08 Jun 2006 07:25 pm
Signese.com is a collection of photos of Chinese characters in action. Although most are taken by myself on the streets of Beijing, many are contributions, which can be sent directly from your mobile phone.
Queries and thoughts about the photos are always welcome via the comment function.
June 10th, 2006 at 12:18 am
雙層牛肉巨無霸
醬汁洋蔥夾青瓜
芝士生菜加芝麻
人人食過笑哈哈
June 13th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Thank you, Roddy, for capturing this picture.
Forgive my seriousness for a moment, but I have to say:
The world is sick. More important than oil, than water, than money is the accelerating production of meat. And the hidden cost of every pound of meat is the brain attached to that meat: brains which feel kinship, fear, sadness, horror. Each pattie in a McD’s hamburger derives its meat from many many different cows, possibly from different continents. Most of those cows suffered before they died, many of them literally screaming. Yes, cows can scream. We’re not living on a planet so much as we are living on a Meat Ball. I’d like to find the double Big Mac funny. Ironic. Whatever. I’d like to laugh it off. But I can’t. I don’t see a sandwich. I just see the terror and senseless murder of innocent sentient beings squeezed between pieces of “bread” – bread, by the way, which is probably more akin to glue than actually sustenance. This makes me sad. Really sad. On a planet where undernourished human beings are ubiquitous, I find it criminal that this kind of consumption is considered acceptable.
June 13th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
So have you tried one?
June 14th, 2006 at 9:06 am
Do I translate the name correctly as “The all-new Supreme Master?” (Not what it literally says, but that seems like the intended meaning.)
And here I thought Americans were as insane in the beef department as one could get.
June 18th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Skylee - is that the advertising jingle? The old one for the Big Mac in the States was just a rhythmic intonation of “Two-all-beef-patties special-sauce lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions on-a-sesame-seed-bun!”
June 20th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Brendan - that was the tongue twister we learnt from the Big Mac ad when we were kids … and there were competitions etc … long time ago … looks like it is a translation of the one you mentioned.
October 1st, 2006 at 12:08 am
At the moment I am literally screaming as well.