It was still used a quite a bit when I lived in London in the mid 90's, and it seemed accepted as just a descriptive term rather than an insult. I'm not sure when people stopped using it, but it's not like the US where most people quit saying it in the 1960s.

When I lived in London in 1995 I still heard a lot of people of varying ages use it — I was really shocked until I got that it was still was still an accepted term there. (People didn't seem to be using as an insult or anything, just in a neutral way, for example when clarifying which person they were talking about.)…

It's a boy!

On display yesterday, National Fitness Day! http://shanghaiist.com/2014/08/09/nat…

It seems like these are only a Qingdao thing, for some reason. I live in Shanghai and tried to buy one for the novelty of it, but couldn't find one anywhere.

Wasn't that from the crappy Double X column by Lucinda something? A woman wrote in about being sexually assaulted (or it wasn't clear after it happened) after being drugged, and her friends wouldn't go to the hospital to support her, and the writer suggested that maybe it was because she was an annoying drama queen…

Taro pie!!! One of the only opportunities to eat a purple food! To be a bit nitpicky, though, I think they were first sold in Hong Kong, and then later they were available in Mainland China.

Don't tons of universities have these? I went to a Big Ten school in the late 80's and there was one in the women's bathroom on the bottom floor of the building that had most of the undergrad classes. It was there for years and rarely painted over — I tend to think janitors left it up as a public service. People…

The film festival in Shanghai did this either last year or the year before to get some extra revenue. Some car company sponsored the opening night gala, and instead of stars being asked about the movie they were there for, they were asked what they thought about the brand of car! A bunch of foreign actors they…

It sounds funny, but yet he'll have to deal with all those legal grey areas that exist in China because the law hasn't caught up to changes in society. Remember those kitten crush videos six or so years ago? Regulating those was a problem because according to Chinese law, they weren't porn, and they didn't actually…

Stupid advice, plus poor English. Who wrote this? "The reason bullies hate their victims, is because ..."? Why is that comma there? What's up with the useless comma in rule 5 (between responds and who)? Doesn't this person know "their" is always plural? (I mean, I know we all use it as singular in oral English,…

Stupid advice, plus poor English. Who wrote this? "The reason bullies hate their victims, is because ..."? Why is that comma there? What's up with the useless comma in rule 5 (between responds and who)? Doesn't this person know "their" is always plural? (I mean, I know we all use it as singular in oral English,…

Stupid advice, plus poor English. Who wrote this? "The reason bullies hate their victims, is because ..."? Why is that comma there? What's up with the useless comma in rule 5 (between responds and who)? Doesn't this person know "their" is always plural? (I mean, I know we all use it as singular in oral English,…

When this story came out I thought the name sounded really familiar. When I saw he had worked in China I went on a teachers' forum and saw that a couple years ago someone posted a missing person notice about him and asked if anybody had seen him.

Actually, there are these little rompers you can get for kids with a watermelon design that look exactly like that. Maybe the kid had some at home, and his dad thought, "Heck! I might as well make one out of a real watermelon!"

... and as soon as they couldn't sell them as exercise shoes in the US anymore, they started showing up in huge numbers of stores here in China, marketed as exercise shoes.

However, applicators are great if you live in a developing or third world country where everything is covered with dust and you won't have soap (or even running water, sometimes) in the bathroom. In that situation, would you really want to use your finger to put in a tampon?