For the last couple of days, Twitter has had a run of several tweets about a subsidence tragedy in Liuzhou. I searched for reliable confirmation, but came up with nothing, so I didn’t mention it. Today, the local press finally reported it. It seems that parts of southern Liuzhou prefecture are falling down holes [...]
I feel guilty. For years, I’ve been joking about Liuzhou residents’ peculiar habit of falling down holes, but now I learn my friend Michael, whom many of you may know as photographer Expatriate Games, has taken his Liuzhou residence credentials to new heights by … falling down a hole. But no joke. According to his [...]
Several years ago, the open air night snack market which was just to the west of the northern end of the No. 1 bridge (Liujiang Daqiao) was closed down by the self appointed guardians of our morality and hygiene who much prefer cleaning up popular eating venues than than cleaning up their own filth. The [...]
For the last few days, I’ve been holed up at home with the worst cold and cough since Elsie’s cough was taken by the Cough Collector and it seems that I have been very lucky! Had I ventured out at all, it would have been to go shopping where I might have met a gruesome [...]
Over the years, I've poked fun at Liuzhou residents' astonishing ability to fall into holes. In all of the examples I've come across, the people (and water buffalo) involved have ben rescued with little more than their dignity having been seriously injured. Until now. It was reported yesterday that two cleaners were working on a [...]
It is my great pleasure to announce that Liuzhou’s ancient and noble art of falling down holes continues to this day. I was beginning to wonder if the practice had died out. I read that a woman worker at Liuzhou’s Rong’an sewage treatment plant selflessly fell into a cesspit yesterday, thereby upholding the ancient rites and making [...]
As they never tire of telling us, the Chinese invented paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing. And their innovative spirit lingers on – or does it. A 50 year old Liuzhou man has spent the last three years and a cool ¥300,000* inventing the submarine, apparently blissfully unaware that someone got there before him – [...]
You have to admire the Liuzhou citizenry and their admirable dedication to the subtle art of falling down holes. After a short gap in proceedings, one man has taken falling down holes to new heights – literally. It seems the fellow in question was doing some maintenance on the wiring in this apartment block when [...]
I am delighted to announce a new heroic contribution to Liuzhou’s long and distinguished tradition of Falling Down Holes. This young chap managed to get himself trapped in the Chinese style, “hole in the floor” toilet. Firefighters were hailed and freed him. Source (Chinese)
Regular readers (both of you) will recall that Liuzhou has a long history of people (and buffaloes) falling down holes. There haven’t been any recent examples and now I read that, for sure, no one has fallen down one particular hole. Mr Zhu was strolling along a Liuzhou street when he became alarmed by groaning [...]
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