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Xiamen Jinzhi, a company based in China, is causing a stir with the recent introduction of its line of Helen Keller sunglasses.
Yes, it’s a line of stylish glasses named after the blind and deaf activist being marketed with the tagline: “You see the world, the world sees you”.
Uh…OK.
A spokesman for the company said they were aware that Keller is blind, but they named the glasses after her more for her “philanthropic spirit” than anything to do with her condition.
Uh…OK.
I’m always amazed at the shit people will take in the name of enhancing their sexual performance. Why anyone would think ingesting shriveled rhino penis will make them more virile is beyond me, but this latest trend out of Asia is even more fucked up:
Sexual enhancement pills made from the “powdered flesh of dead babies.”
Apparently, this disturbing issue came to light this past Sunday in South Korea when customs officials announced that they had uncovered at least 35 attempts to smuggle a total of 17, 451 of the capsules from China since August.
The practice stems from a belief in some circles that eating the body parts of young infants will “give a person special physical strength or cure disease.” To which I reply once again—what the fuck?!
And what are some intriguing societies that you may not like, but find very interesting?
I love fairy tales. I don’t actually want to live inside one, though, since they seem a little superficial and there are probably a bazillion mosquitos wandering the woods.
Re: societies, I’m interested in Kowloon Walled City (in Hong Kong, demolished in 1993-94). According to a 1987 survey, 33,000 people populated 6.5 square acres (.01 square miles). This translates to a population density of 3,249,000 people per square mile. WHAT????
Residents living in lower floors of the city received no sunlight.
A male shopkeeper in the Chinese town of Haikou died last week when a confrontation with a woman resulted in testicular asphxiation. Or to put it in layman’s terms, the woman grabbed the man’s balls and squeezed really hard until he died.
According to reports, the unidentified woman tried to park her scooter in front of the man’s store so she could pick up her child from school, but the man wouldn’t let her. This led to an argument, which led to violence, which led to the unfortunate death.
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Diane Tuet is a SAF living in Northern California and making her living as a photographer, artist, Chinese herb specialist, and Food Network follower. She is the quintessential SAF Seeking ‘True Love’. (Other SAFs look for career highs, physical achievements, a really good hairdresser… it all adds up to a certain happiness… but I digress.) Nonetheless, while going through one of her first bad break ups, one of her great lessons of love came from her Chinese mother who came to stay one night with her to help her cope. She wanted to share the lesson with other SAFs, just in case it might mean something to them.
Beds... where the truth comes out.
In the midst of despair, you wonder how you forget all the important stuff your parents tell you.
I awoke from a surreal dream/nightmare to find my mother had fallen asleep next to me. Just a little bit before, she had told me this story in hopes of comforting me from my broken heart.
Mommy always said, “you don’t get to marry the one you love.”
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china knock off fools consumers.
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It was painful listening to Ira Glass’ retraction on NPR’s “This American Life” of performer?/monologist?/actor?/journalist? Mike Daisey’s story on working conditions at the Foxconn factory in China, which manufactures parts for Apple gadgets.
You can hear Glass trying to keep his cool, trying not to scream at Daisey, as Daisey parses the truth about what he did – and did not see – at the factory in Shenzhen.
Daisey was exposed when another NPR reporter working out of China noticed details in his story that didn’t add up, and tracked down Daisey’s Chinese interpreter, a woman named Cathy, who Daisey initially misidentified as “Anna.”
Cathy was with him the whole time.
Apparently, they really do have everything in China. Exhibit A—a chicken with four legs:
A woman in the Chinese city of Changsha discovered the mutated chicken after she brought it home from the supermarket. The woman was understandably freaked out and said she would throw the chicken out.
However, a professor from Central South University of Forestry and Technology has told reporters the chicken is most likely safe to eat. He said the mutation was probably caused in the embryo stage from “radioactivity in the living environment” or the “high meta level” in the feed.
I’ve already made the irrefutable argument that fast food in Asia is a gazillion times more awesome than the fast food here in the U.S. Here’s further proof of this—behold, McDonald’s Mashed Potato Burger (available only in China):
It’s a double patty burger with the usual fixings plus bacon and mashed potatoes. This is part of McDonald’s “Manly Man” campaign; geared toward China’s “young urban meat lovers.” Just looking at the picture of the burger, I can already feel a chest hair lots of chest hairs sprouting on my body.
Between this, the Japanese Burger King’s Windows 7 Whopper (count ‘em—seven friggin’ patties):
“What people intentionally don’t speak Mandarin? Assholes… According to my knowledge, a lot of Hong Kong people don’t identify themselves as Chinese. They say, ‘We’re Hong Kong, and you’re China.’ These people are assholes. These people are so used to acting as dogs in a British colony. You guys are still dogs, not human. I know a lot of Hong Kong people are good people but yet a lot of Hong Kong people up till now are still dogs,” said Kong Qingdong, the foulmouthed professor from the University of Beijing on national television.
In honor of Chinese New Years, I recalled back to memories of my last trip to China in early 2011. It was one of my most daring backpacking trips in my life to say the least. I decided to start in the top left corner of China near the “stan” countries and just train my way back to Hong Kong. Did I mention I don’t speak Mandarin. I went from bagless to homeless to underwearless in the first week. But with those struggles, I met some cool locals. Also on my trip, I met up with one of my childhood buddies and toured Tibet and a few cities like Chengdu and Chongqing. We did so much karaoking that we decided we had to make our own karaoke video about why we love China so much. So I am embarrassed to say, here’s my singing debut. Gung Hay Fat Choy everyone!!!
When I was visiting my family for Chinese New Year in Vancouver, I got to watch The Flowers of War by Zhang Yimou on a (most likely) pirated DVD that my father had. The screener I saw was incredibly dark and high contrast. It also was two seconds out-of-sync during the last hour of the movie. On top of that, the cover said the movie was 97 minutes but it turned out two be 2 and a half hours. I was actually dreading to watch the movie as I have heard mixed things about it. My friend at the Golden Globes said it was essentially a Chinese propaganda film. A Chinese friend laughed at how ridiculous one of the plot points was (I will eventually have to talk about it so SPOILER ALERT ahead).
