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July 2007



Flying Chinamen

Monday, 30 July 2007 2:32 P GMT+08
According to my local newspaper, the lads in the Liuzhou branch of the People’s Liberation Army are learning some new skills. There seems to be a shortage of aircraft at the moment, so instead they are learning to fly under their own power.
Category: Liuzhou News Humour Languages
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"Would you like to take that shower, now?"

Friday, 27 July 2007 2:38 P GMT+08
The locals have been amusing themselves again.
Category: Liuzhou News Falling Down Holes

The game is the same - it's just up on a different level

Thursday, 26 July 2007 1:53 P GMT+08
About a year ago, it was claimed that the Chinese invented golf! I had forgotten about this until last night when a young Chinese friend claimed that not only golf, but football (soccer), basketball and disco dancing were all also Chinese inventions.
Category: Humour Stupidity

Appropriate Parking

Wednesday, 25 July 2007 7:35 P GMT+08
Liuzhou Parking cops are pretty efficient. Park in the wrong place and your vehicle will be towed away and held to ransom. They even have motorcycle kidnapping divisions.
Category: Traffic Traumas
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Tang Dynasty Liuzhou

Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:34 P GMT+08
I have come across this map of Liuzhou, apparantly from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D). Apart from that, I know nothing else about it. Do you?

Motorpsycho Nightmare

Tuesday, 24 July 2007 10:30 A GMT+08
What is the difference between these two modes of transport?
Category: Liuzhou Life Stupidity Traffic Traumas
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Random Photograph No. 1

Monday, 23 July 2007 10:24 P GMT+08
Random Photograph No. 1
Category: Random Photographs

Caution Hole

Wednesday, 18 July 2007 7:08 A GMT+08
I was on my way to buy a shiny new computer today when I spotted this. Having pointed out several times that Liuzhou people like falling down holes, I had to show you this.
Category: Liuzhou Life Falling Down Holes

Been shooting craps and gambling, momma, and I done got broke

Monday, 16 July 2007 8:37 A GMT+08
It seems that Liuzhou people don't only like to fall down wells and other holes, jump off bridges etc., but have also taken up falling off cliffs.
Category: Liuzhou News Liuzhou Life Humour Stupidity Falling Down Holes

If the old don't go, the new can't come

Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:27 P GMT+08
There are many who bemoan the fact that much of the world's industry has moved to China resulting in the loss of whole trades and, of course, jobs. However, the globalization and modernization have had a greater effect on the lives of the Chinese peo

Cheese and Votes

Sunday, 8 July 2007 3:11 P GMT+08
There has been a bit if celebration going on. Yesterday, our favourite western food shop, Nanning's The Pantry opened a shop in Liuzhou!
Category: Liuzhou Life Food and Drink About Liuzhou
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I see my light come shining

Thursday, 5 July 2007 10:17 A GMT+08
Earlier this week, China's President, Hu Jintao appeared at a meeting in Beijing in an open necked shirt - jacket and tie-less. Then we were treated to pictures of the communist party conferring in open neck shirts. This is their attempt to defeat gl
Category: Liuzhou News Liuzhou Life About Liuzhou Stupidity

Maternal Grandmother's Fluttering Fragrant Bones

Wednesday, 4 July 2007 12:38 P GMT+08
Sometimes, I get hungry. For many years, I would wander into restaurants and point at random Chinese characters on the menu and wait to see what turned up. Usually it was edible, sometimes delicious. Some things, I still don't know what they were (an
Category: Liuzhou Life Food and Drink Humour About Liuzhou

Myspace going round in circles

Sunday, 1 July 2007 11:04 A GMT+08
As most people probably know, it is possible for websites to detect which country a visitor is in. Clever stuff.
Category: Stupidity Internet Stuff
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