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Everyone in China Is Wearing Plastic Plants on Their Heads and Nobody Knows Why
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| Oct. 7, 2015
| Jilhan Forbes
Posted on 10/08/2015 6:54:59 AM PDT by bgill
Hip college students and grown folks alike are scratching their clover-laden heads wondering who got the idea to walk around with Frances Hodgson Burnetts Secret Garden sprouting from their tresses. I think this comes more from Western culture, one student told the Times. Its fun, but I guess its also about protecting the environment, to show that you care about nature, a peddler of the green headgear offered (which is interesting considering the country is one of the biggest polluters of out planet).
But probably the best explanation came from a 24-year-old medical student, who best sums up how the trend caught on: When I first saw them, I thought, thats strange, but everyone was wearing them
I thought it was fun and entertaining, so I also put one on, too.
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TOPICS: Agriculture; Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bradelunner; china; followers; hairaccessories; herdmentality; incrutable; plants; sciencefiction; scifi
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To: bgill
Oh, plants. I read it as pants. Never mind.
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posted on
10/08/2015 7:34:55 AM PDT
by
csvset
( Illegitimi non carborundum)
To: bgill
“What a shocking bad hat!”
— The Madness of Crowds
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posted on
10/08/2015 7:34:57 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
To: CARDINALRULES
I see that it was pants. But it had been fixed before I saw it so mine was my eyes and brain that messed it up.
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posted on
10/08/2015 7:39:13 AM PDT
by
CARDINALRULES
(Tough times never last -Tough people do. DK57 --RIP 6-22-02)
To: nuconvert
Plastic Pants...LOL so did I! I used to be an excellent reader until I got arthritis. Maybe I should put pants on my head before I go to bed.
To: bgill
Reminds me of zombie ants.
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posted on
10/08/2015 7:40:49 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
To: bgill
“Le chapeau des jardins.”
There, now it has a chic, trendy name too.
CC
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posted on
10/08/2015 7:43:24 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Lightspeed: 186,000 miles per second. It's not just a good idea, it's THE LAW!* *= ecomcon proofread)
To: RummyChick
I want one! In fact, at only $.79, I’ll get one for all the guys I play softball with...they’ll love them too!
To: bgill
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posted on
10/08/2015 7:50:15 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: bgill
With my eyesight going South quicker than a Syracuse retiree I could have sworn this article stated that everyone in Chinas was wearing plastic PANTS on their heads.
Actually, that would only be a tad bit more bizarre.
Cue the Idiocracy screenshots:
To: Lx
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posted on
10/08/2015 7:59:30 AM PDT
by
Demiurge2
(Define your terms!)
To: dfwgator
China is quickly catching up to Japan in the Weird St Department. Probably an inevitable result of repressive Confucian cultures - weird stuff just naturally springs up as a backlash. :)
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posted on
10/08/2015 8:01:44 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
(Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
To: bgill
LOL! I first thought the headline said “plastic PANTS”.
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posted on
10/08/2015 8:05:49 AM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: nuconvert
I read it that way as well; that was a confusing image.
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posted on
10/08/2015 8:11:51 AM PDT
by
Ingtar
(Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
To: bgill
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s cure.
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posted on
10/08/2015 8:27:11 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. ~ Þ)
To: Mr. Jeeves
I hope the Chinese government remembers the still mysterious passing of the chupattis.
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posted on
10/08/2015 8:27:22 AM PDT
by
Cincinnatus.45-70
(What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
To: bgill
This is way better than what I first thought it read; something about plastic pants.
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posted on
10/08/2015 8:28:02 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
To: justlurking
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posted on
10/08/2015 8:29:32 AM PDT
by
TalonDJ
To: bgill
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posted on
10/08/2015 8:44:19 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: knarf
When I’ve seen some of the things that people will pay money for, it’s a wonder to me that any person can’t find a way to profit from *something*. There seems to be a ‘niche’ for just about anything one might dream up to offer.
-JT
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posted on
10/08/2015 8:46:37 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
To: bgill
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posted on
10/08/2015 8:52:06 AM PDT
by
Califreak
(Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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