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[littlefallsmets]

heh.

"loan application information or facebook update?"

[theinevitable]

Today, the first professor in China to teach a college class on homosexuality came to visit my class. He kept asking us questions and then telling us to look up the answers online when we didn't know them. His slides were all half in Chinese, which he did not translate.

Also he asked us the question, "What percentage of gay men do you think marry lesbians?"

Apparently this is fairly common in China, as a way to get rid of pressure from parents to marry. But at first we all kind of laughed and weren't sure what was going on.
Initially it sounds like some sort of joke where the person doesn't understand what being gay means.

Also: "If you were a Chinese parent, maybe you don't know anything about China, but, if your children was a lesbian, or a gay, would you let them come out, or would you let them marry a same-sex partner? Pick only one, one or the other, not both. If you were Chinese. think about the different culture. one or the other." We just kind of stared at him until he moved to the next question.

There were a lot of points where the fact that our professor speaks Chinese could have come in handy, but I think she was trying to avoid embarrassing him by telling him we couldn't understand his English.

[side_show]

It would have been awesome if one of your classmates was very much for his/her child staying in the closet but marrying a same sex partner, and this classmate responded as such (enthusiastically).  It would have led to some fantastic misunderstandings.

When I was at an international conference, I tried to circulate among the folks who didn't speak much English, because I really wanted to learn as much as I could from them.  One time I was hanging out with an Indonesian lady and a woman from New Guinea, and the woman from New Guinea had this awesome patterned shirt that was like this M C Escher bird/giraffe pattern, only with monkeys interlocking instead, and I was all "I really like your shirt" to her.  And she looked all "?" and asked the Indonesian lady a question.  The Indonesian lady, who also didn't understand what I was trying to say still spoke a bit more English, so she asked me what I meant.  So I start gesturing about shirts (pointing at mine, pointing at theirs), and saying "shirt," and then I say "with the monkeys!" And apparently this was totally hilarious.  They both burst out laughing, and the woman from Indonesia was all "monkey, monkey!" (in the Indonesian language you say something twice if it's plural) and the woman from New Guinea was sort of shocked but also smiling, then there was more discussion and a large amount of laughter between them.  Somehow, this seemed to become a joke among the non-English speaking conference delegates.  I would occasionally walk past some delegates and hear them mutter "monkey, monkey" under their breath and titter as I passed.  I always wondered exactly what the joke was.  I'm pretty sure it was of the "at my expense" variety. 

[theinevitable]

my roommate felt the need to tell me that my girlfriend "complains too much." This is like Paris Hilton saying someone is "too slutty." I feel like we are approaching the point where we start screaming and punching each other.

[jay-ell]

...look out the window, see snow falling again, and drop an F-bomb in front of my children.

[greenkoolayd]

my roommate felt the need to tell me that my girlfriend "complains too much." This is like Paris Hilton saying someone is "too slutty." I feel like we are approaching the point where we start screaming and punching each other.

a good reply would have been, "only about you, fingertrap asshole."

[Drygioni]

my roommate felt the need to tell me that my girlfriend "complains too much." This is like Paris Hilton saying someone is "too slutty." I feel like we are approaching the point where we start screaming and punching each other.

Put Marmite in his butter and watch him flip

[littlefallsmets]

"Of course she complains a lot, she has to keep her jaw limber so that it can manage to contain my enormous c*ck."

Just, y'know, just see if that takes him aback.

[Arachno-capitalist]

"Of course she complains a lot, she has to keep her jaw limber so that it can manage to contain my enormous c*ck."

Just, y'know, just see if that takes him aback.

I dated a girl with TMJ syndrome which results in spastic jaw tightening...


Also today I will meet Danny Devito.

[JorgeFabregas]

...hear Houston's mayor on the radio. The first specific thing she mentioned about the city was the Art Car scene.

[pmcd9]

I heard that too.  We have a cool mayor.  Specifically she mentioned Henatron and the Von Tiki.

[wombat]

...look out the window, see snow falling again, and drop an F-bomb in front of my children.

you need this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhzKvxnQBmM

[AugustWest]

... Welcome the fairly successful completion of a harrowing week.

[pmcd9]

Happy St. Jacks Day!

[Choop]

happy new year, china!

today i'm gonna go to a secret supper that i just found out is in a high rise with a view of downtown. the dress code is "cosmopolitan" whatever tf that means