Category: Things I don’t quite understand
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Chicken chopped up into little pieces, each one with its own compliment of bone and skin. Don’t get that all, and yet it’s a mainstay of Chinese cooking. If there are any mad scientists reading this, I’m kinda hoping that you could find a way to breed all animal and fish (all least the ones…
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Here’s a strange thing. If you go to the cinema in Hong Kong and watch a foreign or Chinese film there will be both English and Chinese subtitles. If the same film is shown on TV you also get two sets of subtitles. If you watch a VCD you will again see two sets of…
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It was said of President Gerald Ford that he couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time. Now, admittedly having a conversation on your mobile phone is slightly more complex than chewing gum, but it’s not really that difficult, is it? So how come it is apparently such a challenge for so many people…
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Put a Hong Kong person near a lift, and they will jab compulsively at the buttons. Outside the lift they will press the button to go up or down (probably both), even if someone has already pressed it. They even press the button when the light goes out because the lift door are about to…
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Couples who have a shared email address. What’s that all about, then? I suppose it made sense a few years ago, but these days there are plenty of perfectly good free email services, most notably GMail (more storage space than you could possibly need, and the option to save copies of emails in Outlook), and…
Ordinary Gweilo 