported only one sexual partner – and even younger and more experienced men have double standards, as a group of female students at the festival testify.

"There's a long way to go. People do think a woman is a **** [if she has had multiple partners]," said Emily Mai.

"We have a right to chose premarital sex," added her friend Yee Bai. "It's freedom. We can't stand to have only 'pure, spiritual' love."

Sun Zhongxin of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh says the sexual revolution has benefited different sexes and sexualities to different degrees, and that both men and women may face new pressures, feeling inadequate when faced with a single and sometimes more westernised standard of sexiness.

Tens of millions of men will not find wives or long-term partners at all, because of China's "missing" women: illegal sex-selective abortions have caused the gender ratio at birth to rise from the natural rate of 106 boys per 100 girls to 118 boys.

Many more men are migrant workers who may see their spouses once a year at best. "They can use sexual toys to let their desire out. It's better than going to have sex with prostitutes," said the event's deputy director, Zhu Jianming.

But as Sun pointed out, the sex industry is not just the fruit of changing attitudes; it has been aggressive in pushing "liberalisation".
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/8/1349705403149/Statue-at-Chinese-sex-fai-009.jpgA local law enforcement official touches a statue at the fair. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

The results can be alarming. One stall in Guangzhou is advertising a sex doll designed to look like a very young girl.

Zhu dismissed concerns: "It doesn't encourage people … You can't criticise a sexual fantasy."

But he adds that he too worries that some people "have been influenced by western ideas about sex, are out of control and indulge themselves sexually". He insisted the show was designed to encourage sexual morality and positive relationships, not just sexual knowledge.

Though the festival clearly caters primarily to straight men, there are several older couples browsing arm in arm. A husband and wife stop to listen attentively as a salesman demonstrates the different groans emitted by a selection of fake vaginas.

"In the past, when two people dated, they even had to keep their distance on the street," said 25-year-old Li Bo, sheepishly clasping the sex toy he had just won in a prize draw. "Of course we wouldn't want to go back to the old times."

Additional research by Cecily Huang

bawang

10-12-2012, 02:14 PM

this is nothing new. it always happens before a cycle is nearing its end.

David Jamieson

10-15-2012, 06:40 AM

I see westerners are still viewed as evil sex monkeys....

lovely.

Jimbo

10-15-2012, 09:52 AM

I'll bet officials who said things like 'decadent, capitalist, an act meant to poison your youths' was one of those who say that publicly, but in private was probably the biggest consumer of porn, like N. Korea's Kim Jong Il supposedly was.

In the West, the Victorian era, and even up through the 1950s, was very uptight and repressive sexually. It doesn't mean people were like that in private.

You cannot completely police human nature.

bawang

10-15-2012, 10:44 AM

David Jamieson

10-15-2012, 11:33 AM

this is not human nature. this is abomination.

this is the abandoned communist conforming programming still ticking away in the minds of chinese people.

there has been no gradual liberation, no search for freedom. people just did a 180 overnight, their behaviour flipped like a switch.

The 180 was due to the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping. the lingering collectivist thinking was not "purged" or dealt with, it was an overlap that started happening in the late 70's when Deng's economic reforms started to take over in china with a planned market similar to a capitalist model but being run in the communist format.

So, the social reforms have not yet caught up with the economic reforms. The Chinese will have their summer of love yet!

woo hoo! we need about 100 million pothead naked dancing Chinese hippies to send flowers to Beijing! then and only then will the transition be made to individualism in China as something that is treasured.

bawang

10-15-2012, 11:42 AM

The 180 was due to the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping. the lingering collectivist thinking was not "purged" or dealt with, it was an overlap that started happening in the late 70's when Deng's economic reforms started to take over in china with a planned market similar to a capitalist model but being run in the communist format.

So, the social reforms have not yet caught up with the economic reforms. The Chinese will have their summer of love yet!

woo hoo! we need about 100 million pothead naked dancing Chinese hippies to send flowers to Beijing! then and only then will the transition be made to individualism in China as something that is treasured.

being allowed to own property =/= cold eyed 40 year old men window shopping for big black dongs and sex dolls

sanjuro_ronin

10-15-2012, 11:44 AM

David Jamieson

10-15-2012, 11:48 AM

Chinese women can be a bit strange about sex.
Japanese women too, but they can be a bit more kinky.
True story:
I dated a Chinese girl for a bit and one day it got time for the "jade palace meets the thundering rooster".
She looks at me and says, nope, not gonna happen.
I ask why.
She says I am too big and we are not gonna get married, me being a gweilo (however you spell it) and that no one would believe she was a virgin after !
I assured her that no one believes she is one now, but for some reason that didn't matter.
So, handjobs, BJ's and backdoor action it was !

Weird, let me tell you...

Brother, women in general can get strange about sex.

But lets face it, it's usually because men are outstandingly weird about sex. lol

"here baby wear this, now put your leg up here, yup, that looks good, ok, lemme get the chicken baby heh heh" etc. :p

bawang

10-15-2012, 11:50 AM

Chinese women can be a bit strange about sex.
Japanese women too, but they can be a bit more kinky.
True story:
I dated a Chinese girl for a bit and one day it got time for the "jade palace meets the thundering rooster".
She looks at me and says, nope, not gonna happen.
I ask why.
She says I am too big and we are not gonna get married, me being a gweilo (however you spell it) and that no one would believe she was a virgin after !
I assured her that no one believes she is one now, but for some reason that didn't matter.
So, handjobs, BJ's and backdoor action it was !

Weird, let me tell you...

do these old men with buzz cuts and their fat wives look like sexy eager liberated chinese youth to you?

theyre the amoral city class/communist party children who has always been like this. nothing has changed for the poor underclass, its just the elites can bring their debaucheries into the open now.

David Jamieson

10-15-2012, 11:50 AM

being allowed to own property =/= cold eyed 40 year old men window shopping for big black dongs and sex dolls

But that's what history has shown us freedom is. It does indeed mete out to a way to chase your happiness and people have this tendency to go after sexual vices in their search for happy. Or drugs, or decadence, or big black mambos to shove up the old browntown tunnel whilst watching the evening news...

sanjuro_ronin

10-15-2012, 11:53 AM

Brother, women in general can get strange about sex.

But lets face it, it's usually because men are outstandingly weird about sex. lol

"here baby wear this, now put your leg up here, yup, that looks good, ok, lemme get the chicken baby heh heh" etc. :p

BBWAAHH !!!!!
Chicken indeed !
I thought I was the only one that knew the story about Uncle Chen !
:D

sanjuro_ronin

10-15-2012, 11:55 AM

do these old men with buzz cuts and their fat wives look like sexy eager liberated chinese youth to you?

theyre the amoral city class/communist party children who has always been like this. nothing has changed for the poor underclass, its just the elites can bring their debaucheries into the open now.

Yes, indeed, too true.
With leisure time comes depravity.
Case in point:
Number one seller for stay at home/soccer/too much free time moms: 50 Shades of Gray !!
LMAO !!

bawang

10-15-2012, 11:57 AM

BBWAAHH !!!!!
Chicken indeed !
I thought I was the only one that knew the story about Uncle Chen !
:D

you guys are just joking and also know responsibility and reality. lots of city chinese cant separate fantasy tv america from real america.

you can joke about banging broads but you have a family and responsibility now. theres hundreds of thousands of 30 going on 40 in big cities in china that try to act like teenagers.

Yes, indeed, too true.
With leisure time comes depravity.
Case in point:
Number one seller for stay at home/soccer/too much free time moms: 50 Shades of Gray !!
LMAO !!

the difference is crazy white liberals have compassion for other people and fight for their rights.

rich city chinese just wanna gangbang when theyre not busy oppressing the poor.

sanjuro_ronin

10-15-2012, 12:02 PM

you guys are just joking and also know responsibility and reality. lots of city chinese cant separate fantasy tv america from real america.

you can joke about banging broads but you have a family and responsibility now. theres hundreds of thousands of 30 going on 40 in big cities in china that try to act like teenagers.

the difference is crazy white liberals have compassion for other people and fight for their rights.

rich city chinese just wanna gangbang when theyre not busy oppressing the poor.

I can tell you some stories about the Japanese my friend and the Koreans.
Honestly, it's every culture.

bawang

10-15-2012, 12:07 PM

I can tell you some stories about the Japanese my friend and the Koreans.
Honestly, it's every culture.

i grew up with hillbillies, so i know even in canada people dont live that glamorous city life. its just makes me sad is all because i wish for a simpler purer world.

the whole point of kung fu for me is to escape into that fantasy land of yesterday where eveyrbody has honor.

sanjuro_ronin

10-15-2012, 12:09 PM

i grew up with hillbillies, so i know even in canada people dont live that glamorous city life. its just makes me sad is all because i wish for a simpler purer world.

Purer based on WHO'S definition?
Lets be honest my friend, for the vast majority morals are subjective and they are subjective to what is best for them at the time.

bawang

10-15-2012, 12:10 PM

Purer based on WHO'S definition?

genghis khan

David Jamieson

10-15-2012, 12:17 PM

genghis khan

solid choice bro.

I'll sharpen up the swords and feed the ponies, we ride at dawn!!!

sanjuro_ronin

10-15-2012, 12:19 PM

genghis khan

Well played Sir, well played indeed !
http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2011/3/6/98a08388-9bb9-4900-ae52-fd57fa372c2c.jpg

bawang

10-15-2012, 12:33 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6EbatvP9f4

Orion Paximus

10-19-2012, 11:52 AM

GeneChing

11-27-2012, 10:18 AM

One thing I do understand about China - they hate to lose face. Some heads are rolling at the People's Daily for sure.

Kim Jong-Un Named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive For 2012 (http://www.theonion.com/articles/kim-jongun-named-the-onions-sexiest-man-alive-for,30379/)[UPDATE]
November 14, 2012 | ISSUE 48•46

The Onion is proud to announce that North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un, 29, has officially been named the newspaper’s Sexiest Man Alive for the year 2012.

With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman’s dream come true. Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute, cuddly side, Kim made this newspaper’s editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile.

“He has that rare ability to somehow be completely adorable and completely macho at the same time,” Onion Style and Entertainment editor Marissa Blake-Zweibel said. “And that’s the quality that makes him the sort of man women want, and men want to be. He’s a real hunk with real intensity who also knows how to cut loose and let his hair down.”

Added Blake-Zweibel, “Ri Sol-ju is one lucky lady, that’s for sure!”

With today’s announcement, Kim joins the ranks of The Onion’s prior “Sexiest Man Alive” winners, including:

2011: Bashar al-Assad

2010: Bernie Madoff

2009: Charles and David Koch (co-winners)

2008: Ted Kaczynski

2007: T. Herman Zweibel

The Onion’s commemorative “Sexiest Man Alive” issue will be available on newsstands everywhere this Friday and contains a full 16-page spread on Kim.

UPDATE: For more coverage on The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive 2012, Kim Jong-Un, please visit our friends at the People's Daily in China, a proud Communist subsidiary of The Onion, Inc. Exemplary reportage, comrades.

Follow the link below for the 55 (!!!) pic photo spread.

North Korea's top leader named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012 (http://english.people.com.cn/90777/8035568.html)
（People's Daily Online） 09:25, November 27, 2012
中文：金正恩被美网站评为最性感男人集可爱霸气于一身

Edited and translated by Zhang Qian, People's Daily Online

U.S. website The Onion has named North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive for the year 2012".

"With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman's dream come true. Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute, cuddly side, Kim made this newspaper's editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile," it said.

"He has that rare ability to somehow be completely adorable and completely macho at the same time," said Marissa Blake-Zweiber, editor of The Onion Style and Entertainment.

Posted at 10:44 AM ET, 11/27/2012
Kim Jong Eun as ‘sexiest man alive’? Chinese news site falls for an Onion story on the supreme leader (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/kim-jong-eun-as-sexiest-man-alive-chinese-news-site-falls-for-an-onion-story-on-the-supreme-leader/2012/11/27/134d1ff2-38a3-11e2-a263-f0ebffed2f15_blog.html)
By Emily Heil
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/in-the-loop/Images/China_Onion_Kim-04c69.jpg?uuid=P9Js1jinEeKiY_Dr_-0vFQ
Move over Ryan Gosling — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his wife, Ri Sol Ju, might be competition. (AP)

Looks like sarcasm is easily last in translation — or easily ignored. The People’s Daily, the online version of the Communist Party of China’s official organ, lauded a story from the satirical news site that named North Korean dictator Kim Jun Un 2012’s “Sexiest Man Alive.”

Not realizing that the Onion was being cheeky — or perhaps simply not caring — the People’s Daily ran a 55-page photo spread to accompany the story, which it quoted thusly: “With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman’s dream come true.”

No doubt the women of Beijing are swooning. After all, if you squint really, really hard, you might see a slight resemblance to George Clooney — in that they are both sentient humans.

It’s not the first time a foreign news outlet has fallen for an Onion spoof. An Iranian news agency last month reprinted an Onion news story about a poll that found most Americans would rather vote for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Obama. The news site later apologized for getting duped — but insisted that Ahmadinejad could beat Obama in a popularity contest.

Scott R. Brown

11-27-2012, 11:45 AM

bawang should tell us just how sexy Kim is, since he is our resident racist Chinese, I mean resident Chinese cultural liaison.

I can identify a sexy Asian woman, and but not the men! It takes an a$$ assassin to discern that.

GeneChing

11-27-2012, 11:51 AM

...don't encourage bawang.

diego

11-29-2012, 09:15 AM

Chinese women can be a bit strange about sex.
Japanese women too, but they can be a bit more kinky.
True story:
I dated a Chinese girl for a bit and one day it got time for the "jade palace meets the thundering rooster".
She looks at me and says, nope, not gonna happen.
I ask why.
She says I am too big and we are not gonna get married, me being a gweilo (however you spell it) and that no one would believe she was a virgin after !
I assured her that no one believes she is one now, but for some reason that didn't matter.
So, handjobs, BJ's and backdoor action it was !

Weird, let me tell you...

she was scared of getting the fat white girl hips after dating a black guy syndrome lmao and her turds were bigger than yer ****...http://wehatefatpeople.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/donna-simpson3.jpg

GeneChing

12-28-2012, 02:54 PM

Follow the link for pix. Or not.

China Holds Outdoor Masturbation Festival (NSFW) (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/12/04/china-holds-outdoor-masturbation-festival-nsfw/)
Dec 4, 2012 by Jessica

December 1st was World AIDS Day, and events were held all across the world to raise awareness about the disease and to stop its spread. China took part as well, organizing various events, including this rather unique one: the first annual Chinese Masturbation Reception.

While the organizers certainly had their hearts in the right place, the sight of men going at it like chimps in isolation had some members of the public wondering whether they were going too far.

The event took place at a field in Shenzhen, Guangzhou Province, with seven men and three women participating in the performance, which organizers said they hoped would raise awareness about AIDS by being covered far and wide as China’s first ever masturbation festival. Indeed, news outlets flocked to cover the show.

Participants first performed using a blow-up doll, “fleshlight” male masturbation toys and other adult novelties, then the men in the group dropped trow and pleasured themselves, using small wash basins to cover their “important bits”.

According to the banner over the stage at the event, the grand prize would be awarded to the man who held out longest, with a second-place prize going to the one who finished first. There was also a telephone number for people who wanted to register to participate. The organizer appeared to be an individual or else a small organization, but as they were able to obtain sponsors for the event, it had a rather sweet earnestness about it.

A representative said that the inspiration came from a global event called Masturbate-a-thon, and thought that China could get “a little release” by participating this year.

That’s all well and good, and the spectacle of seven men, all lined up with their pants down and a bucket over their nether regions is certainly eye-catching, but the question is whether it really accomplishes the goal of raising AIDS awareness.

For more information on charitable events and AIDS, head over to the World AIDS Day site.

GeneChing

12-31-2012, 05:01 PM

'this ***** just can’t be beat' :D

Sausage-Stuffed ***** Pancakes! (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2011/04/03/sausage-stuffed-*****-pancakes/)
Apr 3, 2011 by Steven
http://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/5423542325342534.jpg?w=580&h=397

The neighborhood of Ximending is located in the Northeastern part of Taipei, and is the Taiwanese hub of fashion and Japanese culture. Often referred to as the “the Harajuku of Taipei,” many fascinating sights can be seen just by walking up and down the streets, looking around at the numerous shops, and observing the customers that fill them.

Your reporters in Taipei recently stumbled across a food vendor that sells a corn dog-like concoction made by baking a sausage, coated in hotcake batter, in a special iron grill shaped like a *****.

The Taiwanese customers who visited the shop seemed to have no qualms about this startlingly detailed ‘***** dog.’ While we were there, we saw a number of people casually nibbling on their ***** while walking along the busy street. We noticed that they seemed to be particularly popular with children and high school-aged girls; the latter of whom would purchase one ***** to share among two or three friends.

You’ve got to admire the vendors, who seem to have no reservations about selling such raunchy treats in the middle of one of Taiwan’s busy shopping districts. Plus, at a mere $1.50, the price of this ***** just can’t be beat.

In Japan, there are a number of shrines dedicated to the worship of the *****. Perhaps this waffle wiener represents the start of a new ****-centric culture for Taiwan, or maybe young Taiwanese people are just comfortable with sexuality. The next time you’re in Taipei, why not try discarding those dated conceptions of the human body as something obscene and wrap your lips around a ***** pancake yourself?
http://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/5234523425346.jpg?w=580&h=387
http://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/52342453253452347.jpg?w=580&h=387
http://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/65252342534.jpg?w=580&h=385

bawang

12-31-2012, 07:37 PM

ahh, that sweet pungent smell of cultural corruption and moral bankruptcy.

YouKnowWho

12-31-2012, 08:27 PM

Chinese women can be a bit strange about sex....

The difference between a Chinese girl and American girl is in the morning, the

- Chinese girl will ask you when you are going to marry her.
- American girl will thank you for having good time together.

For some unknown reason, Chinese girls always assume that men are taking advantage on women.

bawang

12-31-2012, 09:38 PM

do you have alzheimers john wang? you repeated this at least 10 times.

YouKnowWho

12-31-2012, 10:22 PM

do you have alzheimers john wang? you repeated this at least 10 times.

I did? I thought I have only repeated that 7 times. I must have repeated the word "combat" over 1000 times. I'll try very hard not to repeat the word "internal" for the rest of my life.

bawang

12-31-2012, 10:51 PM

you can post more video of your sexy pole dancing champion daughter and how proud you are. then you forget internal.

David Jamieson

01-01-2013, 06:49 AM

To understand any society, you have to understand the nature of insanity.
Humanity in large social constructs are insane.

People free of those constraints are sane.

There are less of the latter than the former by far and the former will see the latter as the one with the problem and itself as fine.

What? You think you aren't slightly insane? Think again peasant. What is being a human being really? Now, compare that to what you do on a daily basis. You think it's sane trying to adjust to the nonsense all around us? That just makes us even less sane and the time line to reacquiring personal sanity even longer.

If I am wrong, there is no need for retreats, or to take refuge in the sangha, or any of the rest of the spiritual edicts that demand you remove yourself from society to understand your function.

If and when you get the chance to remove yourself form society, I strongly recommend you take that opportunity. It will only serve you well.

Scott R. Brown

01-01-2013, 10:00 AM

For some unknown reason, Chinese girls always assume that men are taking advantage on women.

They ARE!!

To understand any society, you have to understand the nature of insanity.
Humanity in large social constructs are insane.

People free of those constraints are sane.

There are less of the latter than the former by far and the former will see the latter as the one with the problem and itself as fine.

What? You think you aren't slightly insane? Think again peasant. What is being a human being really? Now, compare that to what you do on a daily basis. You think it's sane trying to adjust to the nonsense all around us? That just makes us even less sane and the time line to reacquiring personal sanity even longer.

If I am wrong, there is no need for retreats, or to take refuge in the sangha, or any of the rest of the spiritual edicts that demand you remove yourself from society to understand your function.

If and when you get the chance to remove yourself form society, I strongly recommend you take that opportunity. It will only serve you well.

So, I should consider myself complimented when you called me insane then?:D:cool:

GeneChing

01-18-2013, 10:22 AM

Contrary to the title of this thread, I do understand this. Apparently Jilin is home to Chinese rednecks. :eek: That being said, I can't really condone it.

Tourists at Jilin Ice Festival Shoot Arrows at Live Roosters (http://www.chinasmack.com/2013/pictures/tourists-at-jilin-ice-festival-shoot-arrows-at-live-roosters.html)
by Peter Barefoot on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 124
http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tourists-shoot-roosters-with-arrows-on-jilin-ice-festival-01-600x397.jpg
Several roosters are hanging on an ice wall.

From QQ:
Jilin Yanji Ice Festival Uses Roosters as Live Targets for Tourists to Shoot

2013 January 14, at the Jilin Province Yanji City Ice Festival, during the traditional Chinese-Korean traditional archery event and in accordance with age-old folk custom, live roosters symbolizing prey were used as targets for tourists to shoot at, causing controversy. Some tourists felt this was a little cruel.

http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tourists-shoot-roosters-with-arrows-on-jilin-ice-festival-02-600x397.jpg
A contestant shooting a rooster.

http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tourists-shoot-roosters-with-arrows-on-jilin-ice-festival-03-600x397.jpg
A shot rooster struggling.

http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tourists-shoot-roosters-with-arrows-on-jilin-ice-festival-04-600x397.jpg
A working staff “hanging a rooster”.

MightyB

01-18-2013, 12:42 PM

Awesome!

Reminds me of the old time festival at a nature center I used to go to when I was a kid. They had a couple of historical cabins that they'd use to show pioneer living. The highlight of the event was when they'd hang live chickens by their feet and then decapitate them with very sharp knives for us children to see. The chickens would do their dead dance for about a minute after the decapitation. Sadly, some tourists thought that was cruel too and they no longer do that at the festival.

mawali

01-18-2013, 01:08 PM

Lingam worship is pretty popular in Japan and when I was passing through (coming from Okinawa) one of my girlfriends took me to see a few of the shrines and they were gynormous! You can eat them, give them as gifts (for increased fertility) since they are in plastic, jade and even wood! Aptly called wood! One choose that size that fits.
Nothing like a good lingam hotdog when hengry:D

Scott R. Brown

01-18-2013, 01:56 PM

Hey, at least it isn't beastiality and pedophilia Thursdays like they have in Northern Afghanistan!

Syn7

01-18-2013, 03:49 PM

Contrary to the title of this thread, I do understand this. Apparently Jilin is home to Chinese rednecks. :eek: That being said, I can't really condone it.

This is pretty sad. In so many ways. But I'm not going to spend 20 minutes breaking down the significantly ****ed up complex that makes people do stuff like this.

It's just wrong, for any reason. It's not mentally or emotionally healthy to have such a desire. It's one thing to hunt, it's another thing altogether when you torture anything for entertainment, regardless of how you try to justify it. The real sad part is that otherwise kind and normal people seem to have no issue with using a live target for kicks.

Syn7

01-18-2013, 04:01 PM

Hey, at least it isn't beastiality and pedophilia Thursdays like they have in Northern Afghanistan!

Not just Afghanistan. Sexual deviancy is a common theme across the globe manifesting in many ways for many reasons.

RenDaHai

01-18-2013, 05:32 PM

Hey, at least it isn't beastiality and pedophilia Thursdays like they have in Northern Afghanistan!

You missed the part 'exclusively ****sexual' bestiality and paedophilia. It makes it extra hypocritical.

Scott R. Brown

01-18-2013, 05:41 PM

You missed the part 'exclusively ****sexual' bestiality and paedophilia..

that is true! :(

It makes it extra hypocritical

And creepy!

mawali

01-18-2013, 05:47 PM

Hey, at least it isn't beastiality and pedophilia Thursdays like they have in Northern Afghanistan!

Usually the 'tea boys' serve more than tea. Usually Pushtuns like Hazara or Tajik boys because they seem like little girls!

bawang

01-18-2013, 07:04 PM

Usually the 'tea boys' serve more than tea. Usually Pushtuns like Hazara or Tajik boys because they seem like little girls!

it comes from ancient greek pedarasty tradition of the bactran greek colonists. afghani child molesters are the true inheritors of classical western civilization.

Scott R. Brown

01-18-2013, 07:23 PM

it comes from ancient greek pedarasty tradition of the bactran greek colonists. afghani child molesters are the true inheritors of classical western civilization.

No! They are inheritors of an Islamic system that does not allow women to be be seen in public or to have sex outside of marriage. There is also no prostitution or concubinage.

So, men get their rocks off with each other, little boys and animals. They same thing happens in prisons all over the world. H0mosexuality is not solely found amongst the West, but has a strong and long history in the East, and amongst the Buddhist priests/monasteries as well.

So, climb off your racist high horse once in awhile and get real with your facts!

bawang

01-18-2013, 08:45 PM

So, climb off your racist high horse once in awhile and get real with your facts!

stereotyping pashtuns as donkey fuking pedophiles is not racist at all.

Scott R. Brown

01-18-2013, 11:55 PM

stereotyping pashtuns as donkey fuking pedophiles is not racist at all.

Are you completely ignorant?

1) I am not my country.
2) There is a reason there are troops in Afghanistan. Whether you or I agree with it, it was not an arbitrary decision.
3) While they do not like having Americans there, our killing of innocents are primarily accidental, the Taliban's killing of innocents is intentional.
4) Stereotyping? I know of multiple people who have been there and reported these same behaviors. That means it is more factual than stereotypical.
5) You have no idea what racism is, even though you are clearly the most racist person here and you are well tolerated beyond reasonable expectations.
6) Sex with children and animals is disgusting. I am not joking about it.

bawang

01-19-2013, 01:05 AM

5) You have no idea what racism is, even though you are clearly the most racist person here and you are well tolerated beyond reasonable expectations.

this thread is about making fun of my race. i broke your rules because i made fun of yours.

you tried to pull a "dirty third world" joke about how backwards and primitive those muslims are, and i pointed out its actually an indo european tradition predating islam, and youre insulting your own ancestors.

Kellen Bassette

01-19-2013, 03:01 AM

afghani child molesters are the true inheritors of classical western civilization.

Bawang's statements are his own and do not reflect the opinions of staff and management at Kung Fu Magazine. Some viewers may find some of the subject material controversial.

RenDaHai

01-19-2013, 04:35 AM

this thread is about making fun of my race.

There is no need to bring race into it. This thread makes light of the culture of communist China, not of Asians.

I could make fun of Russian culture all day and no white person would think it was a reflection on the white race.

But there are funny statistics. I heard there is one state in america where 1 in 5 people have had sex with a chicken.

19th century London was packed with child brothels.

