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china’s idiocy strikes again!
Jun 4th
From Shanghaiist:
Earlier today, CNN anchor and Beijing correspondent John Vause was filming in Tiananmen Square, Beijing when he suddenly encountered a man holding an umbrella who won’t step away from his cameraman’s lens. Maybe it’s the matching umbrella and pants, but this goes down in our book as the silliest censorship effort ever.
Come on China. This is just straight up embarrassing. If you’re going to exercise some government holier-than-thou power, at least do it in respectable uniforms. Did you really think, “Oh, if we have plainclothes cops with umbrellas, maybe the rest of the world will just think our citizens are rude instead of our embarrassment of a government flopping around like a dying fish on the world stage”? Probably not. That thought is FAR too advanced for your little communistic minds.
china still thinks its citizens are morons.
Feb 10th
http://i.gizmodo.com/5150267/reports-of-cctv-skyscraper-fire-hard-to-find-in-chinese-media
Fireworks. Really? Maybe with some of the newfangled napalm fireworks. Does the Chinese government really think that their people are so dumb to believe FIREWORKS lit a SKYSCRAPER on fire?
olympic fever.
Aug 19th
It’s Olympic season! For 18 days, the entire world becomes engrossed in athletic events of both exciting (Redeem Team basketball!) and pointless (trampoline?).
Let’s talk about the most controversial of topics: Chinese gymnastics. Partly, because it’s probably a popular topic and I like to watch to see who comes here from weird Google searches. The other reason being that the Chinese women gymnasts are uglier than sin itself. They have singlehandedly made me ashamed of my heritage. I hope you’re reading, Hu Jintao. *puke*
It’s been suggested that my disdain for the “women” gymnasts for China sprouts from something very shallow. Fact of the matter is, out of almost all the Olympic women gymnasts competing, the Chinese are by far the hardest to watch, strictly because, well, they’re ugly. It doesn’t help that they get ridiculously high scores for doing stuff like…falling off beams. Let’s not even talk about screwing over Nastia in the uneven bars FOR A TIED SCORE.
Anyways, back to ugly. It doesn’t help that they’re like 13 years old. Every commentator that fields any gymnastic event has been talking about it. Come on, China, heavy makeup isn’t going to hide something like, oh, let’s say, puberty. It’s intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that you collectively, red China, are implementing the modern day equivalent of child slavery.
Please direct all your complaints to 21st century human rights.
wayyyy behind.
Jan 23rd
Maybe I’ll come back and redo the past 11 days that I’ve missed, but most likely not all of them.
Here’s a quick rundown:
Day 4 – Summer Palace
Day 5 – Ming Tombs, Great Wall
Days 6-10 – Shanghai with the group
Day 11 – Temple of Heaven
Days 12-14 (today) – nothing
Actually, days 11-14 have included 4 days of excruciatingly painful massage therapy. Apparently, I’ve got a lot of problems, but this guy is really good. He just makes everything hurt. But somehow, after the pain, everything feels a lot better. Who knows, this guy might not be a quack (as I first suspected) after all. Too bad I have like 12 sessions left with him. That’s 12 days of pain.
In other news, Beijing is an unbelievably distracting place. Hot girls + short skirts + black tights + boots = even more hot. This just means I have to get out of here even more.
I miss America. I’m ready to go home. Home is where your stuff is.
day 4 – beijing.
Jan 12th
I spent most of my day at Starbucks today working on things. I like sitting at Starbucks because of the large proportion of white people. It makes me feel like I’m not in China. Sorta.
However, today is still post-worthy, strictly because of dinner. Thanks to a very generous friend of my dad’s, I present to you what I had for dinner.
