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oi_piss_me_off		2010-02-12 03:45:08 PM

That flower market is amazing year round, but I can't imagine what it's like during Chinese New Year. I would love to go back for that one year.

ArtosRC		2010-02-12 03:45:46 PM

The ~~coolest~~ most yawn-inducing pics of haggling old people you'll see today

/Unless that turns you on
//NTTAWWT

quickdraw		2010-02-12 03:51:53 PM

I enjoyed that subby. Thank you.

oldebayer		2010-02-12 05:08:06 PM

There is no more harmonious sound than Chinese haggling. Assuming your definition of "harmonious" includes garbage can lids, tin cans, broken bottles and off-key tuning forks all being swirled around in a giant cement mixer.

Soloco		2010-02-12 05:24:52 PM

I'll take a dozen nipple fruit, please
/or 6 pairs?

Katie98_KT		2010-02-12 05:27:20 PM

god I miss living near a flower market. I don't understand why flowers in the US cost so much.

laterthanyou		2010-02-12 05:29:31 PM

Seriously? This gets green lit? Fark and it's admins are getting OLD. Looking forward to links about the 10 best Matlock episodes to watch if you have to constantly get up to go the bathroom, but still want to follow the story.

pessimisteak		2010-02-12 05:31:03 PM

I see no haggling at all!

Shyla		2010-02-12 05:31:12 PM

6 comments and a green light? Seriously?
There arent even any good pictures of A. Flowers, or B. "Haggling"

Constance Velocity		2010-02-12 05:31:22 PM

I guess the joke here is that as crappy as these pics are, we will not be seeing any others of haggling old Chinese people. So... let's see some others.

bigbadideasinaction		2010-02-12 05:31:37 PM

oldebayer: There is no more harmonious sound than Chinese haggling. Assuming your definition of "harmonious" includes garbage can lids, tin cans, broken bottles and off-key tuning forks all being swirled around in a giant cement mixer. DURR HURR HURR CHINESE PEOPLE SOUND FUNNY

FTFY.

Dan09		2010-02-12 05:35:08 PM

FTA: These include the somewhat titillatingly named Nipple Fruit. Its Chinese name is "five generation fruit,"

Lulz. You make punny!

BobCumbers		2010-02-12 05:35:57 PM

Weak!
/been there
//still weak

pessimisteak		2010-02-12 05:36:26 PM

What real Asian haggling looks like:

www.nostalgiaholic.com

Agarista		2010-02-12 05:37:56 PM

gung he fat choy !!

Pair-o-Dice		2010-02-12 05:40:10 PM

Ahh soo, lead lead roses...

Thwack		2010-02-12 05:44:38 PM

pessimisteak: I see no haggling at all!

Or old people.

drjekel_mrhyde		2010-02-12 05:46:27 PM

I'll take a dozen of these

Gish21		2010-02-12 05:47:26 PM

This is the most boring gallery of Hong Kong I've ever seen.

Sir Charles		2010-02-12 05:48:02 PM

pessimisteak: What real Asian haggling looks like:

5 dorrar. 1 sheep 5 dorrar.

Panty Sniffer		2010-02-12 05:51:06 PM

My wife used to make me go to that place with her. And the Goddamned bird market. Screw that. I'd rather spend my time in TST, Wan Chai, or LKF. Happy hour starts at 2:00 PM...

Pair-o-Dice		2010-02-12 05:51:58 PM

Sir Charles: pessimisteak: What real Asian haggling looks like:

5 dorrar. 1 sheep 5 dorrar.

But you must also buy hip-wader boots.

bentley57		2010-02-12 05:52:13 PM

O Crap. That reminds me, pick up some flowers for Sunday

UncleStumpy		2010-02-12 05:52:45 PM

laterthanyou: Seriously? This gets green lit? Fark and it's admins are getting OLD. Looking forward to links about the 10 best Matlock episodes to watch if you have to constantly get up to go the bathroom, but still want to follow the story.

I'm 31 and liked it. too bad for you. Broaden your horizons.

Panty Sniffer		2010-02-12 05:56:55 PM

bentley57: O Crap. That reminds me, pick up some flowers for Sunday

I hear there is a market in HK for that.

oldebayer		2010-02-12 05:57:26 PM

bigbadideasinaction: DURR HURR HURR CHINESE PEOPLE SOUND FUNNY

You have obviously never experienced this. It is not the sound of their language, it is the ever-increasing volume of it as they haggle. There is nothing funny about pierced eardrums, and if you are between two or more Chinese arguing, or haggling, this is a serious danger.

To pluck another politically incorrect example from personal experience, you can get a small approximation of this by standing in an elevator betwen two stutterers having a conversation. Each will stutter faster and faster, being made more self-conscious by the other, until your ears begin to bleed.

shanrick		2010-02-12 05:59:51 PM

They look tired.

Panty Sniffer		2010-02-12 06:00:04 PM

oldebayer: bigbadideasinaction: DURR HURR HURR CHINESE PEOPLE SOUND FUNNY

You have obviously never experienced this. It is not the sound of their language, it is the ever-increasing volume of it as they haggle. There is nothing funny about pierced eardrums, and if you are between two or more Chinese arguing, or haggling, this is a serious danger.

