My trip in China is fucking epic.
Today, I went to lunch with three other guys from the office. The food wasn't that good, but at least it was cheap.
I teach english workshops twice a week, and I forgot what led up to it, but I suggested that I should do one on how to swear at people in english - because that is part of my chinese education that I think I'm lacking in. Everyone agreed that it would be very popular.
Anyway, the conversation escalated up to "epic" pretty quickly. Apparently Chinese people learn a ton of swears from movies already. One decided to share - [Note, the following conversation is all in Chinese, expect the specific english phrases they were saying] "I've watched so many American movies, I've learned all the swear words from them."
Another: "like what?"
And the guy said, in heavilly accented english, "I'll kick your ass!"
The other guy: "Ooh. that reminds me of that time I learned english in the schoolyard. I never understand what's going on in the workshops, but I learned this one really quick."
Everyone was like "What was it, tell us."
But he seemed really reluctant to do so, until the third guy prompted him. He was like, "Was it, 'I'll fuck your mom'?"
The other guy: "Pretty close, it was actually "Turn around, I'll fuck you!"
The table bursts into laughter, and the guy was like "It just stuck in my head after I heard it! It was pretty amazing."
The other guy, after he stops laughing: "Hey, hey. You know, black people love this phrase! The next time you see a black person, you should go up to them and say it! It's very good! They'll like it!"
[The first guy whacks him a couple of times playfully]
The other guy continues, "But yeah, 'fuck you' shows up in every english movie I watch! That's how I learned how to swear in english. But Wei here, the next time he wants to say "I'll kick your ass!" he'll say "I'll kiss your ass!"" Of course, only me and him get the joke, but Wei does knows we're laughing at him and he whacks the guy again. They start to talk about movies and actors after that, but it was hilarious. More than made up for the shitty food.