Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part XXXVIII!
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cool! u get paid for lazing ard!Originally posted by the Bear:past 10 years, i've had the same condition.. and i've been at it too
this time, i'm going there to lay down the law...
and see if i can laze around the camp for 2 weeks
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yeah.. that's the main idea
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wish i could do thatOriginally posted by the Bear:yeah.. that's the main idea -
fall on your knees
oh hear the angel voices
oh night, divine
oh night when christ was born -
hmmm, lets see ticket to perth 139.99, ticket back 119.99.
how much should i start saving, maybe i should go scam my parents to pay for my ticket and accommodation.
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let's start tonight's with a hilarious story.. from China, where else?
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Chinese trucking live rats to southern restaurants
July 16, 2007 - 3:42PM
Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported two billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south of the of country to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported.
"Recently there have been a lot of rats ... Guangzhou people are rich and like to eat exotic things, so business is very good," the China News Service quoted a vendor as saying, referring to the capital of Guangdong province.
Some vendors had asked people from a village in Hunan province, near Dongting Lake, to sell them live rats, the Beijing News said today.
"The buyers offered 6 yuan for a kilo, but as to where they will sell the rats, they would not say," the newspaper quoted a local resident as saying, adding that villagers had to catch the rats live.
"If we want to do that, there is no problem. We could catch 150 kilos of rats in one night .. .but we will not do this against our conscience," the villager was quoted as saying.
Some Guangdong restaurants were promoting "rat banquets", charging 136 yuan (A$20.7) for one kg of rat meat, the newspaper said.
Local governments in Hunan have been grappling with the rats, which had already destroyed 1.6 million hectares of crops and could spread disease, according to media reports.
A lack of snakes, also a popular dish in the south, and owls, a traditional Chinese medicine, was held partly responsible.
Chinese media reported last week that some Internet users from Guangdong had offered rat recipes as a way to deal with the problem.
Scientists have also blamed China's massive Three Gorges Dam project and climate change for the Hunan rodents' flight to dry land.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
omg they eat rats?
let's start tonight's with a hilarious story.. from China, where else?
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[b]Chinese trucking live rats to southern restaurants
July 16, 2007 - 3:42PM
Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported two billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south of the of country to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported.
"Recently there have been a lot of rats ... Guangzhou people are rich and like to eat exotic things, so business is very good," the China News Service quoted a vendor as saying, referring to the capital of Guangdong province.
Some vendors had asked people from a village in Hunan province, near Dongting Lake, to sell them live rats, the Beijing News said today.
"The buyers offered 6 yuan for a kilo, but as to where they will sell the rats, they would not say," the newspaper quoted a local resident as saying, adding that villagers had to catch the rats live.
"If we want to do that, there is no problem. We could catch 150 kilos of rats in one night .. .but we will not do this against our conscience," the villager was quoted as saying.
Some Guangdong restaurants were promoting "rat banquets", charging 136 yuan (A$20.7) for one kg of rat meat, the newspaper said.
Local governments in Hunan have been grappling with the rats, which had already destroyed 1.6 million hectares of crops and could spread disease, according to media reports.
A lack of snakes, also a popular dish in the south, and owls, a traditional Chinese medicine, was held partly responsible.
Chinese media reported last week that some Internet users from Guangdong had offered rat recipes as a way to deal with the problem.
Scientists have also blamed China's massive Three Gorges Dam project and climate change for the Hunan rodents' flight to dry land.
(source: Sydney Morning Herald)
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My goodness
Have they forgotten SARS? -
Erm.... excuse me while I go puke....
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why did i have to come in to tis thread??!!Originally posted by fudgester:Erm.... excuse me while I go puke....
now i lost my appetite for dinner *run to puke* -
Suntec loses to KLCC for best convention ctr
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Be back later
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actually I think its 'tian shu' which is like field rat.. not like our urban dirty rats
they live in the fields so SUPPOSED to be cleaner
anyway .. uhh... I find it easier to imagine myself eating them rats
than to eat worms. -
i dunno.. if they were not sewer rats but padi-field rats, i'd eat them...
but then, it's PRC.. could be fake rats -
i'd eat worms too
actually, i haveOriginally posted by ShrodingersCat:actually I think its 'tian shu' which is like field rat.. not like our urban dirty rats
they live in the fields so SUPPOSED to be cleaner
anyway .. uhh... I find it easier to imagine myself eating them rats
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i hate audit.
its all wayang. -
if it was a real audit, i think everyone would be crapping bricksOriginally posted by kopiosatu:i hate audit.
its all wayang. -
So... what they are eating could be cardboard?Originally posted by the Bear:i dunno.. if they were not sewer rats but padi-field rats, i'd eat them...
but then, it's PRC.. could be fake rats -
how come they dont have a green face sick looking smiley like the one in MSN?Originally posted by the Bear:i'd eat worms too
actually, i have
u shd join fear factor. -
don't forget to add the poisonous caustic acid that will actually make it taste like real rat.Originally posted by fudgester:So... what they are eating could be cardboard? -
Oh yah.... I'm sure they won't forget to leave out the diethylene glycol as well.Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:don't forget to add the poisonous caustic acid that will actually make it taste like real rat. -
ahhh.. all this attention to details that make our food taste the way it should!Originally posted by fudgester:Oh yah.... I'm sure they won't forget to leave out the diethylene glycol as well.
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this one?
Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:how come they dont have a green face sick looking smiley like the one in MSN?
u shd join fear factor. -
aaahh... useful site...Originally posted by the Bear:this one?
you're the man.. or bear. -
but... but.. fried worms are yummy