Comments on: China - Adoption

By: HalfEmpty

HalfEmpty — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:49:30 +0000

I think Mr. Red is confusing BRIDGE! with War! a much more sophiticated game. Need a brick wall, a twerp cat, hot dogs and a Summer.

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:20:27 +0000

It’s bridge as played by the England rugby XV prop forward Jason “The Funbus” Leonard

By: ninme

ninme — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:36:54 +0000

That’s not bridge. I refuse to believe it.

That’s hilarious, tho. There’s a game we used to play through grade five out on the lunch benches, Speed. But no Queen Mary stories about it alas.

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:41:28 +0000

Good story! I prefer to play Bridge, which is much more cerebral. The rules are basically the same as Snap!, but, when two identical cards turn up, it’s the first player to shout “Bridge!” that wins.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:51:53 +0000

Well, that joke didn't fly.

Red would know. I'm referring to the children's card game where each player takes turn in paying cards into a central pile (face up) and the first player to say Snap! when two identical cards are played successively wins the pile. The idea is to win all the cards.

There is a famous incident in British naval history where the battleship Queen Mary and the cruise liner Queen Mary passed within sight of each other on the high seas. One of the Captains had a one word greeting sent to the other ship by Morse lamp: "SNAP".

By: ninme

ninme — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:00:48 +0000

Well, Peter went through a short phase of saying “Ooh, snap cat!” It’s an internets thing, apparently, or was. I’m assuming it’s related.

By: HalfEmpty

HalfEmpty — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:29:54 +0000

Ima learned the you phial! thing, but still I'd don't understand SNAP, I've always been slow language rise.

Perhaps the 'nMates will enlighten.

By: ninme

ninme — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:45:52 +0000

But maybe this is what they’re planning on. I mean, if they wipe out all their billion poor people who can’t do anything more useful than be unrestful about their oppression and occasionally die in some occasion or other that the government would prefer no one found out about, well hey. Make ‘em old, deprive them of any interested relatives…

(”didja hear that nin? someone said it’s a ‘very good post’!” “really?!” “totally!” “yay!”)

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:53:36 +0000

Did one of the two families in the parking lot yell out “SNAP!”?

But, yes, a very good post. At least the Japanese elderly have the prospect of little robot servants to look after them, in the near future. The Chinese won’t be generally rich enough in time to avoid the problem - they’re going to get old before they get rich, as Mark Steyn says.

It is doubly ironic, because it is only the poor in China who are limited by the one-child rule. Rich Chinese can have as many children as they can afford (all bar the first don’t get government health and education rights). So those who will need grandchildren to look after them (as is commonly the case in poorer societies) are the ones who won’t have them.