Hua Guofang

I'll bet my magical third testicle that he had the can facing backwards to get that black all over himself like that.

dude needs to rock a back patch to be down with me.

...Beiber threads.

lol. And that Jurne is seriously reefuckingdonkulous. How much funk can be crammed in to a single word?!

Fresh. Dope. Illin. Fire.

Got boring.

Shit, is Courtney Love even still alive? I just assumed she was dead.

I love the letters in ACHE and sometimes wish I'd taken that rather than MAO49 or FASHN. I never even thought of letter structure and flow when I grabbed those words. But MEK is right, it's what you make of it.

@ Mercer - judging a country as large and diverse as China on one or two cities is like judging the US on Detroit and small town East Texas. I'm no great fan of Beijing and Hubei either but Shanghai, Hong Kong and Qingdao are pretty awesome places. Chengdu, Hangzhou, Dali and some other joints are supposed to be awesome, you rarely hear a bad word about them. I've never been to those joints though. Filipino man-sluts on tour -

Graffitious and rando shite These are unborn chicks cooked in their eggs. I ate a bunch of shit including insects and whatnot but I did not eat this. There are limits. this, on the other hand is delish - Shanghai sweets and pastries Was pokey but I miss this little pad This door don't snitch....

Music festival and nightlife -

Was taken out to the "Gunpowder Underground" one day by a local shopkeeper I used to chat with. It's the black market for fireworks that springs up in Hebei every year around Spring Festival (lunar new year). This is where fireworks that are banned or only supposed to be sold to licensed operators (shit the size of soccer balls you put in home-made mortar tubes, I shit you not). the larger room was pretty scary. It was in a basement that was full of people with one little doorway in and out. A dude went to light a cigarette in there (as I said, no sense of self-preservation), the staff went ape-shit and I went out the fucking door. Randomness

Looking forward to hearing how all that panned out! ^^^ In the mean time, Beijing, over a number of years and most recently, about 2 weeks back. View from my old apartment: Clear day - Not so clear - and yes, this is pollution, don't let anyone tell you that it's fog Off the fucking scale day - again, this is NOT fog, it's pollution largely from the coal fire power stations in Hebei around Beijing. Other factors such as industry, cars, construction, desertification, etc. all play a role but the two biggest factors are coal and industry -

Odd ball cans are awesome, I never just buy one brand straight.

Might be a shit ride, easy line to bomb though. cool thread, can't stop hearing The Kennedys in my head now.

Oh jesus, lol.

Rice paper roles for the fucking win.

yeah, Guangzhou, that's what I was thinking, Guangdong province. They speak a different lingo altogether than the rest of China, some argue that the Cantonese have more more in common with Southeast Asian's than they do with Han China. Their customs down there will be quite different than that throughout most of China. And right, yeah, that's what I meant, the people getting married (the kids) offer tea to the parents in a reverent and solemn fashion. That's been part of the deal in all the weddings I've been to, including my own. Let me be clear though, the wedding I'm posting now is not mine, I didn't go through all that. I put a shoe on at the entrance to the house, we drove up the street to the reception room, ate food and went home. I wasn't up for all the hullabaloo either. Plus, you have to have all your family and friends there to do all that shit and I didn't inflict being in that remote and dirty place on anyone else other than my parents. We just took out a bar for the night in Beijing and partied with friends instead.

This wedding was in Hubei and I've been to similar weddings in Beijing. There are definitely some local customs mixed in, such as the piss bucket and going to the new house before the reception (I think the fighting aunties may have been more of a local 'standard' rather than custom). But the shoe thing and busting down the door is more widespread. The tea ceremony you mentioned was the kids giving the parents a cup of tea and all that shit, right? Don't want to pry but which part of China is your wive's family from? Mine is obviously Hubei. *Yeah, red envelopes for fucking everything over there.

An astonishing amount and not just spot fires either. Read this: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-02/10/content_7461514.htm Watch these: -

Forgot the most important one: sha-bi (sha-bee) - retarded cunt, probably the most common term of abuse in China. I've seen old ladies calling their husbands a shabi on the street, gotta love it.

If you get called a guizi (gway-dza), maozi (mao-dza) or laowai (lao-why), then you are being abused. Guizi is ghost, maozi basically means 'hairy and unevolved' and laowai is one that I don't fully understand but is not particularly polite. The Chinese here treat each other worse than they treat other races. It's funny how such a nationalistic peoples can be so cruel to their own.

lol, friend of mine was seeing a fairly well-to-do local lady who said she didn't like the French Quarter in Shanghai because there was usually one foreigner to every Chinese person. Clearly this woman was not well traveled about the globe. * in all the years I lived in China I experienced very little racism aimed at Westerners. I experienced racism towards black and Turkic people and favouritism towards locals but very little racism towards myself and Westerners. Whilst there is some resentment for the years of colonialism under the Europeans/Americans, the Chinese have a lot of respect for the West and its modern achievements. Dare I say it, a touch of jealousy towards the West may also sometimes surface from time to time.

Bit more grime, then off to Beijing. The lucky in life... And those that draw a short straw....