China decides crotchless pants aren't so smart

[Nie Trink Wasser]

just another reason I'm glad I dont live there...if its taken them this long to figure that out.......sad

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030915/API/309150780

His head is shaved. His red-and-yellow T-shirt proclaims "Cute Girl!" His loose, white-cotton shorts are grimy with dirt. Suddenly, he stops in mid-stride and squats, the seam of his pants parting smoothly to allow a stream of urine to pool onto the concrete.

"Good boy!" his 25-year-old mother, Wu Chunhua, shouts encouragingly as he speeds back to play.

 

[jj]

I won't even look now.
The troll needs to watch for sun,
Turn to stone, be rock!

 

[Nie Trink Wasser]

I won't even look now.
The troll needs to watch for sun,
Turn to stone, be rock!

if you can't contribute to the discussion of the news story, go troll someone else's thread.

*mumbles* dork.

 

[jj]

if you can't contribute to the discussion of the news story, go troll someone else's thread.

*mumbles* dork.

Title far too hot
To view from where I sit now.
Maybe later tonight.

 

[The Fool]

if you can't contribute to the discussion of the news story, go troll someone else's thread.

*mumbles* dork.

News? Crotchless pants in China?..... Lol. You really know how to cut to the heart of the most important world issues.....

 

[Jessica Blue]

My, what an interesting topic...

Hmmmm...they sound quite practical to me, though I'm not sure I'd like to see them on adults [shudder].

Imagine the acres of disposable nappies if every Chinese baby used them.? The crotchless pants are cheaper, environmentally sound and convenient...though I do believe the defacating darlings should be held over some sort of waste disposal unit at the appropriate moment.

 

[American]

But in recent years, with China's experiment in capitalism creating a growing middle class, rising incomes and more sophisticated lifestyles have pushed many parents, particularly those in big cities, toward disposable diapers.

Chairman Mao warned against this....


"Let every man and every man's wife know that their fate is sealed from the moment they take the first shameful breath of life in the cold air when they are born, that to embrace god-damned dung-filled diapers from the Evil Snake that is capitalist industy's plan to enslave the youngest of the Great and Immortal Peoples' Democratic Republic of China's youngest and most prized posession of Youth and Inspiration of this state and all that it stands for, is now and forever will be their punishment, a capital offense worthy of death and dishonor to those who commit this crime."

-- Mao Tse-tung, circa 1975

 

[Jessica Blue]

Goodbye crotchless pants...hello diaper rash.


But it'll be great for the Chinese economy! Millions of jobs will be created! Diaper factories will open everywhere! Land fill companies will expand! Wholesalers will boom! Designer diaper shops will open! Calomine lotion manufactures will be laughing!

 

[a_unique_person]

But in Beijing these days, bare baby bottoms are an increasingly rare sight - even on sultry summer afternoons, when kaidangku used to be almost a uniform for toddlers.

"They're so uncivilized," says Su Shaojuan, a cashier from the southern city of Guangzhou who has a 2 1/2-year-old son. "People nowadays have more money, so they use diapers. It's more convenient and healthier for the child and parents."

A co-worker who married a Chinese said that there is a very good reason why Chinese always take off their shoes when they enter their home. Spitting is also very common. However, as the article states, the public health authorities are trying to change public habits.

For the record, I can still remember the railway stations having signs on the walls saying 'No Spitting'. Clearly, this was an issue when they were built about 80 years ago.

I am also disugusted by schoolchildren smoking at the railway station. They often spit on the ground all around where they are sitting as they believe it gets rid of the smell of smoke from their breath.

 

[jj]

Title quite suspicious!
No view from where I sit now.
Maybe later tonight.

 

[Pyrrho]

My first boss, who served in the Korean War, called them "speed shorts".