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Annoying about South Africa. Being a minority who has all sorts of legislation and forced discrimination prejudicing me. Constantly being blamed for failure of others because of how I look. Paying one of the highest tax rates in the world but getting very little in return. Having prominent (and ordinary) people threaten to exterminate anyone who looks like me be given airtime and not condemned. Not being able to speak obvious truths without the risk of being prosecuted. Watching my kids future being squandered by corrupt hatemongers getting third helpings at the gravy train trough . Knowing the most beautiful girl in the world is HIV positive and it will end badly. But hey " As you ramble on through life, Brother,Whatever be your goal,Keep your eye upon the doughnut,And not upon the hole.' Stay Prozzetive!
@Cameron It was a reference to a quote by Winston (SerpentZA) on a video he did about South Africa where he used the analogy to to explain his take on SA. It's a great country but with a fatal flaw that ruins the possibilities and future. In truth HIV positive people can given correct nutrition and medications live a pretty normal life.Unfortunately without divine intervention South Africa is way way worse off.
I live in germany and everybody expects you to be very much punctual and always follow every single stupid useless rule to the letter....that sometimes drives me crazy and other times is the best thing in the world.
I finde very funny how people in Germany or Scandinavia obey the rules. For example if there are ligths and crosswalk from one side of the road to the other (not crossroad just one road one crosswalk one lights) they wait for the green light even if there is no car on the whole road, and if you cross the street on red, they just get mad :D This is so strange to me, to follow the rules even if there is no reasonable reason to do so.
+Delcio Acosta But r u sure that it is like that everywhere in the States or only NYC? I honestly dunno. But I mean here in Berlin people also tend to obey to rules much less than in other places in Germany u know
I'm living in Shanghai as a visiting scholar and I can't agree more about the damn kids here. They are like nothing I've seen. Constantly up in your shit, running around being crazy and causing chaos everywhere for everyone. Absolutely no respect for personal space. Anyway, you two (and winston) were my main source for learning and preparing for my trip here so next time I'm in Guangdong I'll buy ya a big bottle of baijiu.
Oh man don't get me started on my landlord. She has some relatives in Beijing as a judge or something. Thinks she's the shit and brings mafia everywhere she goes. Cadillac + bodyguards. Police in Beijing, no... Police in China are basically useless unless you bribe them.
even though I'm a Chinese, sometime I just can't fucking believe the words came from my girlfriend's mouth. One day, I put one of my pants on my pillow as a pillow case since she washed all of the actual pillow cases. She yelled at me and forbad me to do so. Cause' she believed in sleeping on pants will cause you forgetting things, which is one piece of wisdoms came from her parents and relatives.
Vivi is Chinese. And i've heard Chinese once had a specific word meaning 'bury all inhabitants of a defeated city ALIVE'. It was a long time ago, but Chinese are soo proud of their tradition and national character, you know...
I started watching these videos because I got a job offer in China and I was kind of terrified so I wanted to know more about what it was like, and now I'm really pretty excited to go. Thanks!
To the last point. Logic is a concept that has not arrived anywhere in Asia yet. In your private life that can be sometimes quite disturbing. But if you work in science or R&D it is a major problem.
That is - FORMALIZED LOGIC. Besides The Logic (and its algebra) there are lots of things to consider. Anyway - people there CAN think, evaluate and reason. And that comes with logic - it's inherent. The just build their reasoning on different things. Oh, and, well... Given the amount of insanely religious people, various flat-earthers and creationists in the US - when logic is expected to arrive THERE? About a quarter of population does not remember / rejects the heliocentric model. (Well, in Europe it's even higher - up to 30% - weird.)
My fiancé is Chinese and he's insistent about the hot water thing too! One thing that really made me mad was trying to get the kitchen clean before dinner and he tells me I shouldn't sweep because the dust will get in the food, same thing with spraying down the table. 🙄love the videos!
I think the hot water thing is what I've experienced the most, since it comes up in daily life every day. My work colleagues were always surprised i drink cold drinks every day. If I was ill they always told me to drink hot water.
Love this video. It’s so true about the hot water thing, our Chinese girls just can’t stand it. LOL. Last year I went to Germany to finalize a contract negociation of a very important project of our company. There were three girls on our negotiation team, all of us speak decent English, know western culture pretty well. The ONLY thing we couldn’t accept was that there was no hot water anywhere! Our German clients were so shocked when they first heard of our theory of how drinking hot water benefit your health. But they were so thoughtful and considerate even though they could’t understand it at all, they came up to us literally every morning before the meeting and told us specially that “Your hot water is right there”. Interesting memory.
What scared the hell out of me my 10 days in China, was being approached by Army out of blue. When I was there, I was in the US Militry, visiting my inlaws . First time was visiting the Great Wall, two Army officers approached me, called me by my military rank asking me how liking my visit. The second time as outline the middle of a market in Beijing, same thing Army officer calling me by my military rank.... I had "grown" out my military haircut and definitely made sure nothing military with me but my ID with my passport. Also, after visiting Forbidden City, just outside exit, where stopped at a park, as we were speaking English, a crowed surrounded us. Like about 100 people, police came to see what was up, later some army guys asking me what I was doing and demanding my passport.
Warm water absorbs faster than cold water in the body and also when water that is too cold being drank while we are hot from a workout or just hard work would make people vomit and have stomach pain.But what is considered cool or cold to warm cool?