Afghanistan is definitely in another century culturally. Its not racist to say so. Remove an afghan from that culture and he will be just as capable as anyone to absorb the new culture. But it is important to realise that some cultures are more primitive than others and not be afraid to say so, and that is not about the race of the occupants more the history of the country.

A man may be ignorant, but he is a human being first and foremost. I think it is important to be able to dislike someones culture and belief and say so while simultaneously loving them as human beings. Its just important that we don't forget that loving bit.

Scott R. Brown

01-19-2013, 07:57 AM

this thread is about making fun of my race. i broke your rules because i made fun of yours.

you tried to pull a "dirty third world" joke about how backwards and primitive those muslims are, and i pointed out its actually an indo european tradition predating islam, and youre insulting your own ancestors.

No bawang you pulled another western culture racist comment out of a fact about one section of Afghanistan whose tribal custom it is to engage in bestiality and pedophilia and ignored Asia's well known history of these activities that also predates Islam.

You are a well known racist here against Western peoples. You are tolerated beyond reason at times because of your penchant for humor and your sometimes knowledgeable contributions to conversations.

Your own racist tendencies has colored your judgment. What was criticized in the comments was BEHAVIOR that is disgusting and against the law in most every country in the world, NOT the race of the people engaging in the activity. Any racism you read into the comments was your own projection due to your own feelings of inadequacy, NOT the original comments.

It would benefit you to expect yourself to grow past your insecurities regarding your race. No one here cares you are Asian or looks down upon you because you are Asian. In fact, most or all of us here embrace the rich traditions of Asian culture. My wife is Asian and my daughters are half Asian, so learn to control your racist comments.

I have found that most people who cry racist are generally the most racist people I know!

BTW, no hard feelings here. You are okay with me!

I am scolding you like I would any dear friend who I thought got out of line! ;)

mawali

01-19-2013, 11:53 AM

it comes from ancient greek pedarasty tradition of the bactran greek colonists. afghani child molesters are the true inheritors of classical western civilization.

Same tree but wrong branch. Bachi baza (the tea boy syndrome) does seem to intersect with Greeks being the conquerors (Alexander and his brood) and the introduction of that tradition. At some point, Persian habits blended with 'Greekness" and bachi baza came into its own. Pushtuns are often the obvious purveyers of the "make friends with Donkey day' than other groups,

bawang

01-19-2013, 12:02 PM

There is no need to bring race into it. This thread makes light of the culture of communist China, not of Asians.

i made a joke about classical greece. i didnt bring up anything about race. but every time i poke fun at america or the west this patriot keeps lecturing me, so i didnt want to explain myself. i just went along with his rant.

Same tree but wrong branch. Bachi baza (the tea boy syndrome) does seem to intersect with Greeks being the conquerors (Alexander and his brood) and the introduction of that tradition. At some point, Persian habits blended with 'Greekness" and bachi baza came into its own. Pushtuns are often the obvious purveyers of the "make friends with Donkey day' than other groups,

its not just cultural interaction. there was a greek colony in afghanistan, i think called the bactrian kingdom or something. they were also the ones that left behind the greek style buddhist statues.

Syn7

01-19-2013, 02:07 PM

4) Stereotyping? I know of multiple people who have been there and reported these same behaviors. That means it is more factual than stereotypical.

So you know soldiers who went there and that makes you qualified to talk about it? Coz soldiers are there to make friends and have the education and understanding to look beyond cultural barriers to see what's really going on. Scott, I like ya, but that was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen you write. Soldiers would never have a bias. Nooooooooooooooo.

You should try talking to a few, oh I dunno, Afghans! A lil balance. You think you don't have goat ****ers in your own state?

Scott R. Brown

01-20-2013, 08:45 AM

So you know soldiers who went there and that makes you qualified to talk about it? Coz soldiers are there to make friends and have the education and understanding to look beyond cultural barriers to see what's really going on. Scott, I like ya, but that was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen you write. Soldiers would never have a bias. Nooooooooooooooo.

You should try talking to a few, oh I dunno, Afghans! A lil balance. You think you don't have goat ****ers in your own state?

Do ever plan to grow up or do you plan to be a troll for life.

Multiple sources imply more reliable information. Someone like you, a rabblerouser with little reasoning ability offer much less reliable information thus giving it little value beyond spectacle.

Scott R. Brown

01-20-2013, 08:54 AM

i made a joke about classical greece. i didnt bring up anything about race. but every time i poke fun at america or the west this patriot keeps lecturing me, so i didnt want to explain myself. i just went along with his rant.

its not just cultural interaction. there was a greek colony in afghanistan, i think called the bactrian kingdom or something. they were also the ones that left behind the greek style buddhist statues.

You have a long pattern of bigotry against the west. It is tolerated for a few reasons: Western culture does not have an inferiority complex, and as I previously mentioned you provide humor and some beneficial information from time to time.

You try to cover your bigotry by pretending it is humor. If western peoples here treated your culture the way you treat ours you would be crying like a little girl, which you have done here on occasion.

Trying to say these Afghans participate in in appropriate behaviors because they learned it from the Greeks is childish deflection from the inappropriate behavior.

David Jamieson

01-20-2013, 11:51 AM

Slippery slope is slippery.

Please maintain civility with each other.
It's an interesting conversation that doesn't need that.
:)

Syn7

01-20-2013, 12:45 PM

Do ever plan to grow up or do you plan to be a troll for life.

Multiple sources imply more reliable information. Someone like you, a rabblerouser with little reasoning ability offer much less reliable information thus giving it little value beyond spectacle.

Oh come on, you classified a whole section of a country based on the actions of some. How is that different than assuming people in the south of the US only have one tooth and deify their gun? You think I can't dig up multiple sources and a ton of examples?

People are people, it takes like 72 hours to turn a normal person into an absolute animal.

Multiple sources only means something if they are quality sources.

How am I being a troll? My saying "you should actually talk to afghans too" is somehow less valid than "soldiers told me"? You wanna talk reasoning ability?

bawang

01-20-2013, 01:03 PM

Trying to say these Afghans participate in in appropriate behaviors because they learned it from the Greeks is childish deflection from the inappropriate behavior.

these afghans participate in inappropriate behaviours, because they learned it from the greeks.

Syn7

01-20-2013, 02:01 PM

these afghans participate in inappropriate behaviours, because they learned it from the greeks.

Bawang, I know you know that ****sexuality predates the greek civilization. You could argue that greek civilization had some impact on the cultures they inserted themselves into, but saying they are the reason that some afghans get down with donkeys is a bit much I think. There is sooo much time between then and now.

Pashtuns fall under a relatively wide banner. They are not the same everywhere. Rural Pashtuns and Urban Pashtuns are so different. They are a huge ethnic group. It's almost like saying all Americans are "this" or "that". Silly. There are conservative Pashtuns, Progressive Pashtuns, ******* Pashtuns, donkey loving Pashtuns, righteous warrior defending the weak Pashtuns and Dbag Pashtuns that shoot little girls for going to school.

I think stereotyping(or facts from soldiers) marginalizes a society that is already beaten down and in a rough spot. We all make generalizations but we should really try hard to not make damaging generalizations about cultures of which most people clearly know very little. It's this attitude that leads to normal hardworking people being targeted for reasons that have nothing to do with them.

bawang

01-20-2013, 02:08 PM

Bawang, I know you know that ****sexuality predates the greek civilization. You could argue that greek civilization had some impact on the cultures they inserted themselves into, but saying they are the reason that some afghans get down with donkeys is a bit much I think. There is sooo much time between then and now.

you are right. we shouldnt judge an entire people based on the actions of a few. i am glad we agree on this, syn.

I think stereotyping(or facts from soldiers) marginalizes a society that is already beaten down and in a rough spot.

this is why i coudlnt let scott brown get away with that bad joke. especially when their condition is mainly caused by us.

Syn7

01-20-2013, 02:22 PM

you are right. we shouldnt judge an entire people based on the actions of a few.

this is why i coudlnt let scott brown get away with that bad joke. especially when their condition is mainly caused by us.

Not just us. They have been ****ed with for EVER! The whole region is one big hub for proxy wars, treasure hunters, religious bull**** etc etc etc.... It's a big list. Geographically unlucky in that respect.

I challenge the critical thinking of anyone who thinks that war was about terrorists. Sure, that played a part and was a great way to rally support. But anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that it's about control, resources and religious persecution. And of course they aren't all innocent victims, but they aren't all perps either.

I also find that massive lithium vane very interesting. That alone is worth invading a country, as far as making money goes.

We all make some tongue and cheek generalizations, but I think it's important to understand the damage these things can do sometimes.

bawang

01-20-2013, 02:25 PM

Not just us. They have been ****ed with for EVER! The whole region is one big hub for proxy wars, treasure hunters, religious bull**** etc etc etc.... It's a big list. Geographically unlucky in that respect.

exactly. i was trying to show scott brown the difference between making fun of the japanese, and making fun of afghanis. the context behind them is different. japanese penus cult is whacky and silly. joking about the suffering and poverty of afghani boy slaves is another matter and completely in bad taste.

Syn7

01-20-2013, 02:29 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8eUkp0Ak4U

bawang

01-20-2013, 02:32 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8eUkp0Ak4U

what u trying to say mang. i dont get it

Syn7

01-20-2013, 02:35 PM

what u trying to say mang. i dont get it

It wasn't to you. I quoted your post by mistake, I'll change that.

I see a lot of white privilege in these racial/cultural arguments. And I like the clip.

bawang

01-20-2013, 02:49 PM

I see a lot of white privilege in these racial/cultural arguments. And I like the clip.
nice

do u also have inferiority complex like me

RenDaHai

01-20-2013, 04:14 PM

Oh come on, you classified a whole section of a country based on the actions of some. How is that different than assuming people in the south of the US only have one tooth and deify their gun?

You know what ya'll

I think we should make fun of it.

I think we should keep using stereotypes.

****sexual child rape is a disgusting thing and we should draw much attention to it by whatever way we can.

People in the south? The rest of the world asumes ALL Americans deify their gun. And we should keep making that stereotype because the gun laws in America ARE stupid and it is important that is rubbed in all americans faces until someone changes something.

Often the way a country is run is a reflection of its population.

If there is a culture of Child Rape in Afghanistan, even if it is only a few people, the fact that their society seems to let it happen is a shadow across all of their culture. It is important to draw attention to it.

Just like we should draw attention to the ills of our own society, and make jokes about them.

Syn7

01-20-2013, 05:30 PM

So in America there is a pretty big liberal majority. Why is this not reflected in the 3 branches?

I hear you, totally fair points. But I still think we need to demonize the offenders, not the whole population. That isn't to say they bear some of the responsibility and accountability. But in the case of Afghanistan, they aren't in a position to do much more than get by right now. It's gonna stay ugly for awhile. Ass social media connects more people, slowly the progressives will take over. Assuming they don't get slaughtered, that is.

RenDaHai

01-20-2013, 05:47 PM

Syn7

01-20-2013, 06:02 PM

Yeah, I guess we don't need to kick em while their down.

Why are we there again? Never quite got that one....

Lithium, drugs, construction, regional control, etc etc etc.

Like Bawang said, it's one thing to bash Japan, not the same as doing it to Afghanistan. Japan is bored, Afghanistan is living thru some serious ongoing drama.

I like your ideas about pointing them out tho. You wanna **** on donkey ****ers, please do so. But try to differentiate between the good, the bad, the apathetic and the truly stuck. Most are just caught in the middle and wanna just farm their plots and have a nice life.

bawang

01-20-2013, 07:18 PM

You know what ya'll

I think we should make fun of it.

I think we should keep using stereotypes.

****sexual child rape is a disgusting thing and we should draw much attention to it by whatever way we can.

not when the circumstances are caused by us. then what you are doing is called oppression.

its not appropriate for us to joke about the colorado shooting. its not approriate for me to joke about the tibetans. its not appropriate for us to joke about afghani suffering. this is not hard to understand. its called having a heart.

it looks like during your time at shaolin temple, you sympathized with chinese long enough to learn our kung fu, but you still really dont understand the humanity outside of your western world.

mawali

01-20-2013, 08:00 PM

its not just cultural interaction. there was a greek colony in afghanistan, i think called the bactrian kingdom or something. they were also the ones that left behind the greek style buddhist statues.

The Buddhist Mountain statues (Bamiyan-I was there) are part of Hazarajat, the homeland of the Hazara. They were originally Buddhists who converted but they honored their past and the statutes were a remembrance of that. Calling the Pushtun donkeyriders isn't far from fact because they attempted to push out as many of the non-Pushtuns (Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara) from the country. Again, not all Pushtuns are such but if the sandals fit...........

bawang

01-20-2013, 08:11 PM

The Buddhist Mountain statues (Bamiyan-I was there) are part of Hazarajat, the homeland of the Hazara. They were originally Buddhists who converted but they honored their past and the statutes were a remembrance of that.

im talking about the even older greek style european buddhas from the bactrian kingdom.

Calling the Pushtun donkeyriders isn't far from fact because they attempted to push out as many of the non-Pushtuns (Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara) from the country. Again, not all Pushtuns are such but if the sandals fit...........
pashtuns are the oldest ethnic group in afghanistan. tajik, uzbek and hazara came from the mongol invasion.

Syn7

01-20-2013, 09:27 PM

The Buddhist Mountain statues (Bamiyan-I was there) are part of Hazarajat, the homeland of the Hazara. They were originally Buddhists who converted but they honored their past and the statutes were a remembrance of that. Calling the Pushtun donkeyriders isn't far from fact because they attempted to push out as many of the non-Pushtuns (Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara) from the country. Again, not all Pushtuns are such but if the sandals fit...........

Yeah and not all Americans are gun raging toothless sister marrying slack jawed yokal alcoholics. But hey, if the flag fits.... right.

The Pashtuns have a right to atleast try to defend what they see as their rightful homelands. They may not be the first ethnicity to live there, but it's been their for a very long time. Long enough to have the right to defend it against outside interests.

And what exactly does sexing up donkeys have to do with fending off foreign invasions again? That is a weird leap in logic.

RenDaHai

01-21-2013, 04:04 AM

not when the circumstances are caused by us. then what you are doing is called oppression.

its not appropriate for us to joke about the colorado shooting. its not approriate for me to joke about the tibetans. its not appropriate for us to joke about afghani suffering. this is not hard to understand. its called having a heart.

it looks like during your time at shaolin temple, you sympathized with chinese long enough to learn our kung fu, but you still really dont understand the humanity outside of your western world.

We didn't cause the culture in Afghanistan. In my opinion we should keep well away from such a place. The history of Afghanistan should have assured us no good can come of going there.

It is not appropriate to joke about the colorado shooting, but it IS appropriate to joke about American gun laws. It is NOT appropriate to joke about the tibetan suffering but it IS appropriate to joke about MaoZiDong. Afghani suffering is not funny, but joking about the hypocrisy of parts of their society IS acceptable and should be done. Think how much better China would be if they could joke about Mao?

When we joke about something, we are laughing at ignorance. Thats what humans find funny. When we make a racist joke, we are not laughing with the joke, we are laughing at the stupidity of it. Humans like to joke, it brings things into focus. One great thing about western society is that we joke about all the big issues, instead of fearing to talk about them like much of the rest of the world.

But you know all this BaWang. Your signature is to say something outrageous and funny but that contains the seed of truth.

I've seen a great deal of the humanity outside the western world, and it makes me proud of what western civilisation has accomplished.

bawang

01-21-2013, 08:42 AM

dude, no afghanis wllingly sell their son to a drug baron to dance and be raped.

We didn't cause the culture in Afghanistan.
we did. thats my point.

David Jamieson

01-21-2013, 09:05 AM

dude, no afghanis wllingly sell their son to a drug baron to dance and be raped.

we did. thats my point.

we?

we caused afghan culture?

first of all, what culture? What culture is there that is even remotely reflective of the western world? It has been stripped away for the most part and replaced with backwards tribal crap.

Afghanistan was more modern in 1970 than it is now. It has collapsed under the weight of continual war and now has a population that knows little other than that.

I find it interesting that we can all sit and pass judgement on that place. It's a desert. It's tribal regions more than a nation. We know even less about it now in my opinion. We are told very little or next to nothing about what we are continuing to do there.

Jimbo

01-21-2013, 09:10 AM

You know what ya'll

I think we should make fun of it.

I think we should keep using stereotypes.

****sexual child rape is a disgusting thing and we should draw much attention to it by whatever way we can.

People in the south? The rest of the world asumes ALL Americans deify their gun. And we should keep making that stereotype because the gun laws in America ARE stupid and it is important that is rubbed in all americans faces until someone changes something.

Often the way a country is run is a reflection of its population.

If there is a culture of Child Rape in Afghanistan, even if it is only a few people, the fact that their society seems to let it happen is a shadow across all of their culture. It is important to draw attention to it.

Just like we should draw attention to the ills of our own society, and make jokes about them.

There are large pedophile rings that operate in the U.S. and the rest of the West, as well as kidnappers taking young girls and forcing them into prostitution. These things are happening everywhere, not only Afghanistan. The fact that it's happening there needs to be pointed out, but our house isn't totally clean, either. And of course, nobody in their right mind, anywhere in the world, should ever accept this. But the fact that it IS still happening here is also unacceptable. It should be remembered that when you point your finger at another, three of your own fingers are pointing right back at yourself.

The fact that it's still happening, and on such a large scale, means that there is a culture (sub-culture) of it in the West, too.

bawang

01-21-2013, 09:46 AM

we?

we caused afghan culture?

Afghanistan was more modern in 1970 than it is now. It has collapsed under the weight of continual war and now has a population that knows little other than that.

you answered yourself

RenDaHai

01-21-2013, 10:17 AM

There are large pedophile rings that operate in the U.S. and the rest of the West, as well as kidnappers taking young girls and forcing them into prostitution. These things are happening everywhere, not only Afghanistan. The fact that it's happening there needs to be pointed out, but our house isn't totally clean, either. And of course, nobody in their right mind, anywhere in the world, should ever accept this. But the fact that it IS still happening here is also unacceptable. It should be remembered that when you point your finger at another, three of your own fingers are pointing right back at yourself.

The fact that it's still happening, and on such a large scale, means that there is a culture (sub-culture) of it in the West, too.

For sure.

But nothing should stand in the way of our tackling it. I don't think we should be afraid of being politically incorrect when it comes to these things. And if certain practices are more prevalent within certain cultures we shouldn't be afraid to say so.

GeneChing

01-21-2013, 11:03 AM

Ok, to bring this all back OT AND AWAY FROM PEDOPHILIA AND BESTIALITY check this out. Dayum, if their waitresses are this militant, just imagine their kung fu. :rolleyes: (follow the link for the YouTube version of the vid).

Militaristic Chinese Waitress Group Performance Goes Viral (http://www.chinasmack.com/2013/videos/militaristic-chinese-waitress-group-performance-goes-viral.html)
by Fauna on Thursday, January 17, 2013 114
http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/crazy-waitress-performance-china-liaoning-dandong-arirang-restaurant-600x336.jpg
Chinese waitresses at Dandong Arirang Restuarant in Liaoning province line up for a group activity.

On Sina Weibo:
#Dandong Arirang#

Dandong Arirang Restaurant’s “Show” Attracts Onlookers, So Exaggeratedly Excited As If They Injected Chicken Blood

A video titled “Dandong Arirang Restaurant Training Exercise” has been widely circulated on Sina Weibo. In the video, the excited female waitstaff perform a 15-minute synchronized and exaggerated show. Netizens commented saying: “An army of women that has been completely trained by a militarized management style”, “They are performing with their lives”, “Some people watch and are bowled over by laughter, truly out of the ordinary; Some people see and cry, making money sure isn’t easy”…What do you think?

这些妹纸都打鸡血了？笑抽过去了！ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ix4AIy-00)

On leading Chinese video-sharing website Youku, this video accumulated nearly 2 million views in its first day and currently (at time of translation) has nearly 3 million views with over 42k comments spanning over 1400 pages. On leading Chinese microblogging platform Sina Weibo, the most popular posts about the video have thousands of comments and tens of thousands of reshares each.

RenDaHai

01-21-2013, 01:14 PM

Ok, to bring this all back OT AND AWAY FROM PEDOPHILIA AND BESTIALITY check this out. Dayum, if their waitresses are this militant, just imagine their kung fu. :rolleyes: (follow the link for the YouTube version of the vid).

As the number of pages in a thread increases so the chance of the conversation turning towards Bestiality, Racism, Hitler or Boobies tends towards 1. Thats a scientific law. We should come up with a name for it.

No ones called anyone else a Nazi yet, but were waiting with baited breath.

Militant Workers;

Its not just restaurants, every establishment has some kind of warm up ritual. If you walk along the street when the shops start to open in China you see them outside all kinds of places doing all kinds of strange group dances/games/rituals. I always enjoy it, I think its good for morale. This is quite an extreme one though.

Syn7

01-21-2013, 01:34 PM

For sure.

But nothing should stand in the way of our tackling it. I don't think we should be afraid of being politically incorrect when it comes to these things. And if certain practices are more prevalent within certain cultures we shouldn't be afraid to say so.

For sure. But we need to put in the effort to understand not only the causes but the differences between the offenders and those caught between the struggles.

Saying Americans have a rape culture and abuse children forced into prostitution isn't fair to all Americans. But we must acknowledge that when these little girls and boys are exploited here or brought here to be exploited that Americans are the customers. Does that mean all Americans rape children? No, of course not. But we do show a certain tolerance toward it. Does that mean we are all bad? No, it means those of us who disagree are caught up in it and aren't sure how to really fix it. If we had an answer, it wouldn't be happening, but it is.

Afghanistan is a lot more diverse than people seem to think. It wasn't that long ago that they were quite progressive in many ways. Proxy wars, treasure hunters and corporate interests have ruined Afghanistan and yes, we the west, do bear some of that responsibility. So does Russia, China, Iran etc etc. We can't just point, say bad, and assume it anyones fault but our own as we continue to beat the living **** out of the country.

Ren, that wasn't all directed at you, just using your post as a jump off.

wenshu

01-21-2013, 03:05 PM

wenshu

01-21-2013, 03:17 PM

http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/chinese-performance-artist-hundreds-of-hickeys-over-naked-male-body-02.jpg

http://www.chinasmack.com/2013/pictures/college-girl-covers-chinese-artists-naked-body-with-hickeys.html

bawang

01-21-2013, 03:49 PM

anyone read the article where a japanese man married a video game character?

Syn7

01-21-2013, 03:58 PM

I was actually searching for some beastiality pr0n and I ended up here. . .

I can't offer any insight into the origin of the practices of tribal third world kiddie diddlers but some Afghans seem pretty **** ingenious, industrious and straight up ****ing brilliant.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/massoudhassani/mine-kafon

Yeah he must be a donkey ****er. Or maybe not, he was blessed by a western life, so basically we saved him from rape and zoophilia. :rolleyes:

Nice find, BTW. Very cool idea. I can totally see the original toy in my mind. It's great that many actually try to help their homeland after being pushed out.

Most people don't realize what Afghanistan looked like before the Russians came and the US armed and trained the Taliban.

I also don't think many people are aware of just how much damage has been done in ALL these cold war proxies. And the real sad part is the the USSR wasn't ever anywhere near the threat they were said to be. It's false flag bull**** to justify proxy wars which are essentially about economic control. So yes, WE do have some responsibility in all this.

Syn7

01-21-2013, 03:59 PM

anyone read the article where a japanese man married a video game character?

Wow, that's quite the step up from the body pillow. Bring on the android sex slaves! They are really working hard to make that a reality.

bawang

01-21-2013, 04:10 PM

Wow, that's quite the step up from the body pillow. Bring on the android sex slaves! They are really working hard to make that a reality.

it wasnt an android, just a nintendo ds i think.

Syn7

01-21-2013, 04:11 PM

it wasnt an android, just a nintendo ds i think.

Oh I got that. I watched a video about the work going into sexbots the other day. And of course, it was in Japan.

RenDaHai

01-21-2013, 04:16 PM

anyone read the article where a japanese man married a video game character?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsikPswAYUM

If I was his father I would force him to commit seppuku.

wenshu

01-21-2013, 04:31 PM

Yeah he must be a donkey ****er. Or maybe not, he was blessed by a western life, so basically we saved him from rape and zoophilia. :rolleyes:

Saved from?

From what I hear they're into all sorts of freaky deaky **** up there in the Netherlands.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li3xitTrk01qhjikro1_500.gif

Syn7

01-21-2013, 04:32 PM

Sarcasm, I thought that was clear. Infact I still think it was clear. :) I also think it was clear to you.

BTW
That is by far the best GIF I've seen all day.

Jimbo

01-21-2013, 04:38 PM

it wasnt an android, just a nintendo ds i think.

So he married a virtual character, and also has a mistress named Palmala Handerson?

GeneChing

01-21-2013, 04:49 PM

anyone read the article where a japanese man married a video game character? But that's Japan. Japan is much easier to understand that China, IMO. As for marrying a videogame character, we already discussed Hatsune Miku in 2011 (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1109881#post1109881).

To get us back on topic again (that's twice today :rolleyes:) check this out:

China Develops Automated Semen Collector…For Science! (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2011/05/06/china-develops-automated-semen-collector-for-science/)
May 6, 2011 by Steven

http://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/542325342534253425345423.jpg?w=580&h=323
A video showing a Chinese-developed ‘automated semen collector’ has surfaced on YouTube.

This machine was actually on display at a recent medical supply expo in China, and was developed for use in hospitals as an efficient way to collect sperm samples. Currently the most common method used to collect semen is via masturbation into a cup.

The patient stands before the machine and puts his *****, flaccid or erect, into the tube-shaped protrusion, whereupon it moves forward and back automatically like a piston. The inside of the tube is lined with a soft silicon material that provides gentle stimulation until ejaculation is reached.

取精機(男士專用)..笑爆咀 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPur2jE-gZ4)

For patients who have trouble getting erect, or feel uneasy with the traditional erotic magazine and plastic cup method of semen collection, this new medical breakthrough may provide some welcome relief.

Seems like an overly large device to get the job done...:rolleyes:

P.S. 'dafuq' is right, wenshu. Well played above (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1206874#post1206874).

Syn7

01-21-2013, 04:52 PM

But that's Japan. Japan is much easier to understand that China, IMO. As for marrying a videogame character, we already discussed Hatsune Miku in 2011 (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1109881#post1109881).

To get us back on topic again (that's twice today :rolleyes:) check this out:

Seems like an overly large device to get the job done...:rolleyes:

P.S. 'dafuq' is right, wenshu. Well played above (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1206874#post1206874).

Still better than a donkey!!!

At what point did women become obsolete again?

bawang

01-21-2013, 09:35 PM

Still better than a donkey!!!

At what point did women become obsolete again?

if i have to choose between a nintendo ds and a donkey, i would choose a donkey.

