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Q: What is one of the funniest things and strangest things you see Chinese do regularly?

For me, the funniest thing for me to watch is a Chinese person trying to parallel park or back their car into a parking space. It is just so entertaining to me. The strangest thing for me when I first arrived was seeing how the young people dress. The young women looked like streetwalkers. And the young men looked like gay twinks heading out to the local gay bars. But, I soon realized that this is just another way the Chinese youth have gotten the western culture revolution all Chinglished.

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Strange (gross) thing I see in SZ all the time is these fat, middle-aged guys wandering around with their shirts pulled up over their porcine bellies all the while dangling a cigarette out of the corner of their mouth.   I feel sorry for Chinese women...

sorrel:

aka the 'Beijing bikini'


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oh, so it's not just SZ...  

    too bad for China~

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It's everywhere in China. As is the rolled up trousers to go with it.

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Only one trouser leg is rolled up, thus proving they are fkn idiots.

@Diver... it's not the fashion sense of the men that makes life difficult/dangerous for the Chinese womenfolk, it's the baijiu.

 

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agree about the baijiu/pijiu.  everyday I walk through my neighborhood and I must walk by 10 places where guys are out drinking/smoking/playing cards in the middle of the day.  get a job u buncha bums~  yeah, I know Chiner is plagued by under-employment, but u would think they would notice that and take steps to reduce their ridiculous population, and to find a way to develop the country into a self-sustaining entity instead of continuing to cram all the people into a few places (SZ,GZ,BJ,SH) thereby ensuring those places eventual deterioration.    ok, rant over.   

*for some reason those friggin rolled-up trousers just really piss me off..  looks fkn stupid

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The way to do major projects in China, an allegory

For the fashionable guys looking like hermaphrodite, it not Western fashion chinglished, it's a rip-off of Korean fashion, itself strongly inspired from Japanese fashion trends.

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Strange (gross) thing I see in SZ all the time is these fat, middle-aged guys wandering around with their shirts pulled up over their porcine bellies all the while dangling a cigarette out of the corner of their mouth.   I feel sorry for Chinese women...

sorrel:

aka the 'Beijing bikini'


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oh, so it's not just SZ...  

    too bad for China~

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It's everywhere in China. As is the rolled up trousers to go with it.

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Only one trouser leg is rolled up, thus proving they are fkn idiots.

@Diver... it's not the fashion sense of the men that makes life difficult/dangerous for the Chinese womenfolk, it's the baijiu.

 

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agree about the baijiu/pijiu.  everyday I walk through my neighborhood and I must walk by 10 places where guys are out drinking/smoking/playing cards in the middle of the day.  get a job u buncha bums~  yeah, I know Chiner is plagued by under-employment, but u would think they would notice that and take steps to reduce their ridiculous population, and to find a way to develop the country into a self-sustaining entity instead of continuing to cram all the people into a few places (SZ,GZ,BJ,SH) thereby ensuring those places eventual deterioration.    ok, rant over.   

*for some reason those friggin rolled-up trousers just really piss me off..  looks fkn stupid

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I guess for me it's when they go shopping in their pyjamas and house slippers. 

DrMonkey:

I live in front of a student dorm. I see couples going out like that, in assorted pajamas. "This is *REAL* love" :D

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Yeah the parking is a classic. I like the confused looks on the driver's faces when they have their friends directing them in or out of the park... come on people, you just need to go backwards ! 

 

For me, seeing parents hand feeding their kid and actually putting the food in his / her mouth, or standing in the bathroom cubicle supervising while the kid takes a crap, when the kid is obviously at an age where they can do these things themselves is very strange to me. Not really funny but definitely strange.

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A.K.A the 32-point turn. They were doing road construction near my place, put up a barrier in the middle of the road. Everyone would do the 32-point turn right at the end of the barrier rather than driving 10 meters further down where they could easily turn around without having to block traffic for half an hour.

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Walking backwards. Using parasols. Lick their chopsticks.

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Other things that deserve a mention are the obligatory fight to decide who pays the restaurant bill, wearing long johns and thick clothes in the middle of summer, taking birds in cages for a walk, vastly overloaded vehicles, tricycles etc., and squeezing as many people into a taxi as possible to avoid the cost of an extra one.

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Facegaining.
on a sidenote, my wife bought a cover for her new phone. hers isn't an iPhone, but the cover is meant for one. it's called iFace…
that cracked me up, but what surprised me, was that it's made in Korea, all english packaging, intended for foreign markets. yay, Asia exports Face now. i mean iFace.

