demagogue on 28/6/2011 at 19:44
That was actually my first thought. It's more foggy than usual and that's what all the pedestrians are probably gawking at, then the reporter is just making shit up for some reason. Then that made me think it's a spoof. They took a Chinese story on heavy fog and overlaid it with this nonsense. I didn't think of the translation flub, but it's obvious in retrospect. The fog makes it look like a city floating in the air. Reminds me of an old Akkadian tale where "water rose 20 feet up the hillsides" during a storm that got a little morphed in Hebrew translation into "water rose 20 feet over the mountains". One word and the imagination runs.
Renzatic on 29/6/2011 at 18:25
I figured it was gonna be another example of that communist hyperbole the Chinese are so good at.
"The strength of the socialist state, upheld by the indomitable will of the proud workers of the republic, strengthens the power of the mirage to unparalleled beauty and realism heretofore unseen in capitalist blood money countries".
Meanwhile, the lady pointing at it is really talking about how she wishes she were rich, so she could afford a bologna and cheese sandwich.
Sulphur on 29/6/2011 at 19:46
You could just give her the one you were supposed to be making for me :/
Renzatic on 29/6/2011 at 21:47
Haven't you learned by now? I make sammiches for no one! :mad:
Briareos H on 29/6/2011 at 22:04
Speaking of which, bologna is the most foul-tasting pathetic excuse for a meat product this planet has ever seen. Fucker almost ruined my holiday in Massachusetts four years ago.
Even the reconstitued meat abominations I used to buy when I was in Russia were better than this.
Renzatic on 29/6/2011 at 22:32
Fried is about the only way I'd even halfway consider eating bologna. Otherwise, yeah. It's nasty, gritty, horrible stuff.
I know people who practically live on Oscar Meyer bologna, Kraft singles cheese, mayo, and bland ass white bread. That's their usual lunch, day in and day out. Now I'm hardly a food snob here, but even I have to look down my nose at something as flat out tasteless and disgusting as that. There are absolutely no redeeming qualities to a sandwich made of those aforementioned ingredients.
None. Whatsoever.
Next up on my foot shit list: french fries with mayo. Seriously. Why do people eat this? Those are two foodstuffs that do not belong together. At all.
demagogue on 29/6/2011 at 22:46
ITT, we translate our post into Chinese then retranslate that back into English on Babelfish.
"The people, this thread accepts prosperously with the wave has nothing to do with." :erg:
Briareos H on 29/6/2011 at 22:54
"I thought that I possibly completely eat with that Renzatic dandy"
Renzatic on 29/6/2011 at 22:56
I an't no damn dandy. Just don't like eatin baloney is all. :mad:
edit: ran my bologna sandwich paragraph through traditional Chinese, then back to English on Google Translate. Came out surprisingly close...
"I know people who virtually live in Bologna Oscar Mayer, Kraft Singles cheese, mayonnaise, white bread and bland ass. This is their usual lunch out every day. Now, I almost do not have a food snob here, but even I can see in my flat nose out of something as tasteless, a nausea. There is absolutely no exchange of quality sandwiches made ​​of the above ingredients."
Martin Karne on 30/6/2011 at 01:52
Almost real, and likely trans-dimensional to the point to call Arturo, Wade, Rembrandt and Quinn to get ready to jump across.
:eek:
