Posted on 06/01/2006 7:09:09 PM PDT by NZerFromHK
HONG KONG — A six-minute film showing a grumpy man scolding a fellow Hong Kong bus rider for interrupting his phone call has become one of the most popular videos online. "Bus Uncle," as the film is commonly known, has been viewed nearly 1.7 million times on the video Web site youtube.com — the second-most-viewed video on the site in May as of Thursday — spawning spoofs and new slang drawn from the ranting subject's emotionally charged soliloquy. The grainy film was apparently recorded using a mobile phone. The film starts out when a middle-age man reacts strongly when a younger man sitting behind him taps his shoulder to ask him to keep his voice down while talking on the phone. "I don't know you. You don't know me. Why do you do this?" the infuriated bus rider says, jabbing his right hand downward in the air. When the young man, who rarely talks back during the lengthy argument, expresses an unwillingness to continue the conversation, the older man explodes, "This is not resolved! This is not resolved! This is not resolved!" — which has now become a catchphrase in Hong Kong. He goes on to say: "I face pressure. You face pressure. Why did you provoke me?" Just when the dispute seems to have ended after the young man apologizes and the two shake hands, the young man takes issue with profanity used by the middle-age man, who then launches into another round of profanities. The video has inspired numerous spoofs, including a karaoke version and a rap song using the middle-age man's refrain, "I face pressure. You face pressure." It still isn't clear who shot the film and it isn't certain if the film was staged or not. The middle-age man hasn't been identified, but a man claiming to be the victim of the verbal abuse has been interviewed on Hong Kong's Commercial Radio. "Why did I just sit there? I paid to be on the bus. You don't think I would get off the bus and waste my money, do you?" said the man, identified only as Alvin. Youtube.com is a site that allows users to post videos for sharing. The site ranks videos by the number of viewings.
To those who are interested, here is a link to the English subtitled version of the video clip. The conversations are in Chinese (Cantonese).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSHziqJWYcM
Weird stuff from Hong Kong ping!
Someone set him up the bomb.
This is what I original thought as well - and as I was born there I know what HK could be like. But it seems the clip has become so popular that "I face pressure, you face pressure." and "Not resolved! Not resolved! Not resolved!" have become catchphrases in HK and many TV series, radio talk show hosts, and even ads/commercials use these catchphrases.
He is on the way to destruction.
I FACE PRESSURE, YOU FACE PRESSURE
NOT RESOLVED, NOT RESOLVED...
Actually, when one thinks about it, that's a far more civilized way of dealing with the stress of people living in conditions of close proximity to each other - consider the incidents of road-rage we are experiencing in Melbourne and Sydney for example, where violence has resulted in damage to vehicles and deaths...simply because one driver may have changed lanes without indicating!
Also, towards the end, when the older guy desperately wants to shake hands, I was thinking: "Don't do it. Big mistake." The younger guy holds off for a while, but eventually gives in -- and he gets caught in a vice and the whole harangue starts up again.
Don't shake hands with a jerk if you can help it.
I think it was the older man's fault at first. He was talking to the phone and the noise was too loud. The youth wanted to stop him so he tapped that guy's shoulders. But the older man then started the whole thing.
This has been talked about on some local(Taiwan) chat boards. I've seen it a couple of times and completely understand the situation. Too much pressure about sums it up. Honestly, I think the best thing the younger guy could have done is wack the Uncle across the mouth when the Uncle starts the f*ck comments. Its all face...and mouth.
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Wow! That old guy needs some anger therapy. The young guy was pretty polite until the old guy started insulting his mom.
Seen this played out thousands of times on trains in Asia.
Especially after bar time.
The good news is, violence is rare.
cool. I'll have my girlfriend translate it for me to get the proper "inflections".
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