20 Replies to “HAO FU!”

  1. Well. I am just flabbergasted! You mean she didn’t have inner peace. Now I think I’ll go feng shui my house. NOT

  2. Sorry to interfere, but, I took down my faithful and very dusty dusty Mathews Chinese-English dictionary, and the two characters on the happy lady’s arm are: NU LI.
    The first character isn’t ‘hao’ or ‘good’ (which requires a kind of wiggly ‘z’ next to it). It’s Nu, which means ‘woman’.
    The next character is Li, which means ‘strength, power’. When it’s used as a suffix, it indicates the power of the first term.
    So, the two of them mean, essentially, ‘The Power of Woman’.

  3. We should never concern ourselves with attempting to assess the profundities of fashion.
    There aren’t any. It’s all about the “look” which can be enjoyable in its own right but is ultimatly entirely trite in nature.
    Just like most celebrities!
    (Though it’s interesting that the same people who would be shocked at a T-shirt wih Hitler on it would be happy to wear a Che Guevara motif…)

  4. No, I agree we shouldn’t concern ourselves with attempting to assess the profundities of fashion – which is what I said to myself after I told my grandson what I thought of his eyebrow piercing.
    Nor when my former d-in-law walked down the aisle of the church at my grdaur’s wedding with a short sleeved jacket so we fashion-ignorant people could see whatever the h— it was she had tattooed on her arm. (Looks beautiful in the wedding photos.)
    But the first person who feng-shuis me is going to get it between the eyes.

  5. I loved this story! How encouraging to read a well written, well constructed piece of humour by an intelligent, somewhat subversive character. (I read the dialogue out loud to my husband: it sounded like Chinese to us!) I laughed and laughed—especially the part where the young woman had to call his Mom!
    It’s a very good thing Whistler P. McManus doesn’t live in Canukistan and that his bit of fun wasn’t sniffed out by Comrade Warman. In fact if this humourless and dangerously subversive person were in charge, Canada would be altogether like Narnia: “always winter and never Christmas”. (And that has nothing to do with his being Jewish—or maybe it does . . .)
    If he could, Mr. Warman would be like the White Witch, travelling abroad in her kingdom looking for any signs of jollity. And what happened when she sniffed them out? She used her wand to turn the creatures into stone. Isn’t Mr. Warman fortunate to have his own personal, under the radar (until now), taxpayer funded, state sponsored “wand”? It’s called the Canadian Human Rights (sic) Commission.
    Sick.

  6. Kind of sad that a blog reader took more time to figure out what a symbol meant than an individual that decided to have it tattooed on her body.

  7. The best tat I ever saw was on a guys chest, it was made to look like his chest was cut open, and you could see his heart, and there was a Canadian flag on his heart. Very well done and realistic looking and pretty evident where his allegiances were. I have always thought if I was going to get something, it would have to be something like that. OR “MOM”. One or the other.

  9. …ok my turn. True life.
    Ne ho ma! How are you? Doche’ Thank you.
    Dohseedoh (butchered badly) is a slang for ‘take a crap’.
    Took my co-worker Becky from Hong Kong out to lunch at – (what’s it called Peking Palace? on Centre Street and 16th Ave in Calgary).
    I thought I’d be really smart and thank the waitress for the meal and said ‘dohseedoh’. The waitress looked kinda strange at me. So I figured the difference between Mandarin and Cantonese is guttural, so I tried it again with a deeper tone.
    The waitress was really looking strange at me, so I looked over to Becky for support and noticed she was as white as snow, yelling doche! doche! doche!
    So I think I shrunk 5 feet that day.
    Now I just say “thanks”.
    *sigh*

  10. A sociopath goes out of his way to make someone miserable for no reason and you guys think it’s a big hoot. Figures.
    Nice anti-semitism in lookout’s post, too.

  11. Lighten up, volik.
    I’m about the least anti-Semitic person you could find. I have the greatest respect for both the Jewish religion and people. Oh, and I’m a great supporter of Israel. One of my Jewish students and his family, immigrants to Canada from Israel, gave me the best present I’ve ever received from a student: there’s a tree planted in my name in the Ayalon Valley.

  14. Comic John Wing has a very funny routine on Asian tatoos on young women. He observes that the bearers usually explain that the symbols mean “inner peace”, but he can’t help but wonder if they really mean “Wide Load”.

  16. It recalls to mind a conversation I overhead at a local watering hole. The waitress in the bar was showing off a new Chinese character tattoo she had gotten on her arm. She said she had gone to an Asian tattoo parlour and gotten the fellow running the parlour to write “Sexy Bitch” and tattoo it on her arm.
    Well, the cook at this bar is Chinese and when she saw the tattoo, she yelled,
    “How come you get THAT tattooed on your arm?”
    The waitress snapped back, “Well that’s what I am”.
    Then the cook said, quite quizzically, “You a female dog in heat?”
    Names have been deleted to protect the innocent and the gullible…

  17. Oh yeah, forgot: on a right-wing blog, a bitter creep spending hours and effort to humiliate someone is considered “humour”. Joking about the Jews wanting to ban Christmas is considered “humour”.
    Cue Herman Munster laugh: “Hyunh! Hyunh! Hyunh! FUNN-EE!”

  19. With a name like “Whistler P. McManus”, it’s very possible this story is fiction. But, even if it’s not, it’s entirely small potatoes in comparison to the insults and, yes, hate speech, doled out by the leftist elites in this country to the right, especially if we’re religious, er, I mean, Christian.
    And yet, I don’t know of a single HRC case either taken to or won by Canadian Christians.
    As I said before, volik, lighten up.
    If this little piece of humour has your knickers in knots, wait until the insults–which this fancy doesn’t even come near to–aren’t even couched in humour: you’re likely to have a coronary on the spot. IF you have any friends of a conservative nature, you might like to find out how they’ve coped with the mean-spirited, lying degradations daily lobbed at them for the past 30 or more years from all lefty sides.
    And you think you’ve got it bad here . . . besides lightening up, you need to toughen up a little too: sissies are such a bore.

  20. lookout–
    You’re tellin’ *me* to lighten up?
    Sheesh – I don’t think I’ve ever read a more self-pitying, embittered crybaby rant than that which you included in your post.
    “Mean-spirited lying degradations lobbed daily…” Aw, poor bayb-eeee!

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