Okay, I’ll tell you what is going on in this photo, but I will warn you right now, you’re not going to believe me.
It turns out this is a “skill show” in China, where restaurant employees show off their expertise at setting tables, covering tablecloths and - get ready for it - filling cups. Perhaps most amazing of all, there are people actually watching. I gather Netflix doesn’t serve this particular part of China.
Anyway, for those who weren’t able to get tickets for this show, if you hold a coffee carafe over a cup and tilt it just right, liquid will transfer from one to the other. Sorry to have to spoil the surprise - call me a pour sport.
Employees from local restaurants perform covering tablecloths at a show in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality September 29, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer
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“Next on the Menial Labor Olympics…the bed-making event!”
- Posted by K.Survivor, IHOP!
- Posted by John C AbellDang! Can’t sleep and pasted to the wrong post.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksCrazy Chongqing municipalitarians.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI’d watch with great interest if there were free food at the end, just not on TV.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksIronically, TV executives became less than satisfied and asked them to do it again after about an hour.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksAre they really an audience or just folks trying to walk through the square?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksThe winner gets to take a smoke break out back.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks[thought bubble]
- Posted by Shawn HendricksCheapest dinner party I ever hosted. One winner gets the equivalent of 20 US dollars and I get places set for four hundred. I’m a friggin’ genius!
You need to remove comment #5. It looks like this “Shawn” is spamming and being an ignorant moron.
- Posted by Linhwhoops I mean #4
- Posted by Linh