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Kung Hei Fat Choi!

NPR had a little Weekend Edition report on how the Chinese are striving for Year-Of-The-Pig pregnancies; seems children born during same are supposed to be unusually healthy and intelligent.

Nice to see China becoming a technological nation, and abandoning superstition...
 
Mmmm...some Mongolian pork from the local buffet would go down real nice right about now.
 
Bikewer said:
Nice to see China becoming a technological nation, and abandoning superstition...
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There is something horribly poetic in the fact that Hong Kong may be the only city in the world to have implemented an indoor smoking ban, while still allowing the profuse burning of ghost money and other offerings to the netherworld, on any street. :rolleyes:
 
cgallaga said:
There is something horribly poetic in the fact that Hong Kong may be the only city in the world to have implemented an indoor smoking ban, while still allowing the profuse burning of ghost money and other offerings to the netherworld, on any street. :rolleyes:
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Yeah, I remember one time walking in to the stairwell (on the 24th floor) in my building in hong kong and finding the air thick with smoke. I ran down the stairs a couple of levels to find a guy burning some 'offerings'. I was glad the building wasn't burning down at least.
 
Bikewer said:
NPR had a little Weekend Edition report on how the Chinese are striving for Year-Of-The-Pig pregnancies; seems children born during same are supposed to be unusually healthy and intelligent.

Nice to see China becoming a technological nation, and abandoning superstition...
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I heard that report. It's so odd. I mean, the modern day China vs. the superstition. And for what? A pig!
Also, all these pregnant women are on maturnity leave. Maybe I could get a temp job there.
 
OK lets not be too high on the pure reason of the west over those magically thinking Chinese.

This on CNN.com (still can't posts links yet...but almost :P)

Last year, Hong Kong soothsayer Alion Yeo accurately predicted that the North Korean nuclear crisis would worsen during the Year of the Dog. This year, Yeo is predicting that the reclusive communist nation will undergo a power struggle that will bring leadership changes around May.
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Emphasis mine.
 
Last year, Hong Kong soothsayer Alion Yeo accurately predicted that the North Korean nuclear crisis would worsen during the Year of the Dog.
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:rolleyes:

That's like predicting Britney's gonna get a little bit skankier.
 
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