{"id":1196,"date":"2010-01-07T16:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T08:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2010-02-14T17:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T09:58:35","slug":"completement-fou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Compl\u00c3\u00a8tement fou …"},"content":{"rendered":"

If anyone ever had the chance to or was contemplating moving to China – I’d say: do it! It has such entertainment value.
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\nIf you’re lucky, every day can be a mini adventure – or perhaps it’s just me!? No seriously – no other country I’ve visited or lived in, so far, has been as diverting as China. Take today for example. We were innocently wandering the streets of Ningbo trying to find a quiet place to work at (the perks of the job) when, without any<\/i> warning, these signs suddenly appeared before us, all nicely arranged in a row, one after the other … Hysterical laughter followed … (for extra points – can you spot the non hysterical originals?):<\/p>\n

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\n \"DSC02126\"<\/a> \"DSC02155\"<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

\"DSC02156\"<\/a> \"DSC02129\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DSC02127\"<\/a> \"DSC02128\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I tried to find originals for all the fake signs, as comparisons, but got distracted by other equally comical brand names whilst doing so. Such as for example ‘Lui Chantant’<\/i> or ‘Singing Lui’<\/i> for those french speakers among you, and an anagram of Crocodile or of what might come out as Crocodile if you pronounced it in a chinese fashion.<\/p>\n

\"DSC02138\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DSC02157\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now if that’s not reason enough to come and explore this place, I don’t know what is! That much entertainment in one day … phew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If anyone ever had the chance to or was contemplating moving to China – I’d say: do it! It has such entertainment value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattisonthompson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}