User Comments - meihuar2006
meihuar2006
Posted on: Getting an Official Receipt
December 26, 2011 at 1:26 AM> Many times you have to pay more if you want a 发票.
What really is happening is that you are colluding with the vendor / restaurant to not pay sales tax. If you must pay more for the fapiao, that means the vendor is passing the sales tax onto you instead of absorbing it as a deduction from the face-value of what you paid.
I'm inferring that the government has no easy way of auditing the vendor, especially small vendors or street vendors. A big shop or restaurant in Beijing just hands out the receipt without making a fuss.
Posted on: Christmas in Chinese
December 24, 2011 at 4:12 PMIn medieval England, at least, Christmas was celebrated from Christmas Eve to Epiphany, January 5. My company gives us Dec 24 through Jan 1 off. Christmas is a lot like American Chunjie. :) Just no fireworks. :)
-Tim
Posted on: How to Eat a Hairy Crab
November 30, 2011 at 4:13 AM哈哈！ I am married to a Chinese woman, so Dilu still seems very polite to me. ;)
Posted on: How to Eat a Hairy Crab
November 30, 2011 at 4:01 AMOn the Beijing side, we eat blue crabs a lot, but stick to the leg meat and the white meat around the body cavity. I am supposed to eat the yellow-orange eggs found inside the female crab. ;) Maybe blue crab is much smaller than Hairy Crab. Blue crab is an effort to eat.
And, don't steam crab in a vegetable steamer / rice cooker. ;)
I've had many "crab surprises" in which wife leaves the live crabs in the sink to await their steaming and I (unawares) use the faucet and shoot my forearm through a gauntlet of pincers.
Posted on: Car Crash
March 22, 2011 at 3:03 PMCommentators have neglected to mention the "street jury" of pedestrians who gather around the accident.
Posted on: License Plate Characters
March 4, 2011 at 1:44 AM"OAN" also can mean "a race of aliens, native to the planet Oa, who self-appointed themselves guardians of the galaxy, and host the central power battery employed by the Green Lantern Corps." In other words, maybe it is a product placement for the upcoming Hollywood "Green Lantern" movie.
Hey, discrete, non-intrusive product placement, it's the future of advertising.
Posted on: Of Soldiers and Military People
February 5, 2011 at 6:40 PMWow, you want some pretty precise stuff!!!
I don't even know this about the US military, and I'm a veteran!!!
Posted on: Registering for a Dating Website
February 4, 2011 at 9:35 PMHi Pretzellogic, LOL, yes, you are correct. Dating sites are not prostitution services. Did you ever see that Chinese game show that matches couples by randomly pairing contestants and having them compete in bizarre contests?
There was one really cruel one in which the woman wore a mask and the four male contestants competed for her amusement. At the end of the show, she picked the male who impressed her the most, while the other three guilty rejects showed the humiliation to the world...
Geez, what's a guy to do when Mom's Aunt Sally can't introduce you to her best friend's niece?
Posted on: Boxing Day
December 26, 2011 at 7:12 PMI'm an American and it is interesting reading the comments about Boxing Day changing into something so commerical. Within the last 5 years, big stores have begun opening on Thanksgiving Day. Christmas Day remains the last bastion of "holiday recognition" (Wal-Mart remains closed on Christmas Day--but I hear that won't last for long)
Economists with a humanist bend argue that more working hours equals more pay available to workers (if you are in need of money, are you glad to have the opportunity to work Christmas Day, or do you prefer the government denying the hours and the pay?).
I have mixed opinions... I remember as a college kid not minding working Thanksgiving because I received time+holiday pay. But, I was sort of an anti-family punk back then... ;) My sister works in the service industry and was pretty happy to have both Christmas and Thanksgiving off this year... being forced to work a holiday isn't so fun...