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And now, for one of my favorite scenes from Top Gear.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May (the hosts of the show) are always doing these outrageous challenges. This time, they had to turn a people-carrier (a van basically) into a convertible and then put it through a series of brutal tests to see if their improvised soft top roof survived... Which it pretty much didn't.
In this final test, they had to take the battered car through a car wash. Needless to say it didn't end well, for the car OR the wash.
Don't try this at home 
Just following up on The Nezzer's previous thing about racism in Japan. With that in mind, I felt it important to elaborate on our knowledge of the far east just a little more. Now there are two things that bug the heck out of me, a Chinese-Canadian guy who practices martial arts. The first is people who don't realise there are lion dances and dragon dances (and that the lions are not dragons). This post has nothing to do with that, though; this one's about the other thing.
The other thing that bugs me is when people have issues understanding there are in fact many different dialects of Chinese with two major ones: Cantonese and Mandarin.
Luckily, Russell Peters, and Indo-Canadian stand-up comic, has come to show us the light (as well as an instance of racism he witnessed in China himself) . . . that said, two more things. One, if you don't like sporadic use of bad words you shouldn't watch; two, it's absolutely okay to laugh at his jokes - they're actually more true than you might think:
Next week: the explanation of "be a man!". Maybe.
Here's a video about racism in Tokyo that would make the GaijinSmash author proud:
You will probably enjoy this video as well, in which Teal'c, aka Christopher Judge learns about furries at a convention.
You'll also notice in the related videos, there are mutliple videos with Michael Shanks' aka Daniel Jackson's reactions to slash.
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