WRONG! I’m bolivian! Healthcare is FREE in Bolivia and not as bad as you would think it is. Actually nowadays lots of Bolivian Americans go to Bolivia to have medical procedures done because it’s cheaper and it’s safe.
India has the same beliefs about water. You shouldn't have cold water, it will give fever and sore throat. While I was there I had to freeze my bottled water. I managed to find a small ice tray at a home goods store. These were tiny cubes meant for bar drinks....the strange part was the refrigerator they had was kind of throwback to a 1950s fridge in the fact it had a freezer like in old time American fridges...it was a little springy door inside the fridge.... didn't matter much they don't freeze anything. My friends mom would flip when I would make huge glass of ice water because we would be going out somewhere and she would scold me "You are gonna fall sick!" I was like Aunty it's 500 degrees outside if I could I would have eaten ice, just couldn't get enough. Funny story this guy that used to be our roommate when he would have water from water fountain he would put it in his coffee cup at work and he would blow on it....when asked why he said it's too cold he could blow it to make it warmer....he was from South India.
Holy Shia Muslim, or was that Shite Muslim? LMAO. Your knee story and the Tramadol. Shudders. My own reaction is not as severe, but, it is NOT a drug I will choose... I was given T3's (Tylenol with Codeine) after I had a wisdom tooth removed. I put up with the pain rather than the worse side effects of the Codeine. Cramps from hell, no vomit relief, alas, and my head felt like a monster hangover. Did these or similar symptoms hit you as well?
Wow, feel real sorry for you when even Tramadol has that effect. My wife, who are also allergic to opiates, tried codeine. She became violently ill. Only 10mg of codeine was too much. Now, as long as it is not a salt or derivative of codeine, she is ok. Found out during child birth. With her severe arthritis she begs for Tramadol from her GP here in Norway. Count your blessings, C-Milk! she now struggles to make it trough a day without opiates (not dependent. Did 3 months without just now). She really hates opiates, but when the cancer pains rears its ugly head, opiates is all there is. Such is life in extreme circumstances. She got an extremely dissimulating rough treatment from Mother Nature concerning her "swelling of her limbs" Guys just try it. When your body is not cooperating, Hell is on you. I have been close to a quadraphonic for the last 5 years of my life. Edit: I mean severe numbness to ALL limbs below the pelvis. Still have a daughter, thank GOD, in Jesus Christ name!!
Ironically, I, being "a westerner", only really learned about homeostasis and body heat regulation from a Chinese girl when I was in China. I was really cold one day, despite wearing warm clothes and when she saw me shivering, she told me to eat something, which I did and all of a sudden I wasn't cold anymore. I don't know why, but I just never made that connection in my mind, between food consumption and body heat, even though it is obvious. In my family whether you were hot or cold was just always a matter of what clothes you were wearing and I never learned to consider other means of manipulating your body heat.
also similar to that whole drink hot water thing, in Nicaragua, and many Latin american countries they apply that same logic to a certain kind of tea they have called "manzanilla" which you will always find doctors recommending for any kind of sickness no matter your age, fever, take a manzanilla, headache, manzanilla, vomiting, manzanilla.
The thing about drinking cold water is, after the ice water gets into your body your body has to work harder to heat the water to body temperature in order to maintain homeostatsis. It makes your body work harder thus potentially unhealthy. Just like when you drink alcohol your liver has to work harder to get rid of the toxins thus damaging your liver in the long term. Drinking hot water in some instances like common cold may temporarily increase your body temperature thus good at killing some bacteria, it is the purpose that fever serves, to raise body temperature to kill off some of the most common bacteria that causes the common cold. The thing about western medicine is it is reactive not preventative. Thats why alternative medicine which is mostly chinese medicine is getting more popular now
Lived in Chongqing for a year. Wife had severe diarrhea and vomiting for several days. Obviously very sick and we were worried that it could be some kind of parasite or something. Go to the hospital and sit outside the room for a good 2 hours or so with nobody else ahead of us, and the doctor wasn’t even seeing anyone else we found out. He spends about 2 minutes feeing my wife’s forehead, looking at her tongue, and taking her blood pressure. He tells her to drink more hot water and that’s she’s just dehydrated. Gives her a prescription for meds that turned out were 50mg Chinese Tylenol. That’s it. Now you owe 3000 Kwai. See ya. Dig through Chongqing like crazy and found a place with western med brands like NyQuil and stuff and she luckily managed to get over it. Worst hospital experience ever. Only other real bad thing was the check ups you have to get right after arriving in China. Dirty hospital and when they wanted to take my blood they wanted to use needles that were pre opened so it would be faster. I refused to let them touch me until they opened everything brand new in front of me.
My wife also still believes that you can actually light a fire inside your body if you eat or do the wrong things. That idea is everywhere. I asked, she means an actual fire, not a fever, or such.
I love living in Norway, it's kinda cold in the winter but super hot in the summer u have like free health system and great roads to drive motorcycle on. Im thinking of moving to hong kong and live at my aunt who lives there a great place to be and i have been in shenzhen a nice place but i need a VPN to move there tho.
Hardest thing is when you are on a prepaid phone which suddenly doesnt works anymore and all money is on wechat. At nighttime of course the subway isnt driving and you cant pay the taxi.
C-Milk, your story about your broken knee cap makes me want to offer you this advice. Start collecting advil and ibuprofen now. Also take care of your liver. You are going to be in so much pain getting up and kneeling in 20 years that you will be eating these medicines every day. Take it from someone who knows. I feel for you bro'.
