19 Responses to “Foreign Devil”

1. 1 Jason S Jan 17th, 2007 at 6:54 pm

   I knew I shouldn’t have left my friend Mike in China.

2. 2 Fu Da-Wei Jan 17th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

   Was this that movie Aric said he was starring in?

3. 3 Ken Carroll Jan 17th, 2007 at 11:52 pm

   FDW,

   I don’t know, but it looks like the kind of movie that Aric should star in - action-packed, butt-kicking, philosophical,etc, and yet somehow hilarious.

   Ken Carroll

4. 4 Stuart Kim Jan 18th, 2007 at 1:11 am

   That was pretty funny stuff. What is interesting is that although they were speaking Chinese, I could easily tell that those were Koreans (especially by the way the woman was dressed).

5. 5 chris(mandarin_student) Jan 18th, 2007 at 5:00 am

   Oh…. is that video from the London Cpod meetup at Christmas?
   I must say China Town looks surprisingly errr…. ethnic.

6. 6 coljac Jan 18th, 2007 at 6:16 am

   When I go overseas, I usually get drunk and toss the local kids around, just my way of saying “hello”.

7. 7 Will Jan 18th, 2007 at 7:47 am

   Definitely Korean, but otherwise, quite funny. I figure some people (under a shell for 30years) might still see us foreigners as loud white drunken people who do stupid and dangerous things… oh.

   The guy looked familiar. I think he was in a Bollywood film I have.

8. 8 chris(mandarin_student) Jan 18th, 2007 at 3:47 pm

   Will: Load white drunken people who do stupid and dangerous things…… that’s how we see Australians …. in the UK

   Sorry after the Ashes debacle, it is the duty of every Englishman to do his little bit to reset the balance (a little).

9. 9 Richard Sharpe Jan 19th, 2007 at 6:28 am

   Well, Chris, Australians feel the same way about the Bodyline series. They also refer to whinging POMs a lot.

   However, I find the perceptions of peoples about other peoples to be very interesting.

10. 10 Jason Jan 19th, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    At least the white guy wasn’t american . American’s are drunken stupid people of course , but if he were american he would have had to be FAT as well since ALL americans are fat ( and stupid ! ) LOL j/k —

    I’m american so I’m “allowed” to say that I’m constantly reading on many internet boards all over the place how stupid and fat all americans are , so I just had to add that

    What movie is that from by the way ? Looks like one of those movies I would get a chuckle out of watching !

11. 11 chris(mandarin_student) Jan 21st, 2007 at 4:53 am

    Hey that guys ‘younger?’ brother appears in the middle of this video by the looks of it. I can’t be sure though all us Westerners are starting to look the same to me now.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=6OJwSgMg61E

    BTW I never heard any race whinge more about anything more than Australians whinging about us Brits whinging (we love our irony of course ;)).

12. 12 Dai Jan 21st, 2007 at 6:28 am

    When I was studying at Bei Da (北京大学）, light years ago, some friends and I were on weekend holiday in Tianjin. We liked Tianjin mostly because it was only a tw-hour train ride away, and it wasn’t overrun with foreign devils like ourselves. We were visiting a “mall”, a new phenomenon back then and were getting a bit peckish after an afternoon of people watching. We happened upon the grand opening of a little fast food eatery modeled after China’s one-and-only Kentucky Fried Chicken in Beijing. Of course the owner was effusive in his greeting and welcoming of the four caucasians, so relatively rare in Tianjin in those days. He plied us with what little English he spoke, not realizing we were relatively fluent AND literate in the language. However, his gregarious welcome quickly turned to embarrassment of the nervous laughter variety when we all ordered the top menu item:

    洋鬼大鸡腿yángguǐ dà jī tuǐ (foreign devil big chicken leg).

13. 13 Richard Sharpe Jan 21st, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    Chris says:

    
    BTW I never heard any race whinge more about anything more than Australians whinging about us Brits whinging (we love our irony of course ).
    

    There is, of course, the joke about the Qantas jet that lands at Heathrow. When the engines stop, the Australians on board wonder why they can still hear a whining sound

    BTW, race is not an appropriate word WRT Australians, since the majority have British or Northern European ancestry, and many of the rest have European ancestry of some sort.

14. 14 Brendan Jan 21st, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    洋鬼大鸡腿 — Outstanding. I’ll take 10!

15. 15 Bazza 白锐 Jan 24th, 2007 at 3:36 am

    Can I just point out that a ‘light year’ is a measure of distance and not time?

16. 16 Michael Butler Jan 24th, 2007 at 10:29 am

    Bazza,

    I’m a bit bored so I’ll jump in on this one. What is a year, a day, or a month but a measure of distance traveled (respectively; the Earth around the Sun, the Earth in one rotation, and the Moon rotating the Earth). I would say, depending on your point of view, that a light-year could be a measure of either.

17. 17 Bazza 白锐 Jan 24th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    Ok, I suppose it is a year for a photon.

18. 18 dai Jan 25th, 2007 at 2:46 am

    And in the world of metaphor, it’s all relative.

19. 19 chris(mandarin_student) Jan 25th, 2007 at 6:11 am

    A light year is a measurement of distance, not time.
    The word light is rather redundant otherwise (why not just say year :)).

    And despite the fact that distance in various forms has been used as an aid in measuring time there is a clear distinction. For example if the Earths orbit started to decay drastically the distance would change but we will still have a consistent method of measureing how long it would take to burn up in the sun (a year would still be the same). In fact most of the physical events you mention are not accurate enough for many scientific purposes and adjustments are made based on more accurate definitions (I bet most of you have never heard of a ‘leap second’ but they occur).

    Now enough of this woolly thinking, start aurgueing along these lines and before you know it your computers and mobile phones will stop working (you have been warned).

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