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Beijing Dyes Hair Yellow For Free, With Sandstorm

by on Saturday, March 27, 2010 57 comments

Three Chinese girls taking a photo in front of the Forbidden City during a Beijing sandstorm.

From Tianya:

I’m in Beijing.  The sky is yellow.  Is this a sign of 2012?

Beijing sandstorm.

Beijing sandstorm.

Beijing sandstorm.

Comments from Tianya:

331258:

Today when I got online, I got a message from my husband.  He said “Today, Beijing is dying hair yellow for free”.  I had no idea what he was up to.  It turns out it was the sandstorm.  I laughed my ass off.

蓝色雨帘:

Has Mother Nature begun to retaliate?

和尚骑蚂蚁上网:

Now that the Olympics are gone, everything’s back to normal.

samio2021:

Very yellow, very violent.

可怜酒鬼成仙去:

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pxwcc:

Sigh… so only you can bully the earth, and the earth isn’t allowed to bully you?

只为留名飘过:

Looks like people have been lazy with the anti-desert and greenification projects~~~

xinfeng11a:

Seen it before.

砖头到:

A thousand years from now, Beijing will become a part of the Gobi.

猫小舞:

I originally moved from Beijing to Chengdu because of the sandstorms. And now this year Chengdu also has sandstorms … cups!

Wuhan sandstorm.

A sandstorm in Wuhan.

Very yellow, very violent. chinaSMACK personals.

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  1. Dutch
    Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    FUCK ALL THIS IGNORANT IMMATURE “SHAFA” BULLSHIT

    sorry, just had to get it off my chest…

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  2. ImmortalTechnique
    Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 3:37 pm

    Why bother with BMWs in this town? A good Bactrian camel will only set you back a couple thousand.

    Reply
  3. Leprecoon
    Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    > Very yellow, very violent. chinaSMACK personals.

    Ha ha, genius.

    Reply
  4. That Chinese Kid
    Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    Now, the Chinese girls don’t need to get their hair colored, save some RMB for BMW.

    Why is my pic not showing up?

    Reply
  5. Keith
    Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    Beijing has a yellow sandstorm and no asians to be seen anywhere, that’s a first.

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  6. Benson
    Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    You get sandstorm in the name of development.

    Reply
  7. Crystal
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 2:25 am

    I really don’t envy poor Beijing girls.

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  8. Brother River Crab
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 2:56 am

    The Sand People are easily startled but they’ll soon be back, and in greater numbers.

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  9. 穀歌ba
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 4:57 am

    How many digital camera have been destroyed by the sand… I could never imagine cycling in that kind of storm, the gears would get eaten down quite quickly!

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  10. BigNoodle
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 10:55 am

    sandstorm even got to Taiwan last week…

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  11. Josh
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    A thousand years? LOL. The Gobi is what, 250 km from Beijing and the Gobi grows at 15 km a year. In the 17th year, the Gobi will reach Beijing.

    Also,

    “I’m in Beijing. The sky is yellow. Is this a sign of 2012?”

    Somehow, I don’t think it is.

    Reply
  12. Swamp Rat
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    Brother River Crab… err… I mean, Obiewan, I do concur. We’ve got to get out of here before the Sand People return.

    Reply
  13. William
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    This is another reason why Northern Chinese should not get eyelid surgery.

    Reply
  14. mekos
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    fuck China and its government

    Reply
  15. freeedom
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    Hurray…
    China is getting its just desserts! (environmentally)

    don’t care if china is the strongest nation in the world if there is no fresh water to drink :)

    Reply
  16. Daphie
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    China is on a volcano now that is going to break any time. The land, the people in China are both suffering physically and psycologically:
    *In YUnman all the trees are taken out to make papers and now there is severe draught. People have to escape their land to survive
    *In Hubei the big lake is are buried to build apartments in spite of all the protest
    *In many parts of CHina people are kicked out of their own house for a tiny amount of compensation, so [some company]can demolish their house and build new ones and then sell it for 10 or 100 times of price. But people can not do anything coz the land has been sold by government to the real estate company (but we can not really tell the difference of the two anyway)

    Earthquake, snowstorm, sandstorm, draught, flood, what else? (Nespresso)

    No wonder some people say CHina is a ********. What happens here is really terrible!!!

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  17. ＨａＷｕ
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 6:11 pm

    There are nice cities in the desert, like Dubai and Novosibirsk.

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  18. of Canada
    Monday, March 29, 2010 at 6:09 am

    thank god I got out of Beijing in October before these storms. It is still incredibly dusty in that city at the best of times. Most of the dust is probably from overgrazing and deforestation in and around the Gobi dessert and western China. Enjoyed my first illness free winter in a long time.

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  19. dan
    Monday, March 29, 2010 at 9:21 am

    You people fail to realise that some of these problems are of nature cause. If you want to blame everything on Government then go blame US for their recent flooding and disasters and Austrailian government for their drought and so on……………..

    maybe US did more environmental damage 50 years back when they were developing then all of the developing countries now.

    bunch of naive people that just want to get any chance they have to point their devil finger at chinese government!

    Reply
  20. Evalin'sApple
    Monday, March 29, 2010 at 10:09 am

    How well you keep track of that mb?

    Reply
  21. Jfemmefatale
    Monday, March 29, 2010 at 10:11 am

    I demand death for her who yellow China’s hair.

    Reply
  22. Jfemmefatale
    Monday, March 29, 2010 at 10:12 am

    I die my hair red this very day. Think Sylvie. I rise with my red hair. And I eat men like air.

    Reply
  23. I live in China
    Monday, March 29, 2010 at 12:27 pm

    I live in Beijing. The sky was only yellow for two mornings, satruday adn monday.

    Reply
  24. It's not so good to use a too long cyber name
    Monday, March 29, 2010 at 1:55 pm

    Maybe it’s US weather weapon.

    Reply
  25. Traveller
    Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 12:47 am

    You have not seem the sandstorm in Saudi Arabia. I was on the street waiting for the taxi for about 5 minutes. I have a table spoon full of sand in my shirt pocket.

    Reply
  26. Singer Wang
    Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 3:15 am

    Is it me or is the girls in the first photo kinda of hot?

    Reply
  27. Joelson
    Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 8:10 am

    Beautiful photos. Interesting to mother nature.

    Reply
  28. midori85
    Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 12:38 am

    i still like beijing

    Reply
  29. Peter
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 9:35 am

    WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING TO

    Reply
  30. Booger face
    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    All ye who listen. And it was good. And you did. We rejoiced and all was good. And He said “put your thumb in your ass”. And we did. And He was happy and we knocked one out. Hallelujah.

    Amen.

    Reply
  31. joey
    Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 5:03 am

    Over 90% of the pollution in China is generated by manufacturing that was outsourced from US businesses.

    Biatch all you want, but you’re obviously too weak to walk the walk.

    Reply
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