Re: Guest Post: Covid in Shanghai

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The nice thing about Pittsburgh is that I'm less fat than most of the police. And that during covid I could still take a walk whenever I wanted.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 5:16 AM
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Are there many public sheep statues?


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 6:43 AM
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Not anymore. Suburban visitors kept thinking they were sex toys.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 6:46 AM
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This whole thread: https://twitter.com/changxche/status/1516623587465043971?s=21&t=3H87uh5AYC3b2_pjxzxrCQ


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 7:11 AM
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She's might be an Airbender.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 7:22 AM
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"Please curb your enthusiasm for freedom" is my new favorite slogan.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 8:43 AM
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"Please curb your enthusiasm for freedom" is my new favorite slogan.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 8:43 AM
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Larry David on the 4th.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 8:58 AM
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Didn't anybody read to the end of the article? Or is Unfogged no longer a penis loving blog?


One bulletin that annoyed many people concerned a foreigner with an abnormal erection who had to wait fifty hours in a quarantine hotel before he was sent to hospital. He missed the optimal time for surgery but the doctors managed to save the penis. The hospital then boasted about its excellent care, inciting locals who had been denied treatment because of Covid. There's a mix of xenophilia and xenophobia here. Amid the jeers, Shanghai has won another nickname: Edinburgh. In Chinese, aidingbao means 'penis loving city'.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 10:30 AM
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As is tradition, I only read the post.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 10:35 AM
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Did "save the penis" mean that it's still attached?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 1:42 PM
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11: Good question!


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 2:02 PM
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It would be hilarious if it didn't. "Here you go!"


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 2:22 PM
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We've all got at least one penis in a jar around the house.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 2:23 PM
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Taiwan seems to have decided to go the New Zealand route and open up.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 2:26 PM
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They are open to abnormally erect penises.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 2:31 PM
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I think the moral of the story is that if some disease that spreads more easily than COVID or is more fatal happens, huge numbers of Americans are going to die. There's no way a shutdown of the kind that China has done could happen here until after the corpse piles are big enough that people can see the reason directly.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 4:18 PM
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The One China policy is about reattachment.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 7:43 PM
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Bobbiting.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 7:57 PM
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This probably goes in the education thread, but I sure hope today's youth learn the tale of how someone named John Wayne Bobbitt lived a life not unlike you would expect to be lived by someone whose parents called a baby "John Wayne". I'm not sure what exactly I learned, but it was a lot.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 8:02 PM
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"Amid the jeers, Shanghai has won another nickname: Edinburgh. In Chinese, aidingbao means 'penis loving city'."

Which is why Heroinopolis is the preferred term


Posted by: Ajay | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 11:24 PM
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Seriously, every anecdote in that article seems evidence of China being about the rudest country in the world (which tallies with personal experience)


Posted by: Ajay | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 11:30 PM
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Seriously, every anecdote in that article seems evidence of China being about the rudest country in the world (which tallies with personal experience)


Posted by: Ajay | Link to this comment | 04-28-22 11:30 PM
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When I was in China one of the biggest culture shocks was the complete lack of queuing. Completely uncivilized. Everyone needing to enter/buy/etc just forms a giant mob all pushing toward the entry point.


Posted by: Yoyo | Link to this comment | 04-29-22 9:26 AM
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So covid hospitalization is up by infinity percent in my county. There are 72 this week.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-29-22 12:06 PM
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It's not yet bad enough that the police are calling me fat.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-29-22 12:40 PM
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