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Offline Willy The Londoner

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #30 on: January 21, 2010, 02:48:56 am »
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Willy ,

since your my baba does that mean you have to give me
a red envelope when you pass thru:dodgy::icon_cheesygrin:


Glad you reminded me of that Ted. Of course by tradition it is only a nominal amount in the envelope.    As your Baba then by Chinese customs the children look after the parents in their old age.   I am suddenly having the need for a more luxurious lifestyle as I reach those advancing years!!!!!:icon_cheesygrin:

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #31 on: January 21, 2010, 03:05:28 am »
Willy,
I thought you were the young, lady killer stud, and here you are talking about being put out to pasture?...:icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #32 on: January 21, 2010, 11:51:06 am »
Don,

Willy is all things to all people especially when he is the beneficiary.  :icon_cheesygrin:

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #33 on: January 21, 2010, 11:46:29 pm »
i forgot about that tradition willy i guess i will buy you
a western toilet for your house  now that will be a new
luxury   hahaha

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #34 on: January 22, 2010, 06:10:12 am »
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i forgot about that tradition willy i guess i will buy you
a western toilet for your house  now that will be a new
luxury   hahaha


No need to go to such lengths Ted.  Just a roll of toilet paper would be luxury enough:icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:

Willy

Well this is my thread so I can talk toilets.
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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #35 on: January 22, 2010, 09:41:29 am »
Willy,

I see you got your priorities straight.

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #36 on: January 22, 2010, 12:57:35 pm »
Yes he does, but no where to sit and read the paper....(very important)...:icon_cheesygrin:

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #37 on: January 22, 2010, 01:10:41 pm »
Congrats Willy, at the wedding for something blue will you provide her with a printout of your various Viagra related posts? :P
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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #38 on: January 23, 2010, 10:29:43 am »
I have arrived in Hengyang and I am knackered.  The train journey was long, especially as it did not go over 30 miles an hour.  No wonder the high speed train can knock hours off of a journey.

And SOFT SLEEPERS there are no such things.  6 bunks in a cubical no bigger than my wardrobe. a thin solid mattress with a  half inch of foam or something similar on top.  God help those who went for hard seats. Very young child in our cubicle probably broke her arm trying to climb the ladders and she cried for about 4 hours and ours was the first stop where she could be taken off the train.  But the worst part was Guangzhou railway station.   Was in a slow moving queue for 40 minutes before even getting into the station.  Glad we got out tickets the other day as the ticket office queues were like 100 yards long at each window.

And when I say the waiting rooms were heaving they were.  Fortunately we were at the end of a queue in teh waiting room for the train.  When suddenly a load hailer came round and directed every one to turn around and go through the entrance behind us.  That put us to teh front of the queue.  No need to walk at all, 2000 fellow travellers turned and lifted us straight through the barriers.   If this is three weeks before the new year holidays then God helpany of you travelling in China during that time.

Going to bed now and hope the rest of my stay is much more enjoyable..

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #39 on: January 23, 2010, 10:44:34 am »
Wow that sounds like trouble alright, looks like I'll stay put during my second week there.

Enjoy the rest, I'm sure you will!

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #40 on: January 24, 2010, 06:55:52 am »
Just a word of warning.  If any one goes to Hengyang and your out walking one night and you hear what sounds like an Icecream vans chimes approaching then do not stand on the edge of the kerb wanting to buy one with a chocolate flake on top.    I did, and just like a rabbit I saw the bright lights approaching and was transfixed.   I was still standing there after the lorry had passed and had spread across the road and teh footpath a liberal scattering of grit and water and not just the footpatch  us to from waist downwards.  Lucky we was only 100 yeards from the hotel so straight back to get cleaned up.  

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #41 on: January 24, 2010, 06:10:59 pm »
Willy,

they have that in GZ also but i have seen them at 8 am in the morning here
when everyone is out going to work. now that is a bizzare happeming when
they come around

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #42 on: January 24, 2010, 06:53:32 pm »
That's called a chinese bath.

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #43 on: January 24, 2010, 07:06:41 pm »
Willy,

You didn't notice everyone running for cover??  haha!! Those things always send moments of ''Panic'' among the Chinese locals!!  How come your nearest and dearest wasn't pulling you frantically for cover?? Maybe a different ice cream tone in your city to where you are now!!  hahaha!!

David.....

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RE: What more do I need?
« Reply #44 on: January 24, 2010, 08:54:24 pm »
Willy , this is the NEW tactic's they use on Foreigner's ... to make / force them to buy some new clothes ... instead of Ice Cream . hahaha
This is of course a great start of a Trip , hope it get's better each day and we all here learn what to stay away from . :angel: