I think the whole of Taiwan knew that already LB Hey, I thought you came off really well. In fact everyone came off well in comparison to fat bald beardy. Manthat guy is a prick. I’ve seen him on some other shows. One can but hope that it’s all a charade that he puts on becuase he knows it will get him picked for shows (hey shall we get the thin gay guy, who\s pretty smart, and actually talks sense, or the outrageous fat bearded guy who swears and talks about sex all the time?), but somehow, I doubt it.
A-Tsai was great. What a talented guy. His Mandarin and Taiwanese were great, he was distinctive with the tats and all, but still didn’t talk shit, and a singer-gutarist to boot. I expect we might see more of him on future shows.
Was that Fearsome Orange doing the latin dancing? Pity MK didn’t get to say anything, and SB just got to eat an egg.
Anyway, well done you guys. I think you went someway towards balancing the image of foreigners on talk shows (although there’ll be a long way to go if fat bald beardy keeps showing up).
FO was sitting next to me. They shot that thing for an hour and edited out a bunch of stuff (including my 2 sentences lol). FO did this whole Chinese medicine thing that they edited out. I thought that was pretty cool.
I think I’ll upload the whole thing to the web somewhere and have it availible for download. Then whoever wants a copy can get one (maybe I’ll even setup a Bittorent for it, always wanted to try setting one of those up).
I chanced upon that episode. It was funny and entertaining, I had a good laugh! Concur with Bu Lai En that Ah Tsai was great. His Taiwanese was spot-on! Actually, it’s not the first time I saw a TW talk show on how foreigners live/like/interact/etc in TW.
An observation (I’ve only been here a few months, so maybe it’s incorrect) - The Taiwanese really seem to have a fascination with what foreigners think about them/Taiwan. “Do you like our food? Do you do ONS? Do you come only to steal all our girls? What do you think about our government? etc etc…” I cannot imagine where I come from that there would whole episodes of talk shows dedicated to something like that.
Why is this in Culture and History (guess maybe the Culture part). I had a terrible time finding this thread :P.
I’m uploading the episode now and should have a link I can share in an hour or so. Anyone that wants to download it should PM/email me (it’s a 600+mb download). I can also put it to VCD/DVD or something for those with slow connections.
[quote]And btw, is Li Jing (the host) really a guy?!?! I had no idea! No way! [/quote]No, Li Jing is not “a guy”. She has said she’s intersexual (that is, born with ambiguous sex organs); some people in the transsexual community think she’s transsexual. Regardless, though, she’s not a guy now in any way, shape or form.
I caught a few minutes of the show before running out the door last week.
Was the fat bald bearded guy people are referring to the guy who was wearing a “Porn Star” T-shirt? If it is, I’d be willing to chip in for Mandarin lessons for him. He has a terrible foreign accent. It was physically painful to listen to.
(sorry about the goofy shot if you happen to see this, I’m too lazy to go back and get another)
The Bald Dude With The Beard
(I know you’ve seen him somewhere)
Note: The picture I captured was totally random, I didn’t mean to capture what he happened to be saying at the time. I will not confirm or deny it’s funny value.
Silly Question #1
Ah Tsai!
Living in Taiwan aint nuttin’ but a G thang!
Who Can Speak Chinese?
Looks like miltownkid is the only one who can speak Chinese!
Oops!
Lucky for me FearsomeOrange was there to remind me I can’t.
Ah Tsai Laying Down That Taiwanese Game
Somebody’s Liking It!
LittleBTW Doesn’t Know What’s Going On
Beard Guy Is Playa Hatin’
I didn’t know which one was the funny face of Loretta eating the egg, so I just put all the random shots I snapped up. If you can some how flip’m all together, they make for a funny flip-book-a-ma-thing.
Run away! Run away!
I’ll set the movie up as a Bittorent download as soon as I figure out how to do that (could be today, could be tomorrow, but soon and for at least a week).
Plus - I’m at work right now and just showed a couple of local colleagues those. Even they hate that Mark dick.
MK - I think the latest version of either Azureus or the official BT client offers trackerless hosting of torrents. I know Azureus and ABC both have a built-in torrent creation function toooo. The official client probably does too. That should make it easier.
Yeah, I figure it’s pretty easy to do (any program that used for sharing porn has plenty of HOW-TO guides). I’m just being a lazy ass about the whole thing.