To pluck another politically incorrect example from personal experience, you can get a small approximation of this by standing in an elevator betwen two stutterers having a conversation. Each will stutter faster and faster, being made more self-conscious by the other, until your ears begin to bleed.

I take it you are also not a fan of Chinese opera. My wife dragged me to that torture as well.

bohab		2010-02-12 06:13:35 PM

shanrick: They look tired.

"So, is there any tread left on the tires? Or at this point would it be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway?"

skinink		2010-02-12 06:15:42 PM

I'd buy her for a dollar!

media.cnngo.com

oldebayer		2010-02-12 06:21:34 PM

Panty Sniffer: I take it you are also not a fan of Chinese opera. My wife dragged me to that torture as well.

If she ever suggests you attend a recital of Tuvan Throat-Singing, run for the hills.

Deacon Blue		2010-02-12 06:26:02 PM

skinink: I'd buy her for a dollar!

She's got that quiet, nerdy thing going on. Not my usual, but nice.

/yeah, we totally had sex

Delay		2010-02-12 06:27:56 PM

UncleStumpy: laterthanyou: Seriously? This gets green lit? Fark and it's admins are getting OLD. Looking forward to links about the 10 best Matlock episodes to watch if you have to constantly get up to go the bathroom, but still want to follow the story.

I'm 31 and liked it. too bad for you. Broaden your horizons.

My kids (roughly half your age) liked it too. They like pictures that aren't ads.

moralpanic		2010-02-12 06:30:32 PM

Good pics. Makes me want to buy a camera and go around shooting stuff. But i don't like public attention, at least from strangers.

Spazed		2010-02-12 06:31:00 PM

Deacon Blue: skinink: I'd buy her for a dollar!

She's got that quiet, nerdy thing going on. Not my usual, but nice.

/yeah, we totally had sex

The hammer's my penis.

/lame link deserves no discussion
//is a quiet nerd who works for a homeless shelter

Tony_Pepperoni		2010-02-12 06:35:12 PM

You should hear what a bunch of Vietnamese women sound like when they get together.

It sounds like a hen party.
/really, it does.

trippdogg		2010-02-12 06:36:28 PM

Sorry - that wasn't the coolest anything of anything, ever.

dholway		2010-02-12 06:37:13 PM

I'm surprised that anyone would submit this link at all, never mind it being greenlighted.

blazemongr		2010-02-12 06:38:19 PM

Tony_Pepperoni: You should hear what a bunch of Vietnamese women sound like when they get together. It sounds like a hen party.

Whereas with an American wife, you only feel like you're being henpecked.

blazemongr		2010-02-12 06:39:13 PM

dholway: I'm surprised that anyone would submit this link at all, never mind it being greenlighted.

Well, you can lead a horticulture, but you can't make it green.

LavenderWolf		2010-02-12 07:05:08 PM

Is it racist that I find most everyone I see in pictures of China to be extremely ugly?

EdNortonsTwin		2010-02-12 07:11:00 PM

I'll get it started...

Happy new Year everyone!

Seth'n'Spectrum		2010-02-12 08:20:13 PM

Chinese New Year flower market across the border in Guangzhou, taken in 2003. That shiat is overrated anyways.

ShawnDoc		2010-02-12 08:20:54 PM

What the fark? The pictures were nothing special (look like they were taken with a cheap point and shoot) and there was no haggling. None.

I demand a refund.

Ivan Dobski		2010-02-12 08:23:32 PM

Special Guest		2010-02-12 08:41:01 PM

"Mong-kok?"

/Came in for cockmongler pics
//Leaving disappointed

God-is-a-Taco		2010-02-12 08:42:56 PM

Katie98_KT: god I miss living near a flower market. I don't understand why flowers in the US cost so much.

I remember in a How It's Made episode (or one like it) about flowers. Something like 60-70% of all cosmetic flowers for sale are grown in Europe, but I forgot which country it was. Norway maybe?
They have a gigantic auction for resellers, who then ship them to other places to have more auctions, and then THOSE people either sell them themselves or sell them yet again. They're sold 2-4 times before you're even in the picture.
The flowers are picked and then in stalls around the world within 30 hours or so. It's pretty damn amazing.

Man, I hate being reminded that my memory sucks. Damn you, numbers and countries, I never remember you.

H31N0US		2010-02-12 08:51:02 PM

Tony_Pepperoni: You should hear what a bunch of Vietnamese women sound like when they get together.

There is a Cantonese expression: sam ge hui ren; yet ge hui. It basically means put three women together and it will be as loud as a market.

Pretty much works that way in every culture.

I really hope I get a chance to live in HK again.

Dick Fitzwell		2010-02-12 09:19:31 PM

shanrick: They look tired.

They look old. They're probably retired.

Panty Sniffer		2010-02-12 09:53:37 PM

Special Guest: "Mong-kok?"

/Came in for cockmongler pics
//Leaving disappointed

I found Mong Kok crazy funny at first, especially since my wife took the KCR there daily. I liked to say, "My wife gets off on Mong Kok everyday." It got old fast.

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