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Posted on: What is a Chengyu?
April 18, 2008 at 12:31 PMDon't know about other countries, but here this is definitely vulgar: 少见的好帖
Posted on: Roommates and What Chinese Think of Foreigners
April 18, 2008 at 12:09 PM"Non mi rompere le palle!" ("don't break me the balls!") is a an example, I think, but my Italian has become so horrible that I can't be sure!
Posted on: Roommates and What Chinese Think of Foreigners
April 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM"Break-a da balls-sa" - I love it.
Posted on: Roommates and What Chinese Think of Foreigners
April 18, 2008 at 12:02 PMheh heh, light487. I like your attitude. Just don't get yourselves into some kind of "cold war" with a Chinese chickbabe that's all about your leaving dirty dishes in the sink for... all of 45 minutes. It's hard-wired, not always negotiable. And the next time you go watch Chinese chickbabes, try to use your Mandarin to figure out what they are saying to the Chinese guys. You work in Sydney, a cosmopolitan city, so I think you have the social resources to understand what "rompi-palle" means in Italian... and in Mandarin...
Posted on: Country Standings
April 18, 2008 at 11:52 AMHow vulgar is/was "think you, bitch"?
Posted on: Country Standings
April 18, 2008 at 11:51 AMI believe that if we're not vulgar, making personal attacks, or making false/unsubstantiated allegations, you don't control whatever we might wish to post in good faith?
Posted on: Country Standings
April 18, 2008 at 11:46 AMDear CPOD, I absolutely REFUSE to follow your fatwa about only making complaints about "inappropriate posts" directly to you via e-mail, instead of via posting publicly on your public threads, to save you face. Seriously, I hope you will keep a close watch on postings here now that I've alerted you. When I posted my "inappropriate comments" alert, you took nearly 7 hours to remove the posts concerned. You then cautioned me the right way is to notify you via direct e-mails, yet when I did so you took even longer -- nearly 12 hours! -- to respond. Bravo. Congratulations.
Posted on: Roommates and What Chinese Think of Foreigners
April 18, 2008 at 11:30 AMHi light487, are you game for some friendly perspectives from a friendly Auntie who managed to get some rich experience in "culture shock" even though she is only English-speaking Singaporean auntie? Yes? Good. Okay. First, the "private space as a clean-room"-thing is not hereditary, but it is hard-wired, non-negotiable. Think about that before deciding to share your space with a Chinese chickbabe. It's a culture thing. Your female Chinese roommate may not think anything of hanging her cute undies to dry in a shared bathroom (or even in the kitchen, near an open window; for "ventilation"). But she may freak out if her room isn't a "clean room" ie shoes OFF before you dare to enter her room, and for GOD'S SAKE don't (don't! DON'T!!) even think of sitting on the edge of her bed in your "street" clothes. Son, you gotta have your eyes open to these "cultural things" if you want it to work. Sharing a flat with a Chinese chickbabe may mean that the common fridge will become FILLED with all kinds of tupperware of stale food, because good Chinese people never throw away anything which is still remotely edible. Believe me on this, please do. I have traumatized many non-Chinese housemates with my "frugal" ways. Nobody is going to eat that food, but it has to sit in the fridge for a while before we can bring ourselves to throw it out. And if you decide to share your place with a sweet Chinese chickbabe, the fact that she is happy to laminate your kitchen walls and ceiling with dense cooking grease from stir-fries executed at the obligatory 200,000 btu DOESN'T mean that she will be able to handle your leaving dirty dishes and pots in the sink to wash all in one go. No way. Not even if it saves the environment in some way. One thing you need to be aware of, if you turn out to be a really simpatico landlord/flatmate, is the risk of the "Dreaded Mother Visit". Chinese mothers (even those brought up in Singapore) think it's normal -- and expected -- to open all the cupboards and closets in their daughters' new digs, and they may even want to rearrange things! I still remember my late father's earnest plea -- during my first year of University, in the UK -- to my mother to "Let's stop being so nuts now, Darling, would we have dared go into our daughter's closets when she was at home in Singapore? " I won't publish my mother's response (she ended up re-folding every piece of clothing that I had folded and left in my closet). Just be open, and be smart. You'll be fine, light487!
Posted on: Ping Pong Nation
April 18, 2008 at 6:32 AMHenning, I think that maybe 全死了 means "all of them died, each one", not "they died completely". Howzat?
Posted on: What is a Chengyu?
April 18, 2008 at 12:31 PMOops, sorry: 真他妈的好帖