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Q: Paradoxes you love to see?
My favourite is seeing people sitting in Mcdonald's/KFC eating burgers, wearing adidas and Dolce Gabbana clothes and bags, holding their iPhones proudly while listening to rock music, and saying "foreigners suck" or stuff like that.
How about you?
i speak chinese, they speak english
i speak english, they speak chinese
Recognizing how bad the smog is here and insisting that hanging wet laundry outside allows the sun to 'sanitize' it.
My paradox may not be much of one, but it does bug me.
And it is how easily Chinese persons buy and wear T shirts or polos with sentences written in English without the least concern for the meaning displayed.
And some are funny, and some are outrageous........
I have seen " Buy me a Coke and I will bed you"; or " I am hot and willing"; "your home or mine", etc. If any are confronted, they act surprised and throw a lot of Chinese to you
Women
“Drinking alcohol is very dangerous”! As she drives off on an E-bike into 8 lanes of traffic with no helmet on.
markferrer:
and probably no headlights on at night too.
and driving on the wrong side of the road.
right?
An older woman sneering at me for smoking a cigarette while she blew a snot rocket out her nose onto the ground.
Sometimes I think we just stare at eachother in utter disbelief...
I go into a library to take a leak and on the way out there's a guy pissing ON the library right next to the front door.
Somebody walks by all the trees and garden areas, skips the unlocked bathroom in the old guard shack, and takes then energy to walk up the steps to go into my apartment building to pee in the elevator on a nearly weekly basis.
I'm hoping I get luck and catch the guy in the act, just so I can show him just how much I love it.
markferrer:
That's a religious belief. He pisses in a place where people will be sure to step in it because spreading his human waste to others is supposed to bring him good fortune.
mattaya:
Maybe he found the right spot. Many animals that urinate in a place mark that place as territory. It could be a sign or a signal...has he met you yet?
The biggest praradoxes I see in China is how foreigners complain on everything here but still insist on taking a life here.
I think the biggest paradox would be an uneducated racist who hates foreigners spending all her time posting on an expat website.
Having the heat turned on full blast in the entranceway or lobby of a building while the doors are constantly wide open.
Women think if they take the pill they'll never have children, so they prefer to constantly do abortions or take the "morning after pill". Because the "online doctors" said so. It's just mind-blowing.
Talking about how the table tops are so dirty, and then spitting fish bones, meat bones, grizzle, and every other unedible thing out onto the table top, and never stopping to wonder why it was so dirty.
Every time someone arrives somewhere, I'm all like "zeno oh shit"
'No smoking' signs in restaurants and ashtrays on the tables.
markferrer:
Bar owners smoking while standing next to thier own "no smoking" sign.
Presumably, they're the same person who put the sign up in the first place.
