Bus Uncle Video - National Sensation -
The AP reports that "A six-minute film showing a grumpy man scolding a fellow Hong Kong bus rider for interrupting his phone call has become one of the most popular videos online."
"Bus Uncle," as the film is known, has been viewed millions of times
in May and has
spawned spoofs and new slang words.
Make sure you watch the film through in its
entirety. When I first watched it, I didn't see what
the fuss was about because I only took a look
at the first minute or so. But it picks up later
and gets more interesting and vulgar. (At least if
you can believe the translation from Chinese.)
According to the wikipedia page on this:
"Its copious use of profanity and rhetorical outbursts has
gained attention from local and international media with many
of its utterances becoming popular new catchphrases in Hong Kong and
Chinese communities around the world.
I wouldn't exactly say that the use of profanity in
the bus uncle video is "copious" it's more like
the man is looking to pick a fight. It's actually amazing
how the younger man just sits there and doesn't move practically
at all.
Please see the comments below that someone wrote
to us recently about bus uncle.
Apparently this is a big hit in Hong Kong. We
received a call from a reporter from the Hong Kong Economic Times (see
scan below) who
was doing a story on the incident and called us because we registered
the domain name "busuncle.com" (at
DomainRegistry.com of course.)
We'd like to know your comments on this. The most interesting
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Here is a scan of the story on this website, in Chinese, that was sent to us
by the reporter who wrote the bus uncle story:
Someone wrote to us with the following
comments on the Bus Uncle Video:
"The man (bus uncle) is a psycho and has applied for the election for 3 times the CEO
position in Hong Kong (HK CEO is equivalent to US president in the
States). He has been unemployed for years and is receiving Hk$1800 /
mth (US$230) government assistance. He has already appeared on
newspaper headlines in HK yesterday, and just for 1 day, and no
newspaper report him in large scale again today. As he's trying to
ask for lots of money for the interviews, and his behaviour and
conversation shows that he's an abnormal person."
Update:The Wall Street Journal had a story
about bus uncle. Below is a scan of that story:
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