Syn7

01-21-2013, 10:36 PM

if i have to choose between a nintendo ds and a donkey, i would choose a donkey.

you can have the donkey. No argument here.:p

GeneChing

01-22-2013, 03:47 PM

What could be worse?

This could be worse - eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww.

Weird tiny creatures found on Chinese clothes (http://www.tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/society/weird-tiny-creatures-found-on-chinese-clothes-1.96839)
Tuoitrenews

Updated : Sun, January 20, 2013,1:48 PM (GMT+0700)
http://www.tuoitrenews.vn/polopoly_fs/1.96841.1358664411!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_240/image.jpg
A large number of leech-like creatures found on a Chinese-made shirt and a pair of trousers newly bought by Nguyen Thi Phung.
Photo: NLD

A large number of tiny leech-like creatures have recently been found on Chinese clothes in the central province of Phu Yen.

They have grown fast and exponentially multiplied, said Nguyen Thi Phung, who found hundreds of small creatures floating above water as she soaked a Chinese-made shirt and a pair of trousers into a water basin on Jan 17.

She said that the creatures hatched from tiny eggs stuck on the clothes once they were submerged in water. They grew larger and larger fast, she added.

She bought the shirt and trousers at the Hanh Lam market in Hoa Quan Bac commune in Phu Yen for a total VND115,000 ($5.5). They were made in China and could be secondhand products, according to Phu Yen Market Management Department.

The creature was measured 1 to 1.5cm long. Some of them were as large as a chopstick head, she added.

Phung and her family members tried to kill them with petroleum, salt, and even insecticide but they remained alive. They finally buried them underground.

Initial testing results conducted by Quy Nhon Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology failed to identify them.

Le Ngoc Linh, vice-head of the institute, told Phap Luat (Law) Newspaper on Saturday that he has never seen this creature before since it does not belong to any kinds of insects or parasites.

The samples of this creature have been sent to Hanoi Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources for further tests.

Meanwhile, scientist Le Dinh Dung at the Insect Faculty of Ho Chi Minh City Preventative Health Center said the strange creature might be a genetic mutation or a new species.

“Though I have years in experience in studying various kinds of insects, I’ve never seen this one,” Dung said.

Dung rejected an assumption that the newly-found species is a worm that he claimed is unable to grow in high-temperature and non-nutritional environment like inside clothes.

According to Dung, worm only grows at organically-rich environment like landfills.

He also disagreed with the conjecture that the species is a flea from cats and dogs.

http://www.tuoitrenews.vn/polopoly_fs/1.96840!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_490/image.jpg
Phu Yen's health officials examined strange creatures found on a Chinese-made shirt and a pair of trousers newly bought by Nguyen Thi Phung. Photo: NLD.
I actually had an experience similar to this when these worm-like larvae bugs started emerging from a comforter I bought. So nasty.

Syn7

01-22-2013, 04:13 PM

What could be worse?

This could be worse - eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww.

I actually had an experience similar to this when these worm-like larvae bugs started emerging from a comforter I bought. So nasty.

Well clearly this is a case of entomological warfare!!! :p

You win, that's nasty! Not sure I'd rather hump a donkey tho, lol.

We had a bed bug problem here. It was found that they were going from dirty homes to cleaner homes thru library books. That sucked, I spent alotta time at the library. I'm so glad I never had to deal with that ****!

So many great books were destroyed. :(

Jimbo

01-22-2013, 06:03 PM

GeneChing

01-23-2013, 10:54 AM

The comforter incident happened over a decade ago. I don't know where we got it. I'm sure it wasn't from Chinatown, probably some more common U.S. franchise that sells linens. I remember it quite clearly because it was a warm summer day, and my wife and I were kicking back on the comforter. These tiny white worms came out and we both jumped off immediately. Nasty, man, totally nasty.

GeneChing

02-04-2013, 10:44 AM

Husband in China Sues Ex-Wife for “Being too Ugly”, Wins Approx. US$100,000 (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/02/03/husband-in-china-sues-ex-wife-for-being-too-ugly-wins-approx-us100000/)
2 days ago by Master Blaster

It has come to RocketNews24‘s knowledge that a rare lawsuit has been filed by a formerly married couple in China. The man charged his ex-wife with the crime of “being too ugly” which apparently is just a civil offence in that area.

Now, this seems like one of those crazy-guy-makes-ridiculous-lawsuit-gets-laughed-out-of-court stories, but the man was awarded around US$100,000 in damages by the judge.

The tale of these two love birds began with a storybook marriage between a man who fell head over heels in love with a stunning vision of beauty. The honeymoon period was great and resulted in the miracle gift of a baby girl.

However, when the baby was delivered the husband received the shock of his life. Not only did the baby not resemble her parents, but she was “butt ugly.”

Right away the man assumed that his wife had been stepping out on him and, as a result, the “hideous” illegitimate love child lay before him. He requested an investigation into his so-called wife.

It turned out that the woman had not been with any other men, but perhaps she had not been entirely honest either. Prior to their marriage she had received extensive plastic surgery in Korea at an estimated cost of $100,000.

Unfortunately, Korea has not yet perfected surgically altering one’s DNA.

Shocked by this revelation, the man filed for divorce and sued his ex-wife for “pretending to be beautiful.” In what must have been a bizarre trial including the determination of a “legally ugly” baby, the judge ruled in favor of the disgruntled former husband to the tune of about $100,000.

The true victim of this mess of course is the child of these two stable examples of humanity. If anything, she could get a gig as a spokesperson for this Taiwanese plastic surgery center. Follow the link for the last sentence to make sense.

Kellen Bassette

02-08-2013, 07:33 PM

You know when guys "rent a girlfirend" there's all kind of stigma that comes with it...

http://www.examiner.com/article/china-rent-a-boyfriend-bring-one-home-for-chinese-new-year

China rent a boyfriend is a new fad that is sweeping the country. Since many girls will be going home to see their families for Chinese New Year celebrations, many are renting "boyfriends" just to get their nosy families off their backs. On Feb. 6, The Telegraph UK reported that 300 men are listed "for rent" on the shopping site TaoBao. The price is about $48 a day -- and a bit more if an "appropriate kiss" is required -- you know, to really convince the fam.

"It can be a particularly miserable experience for girls who don’t bring home a boyfriend, leading to endless questions about why they’re not dating and where their life’s going. In this sexist society, ladies over 27 who aren’t hitched are labelled 'leftover women,'" reports The Telegraph.

The China "rent a boyfriend" idea could pay off well. At this point, it is unclear how many girls/women are shopping for pseudo-boyfriends for the holidays. However, they will all have to be careful now -- and be ready for even more questions -- since "news" of this new thing has gone viral.

There are many cultures that would not go for something like this at all. However, China tends to try things -- all kinds of things. Some of said things catch on and some don't (like that fake braces fad from December). Renting a boyfriend probably wouldn't fly in The States, would it?

In China, renting a boyfriend might not be that bad of an idea. Family questions can be relentless.

© Effie Orfanides 2013

JamesC

02-08-2013, 08:42 PM

Gene that's the creepiest story ever. I'd crap my pants if bugs hatched from my blanket

GeneChing

03-05-2013, 10:07 AM

Grass Suspected of Being Spray-Painted Green in Chengdu (http://www.chinasmack.com/2013/pictures/grass-suspected-of-being-dyed-spray-painted-green-in-chengdu.html)
by Li on Friday, March 1, 2013 92 Comments and 1 Reaction comments

http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chengdu-roadside-grass-painted-green-01-600x398.jpg
Soles Stained Green By Grass Paint

From China Daily:
Chengdu Grass Suspected of Being Sprayed with Green Paint, Construction Bureau Claims It Is A Greening Agent

“Two workers were spraying the grass, turning the yellow grass into green. Were they painting the grass?” When Chengdu city resident He Tao passed by Chenglong Road on the morning of February 24, he was shocked by what he saw. “Wouldn’t spray painting the grass green pollute the environment?” Later in the afternoon this reporter contacted the Landscaping Department of the Urban and Rural Construction Bureau of Longquanyi District and learned that what the landscaping workers spraying wasn’t “green paint” but a kind of greening agent, that not only doesn’t pollute the environment but also contains fertilizer for the grass.

http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chengdu-roadside-grass-painted-green-03.jpg
Workers Spraying Green Paint Onto Roadside Grass

From MSN:

“I saw the grass on Chenglong Road being dyed, and I wondered if the dye was hazardous and whether or not it was environmentally friendly.” Recently, netizens in Chengdu saw several sanitation workers spraying green “dye” on the grass by Chenglong Road, so the grass would look greener.

In photos uploaded by netizens, this reporter saw that the sanitation worker was spraying a green mist onto the grass, also turning the manhole and the ground by the grass green.

http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chengdu-roadside-grass-painted-green-02.jpg
Manhole Stained Green By Grass Paint

“What the landscaping workers were spraying was a greening agent.” Staff from the Landscaping Department of the Urban and Rural Construction Bureau of Longquanyi District said yesterday that this was a colored nutrient fluid that contains trace amounts of fertilizer that can improve the grass’s frost-resistance and appearance. This staff member also said that nutrition deficiency makes the grass turn yellow in winter and [if not treated] the grass can wither by summer. Using the greening agent is a kind of supplement for the grass’s nutrition, and this greening agent poses no danger to plants, people, the soil, or the environment. From its use from 2008 to today, no problems have ever occurred.
http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chengdu-roadside-grass-painted-green-04.jpg

This is my redemptive attempt to ttt this thread again, after my Harlem Shake (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65457) vid yesterday took on a life of its own and had to be cut from this thread like a cancer.

GeneChing

03-29-2013, 05:12 PM

...but I still want one. ;)

Emergency Slide in Stairwell@ Shanghai (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiBWdUyV5xA#!)

Syn7

03-29-2013, 08:03 PM

And during an actual emergency I am sure that all the panicking people will descend in a nice orderly fashion so nobody gets hurt.

Remember that one kid that would always jam up the slide by going so slow?

Neat idea. Not very practical and ugly as ****.

I envision safety chutes out of windows every second floor or so. :D

GeneChing

04-04-2013, 08:50 AM

...it's Singapore Chinatown (isn't most of Singapore a Chinatown? :rolleyes:)

Lollipop street artist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utiVTbVR2bQ)

GeneChing

04-08-2013, 09:32 AM

I would never do that to my dog.

Dogs Wearing Pantyhose, A Popular New Meme in China (http://laughingsquid.com/dogs-wearing-pantyhose-a-popular-new-meme-in-china/)
By Rusty Blazenhoff on April 5, 2013

http://i0.wp.com/laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dog1.png?resize=597%2C352
Two dogs dressed in pantyhose and high heels

Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku is reporting that “dogs wearing pantyhose” is a popular new meme in China. He writes that Hong Kong site Sharp Daily has reported that users on the Chinese social network Weibo “are uploading gag photos of their dogs wearing panty hose, joking how “sexy” the mutts look.”

According to Chinese site Sina, “bored” people on Weibo started the meme. Apparently, Weibo user Ulatang, who noted that the pets rolled their eyes after getting dressed in pantyhose, uploaded the first “dogs wearing pantyhose” pic (above). That image has been commented on over 16,000 times in China.

UPDATE – Here are even more Dogs Wearing Pantyhose.
http://i0.wp.com/laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dog4.png?resize=597%2C741
http://i2.wp.com/laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dog3.png?resize=500%2C348
http://i2.wp.com/laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dog2.png?resize=500%2C296

Syn7

04-08-2013, 01:05 PM

Syn7

04-08-2013, 01:17 PM

...it's Singapore Chinatown (isn't most of Singapore a Chinatown? :rolleyes:)

Lollipop street artist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utiVTbVR2bQ)

WTF. Is he a tongue ninja, or does his lolipop have a head inside it already and he just sucked off all the stuff covering it.
Either way, nice scam...

lol :D

GeneChing

04-19-2013, 12:38 PM

wait...um....that came out wrong. :o

Nerd Fantasy: Play Your Favorite Online Game With a Hot Girl (For a Fee, Natch) (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/04/19/nerd-fantasy-play-your-favorite-online-game-with-a-hot-girl-for-a-fee-natch/)
7 hours ago by Jessica

http://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/f1c77453.jpg?w=500&h=284

A new service is gaining popularity among Chinese gamers. For the small fee of 15 yuan an hour (about US$2.40), you can play your favorite online game with a beautiful woman. Strait News reports that male game fans are calling it “good news.”

Tai is a third-year university student in Fuqing, Fujian Province. She works at a company that provides this service. The company employs eight people in total; five men and three women. Their main business is to play along with their clients on team strategy games like DotA Allstars and the wildly popular online game League of Legends, which now has over 3 million active accounts.

According to Tai, their customers can choose from an extremely skilled player from their staff, referred to as god-class, or one of the ladies, referred to as MM-class. MM is Chinese internet slang for mèimèi, meaning pretty girl, little sister or (gasp) possibly also vagina. Classy!

By choosing a god-class staff, the customer can get help clearing particular barriers or leveling up their character. By choosing an MM-class staff, the customer gets someone fun to play with who can keep them from getting burnt out.

Tai says by playing one to four hours a night, she can earn around 2,000 yuan a month (around $320). Definitely not a bad way to make some money, especially if you like gaming anyway.

Sima Rong

05-01-2013, 10:28 PM

I will never understand why people clothe their dogs. It's kind of like playing dress up against your will over all your clothes. Weird. I mean, if your dog is sick and lost its fur or you use a rain slick, ok, I get that. But what's with the freakin hats and ****?

The worst is the purse dogs. They are living beings, not fashion accessories. This is domestication gone WAY too far. I mean, where is the line now? What's next?

.

Absolutely 100% agree with you on this. Since I've come to China this time, I've seen dogs dyed pink or chocolate colours, wearing sweaters, booties, and being carried around like babies. It really disturbs me.

But it's not the dog, it's the show. Dogs are expensive. I guess they are fashion accessories for some people. :(

One other thing I find strange. I just went to the ballet to see 'Swan Lake' a few days ago in Shanghai. The tickets were expensive by Chinese standards. Anyway, after the performance started a large proportion of the audience decided to check the news, play Tetris or chat with their friends on their cellphones. This was in the area of the most expensive seats. I guess people just wanted to say that they went to the ballet and saw a performance. It was great, the Russian State Ballet, but I can't understand why people would spend so much money to play on their cellphones, something that they could do anywhere. Oh well, I guess wasting money is one way of showing people that you have money. If you didn't have much, you would care more about wasting money.

Wait...I just saw the last page...Dogs wearing pantyhose? :eek::eek:

Lucas

05-02-2013, 09:20 AM

WTF. Is he a tongue ninja, or does his lolipop have a head inside it already and he just sucked off all the stuff covering it.
Either way, nice scam...

lol :D

I'm guessing its more slight of hand, that head is small its probably slipped into his mouth, and held there, then he gets the actually lolipop off the stick (probably already loosened) then swallows it and slips the new one on. If you notice he is providing the lolipops. I bet if you brought your own thats not the same colors as his you would get turned down.

GeneChing

05-03-2013, 11:57 AM

What I don't understand is why China doesn't think these two buildings are AWESOME!! They should be proud. VERY PROUD!

China's People's Daily newspaper mocked over its new, phallic headquarters (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10035073/Chinas-Peoples-Daily-newspaper-mocked-over-its-new-phallic-headquarters.html)
Unamused Chinese censors have been at work to stop people s******ing over the new Beijing headquarters of the People's Daily newspaper, which bears an unfortunate resemblance to part of the male anatomy.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02553/china_2553345b.jpg
The People's Daily office building: China's People's Daily newspaper mocked over its new, phallic headquarters
Agence France-Presse in Beijing
9:53AM BST 03 May 2013

Photos of the imposing tower, which is still under construction, had Internet users tittering away, especially given one of Beijing's other landmarks - the China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters, nicknamed "The Big Underpants".

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02553/China-Central-Tele_2553346c.jpg

Some comments about the new home for the Communist Party paper managed to sneak through. "Of course the national mouthpiece should be imposing," said one user of Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter.

"It seems the People's Daily is going to rise up, there's hope for the Chinese dream," said another, referring to a political slogan that has been used in recent months to encourage national pride and rejuvenation.

But a search on Sina Weibo for "People's Daily" and "building" resulted in the message usually shown when keywords have been blocked: "In accordance with relevant laws, regulations and policies, search results cannot be displayed."
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The People's Daily is the official mouthpiece of the Chinese ruling party, whose vast propaganda and censorship machine tightly controls print, online and any other form of media.

Syn7

05-03-2013, 01:41 PM

No appreciation for phallic genius!!! ****ing peasants! :p

They should have built the first one at a 60 degree angle going through the second one. Now that would be some ****!!!

Scott R. Brown

05-03-2013, 03:57 PM

No one wants to be reminded ALL DAY, EVERYDAY how little their d!ck is!:(

GeneChing

06-28-2013, 09:02 AM

...actually I mean 'six heads'.

Chinese medical institutes. Simply terrifying.

Pensioner in China discovers six human heads in suitcase floating on park lake (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/06/28/pensioner-in-china-discovers-six-human-heads-in-suitcase-floating-on-park-lake/)
12 hours ago by Andrew Miller

According to Chinese media, a 68-year-old woman in the city of Bengbu made a somewhat gruesome discovery on Saturday last week when she opened a suitcase floating on a park lake to discover six human heads. Could there be any explanation for such a stomach-churning find besides murder and horrific gangland killings? As it turns out, quite possibly!

Upon first hearing the news it is easy to think the worst, but after police began to conduct an investigation, it became clear that there may be a slightly less sinister explanation for the human remains. On examining the contents of the suitcase, police commented that the possibility of any criminal involvement in the incident was extremely low, and suggested that the heads were likely discarded research samples from a nearby medical institute.

The heads were discovered by the pensioner who was on litter duty in the park at the time. Looking over the lake, she noticed the suitcase floating on its surface, with what looked to be human body parts visible through the small openings in the material.

The local medical institute also carried out their own investigation and concluded that the way the heads had been removed and from the shape of the trace-marks, it looked very much like they were something that had been used by a medical research team. The same medical institute commented that the heads had been excellently preserved and is currently considering whether they can be re-used in some other form of research.

There you have it folks, if you happen to stumble upon a human head in the street, there might well be a legitimate explanation. Although, seriously, what are the chances?!

GeneChing

06-28-2013, 02:44 PM

I just didn't know where to put this one and it needed to go somewhere. It is important to introduce the phrase "hitting the airplane" to our forum community.

China asks if 'happy ending' services are illegal (http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/06/28/2562636/china-asks-if-happy-ending-services.html)
Published: June 28, 2013 Updated 11 hours ago

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FILE - In this June 16, 2006 file photo, a policeman, right, watches over two masseuses and their customers during a raid on suspected prostitution activities at a hotel in Changchun, in northeast China's Jilin province. China's law enforcers are having an unusually public debate about a delicate topic: Do paid sexual services known as ''happy endings'' at massage parlors count as crimes if they don't involve actual sexual intercourse ? (AP Photo/File)
By GILLIAN WONG — Associated Press

BEIJING — China's law enforcers are having an unusually public debate about a delicate topic: Do paid sexual services known as "happy endings" at massage parlors count as crimes if they don't involve actual sexual intercourse?

While prostitution is illegal in China, its boundaries are being discussed with rare candor by courts, police and state media - even the usually stodgy flagship newspaper of the Communist Party.

"Various places have different standards for whether masturbation services are a crime; judicial interpretation urgently needed," read a headline of the People's Daily newspaper, which usually spends its time lecturing party members about discipline or obscure ideological issues.

The debate centers on sexual services provided by employees of usually low-end massage parlors or hair salons, advertised to customers with colorful phrases such as "hitting the airplane" and "breast massage."

While common in Beijing and many other Chinese cities, the services became part of a conspicuous national conversation only this week, following newspaper reports about a crackdown that fizzled in southern Guangdong province.

Police in the city of Foshan arrested hair salon staff for providing sexual services, only to have prostitution charges against them overturned by a local court. A precedent apparently was set last year when the Foshan Intermediate People's Court threw out a verdict against a group of salon staff, including three managers who had been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for "organizing prostitution."

Now courts, police, prosecutors, lawyers and academics are being quoted discussing oral sex and other types of sexual services facilitated by body parts excluding genitals, typically taboo topics that have captured the public's attention.

The question is whether such services can be considered prostitution if there is no intercourse.

Technically, no - at least according to the highest court in Guangdong province, which says such services fall outside the legal definition of prostitution.

On its official microblog, the court pressed the legislature to clear up the matter, saying that although no law bars such services, they "significantly damage social order and have a certain degree of social harm."

The high court in eastern Zhejiang reportedly concurs that if there is no intercourse, there's no prostitution, but police in the capital Beijing, southern Guiyang and elsewhere disagree. The discrepancy in views is unusual in a society where police, prosecutors and courts are often seen as working in lock-step with one another.

The debate also highlights how much more open urban Chinese have become in their attitudes toward sex, as prosperity rises and government controls on personal freedoms ease. Attitudes remain more traditional in the countryside.

Sociologist and sex expert Li Yinhe said the debate showed the country has come a long way since two decades ago, when displays of public affection and even dancing with members of the opposite sex could be punished.

"The whole social atmosphere has changed. Even in the 1980s the crackdowns were very strong, very severe," Li said. "... In the past, organizing prostitution used to be punishable by death."

She took in the unexpected court verdict with mock horror, saying, "This is simply too subversive."

Syn7

07-22-2013, 01:21 PM

China orders children to visit their aging parents

China has put into effect a law requiring grown children to visit their parents, though enforcement seems questionable.

BEIJING — China has for centuries prided itself on tight-knit families bound by filial piety, a Confucian concept that requires children to respect and take care of their parents for life.

Kids are even required to study virtuous examples of those who kept this ancient faith, but in today's ever busier, competitive China, getting ahead often means leaving behind home and tradition.

On Monday, China's omnipresent state put into effect its solution: Let parents sue their ungrateful offspring.

The legal avenue is included in a revised version of the Law on Protection of the Rights and Interests of Elderly People, which instructs that "family members who live apart from their parents should often visit or send regards to their parents."

One mother did not wait long for justice. A Mrs. Chu, 77, convinced a court in the eastern city of Wuxi to order her daughter to compensate her financially and also visit her once every two months (and at least two public holidays per year), reported the state-owned China News service.

The revised law was greeted by ridicule and criticism by Chinese Internet users. After all, how does one determine just how often is often enough for visits, and the law contains no specific punishment for being a bad offspring.

Still, some experts welcomed the revised law.

"In the past, just a few people treated their parents badly, but now there's a large group of Chinese who are un-filial," said Xia Xueluan, professor of social studies at Peking University. "So it's necessary to legislate to protect the rights of the elderly and promote moral integrity."

In earlier decades, when society under the Communist state was more regulated, state-run "work units" and neighborhood committees could hector people into proper behavior, Xia said. But family privacy is more highly prized today among ordinary Chinese.

Part of the problem is the distorting effect of China's "one-child policy" on a modernizing society whose 194 million citizens over age 60 have few progeny to rely on for aid and comfort in their declining years.

A son or daughter may have to provide material assistance to parents and grandparents who can no longer work, and do so without contribution from siblings. They are also the only one that the elders are pining to see on holidays.

Making visits harder is China's rush to urbanization, which has put huge distances between families. Hundreds of millions of Chinese have moved to cities for work, leaving parents behind in the countryside. Xia suggests China must push companies rather than children to allow employees enough vacation time to visit their parents.

"I think it's necessary to make old people happier, but not in the form of a law," said Zhang Xuebin, 35, a Beijing civil servant who visits his parents each weekend.

Zhang says he is saddened by the loss of traditional morality, but, "The government could set up good moral examples, or use other, softer ways."

Retiree Song Xiaoguang said most Chinese parents won't blame their kids for not visiting.

"Sometimes a call is enough, as young people have their own difficulties," she said.

Song, 70, saw her son sporadically while she was at her home in central Shanxi province and he worked in Beijing. He eventually earned enough to buy the house where she joined him a decade ago.

"If my son's too busy to take care of me, I prefer a retirement home, it doesn't matter. But I'll be happier to live with him until I die," Song said.

In recent years more sons and daughters have placed their parents in retirement homes because the children are too busy to provide regular care or visits, said Wang Yan of the Jiade retirement home in east Beijing. But China has a shortage of housing for seniors outside their family homes, so the law may help, Wang said.

"In our home, some seniors lack both visits and calls. No matter how carefully we look after them, they still need their children's love," she said. "I think this is a moral not legal question."

Contributing: Sunny Yang

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/01/china-children/2480593/

I am curious to see how this will be enforced. The first suit should be fun!

Brule

08-13-2013, 12:30 PM

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/13/chinese-mogul-turns-the-top-of-a-26-storey-tower-into-a-mountaintop-and-builds-a-stunning-8600-square-foot-villa/

GeneChing

08-14-2013, 02:08 PM

which begs the question - do watermelon seeds cause chafing?

When fruit meets cute: China’s watermelon babies battle the summer heat (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/08/13/when-fruit-meets-cute-chinas-watermelon-babies-battle-the-summer-heat/)
2 days ago by Philip Kendall
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In case you’ve been in cryosleep for the last month and somehow missed us moaning about it, Japan and a number of Asian countries are currently experiencing one of the hottest summers on record and are a horrible sweaty mess. Like a bunch of restless pets wandering around the bedroom at night looking for a cool place to sleep, people are crowding into air-conditioned public areas, crashing out on treadmills in otherwise respectable department stores, and even wedging themselves into ice-cream cases.

In China, though, some clever parents have solved the heat problem for their little ones by dressing them up in the coolest, most thirst-quenching fruit of them all, with adorable results. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the watermelon babies.

After a handful of photos caught the attention of China’s online communities, it wasn’t long before news agencies got hold of the images too and were hammering “cutest thing evaaaaar!” into news desk autocues or heading out to snatch interviews with the creative parents.

Quite whether the kids inside the outfits felt any cooler than wandering around in just their underpants is unclear, but we have to admit this is all kinds of awesome.

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But all this is nothing compared to the fearsome fruity warrior below. We especially admire the way the maker of this outfit cut the underpants roomy enough to allow for full movement. Well, that and to avoid getting watermelon goo on the family jewels…

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▼Unfortunately, the idea doesn’t work so well when adults get involved…

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Remember, kids, be sure to play with your food!

GeneChing

08-15-2013, 09:11 AM

It should always be settled with beer and sweets.

Indian, Chinese troops exchange beer, rasgullas after face-off (http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Indian-Chinese-troops-exchange-beer-rasgullas-after-face-off/Article1-1105784.aspx)
PTI New Delhi, August 09, 2013
First Published: 18:28 IST(9/8/2013) | Last Updated: 20:56 IST(9/8/2013)

Indian and Chinese troops had a face-off in Sikkim earlier this week which, however, ended in a friendly exchange of beer and rasgullas.

