...but so do the mistakes" reads the headline in today's World Extra segment of the Times.
The article on the craze amongst Chinese women for reshaping their god-given bodies is full of gruesome humour. I especially liked the description given of Wang Baobao of the work she had done in her quest for the body beautiful...
"She had her eyes widened. She had her nose and jaw made narrower, and her chin shaped smaller. Her breasts were enhanced, but "I had to keep having operations to repair them."
She had the fat taken out of her hips, thighs, stomach and backside. She even had implants put into her heels to make her taller. It didn't work."
This was followed by two comments;
"Her colleagues at a Shanghai stockbrokerage firm laughed behind her back, so she quit." (she still has a back! I wonder what it's like?) ...
and
"Her boyfriend became frightened and left".
I do feel for poor Wang and hope she survives the treatments she has chosen to have but I found the whole article very bizarre. The Southland Times must have bought up a basket of stories like these to cover for their journalists while they holiday and they certainly are providing something other than anguish over who's going to pay our rugby debt.
The article that followed that was about the floods in Eastern Australia and talks about the plague of snakes that has added to the flooding worries.
Of the snakes ..."there's heaps of them. We've had a plague of mice, a lot of frogs and so we knew the snakes would come."
A 'lot' of frogs?
Crikey!
2 comments:
Hi Robert ...yeah I found the article re plastic surgery, but this is in a nation, that will pay alot of money for the horns of an endangered rhino species. Why for an sex stimulant !!1 They also have been doing horrible things to animals such as bears, for entertainment.
Its the frog part that interest me as frogs world wide are been reported as becoming scarse. Here in Southland I understand they are quite rare now, have you seen many aorund in your travels?
Hi Pauline - I haven't read anything from you for a while :-)
Frogs are my great love - I kept them through most of my early years (even taking some whistlers with me on a holiday to Wellington - the air hostess was most interested!) and have been following their plight. The chitrid fungus, environmental changes etc are not working in their favour and there are far, far fewer in Southland now. Mind you, the ones we know are imports from Aussie - our natives were eaten out of here by kiore, rattus rattus and rattus norvegicus long ago. I've not seen one in the flesh yet, though I got to Stephen's Island, but still hope that I will one day.
Hope to see your name at the botom of a letter to the editor sometime in the new year :-)
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