I love the fat Chinese baby.
I can’t help it! I know obesity is wrong, but dammit,
Category: Chinese
Who killed Rod Nee?
BEIJING, China (AP) — A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday. The 30-year-old man fainted at a cyber cafe in the city of Guangzhou Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.
Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe, it said. The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.
The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing. The report said that about 100 other Web surfers “left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man’s death.”
China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the U.S.. It is one of the world’s biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for hours in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.
Several cities have clinics to treat what psychiatrists have dubbed “Internet addiction” in users, many of them children and teenagers, who play online games or surf the Web for days at a time.
(I’m always suspicious of those “wacky stories from China,” but so far I’ve found this on the AP and CNN. So if it is an urban legend, it’s their fault.)
Playtime
SEATTLE - A woman attacked a karaoke singer belting out Coldplay on Thursday night, telling him he “sucked” before she pushed and punched him to get him to stop singing, bar staff said. The man was singing “Yellow” when it happened.“It took three or four of us to hold her down,” bartender Robert Willmette said.
I can relate. Too bad it wasn’t Chris Martin himself!
Meanwhile, fate is much worse:
SHANGHAI, Aug. 13 ? The head of a Chinese company that was behind the recall earlier this month of more than a million Mattel toys committed suicide over the weekend, China?s state-controlled media reported today.
And though this is from yesterday, you know I couldn’t let the day go by without mentioning the great Mr. G:
(from Serena.)
this HAS to be an urban legend
even though I just read it on Reuters:
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police broke into a darkened apartment fearing they would find a dead body, after neighbors complained of a nasty smell seeping out onto the staircase.
The shutters of the apartment had been closed for more than a week and the mailbox was filled with uncollected mail.
But instead of a corpse, they found a tenant with very smelly feet, asleep in bed next to a pile of foul-smelling laundry, police in the southwestern town of Kaiserslautern said on Sunday.