Someone’s just having some fun I think
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No potential scam angle that I’m missing? It’s an odd choice for how to have fun.
Then again, as forumosa reminds me again and again, it’s a much odder world than I used to think.
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This is where things started to go south. Everything that happened after this is on you. 
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No, it’s 剪刀、石頭、布.
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Yeah even more backwards in Chinese.
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Rolls off the tongue easier that way?
Perhaps some sad, ousted poster finding amusement from trolling the flob? Glad i didnt bother to read it all!
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In English the kids in Taiwan say paper scissors stone.
In Canada, where we are correct, it’s Rock Paper Scissors.
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard the game played in English in Taiwan. One of the benefits of not being an English teacher?
Absolutely. In the small stint I did, the kids and administration insisted this was the way to do it.
I pulled out Dragon Ball Z to prove them wrong.
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Thank heaven for small mercies… 
Paypa>shisha>sto!
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My lack of exposure to this stuff is probably one of the reasons I’ve been able to stay in Taiwan so long.
I find it magical. I tell a group of four or five students to do scissors-paper-stone to figure out who goes first. A bizarre incantation ensues. The dark arts done, a winner (loser?) emerges from the mist, and a crow caws overhead.
I continue to have no idea how this works in a group.
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We must be wired differently.
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Thanks for posting dude…This is quality content I enjoyed reading this.
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The order isn’t even a direct translation from Chinese… 剪刀石頭布 (scissors, stone, paper)
There was probably one weirdo foreigner that came here to teach English 40 years ago and taught a whole generation of Taiwanese wrong and it just got passed down
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Is this a confession? 
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40 years ago my mom was 12, so…
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