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Ram and deer to marry at Yunnan zoo on Valentine's Day

Ram and deer to marry at Yunnan zoo on Valentine's Day

It's beginning to look like China's animal parks are subtly attempting to lead the way in liberalizing attitudes towards nontraditional relationships in the motherland. Not two months after Harbin allowed two gay penguin parents to adopt, now the Yunnan Wild Animal Park is promoting interracial marriage! To celebrate the love between "Long Hair" (长毛) the ram and "Junko" (纯子) the deer, they will hold a wedding ceremony on Valentine's Day next week. more ›

Gay male penguins become adoptive parents in Harbin

Gay male penguins become adoptive parents in Harbin

In a story that will surely enrage penguin fundamentalists everywhere, two gay penguins at the Harbin Polar Land have become adoptive parents. When a female penguin hatched twin chicks on November 28, the park staff decided to give one of the little guys to a gay penguin couple who, get this, are notorious for trying to steal eggs from the straight penguins! more ›

Spotted: Hot dogs and AIDS for sale

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Seen in a store by Shanghaiist reader Marius Ionita. For more cool stuff spotted around China, click here. more ›

NYC cops raid Chinatown meat market after journalist reports it sells dog instead of duck

Hilarious story as told by our friends from Next Media Animation. More on what happened here. More NMA hilarity here. more ›

Say AHHH! Dentist puts penis in woman's mouth during surgery

Say AHHH! Dentist puts penis in woman's mouth during surgery

And by AHHH, we mean a scream of the viscerally disgusting get-it-away-from-me variety. A dentist working at Zhongshan Hosptial in Shanghai's far western district of Qingpu (青浦区) has been detained for sticking his genitals in a woman's mouth during surgery on Friday. more ›

Grandmother with only 2RMB given free food, kindness

Grandmother with only 2RMB given free food, kindness

Chinese netizens are swarming over a story about an elderly woman with only 2RMB shown kindness and given a free bowl of soup by a conscientious waitress in a Chongqing restaurant. more ›

Dog rides metro in search of owner

Dog rides metro in search of owner

At least we think so! Today on Metro Line 1 a dog, of its own accord, got on the metro at Xinzha Station and then got off at Hanzhong Road, later seen running off in search of... something... perhaps its owner? more ›

Porn video played on Wenzhou LED billboard for 10 minutes, pedestrians dumbstruck

Porn video played on Wenzhou LED billboard for 10 minutes, pedestrians dumbstruck

Pedestrians of Oubei Town (瓯北镇) in the city of Wenzhou got an eyeful on Wednesday, when a large LED billboard located at the busiest intersection in town played a pornographic video for a full ten minutes. more ›

UK man custom orders size 14.5 slipper from China, receives size 1,450 [now "confirmed" to be PR stunt]

UK man custom orders size 14.5 slipper from China, receives size 1,450 [now "confirmed" to be PR stunt]

Todd Boddingham must've been confused when his custom order from China for a special sized slipper showed up at his house in a box the size of a car. more ›

Check it out: A squat toilet adapter!

Check it out: A squat toilet adapter!

Seriously, now, if someone invented a lightweight, foldable, portable, and easy-to-clean version of this, it could be the next big must-have item for tourists coming to this side of the world! more ›

Watch: Chinglish gets called out for being awful

Watch: Chinglish gets called out for being awful

Watch this China-born YouTube warrior tear into all the annoying mistakes commonly made by Chinese learners of English, as he tries to convince them to actually learn how to pronounce an English word, rather than relying on Chinese character approximation (E.g. Hali Pote (哈里坡特) instead of Harry Potter). more ›

Stupid slang to impress your Shanghainese friends

Stupid slang to impress your Shanghainese friends

Today when we were Weibbing about as usual, we stumbled upon a sentence that was so bizarre we just had to investigate it. Strange enough was the combination usage of English and Chinese, but what really piqued our interest was the tagline "Shanghainese will understand." With that challenge posed, we of course decided to decipher it. more ›

Tuesday Timewaster:  Watch this creepy Beijing girl teach you Mandarin

Tuesday Timewaster: Watch this creepy Beijing girl teach you Mandarin

A young pale-skinned girl speaks in a weak voice in a dimly lit room. The walls are covered in plastic and bubble wrap hangs from the ceiling in sheets -- behind which the faint outline of a human body is visible standing motionless. A man in an elaborate tin foil hat sits bound and gagged on a couch. An cat-girl climbs onto the couch and nuzzles into the girl's leg. Wait, what? This isn't Saw 15? more ›

Watch: One moped wheelie video to rule them all

Watch: One moped wheelie video to rule them all

If we claimed this video was just one crazy dude doing a wheelie for over a minute on his moped while traveling at dangerously high speeds with no protective gear and a surprisingly calm girl holding on, we'd be doing a disservice to the artform. This is no simple video; this is a statement, a revolution, a pièce de résistance unmatched by any past moped wheelie endeavors and setting the bar for all future attempts. more ›

Semi-interesting fact of the day: George Bush's brother is on Weibo!

Semi-interesting fact of the day: George Bush's brother is on Weibo!

