Little things...

Some of the "English" on display here in China is pretty amusing, to me anyway. Here is a sample of some of the things that have tickled me. Click on the pictures to see them full size if the text is too small.

Some sort of underwear detergent? Yet on the other side of the building the equivalent sign says West Street Under Ground Department Store in (almost) perfect English.


Clothes with trendy English logos on them are always good for a laugh. One sports jacket I saw a cool youngster wearing was made by PUMAN (with the leaping puma motif). "HIGH NICE" was emblazoned across the jacket, but better, above the puma on this sports jacket it said "SPORTS RARELY".

In a hotel we stayed in recently, there was a sachet in the bathroom which was apparently "the 53rd of Miss World Final Appointed Products" - she'll be delighted to know that her 53rd product is "specially designed for washing men's genitals". Still, we shouldn't have been surprised - the hotel's "manogement is scientific", and "in our dancing hall, KTV rooms, chess & puke rooms, you can satisfied with yourself". I cannot disagree with the hotel's boast that "we are solidarity, brave and creative, reinforcing inter management, standing outer figure".

Recommended - I've never had such an attentive membrane pour.


Also, here's a probably short-lived subsection of my blog I'm going to call "Things I think I've heard when people are speaking Chinese". So far...

- ee by gum
- one to the pound
- cabbage holder
- shamalamadingdong (this one may have required some imagination)
- baby I need you

Bear with me if this leaves you cold. Out here, where people don't even speak European hand signals, this sort of thing is keeping me sane.