Last night, I had nothing to do and no classes this morning, so I popped in a pirated copy of There Will Be Blood. About halfway through, I decided to turn on the Chinese subtitles, since I’d seen the movie before anyway, but I was pretty surprised at what I found, and parts are pretty [...]
Humour Posts
10 Biggest News Stories of Next Year
As the paparazzi of Time looks up the celebrity’s skirt of Destiny, and the banker of History robs the taxpayer of Fate, it’s time to face the fact that 2009 is less than 24 hours away. The year 2008 brought Olympic joy and horrific natural disasters, and saw the global credit crunch bite hardest in [...]
Photo of the Week: Taking a Break
I know we all could use one. (photo by Django Malone)
The Onion tells us how great law in China is
A rather hilarious video where Onion commentator Poyuan Wei talks about how great the is, and how infallible the Chinese legal system is. h/t to Alex on Hao Hao Report.
Dedicated Follower of Chinese Fashion
Cultural understanding; it’s a lot of what this fine multi-authored blog is all about. So, in my latest missive for Lost Laowai, I’ll get straight to the point in trying to help you understand the sociological signage and semiology of contemporary Chinese male fashion. All right, I’ll come clean, that’s just an excuse for a [...]
Capitalism with American Characteristics
Banks collapsing, countries on the edge of bankruptcy, a near-return to the Great Depression. All looks somewhat surreal when viewed from the other side of the planet, does it not? Precisely when – or how – the global crisis will impact on ordinary people in Asia is hard to estimate, but it’s likely to, in [...]
Olympic fashion (non)sense
Well, everyone and their grandma is calling the 2008 Beijing Olympics China’s coming out party, and they’ve just been given the biggest reason yet, as it doesn’t get any gayer than this.
Sorry, I don’t mean to offend or misrepresent the gay community, <em>Queer Eye</em> teaches us you all have far more fashion sense than this.
This fashion faux pas of the century (and we’re still early into it) is China’s official Olympic opening ceremony uniform.
Bikini-clad Chinese girls show off their … Olympic spirit
Finally some Chinese Olympic fever I can appreciate: h/t to Jenny Zhu – and you thought she just did ChinesePod – that’s just her part-time gig. Her real career centres around hunting down videos of hot Chinese girls in swimsuits. It’s a tough job, but someone needs to do it. Really.
In Defense of Your Er Nai, by: the male ego
Ah, springtime in Jiangnan: fields awash in patches of yellow canola blooms…plum and cherry petals whipping around the picnickers beneath them…lovers meeting secretly before the wife gets home… Yes, springtime is much more beautiful when it’s shared with an er nai. And why not? You’ve got the money to keep one–rent an apartment, buy expensive [...]
‘My money’s on China’, Some Grey Bloke
A little humour to lighten the mood about the whole thing. H/T Pandapassport, via Hao Hao Report (like this video? Be sure to vote for it.)
