One World, One (Han) Dream…
Of course, some people have different dreams.
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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.
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My first time logging onto your site in over a month. Cannot access from where I live in Harmonious China.
Where am I reading it from now? Yes, the FREE, DEMOCRATIC, INDEPENDENT NATION of TAIWAN!
Would all the party line apologists care to explain to me why this is so and how they can blindly love and support a government that treats them like little Down Syndrome children that can’t be trusted to read many news from different sources and determine a viewpoint from info gathered on their own???
Maybe because most of them, and specially the ‘educated’ ones are acting like little Down Syndrome children. Sad, but true. I am writing this from the FREE, DEMOCRATIC NATION of JAPAN. Love the food, love the great people here. A well needed monthly escape.
Bollocks to the lot of you.
I am living amongst these little Downs Syndrome children, in the UNFREE, UNDEMOCRATIC, HORRIBLE NATION OF CHINA [which currently includes Tibet, East Turkestan, and part of Mongolia].
Sigh…
Hi Popeye,
How have you been ?
you have been very quiet, i was a bit worry about u ..
good to see u r still alive and kicking ….
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080410_1.htm
kudos to mylaowai & friends … you mobs are doing a great job for the commies … sometimes I can’t help but suspect you are a double agent for the boss sitting in BJ
@stoogie
No need to worry. I just came back from a one week trip to Japan. Always good to see real civilization again. Also good to eat food that does not glow in the dark, or gives you cancer.
Pity, you guys had the chance here once, and missed it.
Just keep developing another 5000 years, you can do it, you know you can.
hey seaman
good to hear that raw tuna didn’t gave you any problem. Actually other than the tuna and kobe beef .. every thing is rather mediocre over priced.
1 week seems like the right amount of time in Japan .. I did a 6 months stint there before and the fucken place depressed me.
i spend 10 hourse straight in a meeting with those old wax works to asked them to clear up a very simple thing. They tried 101 ways to evade the issue when they could have just spend 10 mins to look into their old records…. everything was just too fucken hard for them…
In the end, i lost my cool … mentially i was still ok but my arse was hurt from sitting too long …
now you know why the japs always say hi hi arse-sore arse-sore ..