I just figured I'd share this. I know the quality is not great, but I don't have Tivo (isn't that how people get stuff from the TV to the computer?).

This is a segment in a TV show that I've seen a couple of times where the hosts take turns doing a sort of charades,* where one person has to speak English to get the other to say the Chinese phrase they're trying to describe. The English on the screen behind is completely useless, because they're just reading the Chinese and trying to explain it in English. Many times the English translation is completely off -- like when they call love for a much younger girl "incest."



You'll notice they bring up the ongoing pork controversy, over the use of ractopamine, which is a chemical that -- as Fanfan said -- "They put it in -- You Americans put it in meat." I don't know much about the hullabaloo, but I'm pretty sure you won't die from eating it.

Am I wrong?

That said, I'm certainly not a big fan of all the junk they feed animals in the US. I'm just saying, it might not be worse than the fact that, for instance, I often see restaurant workers here in Taiwan washing their produce on the sidewalk with scooters seasoning tonights soup with its exhaust.

For those of you who don't speak a little Chinese/French, you can hear Fanfan at the end saying, "Come one, that's enough. You're so weird/boring/dumb.** It's finished."

That's love, isn't it?



Though, I know this is hard to do, I didn't really get it until Fanfan and I played it. I had to explain things in Chinese, and she had to say the word in English. It's quite difficult.

* Not really, because they're not allowed to make any gestures, which is why they keep saying, "Don't 比!" (比 means "gesture")

** 無聊 is a very versatile term. It can mean boring, bored, silly, stupid, and weird -- all in one word....well, two.

I just figured I'd share this. I know the quality is not great, but I don't have Tivo (isn't that how people get stuff from the TV to the computer?).

This is a segment in a TV show that I've seen a couple of times where the hosts take turns doing a sort of charades,* where one person has to speak English to get the other to say the Chinese phrase they're trying to describe. The English on the screen behind is completely useless, because they're just reading the Chinese and trying to explain it in English. Many times the English translation is completely off -- like when they call love for a much younger girl "incest."



You'll notice they bring up the ongoing pork controversy, over the use of ractopamine, which is a chemical that -- as Fanfan said -- "They put it in -- You Americans put it in meat." I don't know much about the hullabaloo, but I'm pretty sure you won't die from eating it.

Am I wrong?

That said, I'm certainly not a big fan of all the junk they feed animals in the US. I'm just saying, it might not be worse than the fact that, for instance, I often see restaurant workers here in Taiwan washing their produce on the sidewalk with scooters seasoning tonights soup with its exhaust.

For those of you who don't speak a little Chinese/French, you can hear Fanfan at the end saying, "Come one, that's enough. You're so weird/boring/dumb.** It's finished."

That's love, isn't it?



Though, I know this is hard to do, I didn't really get it until Fanfan and I played it. I had to explain things in Chinese, and she had to say the word in English. It's quite difficult.

* Not really, because they're not allowed to make any gestures, which is why they keep saying, "Don't 比!" (比 means "gesture")

** 無聊 is a very versatile term. It can mean boring, bored, silly, stupid, and weird -- all in one word....well, two.