🚀 go-pugleaf

Op 23-12-2010 18:50, ervaqre schreef:
>>> every time somebody from the Netherlands tells me it is rather chilly
>>> there, I burst out in hysterical laughter!
>>>
>>> *bursts out in hysterical laughter*
>>
>> Happy to oblige.
>
> Okay, I would like to reply, but in my reply I will recount something
> that is completely unrelated. You know, I am watching television right
> now. Actually, my television is on 24h because I think doing so allows
> me to improve my listening skills as well as improve my knowledge of
> Chinese civilization. Anyway, right now there is a commercial (some
> sort of TelSell you can find on Dutch television at night) on the
> Hunan TV channel advertising copies of ancient scrolls of some emperor
> visiting some city, nice to hang on your wall. However, it is
> advertised by a woman in a Qipao accompanied by the Pirates of the
> Caribbean soundtrack. You know, from those quite enjoyable movies us
> Monkey Island fanatics ought to enjoy. Truth be told, the Pirates of
> the Caribbean soundtrack really is overused in China, just liked the
> Requiem for a Dream soundtrack was overused on YouTube before it
> become blocked. Anyway, blah!

Culture barbarians, that's what they are over there. Or more apt: culture 
pirates! Taking state of the art American entertainment and reduce it to 
background music for a cheongsam clad salesladhy pawning Chinese history 
memorabilia instead of the much more valued Nascar commemorative plates. Some 
great leader somewhere must be spinning in his grave at the poor state of the 
revolution.

>>> what is it now, -5? but you're supposed to like it though. here in
>>> China they have the idea that foreigners like it cold at least
>>>
>> So the low temperatures there are a tourist trap? Attracting the frost loving
>> foreigners?
>
> Well, I think it is more of a personal thing that I actually enjoy
> temperatures that go way below -30 and even towards -40. But since I
> am one of the very few foreign people in the region, Chinese
> automatically assume that all foreigners are like me. Just like one
> day when I was on a 21-hour train trip from Beijing and was busy
> eating bread and drinking milk, when one Chinese guy just couldn't
> stop commenting how cute I looked eating bread and drinking milk and
> that surely all Western people would eat bread and drink milk all the
> time. It was almost as entertaining as all the women on the train who
> had seen me hug an ex-girlfriend on the station asking me about our
> sex life.
>

Maybe you should tell those ladies you only comment on your sex life to ladies 
that are actually part of it. One needs to "join the club" first.

-- 
Danny.