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Q: A guy in an audi pulled nunchucks on me yesterday, in front of a toystore.

I swear to god. This was in hangzhou, jiangnan dadao, by the ICBC. Go to all the stores nearby and ask, because everyone ran out to watch.

 

He was speeding down a sidewalk which had a training centre, two preschools, a toystore, and two banks. Me and everyone else (lots of little children, mostly, and some grandparents accompanying them) hugged the walls so he could speed by, but he he thought that I didn't hug the wall fast enough so he started screaming "fuck-a you fuck-a you fuck-a you", so I gave him the finger. Then he got out of his car with nunchucks, and started screaming some patriotic nonsense at me.

 

Anyway, there were cameras everywhere, bank security guards, hundreds of passer-bys. I think the nun-chucks were a penis stand it because I don't think he'd have dared to use them. I told him he was cowardly and to use his hands and he eventually got back in the car. And nothing else happened because the pigs here only give a shit about anti-government activity.

 

So my question is: How do I let this China's five thousand year history culture most civilized only true civilization edify me?

 

Question 2: If this situation was reversed, and it was a white guy in the car pulling nunchucks on a chinese and screaming racial slurs, would it be considered a beautiful cultural difference.

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Very simple buddy.

China has a "5,000 year long history" which means that they have managed to perfect the "Art of Being an A-hole" over millennia. We just cannot catch up.

Edification complete.surprise

 

Jíliú.hé:

i shall smoke a cigar to that to surprise

 

here you go

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They're not called nun chucks, they're called foreigner beating sticks.  

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I have never had half the trouble you guys get into.

what have you done so bad in your life to be stuck with this shit magnet?

is this a big city thing?

no offense but does this happen at home or is it just a Chinese thing?

Im not taking the piss I would really like to try to understand

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kchur:

Well, I'm young and thin and look like an easy target. Might makes right in this country. Seems like most of the foreigners I've known who get along well here are built like tanks, and in my work clothes I look like a pie-eyed substitute math teacher on his way to volunteer singing for the the local christian youth group.

 

And I never had a problem when I still gave them all the respect they demanded out of me. Me three years ago would have never dared to give the Chinese the finger. Now that I've started crossing the "chinese men with status symbols are gods amongst mortals" line, things are changing.

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philbravery:

maybe you just need a break from China for a while 

or a change in scenery 

Myself I like the less populated areas and don't like big cities.

Does not matter where you go the small town thing can works better for me anyway

on the other hand you could make friends with the Olympics team doctors and bulk up a bit.

the last sentence was sarcasm  ( old habits don't you know)

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Some people DO seem to be a magnet for this kind of stuff, big world and all. Guess most of us are lucky!

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Wow that really sucks. Like I said to Ted, you need crazy-b-gone. You need it real bad.

philbravery:

that would clear half of us from this forum

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Jnusb416:

Well, I doubt he'd use it here, but it would be nice if it existed in real life. I guess because I live in a small city and I'm a girl, I never get trouble. One of the worst things I can think of is some guy overcharging me for pineapple. I have to say, despite the staring, small town life is pretty good.

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philbravery:

Do you find the locals get used to having you around after awhile?

and will ask you normal questions and have normal conversations instead 

of the classic crap ones? 

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Well, I still don't speak much Chinese, but my neighbors, when they do occasionally talk to me, just say "吃饭了吗?" Most of the time it is not the same locals asking the questions to my friends, so they do ask the crap questions. It's always someone that hasn't met me before.

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you need a Santero, man.....

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I give drivers here the finger all the time when they come close to running me over and I usually scream "f@#k you dumb f@#k "at the same time...so far I have never had a problem regardless of the car type.  I am not small but not big either (for the west) but I guess I am big enough that they move on?

GuilinRaf:

I bang the trunk or boot of their car.

 

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Yes, absolutely insane! So fricken uncivilized and what a dickless act!
It really baffels me, why a civilization with 5000+ years of civilization and history behave like the biggest pack of retards ?! Why does this happen ? Where did it all go wrong ? (I can think of a few things, but probably best not to be shared on chinese internet)

GuilinRaf:

1966....

 

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Great minds think alike !

