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Q: What's the absolutely weirdest thing you have ever seen in China?
I just, for the second time, saw a CAMEL in a parking spot at Mcdonalds.... A CAMEL. This is Shenzhen! This is way beyond a "this is China" moment. Who the hell has a camel? Super Strange.
I'm in the south but not Shenzhen, I've seen a camel a couple times already after 5+ years in China.
Meh.
Someone standing on TOP of a [western style] toilet.. no clue!!!.
mike695ca:
haha ive seen it... dude standing squatting on a western toilet with the door open...... wtf?
DrMonkey:
I think the rational is to avoid having their bare skin touching any part that can have been touched by someone else. Something in the tune of "if someone made a mess, I won't be impacted, even if it means that myself make a mess". Selfish logic.
Scandinavian:
It's equally odd that people do this on park benches. "OOoohhh, everything is dirty", maybe if people stopped making everything dirty it would not be needed"
Red_Fox:
I've never actually seen anyone plant their feet on a Western toilet seat. (Maybe coz I don't barge in on the squatters when the toilet stall door is closed or even ajar.) But I can contest to a great deal of evidence when I want to use the same commode: footprints, urine and other undesirable elements on the toilet seat when I wanna sit down and answer nature's call. Yeah, it's not fun or funny.
mArtiAn:
I had to put a sign up in my toilet saying "Please don't stand on the seat, i'm getting footprints on my bum" when I was teaching from home back in Shenzhen.
royceH:
Heheheheh.... 4 years here rapidly approaching and still never used a squatter! Methinks I never will!
People who cannot read/write/speak English running English programs...and then having the audacity to tell a fully qualified native English speaker with 15 years of experience IN CHINA how to teach English.
Well, honeychild, lambie pooh, the eye of my life, the strangest that I darn have saw in China was a SOBER Ossie....I ain't see too many of those in my days here and I even tried to give the poor creature a breathalyzer but being what he is, he had other ideas about what should go in his mouth. I told him that he was fair dinkum darn crude.
a totally naked guy walking in the street in the daytime. i mean totally.
mArtiAn:
Yeh, i've seen that a few times. What got me though was there were more people looking at me than at him, and I wasn't even naked. I had my codpiece on.
Seen an old man doing backflips in the park, a girl clutching her purse and being dragged down the street behind a motorbike, a f***ing BUNCH of naked dudes (not at like a party or nothing, I mean in the street, on separate occasions, they weren't holding a rally or something), an old man taking a duck for a walk, the list goes on.....
mike695ca:
jesus. im not sure if that means i gotta get out more or if i should spend even more time at home
I saw a little guy in an orange robe burst into flames once.
Somewhere in the west if I do recall.
Sometimes it's what we don't see that is weird...
Anyone else notice the complete lack of birds?
mArtiAn:
Actually yeh, you see more on barbeque sticks than you do in the air. In Liuzhou and Guilin I used to joke that even birds don't fly through China, but here in Nanning they seem to be more common.
xinyuren:
no squirrels, birds, or small mammals of any kind. They are too good eatin' to leave them alive. I even read an article where someone was releasing doves for photos and the locals caught'em and cooked'em in no time.
royceH:
There's birds here Iron. Not big birds, admittedly...but birds. Lots actually. And they make bird like noises too. They're real I reckon. Even now in the freezing cold they're out and about. They fly in a bunch...a stack... they do patterns in the air.
I really like the fact I see birds here. Don't recall there were too many in my previous city, Qingdao. However, it did have ocean, and that was pretty cool.
An old guy with a long-necked turtle in a rope cradle hanging from a two metre stick standing at a crossroads.
I once saw a person from another country! He actually looked different from me, different hair color, different skin color. I was so excited that I had to shout, "Kan kan! Waiguoren!" while taking pictures that would soon be all over my Renren page.
The next time I see one of these odd creatures, I might work up the courage to yell, "Hello foreigner! Where are you from!?" That'll totally endear me to their people.
3 car gridlock - seems to have no solution without a 4th party giving suggestions. I've witnessed this where one of the cars was a police car.
Whats the absolute wierdest thing you have seen in China?
chinese 
joke... uhm i saw a little ebike carrying 5m high and 3m wide cartonage around
