Shanghai China Snippets Observations about living in Shanghai and China in general

August 4, 2006

Zapatas Are You a Prostitute?

Filed under: Shanghai Life — Shanghai @ 1:11 am

It’s [tag]Friday[/tag] so this picture may be appropriate. The photo was sent to me by a friend and I have no idea whether it’s recent, old etc. I don’t feel like taking a taxi to [tag]Hengshan Lu[/tag], [tag]Shanghai[/tag] to check this. It is funny though.

Update: Marc writes that the sign was first put up in the spring of 2005 and he hasn’t seen it lately. It seems I am not really up-to-date….. Let’s just leave it at the fact that recycled news has a little value too, ok, very little

For those of the uninitiated, [tag]Zapatas[/tag] is a bar/disco where male expats pick up/try to pick up [tag]Chinese girls[/tag].
zapatas shanghai
It makes you wonder though how the conversation would go if some of the girls are daft enough to ask one of the “friendly” [tag]guards[/tag] for advice.

Hi, I am not sure whether I am a [tag]prostitute[/tag], can you help me?

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Gmail Technical Difficulties in China

Filed under: Chinese Multi Media — Shanghai @ 12:59 am

It gets a bit of a nuisance using [tag]gmail[/tag] in [tag]China[/tag].

gmail china slow

Instead of operating as it should, it regularly shows the message “We’re experiencing difficulties that may prevent your chats from being sent.”

This is a bit of a white lie, as at such moments I can’t read emails or send any. I am sure it is not intentional by [tag]Google[/tag] and I bet we can all blame the [tag]Netnanny[/tag] but it would have been nice if they had negotiated a better deal in letting gmail jump the firewall without a problem.

August 1, 2006

Mouding County Kills Almost All Chinese Dogs

Filed under: China News Soft — Shanghai @ 5:31 am

In a very pro-active fashion Mouding county in [tag]Yunnan[/tag] province, [tag]China[/tag] has killed almost all of his dogs. Noooo, not because they were hungry.
Chinese dogs

It has all been handled in a very harmonious way:

Goofy dog On Saturday, a woman was walking her dog – a small white animal she’d had for a long time – in a Yunnan Province alley.

Several men approached, talked her into handing them the leash and then beat the dog to death as the owner looked on in horror.

In an effort to fight against the spread of rabies 54,429 canines are now chasing cats in dog heaven. It seems rather drastic but then again there were already some casualties so time for rigorous action to squash all the [tag]Chinese[/tag] goofies and plutos.

Pluto dog Witnesses indicated the slaughter was often carried with the sort of dramatic elements found in a grade-B horror film.

Around midnight, shadows would flash along the walls of homes as men carrying clubs made noises to set the village dogs barking. Homing in on the sounds, the men would find their quarries, and the barks would be replaced by shrill yelps as the animals were dispatched.

Source: China Daily – 50.000 dogs killed

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