Remember the mall? That place where all the stores you could ever want were under one roof? Yeah, it was like getting into your car in order to travel to what we now call Amazon.
China’s been ahead of the Western curve for some time now. The U.S. economy cowers before the might of Chinese manufacturing prowess, and some of Hollywood’s most popular blockbusters have catered to Eastern tastes. By 2025, we will all have a workable knowledge of Cantonese. But for now, China has made its latest leap forward in the field of etiquette, more specifically movie theater etiquette, and even more specifically, how to deal with a-holes who won’t stop using their cell phones during a movie. Polite whispered requests, chair-nudging, chair-kicking, and in-theater doxxing have all proven ineffective in the continuing war on America’s rudest audience members. China’s contrived a smarter, more futuristic mode of combatting these menaces.
Bystanders waiting at a bus station in Harbin, a city in northeastern China, got a horrific surprise when the ground beneath them suddenly collapsed, trapping five of them underground in an instant.
The cleanliness of public bathrooms in China, despite improvements still has a long way to go. As part of China's plan to increase bathroom cleanliness the Chinese government is now taking applications for their new bathroom patrols.
Usually when couples with kids decide to go their separate ways, they tell the children that the divorce was not their fault. It would be very interesting to see how this mother and father handle that question...
Most Americans go to the beach just to get a good tan. Our friends over in the East, the Far East, are avoiding that very reason. The Chinese have started a new fad called a Facekini.