The face-off happened near the Tangkar La pass at the height of over 16,000 feet in eastern Sikkim after a Chinese patrol entered into territory claimed by India, sources told PTI in New Delhi.

The Chinese patrol, which was travelling in two light vehicles, was monitored by the Indian team comprising a young lieutenant and nine jawans there, they said.

The Indian patrol intercepted the Chinese patrol at the Tangkar La pass and after that, they showed banners to each other asking to leave the area and go back into their respective territories.

At the time of parting, the Chinese troops presented cans of Budweiser beer to the Indian patrol while our troops gifted them a pack of rasgullas, they said.

In the recent past, there have been a spate of incursions from the Chinese side into the Indian territory all along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between the two sides stretching from Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir in north to Arunachal Pradesh in the northeast.

On the transgressions by Chinese troops, defence minister AK Antony had recently said that "There is no commonly delineated Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China. There are areas along the border where India and China have different perceptions of the LAC and both sides undertake patrols up to their respective positions there."

"On account of differences in perception of LAC, certain transgression incidents do take place on ground. Government regularly takes up any transgression with the Chinese side through established mechanisms," he had said.

GeneChing

10-04-2013, 03:49 PM

It's just trippy and I didn't know where else to post it.

There's a vid if you follow the link.

Xiao Feng, 2-Year-Old, Gives 'Birth' To Own Twin In China: Report (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/xiao-feng-gives-birth-to-own-twin_n_4031101.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular)
Posted: 10/02/2013 1:24 pm EDT | Updated: 10/04/2013 3:23 pm EDT

A 2-year-old in China is reported to have "given birth" to the undeveloped fetus of his twin.

Xiao Feng, of Huaxi, was taken to the hospital after his parents noticed he had a bloated stomach and was having trouble breathing, News.com.au reported Monday.

Doctors found that Feng was carrying an undeveloped fetus inside his abdominal cavity, and removed it through emergency surgery, according to Inquisitr's translation of newscast from a China Central Television, a state-run media outlet.

The fetus, doctors say, was Feng's twin. Identical twins occur when a fertilized egg splits in two. Conjoined twins occur when a fertilized egg begins to split, but fails to do so completely. In Feng's case, the fetus was his conjoined twin that had been absorbed into his body inside the womb.

Doctors surgically removed the fetus, noting that Feng would have died if the parasitic twin hadn't been removed.
The dead fetus was about 10 inches wide and had a fully-formed spine and limbs.

Is this case too bizarre to be believed? Maybe, but the same thing happened last year in Peru, when a three-year-old boy was found to be carrying his parasitic twin brother inside of him, according to CBS News.

In 2008, there was a similar case involving 9-year-old in Greece. The girl was diagnosed with a tumor that turned out to be concealing the undeveloped embryo of her parasitic twin, Medical News Today reported.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the fetus was inside Xiao Feng's stomach. It was inside his abdominal cavity.

GeneChing

10-16-2013, 12:37 PM

Just in time for Halloween.

More pix if you follow the link.

The Latest Chinese Beach Craze – Face-kini (http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/08/the-latest-chinese-beach-craze-face-kini.html)
By Kaushik Tuesday, August 21, 2012 Beach, China, WTF

A new kind of swimwear trend is sweeping the Chinese beaches in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong province. As the weather get hotter, both men and women are seen appearing on the beaches wearing full body suits that cover from head to toe. The upper part of the swimsuit has a ski-mask with holes cut out at appropriate places to leave the eyes, nose and mouth exposed, giving the wearer an odd Lucha libre look. The Netizens are calling the swimwear "face-kinis”

The mask are a way for Chinese bathers to protect their skin from the sunburn, but it turns out that they are equally handy at repelling insects and jellyfish.

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Unlike in western culture, women in Asian countries don’t like to get a tan particularly in the face. Tan is often seen as a connection to outdoor work and peasantry who toil in the sun. Fair skin, on the other hand, is associated with aristocracy and seen as a sign of feminine beauty unscathed by the indignities of manual labor. Preserving one's pale skin, which is an obsession across Asia, is encouraged in many Asian culture and cosmetic products that caters to this belief is a booming industry. Drugstore shelves across Asia bulge with rows of creams and cosmetic that promises natural-looking fair hue.

Facekinis started as a do-it-yourself garment that women made at home using scraps of fabric and a sewing machine, but now they can be found at swimwear shops for 15 to 25 yuan ($2.40 to $4.00) each.
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Syn7

10-16-2013, 06:31 PM

Wouldn't wanna look like a peasant, that would just be uncivilized.

You ever see the stories about women who get disfigured using ****ty skin whiteners? Crazy stuff. Throw some bleach in your vaseline intensive care, what could go wrong! Kinda reminds me of the great north american tradition of bull**** diets that don't involve better nutrition or any exercise.

Jimbo

10-16-2013, 07:02 PM

Funny how, among many Americans, it's the opposite; so many fair-skinned people want to have a tan. At the massage center I work at, they offer spray tans (I don't personally give them), and they're very popular among lots of young women.

Lots of rich people see a tanned complexion as having the leisure time to lay out in the sun, or enjoying outdoor activities, while being 'too fair-skinned' as appearing less healthy and spending more time stuck working inside at a desk/cubicle.

Alex Córdoba

10-17-2013, 09:17 AM

Just in time for Halloween.

More pix if you follow the link.

LOL, Durex is on the way to expand it's market and make "face-kinis” more sensitive and banana taste :p

GeneChing

10-30-2013, 10:15 AM

I wonder if they are painted this way on the inside too...

What’s the excuse for China’s bizarre painted-on apartment windows? (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/10/31/whats-the-excuse-for-chinas-painted-on-apartment-windows/)
Rachel Tackett 41 minutes ago
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There’s something to be said for keeping up appearances and making good impressions, but what underlying defect is this string of apartment buildings trying to hide by painting on pretend windows?! These high-rise housing complexes in China’s Shandong Province aren’t fooling any prospective tenants with their fake windows, so really, what’s the point?

It’s somewhat bewildering, but apparently a number of building constructors in China have begun painting windows up the entire front of their otherwise plain apartment blocks. All other sides of these towering structures have actual windows installed, so one might wonder why the builders couldn’t spare the costs to give equal treatment to the front-facing walls.

The answer is actually quite reasonable. It’s not that the builders wouldn’t do it; it’s more that they physically couldn’t. Architects designed these buildings with the elevators at the front. And let’s face it; it wouldn’t make sense to add windows to an elevator shaft.

Of course, that still doesn’t explain why planners decided to add paint to the facade. It certainly doesn’t change the quality of life for those living within. We have to assume that it’s all about first impressions. After all, when viewed from a distance or passed at a glance, the painted-on windows look like the real deal. One can’t necessarily tell them apart from actual windows! The owners must hope that this clever cover for an architectural error will encourage the public to rate them at higher value.

I suppose that as long as that’s the least of their constructional shortcuts, we can still be in business.
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Kellen Bassette

11-04-2013, 01:53 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-officials-set-1-000-cats-loose-forest-135335324.html

Beijing (AFP) - Animal activists are combing a forest in eastern China for more than 1,000 kittens rescued from a meat supplier only to be let loose by local authorities, an organiser said Monday.

Animal protection volunteers and local police intercepted a truck "filled with cats" destined for dinner plates last week, said an activist surnamed Ni from the Wuxi Small Animal Protection Association in eastern Jiangsu province.

But local government officials released the felines -- some as young as four months old -- into a nearby mountain forest to fend for themselves, Ni said.

"They were being sent to Guangzhou to be eaten by people," he told AFP.

"We didn't want to release them, our volunteers had places to keep them. It's definitely irresponsible."

Volunteers are now scouring the hillsides with cages in an attempt to capture the cats, and hope to put those found up for adoption, Ni said, adding that more than 50 have been retrieved in the last week.

"Some of the cats are hungry, and haven't eaten, while others have been run over by cars," he said.

The state-run Beijing Youth Daily said Sunday that authorities seized the cats because the lorry owner did not have the correct documents, but decided to release the animals into the wild as there was no source of funds to have them put down.

China's small but growing ranks of animal activists have staged a number of rescues in recent years.

Cats are not commonly eaten in most parts of China but some restaurants, particularly in the south, continue to serve them as food.

Around 600 cats stuffed into wooden crates and on their way to such a fate were rescued after a truck crash in January.

A convoy of trucks carrying some 500 dogs to be sold as meat was stopped by volunteers on a highway in Beijing in 2011 and the animals retrieved.

China does not have any laws to protect non-endangered animals.

Jimbo

11-19-2013, 12:56 AM

This fool makes Wile E. Coyote look like Einstein.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwiarm9fiIk&sns=em

GeneChing

12-30-2013, 12:45 PM

Meanwhile, does this mean what I think it means? Glow-in-the-dark BACON (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48509-Bacon!!!!!!)!?!?

http://www.tracktec.in/2013/12/pigs-glow-green-in-dark-thanks-to-cytoplasmic-injection-reproductive-technique.html
in Science & Technology - on 29.12.13 - No comments

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A handout photo shows fluorescent green pigs in a Taipei lab. (Reuters/STR New)

Along with red, green is the color of this holiday season. And bright green is showing up in more than just decorations. In Guangdong Province in Southern China, ten transgenic piglets have been born this year, six of them since August, and under a black light, they glow a greenish tint.

A technique developed by reproductive scientists from the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine was used to quadruple the success rate at which plasmids carrying a fluorescent protein from jellyfish DNA were transferred into the embryo of the pig. Drs. Zhenfang Wu and Zicong Li of the South China Agricultural University have detailed the research that produced the transgenic pigs in an academic manuscript recently submitted to the Biology of Reproduction journal. Dr. Zicong is a UH alumnus. Also assisting in the manuscript was Dr. Johann Urschitz, an Assistant Research Professor in the UH medical school's Institute for Biogenesis Research (IBR).

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Credit: South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, 2013.

In a video accompanying the research, the pigs not unlike human children afraid of the dark begin to squeal when the lights are turned off, except for the black light, which helps illuminate the green tint. The noise is because the scientists are holding the by-now-large piglets in a container to prevent their movement, to make the florescent glow most visible.

The green color simply indicates that the fluorescent genetic material injected into the pig embryos has been incorporated into the animal's natural make-up. "It's just a marker to show that we can take a gene that was not originally present in the animal and now exists in it," explains Dr. Stefan Moisyadi, a veteran bioscientist with the IBR.

Dr. Moisyadi said the animals are not affected by the fluorescent protein and will have the same life span as other pigs. "The green is only a marker to show that it's working easily," he said.

The ultimate goal is to introduce beneficial genes into larger animals to create less costly and more efficient medicines. "[For] patients who suffer from hemophilia and they need the blood-clotting enzymes in their blood, we can make those enzymes a lot cheaper in animals rather than a factory that will cost millions of dollars to build," Dr. Moisyadi said.

http://vimeo.com/82227865

The IBR technique involves proprietary pmgenie-3 plasmids conferring active integration during cytoplasmic injection. This technique was also used to produce the world's first "glowing green rabbits" in Turkey earlier this year. Turkey is expected to announce results of similar research involving sheep in the New Year.

GeneChing

01-09-2014, 10:06 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGcwD6a94rs
The Guangdong subways has it going on.

Syn7

01-09-2014, 04:07 PM

http://www.thecontroversialfiles.net/2013/05/chinas-top-9-fake-foods.html

I like the walnut one. Douchy, but smart. You get to sell it all twice. One happy customer and one really ****ed off customer. But at least they aren't poisoning people. Just a good ol fashion straight up bait and switch scam. Love it!

GeneChing

01-13-2014, 09:37 AM

What you want is a Rio Burgundy Grape Mint. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE76AY2JeRI

GeneChing

01-20-2014, 09:34 AM

'Naked Buddhas' witnessed in Jinan, E China (http://www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/2014/01-20/97688.shtml)
2014-01-20 10:23 Ecns.cn Web Editor: Wang Fan

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Sculptures of two naked Buddhas are seen on the top of a building in Jinan, capital city of east China's Shandong province on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. [Photo/China News Service]

Pictures of the two Buddhas, one climbing a wall and the other looking at him with folded hands, swiftly made the rounds on the Internet.

Some thought the sculptures were interesting, while others said they were disrespectful to the Buddha.

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Sculptures of naked Buddhas removed after two-day appearance

A sculpture of naked Buddha is seen being removed Monday, for it has damaged the cityscape of Jinan, capital of East China's Shandong province.
this is actually pretty awesome imo.

Syn7

01-20-2014, 09:22 PM

I concur. That's hilarious.

Too bad some people have no sense of humour. I think it's quite appropriate, actually. I'm curious as to what the intended meaning was. Maybe I'm reading too much into it though.

Syn7

01-31-2014, 12:27 PM

Food porn

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/eating-in-front-of-webcam-south-korea_n_4686596.html

Weird.

Not China, but I put it here because I will never understand this.

GeneChing

03-10-2014, 02:23 PM

...but they aren't selling lingerie. WTH?!?

:rolleyes:

Victoria’s Secret is launching in mainland China—but it’s not selling underwear (http://qz.com/184794/victorias-secret-is-launching-in-mainland-china-but-its-not-selling-underwear/)
By Lily Kuo @lilkuo March 7, 2014

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China's market for kitchen gloves is wide open too. Reuters/Lucas Jackson

Victoria’s Secret is making its first foray into mainland China, parent company L Brands announced last week, with the opening of Victoria’s Secret Beauty and Accessories stores later this year.
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But blinged-out bras, lace undergarments, and $50 sweatpants won’t be available there just yet. These “VSBA” stores are smaller outlets that are often located in airports. Typically, some of them sell underwear, but when queried by Quartz, L Brands said the VSBA stores in China would ”focus on an iconic, fashion-forward range of beauty products, including our award-winning prestige fragrances, and chic accessories.”
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Still, the entrance of one of the most iconic lingerie brand marks another stage in China’s transformation from the world’s low-cost garment manufacturer into a consumer in the premium clothing sector. Selling lingerie to China’s growing middle class is likely Victoria’s Secret’s end goal. L Brands executive Nicholas Coe called the country “an incredibly significant market for us in the future” during an analyst call on Feb. 27.
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China’s contribution to the global lingerie industry is small but growing. In 2010, total revenue was about $3.9 billion, according to statistics from cloth.hc360.com, a Chinese clothing retailer, compared to the global value of the industry of over $30 billion. But sales of intimate wear have been growing up to 20% annually. China is already home to local brands like La Miu, which has been called the Victoria’s Secret of China, as well as independent designers and a few foreign brands like Italy’s La Perla and France’s Etam. Industry observers say there’s certainly room for more competition, given that lingerie is the least saturated segment of the Chinese retail market.
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Expanding Chinese interest in intimate wear is also a positive sign for other “invisible” luxury goods like premium perfume and make up, which have only recently started to gain traction among China’s traditionally logo-focused shoppers. In 2012, Tim Brasher, former chief executive of La Perla, told Jing Daily that Chinese consumers tended to have a “much more functional orientation toward lingerie and underwear.”
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Victoria’s Secret already has some brand awareness in China. In December, it hosted a version of its annual annual fashion show, in Shanghai and it already operates stores in Hong Kong, where millions of mainland Chinese go to shop. As long as the brand doesn’t try launching another tone-deaf Go East collection—with chopsticks and fans, promising “exotic adventures”—its prospects for unclasping the Chinese market seem bright.

GeneChing

05-12-2014, 08:35 AM

I worked in SoMa in SF for several years. For non-SFans, SoMa is the heart of the BDSM community, sometimes called the leather district. So I actually do have some understanding of this particular item, as I worked near that community for a spell. But I posted it here because I'm surprised that this kind of exhibitionism is condoned in PRC.

Blood, guts and ribs as Chinese performer suffers for his art (http://shanghaiist.com/2014/05/12/chinas-most-badass-artist-wears-his-own-ribcage.php)
By Sebastien Blanc | AFP News – Fri, May 9, 2014

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Chinese artist He Yunchang explains a photo of him performing his artwork 'One Meter Democracy', at his studio in Beijing, on April 18, 2014

Having one of his own ribs cut out to turn into a necklace, enduring a slashing from neck to thigh -- He Yunchang will do anything for art as long as it does not kill him.

The extreme performance artist's head is almost entirely shaved and his face flecked with faint scars from his shows. His blood-drenched, often naked masochistic displays are intended to demonstrate that some things are worth making sacrifices for.

The 23-centimetre (nine-inch) rib he had voluntarily surgically removed as China celebrated the opening day of the Beijing Olympics -- on the auspicious, once-in-a-century date of 8/8/08 -- hangs around his neck on a gold loop, dragons' heads biting down on either end.

The operation was intended to demonstrate his own individual autonomy, he said, a decision he could take for himself "while many other things are out of my control".

"There are more powerful people in society who make decisions for others, and there are rules and social morality which restrict people," he told AFP late one night in his studio on the outskirts of Beijing, in the raspy voice of a 120-cigarette-a-day smoker.

In one of his latest works, in March he painted the fingernails and toenails of 10 mannequins -- with his own blood.

"I want to convey the message that I am ready to pay a high price to show my concern" about the world, said the 48-year-old, a married father of one.

"My principle is that, if it's worth the pain, then my safety comes second. But I keep things under control. It is important that I do not let myself die."

- Cut from neck to knee -

He's still photos, paintings and sculptures have been exhibited and sold across Europe and America.

Their popularity derives from his drastic performances, often almost as excruciating for his audiences to watch as they are agonising for him.

In a 2010 performance titled "One Metre Democracy", He gathered 25 people for a poll on whether he should endure a knife gash -- without anaesthetic -- from his collarbone to his knee.

The idea was approved by 12 to 10, with three abstentions, and a doctor carried out the incision in a procedure that lasted several minutes, with voters posing for a group photo afterward while He lay naked and bloodied on a bed.

The artist has also stared at panels of 10,000 glaring watts of light bulbs to damage his eyesight, encased himself in a cube of quick-setting concrete for 24 hours, and burned his clothes while wearing them.

He once hung upside down from a crane for 90 minutes holding a knife in a rushing river, blood dripping from cuts in his arms made with the blade, in a symbolic mixing of the liquids.

Among his less extreme endeavours, he also carried a stone from a beach in England on a 112-day journey over 3,500 kilometres (2,200 miles) by foot -- only to put the travel companion back where he found it.

- 'Silent rebukes' -

"He Yunchang is an alchemist of pain," said Judith Neilson, founder of the White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney which specialises in contemporary Chinese art.

"He Yunchang evidently believes that pain and extreme discomfort, deliberately planned and willingly undergone, have a transcendent quality -- and that it is this quality that raises mere action to the level of art," she said.

His performances "serve as silent rebukes to contemporary Chinese society, where people undergo all kinds of suffering for money precisely because they see money as the ultimate protection against suffering".

Although contemporary art has flourished in China over recent years, the ruling Communist Party maintains tight controls on freedom of expression and only a minority of artists convey political messages with their work.

He has avoided directly confronting the authorities and says: "I generally stay quiet and calm. I don't make waves".

But China's most renowned dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who has faced detention and strict surveillance for his more confrontational work, praises the approach of his friend and neighbour in Caochangdi, an avant-garde artists' community on the outskirts of the capital.

He's art "always has a mix of play, personal history, political message and poetic romance", said Ai.

"Everything that is happening in China today, with development, old structures and Communist doctrines, are all stuck together," Ai continued.

He's work "is trying to pull life out of the ruins".

His performances are not always easy to carry out, and he has run into trouble with officialdom -- although in the US, rather than in China.

In 2005 police thwarted his attempt to stand naked on a rock atop Niagara Falls for 24 hours.

Two years later officers in New York stopped him as he organised a game of mahjong -- again naked -- using bricks in place of the usual domino-sized tiles.

Several hospitals refused to carry out the rib removal without a medical justification, until he found a willing doctor in his home province of Yunnan, in the southwest.

"This has been my wish for many years," He recalled telling surgeons. "If you can help me realise it, then you're actually helping me, not harming me."

diego

05-22-2014, 07:17 AM

Syn7

05-22-2014, 03:23 PM

I was under the impression that the significant population explosion in China was quite recent. Like after 1949. The proletariat was encouraged to multiply, and multiply they did. Went from like 400 million to 900 million during Mao's tenure. When you factor in all the deaths during that time, which was significant, that adds up to a lot of procreating. People having like 10 kids and all that.

Jimbo

05-22-2014, 05:34 PM

When you factor in all the deaths during that time, which was significant, that adds up to a lot of procreating. People having like 10 kids and all that.

This is very true. People nowadays rarely consider that in the past, before access to modern medicine, etc., the mortality rate among children was fairly high. It still is in some countries. And parents wanted children (especially sons) to help with the chores and hopefully care for them in old age. Having lots of children was a kind of insurance. Also consider the lack of birth control back then. Even today in some poor countries, having lots of children is seen as a sign of one's manhood.

My grandparents (father's side) who came from Japan had eight children, my dad being the youngest. All but one lived long (one aunt died in her teens), and all grew up helping out on my grandfather's farm. That would seem like one classic example of why some had large families.

pazman

05-22-2014, 06:17 PM

Though there was a population increase trend directly after the Chinese Civil War, the population explosion can be traced back to the mid Qing. I've heard several theories. One says technologies and methods of producing white rice improved....white rice can store for a long time but was the most expensive staple due to the labor involved in harvesting and separating the hulls. I'm not sure if I buy this, as threshing technology didn't come about until 1840s, and the population started an upward trend before then.

Tibet and west China were historically under populated primarily because the land itself isn't conducive to sustaining large populations.

Jimbo

06-09-2014, 05:35 PM

China bulldozing 700 mountains.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/04/china-bulldoze-700-mountains_n_5447777.html

Kellen Bassette

06-09-2014, 07:44 PM

China bulldozing 700 mountains.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/04/china-bulldoze-700-mountains_n_5447777.html

Insanity....

Faux Newbie

06-10-2014, 01:16 AM

I refuse to find a video example, but for some reason, malls in China love themselves some lingerie clad women with big angel wings playing violin.

I've always felt it would be worth it to just once pay them to play banjo. Just once. Much more lively. Jiggly, even.

GeneChing

07-10-2014, 09:49 AM

It's not so much about understanding China as it is about understanding alcohol-fueled domestic quarrels.

8 paperclips removed from man's stomach (http://ecns.cn/2014/07-10/123383.shtml)
2014-07-10 10:19 Globaltimes.cn Web Editor: Li Yan

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Doctors removed eight straightened paperclips from a man's stomach at Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. The man said he straightened and swallowed the steel clips during quarrel with his wife. Photo: southcn.com

A man in Guangzhou, Guangdong province is recovering after doctors removed eight straightened paperclips from his stomach swallowed during a drunk argument with his wife.

A Biao, 26, paid a visit to the Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University after he began experiencing pain, fevers and bloody diarrhea, reported Nanfang Daily on July 9.

The young man told doctors he straightened and downed more than 10 clips after an alcohol-fueled quarrel with his wife a few months ago.

These nickel-plated steel strips measured around 8 centimeters each.

A Biao explained he had passed several of the clips two days later, but after two months developed sharp abdominal pains that left him unable to walk straight.

Doctors at a hospital in Huizhou, Guangdong province first discovered the wires lodged in his stomach and other organs before referring him to Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University to have them removed.

GeneChing

07-16-2014, 08:43 AM

I can't even begin to wrap my head around this one. :confused: Why? Oh why?

'Til Big Mac do us part: McDonald's hosts weddings (http://www.cnbc.com/id/101829546)
Katie Little | @KatieLittle
Friday, 11 Jul 2014 | 10:27 AM ETCNBC.com

Nothing spells eternity like a McDonald's white balloon wedding gown or a crystal McDonald's house wedding gift for some couples tying the knot in Hong Kong.

These are just two of the items available as part of the fast food giant's wedding party program, which launched in 2011 in the region to meet customer demand.

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Couples married at McDonald's in Hong Kong.

Since then, McDonald's has hosted about a couple dozen wedding parties and expanded the service from three restaurants to 15, wrote McDonald's spokeswoman Jessica Lee in an email. The fast-food giant also hosts engagement, anniversary and bridal shower parties.

"We started the program because many customers tell us that McDonald's is where they first started dating...McDonald's is where their love stories grew," Lee added. "This connection is exactly why they want to hold their wedding parties and even anniversary parties at McDonald's—to relive sweet beginnings and bring their romantic story full circle."

The company offers four separate wedding packages for the betrothed, topping out at HK$9,999 or about US $1,290. The bargain party option clocks in at about HK$2,888 or US$373.

The deluxe version includes a 2-hour venue rental, McDonaldland character gifts for 50 guests, 50 invites, wedding gifts, a pair of McD's balloon wedding rings, bridal bouquet, apple pie cake display, Crystal McDonald's house, decorations, a MC and more.

Both are a steal compared to the average U.S. wedding, which stands just south of $30,000, according to a study from wedding website TheKnot.com.

Other festive decorations include a balloon wedding hat for the groom.

No word yet on whether McDonald's will expand the program outside Hong Kong. When asked about possible plans, Lee said "this is something unique to McDonald's Hong Kong at the moment."

—CNBC's Katie Little

GeneChing

07-23-2014, 08:44 AM

This so doesn't work for me. :confused:

SPOTTED: Hotties walk crabs down the street in Beijing, draw gawkers (http://shanghaiist.com/2014/07/23/hot_girls_walking_crabs_at_sanlitun.php)

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Saucy young Beijing girls in low-cut tops and booty shorts walk their crabs down the street in Sanlitun, drawing many gawkers. We assume they didn't have time to walk their jumbo shrimp, or crayfish.

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Pedestrians snap pictures of the ladies and their curious "crabwalk".

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[Images Via Tencent News]

By Christy Mak

Syn7

07-23-2014, 09:16 AM

Drag, not walk, lol. People can be so weird.

GoldenBrain

07-23-2014, 09:27 AM

Drag, not walk, lol. People can be so weird.

Hahahaha! Like a pet rock on a leash. Bizar.

Jimbo

07-23-2014, 09:44 AM

I'd avoid women with crabs.

GoldenBrain

07-23-2014, 11:30 AM

I'd avoid women with crabs.

Well said...:D Jimbo for the win!

Syn7

07-23-2014, 02:30 PM

Hahahaha! Like a pet rock on a leash. Bizar.

Or my old cat when I tried to leash train her as a kitten. As soon as I started to tug, she would just fall over and give me the stink eye.

GoldenBrain

07-23-2014, 03:04 PM

Or my old cat when I tried to leash train her as a kitten. As soon as I started to tug, she would just fall over and give me the stink eye.