I found the hospitals to be fine. My first night in China was spent in the ER due to an infected foot. It wasn't super clean but it seemed OK. I think it was a public hospital but I am not sure. Later I went for prenatal care at a private women's hospital and it was to US standards.
how do i move to China and live thire i have no job thire to go to i want live thire for 2 year i will be retiring in now and want go on feb thire it no eacy going thire i will be going frist to the philippines for a week to see if i like it thire thank so i can i stay there like you for 2 or 3 year
Loved this video Prozzie. Gave me a serious giggle. I used to live in the middle east for 20 years and they have the weird logic thing there too. They believe rather than understand certain things. And we went out of our way as kids to not break a bone so we didn't end up in their squalor of a hospital system. Love the videos as always!
I had a disabled student, who wanted to walk up the local 'mountain' (big hill) with her teacher. Part way up i could see she needed a rest, so found a flat wall, that was a little damp and dirty, and put my coat down for her to sit on. She refused to sit on it (despite obviously needing to rest) as her Grandmother had told her she should never sit on a man's coat??? :P Trying to rationalise with her, didn't help, in fact it just made her upset, as i was "Disrespecting" her grandmother!
We're Australian and we visited china last year. The children's behaviour and their parents reactions to it was mind blowing to us. Our 6yr old nearly lost his mind watching the Chinese kids be have like animals. Totally crazy. And the hot drink thing! I don't know why they have drink fridges in China because it doesn't seem like any are turned on. The first thing we did when we got home was buy cold drinks and it was heaven!
Prozzie's been real bored!!!! Love the new video bro. I can tell you and Cmilk are real homeboys. My boy Josh is the only man I would allow to just hang out with my wife. We been boys since 1987!!!!
I had a Chinese housemate who was a "Doctor of Chinese Medicine" who told me that eating eggs and oranges at the same time was poisonous... true story :D
So if I undestand correctly C-Milk crashed because Vivi was acting like a stubborn child and stood in front of him forcing him to either crash or hit her??
Hi, nice vids, you and laowhy. I've lived in China for 7 years, married to a Chinese lady for 13 years, and have a 7 year old daughter (born in UK). We live in Guangxi and I still speak virtually zero Chinese, Mandarin or Cantonese. Just for your list, my top 5 irritations about living in China. In order. 1. Driving. I'm a biker but in China a drive an e-bike. 101% of drivers in China are insane! And it's nothing to do with being Chinese as in Hong Kong the driving is just London type bad. 2. GFW / Internet. Even with a VPN 'they' control your access by strangling speed. Irritating as all hell (and yes I know work arounds) esp as I have virtually zero Chinese and English language access keeps me sane (vids, chats, etc) access to which is almost zero. 3. Smoking. You mentioned it but I AM an anti-smoking nazi. A guy smoked in an elevator while I was in it. I asked politely Qing Wu Xi Yan (please don't smoke) he basically said fuck you, so I pulled the cigarette out of his mouth. He tried to get violent but wasn't good enough. That type of thing (minus the actual violence) happens almost every week. P.S. There were large signs saying no smoking ( as in all elevators) in the elevator. It's also been illegal to smoke in restaurants in Guangxi since 1st April 2014. Those are the main pains, the last two are just to make up the numbers, no great deal really. 4. Public urination and defecation. I get it, the public toilets (even in restaurants and bars) are despicable, but come on shitting in the street? What's worse is babies, don't wear diapers, just crotchless (I shit you not) pants so they can (and do) dump in the street. 5. Spitting. OK, you gotta spit, do it, but FFS you don't need to hawk it up from the depths of hell with a noise that could be heard over Concorde taking off!
I can't believe neither one of you mentioned "Umbrella tips at eye level" even on sunny days... umbrellas everywhere! I always wondered why, every old kung-fu movie had one bad-ass with a eye patch.
The most annoying thing about the UK is the gloomy windy weather. The 8+ hour working days. Expensive nights out. The strict laws and licenses. The hot water thing in China was important in the past when people were poor and couldn't afford healthcare and healthcare was primitive. Drinking hot water does help a tiny bit over many years because when you drink cold water the body spends a little energy in warming it up inside which could have otherwise been used in treating an ailment or disease, that's the logic, a tiny one but still has its place especially in the rustic past of China.
Many superstitions have a basis in fact. I assume that in the past people who drank hot drinks and ate hot foods were generally healthier since the heat would kill bacteria that could make them sick. Then someone linked this idea to chi and popularized it.
i know the driving in the states isn't as bad as china but i still feel it is pretty bad when people don't use a turn signal, turn into the far lane(or under steering), and just in general driving way to slow for the amount of traffic.
In England if you eat on the streets, often times folks would spit in front of you. Also in some parks, they are like dog toilets, only good thing is that the owners pick up the poo.
Things I noticed immediately upon going to China: Yes, people are smoking everywhere, even in places with no-smoking signs. No one does a damn thing about it. The vast majority of people driving cars drive like absolute morons, honking their horns constantly, never signalling, veering suddenly between lanes, driving on fucking sidewalks, etc. Because of the idiot drivers as well as omnipresent construction, China is frustratingly noisy, no matter where you go in the cities. The majority of non-Chinese websites are blocked. Contrary to what I read, Google and Gmail are outright blocked, not slow to access.
