All Posts For 2009 August

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Chinese Hospital Rushed By Patients & Ticket Scalpers

To see a doctor at most hospitals in China, patients must first register (挂号, gua hao, “get a number”). At the hospitals with the best reputations, there is more demand than supply. As a result, people must line up to register, and there are many unscrupulous people [票贩子, piao... 

EMS China Post Throws, Kicks Around Customer Packages

From Xinhuanet, “Internal footage, so this is how EMS unloads mail!” and QQ, “Netizen films postal service EMS recklessly unloading mail, postal service denies completely”:Comments from QQ: o爆米花oо:I guarantee with a human head that this is how EMS unloads, all by throwing. Mina:Using... 

Chinese Wives’ Complaints About Husbands: Part 2

Like women from around the world, many Chinese girlfriends and wives have a lot to complain about their men too. Continuing from the previous post, here are more translated complaints about husbands and boyfriends  from the popular Shanghai Liba BBS forum post, “Good wives’ anger-relief... 

Taiwanese Reject Typhoon Aid, Fear Chinese-Made Toxic

After the recent Typhoon Morakot devastated the island of Taiwan with over 100 people dead and many hundred people missing, mainland China donated 1000 prefabricated housing sets (mobile homes?) along with other aid including tents, blankets, and money. However, some Taiwanese people rejected this... 

Chinese Wives’ Complaints About Husbands: Part 1

What do Chinese girlfriends and wives complain about their boyfriends and husbands? Beginning early last month,  a member of the popular Liba BBS forum named “ran615″ (right) started a post now-titled, “Good wives’ anger-relief post – [Collective complaining of husbands]... 

Organ Donation In Shanghai Due To Unemployment

From KDS: Currently unemployed, today I went to register to donate my remains [organs] In the next few days, I’m going to go ask about insurance.Exchanged [my body] for two certificates and a nail clippers set.Comments from KDS: 山上的白云:Donating your remains [organ donation] was... 

Hard Labor: Old Man Carries Goods On Back Up Mountain

From NetEase:I had an opportunity to go to Xiyue Huashan [Mount Hua in Shaanxi province], and while admiring the beautiful scenery, I discovered a group of laborious “tiaoshangong” [a porter? laborers who carry and transport goods with poles on their shoulders]. Amongst them was an old... 

Drinking Deer Blood From Freshly Cut Antlers In Langshan

WARNING: Some of the images below may be graphic. From NetEase: Yesterday evening, my friend Ouyang called me and said: tomorrow morning, our deer barn is sawing deer antlers. Bring your wife to Lian Village to drink deer blood. Enthused, I asked if a few of my friends could come. He laughed and said,... 

Internet Addiction: Netizen Seeks Help Finding Brother

From Sina: My little brother has left my home for four months already – because he is an Internet addict. My brother was always an obedient kid, but started going on the Internet constantly in college because of video games: Journey to the West (a game in China developed by NetEase), Legend of the... 

Dangers Of Uploading Your Photograph Onto The Internet

From NewsSC: Don’t carelessly upload your picture onto the internet… Once there was a person who posted his own photograph on the internet…Later, when his photograph appeared again, it became like this…When the photograph reappeared next, it became like this…With... 

Chinese Middle School Students Crazy Fights

From Sohu: Some Guangdong middle school’s intense gang war between rival black societies/gangsThe title of the video is: “This is our school” Comments from Sohu: 搜狐网友:TM little JB kids who don’t know what they do!! If I were there, I would beat down each of you one... 

Mainland Version Of Meteor Garden TV Drama Bashed

The Mainland version of Taiwan drama Meteor Garden, which catapulted Barbie Hsu and F4 to superstardom and started an era of ‘idol dramas’, recently premiered on Hunan TV. The show, called Meteor Rain, has received mostly negative reactions from the Chinese audience, who has renamed it... 

Rural Chinese Young Girl & Family Working In Brick Factory

From Tiexue: Summer Work for Zhang QianqianZhang Qianqian is from Guizhou, with her parents, living at the local brick factory, and probably also attends school at the local workers’ school.Upon asking her age, Zhang Qianqian laughed nervously and spoke of other things; I think she might... 

Foreigners Camping On The Great Wall, Chinese Reactions

From NetEase:Angry! Foreigners eating, drinking, shitting, pissing, sleeping on the Great Wall! On the night of August 3, about one hundred foreign tourists stayed overnight on the Great Wall. Just their tents and sleeping bags alone required a truck to transport up the mountain, and the Jinshanling... 

“Jian Guo Da Ye” Movie Celebrates PRC 60th Anniversary

From Mop: My god, saw the two previews for “建国大业” [Jian Guo Da Ye, "Great Founding of the Country"?] and was shocked, so niu!When the time comes, the China Film Group should let everyone use their national IDs to watch the movie, let each person pay 3 kuai cost, and all the people... 

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