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No food? What kind of toilet IS this?
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Lovers of good food know you can find some of your best meals at little hole-in-the-wall places. But hole-in-the-FLOOR places, I don’t know.
It turns out, officials in Beijing are cracking down on food stalls that are attached to public toilets, in advance of next year’s Olympics. This makes me feel much better, because now I don’t be tempted to buy food from the person tending the toilet I’m standing in line to use, and I won’t have to learn the Chinese phrase for “eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!!!!”
The fact that these toilet food stalls exist at all clearly means the concept of multi-tasking has been taken way, way too far. Here’s the story:
A Beijing toilet attendant sells lottery tickets outside two mobile toilets in a 2000 file photo. REUTERS photo
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DUN DUN
DA-DUN DUN DUN DA
DUM DUM DA DUH
DAT-DA DUM DADA DUN TA DUH
Just gets me in that Olympic spirit.
Lends whole new meaning to the phrase, “You want fries with that?”
Woah, fella! Quiet down in there! Squeezing out a Gold Medal or what? Whew!
Dude! Now that you’ve LOST ten pound of angry step-mother, how’d you like to try to WIN with a lottery ticket? Only one hundred Yuan!
Suddenly, that Tienenmen Square dude doesn’t seem nearly so brave.
[thought bubble] My resume sucks. My resume sucks.
Those Yes Men! What pranksters.
WWJKD
What Would Johnny Knoxville Do?
Not exactly the China Blue we all know and love from Crimes of Passion.
Another place they shouldn’t mount a black box data recorder.
My GOD! What did you eat? Oh. Right.
Somehow the concept of “eat as you go” became muddled in translation.
Charlene, I like it. I was thinking more along the lines of calling it “A Duck and a Dump,” but the marketing folks might not take to that right away…