That's not an opiate allergy. That's a pseudoallergy. Opiates can cause a release of histamine which is why you itch your nose after taking a Vicodin for a root canal. They can also cause nausea and vomiting which usually goes away after about two to three hours foremost opiates. Tramadol is a synthetic opioid that works on many many different areas of the brain, it is also an SSRI and an SNRI. Taking a benedryl would have alleviated this symptoms
im a laowinner. I remember working in a hotel in Hollywood everyone signs at checkin acknowledging this is a non smoking hotel and there is a $150 fee if you are found smoking in your room. One time these people were so chinese probably from a smaller city they mustve smoked a carton of cigarretes during their stay. they did not question the fine
hahahahahhahahahah so true. My mom is terrified after hearing I'm going to have ice-cream after my labor in the US. Basically she thinks my whole body is going to be screwed for the REST OF MY LIFE after eating anything non-hot during postpartum time. I don't know if you guys have heard of zuo yuezi 【做月子】(postpartum time). There are so many no logically rules for women after labor, like no AC, no walking outside, no showering, no touching cold water. My mother in law told me she didn't brush her teeth for a month after labor because she was told so. WHATTTTT???????????
Haha i literally just heard the comment on Nicaraguan healthcare, I currently live in Nicaragua and honestly the healthcare is pretty good here, its better than in Spain, a supposedly first world country, but its actually pretty comprehensive. It's free for all citizens and they have most everything you could want for, except for maybe some advanced screening equipment you can only find in the capital. But they are always clean, though I'm not sure about Bolivian hospitals but if you get hurt in Nicaragua, you are probably covered.
i hate people smoking in public too, especially in elevator, i really can't bear that, i want to punch people for doing that. some cities, like shenzhen, have laws over this, but still you see violation everywhere.
As a Scientist these things frustrate me to no end. I love it here in China but man..."easier to believe than to understand." couldn't have put it better myself.
Who else is here because cmilk never signed off?
TheWazupian me 😜 but I follow Prozzie as well 😂
Guilty lol
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Yup.
who is cmilk? is he that dude hittin on my bitch?
To anyone came early I'm sorry the video was unlisted. I had it for early access for my Patreons. Cmilk released his while I was sleeping. Welcome to my channel bitches.
Prozzie ily anyway babe
Prozzie y'all gotta plan timed releases to within 5 mins next time ;)
Classy as always
i came.
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Annoying about South Africa.
Being a minority who has all sorts of legislation and forced discrimination prejudicing me.
Constantly being blamed for failure of others because of how I look.
Paying one of the highest tax rates in the world but getting very little in return.
Having prominent (and ordinary) people threaten to exterminate anyone who looks like me be given airtime and not condemned.
Not being able to speak obvious truths without the risk of being prosecuted.
Watching my kids future being squandered by corrupt hatemongers getting third helpings at the gravy train trough .
Knowing the most beautiful girl in the world is HIV positive and it will end badly.
But hey " As you ramble on through life, Brother,Whatever be your goal,Keep your eye upon the doughnut,And not upon the hole.'
Stay Prozzetive!
@Cameron It was a reference to a quote by Winston (SerpentZA) on a video he did about South Africa where he used the analogy to to explain his take on SA. It's a great country but with a fatal flaw that ruins the possibilities and future. In truth HIV positive people can given correct nutrition and medications live a pretty normal life.Unfortunately without divine intervention South Africa is way way worse off.
I live in germany and everybody expects you to be very much punctual and always follow every single stupid useless rule to the letter....that sometimes drives me crazy and other times is the best thing in the world.
Yea unfortunately that's just how things work in modern first world countries.
I finde very funny how people in Germany or Scandinavia obey the rules. For example if there are ligths and crosswalk from one side of the road to the other (not crossroad just one road one crosswalk one lights) they wait for the green light even if there is no car on the whole road, and if you cross the street on red, they just get mad :D This is so strange to me, to follow the rules even if there is no reasonable reason to do so.
Not all first world countries have silly rules and strong pressure to conform.
+Delcio Acosta But r u sure that it is like that everywhere in the States or only NYC? I honestly dunno. But I mean here in Berlin people also tend to obey to rules much less than in other places in Germany u know
Germans have a very unhealthy tendency to be obedient and revere authority.
As a Chinese person who grew up in Florida, every time I go back I fear that the toilet will not have paper.
Byotp: bring your own toilet paper
HAHAHAHA I feel you!! My mom will always laugh at me and refuse to lend me hers unless i promise I would carry my own paper next time lololol
ikr public toilets have no toilet paper
#Anhui life
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I'm living in Shanghai as a visiting scholar and I can't agree more about the damn kids here. They are like nothing I've seen. Constantly up in your shit, running around being crazy and causing chaos everywhere for everyone. Absolutely no respect for personal space. Anyway, you two (and winston) were my main source for learning and preparing for my trip here so next time I'm in Guangdong I'll buy ya a big bottle of baijiu.
削那帮小崽子，你身为外国人千万别惯这帮二逼家长的病。
Jamie Stuart just beat them. when I was little, I got beaten all the time lol
Martin wang I see mom's beating their kids all the time here. has no effect. their deflector shields are too strong.
Oh man don't get me started on my landlord. She has some relatives in Beijing as a judge or something. Thinks she's the shit and brings mafia everywhere she goes. Cadillac + bodyguards. Police in Beijing, no... Police in China are basically useless unless you bribe them.