Nope, not Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, but the other brother -- Neil Bush. Name not ringing a bell? He was the one who claimed back in 2003 that random women came to his hotel room in Hong Kong in the middle of the night and were NOT prostitutes and he did NOT pay them. more ›

Shanghai Daily: Free access to flower fest for virgins aged 22 and above!

Shanghai Daily: Free access to flower fest for virgins aged 22 and above!

WOMEN who were born before September 17, 1989, and claim to be virgins can enter the Zhouluo Wild Osmanthus Fragrans Festival in Changsha for free. more ›

NYC cops arrest worker at Chinatown funeral shop for "fake" LV and Burberry bags

NYC cops arrest worker at Chinatown funeral shop for "fake" LV and Burberry bags

This is just plain hilaaaarious: Cops in NYC have arrested a worker at a funeral supplies shop in Chinatown that sells joss paper and other papier-mâché items that Chinese people the world over like to burn for their deceased family members. more ›

Recommendation letter for an ayi

Recommendation letter for an ayi

This is one helluva recommendation letter that someone wrote for her ayi. One wonders if she got the job?
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It's raining <strike>men</strike> money!

It's raining men money!

Those looking for some free cash should head out to Jiading District and keep your eyes on the sky. About 1,000RMB has already fallen from a high-rise building on Haibo Road since Wednesday. Since windows are often left open rain or shine here, one wonders if some unlucky accountant needs to invest in some paperweights... more ›

Chinglish of the Day: Bus station 'Notes by Ladder'

Chinglish of the Day: Bus station 'Notes by Ladder'

Ever since Expo blasted through town stripping us of food streets, pajamas, and chinglish (basically everything fun) we've found few if any chucklz amongst Shanghai public signs. So you can imagine our delight at this wonderfully pure specimen spotted by the escalator in the Shanghai Long-Distance Coach Terminal. more ›

Nationwide outrage at video of nurse beating old folks, forcing them to drink urine

Nationwide outrage at video of nurse beating old folks, forcing them to drink urine

An investigative report by Henan Television uncovering the abuse at an old folks home in Zhengzhou has shocked people in the provincial capital and sparked a nationwide outrage. more ›

Watch: Firefighters rescue boy sandwiched between two walls

Watch: Firefighters rescue boy sandwiched between two walls

Via NoCommentTV: "Firefighters freed a young boy narrowly sandwiched between two walls in Bijie city, in China's southwest Guizhou province. The eight-year-old boy was playing with his friends when he became trapped between the 18 centimeter (7 inch) wide enclosure between two brick houses, state television CCTV said." more ›

Sperm collecting machine: Chinese innovation at its best

Sperm collecting machine: Chinese innovation at its best

We have no doubt that Chinese inventors will soon rule the world. Don't believe us? Well, just take a look at this video. Some wonderful company in Jiangsu has apparently invented a sperm collecting machine. Great! With this machine, now sperm banks around the world no longer need to get donors to "do it yourself". The machine boasts of a cylinder pump which they say feels like a vajayjay inside. Like it tighter? Looser? Faster? Slower? All of that, and the height of the pump itself is adjustable. There's also a screen that can play you your favourite porn in a wide variety of file formats while the machine pumps the baby batter out of you. This machine is supposedly great for sufferers of premature ejaculation because it helps to desensitise the penis. Any PE patients out there? Get one from their Alibaba store for the great price of US$2,800 and tell us if it works! more ›

Photos: Chinese couple holds mock royal wedding near Nanjing

     

It looks like royal wedding fever hit this Nanjing couple hard. In honor of that most magical of days approaching, we bring you photos of absurdity-laden nuptials almost as shamelessly overblown as the real thing will likely be this Friday (tiny cameras embedded in altar flowers, mobile apps, two billion viewers, EVERY MOMENT IS PRECIOUS!) This couple rented out horses, a "royal guard", and a carriage, processioning around town waving and terrifying their horses with the obligatory fireworks. I'm not really up on my colors, crests, and kilts, but it seems to me there are more than a few conflicting costumes in the mix... more ›

Watch: Man drives two bumper cars in Taizhou simultaneously

Watch: Man drives two bumper cars in Taizhou simultaneously

China's got talent -- no kidding! Look what we've got in Taizhou, Zhejiang province -- a man driving not one, but two bumper cars on a busy city street. And the uniquely talented individual even tries to overtake a car at the lights! Fortunately for the other motorists, traffic police caught up with the man before he created any mayhem, and told the poor soul having the time of his life that bumper cars are meant for the amusement park and not, erm, meant for the roads. And fortunately for us too, surveillance cameras were on hand to catch all the action. Enjoy:
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Breast cup sizes: Now there's a map for that too!

Breast cup sizes: Now there's a map for that too!

Hey check it out! Continuing in the vein of mapping out our private bits (see map of global penis size vs. IQ here), take a look at the world's boobs by breast cup size! Yet another example of Target Map's ability to provide indispensably important data in clear, geographical form. Unfortunately for China, they're not scoring too high on either index. The source of the boob data wasn't given, so we can't comment further on reliability or underlying variables. But it looks like some high fives might be happening up in Northern Europe and Russia... more ›

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