I first saw this article: Chinese furious at star’s toilet humor and it got me searching for the video. There were tons of blogs and photos, but no one seemed to link to the video itself. I did happen to find random clips of the show online, but nothing regarding the toilet bashing.
From the article:
Jessey Meng, who made a name for herself as an actress and a television presenter in China, joked about mainlanders’ toilet habits to a chorus of laughter from fellow guests on the show “Red Storm” last week.
“Many mainland toilets don’t have doors and even when they do, most people don’t even shut the door!” Meng said.
She regaled the host with a story about a toilet in a Chinese city where she had seen “hundreds of pale bottoms all lined up in a row.”
Equipped with just the English name of the actress and the show, I went on to find the Chinese counterpart:
Jessey Meng: 孟廣美 (孟广美)
Red Storm: 紅色風暴 (红色风暴)
As I mentioned before, I was unable to find the video anywhere, until I landed on a bittorrent file from YYTv0. There were split into 2 parts (apparently this talk show was broadcasted on sepearted days). After downloading the first part and watching it all the way through, I didn’t find the part where she bashes China’s toilet. Although I was disappointed, I did see a hilarious clip:
A Time Sex Thing (Is Work Safe, but requires understanding of Mandarin)
They have a Chinese phrase and were told to translate it. Before this, it was giving the real definition for uncommon Chinese sayings. So when they were asked to translate 一次性用品 (which refers to paper plates and plastic forks), I thought it was going to be something like one time use. Turns out they were going for the funnier aspect with the direct/literal translation:
一次: One Time/A Time
性: Sex/Gender
用品: Goods/Thingswhich ended up with: A Time Sex Thing
Jessey goes on and asks if she got this from the internet, but it was actually a photo submitted by a viewer from a supermarket. Jessey then tells her about her experience when she was somewhere in China and someone was selling dry goods. In Chinese, dry goods is called 乾貨, however, being in China, they use simplifed: 干货
Here’s what makes this funny, the simplified version 干 has 2 traditional counterparts: 乾 (dry) and 幹 (do).
Just like Engish, do can refer to multiple meanings including to kill and to have sex with (to f***).
So, underneath the Chinese writing, it said: F*** Goods
The chubby Chinese guy was hilarious mentioning One Night Stand (which was actually pretty pretty close to the real answer) and converted 乾貨 to 跟貨 or 跟者我的貨 (follow me goods).
Now back to the original topic, I downloaded part 2 of this talk show and finally found the clip that had Jessey bashing the toilets in China:
Red Storm – Jessey Meng – Toilet
I honestly didn’t think even think the insults made were that mean. It was funny, I’d agree. I mean she was talking about back then too, although she did say that currently if you walk into a ladies rest room, there are still 2 or 3 out of 10 stalls where people don’t bother closing the stall doors, but this was obviously made out as a joke. I mean even the government has to tell their own citizens who are travelling abroad not to not spit or litter in public areas to give foreigners a better impression of them since it’s sow common in their own country: Guidebook spells out etiquette for tourists. Also an article regarding why foreign counties don’t particularily lke travelers from Mainland China: Chinese travelers’ bad manners earn a chilly reception
If you want to watch the entire video, you can do so here: Red Storm – Jessey Meng, although it is ~200MB and if you’re watching it in your browser, it may take some time to start.
Random Crap:
Xerox reveals transient documents (from /.) – This offers the prospect of reusable paper in the sense that the content is automatically erased after a period of time, ready for fresh printing. Inspired by the fact that many print outs have a life-span of a few hours (think of the emails you may print out just to read, or the content you proof read on the train journey back home), the specially prepared paper will preserve its content for up to 16 hours. Someone brought up an interesting point in regards to contracts with disappearing ink.
Motorist jailed for blowing up speed camera – Craig Moore, 28, took his revenge on the camera, which had flashed him in the Hyde area of Manchester, in August 2005. Although the camera itself was badly damaged, images of him speeding and returning to destroy the evidence were stored in recording equipment in its unscathed base. I don’t remember if I posted this article before, but if I did, this one now has the picture of the blown up camera.
Michael Paulus :: Skeletal Systems (from Cari) – A character study of 22 present and past cartoon characters. A pretty interesting yet creepy site showing familiar characters such as Hello Kitty, Pikachu, Charlie Brown, Power Puff Girls, etc and what their skeletal structure would be like. (for a moment there, I forgot what PPG were called, and I searched for Bubble Girls; DO NOT SEARCH FOR BUBBLE GIRLS!)
What the Bagel Man Saw – He had also — quite without meaning to — designed a beautiful economic experiment. By measuring the money collected against the bagels taken, he could tell, down to the penny, just how honest his customers were. Did they steal from him? If so, what were the characteristics of a company that stole versus a company that did not? Under what circumstances did people tend to steal more, or less?
Apparently Berkeley now has a class called Basic Study of Magical Creatures 101 (from Esca)
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Auto-eroticism undoes driver – A Slovak driver who crashed into a bus shocked rescuers who found him unconscious and half naked with a vacuum pump on his penis.
Mass hysteria in children after snake killed – Dozens of children have fainted, apparently because of mass hysteria, after school authorities in Nepal killed a snake, considered as sacred by many Hindus, witnesses said on Thursday. At least 67 students, aged between nine and 16 years, have had fainting fits since Tuesday in the mainly Hindu country, they said. As FuzzyWuzzy says, “Where’s Samuel L Jackson to yell. IT’S SNAKES ON A MOTHERFUCKING PLANE!“