Olivia playing with the clothes is literally the cutest thing everrrrr!!!
even though I'm a Chinese, sometime I just can't fucking believe the words came from my girlfriend's mouth. One day, I put one of my pants on my pillow as a pillow case since she washed all of the actual pillow cases. She yelled at me and forbad me to do so. Cause' she believed in sleeping on pants will cause you forgetting things, which is one piece of wisdoms came from her parents and relatives.
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Hahaha I have heard this before too!
how often does this happen that it's become a part of folklore? it's like, don't put a shoe on your head because it makes you lose all your money
then all chinese must sleep on their pants, no i mean all asians
Dont you have spare pillow cases...?
Woman makes you fall of the bike than kicks you, because it's your fault...
Vivi sounds like my wife, nice but deadly. 😃
I hope she doesn't treat Oliviera like that. Domestic violence. And I always thought that Vivi was nice.
Vivi is Chinese. And i've heard Chinese once had a specific word meaning 'bury all inhabitants of a defeated city ALIVE'. It was a long time ago, but Chinese are soo proud of their tradition and national character, you know...
Look on the bright side C-Milk, you'll never be an opioid addict.
true dat!
laowhy86 cause he already is...
Like "Rum"
Rum is good. No. 1 hard liquor in Australia. We'll have one or two when I visit.
You two together are dynamite! Welcome back Cmilk!
I started watching these videos because I got a job offer in China and I was kind of terrified so I wanted to know more about what it was like, and now I'm really pretty excited to go. Thanks!
Prozzie you have style. I like the dark humor and your editing is on point. Keep those video's coming. You deserve more subs!
"It's easier to believe something than understand it" - Great line. I'm using it
I visited a top military hospital in Beijing and there were people smoking in the main area of the pulmonary unit. I'll never forget it.
There was a study done on the progression of healthcare around the world and they found that China is up to WWII standards. 😵😂
No, pre-WWII standard.
Health care is based on superstition.
RETARDATION NATION.
@@patricka.crawley6572 Ikr? I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT have any desire to go to China! God forbid you get seriously hurt there. No thanks!
@@ceeceety2320 Yep. 6 years there was enough. I'll write the book, soon.
@@patricka.crawley6572 6 years is a LONG time! You should write a book! What did you do there if you don't mind my asking?
8 dislikes are probably Bolivians
darksouls45688 nope russians
To the last point. Logic is a concept that has not arrived anywhere in Asia yet. In your private life that can be sometimes quite disturbing. But if you work in science or R&D it is a major problem.
That is - FORMALIZED LOGIC. Besides The Logic (and its algebra) there are lots of things to consider. Anyway - people there CAN think, evaluate and reason. And that comes with logic - it's inherent. The just build their reasoning on different things.
Oh, and, well... Given the amount of insanely religious people, various flat-earthers and creationists in the US - when logic is expected to arrive THERE? About a quarter of population does not remember / rejects the heliocentric model. (Well, in Europe it's even higher - up to 30% - weird.)
Most annoying in China I think is people in countryside or small cities being ignored,having very few resources to live a decent life.
I had a P.E. teacher that would only drink room temp water/drink because cold can put your body into shock.
My fiancé is Chinese and he's insistent about the hot water thing too! One thing that really made me mad was trying to get the kitchen clean before dinner and he tells me I shouldn't sweep because the dust will get in the food, same thing with spraying down the table. 🙄love the videos!
I think the hot water thing is what I've experienced the most, since it comes up in daily life every day. My work colleagues were always surprised i drink cold drinks every day. If I was ill they always told me to drink hot water.
Great video Prozzie best video yet!! KEEP it up dude.
The dynamic between you two is always amazing. Great vid.
How do you manage to upload on TH-cam, I hear it's blocked in China?
I thought a recent law passed stating that smoking was banned in all public places.
Love this video. It’s so true about the hot water thing, our Chinese girls just can’t stand it. LOL.
Last year I went to Germany to finalize a contract negociation of a very important project of our company. There were three girls on our negotiation team, all of us speak decent English, know western culture pretty well. The ONLY thing we couldn’t accept was that there was no hot water anywhere! Our German clients were so shocked when they first heard of our theory of how drinking hot water benefit your health. But they were so thoughtful and considerate even though they could’t understand it at all, they came up to us literally every morning before the meeting and told us specially that “Your hot water is right there”. Interesting memory.
What scared the hell out of me my 10 days in China, was being approached by Army out of blue. When I was there, I was in the US Militry, visiting my inlaws . First time was visiting the Great Wall, two Army officers approached me, called me by my military rank asking me how liking my visit. The second time as outline the middle of a market in Beijing, same thing Army officer calling me by my military rank.... I had "grown" out my military haircut and definitely made sure nothing military with me but my ID with my passport. Also, after visiting Forbidden City, just outside exit, where stopped at a park, as we were speaking English, a crowed surrounded us. Like about 100 people, police came to see what was up, later some army guys asking me what I was doing and demanding my passport.
Loved this vid!!
Didn't actually see that much smoking in Shanghai when I went last month.
I chew on ice. I guess I'm going to die.
I can't remember for sure, but I think chewing ice means you're a virgin and not chewing ice means you're not a virgin.
What it actually means is that you might be anemic, lol. Check that shit out yo.
