August 24, 2005

• They'd be arrested in Turkmenistan!
• which just goes to show the error of turkmenbashi's ways, cause those kids are brilliant!! (and kinda cute...)
• "removablefriend"? "The best part is the guy in the back playing counter strike"? Total self-link. Hehe...(no, not really)..
• Disregarding the selflink, what is "it doesn't get more chinese than that" supposed to mean, anyway?
• I'm not sure, Mr. K, but they sure were funny. Made a little less funny, however, by the fact that they not only knew the words to the song but each & every "oooh" and "yeah". I don't think this is a self-link...
• You know, Mr. Knick. Chinese people . . . they . . . It's a black thing, man. You wouldn't understand.
• haha I don't know my friend found this video on the internet and showed it to me and we watched over and over. We didn't make this ourselves and we don't know the people who made it so even though it looks like a self-link, it's not. As for the "doesn't get more Chinese" commment, my friend and I are both Chinese and we just thought that bad karaoke/lip synching and computer gaming are both stereotypical Chinese stuff. The only way that you can make it more Chinese is if they were lip synching with their mouths full of rice while doing math. and worshiping Mao Zedong.
• won't play in firefox on my G5. Can someone point me in the direction of a quicktime of this clip?
• Oh, they are so cute. Well that sounds kind of dismissive, but they are so cute. And, removablefriend, they're pretty much like any other worldwide lip synchers, but cuter. It's a small world, after all.
• direct link (though MS needed to install something called "direct show windows" to view) As for "bad karaoke/lip synching", I thought just the opposite! They do a wonderful job of lip synching and at the same time making it funny!
• What a fabulous performance!
• The only way that you can make it more Chinese is if they were lip synching with their mouths full of rice while doing math. and worshiping Mao Zedong. You sir are hilarious, but then again I love self-reflexive ethnic humor (fuck if I don't make american jokes constantly). And yes, this video is great. On par with the two white guys head banging to System of a Down. If for nothing else, the internet was worth it for goofy homemade videos such as these.
• He's not wrong about the Counterstrike thing
• I never heard the stereotype that Chinese lipsynch, or play Counterstrike. The video I watched did have them badly out of synch for the lipsynching, but my machine plays most .wmv files choppy and out of synch anyways. I guess I could kinda see bad lipsynching as a Chinese thing, but I would put that as more of a small subset of Chinese. Kinda like how mullets could be called a white thing, but really just a small subset of white. I guess that's moot though, because from other people's comments they were totally in synch. I was the only white guy in my differential equations class last year. I failed it, too.
• Back to the stereotype topic: Mr.K: No not the majority of Chinese people play computer games and sing karaoke (although a large portion DO), but stereotypes have a way of being more bombastic than the truth. In short, it's just a whole lot more interesting to picture a bunch of kungfu-fighting, cat-eating, and government-worshipping people when someone mentions Chinese.
• I was the only white guy in my differential equations class last year. I failed it, too. Well, you know what they say about white men, dancing, and math skillz.
• You know, it's interesting that we stumbled upon this. What are some of the stereotypes that you always hear or see?
• It's stereotypical that every MoFi thread get derailed.
• removablefriend: I'm saying that I never heard of those stereotypes before. I've heard of the math stereo type, not the computer one. Of course stereoypes are born fast from jokes, and there's probably alot of jokes now about the chinese guy who died playing the computer. I thought the karaoke stereotype was Japanese. I also didn't make a connection between lipsynching and karaoke. I think most Usains don't think of Chinese as government worshipping. The common belief seems to be that the oppressive Chinese government is against the will of the people. I used to tutor math at a Korean learning center. I had plenty students that were Chinese, plenty were Japanese, plenty were Korean. Just about every one of them was already better at math than I was. They were there not because they needed tutoring, but because they wanted to enlarge their already ginormous math skills. My old boss was Philipino. He'd eat dog when he could. His cooking secret was to marinate it in 7up for day before cooking. It was pretty good. And no, 7up didn't pay me to say that.
• I live up to Australian stereotypes. Just think of the Bruces sketch from Python, and that's me.
• Here's a stereotype that always seems to hold true: Large men with short hair and Polish surnames sure do know how to please a woman.
• That's strange, I'm not Polish.