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Netease has a thing for oystersPosted by Joel Martinsen, November 21, 2008 9:50 AM
What do employees at a big web portal do for fun? Sit around eating oysters and drinking crates of beer, apparently. This video, shot by and featuring the Netease online games division, supposedly represents a fusion of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean culture. Frightening, if true. The full name of the video is 《蚝酒大会》之《我们放肆摇晃的青春尾巴》, the "Oyster Alcohol Party" presents "Let's All Shake Our Young Tails." At various points in the video the actors shout 偶一西巴, which is a transliteration into Chinese of the Japanese おいしいば, "It's really tasty." (Corrections and additional translations of non-Chinese audio welcome.) A few notes from the creators:
The video's been up for less than a day, and viewers don't seem to know what to make of it. One commenter who posted to Sina's repost of the video probably has it right:
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Comments on Netease has a thing for oysters
Online games is poisoning the younge generation in China, while those thugs are holding a hilarious party.
LoL, wow, that is AWESOME.
Fark, this is not suitable for all ages. After watching this vid, I strongly discourage anyone who is still studying Chinese, please drop or our dissipated Chinese culture will ruin you!
I don't know. Were this in the Spring Festival Gala, I might actually watch.
(But probably not.)
There are many puns in the video, such as this one
going down (够淫荡)
awesome
that was what in the 90s would have been referred to as "dope."
够淫荡... that's a good pun!
others?
Actually this just shows the true Chinese media environment. Click on some Chinese major websites, it seems there are so many sex-related topics or gossips running the headlines. Okay...even if sex sells, it shouldn't mix up with space for serious matters, especially as major news domain. Anyway, the only good thing I can see is whoever argues porn is unseen on the Chinese websites, would have their eyes finally open...They found their way around it just fine...
decadence before the golden age ...
maybe "Let's All Shake Our Young Tails." should be tranlsated as "Let's All Shake Our Tails of Youth"
I like the reference to to lan fu ling bug spray. I remember that commercial right before and after my favorite cartoons when I was young. I guess wasn't the only one that remembered.