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Humor Alert: This Is A Joke

Thanks to the folks at China Digital Times (here, but blocked by GFW of course) for a heads up that the satirical online magazine The Onion has apparently been sold to a Chinese fish oil manufacturing company and is carrying a special issue devoted to China that bears a strange resemblance to, well, you have a look. Here's the link (special warning to 愤青 and others who think they might be offended; don't look. You might be offended).

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      • 1

        Simon, though Fenqings(愤青) are really annoying, they aren't a big deal to you and your blog. As I have said before, I don't think most of those haunting here are Fenqings who are relatively ignorant, shallow-headed and excitable with extreme nationalism and chauvinism, and have been isolated from outside by the “great firewall”.

        Attached:

        As for a group of odd names you met here in "China Blog", Do you thing a sensible, ordinary person who speaks wonderful English---means he can get much more correct information than who doesn't understand English---and knows nearly everything happening in the world, would say such absurd, ignorant words? Obviously they are Cheating, misleading and disturbing under deployed tasks. (talk with Chinabrief )

        • 1.1

          Simon, another method to distinguish Wumao and Fenqing:

          You must have noticed their offensive and name-calling words below. Do you think that a normal person who hates you, your web and western medias so much is still haunting here and doing everything he can do? Usually the Fenqing will sooner leave when they feel unpleasant, after leaving a pile of "patriotic" and "indignant" words, and will not be back anymore. Fenqing's purpose is just venting, while the Wumao "conducting" and finishing their tasks.

        • 1.2

          Would you mind I remind you with what you have said before:

          Administrative Note on Comments
          Posted by Simon Elegant Monday, March 23, 2009

          …Generally speaking, we try to leave the comments section untouched except in cases of profanity, racism, hate speech etc…

          http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/03/23/administrative-note-on-comments/

        • 1.3

          Attached:

          Simon Elegant Says
          July 14, 2009 at 11:01 pm

          "we do have a filter that cuts out the obvious profanities, though people get around that by putting in an asterix. anyway, I also do try and police the comments fairly regularly and weed out the gratuitously foulmouthed or simply offensive stuff."

          http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/07/13/our-new-design-comments-and-answers/#comments

      • 2

        "Well, I've Sold The Paper To The Chinese"
        By T. Herman Zweibel

        http://www.theonion.com/content/columnists/well_ive_sold_the_paper_to

      • 3

        The CCP Presses On With Exporting Ideology (中共加紧出口意识形态):

        http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/commentaries/weipu-02202009103411.html

      • 4

        [...] the situation in China”, if you’re following Shanghaiist or ChinaGeeks (or CDT and Time’s China Blog, though both blocked in China), you’ve probably already heard of The Onion, a famous American [...]

      • 5

        One thing you don't know that you are liar (Internation Liar). Also call 国际大嘴巴.

      • 6

        Isn't that China Daily?

      • 7

        Don't forget to check the company profile at yuwanmei.com. The website is actually bilingual. I agree with MyLaowai. The guys and girls at The Onion have really excelled themselves this time. Very impressive.

      • 8

        Not just justice must serve the revolution, medical diagnose must serve the revolution too:
        http://tinyurl.com/krk35e

      • 9

        A very fishy story.

      • 10

        A love story with Chinese characteristics:
        http://tinyurl.com/lznnzz

      • 11

        Best justice money can buy:
        http://tinyurl.com/lqqsum

        • 11.1

          His mother is not the saddest one, getting one million and having the killer punished. One of my relatives, a poor woman having a little girl, lost her husband who had been hit to death by a dumping truck (泥头车) last year. So far she gets nothing from those responsible for this accident. She has to make a living everywhere by selling balloons on a there-wheel bike, with her there-year-old daughter.

        • 11.2

          Correction:three-year-old daughter.

      • 12

        Solar eclipse is on along the Yangtze. Last time total eclipse visible from the area was during the Wanli ages in the Ming Dynasty.