We have a dog and a cat. The dog understands over 250 words and has probably 70 working commands. The cat, impossible to train. We tried to leash train the cat with the exact same result as you got. Love/hate relationship I have with that cute furry little satan spawn.

Jimbo

07-23-2014, 04:12 PM

In my experience, cats in general are more like wild animals than pets (true housecats excepted). When I was a kid, we had a cat that definitely was not a housecat; she only came around to eat and drink, and occasionally hang around. She was mostly my older sister's cat, though. They can survive very well on their own, if necessary.

Later we had a dog, and her personality was pretty much the opposite of the cat.

GoldenBrain

07-23-2014, 05:42 PM

Sorry Gene, but I am hijacking this thread a bit in order to further this dog vs. cat thing. :o

This is why I'm more of a dog person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq8nYgnE93Y

GeneChing

08-07-2014, 11:57 AM

Peaches packaged in pairs of panties provoke protests in PRC (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/07/31/peaches-packaged-in-pairs-of-panties-provoke-protests-in-prc/)
Master Blaster Jul 31, 2014

https://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/58f590e4-6135-42c2-9cd4-39469b7f94e5.jpg?w=580&h=477

It’s summer which means it’s the season for peaches! These sweet and juicy fruits are believed to have originated in China and thrive there to this day, with the Asian nation producing over half of the world’s supply. But inside the People’s Republic, this level of familiarity has locals disinterested, inspiring growers to look for ways to spice things up between consumers and peaches. And so, to reignite people’s passion for the fuzzy fruits, they slipped on pairs of sheer panties.

Yes, this season get your peaches in a satin-lined box, with each fruit presenting itself in a rainbow selection of cuts and fabrics.

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Surprisingly, online reaction hasn’t been overwhelmingly positive. It would seem some people are put off by clearly suggestive imagery of the cleft fruit peaking through their undergarments.

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Perhaps people’s appetites were killed off by the occasional poor positioning of the peaches, which reveals the gaping, cavernous hole of their central column underneath the panties.

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But for those undeterred by the presentation, a nine-pack of pantied-peaches reportedly sell for around US$80 in Nanjing City. It’s uncertain if they’re also available in fur-free nectarines for folks who are turned on by that kind of thing.

https://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/f709f2dc-0b9a-4c31-a6b0-5baf6d135b51.jpg?w=580&h=311

$80USD for a nine-pack?! Holy cats!

GeneChing

08-12-2014, 01:42 PM

Mongolian neo-Nazis: Anti-Chinese sentiment fuels rise of ultra-nationalism (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/02/mongolia-far-right)
Alarm sounds over rise of extreme groups such as Tsagaan Khass who respect Hitler and reject foreign influence
Tania Branigan in Ulan Bator
The Guardian, Monday 2 August 2010 11.13 EDT

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Mongolian neo-Nazi group the Tsagaan Khas ('White Swastika') salute on the streets of the capital Ulan Bator Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

Their right hands rise to black-clad chests and flash out in salute to their nation: "Sieg heil!" They praise Hitler's devotion to ethnic purity.

But with their high cheekbones, dark eyes and brown skin, they are hardly the Third Reich's Aryan ideal. A new strain of Nazism has found an unlikely home: Mongolia.

Once again, ultra-nationalists have emerged from an impoverished economy and turned upon outsiders. This time the main targets come from China, the rising power to the south.

Groups such as Tsagaan Khass, or White Swastika, portray themselves as patriots standing up for ordinary citizens in the face of foreign crime, rampant inequality, political indifference and corruption.

But critics say they scapegoat and attack the innocent. The US state department has warned travellers of increased assaults on inter-racial couples in recent years – including organised violence by ultra-nationalist groups.

Dayar Mongol threatened to shave the heads of women who sleep with Chinese men. Three years ago, the leader of Blue Mongol was convicted of murdering his daughter's boyfriend, reportedly because the young man had studied in China.

Though Tsagaan Khass leaders say they do not support violence, they are self-proclaimed Nazis. "Adolf Hitler was someone we respect. He taught us how to preserve national identity," said the 41-year-old co-founder, who calls himself Big Brother.

"We don't agree with his extremism and starting the second world war. We are against all those killings, but we support his ideology. We support nationalism rather than fascism."

It is, by any standards, an extraordinary choice. Under Hitler, Soviet prisoners of war who appeared Mongolian were singled out for execution. More recently, far-right groups in Europe have attacked Mongolian migrants.

Not all ultra-nationalists use this iconography; and widespread ignorance about the Holocaust and other atrocities may help to explain why some do.

Tsagaan Khass points out that the swastika is an ancient Asian symbol – which is true, but does not explain the group's use of Nazi colours, the Nazi eagle and the Nazi salute; or the large picture of the Führer on Big Brother's cigarette case.

Nor does it seem greatly relevant, given their unabashed admiration for Hitler's racial beliefs.

"We have to make sure that as a nation our blood is pure. That's about our independence," said 23-year-old Battur, pointing out that the population is under three million.

"If we start mixing with Chinese, they will slowly swallow us up. Mongolian society is not very rich. Foreigners come with a lot of money and might start taking our women."

Big Brother acknowledges he discovered such ideas through the nationalist groups that emerged in Russia after the Soviet Union's fall; Mongolia had been a satellite state. But the anti-Chinese tinge is distinct and increasingly popular.

"While most people feel far-right discourse is too extreme, there seems to be a consensus that China is imperialistic, 'evil' and intent on taking Mongolia," said Franck Billé of Cambridge University, who is researching representations of Chinese people in Mongolia.

Hip hop tracks such as Don't Go Too Far, You *****s by 4 Züg – chorus: "shoot them all, all, all" – have been widely played in bars and clubs. Urban myths abound; some believe Beijing has a secret policy of encouraging men to have sex with Mongolian women.

Yet Tsagaan Khass claims it welcomes law-abiding visitors of all races, and Big Brother can certainly be hospitable.

Enthusiastically shaking hands, he says: "Even though you are a British citizen, you are still Asian, and that makes you very cool."

He says the younger members have taught him to be less extreme and the group appears to be reshaping itself – expelling "criminal elements" and insisting on a good education as a prerequisite for membership. One of the leaders is an interior designer.

But critics fear ultra-nationalists are simply becoming more sophisticated and, quietly, more powerful. Tsagaan Khass say it "works closely" with other organisations and is now discussing a merger.

"Some people are in complete denial … [but] we can no longer deny this is a problem," said Anaraa Nyamdorj, of Mongolia's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Centre.

The US state department has noted increased reports of xenophobic attacks since the spring. The UN country review cites a recent vicious assault on three young transgender women. When one of the victims publicly blamed an ultra-nationalist group – not Tsagaan Khass – death threats quickly followed.

"They are getting more support from the public," added Enkhjargal Davaasuren, director of the National Centre Against Violence, who fears that ultra-nationalists are growing more confident and victims too scared to come forward. She pointed to a YouTube video posted last year, showing a man roughly shaving a woman's long hair. The victim's face is buried in her hands, but her hunched body reeks of fear.

Others in Ulan Bator suggest the movement is waning and suspect the groups' menacing stance and claims of 3,000 members are bluster. Billé thinks there is "a lot of posturing".

"We have heard of instances [of violence]. They are not necessarily all right or all wrong," said Javkhlan, a Tsagaan Khass leader. But the group is simply a "law enforcement" body, he maintained: "We do checks; we go to hotels and restaurants to make sure Mongolian girls don't do prostitution and foreigners don't break the laws.

"We don't go through and beat the **** out of everyone. We check our information and make sure it's true."

They rely on police and media pressure to reform such businesses, he added. And if that failed? "We try to avoid using power," he said. "That would be our very last resort."
I can't even wrap my head around what is happening in Mongolia now.

bawang

08-14-2014, 10:15 PM

who the hell cares? mongolia has like 2 cities lol

GeneChing

09-08-2014, 12:15 PM

Actually, I do kinda understand this. By that I mean that I would eat here.

New jail-themed restaurant opens in Tianjin (http://shanghaiist.com/2014/09/08/jail-themed-restaurant-tianjin.php)

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In Taiwan, sex restaurants and toilet-inspired eateries are all the rage. Tianjin's idea of themed restaurant fun is slightly more dispiriting. This past weekend, the city opened its first-ever jail-themed restaurant, which the owner said he'd created so that diners could cherish their own freedom, according to Tencent News. Enlightening.

Each eating room is its own separate "cell" made from iron caging. The interior resembles a water dungeon or themed prison, and cells vary in size depending on the number of customers in a party.

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Customers are seen eating in the "jail".

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Naturally, web users had something to say on this matter.

One netizen guessed: "The boss must have stayed in jail before. He has different perception on this after he came out."

Others agreed: "It'll be too depressing to eat."

We just hope it doesn't inspire more incidents like this. Would you eat at a jail-themed restaurant?

By Lucy Liu

PalmStriker

09-12-2014, 08:21 PM

:D As long as they don't serve jail food. Been there, done that too many times in my past lives.

Syn7

09-13-2014, 08:27 AM

I don't really understand some of these. The vacation ones are super weird. Like how you can go stay in a fake African shanty town. Kind of messed up. People talk about "the experience" but that is complete bull****. It's all aesthetic. You want shanty town experience? Then make them walk an hour to get to clean water and then carry it back for another hour. You want a prison experience, then lock the door behind them. In a country with shocking abuse in that area, it's actually pretty disrespectful. Not as bad as the shanty town, but getting there.

MightyB

09-17-2014, 05:58 AM

Horrifingly Beautiful Photos Show The Human Cost Of China's Massive Pollution Problem (http://www.fastcoexist.com/3035080/horrifingly-beautiful-photos-show-the-human-cost-of-chinas-massive-pollution-problem#3)
more photos are on the linked article above.

Gritty, detailed scenes from some of China's most polluted places will make you grateful for the air you breathe.
Headlines about China's record-breaking pollution are usually accompanied by hazy photos of the Beijing skyline and statistics so large they seem abstract: 1.2 million Chinese people die because of air pollution each year, and water pollution kills another 70,000 people.

In a new series, U.K. photographer Souvid Datta takes a different perspective on the problem, telling the everyday story of the people living with the pollution and showing detailed shots of murky water or air rather than distant cityscapes.
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"At the core was my aversion to the pruned, cliched, and general stories of China and its environmental crises that we are most commonly exposed to: the 'smog apocalypse,' 'emerging-market' arguments and statistics, or photos of pedestrian crowds donning air-filter masks," says Datta.

"These only served to distance and over-simplify a nuanced reality, and the last thing I wanted to do was add to that narrative. The work had to evoke a sense of genuine empathy and curiosity in readers, something that could nudge them towards productive awareness."

For four weeks, Datta traveled to some of the most polluted places in Tianjin, Heibei, Jiangsu, and Zheijang provinces, along with mega-cities like Beijing and Shanghai. Inspired by the loss of a friend's younger brother to lung cancer in Beijing, he wanted to document how decades of corruption and censorship had worsened pollution and affected millions.

He also wanted to show the current state of pollution in China as things slowly begin to change--in the last couple of years, the government has finally started to acknowledge the extent of the challenge and taken some first steps in response, like allowing lawsuits against companies that pollute.

The changes have been driven by public anger at the situation. "2013 saw protests against pollution multiply as people have become more concerned about the heavy ecological cost of economic development," Datta says. "And where once the firm hand of the Chinese communist party effectively controlled public conversations and restricted opposition, young people are now aware that the fight against pollution is a personal right."

In the future, Datta will return again to document more. "China’s environmental crises definitely arise on a scale as epic and sweeping as the country itself," he says. "Four weeks was nowhere near enough."

Photos: Souvid Datta

GeneChing

11-17-2014, 03:59 PM

...that this is what bawang sees in his head when someone mentions kentucky fried... :confused:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxzgwJ8tSE0

-N-

11-17-2014, 05:42 PM

...that this is what bawang sees in his head when someone mentions kentucky fried... :confused:

Is that supposed to be the Chinese Katy Perry??

TaichiMantis

11-17-2014, 05:50 PM

It's Old MacDonald Had a Farm Meets Lady Gaga...

-N-

11-17-2014, 07:33 PM

It's Old MacDonald Had a Farm Meets Lady Gaga...

Gaga-esque for sure.

GeneChing

11-24-2014, 09:58 AM

What makes this worse is that the ink in traditional Chinese painting usually reeks. I can't imagine it tastes any better.

Artist has a taste for painting (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2014-10/21/content_18776249.htm)
Updated: 2014-10-21 10:29 (chinadaily.com.cn)

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Han Xiaoming takes the expression “a lick of paint” literally by using his tongue to produce works of art at a street booth in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, Oct 19, 2014. [Photo/IC]

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Han Xiaoming takes the expression “a lick of paint” literally by using his tongue to produce works of art at a street booth in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, Oct 19, 2014. [Photo/IC]

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The Chinese folk artist attracts a curious crowd as he works on his latest creation, Oct 19, 2014. [Photo/IC]

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Artist Han displays an example of his work surrounded by interested onlookers, Oct 19, 2014. [Photo/IC]

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Inquisitive youngsters take a closer look as Han coats his tongue with special ink before starting his latest work of art, Oct 19, 2014. [Photo/IC]

GeneChing

12-01-2014, 01:49 PM

Beijing store sparks racism row... by banning Chinese customers (http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1649228/no-chinese-sign-garment-store-beijing-raises-eyebrows?page=all)
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 26 November, 2014, 1:59pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 27 November, 2014, 10:59am
Andrea Chen andrea.chen@scmp.com

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Sign reading “Chinese not admitted. Staff excluded” on a store in Beijing's Yabao Road has provoked outrage. Photo: Beijing Youth Daily

A clothing store in Beijing has sparked a bizarre race row by banning Chinese customers from the premises for being "too annoying".

The sign on the front door of the store on Yabao Road reading "Chinese not admitted - staff excluded" appeared more than a week ago, the Beijing Youth Daily reported yesterday after receiving complaints from residents.

"We didn't want to hang up the sign in the first place and lead people to think we Chinese look down upon ourselves. But some Chinese customers are too annoying," a salesperson told the paper, adding that the wholesale store mainly sells to foreigners.

The salesperson said the store had to pay a foreign customer US$5,000 last week to settle the theft of his wallet by a Chinese shopper.

"The surveillance camera footage showed a Chinese customer stole his wallet. But the foreign customer claimed that we [the shop and the Chinese customer] are a group of thieves. And Chinese women often try on lots of clothes but end up buying nothing," the salesperson added.

The sign, which is written in Chinese, was also aimed at preventing competitors from copying their designs, another salesperson said.

But mainland microbloggers were not impressed with the explanation, with many referring to a similar sign rumoured to have been at the entrance of Huangpu Park in the 1890s that said "No dogs or Chinese allowed". Although the park was indeed reserved for foreigners, there is no historical record the sign existed, but it nonetheless became a symbol of foreign repression on Chinese soil.

The story, carried by many influential mainland media outlets, became one of the most discussed topics yesterday, amassing more than a million views.

"Get out of China, please," many of the comments read.

Legal scholar Li Xiandong, of the China University of Political Science and Law, told the Beijing Youth Daily that while the sign was discriminatory, the mainland had not outlawed racial discrimination, so the sign was not breaking any laws.

Reminds me of that Bruce Lee movie...;)
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GeneChing

12-15-2014, 10:01 AM

...for a moment, this made sense to me from a marketing standpoint. Then I realized it was just the hangover from a hard commute in the rain this Monday morning.

Restaurant Offers Discounts Based on Weight (http://english.cri.cn/12394/2014/12/10/3521s855974.htm)
2014-12-10 16:59:17 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Fei

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A male diner wins a free meal at a restaurant in Chongqing on December 9, 2014. [Photo: qq.com]

Restaurants here in China have come up with fresh ideas to lure more diners.

A restaurant in Chongqing has started a promotion which entitles male diners over a certain weight to discounted food.

The discounts also apply to thin female consumers.

The policy says, for male diners, the more they weigh, the more discounts they are entitled to.

If a male customer weighs more than 140 kilograms, then the meal is free.

For female diners, things are a bit different.

The less they weigh, the more discounts they are offered.

If she weighs below 34.5 kilos, then she is exempt from paying for food.

Likewise, a restaurant in Shanghai is also offering similar promotions.

However, their campaign is focused on tall diners.

Diners with different heights can enjoy different discounts and a range of gift dishes.

And what sort of discounts can you get from these restaurants?

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The male diner enjoys the free meal with his friend at a restaurant in Chongqing on December 9, 2014. [Photo: qq.com]

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A female diner weigns around 40 kilograms wins a discounted meal for her and her friends at a restaurant in Chongqing on December 9, 2014. [Photo: qq.com]

Brule

12-15-2014, 01:55 PM

Sad Story for the family.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/12/15/chinese-court-clears-teenager-of-rape-and-murder-18-years-after-his-execution/

Chinese court clears teenager of rape and murder 18 years after his execution

Associated Press | December 15, 2014 | Last Updated: Dec 15 1:33 PM ET
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The judge of the higher people's court delivers retrial files to the parents (centre) of a Chinese teenager who was executed after being convicted of murder and rape 18 years ago.

BEIJING — A court in northern China on Monday cleared a man of the rape and murder of a woman in a public toilet 18 years after he was executed for the crime.

The Inner Mongolia Higher People’s Court announced on its microblog that it had overturned the conviction of Huugjilt, who was 18 when he was sentenced to death and executed for the 1996 crime. Like many ethnic Mongolians, Huugjilt used only one name.

The deputy head of the court, Zhao Jianping, offered his “sincere apologies” to Huugjilt’s parents, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported. The parents received 30,000 yuan ($5,630) as an expression of the court’s sympathy and were told they could claim an unspecified amount of compensation.

Chinese state media carried photos of a court official handing over the verdict to Huugjilt’s weeping parents at their home in Inner Mongolia’s regional capital of Hohhot.

State media had previously reported that a convicted serial rapist and killer confessed to the murder in 2005 after receiving a death sentence for other crimes, but was never tried for this killing and has still not been executed. Huugjilt’s retrial was held only last month.

Huugjilt had come to the attention of the police after reporting that he had found the woman’s body in a public toilet in Hohhot after hearing a cry for help.

China is believed to execute more people for crimes each year than the rest of the world combined, but keeps the data secret.

Huugjilt’s trial and execution came amid one of China’s periodic “strike hard” campaigns, during which police and courts were put under extra pressure to break cases and punish criminals.

China’s high court has since taken charge of reviewing all death sentences and has pledged to carry out executions for only the most heinous crimes.

GeneChing

02-18-2015, 10:47 AM

VICE is a great magazine.

These Volunteers Give Handjobs to the Severely Disabled (http://www.vice.com/read/hand-angel-hand-jobs-taiwan-748)
February 4, 2015
By Nelson Moura and Yun jie Zou

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Hand Angels helping Andy from his wheelchair into bed. Photos courtesy of Hand Angel

This article originally appeared on VICE UK.

Andy is a muscular dystrophy patient who lives with his parents in southern Taiwan. Due to his severe physical disability, he was home-schooled and couldn't leave his house alone, so never really had the opportunity to develop either an active social life or a romantic relationship.

When the Taiwanese NGO Hand Angel—an organization promoting the sexual rights of disabled people—first spoke to Andy, they realized this situation meant he'd also never been able to have a frank conversation with anyone about his sexuality. And as a young gay man who didn't want to speak to his parents about his feelings, this wasn't exactly the healthiest situation to be in.

So, over the course of a few months, representatives from the NGO counseled Andy online, helping him to understand his own sexuality and place in the world. Next, they "smuggled" him out of his house and took him to a motel for a handjob.

Taiwan—officially known as the Republic of China—has one of the best health systems in the world; its million or so disabled citizens receive some of the most thorough medical attention you'll find, including everything from long-term care to traditional herbal medicine. What they don't receive from this system, however, is any kind of aid when it comes to slightly more intimate issues, namely: orgasms.

It was for this reason that a group of social campaigners and volunteers took it upon themselves to create Hand Angel, an NGO whose main service is giving handjobs to the severely disabled. Members say that their work raises awareness of the fact that disabled people are often depicted as desexualized—as well as having their sexuality constantly neglected—despite the fact they share exactly the same desires as anybody else.

In the Netherlands, the national health system provides a grant scheme for people with disabilities to receive public money to pay for sexual services up to 12 times a year. In Taiwan, sex remains a taboo, and some Buddhists—the sovereign state's primary religion—believe that someone suffering from a disability means they're paying for bad deeds in a past life. So not the best mix for those like Andy, really.

"I can't tell my parents that I also have sexual desires, and I can't come out of the closet in front them," he told me. "My family's care puts lots of pressure [on me] and sabotages me from normal romantic relations."

Vincent, the 50-year-old founder of Hand Angel, lost his legs to polio and says his disability allows him to better empathize with applicants' needs, without any of the patronization disabled people can sometimes face. He emphasized that "disabled people share the same physical and emotional needs as any others, and therefore should have the right to pursue them."

In order to decide who's entitled to use their services, Hand Angel first assess an applicant's level of disability. The person has to be recognized by the government as having a serious physical impairment, but can't be mentally disabled. Once they're cleared, the service is totally free, but each applicant can only receive three bouts of sexual stimulation.

Volunteers—the group of 10 people actually giving the handjobs—come from varied backgrounds; some are gay, some are straight, some are disabled, some are PhD students, some are social campaigners and some work in the media. It's made very clear to me that these volunteers only use their hands for second-base kind of stuff—that hugging, caressing, and kissing on the face are all fine, but anything penetrative (fingering, oral sex, vaginal sex, and anal sex) is not.

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The hands of Hand Angel volunteers

When Hand Angel took Andy to the motel, the volunteer caressed him thoroughly and gave him a handjob. He described the intimacy being so intense that, for a minute, he believed he was in love. He knew it was only temporary, of course, but the experience provided him with an emotional connection he'd never felt before.

This is part of Hand Angel's mission: not just providing a sexual service, but also bringing forth an emotional and social transformation in applicants.

"[Andy] was very introverted before, and didn't really know how to interact with people," said Vincent. "However, through months of talking online, I discovered something changed inside him. When our group was reported by the media and got lots of criticism, I saw Andy joined the public debate and argued with those [critical] internet users, trying to illustrate his opinions."

In Taiwan, where a discussion of sexuality is restrained by strict moral codes, there was also plenty of mockery leveled at Hand Angel. Internet users starting posting comments like: "Do they also offer 'Mouth Angels?'"; "I'm retarded; can I apply for Hand Angel service, too?"; and "Only three times in a lifetime?"

There even appeared to be negativity on an official level. The executive secretary of the Taipei United Social Wealth Alliance, Yi-Ting Hu, commented on the NGO, saying: "Speaking from personal opinion, I don't think we need to bring up disabled people's sexuality as an independent issue. There are more important and urgent problems we need to deal with. Don't you think if you advocate their sexual rights, it is like another form of discrimination?"

Of course, he seemed to only be proving Hand Angels' point; to suggest that advocating a disabled person's sexual rights is a form of discrimination is, first, patronizing in itself, and secondly, just completely bizarre—how is consensually receiving a handjob in any way discriminatory?

Andy summed it up: "I didn't feel I was the target of pity. The whole process was full of respect and equality. This might be deemed as controversial by society, but as long as you're willing to look into it, what we desire is no different from others. Just ask yourself: do you need to consult your parents before having sex?"

bawang

02-18-2015, 01:35 PM

I have this rather embarrassing photo of our previous editor straddling a giant cigarette-in-an-ashtray sculpture. She told me never to show it to anyone. It wasn't a promise, but I still haven't done so. I imagine I'm saving it for just the right occasion. ;)

if its on purpose, i think its has subtle political meaning.

onedrunkduck

02-25-2015, 01:00 AM

overexposed sexual related stuffs don't make you feel enough
but it definitely make me feel disgusted

David Jamieson

02-25-2015, 01:11 PM

What makes this worse is that the ink in traditional Chinese painting usually reeks. I can't imagine it tastes any better.

not only that, but all his art looks like rice paper that someone has licked while their tongue was covered in ink. :p

GeneChing

03-16-2015, 08:27 AM

...I can't even think of what to say about this...:confused:

Look: Jilin goes 'green'...by planting plastic greenery (http://shanghaiist.com/2015/03/16/jilin-goes-green-plastic-greenery.php)

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Jilin city, Jilin province has decided to hop on the "go green" bandwagon...by planting more than 30 plastic plants in the city centre. Residents there were initially attracted to the plants until realizing that the greenery is in fact fake. This led to many residents criticizing the local government for wasting resources rather than actually contributing to the environment.

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Sadly, it looks like the people of Jilin will still have to head to the market for their greens.

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By Freya Twigden

[Images via NetEase]

GeneChing

04-14-2015, 11:51 AM

The fundamentalists were right - first gays, then beasts. :eek:

China's first mass dog wedding held for 21 canine 'couples' in Beijing (http://shanghaiist.com/2015/04/13/mass-wedding-dog.php)

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A total of 21 dog "couples" walked down the aisle in a mass pet wedding held in Beijing on Sunday, because the world is a strange, strange place. (But it's god****ed cute, so just go with it.)

Note: For the sake of not wanting to over-use quotation marks, we are just going to omit them for the rest of the article while remaining fully aware that the concept of animal "couples" getting "married" is completely absurd.

Carrying on.

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China's first-ever canine wedding kicked off at around 10:00 a.m. at a Beijing park decorated with flower arches and banquet tables, on which the animals displayed their matching tuxes and wedding dresses.

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Pets and their owners pulled up to the ceremony in a stretch Hummer and BMW convertibles, according to Sina News. Ahem.

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The grooms and their *****es were led down a rose petal-scattered aisle by their owners, occasionally wandering off to sniff flowers and scratch themselves because they're dogs. They received their marriage licenses from Shi Kangning, the secretary general of the Committee of Wedding Service Industries, who presided over the ceremony.

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Watch the video of the pet wedding here, unless you're single. In that case, weep because these dogs found true love before you and because you might not end up getting married until you're 86.

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Contact the author of this article or email tips@shanghaiist.com with further questions, comments or tips.
By Katie Nelson in News on Apr 13, 2015 11:59 PM

TaichiMantis

04-14-2015, 07:57 PM

Apparently they don't support mixed marriage...

wiz cool c

04-14-2015, 08:02 PM

Apparently they don't support mixed marriage...

the girls do the men don't

GeneChing

04-30-2015, 12:14 PM

...the stuff of Chinese nightmares.

What’s the best way to market sea food? Why, dress a mannequin in it, of course! (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/04/30/whats-the-best-way-to-market-sea-food-why-dress-a-mannequin-in-it-of-course/)
Meg Murphy
20 hours ago

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Advertising is a big part of any business. In order to sell your product, you have to make it look appealing to customers in order to tempt them into making a purchase, and thinking of new, creative ways to advertise your goods can get pretty tricky.

