tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162179almostwittyalmostwittyalmostwitty2010-10-25T12:14:28Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162179:312389Why do spammers and Egyptians want Chinese women?2010-10-25T12:14:28Z2010-10-25T12:14:28Zpublic0<p>As anyone who runs a blog knows, you tend to get a LOT of spam comments, which are luckily filtered out by most blogging systems. However, this particular one caught my eye today:</p><br /><blockquote><p>“the thing i like about asian women are those long flowing straight hair and those chinky eyes”</p></blockquote><br /><p>I really hope that’s not an excerpt from some poor chap’s dating profile, because I doubt he’s going to get much of a lookup. Imagine if your chat-up line was: “Ooooh I just love your chinky eyes”. That’d be pretty much the same as saying “Oooh I just love your nigger lips”.</p><br /><p><em>(And yes, I thought about censoring the n-word from that sentence, but really, if I’m not going to censor the c-word, then I can’t then go and censor the n-word. Complicated racial politics that come into what was initially a simple blogpost about a spam comment. Oh dear.)</em></p><br /><p>But then I wonder why Chinese women are so highly sought-after. Apparently, <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/10/egyptian-men-want-chinese-wives.html">Egyptian men</a> can now be added to the list of men around the world who want Chinese women. According to the article from Al Arabiya (which was also quoted in BBC News, but I can’t find the link now), Chinese women are prized for their “Obedience and loyalty”. I’ve got three sisters. None of them are particularly obedient, and I have the scars to prove it.</p><br /><p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.almostwitty.com/11325/being-british-chinese/why-do-spammers-and-egyptians-want-chinese-women" title="Read Original Post">almost witty</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=almostwitty&ditemid=312389" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162179:295413No pregnant ladies…2010-01-27T12:50:45Z2010-01-27T12:50:45Zpublic0<p><a href="http://www.almostwitty.com/wp-content/uploads/no-pregnant-ladies.gif"><img src="http://www.almostwitty.com/wp-content/uploads/no-pregnant-ladies.gif" align="right" hspace="5" alt="" title="No pregnant ladies" width="146" height="146" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2288" /></a> I was having some delicious sushi with some dear Northern friends of mine, when I noticed a particular icon on my Japanese beer bottle.</p>
<p>I don’t follow health news at all, but even I know that pregnant ladies are generally discouraged from smoking and drinking. So why they need a particular icon to signify that, in the unlikely event that a pregnant lady picks up a bottle of <a href="http://www.sapporobeer.jp/english/index.html">Sapporo beer</a>, is anyone’s guess!</p>
<p>The temptation to make this my new avatar is quite high…</p>
<p>In other American news, <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100126/D9DFDKLO0.html">a pregnant lady is admitted to hospital. She’s a smoker. The doctors go to court to argue that she should be confined to bed until the baby is born, to stop her smoking and harming the baby. The courts agree.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.almostwitty.com/weird/no-pregnant-ladies" title="Read Original Post">almost witty</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=almostwitty&ditemid=295413" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162179:293659Bizarre things on the Internet #242010-01-12T13:07:05Z2010-01-21T16:43:46Zpublic0<p>Stories featuring <a href="http://michaelkelly.artofeurope.com/karl.htm">Roy Orbison. Wrapped in clingfilm</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.almostwitty.com/weird/bizarre-things-on-the-internet-24" title="Read Original Post">almost witty</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=almostwitty&ditemid=293659" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments