This week's avatar: alternate headings

Her Indoors has got the strange idea that these avatars are taking the piss out of Chinese people, and so refuses to help me here.

Yowtch!
Geez, I hope you can get her past that notion, because...we're not.
(Well, not usually, anyway. But we take the piss out of EVERYONE sooner or later 'round here. )

Tell her sometimes the English usage in China is so bad we have to laugh at it...but this is a good-natured foreign-language thing happening worldwide, not really aimed at the Chinese. We just happen to nearly all live or have lived in China, so it's the place we're interested in.

Sometimes the real butt of the jokes is the laowai, not the Chinese.
You can tell her that said laowai quite often don't seem to pick up on this fact.

And...sometimes, when you visit another country that requires such a vast cultural shift, you quite often see things you have absolutely no hope of understanding. After a while, developing lunatic theories about what those things might mean becomes sort of a fun little game you play. This isn't being insulting, it's coming to terms with our own foreignness.

Hope those help.

She's been around me and my friends for a good few years.  So you'd think she'd see the other side.

But she's Chinese!

I'll tell you a true story:

"My grandfather and grandmother owned lots of land. They were very rich. When I was maybe 2 years old they killed my grandfather, and my grandmother put herself into a deep well and died.  Now we are just normal good people."

Duke, I try.

But you know how nationalistic and sensitive people are.


She now thinks the English are filthy scum (with good reason, I should add, and can't understand how we came to rule half the world and teach the Yanks how to speak proper.

Oh, the pleasures of marrying into the CP!!

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And...sometimes, when you visit another country that requires such a vast cultural shift, you quite often see things you have absolutely no hope of understanding. After a while, developing lunatic theories about what those things might mean becomes sort of a fun little game you play.

There's nothing lunatic about my theories! 

I wanna order number 4. Anything with ass in the name can't be all bad can it? 

This is why the first 100 characters I learned to read were common on menus.

Mmmmnnnn... sauced justice and roast heef.  I'll take a plate of both of those.

I'm pretty sure the last is a command or direction, EL. There are a bunch of Budhass human relations in the kitchen, and I want you and your clones to get in there and roast the heef out of 'em!

 

Those shedding sour beans are so vain I bet they think this menu's about them.

I think Paul has a babecue doesn't he? 

You know you've found a peach of a pic when no captions are needed - great avatar this week 

You know you've found a peach of a pic when no captions are needed - great avatar this week 

Do you want that with gieen pepper or with Wind of Europe?

I want it with some human relations 

Please be careful on #2, those sour beans do not iron think as much as you'd hope