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ESL Guru · Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 462

Three points please:

First - Someone named uranus backwards suggests killing all the lawyers and that is cool.
Then someone named C..... suggests killing all of the hairdressers and that is cool. But who will be next? All the ESL teachers in China?

Second - My school is actively recruiting for September so I decided to give this "guy" a lead. Suddenly we receive this CV from an Indian woman, then seven in a row from Indian men. Now this may not be unusual except that in the two years I have been here we have never had a single application from anyone born in India. So you figure it out. Is he a he or is he a she? No longer care. It is an Indian I bet! And that may explain the heading of this thread. And it may explain a lot of what has been said here.

Third - Our FAO showed us a new directive from Beijing yesterday. Others have confirmed that they were also so advised by their FAO.
We have seen the army road blocks before yesterday. How widespread, can't get out to find out first hand you know. If we have been missinformed and hence passed on bogus info, it was not with any bad intention, only the best of intent in sharing what we are told, right up to the minute.

WE ARE LOCKED DOWN FOR SURE! Other schools in the area are also locked down. Now they are talking about not letting college students go home for summer but continuing classes. So you tell me; what is going on with SARS? CNN had an article about WHO not believing China's new statistics and reporting. Now the article is gone. WHY?

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

Ahengzhou, Henan, roadblocks all around the city. Not a good time to be living here illegally

Minhang Oz · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 610 Location: Shanghai,ex Guilin

Maybe this is the real nature of the lockdown thing- aimed at the migrant workers who left Beijing fearing SARS, and now want to come home. This is very recent from SCMP; an excellent source for the real news on China. I've heard the "colleges running through summer rumor" too.

Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Beijing vows strict measures to curb Sars threat from migrant workers

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Beijing
Updated at 12.53pm:
Beijing will put its millions of migrant workers under strict surveillance in the days and weeks ahead, as they return to the capital in search for jobs, a top official said on Tuesday.

''As the epidemic in Beijing stabilises, and economic and social activities get back to normal, some migrant workers who have left will return,'' Ji Lin, the deputy of a municipal Sars task force, told a briefing.

''When they enter Beijing and the community and the neighbourhood, or enter their work place. they will undergo very strict surveillance procedures,'' he said.

The city Government will send out teams to the dwellings of migrant workers, and forbid the lease of apartments that fail to meet hygienic standards.

The municipal Government has its work cut out, as 600,000 migrant workers are estimated to have left the city after local officials owned up to the extent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars).

More than three million people from other parts of China have taken up temporary residence in Beijing in search for jobs, mostly too dirty or dangerous to attract the city's own residents.

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China Plate · Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Guangzhou

The roadblocks thing seems to be real. We drove over to Yangzhou on Sunday, and were stopped at a roadblock on the outskirts of town. We all had our temperatures taken, as happened to all the other cars we saw.

Had the same thing happen trying to go into the supermarket in Jiangdu.

Our teachers have been told not to leave the school, but they don't seem to enforce this too strictly. Students whose parents have visited infected areas are not allowed to come back to school. Residential students are not allowed to leave the school.

Luckily, we have had no reported cases in this area.

Having studied law for two years, I agree... all lawyers should be killed Very Happy

But why the hairdressers?

ESL Guru · Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 462

I know it is intended as good fun - kill all the lawyers then the hairdressers the ---

Remember WWII history Hitler started with ... then .... then ....

Anyway I do not want to spoil all your fun. That is the real reason we are here, right? Help each other and have some fun in the process.

ESL Guru · Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 462

Uranus -

Do you know the history of China?

They did kill all of the lawyers once. Please do not encourage them again!
Rolling Eyes

ESL Guru · Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 462

Try a haircut!

chinasyndrome · Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 11:02 am Post subject:

Guess it's my turn.

'...and then we kill all the hairdressers' is a fun conjunction to Sunaru's trailer. I actually read something in a book called 'Finger' - a book of pure comedy, in which a really bizarre bunch of guys were killing people using ambulances. All the guys lived in an asylum. The main character, Joseph Finger, wondered who they were killing. Someone theorized that they were hairdressers. Besides, who hasn't wanted to kill a hairdresser at least once in their life?

Honestly, I just can't see that 2 small lines on a relatively small and unpopulated site like this is going to bring about the next holocaust, but if it does I'll apologize to every hairdresser I meet...in this life or the next.

But until then...

let's have some fun

China Plate · Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Guangzhou

I thought you wanted to kill the hairdressers because of what they did to Sunaru's hair.

chinasyndrome · Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 2:06 pm Post subject:

That was the plan. And I'll get 'em for what they did to yours while I'm at it. Very Happy

chongcheng · Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 2:16 pm Post subject:

MAAAAATE!!!!, let me get this straight, sunaru is uranus spelled backwards?

Would Urabus be a really fast car then?

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

When did they kill all the lawyers?

I know in the Qin they killed all the philosophers Exclamation

ESL Guru · Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 462

Chinasyndrome -

Have a meltdown pal?

Is she a he or is he a she?

Native English speaker or L2 from India?

You claimed to have the real inside track and you promised to tell all so put up or shut up!

chinasyndrome · Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 5:53 am Post subject:

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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Some of these posts are weird enough to go on the Korea Forum.