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Q: What's your pet hate?
Mine doesn't like it when I stick my finger up its bum (Jimmy Carr joke). No, mine must be my mother in law. Does that count? In actual fact I've got so many I could open a pet hate shop, but if I listed them all you'd have nothing to add.
I could write reams related to this question in China but I will choose one of mt pet hates at random:
When I go into a shop or restaurant in China and there is a "Union Card" symbol on the counter, a POS card machine in front of me but they refuse to swipe my bank card (that happens to be a China Merchants Bank card issued in Mainland China) because I am a foreigner. How do they think I am going to cheat the freakin' thing? It will not authorize the transaction if the funds are not available.
I sometimes wonder if there is any end to the dumbassery here.
icnif77:
Merchant must accept your card, if your card is Union Pay! Tell them, you don't have cash or any other card to pay for the item.
I only use CMB ATM card, and I have never been refused in China.
How can you cheat merchant, when paying with ATM card? There are ways merchant can cheat you, but I've never heard for other way around.
royceH:
Icnif...the poster encounters the difficulty because the merchant is stupid. They're suffering an acute case of dumbassery ! Hahahahaha....word of the day...dumbassery. Har!
icnif77:
@royce: 'I'm not concern about 'dumbassary' mucho, if merchant's thing will let me 'free ride', or 'not paying for service/product'.
How merchant will get paid, if I only have CMB card? Either, he'll let me go free, or he'll swipe my card.
I rarely hate!
I think, hate is very 'unproductive' feeling..., as 'because of somebody/something is bad, I should suffer/hate'?, so I usually rather feel 'amused'
...'while looking 'down' from my high altitude
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mArtiAn:
Whoops, typing on my phone and hit the down thumb when I meant up. I hate it when that happens.
icnif77:
I can't believe, you would do that to me. You owe a beer or two....
mArtiAn:
Two beers is my daily ration and you can have one of them........when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
royceH:
Martian....suggest you up that daily ration to coax some circulation into those Charlton Heston fingers of yours.
Free suggestion.
icnif77:
Three (3) haters read my post! And they 'down/hate me'
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Hate makes you old, you dumb asses! I don't hate. I don't worry either. (Two) Periods.
People driving bikes or ebikes counterway and/or on the walking lane. I know it's kinda ridiculous, it's a drop of water in an ocean of bullshit, but since I walk or bike everyday, that's the most common exposure I have to the bullshit. Littering (I include the street pooping/peeing) comes a close second.
icnif77:
Why don't you (all) just look at 'pissing on the streets' as something usual in China? Similar as to 'why they (don't) eat with (f&knife) chopsticks?'.
I just eat with chopsticks, and when I need to piss, I mostly pay attention only to the wind's direction .
Is this called 'assimilation'?
DrMonkey:
Eating with chopsticks => does not do any harm
Pooping in the street => medieval era hygiene which contributes to public health problems and encourage not giving a damn about others ("everything is ok and nobody will say a thing, my own convenience comes first").
icnif77:
I agree with you on hygiene, however 'if something happened that often', I tend to classify it as 'usual/regular', and just join the crowd.
DrMonkey:
That's precisely that attitude that creates the "This is China" thing.
icnif77:
What should I do? Protest?
If I would have T-shirt printing machine, I'd go out with ''pissing against the wind is 'meiyou'-'meiyou'' as my 'opening' T-shirt.
Chinese don't consider public areas (streets) same as we do. In restaurants, they spit, puke and throw everything on the floor. They dump garbage as close as possible to their living spaces. You should see Jianou in Fujian. Nice farmland, with every cm of land planted, and piles of waste on the edge of arable land or river's banks.
I told Principal in Jianou, how we treat garbage and waste, or our National parks, and he replied: 'You should be our leader!' with 'smirk on his face'. Jianou, if clean would be a 'paradise' with million water streams.
This is China!
The surprising frequency of being told "mei you", when ordering at restaurants (Chinese, American fast food joints, etc....they're all just as likely to not have what I want).
I hate the dumbassery (Kaiwen's word of the month!). It's everywhere, and I'm frequently amazed that the people don't get sick of it themselves.
Why don't they ever take pause to ask themselves the question 'Why'? Like, "why am I doing this thing that I always do......it's unproductive and basically a waste of my time. So why am I doing it?"
