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Post by Raoul Duke on Mar 9, 2005 13:41:43 GMT 7
Spring Festival should end with the Lantern Festival, right? Everyone should be going back to their 200-yuan-a-month brick haulage jobs, right? So why am I still getting nightly barrages of fireworks? Why do the train and bus stations still look like a scene from the film Soylent Green? Why are the trains jammed to the ceilings with people in dirty brown sportcoats, clutching cheap red-and-blue-striped plastic bags full of reeking fresh fish and squealing live pigs? Oh, will our long national nightmare never come to an end?   |
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Post by George61 on Mar 9, 2005 19:39:43 GMT 7
Dunno about the trains, but we still got fireworks around here. Probably the leftovers. Probably because I am a sooooo relaxed baby, they don't bother me, but I feel for those of you, so uptight that you can't handle the noise. Take three valiums and call me in the morning.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Mar 9, 2005 23:27:09 GMT 7
I'm new enough to still enjoy the fireworks. But they happen all of the time - whenever a new hole is dug in the ground the construction workers let off fireworks. I figured the ones between Spring Festival and Lantern Festival were to welcome me back from Oz!!  And you have clearly forgotten Lei Feng Jie!! |
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Post by Lotus Eater on Mar 9, 2005 23:28:49 GMT 7
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Post by George61 on Mar 10, 2005 5:02:32 GMT 7
 HUH?? Ting Bu dong.
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Post by con's fly is open on Mar 10, 2005 7:26:32 GMT 7
NONE of my female acquaintances reminded me of it  (except you, Lotus). I overheard the info at my pub. Calgary gals let the team down.  |
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Post by Lotus Eater on Mar 10, 2005 7:26:34 GMT 7
Which part of 'ting' do you not 'dong'? You have forgotten Lei Feng Day - when all of the Chinese people rush round doing nice things for each other? Surely worth a few firecrackers. And George I am SURE you KNOW (we have ways of making you know  ) that March 8 was International Women's Day - you must have celebrated with the S. O. and been totally charming to all of the women in your institution. Again a day truly deserving of pyrotechnics. |
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Post by George61 on Mar 10, 2005 8:31:38 GMT 7
I want equality! When is International Men's Day?? Then I might have cause to celebrate. I did know about it. The girls in the office rushed up to tell me all about it. Even got offered a carton of milk to celebrate with....but, it was SOUR milk........figures!  |
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Post by Newbs on Mar 10, 2005 14:11:56 GMT 7
George of course raises a good point about International Mens Day, but to bring this thread back to the original topic. Spring Festival? Fair go, give em a chance. They haven't finished taking down the Christmas decorations in some shops in Hangzhou. First things first, Raoul.
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Post by George61 on Mar 10, 2005 15:12:16 GMT 7
Newbs, in some places Xmas decorations are permanent. They stay up till next Xmas, and only get changed when something different comes on the market,or they fade. This also happens with Spring Festival decorations. Remember, as Lotus said, fireworks are not just for SF.....they have a multiplicity of reasons for letting off.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Mar 12, 2005 1:17:47 GMT 7
George is right. A first...somebody write this down! They aren't Christmas decorations, they're pretty. And hey, they're classy, too. The fact that it's July will not alter this fact. Trust us.  I don't mind the fireworks, I'm just used to All Quiet On The Eastern Front after the Lantern Festival. Something is different this year. And I am completely bent out of shape over the trains and buses...travel is still a total nightmare. Thank God I'm stoned.  |
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Post by George61 on Mar 12, 2005 1:40:03 GMT 7
...the mind boggles!!  Oh, thank you for acknowledging my correcticity! |
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