Ask a chinese guy!

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally posted by Zoidberg@Aug 24 2005, 09:36 PM
http://www.alllooksame.com

I took the test and failed abysmally. :boh:

[Jiggy_12]

Originally posted by Reggie Dunlop+Aug 24 2005, 11:22 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Reggie Dunlop @ Aug 24 2005, 11:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Zoidberg@Aug 24 2005, 09:36 PM
http://www.alllooksame.com

I took the test and failed abysmally. :boh: [/b][/quote]
10 out of 18!

[Eastern Girl]

why do asian women always have the nicest hair? I have yet to meet an asian woman with frizzy or unkempt hair!

[KevanGuy]

Originally posted by Jiggy_12+Aug 24 2005, 11:26 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Jiggy_12 @ Aug 24 2005, 11:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

I took the test and failed abysmally. :boh:

10 out of 18! [/b][/quote]
Heh, 4 out of 18 for me. As the test said "Might as well toss a coin!"

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally posted by Eastern Girl@Aug 24 2005, 10:33 PM
why do asian women always have the nicest hair? I have yet to meet an asian woman with frizzy or unkempt hair!

Oh boy. I had a Vietnamese girlfriend once. Hair like silk. Smelled great too. Wish I could go into more detail.

[MolsonInBothHands]

Originally posted by Reggie Dunlop+Aug 24 2005, 11:22 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Reggie Dunlop @ Aug 24 2005, 11:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Zoidberg@Aug 24 2005, 09:36 PM
http://www.alllooksame.com

I took the test and failed abysmally. :boh: [/b][/quote]
So did I, a 7.

[cheung31]

Originally posted by Eastern Girl@Aug 24 2005, 11:33 PM
why do asian women always have the nicest hair? I have yet to meet an asian woman with frizzy or unkempt hair!

i think genetically asians have the straightest, and 'strong' hair. i don't know the correct terminology but that's how i'd explain it lol.

10/18 on the allookthesame.com damn.

[cheung31]

Originally posted by icarus@Aug 24 2005, 11:05 PM
What's the deal with Asians and eclipses? There was a lunar eclipse this year and all my Asian friends (whether from Canada, Australia, or Asia) seemed edgy about it.

Is durian really an aphrodisiac?

If I eat a thousand-year-old egg will a therapod dinosaur germinate and burst through my stomach, a la Alien?

EDIT: 9 out of 18 on the test. I am OK! You are OK!

i think in grade 6 we learnt about the 1000yr old egg, and what they really do is cover the eggs with some kind of clay i believe, and let it sit. then there would be some sort of chemical reaction inside the egg. so no dinosaurs will bust out of your guts.

i love having 1000yr old eggs in my congee.. mmmmmmmmmmm...

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by TheCommodoreAfro+Aug 24 2005, 07:23 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TheCommodoreAfro @ Aug 24 2005, 07:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

That's Japan. Please stop confusing us. Japan is really not very popular in Asia for their refusal to admit and atone for wartime attrocities (and also plenty of non-wartime attrocities commited by Imperialist Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries).

List of Japanese Apologies to Asian countries to attone for war crimes

Most of the Asian backlash against Japan has to do with the fact that the governments of Korea and China took reparation money from Japan after the war, and invested it on infrastructure. It never made it down to the people directly affected by the wars, and in the case of Korea, was managed irresponsibly.

War Reparation Payouts

It happened, it was horrible, but to what extent can you blame the current generation of Japanese for something that happened before their parents and grandparents were born? I think it's time for the region to move on. [/b][/quote]
I have no problem with the Japanese. I love Japan. I have many friends there actually. I don't know how else to demonstrate my love for Japan. I eat Pocky and Ramen everyday? I spend my evenings reading manga? Now I sound like some sick otaku. Anyway...

But it does irritate me to see how the war is sometimes portrayed in Japanese textbooks and I recently read a translated article from a Japanese paper during the anniversary where the author pushed the blame onto the allies for the war and claimed that such attrocities were exaggerated.

It's just frustrating that such a mindset still exists and I fear that education is not properly demonstrating the true horror of what happened (to many of my relatives indeed) in that period. You know over here in North America, it would be immediately be disgraced or at least intense scrutiny if something similar occured, such as teaching that the holocaust never happened, etc.

