Giovanni Martini wrote:

BauLuo wrote:

Giovanni Martini wrote:

Ever been in a Chinese supermarket surrounded by shelves of Chinese vinegar(quote)

Sounds like a tale of ethnic violence. The Bai Mi Cu Rebellion or some such.

Speaking of rebellions, I sometimes ask my students what the hell was the Taiping Rebellion all about. Reply `Don't know much about it'. If it ain't on Douyin it don't exist.

In one account I read of the Taiping Rebellion, in Zhenjiang, where I was living at the time, it was stated that corpses so filled the canal that people crossed the canal walking on the rotting corpses that filled the canal. I used to ponder that every time I took the bus downtown and crossed the canal.

It'd be like walking on tightly-packed garbage sacks with sticks (bones) among the soft parts. You'd tend to sink in. Not to mention the convulsive puking the smell induces. As literature, not bad; as history, fanciful. The canal may well have been corpse packed. No one was skipping the bridge to walk on dead folks.

Well I wasn't there myself to witness, but I can readily imagine all bridges blasted to smitheroons (war and all) and a person needing to go A to B, hence a little sloppy foot and miasma ain't no big deal when xiao liu is a waiting for ya with her eager beaver.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

Ever been in a Chinese supermarket surrounded by shelves of Chinese vinegar(quote)

Sounds like a tale of ethnic violence. The Bai Mi Cu Rebellion or some such.

Ya take 250 ml 9度醋，mince up three cloves of garlic. 起床后第一件事， Gargle and swallow. Aint no werewolves, vampireens, ... not nobody， gonna mess wi you.

A summary of my experience of getting from England to Guangzhou.

4th Jan – Get visa in London.

26th Jan – To North London for Day 1 NAT and blood test.

1st Feb – To North London Day 7 NAT and blood test.

2nd Feb – To Heathrow for late evening flight to Helsinki.

3rd Feb - Arrived early morning Helsinki. PCR test. Overnight on bench in Helsinki airport. Late afternoon flight to Shanghai.

4th Feb – Arrived 8:15 a.m. Shanghai Pudong. Three hours of queueing for testing and quarantine hotel. One hour’s travel to Home Inn quarantine hotel. Another hour to get to room.

18th Feb – Early morning bus from hotel to Shanghai Hongqiao airport. Depart late afternoon to GuangZhou (CAN). Arrived and taken to quarantine centre. Waited for 3.5 hours for transport to our apartment

25th Feb – Home quarantine ends, various forms signed, Guangzhou health code turns green. Register at local police station in the afternoon.

Museum of Broken Relationships is originally from Zagreb, Croatia, just like Shanghai's Museum of Illusions. So these are franchises.
Huode 3D is nice visit, just like 798.

But National museum on Tiananmen is huge dissapointment. 3rd largest museum in the world and except basement China History part, nothing else to see. Waste of space.

John Farnworth wrote:

Where in Beijing is Paddy O`Shea`s i am guessing Sanlitun?

There is an app called `Baidu' sorta like a Chinese Google. Ya go there , ya type in `Paddy O'sheas Beijing' an bobs yer uncle. Ifn ya can't read Chinese, there's a little translation icon up on right hand corner of web address banner, and bob is still yer uncle.

Where in Beijing is Paddy O`Shea`s i am guessing Sanlitun?

Giovanni Martini wrote:

BauLuo wrote:

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Yet, not all of these are harbingers of misfortune since it is also a crucial season for crop growth, and a well-timed typhoon can also help cool down the weather and clean up the air.(unquote)

You might want to be careful when and where you say that. My Uncle Bert lost a leg caught in a cotton gin once. Or maybe he was caught with his secretary Ginny and a bottle of Gin by Crazy Angina his first wife who swung a mean cleaver. Anyhow, he suffered a mishap that unlegged him. When I told him, "Look at the bright side---now you only have to buy new socks half as often!" he kicked my butt. No mean feat for a one-legged man.

Gino clearly bin hiting the baijiu hard. Give him a day and two,he'll be fine and dandy.

I'm not the one singin' to typhoon viccims, "Always look on the bright side of life...!"

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I shouldn't ought to have said "typhoon victims." "Typhoon Vixens" sounds more intruiguing. Like a porno series: "Typhoon Vixens Comfort New Orleans," "Typhoon Vixens Comfort Guang Dong," "Typhoon Vixens Console Macao," etc. etc. This elite corps of erotic warriors go doing whatever they do to relieve typhoon related trauma across the globe. Maybe their Ragnarork style climactic battle, "Typhoon Vixens Dominate Monkey Pox."

[/quote] Truth be known, I could use me a couple of them Vixens. Lickity split cast them my a ways, couldja dear?

This is by far the most interesting item on the Beijinger. I would rather read this than any `foodie' jazz ya gots to splay.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

Are they hard to learn? When I was a kid my dad, Giuseppe, (a.k.a., Papa Pepe, Martini Joe) used to alla time snarl, "Gozzamm radicals!" and throw a half-empty beer can TV-wards. Maybe if had learnt his Chinese, he'd be an Alzhammered ol' colorful character roamin' the streets of the Jing today, intead of hallucinatin' the plaster off them Oval Office walls like he is.

Look, they're like basic things, : water, dirt, fire, male, female, this and that and the other thing. Of course a conceptual representaation of language is a helluva ineffeciant way to represent language, compared to a phonic representation as concepts are endless and phonemes are relatively limited. Jus check out your IPA, Maybe 360 meaningful sounds a human can enounce, Including burps and gurgles.