We Chinese

[dimwit]

[matsuki]

So they can get cheap counterfeit parts?

....or get ripped off trying to buy them.

[cujojpn]

They're at it again with the train business.

China unveils new super-speed train that can hit 300mph (... 100mph quicker than its bullet trains)

China has produced a super-rapid test train capable of travelling at speeds of up to 300 miles per hour - 100mph faster than the current record-holder.
The train, made from plastic materials reinforced with carbon fibre, is designed to resemble an ancient Chinese sword and 'will provide useful reference for current high-speed railway operations', according to train expert Shen Zhiyun.
Earlier this year, the Communist regime unveiled its fastest operational locomotive which was able to cover the 824-mile trip between Beijing and Shanghai in five hours - reaching record-breaking top speed of 200mph and maintaining an average speed of 165mph.

- http://goo.gl/YRkBk

[Coligny]

China has produced a super-rapid test train capable of travelling at speeds of up to 300 miles per hour - 100mph faster than the current CHINESE-record holder.

FTFY

For your information:

French TGV speed record of 2007 from the TGV Duplex unit 150 was: 574.8km/h (356mph)


Their quite bold 300mph claim would put them more in line with the (French) Bugatti Veyron Super Sport with her top speed of 269.80 mph.

But that's not bad for a country of illiterate farmers building things with stolen blueprints in a language they couldn't read anyway and made from random junk found in local dumpsters and restaurants... at least it didn't crash or spontaneously explode... yet...

[Iraira]

But that's not bad for a country of illiterate farmers building things with stolen blueprints in a language they couldn't read anyway and made from random junk found in local dumpsters and restaurants... at least it didn't crash or spontaneously explode... yet...

That's it. For your rude criticism of China, you get no methamidophos-laden gyoza for dinner tonight.

[Samurai_Jerk]

But that's not bad for a country of illiterate farmers building things with stolen blueprints in a language they couldn't read anyway and made from random junk found in local dumpsters and restaurants... at least it didn't crash or spontaneously explode... yet...

Don't be so hard on your French brethren.

[Mike Oxlong]

China unveils new super-speed train that can hit 300mph (... 100mph quicker than its bullet trains)
- http://goo.gl/YRkBk

The headline is old news, and poorly chosen. There is vid of the record-setting train from a year ago on Youtube. The article is really more about the current state of and future of the rail industry in China.

[Coligny]

Don't be so hard on your French brethren.

Qui aime bien chatie bien...

(who luv's gud, punch gud)
(or maybee moar: Who loves well, punish well...)

[Tsuru]

FTFY

For your information:

French TGV speed record of 2007 from the TGV Duplex unit 150 was: 574.8km/h (356mph)


Their quite bold 300mph claim would put them more in line with the (French) Bugatti Veyron Super Sport with her top speed of 269.80 mph.

But that's not bad for a country of illiterate farmers building things with stolen blueprints in a language they couldn't read anyway and made from random junk found in local dumpsters and restaurants... at least it didn't crash or spontaneously explode... yet...

Hahahah that's a good one.... a Bugatti Veyron is about as French as a Rolls Royce Phantom is British, and that's going some. At least it has French tyres...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Qui aime bien chatie bien...

(who luv's gud, punch gud)
(or maybee moar: Who loves well, punish well...)

Machine translation gave me "tough love".

[Coligny]

Hahahah that's a good one.... a Bugatti Veyron is about as French as a Rolls Royce Phantom is British, and that's going some. At least it has French tyres...

-They are made in Molsheim

http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-2006-Bugatti-Veyron-Workshop-Molsheim.htm

-Molsheim is in France.

->They are Made In France.

End of this conversation.

[Tsuru]

By that metric, IKEA furniture is from wherever it's assembled, which would make yours Japanese. I'm sorry mate, it just isn't.

Molsheim does sound suspiciously German

[Coligny]

Molsheim does sound suspiciously German

It's because it's in Alsace...

Those Alsacianz people all soundz suspiciously German too...

[Coligny]

By that metric, IKEA furniture is from wherever it's assembled, which would make yours Japanese. I'm sorry mate, it just isn't.

Nope... there is a disctinction between "made" and "assembled"

[Tsuru]

Nope... there is a disctinction between "made" and "assembled"

Indeed there is

[Russell]

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Forget the cat, I'd be looking for his mum's English teacher to find the answer to this "mystery."

[Samurai_Jerk]

[matsuki]

LOL, imagine if there had been a train running at the time....

Chinese copies aren't usually all they're cracked up to be. I'm just waiting for this one to become a disaster:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060023/Chinas-newest-tourist-attraction--glass-bottomed-walkway-cliff-face.html

[Russell]

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[LesTalk]

Policeman saves the child. Yeah, because the traffic would never stop for the kid.

I'm sometimes terrified and always in awe when I ride in a car in China. Rules of the road? What rules of the road?

[LesTalk]

...

[IparryU]

the police man is just chatting it up with the jiji... shouldn't he be scolding him or trying to find the parents and the reason why he was alone?

nope... it is china...

[Coligny]

the police man is just chatting it up with the jiji... shouldn't he be scolding him or trying to find the parents and the reason why he was alone?

nope... it is china...

Yeah... and here they would be mesuring everything from the road to the top of the tree...

Kids escape... all the time (*)... no need to put grandpa in jail over it...

(*)actually... not with cat people... But I don't recommend the years of trauma involved for rearing a cat as a good training for parenthood...

[IparryU]

Yeah... and here they would be mesuring everything from the road to the top of the tree...

Kids escape... all the time (*)... no need to put grandpa in jail over it...

(*)actually... not with cat people... But I don't recommend the years of trauma involved for rearing a cat as a good training for parenthood...

true, but if a 3 year old has the time to sneak away, get on his bike and go to a main street... something is wrong.

me bets that whoever was watching him put him on the bike and walked away.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Chinese couple bury woman alive, sparking outrage

Chinese police have arrested a young couple who buried an old woman alive believing she was dead after their car hit the 68-year-old, newspapers said on Thursday, in a case which has sparked outrage over declining public morality.

The couple had been at an all-night karaoke session when they hit the woman while driving in the early hours of the morning in the wealthy eastern province of Zhejiang last month, the official China Daily said.
"A witness said he heard someone crying and saw an elderly woman lying on the ground near (the car)," it cited a policeman as saying.
"A man and a woman got out and put the elderly woman in the car, saying they would send her to hospital."

But, worried about being arrested for drunk driving and causing the accident and believing she was no longer alive, they buried her near the side of the road, the report added.

However, when police later found the woman's body they discovered she was still alive when she was buried, and had then suffocated to death, the paper said.

[Mike Oxlong]

Sounds like China autopsies more than Japan...

[Coligny]

Sounds like China autopsies more than Japan...

Certainly linked to that second hand human organ business they are running on the side... (of the roads)

[Mike Oxlong]

Certainly linked to that second hand human organ business they are running on the side... (of the roads)

Gotta pay the coroner somehow.

[IparryU]

Last year, graphic video footage of a two-year-old child run over by a van and ignored by passersby in southern China sparked similar anger.

it should be:

Last year, graphic video footage of a two-year-old child being run over by 2 automobiles and ignored by passersby in southern China sparked similar anger.