The Chinese government has eased some of its strict zero-COVID policies with new guidelines issued on Wednesday December 7th. The changes include relaxed testing requirements and travel restrictions, while, for the first time, people infected with COVID-19 who have mild or no symptoms are allowed to isolate at home instead of in centrally managed facilities. […]
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SOURCE: CNN – Kite-flying festival turned terrifying in Taiwan on Sunday when a 3-year-old girl became entangled in tail of giant kite and sent flying high into the air. The international kite festival was being held in the city of Hsinchu, south of the capital Taipei. Video of the accident, which circulated widely on social […]
Have you ever been to China? If not you need to know… you should be prepared to carry your own toilet paper and practice your squat. I do not mean those bull shit chair-less sits you see at the gym. Nah, were talking DEEP squats, where you plop your ass down as far as it […]
Chinese state media once again floated the prospect of international lawsuits against the United States for supposedly being responsible for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in a column Thursday, adding the 2008 financial crisis and the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic to the list. The Global Times and People’s Daily, two of the most prominent Chinese Communist Party English-language mouthpieces, have […]
CONTEXT FOR THE IMAGE ABOVE: According to dailymotion:. “Male employees lined up to be slapped by a female manager at a real estate firm’s meeting. The video, filmed in Yichang City in central China’s Hubei Province on May 1, shows six male workers standing in a line getting slapped by a female manager.In another clip, […]
Patrick O’dell is a documentary film maker based in Los Angeles. Patrick focuses primarily on skateboarding and is best known for his series with Vice called Epicl’y Laterd where he profiles individuals within the skate world. I also want to give a big shoutout to my friends John and Ashleigh for letting me use their […]
Forest Morrow is a big wave surfer who I met down in Mexico at the biggest wave I have ever seen in my life. There are some photos on the show notes page of this episode hit the link below. Forest also works in construction and is in the process of building his own house. […]
SOURCE: Shanghaiist (Alex Linder) Following the coronavirus lockdown, a kung fu school has opened back up in Shandong province, teaching students how to become more healthy by swinging heavy bricks from their testicles. The school is run by Master Ye, a tai chi “master” who holds multiple world records for the strength of his undercarriage, […]
SOURCE: Shanghaiist (Alex Linder) A Chinese kung fu “master” has succeeded in dragging a helicopter more than 10 meters using only the power of his penis, managing to break a “world record,” but not his cock in the process. In a video recorded to catalog this historic feat for future generations, a foreign female “judge” […]
SOURCE: Shanghaiist (Alex Linder) A single mortuary has had 5,000 urns delivered over the past two days, double the city’s reported coronavirus death toll The reliability of China’s coronavirus numbers is under question once again in view of the staggering amount of urns being distributed out in Wuhan. According to official Chinese government data, 50,006 […]