        Solar eclipse, earth quakes, collapsing mines were all consider ill omen for the dynasty. Of course, the situation in China now is completely different from the Wanli years, at least on official documents. (We have to wait till the dynasty is over to see the real situation, just like all dynasties.) No ill omen this time. This time, the eclipse will signal a prosperous future for China, at least financially, for the government officials anticipating the flow of cash from Beijing to stimulate the economy, when the sun is saved by banging of the gongs and cymbals to chase the Heavenly Dog away. I am quite sure the banging of the gongs will be very effect this time as usual.

        • 12.1

          黃仁宇 《萬曆十五年》 (Ray Huang's 1587: A Year of No Significance):

          "当一个人口众多的国家,各人行动全凭儒家简单粗浅而又无法固定的原则所限制,而法律又缺乏创造性,则其社会发展的程度,必然受到限制。即便是宗旨善良,也不能补助技术之不及。"

        • 12.2

          I hope the omen this time will come true as usual. No collapse, no renascence!

      • 13

        "As for a group of odd names you met here in "China Blog", Do you thing a sensible, ordinary person who speaks wonderful English---means he can get much more correct information than who doesn't understand English---and knows nearly everything happening in the world, would say such absurd, ignorant words? Obviously they are Cheating, misleading and disturbing under deployed tasks. (talk with Chinabrief )"

        ONLY prejudiced people believe there is a "correct information".

        Some people here like conscienceinchina, C.A. Yeung and johnsmith9876 never know how to respect other people who have a different judgement of certain issues.

        Sometimes I just feel sympathy for them because hatrad (probably caused by chinese goverment) made them technically blind.

        • 13.1

          "ONLY prejudiced people believe there is a 'correct information'".

          Only abnormal people often visits there(western medias) getting "incorrect information".

      • 14

        This blog (especially Simon) is like a pile of shit, attracting swarms of flies...
        这个博克,(特别是西蒙)就像一堆狗屎,吸引着一队苍蝇。。。
        it is so interesting to see the interaction and love and dependency between the shit and flies...

      • 15

        Yah, group sex is more appropriate. I think.
        I suppose this is also sort of a humour.

      • 16

        Certainly, this group sex is an oral one, which may produce pleasure amongst the participants but definitely can contribute nothing to productivity.

        As Mr.Elegent pointed out quite clearly at the beginning, some people may be offended by this sort of encouter ... and I think he meant it.

      • 17

        "Only abnormal people often visits there(western medias) getting "incorrect information"."

        conscienceinchina

        You still don't get it. Information IS information. There is neither correct information nor incorrect information. Information itself doesn't make any judgement but only people do.

        Besides, western media make story by picking up facts. A lot of reports that are based on facts don't mean they are true or reliable.

      • 18

        Yes! Yes! I get! I well understand! What party-mom says it's correct is correct, what party-mom says it's incorrect is incorrect.

        And the most truthful domestic medias are:

        1. CCTV
        2. Xinhua News Agency
        3. People's Daily

        The most reliable international or overseas medias are:

        1. China Daily
        2. Global Times
        3. World Journal
        4. Sing Tao Daily
        5. Singapore Zaobao Daily
        6. Ta Kung Pao
        7. Wen Wei Po
        8. Phoenix TV

        ......

      • 19

        China-bashing clan's list of pro-China or pro-CCP media is getting longer.

        But they should really ask themselves this question:

        Why more and more people, including those run media, are becoming more and more pro-China or pro-CCP, whereas the China-bashing clan, which primarily consists of pathetic jobless refugees who have proved to be losers in almost every place they've set their feet on (China or the west), is becoming more and more isolated?

        Too bad that this group of people still lives their life with a delusion that they are on side with the majority of the Chinese people.

        The truth of fact is, they are not!

        And that makes them even more pathetic, as a group of losers!

      • 20

        the fenqing above just got fired from his job at a restaurant in China Town for having spat on a white man's food.

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