And I also hate the blank stares. Don't they realise that by saying nothing and just going into blank stare mode they are actually doing the very thing that they're trying to avoid? That is; losing face. The blank stare response makes them appear as if they don't have a brain at all and are incapable of speech or thought. It makes them seem to be morons.
coineineagh:
You just gave me an idea. I'll snap a pic of every retard that gawks at me. Then show him the pic and joke: "sha bi"
I really hate when I'm crossing zebra on green light, I am almost on the other end, but that iDiot driver really really need to cut in between the curbs and my nose by 10 cm.
royceH:
Yes Nessy, I also hate that. They're just arseholes who don't give a flying fk about anybody or anything.
Poor people that are too stupid to accept money.
This drives me insane. Your poor, and your whole culture is about getting as much money as you can, but you turn it down because the situation isnt perfect at this particular time, or your just too stupid to function,
You can see your smokes on the shelf, but they tell you " meiyou" because they dont want to open a carton. WTF you sell smokes! Thats your living!!
Taxi drivers who wont go in a direction they dont like. I cant get past this, your poor, from some crap town and you need to put a kid through school. You dont like traffic?? Thats your god damned job!!! Become a painter for crying out loud. And its just stupidity , they are just sitting there collecting no money hoping for the perfect fare. No traffic to a destination that has many people will want to come back. You deserve your poverty.
Restaurants who now ,all of a sudden, dont offer delivery because there are clouds in the sky. This drives me insane. People usually want delivery because they dont want to go outside in shit weather!!!! Your just throwing away orders!!! You really think we are gonna walk over there now??
Shops that constantly sell out of the same item. There is no excuse for this. You are just burning money and making me hate you. There is a shop near my house that has by far the best BBQ pork in the area. But if you go after 5 or 6 there is no chance. It is sold out. Every single damn time. Who the hell is the manager there??? If it is sold out every day then dont you think someone along the line would stop and think " Hmmm we sell alot of this. We could easily sell more of this. We should prepare more!" But nope these morons just keep going on.
Does it make me a bad person that it actually makes me happy when I see these places go out of business?
royceH:
Yeah, it probably does, Mike. Self flagellate will you.
Get this one....the small shop under my building sells out of beer every second day. The simpleton knows I pop in every day to buy whatever cold beer he's got and it's an even money bet for him to tell me he hasn't got any.
What a fukn idiot! Nice fella though.
I'm gunna go down there now and see how lucky I am. I'll let you know how I get on.
mike695ca:
god that drives me crazy. They make a point to remember exactly what you like to order. They love to tell you the order before you get a chance to say it. But they are too stupid to make sure they actually have it for you.
royceH:
The laoban wasn't there...he and his wife have had to go on a mercy trip to Henan and they've left the shop in the hands of another couple while they're away. Anyhow, the bloke had a box of Wusu pi jiu and I bought it. The thing is, he had to ask me how much it was. HAR!!
The yelling/screeching. what in the flying fornication is that all about ????? They stand right next to each other and basically yell. Is it biological? Are they all half-deaf, like most of 'em are half-blind.
hey scientists out there... Do Han count as inbred ??
icnif77:
Loud talk usually determines ones deafness. Since, most of Chinese scream (women more than men), I'd say their ears are differently formed, similar as their eyes.
I wonder, who 'judge' how loud/powerful horns on vespas should be?
coineineagh:
yes, the Han are considerably more inbred than most other populations in the world. low immigration and intermarriage, and people stay close to their hometowns. the hukou system also doesnt help with this. i think the Han have very little variation in their DNA, thiugh appearances are not a good indicatiin of genetic diversity (africans are most diverse, but look much alike, for example). inbreeding can affect physical and mental health, though i'd attribute most of the problems in china to culture, TCM and so on. even 5000 years is a relatively short time for human inbreeding, and china has never been hermetically isolated. by the way, chinese language does not distinuish between inbreeding and incest, so be careful what you say to whom, as who knows how it can comeacross.
Shops switching off the drinks fridge on warm autumn days. And spring for that matter.
Switching off fridge at night, switchin it on in the morning, so drinks will be cold by lunchtime.
Turning the fridge to a low setting, so people won't catch a cold drinking cold drinks. BS.
Its mainly being out and about when people stop in the middle of a moving crowd and fail to see the sense to step aside and people stepping on my shoes (especially if they are white) on a bus and 2 or more people walking on the street and decide to block the whole path and you can't get past them.
People must think I'm weird I constantly blurt out English telling them to move.
dharma86:
Old ladies on a crowded buss kind of piss me off too they think they can bully their way into my comfortable standing position be leaning forcefully against me handbag sticking in my back and all.
Evasive, non committal answers to questions. They often begin with 'maybe....