Great to see you posting regularly 🤙
Prozzie, after watching this video, I now see that you're the Yang to C-Milk's Ying... The Rum to his Diet Coke, The Peanut Butter to his Chocolate.
Carb free chocolate you mean.
Why yes, silly of me to say otherwise... :D :D :D
Diet coke??? nah dude, regular coke and rum is where it's at.
Vietnam is the same exact way.. I have the same gripes but in Vietnam.
Warm water absorbs faster than cold water in the body and also when water that is too cold being drank while we are hot from a workout or just hard work would make people vomit and have stomach pain.But what is considered cool or cold to warm cool?
I hated the smoking everywhere that I went in Guangdong. My kid can't stand the odour either.
WRONG! I’m bolivian! Healthcare is FREE in Bolivia and not as bad as you would think it is. Actually nowadays lots of Bolivian Americans go to Bolivia to have medical procedures done because it’s cheaper and it’s safe.
India has the same beliefs about water. You shouldn't have cold water, it will give fever and sore throat. While I was there I had to freeze my bottled water. I managed to find a small ice tray at a home goods store. These were tiny cubes meant for bar drinks....the strange part was the refrigerator they had was kind of throwback to a 1950s fridge in the fact it had a freezer like in old time American fridges...it was a little springy door inside the fridge.... didn't matter much they don't freeze anything. My friends mom would flip when I would make huge glass of ice water because we would be going out somewhere and she would scold me "You are gonna fall sick!" I was like Aunty it's 500 degrees outside if I could I would have eaten ice, just couldn't get enough. Funny story this guy that used to be our roommate when he would have water from water fountain he would put it in his coffee cup at work and he would blow on it....when asked why he said it's too cold he could blow it to make it warmer....he was from South India.
Cool seeing you bros hang out together again😎
That knee story!!! I have opiate sensitivities too, the throwing up can only be described as exorcist style when I discovered this ...
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Holy Shia Muslim, or was that Shite Muslim? LMAO.
Your knee story and the Tramadol. Shudders. My own reaction is not as severe, but, it is NOT a drug I will choose... I was given T3's (Tylenol with Codeine) after I had a wisdom tooth removed. I put up with the pain rather than the worse side effects of the Codeine. Cramps from hell, no vomit relief, alas, and my head felt like a monster hangover. Did these or similar symptoms hit you as well?
Wow, feel real sorry for you when even Tramadol has that effect. My wife, who are also allergic to opiates, tried codeine. She became violently ill. Only 10mg of codeine was too much. Now, as long as it is not a salt or derivative of codeine, she is ok. Found out during child birth. With her severe arthritis she begs for Tramadol from her GP here in Norway. Count your blessings, C-Milk! she now struggles to make it trough a day without opiates (not dependent. Did 3 months without just now). She really hates opiates, but when the cancer pains rears its ugly head, opiates is all there is. Such is life in extreme circumstances. She got an extremely dissimulating rough treatment from Mother Nature concerning her "swelling of her limbs" Guys just try it. When your body is not cooperating, Hell is on you. I have been close to a quadraphonic for the last 5 years of my life. Edit: I mean severe numbness to ALL limbs below the pelvis. Still have a daughter, thank GOD, in Jesus Christ name!!
Ironically, I, being "a westerner", only really learned about homeostasis and body heat regulation from a Chinese girl when I was in China. I was really cold one day, despite wearing warm clothes and when she saw me shivering, she told me to eat something, which I did and all of a sudden I wasn't cold anymore. I don't know why, but I just never made that connection in my mind, between food consumption and body heat, even though it is obvious. In my family whether you were hot or cold was just always a matter of what clothes you were wearing and I never learned to consider other means of manipulating your body heat.
I'd say, out of everything, the unique logic would bug me the most.
But it is true ...... their grandpa said so!
It's not "unique logic" it's not even logic. don't call it logic its illogical call it bad logic. not "unique"
Anon Ops english pls
"don't call it logic its illogical call it bad logic. not 'unique'"
sorry i think you're going to need to use punctuation?
My country has people in it and that makes it pretty annoying
why is this video Unlisted?
also similar to that whole drink hot water thing, in Nicaragua, and many Latin american countries they apply that same logic to a certain kind of tea they have called "manzanilla" which you will always find doctors recommending for any kind of sickness no matter your age, fever, take a manzanilla, headache, manzanilla, vomiting, manzanilla.
My husband is allergic to Tramadol as well. He was prescribed it once I came home and he was passed out on my kitchen floor.
The thing about drinking cold water is, after the ice water gets into your body your body has to work harder to heat the water to body temperature in order to maintain homeostatsis. It makes your body work harder thus potentially unhealthy. Just like when you drink alcohol your liver has to work harder to get rid of the toxins thus damaging your liver in the long term. Drinking hot water in some instances like common cold may temporarily increase your body temperature thus good at killing some bacteria, it is the purpose that fever serves, to raise body temperature to kill off some of the most common bacteria that causes the common cold.
