Mistress contest somehow goes wrong, somehow

[Triforcer]

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/17/china.mistress.contest/index.html

This amuses me on so many levels. 

[Trippy]

[Oban]

So very mainland Chinese.

[WindupAtheist]

Pimpin' ain't easy.

[Paelos]

An instructor from a local modeling agency judged the women on the way they looked, how they sang and how much alcohol they could hold, the Shanghai Daily said.

First criteria, ok. Second...if that's your bag. Third, that one just made me laugh. Chinese chicks in a drinking contest? Awesome.

[Oban]

Chinese businessmen do not like being around drunk girls that can not hold their liquor or, more importantly, a conversation.

So, being able to drink a lot and still function is very important.

[Mosesandstick]

Y'all probably have quite a few misconceptions about drinking and the Chinese people. Go on a trip to China. Especially the North.

[NowhereMan]

Yeah but Chinese people in the North are all like 7ft tall, they're hardly indicative of Chinese stereotypes. Beside Northern China has a similar climate to Russia and we know that people in cold countries all have ridiculous alcohol tolerance.

[Oban]

Chinese people are not the same as Japanese people, contrary to whatever Amber has told you.

[stray]

Yeah but Chinese people in the North are all like 7ft tall, they're hardly indicative of Chinese stereotypes. Beside Northern China has a similar climate to Russia and we know that people in cold countries all have ridiculous alcohol tolerance.

Some are even blonde, and many have a pinkish, caucasian skintone, unlike all other Asians. Although, this would properly be Mongol, more than Chinese per se.

[Oban]

Not Mongol, Xinjiang.

West of Mongolia.

[stray]

Sidenote: I met a Mongol named Subutai recently.

[MahrinSkel]

This is about as unlikely as meeting an Englishman named William.

--Dave

[stray]

His god was greater than mine. That's all I know.

[stray]

Oh wait, he also told me that I'm part Mongol myself, for having a blue dot on my ass.

How he came to know I had a blue dot on my ass is beyond the scope of this thread.

[Righ]

Mine is on the small of my back, and I'm a very generic white dude. So somewhere in my family tree there's possibly some Hun blood.

[Merusk]

Oh wait, he also told me that I'm part Mongol myself, for having a blue dot on my ass.

How he came to know I had a blue dot on my ass is beyond the scope of this thread.

So what you've worked through all the women and are on to the men now?

You slut.

[Paelos]

Oh wait, he also told me that I'm part Mongol myself, for having a blue dot on my ass.

How he came to know I had a blue dot on my ass is beyond the scope of this thread.

So what you've worked through all the women and are on to the men now?

You slut.

Don't encourage him to share. We all lose.

[Trippy]

An instructor from a local modeling agency judged the women on the way they looked, how they sang and how much alcohol they could hold, the Shanghai Daily said.

First criteria, ok. Second...if that's your bag. Third, that one just made me laugh. Chinese chicks in a drinking contest? Awesome.

Chinese businessmen do not like being around drunk girls that can not hold their liquor or, more importantly, a conversation.

So, being able to drink a lot and still function is very important.

Oban speaks the truth. This guy probably liked to entertain at so called "hostess bars" which are popular in Asian and being able to sing karaoke well and drink as much as he can would be important "skills" as a mistress if he took her along to these places.

[Strazos]

The drinking at goes on at Chinese weddings is just obnoxious.

Also, it's sort of a problem if your male and cannot drink much in a Chinese family, or so I am told.

[Paelos]

So my Irish family and a Chinese family would get along? Interesting... 

[Oban]

What a disturbing thought.

Now I need to go out and buy a thousand earplugs.

[Yegolev]

Oh wait, he also told me that I'm part Mongol myself, for having a blue dot on my ass.

TMI

How he came to know I had a blue dot on my ass is beyond the scope of this thread.

The places you draw your lines amuse me.

Also, this was my favorite bit:

The women knew of one another, but none elected to break up with the man and give up their rent-free apartment and a 5,000 yuan ($730) monthly allowance, the reports said.

[NiX]

Oh wait, he also told me that I'm part Mongol myself, for having a blue dot on my ass.

Part baboon are we?