However, we’re quite torn over whether this Seaweed Man – discovered at a grocery store in China – is a stroke of advertising genius, or just a creepy, half-assed attempt at it.

This mannequin was found the other day, lurking in the fresh fish department of a grocery store in China. From the back, it looks like it might be related to the creature from the black lagoon… Seaweed loin cloth, seaweed shawl-like top, and even a tangle-y mess of seaweed hair upon its head.

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Things get even weirder (and smellier) upon closer inspection.

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Seaweed Man has… a rather effeminate face.

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Perhaps this was an idea that came to one of the store workers as a way to boost their seaweed sales (as various types of seaweeds are regularly consumed in parts of Asia). But no matter which way we look at it, we’re not sure how much Seaweed Man here would be able to drives sales up…

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Thaaat’s alright, Seaweed Man, you can keep your clothes. I think I’ll go get my seaweed elsewhere.

Source and images: Narinari

GeneChing

05-05-2015, 11:31 AM

Some Chinese online gamers apparently...:confused:

Female escorts for online gamers in vogue in China (http://wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150421000006&cid=1303)
Chuang Shu-chung and Staff Reporter 2015-04-21 08:57 (GMT+8)

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Escorts with online gamers at an internet cafe. (Photo courtesy of Sina Weibo)

Chinese online gamers tired of playing games online by themselves can now pay between 20-100 yuan (US$3.20-$16) an hour for a female online "escort" to play with them.

More advanced services offer a female gamecaster who will explain and demonstrate games to the players via face-to-face online chat.

"If a woman has a sweet voice, this will be even more popular than any gaming skills she might have," one escort brokerage firm said. He said that those seeking female "escorts" are usually white-collar workers living in coastal areas who are willing to spend money on online games.

A lot of female college students and office ladies moonlight as these female "escorts" for online gamers as a source of income. Supply and demand are equally hot, the firm said.

"It is common for an experienced female escort to make 3,000 yuan (US$485) a month," one firm said. Top female "escorts" can make up to 8,000 yuan (US$1,300) per month, and the commissions paid to the firm are usually between 5% and 10%.

In addition to honing the skills of online players, the women who serve as gamecasters see it as a money-making venture.

One Hong Kong media outlet stated that the trade in "gamecasters" has been going on for some time, with some women who have won online game competitions able to command annual salaries that could start at 10 million yuan (US$1.6 million).

The brokerage firms say the market potential for female "escorts" and gamecasters is big, but added that a lack of effective regulation often leads to disputes or even fraud.

Some players are quite blunt in saying that they want to see their female "escorts" offline for sex, which leads to the question of whether this line of work is merely another front for prostitution.

Syn7

05-18-2015, 12:09 PM

Couldn't think of a better place for this and a new thread didn't seem appropriate.

China’s Ingenious Online Dating Scams Put Ours To Shame

http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/chinas-ingenious-online-dating-scams-put-ours-to-shame#.ilNal7yYX

Such a douchebag move. Wish I thought of it, lol.

GeneChing

05-20-2015, 12:40 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RwDi1wtz7Y

GeneChing

06-12-2015, 11:21 AM

When this article popped up on my newsfeed today, I thought it said 'bollocks'. :o

That'll be enough to stop them! City officials place 66 BOLLARDS on a tiny strip of pavement in extreme bid to deter street traders (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3121689/City-officials-place-66-BOLLARDS-tiny-strip-pavement-extreme-bid-deter-street-traders.html)

Tiny plot transformed into a forest of yellow posts in Shenzen, China
Local authorities said the area had been plagued by unlicensed traders
Residents say the bollards makes life difficult for mothers with buggies
One woman said the area now resembles a 'martial arts obstacle course'

By Dan Miller and Edward Chow For Mailonline
Published: 11:32 EST, 12 June 2015 | Updated: 12:02 EST, 12 June 2015

Unlicensed street traders are a common problem for many a town and city the world over.

But few local authorities will have taken such draconian steps to stop them as those in the Chinese city of Shenzhen who have set up an incredible 66 bollards on an area of just 23 square metres.

According to locals the tiny plot now resembles a 'martial arts obstacle course' and is proving particularly troublesome for ordinary pedestrians especially people pushing buggies.

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Overkill? Local authorities in Shenzen, China, have set up 60 metal bollards over an area just 23 sq metres in a bid to deter unlicensed street traders

The bollards have been erected outside a community centre and close to an underground railway station exit in an area known for taxi drivers and street unlicensed traders.

In the past two years the local residents have made numerous complaints to the authorities about the congestion in the area who responded by sending wardens to move street hawkers on.

But as soon as the wardens had left the area the traders would return so the authorities decided to set up bollards, People's Daily Online reported.

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Obstruction: A man struggles to push a buggy through the bollards which have been described as looking like a martial arts obstacle course

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The bollards have been erected outside a community centre and close to an underground railway station exit in an area known for taxi drivers and street unlicensed traders

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After numerous complaints from local residents local authorities say they will try to find an alternative solution

At first there were only 26 of the steel posts, but in the months of April and May a further 40 were set up transforming the area into a forest of bright yellow posts.

In a letter to the Shenzhen Evening News a local citizen named Ms Wang wrote: 'This section of road is completely covered with bollards just like a martial arts obstacle course in Shaolin Temple.

'Are all pedestrians to be trained to be martial artists?'

Mr Zhu, a local office worker, told reporters that before the bollards there were street hawkers everywhere but now although they have disappeared there are problems with pedestrians pushing buggies or carrying large items.

Mr Shi, who works at the nearby Anle community centre which manages the section of road told reporters that the setting up of so many bollards was not something they wanted to do.

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At first there were only 26 of the steel bollards, but in the months of April and May a further 30 were set up transforming the area into a forest of bright yellow posts

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In the past two years the local residents have made numerous complaints to the authorities about the congestion in the area and after wardens proved ineffective they turned to bollards

He said that as the area is close to the station exit usually there would often be between 8 to10 cars and motorbikes waiting for customers as street hawkers setting up stalls blocking the traffic.

Mr Shi said he knows that there are some who are not happy with the bollards and that the company will consult with local residents to find a better way to solve the local congestion problem.

GeneChing

06-15-2015, 09:22 AM

Punish domestic violence and love armpit hair.

LOOK: Weibo flooded once again with pictures of women proudly showing off their armpit hair (http://shanghaiist.com/2015/06/09/hairy_arm_pits.php)

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Yes, it's that time of the year again! A time when young women across China raise up their arms — as one; in order to take selfies showing off their armpit hair, which they then post online to support women's rights and just maybe win a prize in one very unconventional photography competition. What a time to be alive!

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Some 40 entries have already been made into this 2015 Armpit Hair Competition, which kicked off on Weibo on May 26 and ends on June 26 (Send your armpit selfies in now!). The hashtag #WomensArmpitHairCompetition has already piqued the interest of more than a million curious netizens and has generated thousands of comments.

The contest was started by 26-year-old feminist activist Xiao Yue in order to bring attention to the idea that women do not need to be hairless to feel beautiful. Prizes will be given out for the most "characteristic, beautiful and confident" displays of online underarm hair. The first place winner receives 100 condoms, second place gets a ******** and the lucky third place winner gets 10 female urination devices.

"Women's armpit hair is considered to be offensive, rude and ungraceful — how come it makes people so uncomfortable?" Xiao says. "Women's underarm hair can be adorable, interesting, humorous, sexy, serious, connotative and ever-changing."

According to Xiao, the concept of armpit hair being uncivilized is another unwelcome Western import that didn't catch on in China until the 1990s and now is being propagated by the media and advertisers in order to promote consumerism and shaving cream over natural beauty.

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The contest is not the first of its kind. Just last summer, women were also encouraged to post pictures of their unshaven armpits on Weibo. The call to action seemed to make a bigger splash last year, attracting more than 28.5 million views and thousands of picture submissions within just five days.

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In exploring this year's contest, the Global Times asks the eternal question: "To shave or not to shave" and tries to get at the root of this hairy issue. One contestant, Charlie Liu, a 25-year-old environmental researcher in Beijing, submitted a black-and-white photo of herself wearing a bra and proudly showing of her armpit hair with the caption: "I love my armpit hair, which is a part of my soft body hair. I hope girls will show it off without fear."

Liu told the Global Times she used to shave her armpit hair in college, but her outlook changed after taking a gender studies course and participating in the production of China's version of the Vagina Monologues. She asserts that women's need to shave their body hair is a direct result of commercials and advertising. Liu says she can no longer be swayed to pick up the razor. Instead, she is considering taking the next logical step and dyeing her armpit hair.

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Of course, not everyone is ready to go all natural. A fair number of responses also came in from women on the other side of the issue. "What is this competition? No one forces me to shave my armpit hair. I do it because I think it's gross not to," one netizen posted.

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"It's not a question of pleasing anybody," another Weibo user wrote. "According to our universal aesthetics, it's not elegant."

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Women's rights activist Li Tingting also took part in the contest, posting a photo of her half-naked body showcasing her armpit hair and a message saying, "Punish domestic violence and love armpit hair.

Li was released on parole in April and is still closely monitored by police. She was detained for more than one month along with four other female activists after organizing a protest to raise awareness of sexual harassment and domestic violence on International Women's Day. According to the BBC, for Li, underarm hair is just another small battleground in the larger war for gender equality. "Men walk around half naked in China all the time, why can't women?" she asked. "For women, we need to free our minds and our bodies."

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Where do you come down on the great debate of our time? Got pics to prove it?

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by Alex Linder

[Images via Global Times & Weibo]

GeneChing

06-25-2015, 12:16 PM

I confess that I would be very entertained watching this performance. I'd be even more impressed watching a few of our members here try this. ;)

Look: Jilin nightclub performer lights firecrackers in his pants (http://shanghaiist.com/2015/06/25/jilin-nightclub-performer-lights-firecrackers-pants.php)

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In case you didn't think Chinese nightclubs were showy enough, here's some pictures of a performer at a club in Jilin throwing lit firecrackers in his pants.

The painful photos show clouds of smoke rising from the man's trousers as he seemingly attempts to dance away the pain at a bar in Hunchun City, Jilin Province.

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Hero.

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Apparently he's not the only performer to smoke his balls in the name of entertainment. A video shared in February shows another man performing the same stunt. At least his audience seems slightly more interested.

[Images via NetEase]

By Joyce Ng

Jimbo

06-25-2015, 02:02 PM

The chick in the leopard-print doesn't look too impressed.

GeneChing

07-09-2015, 09:50 AM

Actually I totally understand this one. Well, maybe not that everyone wasn't panicking.

It's very China. Especially the skirt-wearing female comment.

Look: Dozens of slithering eels set free on Shanghai subway (http://shanghaiist.com/2015/07/09/eels-on-loose-slither-through-shanghai-subway.php)

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A bucket full of live eels spilled out mid-commute on Shanghai Metro's Line 1 last Friday, resulting in dozens of the slippery creatures wriggling through one of the cars.

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The eels were liberated from their plastic confines moments after the subway departed Shanghai Indoor Stadium. An image was posted to Weibo by web user 你大爷爱LP嘿巴扎嘿, who said he was worried for skirt-wearing female commuters.

We've got to say, though, the atmosphere appeared relatively panic-free despite the various slimy creatures seen slithering past passengers' feet.

Most likely, passengers have just grown accustomed to strange sightings on the Shanghai Metro.

By Joyce Ng

[Images via NetEase]

GeneChing

07-17-2015, 09:09 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN7ZRXBd_H8

GeneChing

08-24-2015, 09:00 AM

10,000 yuan per day? That's $1561.24 at today's exchange rate.

LOOK: Henan man makes bank selling 'fake clouds' (http://shanghaiist.com/2015/08/18/artificial-cloud-machine.php)

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A man from Henan province has been "wow-ing" China with his artificial cloud-making machine. The magic happens when the machine combines helium with a foamy liquid, producing a cloud of bubbles that can float over a hundred metres high in the air.

The man has made a business of renting it out to events in China and apparently is doing quite well. CCTV News says (somewhat ambitiously, perhaps) that his business brings in up to 10,000 yuan per day and is growing in popularity.

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Of course, he's not the only person in the world making helium-foam clouds. If you fancy having a go at making one of these lucrative machines then check out this video from "The Tonight Show" where Kevin Delaney explains the science behind the cloud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWtZd8jM3g

Now all China has to do is master fake snow.
Contact the author of this article or email tips@shanghaiist.com with further questions, comments or tips.
By Shanghaiist in News on Aug 18, 2015 8:00 PM

PalmStriker

08-24-2015, 09:35 AM

:) Awesome! No more drought! Californians should import these machines to produce some rain.

GeneChing

08-24-2015, 09:55 AM

Besides, Bruce Lee (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?42950-Bruce-Lee-Memorials&p=1285913#post1285913) will save us Californians. ;)

GeneChing

08-27-2015, 09:21 AM

Because sometimes you just gotta say 'PRC - WTF?!?!'

Look: Fake sprouts growing out of your head is now a thing in Beijing (http://shanghaiist.com/2015/08/27/fake-sprouts-heads.php)

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A new statement piece of sorts has hit the streets of Beijing in the form of a small plastic sprout that appears to be growing from the top of wearers' heads.

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The clip-on hairpiece comes in a variety of forms, from blossoming flowers to delicate bean sprouts. It's here. It's now. It's everywhere in Beijing, as you can see.

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While we'd like to consider the trend some sort of subversive comment on the chronic air pollution that shrouds China's capital, it's really just a thing because it's cute.

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The origins of the trend aren't exactly clear, but some media suggest that the hairpiece is inspired by a character in "Pleasant Goat and the Big Bad Wolf", a widely popular and occasionally violent Chinese animated TV show.

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Sproutheads, as we've affectionately dubbed them, can be seen milling about in Beijing's bustling tourist areas where street vendors hawk them alongside flower crowns and furry animal ears, trends of summers long passed.

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Children, teenage girls, and even grown men have been photographed with the baby sprouts shooting from their mops of hair.

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Those of you looking to get in on the trend while it's still *young* can buy your own sprouts here for as cheap as 0.86 yuan.

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Previously on Shanghaiist: Are Chinese teens keeping cabbages for pets because they're lonely?

[Image via Sina]

Jimbo

08-28-2015, 08:26 AM

"Unicorn woman" set to have "horn" removed:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/unicorn-woman-set-horn-removed-6329793

I sympathize with the son a lot. That would be a difficult position for anyone to be in.

GeneChing

08-28-2015, 09:12 AM

...what a dramatic abnormality. I've never heard of cornu cutaneum. I would want that removed too, at a much earlier stage than 13cm long.

Meanwhile, let's turn to the topic of Chinese public sculpture.

Stock investors pray to bull-over-bear sculpture for market rebound (3/3)
2015-08-25 10:07 Ecns.cn Editor:Yao Lan

[Stock investors pray to bull-over-bear sculpture for market rebound (3/3)]

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A bronze sculpture symbolizing a bull riding over a bear is installed at an art museum in Xiamen city, East China’s Fujian province, Aug 24, 2015. The sculpture measures 6.1 meters long, 3.4 meters high, and 2.9 meters wide, and it weighs 3 tons. The owner of the sculpture said that he hopes frustrated stock investors, hit hard by the recent plunges despite government efforts, can feel relaxed and sleep well at night after looking at the sculpture.

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GeneChing

08-31-2015, 10:36 AM

When I titled this 'I will never understand China', I meant Chinese culture overall and never meant to get caught in any PRC/Taiwan political quibbling. Either way, can someone explain this to me?

Look: Plastic bag 'swimsuits' now trending in Taiwan (http://shanghaiist.com/2015/08/31/plastic-bag-swimsuits-trending-taiwan.php)

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Hundreds of young women in Taiwan have been uploading pictures of themselves online wearing DIY swimsuits made from convenience store plastic bags. The homemade one-piece has taken off, with imitators from all walks of life now posting selfies modeling little plastic bag outfits.

The trend appeared to have kicked off in a Facebook group called 爆料公社. Some commenters praised the girls as environmental ambassadors drawing attention to the amount of plastic bags we consume, whereas others said they are just trying to show off their bods.

Zheng-xing, a 27-year-old nightclub owner, was one of the first fellows to uploaded a selfie wearing a Carrefour bag. He didn't expect much from the trend, but wanted to encourage more girls to join in.

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Thanks to social networking communities like this, Taiwan's free soft porn culture is growing. Take a peek at the new Taipei 'Easycards' (for public transport) featuring Taiwanese schoolboys' favourite Japanese AV star and warm-hearted charity promoter, Yui Hatano.

by Daniel Cunningham
Contact the author of this article or email tips@shanghaiist.com with further questions, comments or tips.
By Shanghaiist in News on Aug 31, 2015 1:15 PM

GeneChing

10-28-2015, 12:46 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF3zQGJKtz0

China might have a better chance getting this into the Olympics than wushu (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?64475-2020-Olympics&p=1287580#post1287580). :eek:

;)

GeneChing

01-28-2016, 11:26 AM

Actually I do understand this...quite well in fact ;)...I'm just amused it's happening in China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69HMooMDi7Q

GeneChing

01-28-2016, 11:31 AM

This, on the other hand, I do NOT understand.

Model male workers at Guangzhou company given sex dolls as year-end bonuses (http://shanghaiist.com/2016/01/28/sex_doll_bonuses.php)

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At its annual conference on Sunday, a Guangzhou-based internet firm awarded its star male employees with inflatable sex dolls, rather than the customary cash bonuses, it's probably what they would have blown the money on anyway.
The blow-up dolls were arguably a rather fitting gift for Lianlian employees, the company specializes in developing "virtual romance" apps. Chief executive Wang Yuzhu said the sex dolls were picked out specifically for single male staff in their twenties, who were even treated to practical demonstrations at the conference!

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China Daily reports that in addition to the dolls, employees also took possession of a cache of flip-flops, Chinese sauces and dehumidifiers. Other goods handed out in lieu of cash included train tickets, kilos of pork and karaoke coupons. Sounds like the makings for quite the party.
According to SCMP, an annual survey of white collars has revealed that the slowing economy has made bonuses in the form of random **** more common.
However, most reported being less satisfied with the latest offerings. Though presumably, not all.

By Pinky Latt
[Images via Guangming Daily]
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By Shanghaiist in News on Jan 28, 2016 12:15 PM

GeneChing

03-09-2016, 01:40 PM

Maybe 'International Women’s Day' doesn't translate to Mandarin well...:o

Celebrating female power, Chinese style: Shopping mall hosts bra-undoing contest on International Women’s Day (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3483818/Celebrating-female-power-Chinese-style-Shopping-mall-hosts-bra-undoing-contest-International-Women-s-Day.html)

The competition took place in south China's Liuzhou city on March 8
Scantily glad models stood with their backs to the stage wearing masks
In the fastest time possible customers took off their bras using one hand

By CHLOE LYME FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:45 EST, 9 March 2016 | UPDATED: 11:58 EST, 9 March 2016

A shopping mall in China seemed to have got the wrong idea when celebrating International Women’s Day with a one handed bra competition.
Six scantily clad female models lined up on a stage at the store in Liuzhou city on March 8, as men and women took it in turns to undo their bras using only one hand.
Bizarrely the models had masks on as they stood with their backs to the crowd. The winner was a woman who managed to undo all six bras in 14 seconds.

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Bizarre: A shopping mall in China celebrated International Women's Day with a one handed bra competition

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A race: Contestants had to undo each bra worn by the models with one hand in the fastest time possible

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Confused: The store may have got the wrong idea when celebrating International Women's Day with this game

At the event, a total of eight spectators volunteered to take part in the competition, but surprisingly according to China Daily, only one of them was a man.
The aim of the game was to undo each bra with one hand in the fastest time possible.
Not only did the models participate in the contest, they strutted their stuff on the stage wearing only their underwear and a mask as dozens of prying customers looked on.
According to the report, the contest was put on to attract more customers on International Woman’s Day.
But it seems whoever’s idea it was to hold a one handed bra competition using nearly naked models, they may have not understood the meaning of the day.
It is not clear in the report what the prize was for the winner of the competition.

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Wrong idea:The shopping centre in China seemed to have got the idea of Women's Day wrong with this contest

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Customers took it in turns to take off the models bras in the fastest time possible7
Strutting their stuff: The models didn't seem to care about the competition walking the stage in their underwear

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Spectacle: Models lined up for International Women's Day as people tried to take off their bras with one hand

This is not the first time businesses in China have come under fire for 'missing the point' on International Women's Day.
In 2015, two of the country's most popular websites were criticised for using 'sexist stereotypes' on the day that is celebrated by millions across the globe.
Search engine Baidu had a ballerina in a pink dress, who turned into a bride and then into a mother pushing a baby, on its homepage.
And video-sharing site Youku, wrote to all its female users on its page: 'May the world treat you gently.'
According to the United Nations, International Women’s Day on March 8 is a time to reflect on progress, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.

GeneChing

06-20-2016, 10:01 AM

This is brilliant, not just as a viral marketing ploy, but as a prank trend.

Condom maker's marketing stunt puts condoms on women's faces on the subway (http://mashable.com/2016/06/20/china-condoms-on-subway/?utm_campaign=mash-prod-synd-apple-all-full&utm_cid=mash-prod-synd-apple-all-full#U3wN6AYLMiqc)

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BY ALICIA TAN
12 HOURS AGO
A group of Chinese women caused a stir during a Beijing subway ride this month when they unwrapped packets of condoms and placed them on their faces, arms and décolletage.

The women claimed they had chanced upon a new beauty hack, when horrified commuters started snapping pictures of them.

But they were just part of a promotional stunt from a Chinese condom maker, which wanted to market its new ultra-thin condoms.

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According to the maker, DaXiang Condom China, the lubricant in its condoms is supposed to be good for your skin. However, there is no science to back up this claim.

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After the commotion they caused on the train, the scantily clad women got off a few stops later and stood around the platform area carrying signs that said: "DaXiang face masks."

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The marketing gimmick has been criticised by Chinese netizens for its poor taste.

One Weibo User commented on the DaXiang's page: "Today's people will do anything for money."

Many have also called upon authorities to fine the condom company for this "immoral act."

GeneChing

06-22-2016, 12:49 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtQy72K9RWU

GeneChing

06-23-2016, 09:20 AM

Man, I hope this doesn't become so prevalent that it needs its own thread here. :o

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To Some Chinese Men, Sex Toys Can Become Full-Fledged Girlfriends (https://thenanfang.com/sex-dolls-become-public-companions-single-chinese-men/)
They're not real, so they'll last forever

Charles Liu, June 22, 2016 11:13am

China manufactures 95 percent of the world’s sex toys. While most of these products are intended for overseas markets, a growing number of Chinese consumers are buying the sex toys for themselves — and they’re sharing them with the public.

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Despite still being referred to as “inflatable dolls”, sex doll technology has developed at an incredible rate. And while the silicon dolls look increasingly realistic, so too are the relationships Chinese men are having with them, treating them as “daughters”, “wives”, and even bringing them on the subway.

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Zhang Fan (seen above), 36, is a Beijing stock broker who turned to sex dolls after two failed relationships. Zhang said the requirements of a romantic relationship in China, such as owning a house and having children, are too much to bear. Instead, Zhang said he prefers the pleasure of sex without the responsibility of a wife or having to raise a child.

Zhang’s doll is named Liu Ying, an actual person that Zhang once had a crush on. Zhang buys Liu Ying clothes and jewelry to wear, and says the doll has many personas like “Lady White Rose”, “Policewoman”, and “South Korean Model”.

Zhang said Liu Ying is the female version of himself, and not a doll or toy. “She is me as a female. Not some other woman,” he said.

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Zhang insists there’s nothing wrong with the relationship he has with his sex doll. “Any behavior can be explained by its societal, economic, and cultural reasons. The use of a sex doll can’t provide a clear explanation (of anything). For example, the sex culture of ancient China lies beyond the understanding of this generation.”

To further his point, Zhang cites a Northern Song Dynasty idiom (梅妻鹤子) that describes a scholarly man without a family as having “a plum tree for a wife and a crane for children” as a way to describe his situation.

Zhang said he has a spiritual connection with his doll. “If you’re going to tell me that this isn’t love, I won’t believe you,” he says.

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Song Bo, 29, (seen above and at top) has spent RMB 13,000 on sex dolls over the past half year. Naming one doll as “Little Butterfly”, Song treats his dolls like his daughter, taking it on the subway and to shopping malls.

Song says he was diagnosed with a tumor in his head, and won’t risk getting into a marriage or having children.

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Li Chen, 58, is something of an online celebrity with the Chinese sex doll community. The Huishui, Guizhou native bought a sex doll in 2014 after divorcing his younger ex-wife 12 years ago. Li is getting married again, this time to a woman 34 years his junior. Li credits his sex doll “Xiaoxue” for the new relationship, claiming it has given him a second youth.

Li explains that being different in China will always draw criticism. “If you’re a successful person, no one will criticize you for playing with something (strange). But if you’re not, watch out, because someone might find something wrong with it.”

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Source: People's Daily Online, Hexun, QQ News, QLWB, HNR
Photos: People's Daily Online, Hexun

GeneChing

06-30-2016, 09:21 AM

Oh man....China...:rolleyes:

Beijing hotpot restaurant serves up Barbie doll wrapped in meat that you undress while you eat (http://shanghaiist.com/2016/06/30/hotpot_shop_serves_barbie_wrapped_in_meat.php)

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A hotpot restaurant is drawing some heat online, thanks to its new menu item -- a Barbie doll wrapped up in strips of mutton.
Typically, a hotpot restaurant serves its customers with plates of meat that they cook at their leisure; however, one hotpot restaurant in Beijing provides diners with a beautiful female doll in a red gown.
Well, upon closer inspection, she's actually wrapped up in strips of mutton (芭比羊肉衣), Shanghai Daily reports. Therefore, if diners want to eat the mutton, they have to peel off each layer of meat, slowly undressing the Barbie, exposing her naked plastic to everyone.

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While the restaurant owner must have thought that this was a brilliant idea to promote his hotpot shop, netizens on Weibo are a bit disgusted by the "sexist" display.
"Why can't we just eat meats without any kind of stupid tricks like this?" one asked.
"It's very disgusting. We don't even know whether the staff cleaned the doll or not," another commented.
"Let's just throw the doll into the hotpot! It's really time consuming to pull away all those strips of meat," one netizen joked.
Wait, where have we seen that meat dress before? Some netizens immediately thought of the recently possibly banned Lady Gaga, saying that the hotpot restaurant should stop trying to imitate Lady Gaga's style, because apparently it isn't working.

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Apparently, this place didn't get the memo that China is trying to cut its meat consumpion in half.