The thing about western medicine is it is reactive not preventative. Thats why alternative medicine which is mostly chinese medicine is getting more popular now
Lived in Chongqing for a year. Wife had severe diarrhea and vomiting for several days. Obviously very sick and we were worried that it could be some kind of parasite or something. Go to the hospital and sit outside the room for a good 2 hours or so with nobody else ahead of us, and the doctor wasn’t even seeing anyone else we found out. He spends about 2 minutes feeing my wife’s forehead, looking at her tongue, and taking her blood pressure. He tells her to drink more hot water and that’s she’s just dehydrated. Gives her a prescription for meds that turned out were 50mg Chinese Tylenol. That’s it. Now you owe 3000 Kwai. See ya. Dig through Chongqing like crazy and found a place with western med brands like NyQuil and stuff and she luckily managed to get over it. Worst hospital experience ever. Only other real bad thing was the check ups you have to get right after arriving in China. Dirty hospital and when they wanted to take my blood they wanted to use needles that were pre opened so it would be faster. I refused to let them touch me until they opened everything brand new in front of me.
Nice vid, thank you :)
I just wanted to say I'd really like to see one about the mentioned conveniances in China.
I paused Pandora just for this video Prozzie! =D
My grandmother takes tap water, puts it in a filter pitcher, sticks that in the fridge, then takes it out and boils it when she wants to drink it.
My wife also still believes that you can actually light a fire inside your body if you eat or do the wrong things. That idea is everywhere. I asked, she means an actual fire, not a fever, or such.
Vanilla face McDonalds guy , too funny
I love living in Norway, it's kinda cold in the winter but super hot in the summer u have like free health system and great roads to drive motorcycle on. Im thinking of moving to hong kong and live at my aunt who lives there a great place to be and i have been in shenzhen a nice place but i need a VPN to move there tho.
Hardest thing is when you are on a prepaid phone which suddenly doesnt works anymore and all money is on wechat. At nighttime of course the subway isnt driving and you cant pay the taxi.
thing that drove me nuts was people preparing food using the water outside the public toilet. ahhhh!!
spicy food is not as hazardous as asbesthos exposure
why is this weedeo half private?
Well, I'm never riding a motorbike, never going to a Chinese hospital, and definitely not riding a motorcycle through a Chinese hospital.
C-Milk, your story about your broken knee cap makes me want to offer you this advice. Start collecting advil and ibuprofen now. Also take care of your liver. You are going to be in so much pain getting up and kneeling in 20 years that you will be eating these medicines every day. Take it from someone who knows. I feel for you bro'.
ibuprofen has expiry date, there is no point collect it in advance 10,20 years ahead
“Vanilla faces McDonald’s man” 😂
I found the hospitals to be fine. My first night in China was spent in the ER due to an infected foot. It wasn't super clean but it seemed OK. I think it was a public hospital but I am not sure. Later I went for prenatal care at a private women's hospital and it was to US standards.
how do i move to China and live thire i have no job thire to go to i want live thire for 2 year i will be retiring in now and want go on feb thire it no eacy going thire i will be going frist to the philippines for a week to see if i like it thire thank so i can i stay there like you for 2 or 3 year
Loved this video Prozzie. Gave me a serious giggle. I used to live in the middle east for 20 years and they have the weird logic thing there too. They believe rather than understand certain things. And we went out of our way as kids to not break a bone so we didn't end up in their squalor of a hospital system. Love the videos as always!
Seedier Red Light version 😉
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laowhy86 😂🤣😆 ..... Only on Prozzie's channel am able to say that 😜
Prozzie still getting into your and Vivi's naughty water (beer)
I had a disabled student, who wanted to walk up the local 'mountain' (big hill) with her teacher. Part way up i could see she needed a rest, so found a flat wall, that was a little damp and dirty, and put my coat down for her to sit on.
She refused to sit on it (despite obviously needing to rest) as her Grandmother had told her she should never sit on a man's coat??? :P
Trying to rationalise with her, didn't help, in fact it just made her upset, as i was "Disrespecting" her grandmother!
We're Australian and we visited china last year.
The children's behaviour and their parents reactions to it was mind blowing to us. Our 6yr old nearly lost his mind watching the Chinese kids be have like animals. Totally crazy.
And the hot drink thing! I don't know why they have drink fridges in China because it doesn't seem like any are turned on. The first thing we did when we got home was buy cold drinks and it was heaven!
Prozzie's been real bored!!!! Love the new video bro. I can tell you and Cmilk are real homeboys. My boy Josh is the only man I would allow to just hang out with my wife. We been boys since 1987!!!!
I had a Chinese housemate who was a "Doctor of Chinese Medicine" who told me that eating eggs and oranges at the same time was poisonous... true story :D
So if I undestand correctly C-Milk crashed because Vivi was acting like a stubborn child and stood in front of him forcing him to either crash or hit her??
And then kicked him in the ribs. I love Vivi but she deserved a slap.
I subscribed on this one!! You're alright Lol
Hi, nice vids, you and laowhy. I've lived in China for 7 years, married to a Chinese lady for 13 years, and have a 7 year old daughter (born in UK). We live in Guangxi and I still speak virtually zero Chinese, Mandarin or Cantonese. Just for your list, my top 5 irritations about living in China. In order.
1. Driving. I'm a biker but in China a drive an e-bike. 101% of drivers in China are insane! And it's nothing to do with being Chinese as in Hong Kong the driving is just London type bad.
2. GFW / Internet. Even with a VPN 'they' control your access by strangling speed. Irritating as all hell (and yes I know work arounds) esp as I have virtually zero Chinese and English language access keeps me sane (vids, chats, etc) access to which is almost zero.
3. Smoking. You mentioned it but I AM an anti-smoking nazi. A guy smoked in an elevator while I was in it. I asked politely Qing Wu Xi Yan (please don't smoke) he basically said fuck you, so I pulled the cigarette out of his mouth. He tried to get violent but wasn't good enough. That type of thing (minus the actual violence) happens almost every week.
