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[ltp-008]

The black humor of some slogans in modern China

Today I read a post in a Chinese bbs which really cracked me up, a professor in Beijing University named Qingdong Kong wrote a book called " long life of slogans" which has become very popular book in China now, many youngsters regard this book as black humor in modern China. These slogans usually were written by village, town and county 's government.

Here are some slogans which may crack you up:

One: If you destroy a row of trees you mother will die firstly.

Two: If you dare to challenge the authority of our government you are going to be in big trouble right now.

Three: If there is one woman in your village who give second birth to her children then all men in this village will have Tubal Ligation and all women in this village will have Vasectomy

Four: If you dare not to pay the tax today then you will be put into prisons tomorrow.

Five: If you are brave enough and not afraid of death, come to our town to commit some crimes.

Six: We 'd rather destroying your family than making our country death.

seven: We 'd rather adding ten tombs than adding one person.

Eight: If you drink poison we are not grabbing your poison's bottle, if you want to hang yourself we give you a rope.

Nine: when you lie on the track on railway even though you survive yourself you must be prosecuted for your act.

Ten: If your daughter doesn't go to school to study you 'd better raise a pig instead of raising your daughter; if your son doesn't go to school to study you' d better raise a donkey instead of raising your son.

Eleven: This is illegal that a group of people appeal to the higher authorities for help; this is shame that people appeal to the higher authorities for help.

There are countless black humor of slogans in this book which I can't put all in here. I am wondering whether these black humor of slogans cracks you up~ lol

[RedRose]

Good slogans, bad translation work

It's your english translation which cracks me up, actually.

take a look at your translation:

[kratos03344]

什么意思？不懂

[Wangwei]

Itp-008

I guess you are a Chinese or your forefather are Chinese?
I think you are interesting in China.why do you usually post some negative topic for China?
don't you learn that the dog don't mind its master is poor and the son don't mind his monther is ugly?
I think you are not as good as a dog!

[ltp-008]

[Wangwei]

[RedRose]

ltp-008 is a coward, one of the obvious evidences is that she/he never dare tell about her/his nationality, background, even her/his sex. That's her/his weapon protecting himself-herself. that way we can't judge her/him back, nice self-protection anyway. however, that's exactly what a coward dose when she/he feels insecure. Since you feel scared of telling people about your background, who do you think you are to judge people? especially so many partial and extreme comments come from your mouth.

Let's just think ltp-008 is her. if you are a man, then sorry, ltp; and if you are bisexual, then sorry again, ltp.

PS: dear ltp, you have to work hard on your translation, otherwise people really don't know what you are talking about.

[hoshi]

Where are you from ltp-008? and why did you write this? I do not want to fight but I am interested in to know about this questions
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[Helen.wan]

itp-008 is a bad person.He always say something to laugh at our Chinese.I really don't know why he did that.Why Itp-008 is so childish and ignorant .
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[RedRose]

I don't think ltp is a bad person, I think she/he is just a funny baby.

Damnit! everytime we have to call ltp she/he, his/her, himself/herself that's a waste of time but since ltp is such a cute baby, it's worth wasting our time

[ltp-008]

[RedRose]

Baby ltp-008, Wangwei isn't a caven, but you are.

Because Wangwei dosen't hide all his background, sex, nationality, unlike you. you are the coward. the more you try to protect yourself, the more you act like a coward.

[ltp-008]

[ltp-008]

[RedRose]

Baby ltp-008, you are not originally from Canada, otherwise your english might not be like that If you are a native Canadian, you don't have to improve your english by posting some jokes here . so you are still trying to protect yourself Nice try!

Beside, if you were a native Canadian, then your motherland Canada should feel really sorry about your english. You see, on this forum there are some native english speakers, and they all speak excellent english, like CP, beancurdturtle, Bob S, Lorikeet...

If you were an original english speaker as you stated, how come you can still read and speak Chinese so well?? you must be a genius!! as a native english speaker, your Chinese is much better than your english, that'd be an insult for your motherland Canada . Fortunately, you still do your best to try to improve your english by posting something you think "meaningful" (I don't feel that way though ), isn't that funny?

Again, Baby, where are you originally from?

PS: Do you really think your posts are "meaningful"??? that's an amazing joke. sometimes you are hilarious. thanks for making us laugh