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RVN · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 62 Location: China

Get back up there!

I've always been told that you shouldn't judge an entire nation by just a few people - they won't all be the same. Yet I have first hand experiene of about 95% of things posted, which I'm presuming have been posted by people all around China, and you're not all just living around the corner from me.

I like, "China is a free/freedom country." Combined with "Taiwan IS Chinese, you must understand that." - This has been unprovoked, by the way.

So I ask "Why can't I go to Taiwan?" "Why can't you go to Taiwan then?"

No answer

J.D. · Guest

You may be in Hong Kong if ....

There is more cooking oil in the air and beading on your skin that oxygen to breathe.

chongcheng · Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 1:45 am Post subject:

Your boss has been in China for so long you start to wonder if it makes any difference that he isn't Chinese.

oddsnends · Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 6

Most things have already been covered but here's a couple more:
-you take pictures of visiting relatives using the squatties
-when same visiting relatives ask what seller just said, you repeat what was just said--in Chinese
-you answer 'dui, dui, dui, dui, dui......' even when it's no necessary

MissMolly · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 99 Location: China (USA)

- You automatically spell any words your Chinese friends don't understand
- Bra shopping is always an adventure
- you see pictures of blue skies and cry
- fully 1/3 of the foreigners who you meet are insane

chongcheng · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 5:40 am Post subject:

You're chatting to a beautiful girl in a nightclub, her English is good, yours is OK, you lean forward on the table to get a better look and you stick your elbows into an assortment of fish entrails, snail shells, chicken bones...

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

Okay, so I missd most of it, but living in the sticks, I've still got a few I don't think got mentioned yet.

You Know you Might Be In China When:

- You get used to the staring (Okay, sort of) but your Chinese freinds don't want to go out in public with you becuase they get uncomfortabe.

- You attract the attention of THREE members of the SECRET POLICE by playing chess in the park with your friend. Shocked

- People persist in trying to sell you Chinese newspapers. For ten minutes. The same people at the same station. Every day.

- People listen to you describe how real coffee is made as if you're telling them how to turn lead into gold.

- People look at you with big puppy eyes when you tell them that Olympic Games only last for 2 weeks.
Surprised

- One of your favorite hobbies is telling people that "Now that China is in the WTO, someday soon the government is going to have to make large retail stores stop selling illegal VCDs" and watch it slowly sink in for the first time....

-You make the offhand remark that in the West the only restaurants are not McDonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut, and people say "Oh, wow! Really?"

- Speaking of which, it would not surprise you in the least to find Chairman Mao's picture in Tiananmen square replaced with Colonel Sanders by next week.

In all fairness though :

- Someone is always willing to help you out when you're down, in trouble, hungry, or without a bargaining chip. [img][/img]

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

English Speaker Cornered...I like it

You know you have been in China too long if you sit there as they speak Chinese, understanding nothing, but you shake your head yes anyways, and say dong, dong

You know you have been in China too long when you know the 9 kuai dinner should only have been 8 kuai wu, and you spend 30 minutes arguing over the 5 mao

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

I would just like to apologize to everyone for the gigantic avatar in my last post. It was not my intention to disrupt. It would be best if the monitors just delete that post.

Again, sorry.

chinasyndrome · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 3:09 pm Post subject:

[quote="chongcheng"]

chongcheng · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 1:35 am Post subject:

you stop wondering if your boss has been in China too long.
Shocked

you start wondering if Chinese bosses are all that bad Sad

you wonder why your girlfriend has the same name as your boss's wife??

chinasyndrome · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 1:54 am Post subject:

- your teacher's girlfriend has the same name as the boss' wife because she lacks imagination
- you know this is true because you know the numbnut she's prepared to put up with
- your teacher's girlfriend is a wannabe
- your teacher's mum sends you 10 emails a week because she thinks he's at summercamp with the other kiddies, and she wants to make sure he's wearing clean underpants, which he isn't, by the way

chongcheng · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 2:10 am Post subject:

Same Chinese name!!

You're in China if...

All classes seem to look mighty fine, even your boss's class starts to look appealing to the teachers MOTHER! Confused

Your girlfriend has a great class Laughing

You don't need to change your undies, cos the girlfriend still thinks you're still a good bet. Cool

chinasyndrome · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 4:24 am Post subject:

[quote="chongcheng"]Same Chinese name!!

You're in China if...

chongcheng · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 5:07 am Post subject:

-The teacher wonders how the boss found out about the "operation' ?

This is getting OT, right? well then.....

Twisted Evil