US Olympic tourists warned about monitoring in hotels

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080321194857.j01ekw0w&show_article=1 ^

[doc1019]

ROFL!

[Quix]

I assume you are aware that this is no small problem.

Asian toilets are violin shaped porcelain bowls in the floor that one straddles and squats over.

Many folks . . . not thrilled and gahgah over all things western . . . think . . . that . . . uhhhhh

business is conducted more . . . uhhhh

flowingly and more anatomically functionally that way.

Without proper instruction or merely because they prefer squatting, the left position is one many take . . . with dreadful consequences for the next user, quite often.

They are loathe to clean up after themselves . . . that’s . . . beneath them in more ways than one.

[traumer]

I think it's about time...

[Quix]

ok.

Sorry. I may be tired or thick headed tonight. But I’m missing your humor and would prefer to get it/understand. LOL.

I often don’t ‘get it’ with humor, sadly.

[Quix]

i LOVE such signs.

I fear as things are refined that they will be less and less common.

One in Taipei in 1970 read:

HAPPY VD
CLINIC

—within say 5 blocks of the military base.

I guess the thought was that one would be happy to have finally made it to the clinic??

[AmericanInTokyo]

Telling you folks, THIS would have been MUCH MORE PREFERABLE:

[stlnative]

[Quix]

Much thanks.

I save every one I come across.

Sometimes, sadly, it’s because Chinese English dictionaries are rarely or used to be rarely, if ever, proof-read by a native English speaker working with a good bi-lingual Chinese editor.

Some of the dictionary definitions are as hilarious as the signs.

[stlnative]

here is a small collection...

http://www.micktravels.com/china/signs.html

[Quix]

MUCH APPRECIATED, THANKS.

I should have been more interested when I lived there! LOL.

[Quix]

That is . . . I enjoyed them then, but had a dozen higher priorities.

[philly-d-kidder]

Knowing people That actually Live there The Have Cameras/microphones in the Ceiling light /Fan of Living Rooms..I went out Jogging one day and I told My friend I found your second car Paring Space... It was actually The Space where they Dump Your Trash every Day to see if they can Find stuff... Hell SINGAPORE Listens to your GM Home Phone Conversations the exchanges are set up to Tap Conversations Easily...The Citibamk Imvestment Manager had to Drive on the Coastal Road at 50 Miles per Hour so they wouldn’t electronically steal his Trading Positions..handoffs to the Next Time Zone..at the beginning and end of a Trading day

[poindexter]

Yes, the world has such a shortage of brightly lit streets.

[stlnative]

http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/10113/42367/f/249058-Funny-chinese-signs-0.jpg

[Quix]

Wow, thanks.

I can read 2.5 of those 4 characters! LOL.

[stlnative]

http://homepage.mac.com/atknudson/iblog/C641689735/E782206045/Media/IMG_1852.jpg

plus more here

http://homepage.mac.com/atknudson/iblog/C641689735/E782206045/index.html

[Quix]

Thanks much.

Appreciated.

[stlnative]

one more

[colorado tanker]

I guess this means Eliot Spitzer better be careful about surfing the adult movie channels if he goes over there. Ordering up a ho is probably out of the question. Dang, and he thought the no-fun days of Mao were over.

[Quix]

Thanks for all such.

Much enjoyed and appreciated.