I don't particularily take offense that Koizumi visits the shrine that supposedly has war criminals or soldiers that commited attrocities but I'm certain that Vietnam wall in Washington is also full of names that commited horrors in Vietnam.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by cheung31+Aug 24 2005, 11:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (cheung31 @ Aug 24 2005, 11:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-icarus@Aug 24 2005, 11:05 PM
What's the deal with Asians and eclipses?# There was a lunar eclipse this year and all my Asian friends (whether from Canada, Australia, or Asia) seemed edgy about it.

Is durian really an aphrodisiac?

If I eat a thousand-year-old egg will a therapod dinosaur germinate and burst through my stomach, a la Alien?

EDIT: 9 out of 18 on the test.# I am OK! You are OK!

i think in grade 6 we learnt about the 1000yr old egg, and what they really do is cover the eggs with some kind of clay i believe, and let it sit. then there would be some sort of chemical reaction inside the egg. so no dinosaurs will bust out of your guts.

i love having 1000yr old eggs in my congee.. mmmmmmmmmmm... [/b][/quote]
Duck eggs are covered in clay and lime and sit for about 100 days. This causes fermentation and the proteins denature or something. This was a method for preserving eggs and they will keep without refrigeration.

They are also delicious!

[icarus]

Originally posted by Hack&Lube@Aug 25 2005, 06:06 AM
Duck eggs are covered in clay and lime and sit for about 100 days. This causes fermentation and the proteins denature or something. This was a method for preserving eggs and they will keep without refrigeration.

They are also delicious!

Hmmm. I wonder if Jordon will eat one...

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by Zoidberg@Aug 24 2005, 08:15 PM
2. What's the deal with the haircut that like 90% of the dudes at the Eau Claire place near the movie theatre (I think they might be philipino, though, rather than Chinese - perhaps not your element? They're a little bit far away from each other...). They are darker skinned, sometimes) have? Like spiked in weird ways with colors protruding? Sharp enough to slit a throat or give a nasty nasty papercut like injury?

3. Why so many weird faces on the internet? Whenever I'm on Messenger I get a shinguardstorm of ^^, -_-, ^__^, etc. I hate these weird faces and quite frankly they scare me. I fear change from regular emoticons.

5. Why are half Asian half White girls so hot? Wow, I've seen a few great lookers.

2. It's some sort of hardcore look. They were all wearing black right? Usually Chinese people grow out of this phase after some testing in highschool. Then they try to grow up to become engineers or accountants

But the less afluent Philippino and Vietnamese youngsters tend to keep this apperance to look tough. They might be part of those gangs actually.

This also has something to do with why Asian girls all have great hair, asians in generally have very strong and very straight hair. When I wake up in the morning, it sticks up like grass and tangled weeds and it's impossible to get down unless I wash it first because it's just been molded into that shape in my pillow overnight. I guess for those people with the hardcore hairstyle, this quality of asian hair, makes it simple to shape into blades and spikes and other dangerous protrusions that hang down like the antenna or mandibles of insects except they are bleached blonde or orange or something.

3. Simple, western emoticons and even western comics (I read too many old issues of Batman tonight) just don't have enough range of expression. Asian languages and facial expressions have a much greater range. Same thing with language sometimes.

4. People say that mixes get the best of both worlds. I tend to agree... *sigh*

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by icarus+Aug 25 2005, 12:15 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (icarus @ Aug 25 2005, 12:15 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Hack&Lube@Aug 25 2005, 06:06 AM
Duck eggs are covered in clay and lime and sit for about 100 days. This causes fermentation and the proteins denature or something. This was a method for preserving eggs and they will keep without refrigeration.

They are also delicious!

Hmmm. I wonder if Jordon will eat one... [/b][/quote]
They had it on FEAR FACTOR one time...

They told the contestants, it was 1000 year old egg and they were like totally freaking out and scared of the thing. And the girl felt sick after eating it.

I was like, damn, that egg is fresh, totally delicious, and completely healthy! I'd love one right now!!! It's like a pickle compared to a cucumber. That would've been the easiest contest ever. I would've asked for some seconds or maybe come rice congee to go with it.

[icarus]

Originally posted by Hack&Lube@Aug 25 2005, 06:22 AM
They had it on FEAR FACTOR one time...

They told the contestants, it was 1000 year old egg and they were like totally freaking out and scared of the thing. And the girl felt sick after eating it.

I was like, damn, that egg is fresh, totally delicious, and completely healthy! I'd love one right now!!! It's like a pickle compared to a cucumber. That would've been the easiest contest ever. I would've asked for some seconds or maybe come rice congee to go with it.

