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They cut everyone up, they only care about themselves, they put my life in danger for their own selfish reasons.
What is it about Yangist taxi drivers ?
Fun question really. Would a Yangist even drive a taxi?
I don't care about your question because it doesn't involve me...and even if it did, I wouldn't care. I didn't even care to answer this question except that my wife and kids were asking me to do something that required more effort.
I don't care about your question because it doesn't involve me...and even if it did, I wouldn't care. I didn't even care to answer this question except that my wife and kids were asking me to do something that required more effort.
I think a Yangist is still a mere human who need to feed himself. So he drives a taxi, but the bare minimum to bring the bread and pay the bills. The taxi will bring you from point A to point B for a fee, and that's it. No shenanigans like socially responsible driving, or go take the bus or drive your own car.
I have an issue at the moment. My chinese daughter needs to be enroled in a school. But the fecking yangist teachers want a $3000 bribe before they accept her. The Yangists think the taxpaying socialist should pay this bribe because he is foreign. Fudging Yangists.
Hotwater:
Well maybe the tax paying socialist should find a way to alert the local government (or those above them) of this request for a bribe? It was made illegal for schools to request money last year. Surely the one with connections should be able to gently remind them of this.....
ScotsAlan:
I know it is illegal. The Tigers and flies campaign has not taken the mosquitoes into account. But everyone just accepts it as the way it is done. Should we shout to the emperor for fairness?
fada:
Instead of paying 3k make a deal saying you will get x amount of Kids to sign up or something and just never do, but make sure you pay the official registration fee of course. Edit to add: is it yang to keep the 3k or not yang because your not doing whats in your daughters interest? Too much yang make head go boom boom
ScotsAlan:
@Hotwater. The guanxi has expired. Her efforts it seems, done nothing more than put the price up. Short sighted thinking. Not for money. But trading favours for favours will always be outpriced by the yangists. The good comminists of this country have been beaten by the Yangists. Yangists take advantage of true communists. Nobody understands true communists.
Hotwater:
Good friend of my wife is a teacher with connections. Will have a word to see if someone can be spoken to
ScotsAlan:
Ha ha. wont work. The more people you involve, the more people want a cut. This is why the whole concept of Guanxi works. If my Mil cant sort it out she will lose massive face. My Mil has done big favours for people in the company I work for. I think I need to organise a lunch.
Yang of course means goat in Madarin. So we can also say goatest..
ScotsAlan:
Thanks lord H. I know the word shan. Its amazing how words are combined here to make a different meaning. Bid red western thing is my favourite... tomato :)
Hotwater:
Yang can be both sheep or goat. 羊肉串 is lamb (mutton) kebabs.
Whereas the symbol of Guangzhou is 五羊 (5 rams/goats!)
So you're all right AND wrong!
ScotsAlan:
Are you saying Chinese is wrong for being such a strange language?
This al reminds me of the Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show
where the bus driver has no idea how to drive a bus
Sometimes that is the feeling in China with taxi drivers
from the fact they have no concept what a gear is
they might start the taxi in 2nd gear
and turn a corner in 3rd or 4th gear
and then not use the hand break while stopping
to let you off
Lord_hanson:
They know that the higher the gear the less fuel is used. They don't care which gear is needed for whatever circumstance. It makes me laugh seeing them rush to 5th as soon as possible.
coineineagh:
nitpick time: the actor in the truman Show who normally drove the bus also had to play the role of the ferry captain when Truman wanted to leave. That's when he whispered that he can't steer a boat because he's used to buses. in the bus scene, he drove the bus to the mainland, but staged a motor breakdown so Truman couldn't leave.
I don't think you can just single out the taxi drivers. Sure, they're arseholes, but so are 95% of all drivers in China.
And when you combine arseholery with extreme incompetence and stupidity, what do you expect!
I can tell you that as bad as you think they are from your vantage point in the taxi, they're actually a whole lot worse than that.
ScotsAlan:
Twice in 2 days I have seen a car cross straignt in front of a bus at the same spot. In both cases the bus had a violently swerve. Just sheer luck there was nothing in the way of the swerving bus.