gotta get that good dumpling!
November 12, 2024 5:11 PM Subscribe
It’s good to see some healthy youthful exuberance over here. And yes it makes the government uncomfortable.
posted by thirdring at 6:00 PM on November 12, 2024 [3 favorites]
posted by thirdring at 6:00 PM on November 12, 2024 [3 favorites]
The ADV China guys covered this yesterday. Their goofy vlogs, run Stateside these days, are an interesting window into the weirdness that is PRC.
posted by 2N2222 at 6:10 PM on November 12, 2024 [2 favorites]
posted by 2N2222 at 6:10 PM on November 12, 2024 [2 favorites]
NIne Million Bicycles
Chinese Doom Scroll is good on this, too.
posted by chavenet at 12:30 AM on November 13, 2024
Chinese Doom Scroll is good on this, too.
posted by chavenet at 12:30 AM on November 13, 2024
Quantity has a quality all its own.
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 4:17 AM on November 13, 2024 [2 favorites]
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 4:17 AM on November 13, 2024 [2 favorites]
Man, our little Sunday group ride of 30-40 people can really take over a cafe for a minute. I can only imagine what -- actually, scratch that, I can't even imagine what this is like for the staff and other patrons of that dumpling place!
posted by Smedly, Butlerian jihadi at 4:24 AM on November 13, 2024
posted by Smedly, Butlerian jihadi at 4:24 AM on November 13, 2024
Somewhat related:
Elsewhere in the GDR, people were also testing the state's boundaries with environmental action, be it by planting trees, collecting rubbish or cycling through cities to protest against air pollution and promote car-free transport. The Stasi had its eyes on all of those groups, including a surveillance operation against the cyclists code-named "Ventil" or "Valve", as in, bike valve.posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 6:42 AM on November 13, 2024
Amazing how something as innocent as this can also be an act of defiance.
ADV China would be an interesting FPP on its own. Those guys have had a quite an odyssey.
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 9:35 AM on November 13, 2024
ADV China would be an interesting FPP on its own. Those guys have had a quite an odyssey.
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 9:35 AM on November 13, 2024
She's got a ride to dumpling. My baby don't care.
posted by stbalbach at 11:05 AM on November 13, 2024
posted by stbalbach at 11:05 AM on November 13, 2024
This is awesome. I'm getting definite #squadgoal vibes as something to aspire to with our Friday night group social ride :-D
That scale is insane. There were about 1500 folk on the Ride to the Sun overnight ride in Scotland this year, and the chippies and anything else that was open in Moffat at the half-way point were just a huge queue. This is an order of magnitude more people.
posted by amcewen at 11:42 AM on November 13, 2024
That scale is insane. There were about 1500 folk on the Ride to the Sun overnight ride in Scotland this year, and the chippies and anything else that was open in Moffat at the half-way point were just a huge queue. This is an order of magnitude more people.
posted by amcewen at 11:42 AM on November 13, 2024
One factor that made the ride popular is that it's mostly going downhill heading into Kaifeng. The students left rental bikes behind in Kaifeng and went back by train afterwards -- you can imagine the headache it caused for the bike rental companies.
posted by of strange foe at 7:16 PM on November 15, 2024
posted by of strange foe at 7:16 PM on November 15, 2024
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