I wonder if they have a Chinese Fear Factor. I bet hot dogs or like corn-on-the-cob would be on it.

[browna]

Originally posted by icarus@Aug 25 2005, 12:25 AM

I wonder if they have a Chinese Fear Factor. I bet hot dogs or like corn-on-the-cob would be on it.

Or Rice-a-Roni.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by icarus@Aug 25 2005, 12:25 AM
I wonder if they have a Chinese Fear Factor. I bet hot dogs or like corn-on-the-cob would be on it.

Nah, the Chinese had sausages at least 600 B.C.
China is also the largest producer AND consumer of corn in the world.

[TheCommodoreAfro]

Originally posted by Hack&Lube+Aug 25 2005, 03:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Hack&Lube @ Aug 25 2005, 03:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

List of Japanese Apologies to Asian countries to attone for war crimes

Most of the Asian backlash against Japan has to do with the fact that the governments of Korea and China took reparation money from Japan after the war, and invested it on infrastructure. It never made it down to the people directly affected by the wars, and in the case of Korea, was managed irresponsibly.

War Reparation Payouts

It happened, it was horrible, but to what extent can you blame the current generation of Japanese for something that happened before their parents and grandparents were born? I think it's time for the region to move on.

I have no problem with the Japanese. I love Japan. I have many friends there actually. I don't know how else to demonstrate my love for Japan. I eat Pocky and Ramen everyday? I spend my evenings reading manga? Now I sound like some sick otaku. Anyway...

But it does irritate me to see how the war is sometimes portrayed in Japanese textbooks and I recently read a translated article from a Japanese paper during the anniversary where the author pushed the blame onto the allies for the war and claimed that such attrocities were exaggerated.

It's just frustrating that such a mindset still exists and I fear that education is not properly demonstrating the true horror of what happened (to many of my relatives indeed) in that period. You know over here in North America, it would be immediately be disgraced or at least intense scrutiny if something similar occured, such as teaching that the holocaust never happened, etc.

I don't particularily take offense that Koizumi visits the shrine that supposedly has war criminals or soldiers that commited attrocities but I'm certain that Vietnam wall in Washington is also full of names that commited horrors in Vietnam. [/b][/quote]
The thing is, there is a textbook out there but it only adopted by a fraction of 1% of the schools in Japan. Kinda like if, say, Ann Coulter wrote a treatise on Islam and it was only bought by Fox University. It was still approved as a textbook - just nobody in their right minds uses it. The only people who do are the Japanese militarists and they are far from a majority. They're the fataers who drive down the streets here in imperial flag adorned vans and tell me to leave the island.

Freaking idiots exist everywhere. And there are a lot of translations of Japanese textbooks on the issue that aren't really translations at all - just crap stirring the pot. Everyone's got an agenda.

I disagree with you on Yasukuni though - Koizumi has got to stop visiting there while he is the PM. It's not worth it in terms of their overseas realtionships, while the majority of Japanese disagree with it, as well.

[Cheese]

Originally posted by Reggie Dunlop@Aug 24 2005, 04:52 PM
Hop Sing on Bonanza. Accurate or stereotypical portrayal of Asians in the Old West?

ROFLMAO!!! Reggie.

Dai Ruo Mu Ji!!!!! Wo gen ni xu exi Putonghura! Yeesh been awhile....hope thats right.

Wheres JohnnyFlame...?

[flamingchina]

Originally posted by icarus@Aug 25 2005, 06:25 AM

I wonder if they have a Chinese Fear Factor. I bet hot dogs or like corn-on-the-cob would be on it.

The Taiwanese do have a fear factor, and I must say, It's worse than the american one (the stunts/food)
and thousand year eggs are the most vile and disgusting thing I've ever eaten, and I've eaten a lot of things. (water buffalo intestine comes up a close second, and Yak a distant third)

[TheyCallMeBruce]

looks like most of the questions have been answered by others. And to whoever wrote the Gang of 4 thing, the only thing I know that's called "Gang of four" is the card game, but I've never played that card game. so I can't tell you who's the least favorite.

Some things the white folks here should try:
1000 year old eggs
Chicken feet
pigs tail
bee soup
yin wo - sparrows spit (though this can be extremely expensive)

I had a white friend who tried all these things. You should have seen him cringe at the chicken feet haha.