By Katie Ngai
[Images via Weibo]

GeneChing

08-19-2016, 09:06 AM

Chongqing man has been drinking half a bottle of liquid detergent every day for the past 4 years (http://shanghaiist.com/2016/08/19/detergent_drinker_addict.php)

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Back in 2012, Zhang Yue took his first sip from a bottle of detergent. Since then, he's been hooked on the stuff.

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The now 31-year-old man from Chongqing says that he can't get enough of the taste of dishwashing liquids and shampoos. For the last four years, he's been downing half a bottle of detergent a day.

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Despite his shockingly fresh breath, Zhang says that his addiction has driven away any potential girlfriends, though it has at least made him a local celebrity of sorts.

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Xinhua reports that Zhang says that he has visited a number of hospitals to discuss his addiction. Surprisingly, the doctors have told them that he is in fine physical shape (though they do not recommend drinking detergent for their other patients). They say he might have pika, an eating disorder where people develop an unhealthy craving for eating things with little or no nutritional value -- like light bulbs.

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Apparently, detergent isn't the way to a Chinese lady's heart after all.

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By Alex Linder in News on Aug 19, 2016 2:30 PM

I once helped treat a patient who drank Febreeze. She was doing shots in a camper before a concert and somehow grabbed the wrong thing. Her puke smelled fresh.

GeneChing

09-02-2016, 01:59 PM

Ain't got nuthin on a Chinese facekini (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?62318-I-will-never-understand-China&p=1252679#post1252679)

画风太奇异!青岛脸基尼已更新至第六代(组图) (http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2016/08/31/5556096.html)
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8月28日，山东青岛第一海水浴场海边，身穿连体脸基尼的青岛大妈，泳衣上的龙、凤、孔雀图案十分惊艳，在海边回头率极高。今年8月份，青岛海水浴场靓丽的风景脸基尼已经更新到了第六代。视觉中国

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张式范被认为是青岛“脸基尼发明人”，她告诉记者，自己从2004年设计了第一款脸基尼，主要是为了防止下海游泳的人受到海蜇的伤害，后来随着不断改观，已经能出到了第六代，背景图案和脸罩还以大熊猫、扬子鳄、西伯利亚虎等世界十大濒危动物动作为主题，希望受到人们更多关注，去保护这些濒临灭绝的动物。

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身穿新款连体脸基尼的青岛大妈。

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以京剧脸谱和龙凤图案为主题的“脸基尼”。

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以京剧脸谱和龙凤图案为主题的“脸基尼”。

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以动物为造型主题的“脸基尼”。

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动物主题“脸基尼”。

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脸基尼的发明人张式范女士正在用尺子测量各式样脸基尼的尺寸，为了让游泳的人戴在头上更加舒适，她仔细量好眼睛、鼻子、嘴巴等部门的大小尺寸，做出样品后找模特进行试戴。

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张式范女士正在用尺子测量各式样脸基尼的尺寸。“脸基尼”曾受到国外内媒体的关注，还被法国的时尚杂志《C R Fashion Book》，以中国青岛海滩的”脸基尼“（Face-kini）大妈作为灵感，拍摄了一辑泳池时尚大片，再度将中国民间元素带入时尚圈

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张式范与身穿新款“脸基尼”的大爷大妈海边合影。目前，青岛脸基尼已经出到了第六代，游客们只要来到青岛海边都会想一睹脸基尼的风采。张式范表示，“自己还会继续设计下去，通过不断的改进，让脸基尼真正的走向国外，成为时尚圈的主流。

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Singular style too! Qingdao face Gini has been updated to the sixth generation (Photos)
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August 28, Qingdao First Beach beach, wearing a Siamese face Gini Qingdao aunt, dragon swimsuit on, phoenix, pea**** design is stunning, the sea very high retention rates. August this year, Qingdao beach beautiful landscape face Gini has been updated to the sixth generation. Vision China

Zhang style range is considered Qingdao "face Gini inventor," she told reporters that his 2004 design the first face Gini, mainly to prevent sea swim by jellyfish injuries, and later with the continuous change, has been able to out the sixth generation, background patterns and visor also the giant panda, Chinese alligator, the Siberian tiger, the world's top ten endangered animal movements as the theme, people want to be more attention to the protection of these endangered animals.

Wearing a new face piece Gini Qingdao aunt.

In Peking Opera and the theme of the dragon and phoenix patterns "Gini face."

In Peking Opera and the theme of the dragon and phoenix patterns "Gini face."

Animal in the shape of the theme of "Gini face."

Animal theme "Gini face."

Face Gini inventor Miss Zhang Shi Fan was measured with a ruler for each style face Gini size, in order to allow swimmers to wear the head more comfortable, she carefully amount of the eyes, nose, mouth and other departments of sizes, looking after making sample model try them.

Miss Zhang Shi Fan is measuring the size of each Gini style face with a ruler. "Face Gini" has been in the foreign media attention, also the French fashion magazine "CR Fashion Book", to Qingdao, China Beach "face Gini" (Face-kini) aunt as inspiration, took a series of fashion a large swimming pool, once again the Chinese folk elements into fashion ring

Zhang Fan style and wearing a new "face Gini" uncle aunt seaside photo. At present, Qingdao has been out to face the Gini sixth generation, as long as the visitors came to Qingdao beach will want to see the face Gini style. Zhang Fan type said, "will continue to design their own to go through continuous improvement, so that the real face Gini go abroad, into the mainstream fashion circles.

Jimbo

09-12-2016, 05:04 PM

This strikes me as oddly funny.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stolen-ghost-british-pub_us_57cfba55e4b06a74c9f18db4?section=us_weird-news

GeneChing

09-21-2016, 10:03 AM

srlsy? oh man...

World's worst restoration? China's Great Wall covered in cement (http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/21/asia/great-wall-china-cement-repair/index.html)
By Ben Westcott and Serenitie Wang, CNN
Updated 9:47 AM ET, Wed September 21, 2016

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A photo posted on China's internet showing the Great Wall repaired with cement.

Story highlights
Cement repair widely denounced online by angry netizens
Expert said the repairs had taken away "history"

(CNN)It's the repair job that's so ugly you can probably see it from space.
A 700-year-old "wild" stretch of China's Great Wall has been covered in a smooth, white trail of cement under orders from Suizhong county's Cultural Relics Bureau, Sina reported on Wednesday.
The repairs were carried out in 2014, but they only came to public attention recently.

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Dong said the repair was done "very badly."

It was an effort to restore parts of the wall which have fallen into disrepair and are not open to the public, but the restoration has been met with condemnation by social media users and advocates.
The repair work took place near the border of Liaoning and Hebei province and photos of the results were widely shared by Beijing News on Weibo this week.
CNN has reached out to the local Heritage Conservation Bureau for comment.
Restoration 'took away history'
Chinese internet users have slammed the repair job, with the Weibo hashtag "The most beautiful, wild Great Wall flattened" trending online.
"Glad Venus de Milo is not in China, or someone would get her a new arm," one user said.

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A photo from before China's Great Wall was cemented.

Great Wall of China Society deputy director Dong Yaohui said the restoration work had been done "very badly". "It damaged the original look of the Great Wall and took away the history from the people."
Dong said it was important for the Chinese government as a whole to regulate and streamline Great Wall restoration efforts.
"Although the local government was well intentioned and wanted to restore the bricks of the Wall, the result turned out to be the opposite."
Since 2006, the Great Wall Protection Ordinance in China introduced strict rules for the development of tourist destinations.

GeneChing

11-08-2016, 12:57 PM

PHOTOS: The 18th Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival [NSFW]
BY ALEX LINDER IN NEWS ON NOV 9, 2016 12:00 AM

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The infamous Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival was back in town over the weekend for its 18th edition, delighting thousands of voyeurs who strolled around to inspect all of the titillating merchandise up for grabs.
Judging from the pictures, it seems that voluptuous sex dolls actually greatly outnumbered their flesh-and-blood counterparts with festival attendees unable to resist going in for a quick grope.

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GeneChing

11-08-2016, 01:03 PM

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I could've sworn there was more posts about this festival on this forum here somewhere, but this one (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?62318-I-will-never-understand-China&p=1191816#post1191816) was all I could find.

GeneChing

12-22-2016, 10:05 AM

...I sort of understand it. Well, maybe not. :confused:

Bikini babes live-stream themselves fighting altitude sickness while building sad snowman on mountaintop (http://shanghaiist.com/2016/12/22/bikini_babes_snowman.php)
BY ALEX LINDER IN NEWS ON DEC 22, 2016 8:15 PM

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With the live-streaming industry currently booming in China, hosts are continually having to think of new, creative ways of attracting more eyeballs, while also avoiding the prudish gaze of censors.
On Monday, one live-streaming service had the bright idea of broadcasting an event on top of a 5,000-meter-high mountain in Sichuan province in which 10 bikini-clad web hosts attempted to build a snowman while fighting against altitude sickness
The results? Well, not exactly something you'd want tens of thousands of people to see.

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But, apparently, that's exactly what happened as over 100,000 viewers reportedly looked on as the ladies shivered, fumbled and gasped for air in the snow with the mercury dropping down to minus 5 degrees Celsius. Complaining of shortness of breath and feeling dizzy, some of the women were given oxygen masks along with their ear muffs and shovels.

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So, we'd call that a successful live-stream overall. After all, at least it wasn't cut short by censors. Over the past year, live-streaming has exploded in popularity in China, but that has also meant dealing with greater efforts at regulation from the government which prohibits pornography.
Back in May, China took its first big step by banning cam girls from eating bananas online. Since then, China's internet watchdog has rolled out a number of reforms targeted at eliminating lewd acts being performed on the streaming services.
In July, one cam girl was able to attract an audience of 100,000 to watch as she danced seductively beside a toilet, only to have her stream shut down by censors. A few weeks later, another cam girl tried shaking her booty on the streets of downtown Chengdu, only to get stopped by the decidedly unsexy chengguan.
But none of these cam girls' misfortunes can compare to one 21-year-old woman from Sichuan who was sentenced to 4 years in prison last month after live-streaming herself having a foursome to gain followers.
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GeneChing

05-16-2017, 02:42 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPK1v0UxqQ

I now understand OBOR - it's about the metaphor of the The Silk Road (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68861-The-Silk-Road), but still, I will never understand China (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?62318-I-will-never-understand-China).

GeneChing

08-09-2017, 08:05 AM

Chinese internet challenges might need their own thread soon - this reminds me of the underboob challenge (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?62318-I-will-never-understand-China&p=1290291#post1290291). There have been more, but I haven't been documenting them all here.

[NSFW] Extremely risqué 'Heart-shaped Boob Challenge' titillates Chinese internet (http://shanghaiist.com/2017/08/09/heart-shaped-boob-challenge.php)
BY ALEX LINDER IN NEWS ON AUG 9, 2017 9:30 AM

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Just when you thought you had seen it all, the Chinese internet comes up with a new and titillating "challenge."
Earlier this week, the "Heart-shaped Boob Challenge" (桃心胸挑战) hit Weibo, inviting female netizens to post pictures of themselves molding their breasts into the shape of a heart. The challenge managed to catch quite a bit of attention with over 1.6 million views currently, but attracted only a handful of participants.

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As you might expect, the photos that were posted were quickly deleted from Weibo by censors, but can still be viewed on cached versions of the site.

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According to What's on Weibo, the challenge was inspired by Ayi Xi Tai Lǜ, a live-stream host who demonstrated the tricky maneuver to her fans on one of her late-night sessions last month.

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Recently, China has been attempting to crack down on the country's booming live-streaming industry in which camgirls compete to attract viewers by pushing the boundaries of modesty as far as they can.

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In the past, a number of nonsensical fitness challenges have gone viral on Weibo with women showing off their "A4 Waists (http://shanghaiist.com/2016/03/16/a4_paper_fitness_challenge.php)" and "iPhone6 Legs (http://shanghaiist.com/2016/03/30/iphone6_legs_challenge.php)," all culminating in last year's memorable "One Finger Challenge (http://shanghaiist.com/2016/12/02/one-finger-challenge.php)."

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[Images via #桃心胸# / What's on Weibo]

GeneChing

09-15-2017, 09:19 AM

China is getting really kinky. It reminds me of post-war Japan. After they achieved economic success, some really kinky stuff came out.

Chinese company launches share-a-sex-doll app which allows bachelors to rent a plastic 'girlfriend' for £34 a day (and their choices include a schoolgirl and Wonder Woman) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4884310/Chinese-company-launches-share-sexdoll-app-34-day.html)
Life-size silicone sex dolls are available to be shared by public users in China
The app has released five different models including a schoolgirl and a nurse
Each doll will be sanitised five times and have its private parts changed after use
By Tiffany Lo For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 10:31 EDT, 14 September 2017 | UPDATED: 16:35 EDT, 14 September 2017

A Chinese company has launched an app which would allow customers to rent a sex doll for £34 a day.

The app, called 'Touch', today released silicone models dressed in different characters, including Wonder Woman, a schoolgirl and a maid and a nurse. The clients can customise the hair style and skin colour of their dolls.

The company said they would replace the 'critical parts' of the sex dolls for every new customer.

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Share a girlfriend: The app, called 'Touch', launched five sex doll models today and they included Wonder Woman, a school girl, a nurse and a maid

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The fee is £34 a day and the company guarantees to change the 'critical parts' every time

'Touch', a company based in Fujian, south-east China, launched its service in the capital city Beijing today as it's set to ride the waves of China's booming sharing economy.

The company requires customers to pay a deposit of 8,000 yuan (£914) before hiring a life-size sex doll for 298 yuan (£34) a day. The dolls would be delivered to the customer's address.

A spokesperson of 'Touch' told Sina.com that the service was aimed at young white-collar workers aged from 20 to 35 years old.

The sex dolls are set in five nationalities featuring Chinese, Russian, Korean, and Hong Kong versions, as well as an Amazon-like 'Wonder Woman' who comes armed with sword and shield.

All silicone sex dolls are measured at a full adult size and weighed at 29.8kg (4.7 stone).

They are also equipped with voice and heating function.

Customers can customise the doll's hair styles, eye colour and skin colour. In addition, they can pay to upgrade the doll so it would come with accoutrements like handcuffs and whips.

Special costumes such as nurse and school uniform are at an additional cost of 35 yuan (£4).

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The spokesperson also told the reporter that all sex dolls would be sanitised by professional cleaners for five times for every new customer. The company also guarantees to change the doll's 'critical parts' every time after it is used.

The market price of a life-size silicone sex doll is up to 10,000 yuan (£1,142), according to the company.

According to hksilicon.com, 'Touch' has already got 53 million users on its app and 45 per cent of them were people in their 20s.

It's said that 30 per cent of their customers are female.

The app was launched in Apple's app store on September 11, and it contains online forums and a shopping page for sex toys.

Users of Weibo, a Twitter-like social media site, are apparently worrying about the hygiene issues of the sharing sex dolls.

'What if the sex dolls got infected with AIDS?' One user, called 'puntielim', asked.

'So this is not disposable?' Queried web user 'ariesscorpio', who was surprised that the dolls would be cleaned and reused.

Some other people took it as a joke and asked for a male version of sex dolls.

'Kuailiaoba' commented: 'When is sharing boyfriend coming? That's a bit of gender inequality, is it?'

And '1346_th' questioned what else is left to share in the Chinese market.

Just think. There's some dude in China that makes his living cleaning these things.

ew.

GeneChing

09-18-2017, 09:55 AM

I am relieved. This was just too ew.

Beijing's sex doll sharing startup shut down after just four days in business (http://shanghaiist.com/2017/09/18/sex-doll-sharing-police.php)
BY ALEX LINDER IN NEWS ON SEP 18, 2017 6:57 PM

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Who would have thought it? Less than a week after its launch, Beijing's revolutionary sex doll sharing service has been closed down by authorities.
On Thursday, the service was officially unveiled to residents of China's capital city at a promotional "pop up" event with five different silicone beauties on display: "Greek bikini model," "US Wonder Woman," "Korean housewife," "Russian teenager" and "Hong Kong car race cheerleader." Potential users were told that they could rent these dolls for just 298 yuan a day, or keep them for an entire week for only 1,298 yuan after making an 8,000 yuan deposit.

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But that event has since been shut down by Beijing police with some employees being escorted back to the station and being told by police that what they were doing was too "vulgar."
Earlier this morning, Ta Qu (他趣), a sex-related Chinese app which had launched the controversial service, officially announced that it was out of the shareable sex doll business. In the notice, the company says that it was informed by relevant authorities that its service had triggered heated discussion online and was having a "negative influence on society."
Ta Qu apologized for creating such a fuss, but noted that "sex itself is not vulgar."

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It's not clear if the app's experiment will hurt any of its other services. Ta Qu bills itself as a platform to discuss issues about sex and sexuality and buy -- not rent -- sex toys. All deposits made for the sex doll sharing scheme will be returned to customers, the company said.
In the end, the app managed to only make it four days before getting shut down, which may be a record in China's sharing economy. Earlier this year, an umbrella-sharing startup lost most of its umbrellas in a matter of weeks while a shareable napping pod startup was forced to close after only a week for breaking the fire code.
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GeneChing

10-03-2017, 07:56 AM

Pushing it too far? Chinese teenage boys are forced to do press-ups over their female classmates during military training (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/china/article-4933622/Video-shows-boys-forced-sexual-exercises.html)
The exercise was filmed in China as part of military education activities
Video reveals teenage boys in a push-up position above the girls
Footage shows that the young people are ashamed of their actions
By CLAIRE HEFFRON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:51 EDT, 29 September 2017 | UPDATED: 11:14 EDT, 29 September 2017

A peculiar video shows teenage boys in military uniforms being forced to do press-ups with girls lying beneath them.

The training exercise was filmed in China and is thought to be part of a school programme of quasi-military education.

Chinese media did not report whether the exercises were part of the mainstream curriculum or an extra-curricular club.

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The footage shows a row of teenage boys are seen in the press-up position, each with a girl lying face-up under him.

As an instructor shouts 'One! Two!' the boys lower themselves down onto the girls and then push themselves up for a second time.

The movement is clearly intended to suggest a sexual position.

The girls look as if they are ashamed of their position and hide their faces with their hands.

Some of the boys appear to be equally embarrassed about the situation and turn their heads away as they lower themselves down.

One unnamed parent raged to Chinese media: 'How can students be taught in such an improper way!'

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The exact ages of the Chinese teenagers doing the workouts were not reported but they look no older than 16 (left) Some of the boys appear to be embarrassed about the situation and turn their heads away as they lower themselves down (right)

The exact ages of the teenagers doing the workouts were not reported but they look no older than 16 and possibly younger.

Press-ups, previously called floor dips, are commonly used as a strengthening exercise in military and martial arts contexts but also as punishments in those conditions.

Chinese Military Kung Fu (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?62291-Chinese-Military-Kung-Fu) meets I will never understand China (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?62318-I-will-never-understand-China)

GeneChing

10-06-2017, 09:23 AM

Stretching their legs! Chinese women compete to flaunt their long pins by closing a car boot with a SPLIT (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-4955004/New-craze-sees-women-closing-car-boot-split.html)
Bizarre trend began after a young mother had to close the boot with her leg
Other women have followed suit in a bid to show off their pins and flexibility
A video shows women using different techniques to compete the task
By TRACY YOU FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:16 EDT, 6 October 2017 | UPDATED: 07:29 EDT, 6 October 2017

What's the most creative way to close a car boot? With your legs, apparently.

Women in China are competing to show how they could close the trunk of their car by doing a split in a bizarre new trend, according to local media.

The challenge allegedly began after one young mother was seen having to close her car boot with her leg while holding her child and her handbag in a viral video.

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The bizarre trend began in China after a mother (pictured) was seen having to close her car boot with her leg while holding her child and her handbag. Many woman have followed suit

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To complete the task, this woman resorted to a back arch position as she tried to reach the lid of the trunk (left). She was said to remain in the position (right) for five more minutes

Since then, other women have followed suit in order to showcase their figure and their flexibility.

In a video report posted today by Huanqiu.com, an affiliation to People's Daily, multiple fashionable women used different techniques to complete the task.

One woman, wearing a white top and hot pants, resorted to a back arch position as she supported herself with her hands and stretched her legs to reach the car.

Another women, with her shopping in hands, swiftly swung her right leg up the boot before bending her knee to close it in one go.

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One woman took the challenge with her shopping in hands. She quickly swung her leg up to reach the vehicle before bending her knee downwards to close the trunk of the car

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A young woman caught up with the trend after a trip to a flower market. Multiple women used different techniques to complete the task in a new video shared by Chinese media
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GeneChing

10-06-2017, 09:23 AM

Long legs are considered as a highly desirable feature by women in China.

In 2015, a 20-year-old model, named Dong Lie, became an internet star across China for her unbelievably long legs.

Dong Lei's incredible pins measure 45 inches long - the equivalent to the height of an average seven-year-old girl in China.

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Miss Long Legs: Dong Lei gained fame for her impressive pins, which are 45 inches long

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She entered television programme 'Supermodel', impressing judges with her amazing figure

The stunning 5ft 11in model from Anhui province, east China, entered popular television programme 'Supermodel', impressing judges with her amazing figure.

One fan even wrote in advising her to insure her legs after seeing photographs of the model online.

Ms Dong said that she gets her height from her 6ft 1in father and 5ft 7in mother.

The woman with the longest legs in the world is Ekaterina Lisina from Penza, Russia.

Crowned by the Guinness World Records 2018, the 29-year-old stands at 6ft 8.77in and has pins measuring a staggering 52in long.

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Ekaterina Lisina, from Russian, stands at a jaw-dropping 205.16 cm (6 ft 8.77 in) tall after being measured in Labinsk, Russia, on 20 July 2017 with her pins measured a month earlier

I approve of this splits (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?6378-Splits) selfie trend, even though it's yet another thing that befuddles me about China (pretty soon, I'm gonna split off Chinese selfie trends from the I will never understand China (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?62318-I-will-never-understand-China) .

Jimbo

10-10-2017, 05:23 PM

Gross.

I wasn't sure if this belonged in the TCM forum or here.

As far as half the world's stomach cancer deaths occurring in China, I would assume much of that could have to do with all the toxic industrial pollutants in the environment, food, water, etc. There also seems to be an abnormally high number of extremely bizarre tumors that happen in China, too.

https://kotaku.com/5965420/maybe-you-too-can-get-a-job-smelling-****s

GeneChing

12-08-2017, 12:01 PM

Welcome to sex toy street: why a sleepy riverside town in China is rebranding itself as ‘Happy Town’ (http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2121363/welcome-sex-toy-street-why-sleepy-riverside-town-china-rebranding?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=social_china_economy&utm_campaign=GME-I-Alwayson-Dec17_US&cx_source=fb&cx_campaign=GME-I)
Chinese government wants a thousand ‘charming towns’ to be built across the country
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 07 December, 2017, 10:34pm
UPDATED : Friday, 08 December, 2017, 8:22am
Sidney Leng
sidney.leng@scmp.com
http://twitter.com/SidneyLeng

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With China preparing its annual blueprint for tackling its economic challenges, the South China Morning Post has sent journalists to check on three of the ‘grey rhinos’ threatening the world’s second biggest economy. In the third story in the series we look at the urban-rural development gap.
Sex toys are not the first things that spring to mind when visiting Yucheng, a sleepy, riverside town in the Yangtze River Delta, about an hour’s drive from Shanghai, best known for its grapes, mulberry trees and turtle ponds.
But the town government, which wants to turn it into a one-stop market for adult products, signed a 10 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) deal with a Chinese company this summer to develop a “Happy Town” that will include a sex toy shopping street, a sex exhibition centre and an “adult-only” hotel.
It is a dream partly fanned by a central government plan to create a thousand “charming towns” across the country to represent a new face of rural China and arrest the relative decline of small, rural towns compared to booming cities in recent decades. The policy envisages vibrant local economies featuring a sense of “culture”, ideally a unique industry, and a liveable environment.
The strategy fits well with President Xi Jinping’s desire to make China “a beautiful country” by 2050. In the work report he delivered to the Communist Party’s national congress in Beijing in October,the word “beautiful” was added to a previous formula, dating back at least three decades to the time of late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, calling for the development of a “rich and powerful, civilised and democratic” country.
Villages and towns across China – dreaming of becoming the next Greenwich in Connecticut, known for its hedge funds, or Hershey in Pennsylvania, famous for a chocolate factory – are scrambling to come up with a “theme” of their own.

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A building earmarked for demolition in Yucheng, Zhejiang province. Photo: Sidney Leng

“It matches the trend of pushing forward the development of small towns that gained momentum after 1978 and falls in line with China’s industrial upgrading,” said Hu Zhiyong, an assistant professor at Education University of Hong Kong’s department of Asian and policy studies.
The government hopes the charming towns campaign will woo funds and talent back to rural areas and help narrow the urban-rural development gap. Official statistics show the average urban resident had a disposable income of 33,616 yuan last year, more than 2.71 times that of the average rural resident. While more than 90 per cent of households in cities were connected to tap water and piped gas last year, only 70 per cent of those living in Chinese villages had tap water and just 20 per cent were connected to gas.
Government spending on the construction of public facilities in Chinese cities last year totalled 1.74 trillion yuan, dwarfing the 402.6 billion yuan spent in rural areas.
Wanda, the conglomerate controlled by Wang Jianlin, spent 700 million yuan three years ago developing the Danzhai tourist town in Guizhou, one of the country’s poorest provinces, to help reduce poverty.
The Yucheng government views the Happy Town project as a new growth engine for the local economy. Home to 22,000 people, the town currently relied on energy-intensive and polluting industries such as dyeing, the manufacture of machine parts and silk spinning for most of its revenue, it said in August.
Happy Town’s developer is JC Group, which is based in Zhejiang’s provincial capital, Hangzhou, and owns Hong Kong-listed Gold Finance Holdings. It has 59 charming towns on the drawing board or under construction.
A spokesman said the Happy Town blueprint was based on Yucheng’s “advantages” in manufacturing – advantages locals seemed unaware of when the South China Morning Post visited the town on a breezy November day, with the main sign of activity being dozens of fishermen making fishing nets and playing poker on the river bank.

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Xu Xueguan points out construction work under way near Zhuangchai Lake in Yucheng. Photo: Sidney Leng

Xu Xueguan, a Yucheng resident who lives on government subsidies, said he knew the plan called for his two-storey brick home to be torn down for a tourism site. And while he had not heard it would be based on adult products, he was glad that a dyeing factory which polluted a lake near his home would be gone.
His 28-year-old son, Xu Xiaojun, back home from Hangzhou for a visit, struggled to come up with an explanation for Yucheng’s rebranding.
“One possible reason is that Yucheng is a transport juncture that is close to almost every major city nearby,” he said.