P.S. There were large signs saying no smoking ( as in all elevators) in the elevator. It's also been illegal to smoke in restaurants in Guangxi since 1st April 2014.
Those are the main pains, the last two are just to make up the numbers, no great deal really.
4. Public urination and defecation. I get it, the public toilets (even in restaurants and bars) are despicable, but come on shitting in the street? What's worse is babies, don't wear diapers, just crotchless (I shit you not) pants so they can (and do) dump in the street.
5. Spitting. OK, you gotta spit, do it, but FFS you don't need to hawk it up from the depths of hell with a noise that could be heard over Concorde taking off!
I can't believe neither one of you mentioned "Umbrella tips at eye level" even on sunny days... umbrellas everywhere! I always wondered why, every old kung-fu movie had one bad-ass with a eye patch.
Thank you sooo much for your honesty as always we can rely on you both for a very honest advice on the good and the bad of China thanks...
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I aspire to for my channel to to have the following you have. Im going back Beijing in August and I'm gonna work my ass off. Lolll!
The most annoying thing about the UK is the gloomy windy weather. The 8+ hour working days. Expensive nights out. The strict laws and licenses.
The hot water thing in China was important in the past when people were poor and couldn't afford healthcare and healthcare was primitive. Drinking hot water does help a tiny bit over many years because when you drink cold water the body spends a little energy in warming it up inside which could have otherwise been used in treating an ailment or disease, that's the logic, a tiny one but still has its place especially in the rustic past of China.
Wait KTV is a thing in China? I'm from Chinatown area in NYC and we have a KT. (I'm Russian and Finnish, not Chinese) but I just ended up moving here.
Many superstitions have a basis in fact. I assume that in the past people who drank hot drinks and ate hot foods were generally healthier since the heat would kill bacteria that could make them sick. Then someone linked this idea to chi and popularized it.
I'm subbin...you guys are great. Cheers.
Hi Cmilk, how is your knee now? Did the doc fixed it? I think it's the result that counts.
Sern Huynh I think his focus was about nearly dying because of the doctor negligently giving him a medication that he is allergic to.
You say your from Ottawa... do you know where cornwall
Here because cmilk told me to come watch, from his top 5 video.
i know the driving in the states isn't as bad as china but i still feel it is pretty bad when people don't use a turn signal, turn into the far lane(or under steering), and just in general driving way to slow for the amount of traffic.
In England if you eat on the streets, often times folks would spit in front of you. Also in some parks, they are like dog toilets, only good thing is that the owners pick up the poo.
the most common side effect of tramadol is vomiting, so normaly we give other medication to try and neutralize that
Things I noticed immediately upon going to China:
Yes, people are smoking everywhere, even in places with no-smoking signs. No one does a damn thing about it.
The vast majority of people driving cars drive like absolute morons, honking their horns constantly, never signalling, veering suddenly between lanes, driving on fucking sidewalks, etc.
Because of the idiot drivers as well as omnipresent construction, China is frustratingly noisy, no matter where you go in the cities.
The majority of non-Chinese websites are blocked. Contrary to what I read, Google and Gmail are outright blocked, not slow to access.
Eating Ice Cream but only when it is cold. Smoking in lifts (especially when there's Children in the lift)
That's not an opiate allergy. That's a pseudoallergy. Opiates can cause a release of histamine which is why you itch your nose after taking a Vicodin for a root canal. They can also cause nausea and vomiting which usually goes away after about two to three hours foremost opiates. Tramadol is a synthetic opioid that works on many many different areas of the brain, it is also an SSRI and an SNRI. Taking a benedryl would have alleviated this symptoms
Wake up. I need a prozzie video!
Hola Prozzie, como estás?
im a laowinner. I remember working in a hotel in Hollywood everyone signs at checkin acknowledging this is a non smoking hotel and there is a $150 fee if you are found smoking in your room. One time these people were so chinese probably from a smaller city they mustve smoked a carton of cigarretes during their stay. they did not question the fine
hahahahahhahahahah so true. My mom is terrified after hearing I'm going to have ice-cream after my labor in the US. Basically she thinks my whole body is going to be screwed for the REST OF MY LIFE after eating anything non-hot during postpartum time. I don't know if you guys have heard of zuo yuezi 【做月子】(postpartum time). There are so many no logically rules for women after labor, like no AC, no walking outside, no showering, no touching cold water. My mother in law told me she didn't brush her teeth for a month after labor because she was told so. WHATTTTT???????????
Haha i literally just heard the comment on Nicaraguan healthcare, I currently live in Nicaragua and honestly the healthcare is pretty good here, its better than in Spain, a supposedly first world country, but its actually pretty comprehensive. It's free for all citizens and they have most everything you could want for, except for maybe some advanced screening equipment you can only find in the capital. But they are always clean, though I'm not sure about Bolivian hospitals but if you get hurt in Nicaragua, you are probably covered.
i hate people smoking in public too, especially in elevator, i really can't bear that, i want to punch people for doing that. some cities, like shenzhen, have laws over this, but still you see violation everywhere.
The video is unlisted. Was that on purpose?
As a Scientist these things frustrate me to no end. I love it here in China but man..."easier to believe than to understand." couldn't have put it better myself.
Hell yeah! Great video guys keep it up 👍