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Chinese Netizen’s ‘Realization’ After Watching ‘Iron Man 3’

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The following microblog post is currently the hottest on China’s popular Sina Weibo social network, with over 60k reshares/forwards and over 15k comments…

On Sina Weibo:

@琢磨先生: After watching Iron Man 3, I suddenly realized one principle: Only terrorists can make every television channel broadcast the same program at the same time.

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Comments on Sina Weibo:

吳莫愁M0M0:

Roro_0:

There’s a hidden meaning.

黄山淋Slahser_:

Are you trying to cause trouble?

胡海枫96:

Clear and incisive.

疯疯贼:

[偷笑] Well-mocked.

葛麗泰亞里士多德:

Rest in peace [蜡烛].

ofdn:

It’ll be 7pm soon. [The above microblog post was posted at 6:34pm.]

温州黑白二世:

Sitting here waiting for this to be harmonized [deleted, censored]!

青豆红:

That’s in the United States~

花田梦事:

A certain Liaobo and Spring Festival Gala have been shot [made fun of without provocation].

蘑菇型蜗牛小y:

Dear, “pointing at the mulberry tree and scold the locust tree” [idiom for indirectly criticizing something].

NOEASYDAY:

The Spring Festival Gala and CCTV News also.

eidolon89:

Isn’t Xinwen Lianbo the same?

九零年制造:

[偷笑] Like a certain Lianbo?

损大圣:

Knock knock knock, here to check the water meter.

zth-Jane:

He’s talking about Xinwen Lianbo!!! (I didn’t say it…)

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Also major fires and disasters.

莴ki:

Hahahaha, I light a candle for him.

-贝壳-Shell-:

Then CCTV can be considered half a terrorist →_→ Xinwen Lianbo

-neverback-:

Wrong, also China’s 7:00pm sharp.

葛_中国:

Have you seen V for Vendetta? V could also do this! Is he also a terrorist in your eyes?

肥兜-翀哥-布丁-抵制玉林狗肉节:

Be low key, don’t be so blunt.

薛定諤的貓1987:

Must be talking about North Korea.

独沉清泠水:

You just wait to be invited out for tea[哈哈]

Long-scene:

Are you hinting at CCAV being…

游来游去的雅鱼:

You’re referring to foreign television channels, domestically even Xinwen Lianbo is broadcasted on every channel at the same time.

monkeyDHeb:

CCAV is going to invite you out to coffee

Katrine:

And natural disasters.

靳所长:

How come I immediately thought of Xinwen Lianbo?

蚊蚊小螃蟹:

[哈哈] Everyone all thought of the same TV program of the same time slot.

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Written by Fauna

Fauna is a mysterious young Shanghainese girl who lives in the only place a Shanghainese person would ever want to live: Shanghai. In mid-2008, she started chinaSMACK to combine her hobby of browsing Chinese internet forums with her goal of improving her English. Through her tireless translation of popular Chinese internet news and phenomenon, her English has apparently gotten dramatically better. At least, reading and writing-wise. Unfortunately, she's still not confident enough to have written this bio, about herself, by herself.

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