Zhejiang province, where Xi worked from 2002 to 2007, is known for its small towns such as Yucheng and the president has personally endorsed the charming towns movement as a new approach to urbanisation.
In 2015, then Zhejiang governor Li Qiang, a former aide to Xi, announced a 500 billion yuan plan to create 100 charming towns in the province in three years, each with its own distinct charm. In a typical development, the local government would designate an area of up to 3 square kilometres for the building of a park or other attraction that might appeal to affluent consumers.
The plan called for at least 5 billion yuan to be invested in each town within three years, saying they would then become triple-A tourism attractions. If those goals were reached, the provincial government would free up more land and offer tax refunds. continued next post

GeneChing

12-08-2017, 12:01 PM

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Zhejiang’s charming town initiative was turned into a national strategy early last year following a visit to the province by Xi in May 2015.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has so far approved 403 national-level charming towns in two batches. But even more have been approved locally, with each province and city eager to join in. In the south of China’s far-western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, 100 such towns are in the pipeline over the next three years.
“I’m not surprised that the whole idea came from Zhejiang, because it’s the best at industrial clustering,” Hu said. “Every town has its own unique industry, a brand company. Many of these towns simply changed their ways of marketing as a fresh ‘charming town’. It’s basically new wine in an old bottle.”
For instance, Datang, a town south of Hangzhou that is the world’s biggest producer of socks, rebranded itself as Socks Town. Dayun, about 30km from Yucheng, used to focus on producing animal feed but now markets itself as Sweet Town after the opening of a chocolate factory.
China’s bigger cities have fared better than its small towns when it comes to attracting talent and migrant workers because they offer more opportunities and a better quality of life. Only 12 per cent of China’s 1.38 billion people live in the country’s more than 18,000 towns, compared with the 70 per cent of Germans who live in towns with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants.
The authorities view the charming towns initiative as a way to rebalance development, boost job prospects and improve public services such as health care and education in rural and suburban areas that have been hit hard by the population drift to China’s top cities.

Dayun, a town in Zhejiang province, now markets itself as Sweet Town following the opening of a chocolate factory and associated theme park. Photo: Sidney Leng
Dayun, a town in Zhejiang province, now markets itself as Sweet Town following the opening of a chocolate factory and associated theme park. Photo: Sidney Leng

China plans to reach an urbanisation rate of 60 per cent by 2020 – up from 57.35 per cent at the end of last year – by moving about 100 million farmers from rural areas to cities and towns.
But Professor Lu Ming, an economist at Shanghai Jiaotong University, said it would be an exaggeration to claim the charming town campaign could become the key to a new model of urbanisation because the total population of the 1,000 towns was a drop in the ocean of China’s urban population.
“The whole campaign has little to do with urbanisation,” he said. “It’s something that started in Zhejiang and somehow turned into a national movement.
“The biggest problem with these charming towns is they lack economies of scale.”
He said towns that were far from big cities – where the demand for services was high and where high-end manufacturing was located – were unlikely to survive in the long term.
Hu, from Education University of Hong Kong, said: “Building a ‘charming town’ in less urbanised middle and western parts of China sounds a bit ridiculous, because what they need is actually more development of big and mid-sized cities.
“If these small towns all serve cities, what happens to the agricultural industries in rural areas? It could widen the urban-rural gap. That’s exactly the opposite of what the government wants.”
Some officials are also concerned the charming town campaign could get out of hand, making the same mistake as the blind expansion of industrial parks in suburban areas in the 1990s – which saw the creation of more than 7,000 such zones according to one World Bank economist.

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Billboards tout the prospects of a hedge fund town being built in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. They read: ‘Nanhu Fund Town – Hidden near South Lake, a new world of funds’. Photo: Sidney Leng

The central government has warned developers against any attempts to use cheap land offered in charming town projects for property development.
They have also cautioned against the inclusion of any foreign cultural elements. An official notice in July said the government opposed any “big, Western and bizarre constructions” and banned the assigning of Western names to charming towns.
In a review of historical Wenanyi Town in Shaanxi province, an approved tourism-themed charming town, the ministry suggested it drop a planned “Greek Boutique” because it “differs significantly from local cultures”.
At an urbanisation forum in July, Xu Lin, the director of development planning at the National Development and Reform Commission, said many charming towns had turned out to be “ghost towns” without any residents or actual industries, and it was common for one town to blindly copy another.
For instance, at least 30 hedge fund towns have been planned across the country – almost half of them in Zhejiang.
“But how many hedge funds in China will actually register and set up offices in each of these towns? The result isn’t too hard to fathom,” Xu said.

WTF PRC? srsly...WTF?!?!

GeneChing

12-29-2017, 12:26 PM

I'm not going to quote the President's "Grab them by the *****" because that was make this so wrong story even wronger. :o

Arcade fills claw machine with bikini babes to attract customers (http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5bxthpCvOx-wb6gPkU0QYA)
Original 2017-12-26 Shanghaiist

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Claw machines are always rigged, but they presumably become even harder to play when there’s also a bikini-clad woman jiggling around inside.

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Though that doesn’t seem to have bothered the many men who turned up to a promotional event for a ground-breaking arcade in Tainan called Meng Meng Da (萌萌噠), which made room in four of its claw machines for girls dressed only in skimpy swimwear.

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Sitting in a pool of stuffed animals, the four “bikini goddesses” would wiggle their bodies to entice customers to come and try their luck, before offering them words of consolement when they inevitably failed to win anything.

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The event took place earlier this month, but was only recently noted by Japan’s SoraNews24, which reports that there were some who took offense to the arcade’s shameless use of skin and blatant objectifying of women.

The following day, Meng Meng Da issued an apology for the hooplah it had caused. From now on, it will keep the scantily-clad women outside of the plexiglass.

In the end, this does appear to have been a slightly more effective promotional tactic than filling the machines with live crabs.

GeneChing

01-05-2018, 09:45 AM

Fascinating story from the NYT. There are two embedded vids behind the link.

China’s ‘Saxophone Capital,’ a Factory Town Transfixed by Kenny G (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/world/asia/china-sidangkou-saxophone.html)
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By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ JAN. 3, 2018

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Checking the seals on saxophones at the Tianjin Shengdi Musical Instrument Co. in Sidangkou, China. The village produces about 10,000 saxophones per month at more than 70 factories. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

SIDANGKOU, China — By day, the factory workers pound sheets of brass into cylinders and slather metal buttons with glue. By night, they take their creations to the street and begin to play.

The soothing melodies flow through cornfields, street markets and public squares. They interweave with the shouts of street vendors hawking tofu and men playing mah-jongg.

This is the music of Sidangkou, a northern Chinese village of 4,000, where one sound rules above all else: the saxophone.

Farmers take the instrument into fields to belt out patriotic tunes against the sunset. Children play in all-saxophone bands at school. Shopkeepers set their ringtones to the wistful songs of Kenny G.

The saxophone has never had a large following in China, in part because it was long associated with jazz, individuality and free expression. After the Communist revolution of 1949, officials denounced the instrument for producing the “decadent music of capitalists.”

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Zhao Baiquan, left, and Yao Shifang playing at the home of Fu Guangcheng, a locally renowned saxophone player. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

But here in this town, the saxophone is king.

Sidangkou, which calls itself China’s “saxophone capital,” produces about 10,000 saxophones per month at more than 70 factories, according to Chinese news media. The village exports nearly 90 percent of them, primarily to the United States, where they are sold for more than $100 each.

“It’s vibrant and delightful,” said Wang Yuchun, the president of one of the largest producers, Tianjin Shengdi Musical Instrument Co. “It’s part of our lives now.”

For more than a century, the region around Sidangkou has been a hub of musical instrument manufacturing, including traditional Chinese instruments like the sheng, a reed pipe, and the di, a bamboo flute. Factories in the region now produce thousands of oboes, trumpets and tubas each year.

Yet nothing seems to have captured the imagination of people here like the saxophone.

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A saxophone at the home of Mr. Fu, who came to Sidangkou in 1995 to work as a polisher on an assembly line and quickly fell in love with the sound of the saxophone. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

Sidangkou, which is near Tianjin, a large northeastern city, began producing saxophones in the 1990s, as China became a powerhouse exporter and Western cultural influences become more prominent.

Assembly line workers began trying their hand at the instrument, mimicking famous players they saw on television. By the mid-2000s, saxophone fever had broken out.

Fu Guangcheng came to Sidangkou in 1995 to work as a polisher on an assembly line. He quickly fell in love with the sound of the saxophone and started formal studies.

“It’s my career, it’s my life,” said Mr. Fu, a factory worker. “I wake up seeing saxophones and go to sleep seeing saxophones.”

Mr. Fu said he was proud of Sidangkou. “It’s a miracle that even rural people who are used to holding hoes in our hands can make Western instruments,” he said.

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Zhou Fuping teaching at a Sidangkou school. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

Others have found playing the instrument to be a source of relaxation. They join friends to play together outdoors, often with orchestral tracks blaring in the background.

“It’s just so beautiful, I don’t know how to describe it,” said Zhao Baiquan, 55. “No matter how angry I am, it calms me down.”

The repertoire in Sidangkou leans toward traditional Chinese songs and patriotic tunes, though there are some exceptions.

“Spring Comes to the North,” a Japanese folk song, is a favorite. So is “Going Home,” the 1989 Kenny G song that is widely played in Chinese shopping malls, schools and train stations as they close down.

Jazz is mostly avoided. “It’s beautiful but too difficult,” said Wang Bingjun, a worker at the Tianjin Shengdi factory. “Chinese songs are more familiar and easy to play.”

Many of the players are self-taught or follow along with online tutorials.

“Here we don’t have teachers,” said Chen Jinsheng, 56, a farmer who plays in a small saxophone band. “Learning the saxophone isn’t easy, and I’ve taken many detours.”

Some of the more advanced players in the village now use live-streaming apps to broadcast lessons online.

The saxophone first came to China after its invention in the mid-1800s and quickly found a place in Chinese brass brands. It later became a staple of nightclubs in the European-dominated treaty port of Shanghai before 1949.

During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Western popular music came under attack as decadent and bourgeois. Jazz was banned and the saxophone “disappeared from the music scene,” said Helen Yang, a professor of music at Hong Kong Baptist University.

After China began to open to the world in 1978, the instrument gradually gained a following, largely in urban areas where jazz is more widely played. Now, Chinese factories produce more than 180,000 saxophones a year, said Li Yusheng, a prominent Chinese saxophonist who studies the industry.

Still, while many Chinese families have embraced instruments like the piano and violin, skepticism about the saxophone lingers.

When Mr. Wang of the Tianjin Shengdi factory first tried to start saxophone bands at nearby schools in 2003, parents were livid, calling the instrument disruptive and a waste of time.

But attitudes have shifted in recent years, he said. “We asked the parents whether they preferred their children watch a half-hour of television or play saxophone for a half-hour,” Mr. Wang said.

Now, three schools in Sidangkou and the surrounding area have saxophone bands. Educators have developed a saxophone curriculum and created exhibits on the instrument’s history.

“I fell in love with it,” said Liu Junrui, 12, a fifth-grader. “The sound is cool. It’s special. It’s different from all other musical instruments.”

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Transporting freshly cut brass tubes that will be cut, polished and welded into saxophones. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

Iris Zhao contributed research.

Follow Javier C. Hernández on Twitter: @HernandezJavier.

A version of this article appears in print on January 4, 2018, on Page A9 of the New York edition with the headline: In Factory Town in China, Kenny G Rules.

GeneChing

10-19-2018, 07:31 AM

Can we go back to the ice bucket challenge? I enjoyed that one.

Chinese millennials ‘falling out of cars’ in search of internet fame (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2169210/chinas-crazy-rich-asians-falling-out-cars-search-internet-fame)
‘Falling stars’ challenge attracts Chinese millennials hoping to go viral and a mocking response from more down-to-earth citizens
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 18 October, 2018, 9:40pm
UPDATED : Friday, 19 October, 2018, 4:58am
Zoe Low

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Two Chinese women stopped their car on a pedestrian crossing in a busy city centre and, as they got out, one of them dropped her Gucci handbag, a pair of red-soled, high-heeled shoes, and an assortment of make-up on the street, spreading them around for effect.

She then lay face down, with her legs still inside the car, as her friend began to shoot video of her “fall”.

That was on Monday. On Wednesday, according to the Taizhou internet police force, the women, both surnamed Chen, were arrested for disrupting traffic and fined 150 yuan (US$21) and 10 yuan.

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The women, from China’s eastern Zhejiang province, were taking part in the latest viral internet “falling stars” challenge in the hope of gaining more followers on the live streaming platform Tik Tok.

Known literally as the “flaunt your wealth” challenge in Mandarin, the trend originated in Russia and has recently taken off in China, where rich Chinese millennials are increasingly willing to spend on luxury goods, and letting the world know that they can.

In the falling stars challenge, “influencers” post pictures of themselves lying face down, as if they have tripped while getting out of sports cars and private jets, spilling designer shoes, bags and even wads of cash on the street.

Another woman who “fell” out of her Aston Martin onto a Shanghai pavement was fined 200 yuan (US$29), according to the city’s traffic police department.

The falling stars challenge has spawned a series of satirical memes making fun of rich kids, with apparent Chinese soldiers, government staff, firefighters and students lying face down surrounded by service certificates, firefighting equipment and scattered documents.

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A satirical meme mocking China’s latest viral ‘falling stars’ internet challenge. Photo: Weixin

The challenge highlights the growing number of wealthy Chinese and the equally rapidly widening wealth gap, and the resulting social tensions.

Last year Credit Suisse’s Global Wealth Report predicted that the number of millionaires in China would increase to 2.7 million by 2022.

The Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, increased to 0.465 last year. A Gini coefficient higher than 0.4 is a sign of severe income inequality, according to the United Nations.

This gap tends to spark social discontent and conflict. Last week a man in eastern China drew outrage from parents when he dropped his son off at his school in a Ferrari.

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A member of staff at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes up the ‘falling star’ challenge in another satirical meme. Photo: Weixin

The falling stars challenge comes on the heels of another viral challenge, the Drake-inspired In My Feelings challenge, in which people jumped out of slow-moving cars and danced alongside the vehicle before hopping back in.

The viral trend, also known as the Kiki Challenge, led to videos of people falling on roads and even getting hit by oncoming vehicles.

GeneChing

10-25-2018, 09:26 AM

...apparently this started in Russia. :o

Falling stars challenge: China's twist on the young rich millennial meme (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45970776)
By Kerry Allen
BBC Monitoring
25 October 2018

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Sina Entertainment said that Chinese users were "more creative" than the Russians with the challenge - showing their daily life toils

One of the hottest online trends of the summer - the #fallingstarschallenge - has now made an appearance in China and it is inevitably being reinvented by Chinese millennials who never pass up an opportunity for parody.

The trend began in Russia and became wildly popular in August, particularly among the country's rich kids of Instagram.

It saw wealthy young Russians use the hashtag #fallingstarschallenge2018 while staging falls out of luxury cars and private jets surrounded by items like luxury handbags and champagne glasses casually splayed around the floor. The trend quickly went global, but has particularly proven popular in China.

Certainly some wealthy young Chinese have been showing off their bling in the challenge.

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But it is only in China that it has has come to take on new meaning, with Chinese users competing to show the struggles they face in their ordinary lives, sending up young wealthy kids so casually collapsed among their riches.

Some observers believe the trend has taken on new meaning because flaunting your wealth is increasingly viewed with suspicion in China, which has seen a string of scandals around extravagance, corruption and deception.

'More creative' in China
In the last two weeks #fallingstars posts showcasing the difficulties of daily life have suddenly racked up tens of thousands of likes on the popular Sina Weibo microblog.

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The #fallingstarschallenge has taken off in China - but people aren't just using it to flaunt their wealth

Chinese media has wasted no time in highlighting the difference between the way Russian and Chinese users are posting, saying that while overseas Chinese have jumped on the bandwagon, domestic users are not using the challenge to flaunt their wealth.

That perspective was summarised neatly when China's main CGTN broadcaster reported that one Chinese woman who tried the challenge using a luxury car "was recently fined for a traffic violation" - but others had "more positive ideas". The Sina news portal describes the Chinese trend as "more creative" than the Russian.

It showed pictures on its Weibo microblog of super-wealthy Russian women falling out of expensive vehicles, surrounded by luxury goods juxtaposed with pictures of Chinese people staging falls in front of cheap, household products or items associated with their work and study.

It was a message that clearly found favour and was being spread by the Chinese authorities. But the BBC also asked a few users what their thinking was behind their posts.

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One user took the challenge before running in a marathon

One user, 'MrBailuJ' says she took her picture at a marathon she was competing in, in the northern city of Xi'an. She says: "I received my pack before the race, and I thought about this recent photo trend. It's so different from previous ones, and I thought it was an interesting way to take a picture and share with my circle of friends."

One user says he works at an education institute, and shares a picture of him collapsing in front of multiple mobile phones, tablets, and packets of biscuits.

Another user, May, says she chose to do the trend to show the daily struggles of keeping fit. "I don't own a sports car, or anything Hermes, I only have barbells and protein powder," she says.

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May said she didn't have 'a sports car or anything Hermes' but used what she had

One user told the BBC that flaunting one's wealth could actually lead to criticism from other users.

He said: "Most of the Chinese people doing this online aren't doing it because they're wealthy. They are showing their experiences of the past and present, or their personal achievements.

"Showing off their wealth on the internet would lead to ridicule," he says. "The less money you have, the less afraid you will be of letting others see your wealth."

He says that this explains why "the super-rich have not come out to show off".

Increased scrutiny
In China, people are pretty open about how much money they earn.

But those who flaunt their wealth are increasingly viewed with suspicion and some hostility. Wang Sicong, the son of one of China's richest men, Wang Jianlin, came under fire from users in May 2015, after he spent 250,000 yuan ($36,000; £27,000) on a couple of Apple watches for his pet dog.

Since Xi Jinping came to power in late 2012, China has seen a large-scale anti-corruption campaign targeting "tigers and flies" - high and low-level officials who have been accused of bribery or abuse of power.

Questions about the legitimate earnings of China's elite extended to China's entertainment industry in early October when the government fined top actress Fan Bingbing for tax evasion and other offences.

On social media there have been calls for a wider investigation into China's super-rich, to establish whether their earnings are legitimate, so it's perhaps not surprising that the Chinese internet is sending up as much as flaunting wealth when it comes to falling stars.

I'm starting to think I should capitalize on these trends on our new Instagram account (https://www.instagram.com/kungfutaichimagazine/) (If you're a 'grammer, please follow us there :)).

GeneChing

04-10-2019, 08:41 AM

13 years? Do they even shoot?

Chinese man jailed for making ‘gun’ toilet handles will face retrial (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3005578/chinese-man-jailed-making-gun-toilet-handles-will-face-retrial)
Facts were unclear and evidence insufficient in the original judgment last September, court rules
Defence challenges method used by police to identify the handles as guns
Laurie Chen
Published: 5:40pm, 10 Apr, 2019

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Prosecutors said Jiang designed the flush handles to mimic air gun grips. Photo: Thepaper.cn

A man in northeast China who last year was sentenced to 13 years in prison for manufacturing toilet handles that looked like gun parts is facing retrial after a provincial court ruled that the original evidence was insufficient.
The Anhui Provincial High People’s Court ruled in a second-instance hearing on March 13 that the “facts were unclear and evidence insufficient” in the original judgment last September, when Jiang Zhiping was convicted of illegally manufacturing, trading and storing guns, Jiang’s relatives told news outlet Thepaper.cn on Tuesday.
As a result, the High Court has sent the case back to Anhui’s Fuyang Intermediate People’s Court for retrial.
Jiang, a designer of plastic household items from Jiangxi province, was responsible for the design and production of a high-pressure toilet flushing handle that was identified as a gun part by police who were investigating a network of gun sellers across China.
Police traced the supply network through an air gun that was discovered in a village near Fuyang in April 2016 and confiscated 3,870 toilet handles from a warehouse owned by Jiang.
Jiang’s sister, Jiang Xiaoqin, told Thepaper.cn that the toilet handle was the first patented item he had designed, and that patent certificates were presented by his defence lawyer in the first trial.
Prosecutors said Jiang created the design to mimic an air gun grip after researching it online, and said that the handle was identical in shape and function to a sample gun shown in court.
However, Jiang’s defence lawyer for his retrial, Yang Weiping, told Thepaper.cn that the method used to identify it as a gun was faulty, and not in line with Ministry of Public Security guidelines.

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Jiang’s patent documentation for his design. Photo: Thepaper.cn

Jiang requested that his toilet handle be re-identified in the appeal.
Jiang’s family have received a statement from Fuyang police saying that they did not have Ministry of Public Security guidelines on gun appraisal between July 2016 and April 2017.
A date for the retrial has yet to be set.

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GeneChing

04-23-2019, 03:51 PM

And this article doesn't really help improve understanding. But the title fits here.

Why modern China is most misunderstood (https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3007373/why-modern-china-most-misunderstood)
For better or worse, ‘China’ is everywhere, even when two of the world’s trendiest public intellectuals are sparring over the meanings of capitalism and communism

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Alex Lo

Published: 8:46pm, 23 Apr, 2019

“Let me bring together the three notions from the title [of today’s debate]: happiness, capitalism and communism in one exemplary case: China today. China in the last decades is arguably the greatest economic success story in human history. Hundreds of millions were raised from poverty into middle class existence. How did China achieve it? The 20th century left was defined by its opposition to the two fundamental tendencies of modernity: the reign of capitalism with its aggressive market competition and the authoritarian bureaucratic state power.
“Today’s China combines these two features in their extreme forms: strong authoritarian state and wild capitalist dynamics. They do it on behalf of the happiness of the majority of people. They don’t mention communism to legitimise their rule. They prefer the old Confucian notion of a harmonious society.”
Slavoj Zizek

The last time I went to a giant concert hall with such an enthusiastic audience was a performance by the American rock group Paramore. But no, this was, believe it or not, a two-hour debate in Toronto last week between the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Zizek and Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson. Granted, both are academic rock stars, possibly the hottest public intellectuals today, and some tickets to the debate cost more than those for an ice hockey play-offs game.
The quote above was taken from Zizek’s introductory remark. It was clever and insightful: China today really ties together capitalism, Marxism and happiness, or the utilitarian principle of pleasure for the greatest number of people, which in real life, must also mean pain and/or unpleasantness for some people.
Like any self-respecting Hegelian-Marxist-postmodernist, Zizek is all theory and no data. But what he said could be quantified. In 1999, just 2 per cent of the population were classified as middle class but this rose to 39 per cent by 2013.
Something Peterson said stays with me: “Most ideas you have are wrong.” By extension, most ideas we have about China are wrong. That’s why “experts” are always getting it wrong. As a corrective, I suggest following Zizek’s suggestion by paying close attention to its growing middle class; for it’s China’s bourgeoisie, not the proletariat, who will determine the future.
It’s sometimes claimed that the West is denying China well-deserved credit in economic development. For better or worse, “China” is everywhere, even when two of the world’s trendiest public intellectuals are sparring over the meanings of capitalism and communism.

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Why modern China is most misunderstood

GeneChing

05-10-2019, 08:37 AM

i can't even...:confused:

Hot pot flavored toothpaste goes on sale in China! (https://shanghai.ist/2019/05/10/hot-pot-flavored-toothpaste-goes-on-sale-in-china/?fbclid=IwAR2jSyOObR3jXvg4519RMkCGcTrl2PRaZwz1eSwL cVD7YkUkWFsC5OqMMd0)
Unfortunately, it was just a limited-edition run
by Alex Linder May 10, 2019

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Want to preserve that spicy tingle from eating hot pot even after brushing? Have we got just the product for you!

A Chinese toothpaste company named Leng Suan Ling (冷酸灵) has partnered with hot pot chain Xiao Long Kan (小龙坎) to release a line of limited-edition hot pot-flavored toothpastes which come in three flavors: “medium-spicy,” “Sichuan-spicy,” and “absurdly-spicy.”

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Unfortunately, you won’t be able to find these products at your local FamilyMart.

Over the first two or three days after they went on sale, 3,957 sets were reportedly sold online. There were then advertised to be a mere 300 left which appear to have now been quickly bought up for prices as low as 30 yuan ($4.40).

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Alas, it appears that this revolution in toothpaste flavoring was essentially an effort at cross-promotional hype. Suppose we’ll have to stick to our traditional Chinese-made toothpastes flavored with tea and poison.

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GeneChing

07-11-2019, 07:50 AM

srsly....wtH?!?

Picture of ‘giant dragon that caused Yibin earthquake’ lands Chinese man in detention (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3017456/picture-giant-dragon-caused-yibin-earthquake-lands-chinese-man)
Suspect says manipulated image of snake was intended as ‘a bit of fun’, but police in city where tremor killed 13 people last month weren’t laughing
Man said on social media that a ‘120-metre-long giant dragon with a diameter of 1.5 meters jumped out of the water’
Jane Zhang
Published: 7:14pm, 5 Jul, 2019

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A man has been detained for suggesting a giant dragon might have caused last month’s earthquake in Sichuan. Photo: Shutterstock

A man from southwest China has been detained for spreading rumours after he posted a badly manipulated image of a snake on social media and claimed it was a dragon that might have caused last month’s deadly earthquake in Sichuan province.
Police in Yibin, where 13 people were killed by a magnitude 6 quake that struck on June 17, said the 50-year-old suspect, identified only as Zhang, was taken into custody on Wednesday in Chongqing, which neighbours Sichuan.
His detention, the term of which was not specified, came after a task force was set up to investigate the rumour that had “drawn much attention and caused huge panic”, police said in a statement on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform.
Zhang uploaded the image, which appears to show a huge snake emerging from a hillside, as hundreds of people casually look on, to Weibo last week.

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Police set up a task force to track Zhang down after he posted this image on social media. Photo: Weibo

The caption with the image read: “A 120-metre [390-foot] giant dragon with a diameter of 1.5 metres jumped out of the water this afternoon, attracting thousands of people.
“Experts have flown here and it’s said the dragon had something to do with the earthquake.”
Despite the poor quality of the digital manipulation, Zhang managed to upset at least one woman, who was convinced the serpent was real after being shown the doctored image by her granddaughter.
“I told her it’s fake,” the younger woman said on Weibo. “But she got mad at me, saying that I was fooling her.”
Police said Zhang had apologised for any upset caused and said he came up with the “dragon” idea after finding an already manipulated image of a snake online. It was “only meant to be a bit of fun”, he was quoted as saying.
While the image might have fooled one elderly lady, few others were taken in.
“I think the man misunderstands what a dragon should look like,” said a Weibo user.
“This isn’t really a rumour. This is an IQ test,” said another.

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Arrest after rumours link ‘giant dragon’ to quake

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