Bus Uncle (巴士阿叔,)
If you haven't heard of the infamous "Bus Uncle", you haven't been keeping up with your YouTube or Internet memes.It's been crazy-big among Chinese speakers/readers but most Chinese-challenged people have been left confused and leaving comments like "Why is this so popular?", and "Can someone explain why everyone keeps posting this video?".
You can get the lowdown on it in English here. Essentially what happened was that a young man was riding the bus and started to get pissed off by the older man in front of him who was yakking away on his phone much too loud for common courtesy. The young man tapped the "Bus Uncle" on the shoulder and asked him to keep it down.
What happened next? Bus Uncle snapped.
And the best part? A fellow rider captured the whole incident on his cellphone video camera (YouTube.com video) for our viewing pleasure. Of course, you probably won't be able to appreciate that video unless you understand Cantonese. So, for my fellow Chinese-challenged peeps, here is a version with Chinese and English subtitles.
People have become so consumed with it that they are creating various remixes of the video clip, some turning the Chinese swearing into beat-matched beat-box style rap. One of my favourites is this re-make featuring traditional Chinese puppets.
So if you want to seem witty, now is the time to start throwing random quotes from the Bus Uncle into your posts and casual conversation.
I face pressure, you face pressure.
posted by Blight @ 6:58 PM
8 Comments:
god, that is so randomly awesome... the puppets, the remixes...
this is why man built the internet.
Bus Rage. The newest phenomenon in reality TV.
Man, that is too sweet.
Of course, I've always said cell phones are evil. There you go.
Shake.
Dealt.
Settle.
Warn.
F--k.
Pressure.
How is it that a six minute-long scolding can essentially consist of 5 verb and 1 noun?
I'm curious, are non-Chinese scoldings anything like this?
in a way i thought the young guy was pretty much a gentleman...but how could he stay still when the old man swear at his mom?
i just wanted to punch him on the face!!!
I was shocked that he wanted to shake hands so badly, I didn't know Chinese people did that.
And yeah the mom remarks were pretty crazy.
I think the young guy was kind of spurring him on as well, though. Whenever things were going to be cool he would say something to tick the older man off again.
Gross.
I hated the whole thing, beginning to end, the sickness of the uncle, the weird faux-coolness of the kid.
The part where the kid started slow-laughing was the worst.
I want to beat them both up.
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