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jyao, send your comments to the CCP. I'm sure that they'll blow a few minds! :)

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Even if that pussy hit you it wouldn't be hard.
Last night I seen two cars pull up on 3 guys, 10 guys came out of the cars and attacked the 3 guys with metal pipes and sticks.
They didn't hit the guys hard and I have been in more extreme fights than this when I was I'm middle school.
Once the guys tapped the guys in the arms with there sticks and yelled alot they got into there shit cars revved the engines and buzzed away. The whole thing was so lame I actually wanted to jump in just to give the 100 people watching a real show..

They fight like pussys

HugAPanda:

lmao.. I got a picture of a clown car with 10 little chinese men jumping out. 

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And, the Keystone cops to  help you.....

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There is one bright side to this

at least they don't have drive by shootings

I don't know if there is more violence or that the reporting through technology is better 

or maybe just a full moon

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Hang on, I remember the edify question:, wasn't it just us evil western women who were meant to let great-history China 'edify' us? 

MissA:

I see the twins are playing together...

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You should have threatened to rape him. 

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No, not a cultural difference. Kick him in his chop stick and rice paddies and shove his ass under his car.

 

You tell us how it can edify you. Maybe it will encourage you to take self defense classes? I  have been edified by those to protect me from potential rapists Smile

GuilinRaf:

Hugs:

Remind me to NEVER piss you off.....

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HugAPanda:

Yeah. I get that a lot. :)

But it's usually my mouth they fear, more than the potential of me aiming a foot or knee to their beans :)

But I'll do it!

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I know you will do it!!!!!!!

That is why my fear!!!!

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HugAPanda:

Awww... you're safe GR. 

Teddy... not sure he is 

bwahahahaha

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HugAPanda:

Ohh alright.

I love when they see please :)

 

Say. SAY please. Not see.

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Emily Post may have saved Poggers life! At least his "beans"....

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dear try to avoid these people and remain calm and try your best not to fight but if you think he will not understand and he is acting crazy then do your best and wash him up .and remind him Chinese 5000 years history 

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If you pulled nunchucks out and started screaming slurs you'd probably get famous. Just saying! People get famous for the weirdest things and if you were in a car and roles were reversed they'd probably put you on television and have you talk about your motives. 

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Well, at this moment with the arrogance in China over who has the bigger economy and strongest military, I expect these types of things to happen more to foreigners. The fact is, they treat each other like that also

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Nunchucks, really?  You should have dared him to use them.  Odds are he knocks himself out with them, if he can even swing them hard enough.  What a SB....

GuilinRaf:

sha bi??!!

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Or it could mean "somebody".  Yeah....what a "somebody"....that stupid c*nt  smiley

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Bruce Lee's spirit relentlessly roams the earth, looking for worthy opponents.

You just lost (the game) a great opportunity to prove your honor, and for that shall be punished to an eternity of shame!

"Grab a napkin homie, you just got served!"

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act as if you are reaching for a gun. 

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That's hysterical kchur!!!!!!! Smile What a scream!!!!!!!!!!! lol Smile I would have just laughed at the guy!!! How to edify you? Well, just chalk it up to some wacko going off..and something that could ONLY happen in China.

 

Word!

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It is really something which any 5000 old civilization does not deserved..forgive him with an exception..may be mentally sick guy he is..

nevermind:

I don't give a fiddler's fart how old this place is. Besides the fact you haven't evolved in 5000 years is not something to brag about. 

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If the thing happened just like what you said.....i'd do one of both........call me GF which sounds like a pussy talk but in my condition she is an officer of the law and i am the foreign dude who will get a nunchucks into his ass "Am not good at fighting"....or end the story the way you said it and let him get into his car and drive away and then i can say in chinese "ni you bin sheng jing bing" to the driver..........all my options sounds like pussy talk but sorry this is not my country..

P.S: When you said audi did you recognize the model of the car?!!.....just curious about this...have fetish for audi's

LAR:

Right on Crea..call in "John Law" or in your case "Jane Law"..^^. Yeah, it might have been better to let someone wearing a badge..someone with authority like your GF deal with the psycho driver. Jeeeeeeeez, what an idiot.

Oh bro, I'm the same with Audi's..BMW's,Mercedez-Benz..Lamborghini..anything European like that I love! :)

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laugh , blow them a kiss and stare them down, they always act like a pusillanimous.

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  Boring question. Nearly four months old. Any chance we just let it slip off into the realms of meaningless drivel from whence it sprang, hmm?

kchur:

My lord man there's an air of the familiar about you!

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