User Comments - bababardwan
bababardwan
Posted on: The Tea Scam
June 16, 2012 at 11:49 PMhaha, great post mate. I love your a la carte options at the and especially the way you've managed to paint these scams in an elegant light..hehe, champ !
I was intrigued by, and going to question how you got these figures until, as I read on, it become apparent you were pretty much making them up, though the figures were probably more fictitious at the end than at the start, but good on you for giving your best estimates. Let me clarify what you're saying with these figures anyway:
Ok, firstly we have:
"95% of scams are in cities populated by less than 2% of the Chinese population
...well of course we are approaching the time when for the first time in history, more folk live in the cities than the country, mass migration phenomenon. But your 2% clearly refers to just the 2 cities of Shanghai and Beijing [why just those 2...more tourists I guess, esp more newbie tourists I'd hazard a guess]. But anyway, my main nitpick here would be, going on your figures, 30 million is more than 2% of 1300 million ...about 2.3% [hehe, nitpicky I know, but using the word "less" is for dramatic effect and didn't think I should let you get away with it, hehe]
Next is the figure that really got me curious:
"learn the language and you are left in a theoretical danger zone shared with just 1.5 million people"
.. what is this 1.5 million? I'm probably having a daft moment, but I can't work out what you're referring to. Is this the number of foreigners who can speak Chinese [in Beijing and Shanghai, in all of China, in the whole world?...if so, where did you get that figure from....if not, does anyone know how many there are? the hsk numbers would be interesting but they're not going to be anywhere near all encompassing....I guess census data may give an inkling?]. Or is this number chucking you in with other native chinese speakers and you've just plucked it out of the air as a risk reduction....just the number of daft people who would fall for such a scam when there is no language barrier to assist the scammers. I guess it's the latter, but would like confirmation, hehe.
"most of these scammers will be at lunch"
lol, this just got better and better, very good mate, 哈哈
" 0.46 of a person"
great advice mate. I'll be on the lookout for a Chinese dwarf, and will trust all others implicitly.
Posted on: Carpooling
June 16, 2012 at 12:26 AMjiushi Rich. I was thinking the same...we usually use car pooling for work or school runs on a regular basis, whereas this sounds like a road trip, the kind you'd find in some American movies...though this perhaps had perhaps a slightly higher emphasis on the financial side of things....the need to pool resources, than the all out wild fun feel of an american road trip.
Posted on: Carpooling
June 14, 2012 at 1:58 AM哈哈，为什么呢？
Posted on: Using a VPN
June 13, 2012 at 11:51 AMhaha, very good kimiik mate, I shoulda known. I'm all for stirring up a bit of debate, esp from bodawei, so, ah, tickle away my friend :)
Posted on: Using a VPN
June 13, 2012 at 8:27 AMhaha, when on the community page I tended to agree with your comment until I read the context in which the original quote was used...isn't that what journos do, focus on the quote and ignore the context, hehe?
Posted on: Issues with Flavor
June 13, 2012 at 6:25 AMhaha, well it sounds cheap and I'd try most anything once so I don't see why not...will just have to learn how to ask to hold the dishwashing liquid [unless they've got palmolive : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wSO0-OOgBA ]
Posted on: Zhou Gong's Dream Dictionary
June 17, 2012 at 12:16 AMhaha "crab people"
...sounds like this will be an interesting show
better check the shafa for crab people though before I take a seat, hehe, 哎哟