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The shirt over the belly thing is hilarious. Parking is also really funny. I watched a woman trying to do a 3 point turn in a bike lane, although it was more of a 47 point turn as there wasn't room to do a 3 point turn. She ended up pretty much getting herself wedge between a pole and a planter box. There were about 40 ebikes backed up on each side of her. A policeman pulled up as I was laughing and taking pictures. He laughed at me laughing at her.

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I know chinese will pick their nose anywhere but i find it hilarious that Chinese people seem to think that their car is an invisibility cloak. They dive deep. Look at it and go back for more. Totally oblivious to the fact that everyone can see them. They never notice when i take pictures for my nose picking in cars collage. Or if my phone isnt handy i like to honk to get their attention and then wave and laugh. Only about half understand they should feel embaressed.

Bonus points for the 3 grown men in suits riding a scooter. Or as i like to call it : The highspeed train.

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I have to snicker when I'm in line at a fast food joint, because the act of ordering a a sandwich it is of those theoretically simple things that gets elevated to rocket science here. In a typical place, it's because they ask a million idiotic questions that could be answered with a little common sense and/or basic sitational awareness. I can't even count the times I have been starving or in a hurry, and the genius in front of me is like, 'Do you have chicken sandwiches? Do I pay extra for fries and a drink? How many fries will you give me? Can I meet the chicken first? If you give me a drink, do you also provide the cup? So, this MacDonalds acceps payment in rmb, right? ' 

 

Subway is even better, because all the choices available really throws them for a loop. The look on their faces when they are trying to decide which bread to get...it's what I thought Inca parents must have looked like when they had to decide which of their two children they would sacrifice. People who think that voting in China should be a thing need to see these people trying to decide if they want onions on their tuna melts or not...

Robk:

Can I meet the chicken first? 

 

Hahaha...

 

"No! He is anti-social chicken and no want meet you! You too ugly and dumb!"

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Rush into the subway before letting people get off. 

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Love the answers. Keep them coming. Everyone is spot on with these. Now, imagine is they did this in your home country. ha ha.

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Love the answers. Keep them coming. Everyone is spot on with these. Now, imagine is they did this in your home country. ha ha.

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Wearing masks everywhere outside of China. 

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Now I'm not joking, Ive seen it many times, those who walk and crash into a glass walk or hit their head on something like shelf.

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Letting their feral children pee and poo outside their swanky apartment buildings, in lobbies or even in elevators . I had to scold s farmer ago not to let the kid she was taking of not to do that. 

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Facial moles with 4" hairs growing from them. I have no idea why the hairs dont get snipped off.

Stiggs:

I've seen those, sometimes the hairs can be really long. I always get the urge to yank the hairs out.

 

I was told a hairy mole on your face is good luck.... I'll be f***** if I understand how.

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No need to have a mole, there is a 30 years old guy at my office who has 3 or 4 really long hair on his neck, he can't grow any beard of mustache, I told him a month ago to shave it because it will look cleaner, he still has it.

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Maybe he's going for the bad ass biker look.

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Yeah, they say its good luck. How people can be so shallow yet keep that horrible thing confuses me. Once there was this super hot chick everyone was talking about. The hottest thing ever. Finally a few weeks later i met her. She had this mole on her face with a few 7 inch hairs hanging out of it. It wasnt just blowing in the breeze but it was alive! Like that tree of life from the Avatar. Strangest instance ive ever seen of that. She instantly dropped from a 9 down to untouchable.

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Sort of begs the question... How long are the longest mole hairs you have seen in china.....

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Worshiping anyone who got money, seems to be the norm here? I mean seriously there are always Chinese people telling me "Oh this person has so much money, their car costs a million RMB and they own some land or building, they Hi-Fi system also costs a million RMB", now how I hear it "This person has money, you have less, so be impressed and worship them like gods" and what I think "Good on them", usually they realize after some time that it doesn't seem to work with foreigners, but there is always that guy, each time I meet him he can't help himself but brag about others' assets like "You see, there are Chinese who got more money than you", I really feel bad for him, compensating his weak ego with some racial pride.

Garbo:

When that tart got divorced from Rupert Murdoch one of my Chinese friends thought she was so clever getting so much money. I told her that most foreigners thought she was nothing but a hooker. 

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Now that is a complex issue Garbo. If you set out to get a rich partner and succeed, then I have no problem with that. A prostitute might be forced into their job, for example. If they use their skill to escape their enslavement then good on them. They deserve a new start. I dont think its good to judge people on upbringings they had no control over.

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Point well taken Scott.

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Vicky on ecc

Spiderboenz:

...ok?

 

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I am Vicky and I am drunk now.

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posted from iphone 6 plus

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I am not drunk yet... maybe a few more White Russians will do the trick! 

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You are not!

You are Beth, Sylvia, or Doris.

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Oh my little spider.I am so thirlled to see you crawlling in my second zoo here.

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