G-g-g-g-g-g-g-ghost!

4ft? thank god asians are tiny...

They seem pretty cozy. Throw a few snuggies in there and I'd be fine.

I bet dollars to doughnuts that some farker would be more than willing to take the mother in.

smoking outside my cage?????
/that'll get you a stabbing mister

My god- it's inhuman! It's.... like Hong Kong!

Thanks, subby. I'll have those images in my mind while trying to fall asleep tonight.

/wall lizard

NorCalLos: Thanks, subby. I'll have those images in my mind while trying to fall asleep tonight.

/wall lizard

They eat cockroaches and spiders. They're awesome.

As someone who's taller than 6ft, that would be hell for me.

/Then again, it sounds like hell for shorter people too....

There's no such thing as Overpopulation!

Please, Mongkok is just like Manhatten, albeit worse. Anyone living there wants to be part of the action, and is sacrificing comfort to do so. It's like these people that buy a closet to live in Greenwich Village. If they want to live somewhere more fun, I'd suggest Kowloon walled city. That place was awesome...in an apocalyptic several acres sized brothel kind of way. Now it's supposed to be better.

#3 "Well, of course, we had it tough! We used to have to get up out of the shoebox in the middle of the night, and lick the road clean with our tongues! We had to eat half a handful of freezing cold gravel, work twenty-four hours a day at mill for four pence every six years, and when we got home, our dad would slice us in two with a breadknife!"

#4 " Right! I had to get up in the morning, at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill and pay millowner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah!"

#1 "Aah. And you trying to tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!"

All: "No, no they won't!"

I practically live in the same thing as those people. I live in the corner of a kitchen. Only got a metal futon. In front of me is this monitor. On the side of the metal futon is the computer. On the futon where I am in prone position while typing is the keyboard and mouse. On the are some clothes that I hang but I just leave most in 2 or 3 garbage bags since I don't really have many clothes. My area is slightly bigger than 6 feet I guess, more like 12x12. The moment I get off this futon is literally the kitchen and the doorway going outside. I only have those blind curtains as a form of what little "privacy" I have left. When I become rich, I'll help those people in China or at least start a better living place where people can actually move around a little like the big rooms they have in the military camps.

I will never complain about my bachelor apartment again.

/shrug

Shelter from the wind and rain, and warmer than it would be outside. Electricity, shared plumbing, bottom line is it could be worse.

Most of you biatches wouldn't know anything about that though.

Hagenhatesyouall: Most of you biatches wouldn't know anything about that though.

I'm sure you do, though.

As someone who lived on submarines for a few years that looks pretty spacious to me. Our racks were literally the size of coffins. 6'4" long, 20" high (a bit more in a top bunks) and probably 2'6" wide with a 4" thick mattress with no springs. About 100 of them packed three high into a space about 25 feet wide by 30 feet fore to aft.

Probably smelled just as bad too.

NorCalLos: Thanks, subby. I'll have those images in my mind while trying to fall asleep tonight.

/wall lizard



"wall lizard" might be a Mediterranean gecko.

These things colonized Texas and are frequently crawling over the outsides of houses at night- often inside, too.

But they don't DO anything but eat bugs. Lots and lots of bugs. And are kinda cute.

They pretty much claim an area near a light source and just camp out waiting for bugs. They fight off competing geckos trying to share their feeding grounds. As such, you kinda accept them, almost wanna give 'em a name.

you sure this isn't Manhattan near canal street?

jingks: I bet dollars to doughnuts that some farker would be more than willing to take the mother in.

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"How much for the little girl?"

I can tell you personally a few of the HK hotels I have stayed at were the most expensive I've ever paid ($250 USD/night) and they were small as hell with what I would consider a 3 star rating. You can buy a pair of Levis in HK for $200 USD....... Everything is expensive when you're on a freakin island.

Hagenhatesyouall: /shrug

Shelter from the wind and rain, and warmer than it would be outside. Electricity, shared plumbing, bottom line is it could be worse.

Most of you biatches wouldn't know anything about that though.

Is this the standard we're using to determine what acceptable living conditions are now? "I don't care that people are starving to death. It could be worse. They could be starving to death and freezing to death with herpes."

r1niceboy: Please, Mongkok is just like Manhatten, albeit worse.

Then it isn't like Manhattan ... because it's worse. I have a feeling you haven't lived in Mong Kok.

Kowloon Walled City has been demolished for almost two decades. In its place is a public park. It is better off as a public park.

Can't say those people in their cages chose to live in them. The demographics can't afford to pay for a 300sqft apartment that starts at around HKD$6000 per month, and this is before having to pay utilities. The rental costs will only rise.

First: quit smoking...money wasted when you live like that.

Second: The dude in 2/3 of the pics looks a little fat to be that bad off.

Third: I'm an arsehole and those conditions are horrendous. They should be used for the "true" homeless and mentally ill people....and there should be volunteers there every day helping where they can.

/but they would also need security guards :(

Human overpopulation makes everything that's bad in this world happen.

I blame Bush.

They should've asked that one guy who had been living in a cage for thirty years how farked up his life must be to get stuck in a predicament like that. Also, where's the privacy? What's the point in living in a rabbit cage if you can't fark like one.

NorCalLos: Is this the standard we're using to determine what acceptable living conditions are now?

