Living in China
It's full of people doing things the wrong way. After a while you begin to suss out the motivation behind it, and realise there's more than one way to go about things, but still, there's dozens of things tht set my teeth on edge.

1. Shopstaff not putting money into your hand.
2. Cunts in the subway not waiting until you get off before they try to get on.
3. Effeminate hairdressers. One bastard even smoked while cutting my hair.
4. Parping the car horn when coming up behind you. Presumably this is to let you know they're coming, so you don't jump out in front of them. Just in case you didn't hear that big car engine motoring behind you.
5. Spitting bones etc onto the table, despite the spare dishes which would serve asuseful receptacles.
6. Smoking in hospitals.
7. Not selling deodorant.
8. Storing beer, soft drinks in fridges, but not turning them on.
9. Selling batteries which don't actually power anything.
10. Eating dogs
11. Other patients coming into the doctors surgery while you're being seen, and impatiently setting their charts by the doctor.
12. People walking through cities in their pyjamas.
13. Thinking Jim Carey, Backstreet Boys, basketball and Friends are the pinnacles of western civilisation.
14. Fucking up Google in China just because some politician saw something bad about him when he Googled himself.
15. Not allowing train tickets to be bought more than two weeks in advance or over the internet, leading to day-long queues (this is not an exaggeration) when people need want to buy tickets at Spring Festival.
16. Spitting, expectorating and nose-blowing onto the street.
17. Not allowing doctors to tell you the sex of your child during pregnancy.
18. Blocking Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogspot, bit.ly, imdb.com, allmusic.com, etc.

There's plenty more I'm sure!
(McChinaman banned, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 9:57, 12 replies)

Re 18 you're not missing out on anything
Be thankful for your glorious Chinese overlords
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:01, closed)

Lacist.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:25, closed)

17)
In a country where you are penalised severely for having more than one child, you can understand the motivation behind this.

There are parts of the UK where they adopt the same view to avoid wear on the staircases.

Edit - I'm visiting China (Beijing) for a fortnight over Easter, taking two little girls. Any top tips?
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:28, closed)

Some nice parks
Chaoyang park is nice. The Forbidden City might be too much of a trek, depending on how old your girls are - it's massive. Same with Great Wall. The Summer Palace has nice grounds with a lake in which you can go boating. Beijing Zoo has excellent transport links and is the best in the country. Gaz me if you want more info.
(McChinaman banned, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 13:57, closed)

Thanks mate
Zoo's probably a good shout. Park too.

We looked at the forbidden city in the guide but girls are 3 & 5 so the trip might be a bit of a drag for them. We've got some friends there too at the moment so hopefully they'll have some ideas, only they seem to work a very great deal so would be nice to have a couple of fall-backs for the first few days.

Cheers.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:19, closed)

Top tip:
Chinese Tourism Agencies - Want to attract tourists to visit one of your nations' iconic cultural heritage sites? Don't call it "forbidden", then.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Sat 2 Apr 2011, 14:25, closed)

Most dogs eat, you know - survival and that

( Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:36, closed)

You should be more acceptant of foreign cultures. You know, we are all of the same race on one planet, right?
(Robotnik, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:37, closed)

That's because it's called "irrational hatred"
not "all chinese people are shit and eat dogs"
( Major Turd for tonight only, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 11:23, closed)

I will pray for you.
(Robotnik, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 12:10, closed)

I'm alright thanks

( Major Turd for tonight only, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 3:23, closed)

No no, i really would like to.
(Robotnik, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 14:27, closed)

Almost,
I'm just visiting.
You know how it goes, you head over to a third world country for some cheap toursim and end up staying for years trying to help the poor bastards who live there drag themselves up from the gutter.

As soon as you humans wok out how to be nice to each other I'll be heading home.
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 14:49, closed)

oil
Not oiling the chains on their bikes. Surely they should have worked that one out by now???!!
(Simian Typewriter Supplies Pty. Ltd. is house hunting in the neighborhood of infinity, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 16:23, closed)

Wrt parping horns
I'm living in Taiwan atm (for those of you less geographically inclined, think of a Westernised China), and I parp my horn when coming up behind people.

Why? It's because these bastards have no concept of other road users. To them, everything that happens behind them is someone elses' problem. Want to swing across two lanes without giving any warning? Who cares, it's not your responsibility to check that someone isn't about to overtake you, it's their responsibility to be psychic and know what you are going to do!

/end rant
(Heggy, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 12:48, closed)