woza17
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Post by woza17 on Jun 22, 2005 10:25:14 GMT 7
Don't have a camera but if you make your way up here I will show you them. I once asked my son if I could borrow his digital camera. "mum, if it was anybody else I would"  |
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Post by acjade on Jun 22, 2005 10:27:12 GMT 7
 What's a digital camera. Would love to come and visit. Perhaps Phyllis can come to. We need to talk with that girl.
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Post by woza17 on Jun 22, 2005 10:33:57 GMT 7
Spot on Jade. The girl can tell a good yarn. I am sorry the boys are missing out on this. They can read the book when it comes out.
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 22, 2005 20:01:10 GMT 7
It's hard to sink lower than the ankle nylons. Men in salmon-coloured trousers. The obnoxious TV commercials. Summer hats, the meshy ones. And 90% of the damn Chinese pop music on the train.  |
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Post by Lotus Eater on Jun 22, 2005 23:33:48 GMT 7
The music on the trains I travel on is western - Auld Lang Syne, Yesterday Once More, Jingle Bells. Chinese pop has to be better than that!
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Post by gengrant on Jun 23, 2005 0:15:59 GMT 7
and maybe some nice Kitsch in cupboards!  I'm sure anything is better than listening to Christmas music in June or July or any other time than Christmastime... |
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 23, 2005 7:07:02 GMT 7
The music on the trains I travel on is western - Auld Lang Syne, Yesterday Once More, Jingle Bells. Chinese pop has to be better than that! Face it: Chinese pop is MODELLED on that. |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 23, 2005 21:53:07 GMT 7
Those stupid womens pants that only come down to midcalf, and tapered to calf diameter. I don't know why, but I hate them. They also come in patterns that would shame a golfer.
People walking around with their shirts rolled up. It annoys the part of me that had a strict upbringing.
TV blaring loudly at restaurants but no one is watching, even in private rooms. Well, that should be on the "why oh why" thread but what the hell, I'll put it here anyway.
The Girlie has a christmas tune on her mobile. I am waiting for the right moment to explain how much it pains me, but the only time I remember is when she is answering the phone.
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Post by George61 on Jun 24, 2005 1:25:34 GMT 7
Speaking of mobiles, how about all those dingly-dangly things they load them with??
I tell my students that thousands of people work night and day to make mobiles that are smaller, lighter, and less cumbersome, but thousands of Chinese work night and day to make stuff to hang on them.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Jun 24, 2005 4:30:11 GMT 7
People walking around with their shirts rolled up. It annoys the part of me that had a strict upbringing. It's called airconditioning. Friend and I had a competition this summer to see who could photograph the first one. We still have an on-going comp to see who can photograph the best one. Enter one and all - I'll get a real beer out of it!! Trying to change her already - not a good move!! They are cooler than full length pants, show a bit of shapely leg, and are still useful for riding pillion on bikes and motorbikes, and sitting in class with little children or with the legs apart without being indiscreet (maybe that's why you don't like them!!)  |
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Post by Nate M on Jun 24, 2005 6:07:26 GMT 7
I also don't like the Assrammer TM shoes with the long exaggerated points that ladies wear here. What about the ones guys wear here? They're almost as bad! When I came to China the first time, I went to this festival and found loads of uninteresting crap. One thing that caught my eye, though, was this metal pendant, about the size of a guitar pick and maybe 1/8" thick, hanging from a necklace. The pendant was shaped like a heart, and had a rotating center, so you could spin the smaller middle heart around and see both sides. One one side, was of course the obligatory image of Mao. On the other, we had Buddha! I still kick myself on a daily basis for not getting it. |
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 24, 2005 11:24:35 GMT 7
Around here, men's summerwear of choice is an open-collar shirt and slacks in the gaudiest colours: salmon, teal, lavender, lime...
Dashiqiao looks like Miami Vice Night at a gay bar.
Is this a local phenomenon, or is all of male China dressing like Crockett and Tubbs met a clowning convention?
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Post by acjade on Jun 24, 2005 11:33:41 GMT 7
Not a lot of that here. In the village it's the rolled up T-shirt and rolled up daks and slip ons. On campus the male Chinese English teachers are usually in slacks and an open necked shirt.
But there's a small collective of students who wear hip hop gear and pork-pie hats. They look like a little weird but a lot of the guys who just wear standard hip-hop look attractive. One of my students told me they like wearing big clothes because it makes them look stronger. The guys in the pork-pies don't. They look like a lost convention of jockeys.