It's the standard for everything now (if you're a reptilian-brained coward). As long as some other jackass somewhere else is worse off, everything is A-ok and the individual in question ought to be grateful for god's blessing. Ya know.

1. Overpopulation

2. Not everywhere has the same living standards as America

Subby Fail!

2ft x 6ft, not 2ft x 4ft

Back in college I rented a locking hallway closet for $50/month in a 12 bedroom house. It only fit my twin matress, a 10inch TV, and some clothes. Granted, I had 18 credit hours and basically lived with my girlfriend so it was just a place to crash or pass out.

Would have sucked to be forced to live there.

Luxury!

\late to the party

Spider holes are where it's at.

Where I stayed when I visited Mongkok, Hong Kong:



Why yes, I did lie in the spa bath looking out over the city and swim in the rooftop pool...





/God I miss that job
//but not my boss

I wish I could find the SCMP article with the actual numbers, but the saddest thing is that the Hong Kong Housing Authority has hundreds of empty flats that it pays something like 1200HKD (154USD) per month to maintain/manage.

Occupants must share toilets and washing facilities
forcing their impoverished residents
more have been forced to turn to them for a place to stay.
is forced to spend what little money he has on take-away food
forced to live in the most degrading conditions.
who are forced to live in cages

Or you could, you know....just not chooseto live in an apocalyptic urban sprawl.

Drink it all in folks, after a thousand or so more years of these rabbits infesting and multiplying, this is what the whole world will look like.

glassbottomboatcaptain: Or you could, you know....just not chooseto live in an apocalyptic urban sprawl.

Drink it all in folks, after a thousand or so more years of these rabbits infesting and multiplying, this is what the whole world will look like.

They could move somewhere else, but it may be a choice of making enough to live in a rabbit hut in Hong Kong or making no income and living on the street somewhere else.

Also, we'd run out of food long before it would be possible for the rest of the world to look like Hong Kong. Hell, we aren't that far off from the Earth's carrying capacity for humans as it is.

If people are starving in Africa, why don't they just move to France?

Pert: Where I stayed when I visited Mongkok, Hong Kong:

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Why yes, I did lie in the spa bath looking out over the city and swim in the rooftop pool...

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/God I miss that job
//but not my boss

Why didn't you just save yourself the time and effort and commented with, 'I'm a pretentious asshole'?

/nobody cares about your past.

Hotdog453: If people are starving in Africa, why don't they just move to France?

They do. En masse. Ask any Frenchy.

Gwyrddu: They could move somewhere else, but it may be a choice of making enough to live in a rabbit hut in Hong Kong or making no income and living on the street somewhere else.

There's an entire country, a very large one, with available life experiences all over the spectrum, outside that city. Somehow the rest of China manages to survive without living in Hong Kong. If these people were living wild in the forest they'd still be better off than in stackable totes in a smokey shiat stained building.

Hotdog453: If people are starving in Africa, why don't they just move to France?

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Ya know what - a whole bunch of them have moved to France and now the entire country is just one big happy family. No riots, no social/cultural intolerance, nope no problems what so ever.
It's just farkin peachy now days.
And France is now a much better place to live for everyone who lives there!!

glassbottomboatcaptain: There's an entire country, a very large one, with available life experiences all over the spectrum, outside that city. Somehow the rest of China manages to survive without living in Hong Kong. If these people were living wild in the forest they'd still be better off than in stackable totes in a smokey shiat stained building.

China is about the same size as the US, but has over four times the population. If there are other niches for poor people outside of Hong Kong, I can guarantee that other poor people are already exploiting them better than any newcomer is going to be able to do. Hell, there are people living in worse conditions here in the US, and there are a lot more poor people to compete for resources with in China.

Living out in the country isn't necessarily a better solution because poverty is more rampant in the countryside. If you can make a living in a forest someone already is, and probably won't take kindly to intruders on their hunting grounds.

glassbottomboatcaptain: Gwyrddu: They could move somewhere else, but it may be a choice of making enough to live in a rabbit hut in Hong Kong or making no income and living on the street somewhere else.

There's an entire country, a very large one, with available life experiences all over the spectrum, outside that city. Somehow the rest of China manages to survive without living in Hong Kong. If these people were living wild in the forest they'd still be better off than in stackable totes in a smokey shiat stained building.

Also the wolves would be less hungry. Not everyone is capable of just walking into the woods and surviving. It is however, my backup plan should I need one.

The Ghost of Tom Ace: Why didn't you just save yourself the time and effort and commented

Grammar much?

The Ghost of Tom Ace: /nobody cares about your past.

Mad much?

/thought it was quite reasonable to juxtapose the opulence of the Langham hotel Mongkok with the poverty of the article
//had a relatively low-paid job organising AV for corporate conferences, which inevitably involved staying in some nice hotels (and some terrible hotels)

digitalpirate: Subby Fail!

2ft x 6ft, not 2ft x 4ft

Back in college I rented a locking hallway closet for $50/month in a 12 bedroom house. It only fit my twin matress, a 10inch TV, and some clothes. Granted, I had 18 credit hours and basically lived with my girlfriend so it was just a place to crash or pass out.

Would have sucked to be forced to live there.

Looks more like a 3 ft wide, mattresses generally larger than 2.Sadly, these people are actually better off this way then on the street.