[stray]

It's very miniscule, as if someone dotted me with a marker, and it faded a bit since I was a kid. The baboon probably goes back eons ago.

I read an article where the spots can be very big on some children, cover parts of the back even, and some parents have even been accused of child abuse because the spots resemble bruising.

[Lantyssa]

Heh.

Please, describe it in more detail.  Perhaps pictures would help.

[Johny Cee]

The drinking at goes on at Chinese weddings is just obnoxious.

Also, it's sort of a problem if your male and cannot drink much in a Chinese family, or so I am told.

Wait, wait, wait. 

I thought East Asians naturally produced less of the enzyme the broke down alcohol than Europeans?  Meaning that generally European ethnic backgrounds have better tolerance than East Asians?

[Oban]

I thought East Asians naturally produced less of the enzyme the broke down alcohol than Europeans?  Meaning that generally European ethnic backgrounds have better tolerance than East Asians?

From http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v17n3/p18.html ::

The mutation is found very frequently in Chinese and Japanese populations but is less common among other Asian groups, including Koreans, the Malayo-Polynesian group, and others native to the Pacific Rim. "We've also looked at Euro-Americans, Native Americans, and Eskimos, and they don't have that gene mutation," says Li. Thus, incidentally, the study of genetic mutations and alcoholism links native North-American populations to central Asian ancestors, not to those from China and Japan.

However, alcohol tolerance is something that can be built up over time.  Just like a resistance to the deadly iocane powder.

[Paelos]

I'd still like to see a Chinese v. Irish showdown. The only problem would be that my people would start tossing fists around before someone actually won. 

[Oban]

Your people.

[MahrinSkel]

Heh.

Please, describe it in more detail.  Perhaps pictures would help.

Mongolian Spot.  It's actually also very common in Native Americans, where it is not the product of the Golden Horde.  Probably common descent from the same central Asian gene stock referenced in that article on metabolizing alcohol.

--Dave

[Engels]

Not to be un-PC, but aren't there various theories that Native Americans either came from Asia via the Bering straight or some other means around 13k years ago? Could they not have been Mongolian among other things?

[stray]

Pfft. Bering Strait. Everyone knows the Indians were the original Jewish Mormons.

[MahrinSkel]

Not to be un-PC, but aren't there various theories that Native Americans either came from Asia via the Bering straight or some other means around 13k years ago? Could they not have been Mongolian among other things?

13k years ago there wouldn't have been a Mongolia to contain Mongolians, hence my saying "common descent from the same central Asian gene stock".  Yes, the dominant theory is that Native Americans are the descendants of Asian genestock from a Bering Landbridge crossing, and the variants on the theory mostly turn on whether there was one such crossing, or two (Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA mapping is pointing strongly to the "two crossings" theory), and what part the Inuit (Eskimo) played in that (whether they emerged separately from northern Asia, or from northern Canada, or are some completely separate branch from the original migration{s}).  Native Americans display certain traits that are strongly associated with Asian genes (the spot and the lack of alcohol tolerance being the most obvious), but lack others (epicanthic folds being highest on the list), arguing for a non-oriental origin from central Asian herders/nomads that also resulted in the Mongols of history (who were originally much less "oriental" in appearance than typically depicted, according to some sources).

Hunter nomads who move with the herds can cover a *lot* of ground in 13,000 years.  There's a lot of work being done on this, but the best theory I've seen basically says that Homo Sapiens spread out along coastlines as a fishing culture, developing mutations as it went (because the leading edge was always a small gene pool with little competition).  Then these differentiated gene stocks started spreading inland, developing different survival strategies (and more mutations) as they went, and Native Americans are actually the descendants of ancestors that originated somewhere around the Caspian, in what is now western Kazakhstan, who learned how to build portable shelters and spread throughout inland Asia, where they ran into the Oriental root stock cultures spreading up the rivers with a proto-agricultural gathering lifestyle, and were pushed north and east across the landbridge.

--Dave

[apocrypha]

Not to be un-PC, but aren't there various theories that Native Americans either came from Asia via the Bering straight or some other means around 13k years ago? Could they not have been Mongolian among other things?

Sidetrack, but how would that be un-PC? I don't get PC, really, it's such a lot of cobblers.