Helping up injured old ladies in China

by **mrswdk** on Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:26 pm

Are you getting to the site but then the space where the video should be is black with a little smiley face and some writing? That's just a message asking you to turn off your ad blocker, it'll go away by itself if you wait.

And yeah, when the smog settles in it looks like a low cloud. Visibility can get down to a couple of hundred meters. It's not totally permanent (e.g. last night it was windy and so the air is clear this morning), and the summer is usually clearer, but during the winter in particular you can only ever see so far before it all goes grey. It is more often than not that I can't see the mountains that lie on the west and north edges of the city.

It's even visible by satellite:

by **muy_thaiguy** on Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:32 am

mrswdk wrote:Are you getting to the site but then the space where the video should be is black with a little smiley face and some writing? That's just a message asking you to turn off your ad blocker, it'll go away by itself if you wait.

Okay. Yeah, I can't read Chinese one bit.

And yeah, when the smog settles in it looks like a low cloud. Visibility can get down to a couple of hundred meters. It's not totally permanent (e.g. last night it was windy and so the air is clear this morning), and the summer is usually clearer, but during the winter in particular you can only ever see so far before it all goes grey. It is more often than not that I can't see the mountains that lie on the west and north edges of the city.

It's even visible by satellite:

Glad where I live, the only time visibility goes down that low is when we have snowstorms. We have wind all the time. Chicago may be the windy city, but Wyoming is the windy state. Helps keep the air clean. And the "big city warm weather" people away that tend to not be very nice people.

by **mrswdk** on Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:13 pm

Since you asked about the smog, I made this 'before and after of the view from my old apartment. The left photo is just after a storm had passed over, so that's what totally clear air looks like.

Click image to enlarge.

by **muy_thaiguy** on Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:35 pm

I bet people wished storms were more common.

by **mrswdk** on Sun May 04, 2014 1:54 pm

Baby Girl Tossed into Traffic and Run Over: Parents Wanted a Divorce With Neither Side Wanting the Children

www.chinasmack.com/2014/stories/mother- ... sband.html

Not directly related to the injury scammers but maybe worth a mention anyway.

by **BigBallinStalin** on Sun May 04, 2014 2:24 pm

That's pretty rude to the drivers. They should've thrown the baby over a cliff--after making sure no one lives around the Splat Zone.

by **mrswdk** on Sun May 04, 2014 10:57 pm

Or down a toilet. Last year a woman gave birth in the bathrooms of the factory where she worked, stuffed the baby down the toilet then went back to work :lol:

by **BigBallinStalin** on Sun May 04, 2014 11:10 pm

mrswdk wrote:Or down a toilet. Last year a woman gave birth in the bathrooms of the factory where she worked, stuffed the baby down the toilet then went back to work

If only the world had more efficiency-maximizers like her....

by **mrswdk** on Sun May 04, 2014 11:13 pm

I guess all those posters of capitalists killing babies weren't just hyperbole, eh?

by **macbone** on Mon May 05, 2014 12:13 am

Whenever I read stories like that, it's hard to take, like the guy who stuffed his kids into bags a few years ago in Mobile and drowned them off a bridge, or the kids thrown out of high-rise windows in Hong Kong and China. That's messed up, man. And a lot of times, it's girls who are killed. When most parents are only allowed one child, they want boys.

The lady in the above story had two kids to kill, eh?