SinoPenn

Sinopenn is no ChinaSmack by far, but I do still have my resources into what the Chinese are posting on the various bbs’s (hint: it starts with “Google” and ends in “Translate”).

When short skirts are too short…

What do you get when you cross a short SHORT skirt with the digital age? You get morons with mobiles snapping pictures for their own personal “pleasure” later on.

Short Skirt, Long Camera Lens

You know those little Hello Kitty Charms people like to hang off their mobile phones? This girl did away with her “Hello Kitty” and added a little “Hey Baby” bling to her phone.

Always Be Prepared

You think Shanghai girls are rough?

This girl has her man wrapped around her little finger… or rather wrapped around her chain leash. The next time your Chinese wife tells you to carry her purse, just do it.  Things could be worse.

Curb your Pets

Don't forget the Scooper

What’s worse than traffic in Shanghai?

Traffic on Mt. Bumfuck.  Imagine traversing this little gem everyday to get to work, school, home, KTV, wherever.  No thanks.

Long & Winding Road

Oh Shi-

World Health Assembly Billboard

This picture was posted back in 2006 according to the original article.  In 2006, the World Health Assembly in Suzhou erected a simple billboard with the message, “I like big needles!”.  Seems innocent enough, sort of.  Big needles?  Suzhou simply wants to show off their abilities in the healthcare industry, as well as the idea that the bigger the needle, the healthier you’ll become.

However, an enterprising Chinese netizen discovered something pecular about the image.  While there are probably thousands of fine looking nurses in Suzhou that could easily and willingly have posed for the billboard, the creators of the billboard decided to simply use the internet and grab a photo from there.

Sure this is easy enough, but when you look at the original photo, it makes you wonder exactly where they were searching.

Suzhou's Naughty Nurse. That's one hell of a needle!

The picture in the billboard is a photoshopped version of the little gem on the left, apparently a Japanese AV girl.  QQ news picked up on this as well (http://news.qq.com/a/20061101/000657.htm).  Note how it advertises just how well dressed nurses are in China, and how they all bare striking resembances to Japanese porn stars!

Whether or not the billboard is still there, I don’t know.  But perhaps this is something ChinaSmack should get onto even if it is 3 years old.

Found on http://www.joyloft.net/?p=219 (Google Translation here: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//joyloft.net/%3Fm%3D200611&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8)

Well… probably not really.  Not these guys anyways.  In the last couple months, I’ve caught about 5 different people wearing these Ramones shirts, mostly in the colors below.  I only managed to snag 2 pics but I’ll continue to be on the Ramones hunt.

Ramones Fans in China?

The Mobile Styrofoam Army 1st Division

The Mobile Styrofoam Tank Division

Some things just amaze me.  This Post on nikdaum.com reminded me of what a few of us watched going by Big Bamboo downtown last week.  A bike, with a woman on there somewhere, surrounded by styrofoam boxes came rolling down Nanyang road in the early afternoon.  Judging by the boxes in the front, it’s not the same one, but what would be more scary is the frequency of these sightings.

Once again the phone camera doesn’t do it justice.  I’m really going to have to bring my wife’s camera out with me more often.

A Coca~Cola in Shanghai generally only costs 2.5 RMB. Here at Lotus Supermarket at the Songhong Station, Line Two, the imported version is 7.5 RMB.

A Pepsi Cola also generally costs around 2.5 to 3 RMB.  Here again at Lotus,  the imported version is 13.00 RMB.  What’s the difference in the taste?  How the hell would I know?  I’m not paying 13 RMB for a Pepsi.

One of the nastier places to try to drive (and walk for that matter) in a civilized matter right now is Jianhe Road & Yan’an South Road during rush hour.  Construction currently going on on the road has somehow released a strange chemical in the air making drivers here act in a much more irratic manner than normal.  Case number one:

Corner of Jianhe Lu & Yan’an Xi Lu. From Shanghai, China- Miscellaneous Pics

From Shanghai, China- Miscellaneous Pics

Note the drivers going straight on Jianhe Road (going right in the first photo,  the black car & the back of a gray van).  The light is green, and as at least some pe0ple know in China, green means go.  The problem with this is that where the gray van is heading, this is where the construction begins, and there’s only one lane. When that light turns red, the large blue truck in the back will sit comfortably in the way of the traffic that would’ve been able to go when their light turned green.  Why is that?  Simply put, no common sense and all personal gratification.  He or she MUST go because he or she CAN go, paying no heed to the fact that he or she WILL end up blocking traffic.

Cars going up the wrong way on a temporarily one way street. From Shanghai, China- Miscellaneous Pics

Cars going up the wrong way on a temporarily one way street. From Shanghai, China- Miscellaneous Pics

Case number two: Due to the traffic only being one lane in the construction area, the congestion is NOT just because of Dysfunction Junction. It’s also due partly to morons like the above who decide, rather than go around, they want to pry their way up the wrong way, slowing down or even stopping those going the right direction.  At the end of this part of the lane is indeed a sign and sometimes a traffic cop sitting on a lawn chair suggesting people simply turn left instead of going straight.  Unfortunately, some people just can’t read.

So there we have it.  On one hand, due to the traffic, everyone needs to jump into the one-way lane and even if the light is red, the common mentality is, “well, the guy ahead of me is going, I’ll go too.  Even if I’m stuck in the middle of the road blocking traffic, or even if it’s going up the wrong way.”

Happy Everyday!