Posted on 09/12/2018 11:32:56 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
One of the attorneys I work with just told me a similar story. He is quite overweight. When he goes to Jack In
The Box in the morning to get his breakfast, there was a group of old Chinese ladies that regularly sat eating their fast food outside the restaurant and they would make various comments to him in Chinese.
He didn’t speak Chinese, but talked with one of his clients who did, and asked what were they talking about. The client told him to listen carefully to what they said and then tell her and she would translate.
So my fellow attorney listened carefully and then called up the client and repeated it to her. She started laughing hysterically. When he asked what was so funny, she said that they were calling him “Fat White Devil.”
When I worked in China in the mid-70s, they called our calculators “devil boxes.” Seems to be a popular insult.
Like my ol’ pappy used to tell me: If you’re not driving close to the edge, you’re just wasting good concrete
Interesting, thank you.
Well, just a suggestion , in the interest of lowering the unemployment levels, why don’t you try holding down say... a couple of thousand jobs, ya know? After all, isn’t that what Miss Bug Eyes from the Bronx said is the reason why unemployment is so low because ‘’everyone is holding two jobs’’.
China is trying to manage a mix of capitalism and Communism. It won’t work for long.
To keep the allegiance of the Party, Xi has to give “insiders” plenty of opportunity for graft. But doing so pits them against the market.
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