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Why is Magcargo fire and rock type when the real life basis, the Chrysomallon squamiferum, has an iron shell and eats iron and clearly should be steel type?
The entertainment industry here sure has some tones of darkness, well, I mean, it's nothing like how there's Eyes Wide Shut shit over across the ocean, but you know, there's still people gifting people to each other, like the Weinstein stuff, for example
In the realm of Chinese fast food, for some reason, McDonald's fries are only fresh at 1 AM in the morning, and Burger King fries are only fresh at 1 PM in the afternoon
On the surface, it looks like "Nie Tengfei died in a car accident and then his wife cashed out and then married his driver", but what actually happened was that the underling of a power holder wanted the entire pie, killed him, threatened the woman, had a branch family member act as "driver", split the pie into pieces, used the driver as proxy to hold the largest piece, some 14 billion.
So there's a toothpaste called Darlie, 好来, with a white guy logo, but it was originally Darkie, 黑人, with a white guy doing a black face logo, but this was a Chinese natively made toothpaste made by three brothers, inspired by a Hollywood comedian at the time, who did black face, and they put out ads saying this toothpaste is like the plant bark black people white their teeth with
Before there was modern toilet paper, they had something called 美人纸, "beauty paper", where young maidens' tongues were used to wipe clean aristocratic ladies after they use the toilet; Dowager Empress Cixi is one particular example of someone who used "beauty paper".
Starscream: "If you join my company, you will have to work a full 8 hours every day. We only provide three meals and snacks, a 2-hour lunch break, only triple pay overtime, 1 hour of mandatory exercise after work, bonuses are only given three times a year, only have two months of vacation. The worst part is that your salary will only increase every four months. Haha, you will be exhausted and die!"
Optimus Prime: "What did you say? You didn't receive full pay? But you only worked 12 hours a day, why should you be paid for a full day? Where did the other 12 hours go? Early leave? Then dock your salary times three!"
You'd think that the number 108 is a very Chinese one, you know, used in a lot of mythology stuff or whatever, but like, Penelope had 108 suitors in the Odyssey.
If you think about it, Krillin is inherently untrustworthy and unreliable. It is nice that he was able to overcome his bullies, but he that is about it. Later on, there was one crucial moment that he could've saved the world, but he didn't kill Android 18. If she turned out like in the other timeline or if Cell won, or anything went wrong, than the one moment he should've done something, he failed
Reading the actual historical records, you find that Liu Bei has Zhang Fei's personality and Zhang Fei has Liu Bei's personality... such a way to beautify the nobility...
So in Chinese South Korea is 韩国 (Hanguo) North Korea is 朝鲜 (Chaoxian), so in a lot of these Chinese web stories, they don't write "韩国", but instead they take hints from English's south and north, and call it "南朝鲜" (Nan Chaoxian)... but the English translated back would be "South North Korea", sort of like how some Americans call that place "North Taiwan" or they call it "South Canada" I guess

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