Corruption, Chinese New Year and Lazy Communists
To the rest of the world, January is another day, but to the Chinese it is the start of the New Year. The Chinese historically went by the lunar calendar and thus this time of year is the most special for them.
What the lunar new year means to 5,700,000,000 people is nothing, but to the rest of them it is THE time of the year. It is an epoch for all the families doomed to live upon this wasteland to show their family and friends just how little they have in terms of material possessions and to re-instill in them that they will never amount to much more than the haggard beings that they appear to be.
It is a time when the women, with the subtlety of thermonuclear diarrhea splotch hectares (or li as it is known here) of make up on their canary pallid skulls as they attempt to wash away the years of neglect and void that they feel inside. Hidden behind ‘daddly long leg’ like eyelashes and those moronic Panda hats, they hurry back to their little villages and brave the cold (buildings in southern China have no heat, and 99.99999 of the houses do not) , and brave the cold while wrapping their iddy biddy bodies in the latest of China knockoffs.
The men, for their part, are not only forced to spend time with those guilty of bringing them into this world and being from China, no less, and thus proffer gifts in lumpy red bags. The men, however, can escape the cancerous lump of a wife and one child disappointment through drink. They will consume the finest in overpriced knockoff Mao tai and Er gua to, relegating their brains into a pulpy mass of incoherence, which brings me to the communists.
For the communists, this is a time of festivity, a time to collect the Hong Bao’s or bribes. The majority of the grease money that goes into the villainous palms of the king reds is garnered at this time of year. Thus, the Rolex’s, the Pepe, the designer scarves flow like the blood of the villagers who succumbed to the beatings by the communist party members.
Oh yeah, the subways really really suck now, so stay away…