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Post by CarryAnn on Jun 24, 2005 11:55:05 GMT 7
Hey everybody I'm baaaaaack. Apols for absence due to end of semester workload, trying to find new employment, visitors from home and a whole lot of other lame excuses. Where do you get the time???
I'm really feeling flat after learning that the exposed male Chinese chest is an experience enjoyed by others as well. I honestly thought that all those men walking towards me with rolled up shirts exposing their manly goodies for my benefit were, in the manner of inflated avian throats and spread peacock tails, doing so as part of some bizarre mating ritual.
How disappointing to learn that this is not so. A quick calculation re the 9 months gestation would see the delivery of an appropriate by-product in the spring - perfect timing!
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 24, 2005 12:11:42 GMT 7
CarryAnn!  j (Don't worry, I'm raiding Nobby's tab, and since Newbs is moving home...) We find the time by neglecting our students. DUH! What have they done for us lately? Good Chinese kitsch: do y'all have the freaky mannequins? The ones with the spiky hair and excessive belly-laughing open mouths? Equal parts funny and scary. |
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Post by CarryAnn on Jun 24, 2005 15:25:19 GMT 7
Warning thread subject change ahead. What have they done for me lately Con? Well I don't like to brag but here goes .... this week at the end of my last class at the high school the whole class sang me a beautiful song to the tune of Hey Jude which brought a tear to my eye. It went something like this "Hey Carry, you are so sweet. You are the sunshine that we have every week. Teaching us so many useful things, you are so great, we will miss you. second verse... Carry we wanna (yes they said "wanna") thank you. You are so great just like the sunshine. Remember you always make us happy. You are so good. We will miss you."  Apart from that, not much really. And why, oh why (should this be in the Why Oh Why thread?) did two kids who I thought couldn't even speak English leave it until the very last class to ask me almost fluently whether they could have my phone number because they really like talking to me? Huh? |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 28, 2005 15:04:55 GMT 7
What about Kitsch in the Bathroom? Have you seen Lotus's Toilet! I mean, imprisoning that small dog in a room with a liberace poster.
What goes on there? Minds boggle. This is possibly worse than the rumoured Raoul's relief region, and may actually be worse than the ground floor gents of this establishment.
(Look Upstairs in Da Crib.)
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 28, 2005 15:42:30 GMT 7
Latest sighting: navy blue shirt, pale pastel pink trousers. I'm not making this up.
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Post by acjade on Jun 29, 2005 1:38:43 GMT 7
Latest sighting: navy blue shirt, pale pastel pink trousers. I'm not making this up. You found Elvis? People have been looking for him everywhere. |
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Post by gengrant on Jun 29, 2005 5:29:22 GMT 7
This Kitsch takes the cake: guys who are obviously old enough to be out of school walking around with their last year's uniform on...or the ladies who go shopping for groceries in their pj's...I tried to do that once, but never made it out of my building...I just couldn't bring myself to go out looking like that!  |
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Post by acjade on Jun 29, 2005 22:08:53 GMT 7
This Kitsch takes the cake: guys who are obviously old enough to be out of school walking around with their last year's uniform on...or the ladies who go shopping for groceries in their pj's...I tried to do that once, but never made it out of my building...I just couldn't bring myself to go out looking like that! Bets are on boys. I give him him six weeks. Especially if he arrives in the summer. In winter I guess he could disguise his PJs underneath a long woollen coat. |
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Post by gengrant on Jun 30, 2005 10:35:56 GMT 7
careful, AJ...in the summertime I go 'Commando'  |
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 30, 2005 11:55:55 GMT 7
careful, AJ...in the summertime I go 'Commando'  doesn't count unless you're wearing a kilt.  that way, you risk the ol' Marilyn Monroe on the windy days. |
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Post by acjade on Jun 30, 2005 22:41:49 GMT 7
careful, AJ...in the summertime I go 'Commando' doesn't count unless you're wearing a kilt.  that way, you risk the ol' Marilyn Monroe on the windy days. Now wouldn't that be a sight to be behold. Tall rangy Texan wandering through the village in a kilt. |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jul 1, 2005 8:44:13 GMT 7
Also, a fine example of Kitsch. In any time or place. Especially with a 'Marylin' happening.  |
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