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With only a week and a half left before the 60th anniversary of the PRC, it seems the whole country has caught National Day fever. Capturing the excitement, Boston.com has a wonderful collection of photos from various sources depicting many different preparations around China. We particularly like the fashion military parade pictures: those outfits are fabulous! But amidst all the hoopla, it's a difficult time to be in Beijing.
With parade rehearsals and preparations, security has been taken to draconian heights, even surpassing the efforts made for the Olympics. Anti-explosive containers have been placed in subways, streets and subway lines around Tiananmen square have been cordoned off, and even pigeons have been grounded. All this commotion has caused so much disruption that the government was forced to cancel the final National Day parade rehearsal out of concern for the incredibly inconvenienced public. As if it wasn't hard enough to drive around Chang'an already.
And god forbid you want to buy any cutlery: in the wake of all those syringe stabbings in Xinjiang and the two major stabbing incidents in Beijing this past week, the government has decided to ban the sale of kitchen knives and other generally sharp objects that can be used as a shiv. We're not really sure whether banning the sale of knives in places like Wal-Mart will actually stop people from stabbing each other We wonder what restrictions have been placed on syringes?
Photo: APF
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As a cartoon in the SCMP says today:
This should stop them, as long as nobody remembers to bring knives from home.
Can we still have a memory not that selective about how many shooting sprees happened in USA in first half year? I wonder when Chinese can be as free as Americans and own machines guns? Only then will the the killing be effectively limited just in the schoolyards.
Really disappointing and even annoying that these girls in picture, under CCP rule, still look as happy as the democratic crusader on the carrier welcoming descending Bush, before his preaching the accomplishment of Holy Mission.
To the female military above and the lightblue clad female police on horseback:
Capture me!
Arrest me!
Discipline me!
Please?
I know. How sick of me to be turned on by this fashionable and feminine yet completely fascistoid display of power.. Bad me! China is f-ing with our minds in yet another way. You gotta hand it to em, making even the damn military look sexy?? The last frontier..
*waits for loud but somehow strangely sensual knocks by a squad of white booted female officers on the door of his apartment*
I thought you could be turned on only by a Yorkshire swine, I mean when he is smiling.
Breaking news!!!! To honor the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, notorious Shanghaiist troll oakwoods is going to try to break the world record for continuous masturbation during a military parade! The record of 4 hours 5 minutes and 37 seconds was set by Vladimir Pushkin during the 1957 May Day Parade in Moscow. Since then, many have tried, but few have come close to "beating" this now legendary mark. To one up the Russian who is said to have dined on a healthy portion of oysters before undertaking this exhausting test of hand/member coordination, oakwoods says that he will rely only on the "revolutionary spirit" emanating from the celebrations as they parade across his television screen. "As long as they have fair amount of close-ups on Wu Bangguo, I think I will have no problem beating the record" said an eager oakwoods. We wish him nimble fingers and a lot of luck!
Long n boring. icecat'll be the last one in his class I'd call interesting. yawn.....
Alas, they forgot to ban the deadly spork.
"A rash of unharmonious and entirely-preventable spork attacks on the 60th anniversary has resulted in the untimely end of the CCP."
The new flag will be, like, a spork and sickle and probably have a Nabisco trademark somewhere...