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Han-Dover (v.): Similar to Bend-Over [and touch your toes while we insert this length of rough-sawn timber]. See also Hong Kong.

- From the MyLaowai Dictionary.

Han-onymous call (n.): Some Han Chinese cunt calls your mobile, because he made a mistake when he jotted down the phone number of that KTV girl he was with the other day. He only bleats ‘wei?…wei!…weiii?’, and refuses to give his name or the nature of his business. You hang up on him, and the above process is repeated another 20 odd times. After all, he is Han Chinese, so he can’t have dialled the wrong number.

- From the StrandedMariner Dictionary

Saturday, May 12, 2007 - Posted by MyLaowai | Uncategorized | Dictionary | 1 Comment

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Han-Dover. First I thought you were referring to Dover (the one with the white cliffs etc.)
Like that customer in the wines and spirits department in TESCO.

Customer to shop assistant: ‘Sir, can you recommend a good port ?’

Shop assistant: ‘Yes, Dover. And now f**k off back home’.

Comment by Stranded Mariner | Sunday, June 3, 2007

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So this is Home. Bugger.

Q. What’s this ‘Shanghai’ place you live in?

A. Shanghai used to be a muddy little fishing village on the banks of the Huangpu River. Then the British came and set up civilization, which immediately led to huge numbers of illegal immigrants arriving to take advantage of the business climate. Some very decent Americans, Japanese and Russians also showed up. Oh yes, and some French. By the 1920’s Shanghai was a booming centre of trade and had become known worldwide as ‘The Whore of the Orient’. Never had the world seen such a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Nowadays, of course, everything is very different: more people have televisions and some of the buildings are a little taller. There’s an ambitious social program (due to be completed by 2008 2012), in which people are being trained to walk across the street only when the little green light is on. An even more ambitious and longer-term program aims to have all citizens able to both walk and chew gum simultaneously without any foreign assistance whatsoever by 2057. It’s all happening in this fast-changing mega-fishing village.

Q. What’s a ‘Laowai’?

A. Laowai is Mandarin for a no-good, uncultured and stupid barbarian who basically just comes to glorious China to steal jobs and women. Laowai’s come from uncivilized and awful places that have no culture, no history, and nothing whatsoever to like. A laowai, in fact, is the lowest conceivable grade of pond-scum. A less accurate, but more literal, translation is ‘foreigner’.

Q. I don’t live in Shanghai, am I a laowai?

A. If you can read, write and know who your parents actually are, rest assured that you are, indeed, a laowai.