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Post by acjade on Jun 21, 2005 11:29:43 GMT 7
What's the most unaesthetic phenomena you have observed throughout the kingdom?
My vote has to go to the ankle stockings.
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Post by hankuh on Jun 21, 2005 11:36:24 GMT 7
Ankle stockings are pretty bad; I would add, those Frankenstein boots, some women wear in the winter. It must elevate them a good five or six inches. Also, I see this more where I live, men wear these simulated black leather jackets, and reminding me of underworld hooligans, which they probably are. The white ceramic tiles.....yeesh...... a few weeks ago, I went to a vocational technical college here, and it was just recently built. The library looked like it was built with nice red bricks. I walked over there, and soon found out after touching the image of cement, that's right, it was those ceramic tiles.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 21, 2005 11:42:13 GMT 7
You mean 'kitsch', of course, Professor.  The ankle stockings are bad, all right. They can make even the sweetest young thing look like your granny from the knees down. Ugh. I also don't like the Assrammer TM shoes with the long exaggerated points that ladies wear here. Loud plaid suits (a la this week's cover picture) are pretty unsightly as well. I still think the King of Kitsch, however, is my snowglobe containing a golden bust of Chairman Mao; ingots of gold replace the usual plastic snow. It just don't come much uglier than this.  |
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Post by acjade on Jun 21, 2005 11:53:05 GMT 7
You mean 'kitsch', of course, Professor. [/quote  So sue me... And whilst you're at it big daddy, how do you spell the alcoholic version? |
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Post by acjade on Jun 21, 2005 12:00:17 GMT 7
And why do the restaurant employees go on parade outside their restaurants. Is it some sort of team building exercise?
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Post by George61 on Jun 21, 2005 12:29:59 GMT 7
KIR ...of course!
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Post by acjade on Jun 21, 2005 12:50:43 GMT 7
As in KIR...PLOP?
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Post by Lotus Eater on Jun 21, 2005 13:16:51 GMT 7
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Post by Lotus Eater on Jun 21, 2005 13:28:12 GMT 7
Nope - got it wrong - the really most unaesthetically pleasing sight in the entire Middle Kingdom is the pile of papers and exams I have to mark!  |
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 21, 2005 20:31:39 GMT 7
And why do the restaurant employees go on parade outside their restaurants. Is it some sort of team building exercise? Ja, it's supposed to be a team builder. And a discipline builder. And exercise. So it's good for the restaurant and the employee; I'm sure the publicity it generates genuinely never enters a manager's mind. If he has one. This phenomenon isn't normally unsightly, though...just weird. |
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Post by Ruth on Jun 21, 2005 22:01:31 GMT 7
You can't see it very well, but she has pantyhose on. The lines are really obvious at the thigh level and the waistband of the hose is w-a-y above the allegedly sexy costume waistline. The bra straps showed, too. Looked ultra-tacky to me. Not sure what the guys thought.  |
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Post by gengrant on Jun 22, 2005 0:21:56 GMT 7
but if one was watching this on CCTV-9, I bet you couldn't even see those 'tacky' lines!  I do agree though...the picture is high on the tacky side! |
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Post by George61 on Jun 22, 2005 2:43:16 GMT 7
Clear plastic bra straps! Werry kitschy!!
Pantyhose are disgusting in any society!
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Post by gengrant on Jun 22, 2005 3:51:02 GMT 7
of course, the 70's shirt on the guy behind her is very vogue!  |
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Post by acjade on Jun 22, 2005 6:52:23 GMT 7
of course, the 70's shirt on the guy behind her is very vogue!  Hey isn't that the singer who used to be called Prince? |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 22, 2005 7:19:13 GMT 7
Should have called this thread, "Kitsch in China". Then we could have done crockery jokes.
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Post by George61 on Jun 22, 2005 7:20:44 GMT 7
Kitsch in Where?
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Post by acjade on Jun 22, 2005 7:30:40 GMT 7
Crockery whatsies?  |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 22, 2005 7:39:03 GMT 7
Yet another oz wind-up product. Kitsch in appliances.
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Post by George61 on Jun 22, 2005 8:30:16 GMT 7
For those household chores.....Kitsch in sinks!
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Post by acjade on Jun 22, 2005 8:37:21 GMT 7
For those household chores.....Kitsch in sinks! That would be mine. Especially this morning with no water YET A BLOODY GAIN. NO power or water yesterday. The resrves in my spare buckets are now strictly for the loo.  |
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Post by woza17 on Jun 22, 2005 9:09:32 GMT 7
Hiking along the beautiful coastline in Dalian.
Three trees made of concrete and meant to look like those trees you see in Chinese paintings, walk a bit further a couple of concrete giraffes made to scale.
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Post by acjade on Jun 22, 2005 9:16:38 GMT 7
Hiking along the beautiful coastline in Dalian. Three trees made of concrete and meant to look like those trees you see in Chinese paintings, walk a bit further a couple of concrete giraffes made to scale. Did you get the photograph? This I have to see.  |
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Post by George61 on Jun 22, 2005 10:13:48 GMT 7
They require less maintenance than real trees. Here, in Shandong, we are in love with plastic palms(complete with coconuts) and fairy lights.
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Post by acjade on Jun 22, 2005 10:20:49 GMT 7
Here in Xi'an they are in love with real trees so give them all the water. We get the coconuts and fairylights. Unlit of course because of the power shortages.
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