Just had a bucket-load of soapy detergent emptied over my head, by some house-wife on the 5th floor as I walked my dog down the lane. All I got was a lousy Pi-say.
Stupid cow :fume:
And she didn’t even have the common courtesy to yell “Gardy loo!”
[quote=“Dangermouse”]Just had a bucket-load of soapy detergent emptied over my head by some house-wife on the 5th floor as I walked my dog down the lanes. All I got was a lousy Pi-say.
Stupid cow :fume:[/quote]
Sorry, but that is a uncompassionate ass kicking if I ever knew one.
Look on the bright side, it was soapy detergent and not the contents of her chamber pot.
I got hit on the head by a chicken bone once. 
At least you thought it was soapy detergent .
You know, oyu have to wonder how often this kind of thing happens in Taiwan with everyone living on top of eachother and all. Then again, you also have to wonder, with a floor drain in pretty much every room AND outside wouldn’t just be easier to dump it down the drain? I think someone likes you.
pai sei… 
Well, in the dark ages they didn’t have soap, so count yourself lucky
She had to wait hours for you to walk by. :fume:
Hong Kong’s culture of defenestration
Hard rain
Aug 3rd 2006 | HONG KONG
From The Economist print edition
When hope goes out of the window in Hong Kong, the furniture often follows
“NEW YORK rain” is the local term for water that drips, annoyingly, from air-conditioners onto passers-by. In Hong Kong unwary pedestrians face more dangerous precipitation. On July 22nd a 78-year-old woman was rushed to hospital after a pair of scissors, hurled from a multi-storey building, lodged in her skull. The same day, a 28-year-old man in another part of the city suffered cuts after another pair of scissors hit him on the head, while a boy survived a brush with an iron bar lobbed from yet another high-rise window.
Despite all the modern sanitation at their disposal, many Hong Kong citizens still seem to prefer chucking rubbish out of the nearest window. As any housing estate resident will confirm, as well as a regular rain of beer cans and cigarette butts, other objects—used packets of Viagra, dirty cat litter, glass bottles, mattresses and even refrigerators—also fly past the window. Much of this is plain bad manners. But some also blame rising inequality for the downpour, which appears to be getting worse. Much of the object-throwing takes place in the city’s public housing estates, where many of Hong Kong’s poorer people live cramped together in tiny apartments. Many of their shoddily constructed buildings are crumbling: among the most common objects falling out of windows last summer were the windows themselves. As a result, the government had to spend HK$68m ($9m) on emergency maintenance of its housing.
Though the economy’s recovery since the panic over the respiratory disease SARS in 2003 has lifted living standards, the fortunes of workers have lagged behind those of the middle classes. If people cannot heave their political masters out of office, they can at least heave a broken television out of the window. Given the mainland’s far greater economic and social disparities, the authorities in Beijing must be hoping that this is one trend that does not spread north.
Hey Wiggin:
I lived for about a year in HK. Those people are way more dirty there then people here in Taiwan. The above article does not apply to Taiwan.
Soapy water, DM? Does this mean that you’re now actually CLEAN? I refuse to believe that for a minute!
It’s a matter of degree. Taiwanese people at least have the decency not to shit in the nest. Also, Taipei appears to be improving in terms of cleanliness. In the 17 years I’ve been in and out of HKG I can’t say I’ve noticed much of an improvement. North Point still smells like a mixture of rotting fish and week-old chicken bones.
I was in HK when that woman got the scissors in the head. That’s a fairly serious crime in HKG. Where are the goddamn video cameras?
I think they still refer to the “Hong Kong rain” there… (might have been in the article - didn’t read it)
Taiwan’s still a shithole in terms of environmental hygiene, cleanliness etc. I think that they are both ignorant and uneducated about it, and just plain bloody lazy! Its basic common sense to keep where you live clean.
Maybe my view is biased because i come from one of the cleanest countries on the planet- Australia but we were educated as kids that it was wrong, low class, inconsiderate etc to litter…so we didn’t do it.
Its an offence in Australia to even throw a cigarette butt on the ground, especially from a car. Here i’ve seen garbage bags, lunch boxes, small children (kidding about that one) thrown from vehicles all too often and with no regard for the fact that it may cause someone else injury or whatever. I was hit on the leg with a cigarette butt which some wanker threw from his car so I gave him an earful when we got to the lights. he had NO Idea what he’d done. He was apologetic but the point is that he thought nothing about what possible consequence doing that would bring.
I disagree about the previous poster thinking the Taiwanese don’t shit in their nest. Ultimately they do… Have a look outside.
Im heading off back to Oz in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to decent traffic, good beer and no renegade ciggy butts!
[quote=“Dangermouse”]Just had a bucket-load of soapy detergent emptied over my head, by some house-wife on the 5th floor as I walked my dog down the lane. All I got was a lousy Pi-say.
Stupid cow :fume:[/quote]
Once I accidentally dumped a bucket of soapy water on a bunch of old men playing cards on the street when I was in Shanghai. Oops. One of the old guys went up to my room and gave me this long lecture–you could have done the same.
[quote=“Hobart”]Hey Wiggin:
I lived for about a year in HK. Those people are way more dirty there then people here in Taiwan. The above article does not apply to Taiwan.[/quote]
Hey, I lived there too for a year…
I remember, there were incidents of tv-sets been thrown from the top of high-rise appartment buildings…
In Germany, we had our windshield smashed by kids throwing stones from a bridge while we were traveling on the Autobahn…
In Taiwan, I always try to walk in the safety of the corridors of buildings rather than close to the street, you never know what might hit you. Remember the suicide attempt a few months ago where someone was killed inside a car by someone who jumped from a building? The jumper survived… 
[quote=“wiggin”]Hong Kong’s culture of defenestration
Hard rain
Aug 3rd 2006 | Hong Kong
From The Economist print edition
When hope goes out of the window in Hong Kong, the furniture often follows
“Despite all the modern sanitation at their disposal, many Hong Kong citizens still seem to prefer chucking rubbish out of the nearest window. As any housing estate resident will confirm, as well as a regular rain of beer cans and cigarette butts, other objects—used packets of Viagra, dirty cat litter, glass bottles, mattresses and even refrigerators—also fly past the window. Much of this is plain bad manners. But some also blame rising inequality for the downpour, which appears to be getting worse. Much of the object-throwing takes place in the city’s public housing estates, where many of Hong Kong’s poorer people live cramped together in tiny apartments. Many of their shoddily constructed buildings are crumbling: [color=red]among the most common objects falling out of windows last summer were the windows themselves[/color]. As a result, the government had to spend HK$68m ($9m) on emergency maintenance of its housing.
.[/quote]
this had me literally laughing out loud…
we’ve had both our cat and our dog fall off our roof previously (6F)…cat bought it…dog strangely enough walked away without a scratch…but that was one hardass dog…
Cleaner - not clean.
someone threw an empty glass beer bottle out of the driver’s windowof the car infront of me a few weeks back. It bounced along the road twice and them smashed into pieces all over the road and then it went onto the freeway so I couldn’t catch up with the driver to smash his kite in - I was livid.
Thoughtful chums, the Taiwanese.
It coulda been worse ya know…
