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Mr. Bear's Waiting Room Wednesday, November 24, 2004 • read strip Viewing 64 comments:

Kan dianying de shihou zhongguo ren buxihuan ne de peng you gei ni da dianhua. Such events are considered highly damaging to the face of all individuals involved.

Uh... Ni hao ma? Wo jiao CloseFriend.

Ke shi ming chao zui zao de huang di dui you shou ji. Shei dou shou ta bu ke yi zai kan dianying de shi hou gei ta de peng you dian hua ma?

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word

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It is.

i am sated. thank you.

And he appreciated the comment as well.

Exclaimed Phillipe

Tian gaosu ta.

so confusing without tones

...so confusing...period.

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Feichang ganxie nie.

when read aloud with a completely English accent, written Chinese sounds really damn funny. I'm sorry, it's very nonpolitically correct to say that, but it's true.

THAT SHIT IS INSANE
IT'S ALL, CHING CHONG WING WONG

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Good words.

And I'm not really well-versed enugh to tell whether this is all Mandarin or not. I think it is, but if I'm honest the best I can do in the language is introduce myself, count to ten and call for a taxi.

Which, to be honest, is pretty much the summary of what I intend to do in China when I get there.

From what I can tell... the difference between Mandarin and more local Chinese languages is mostly spoken when written in the correct characters. Since the characters mean whole things (rather than just sounds) and whatnot, they tend to be written much the same irrespective of the particular Chinese language... but pronounced totally differently.

Then again here it is all romanised phonetically, so it would be one or other particular language as opposed to generic Chinese.

O'course, I could be talking male bovine excrement. Check with the Chinese-speakers.

Wasa whahuh?

Chubbied for "extremely correct".

zhende. zai shuo, wo de zhongwen zhende bu liuli. aiya... zhongwen, wo dou wang le... ye jrpigman de zhongwen bi wo de hao.

SNOOPYS BALLS

A Skor bar would punish right now.

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In this strip, the overweight cat rationalizes his poor eating habits.

You can lie all you want Ray, but Diabetes knows the truth.

and is pissed it wasn't invited to that pizza party.

diabetes is invited to EVERY pizza party

Everyone in the theater all giving the emperor the half-turn glare.

Would Lie Bot be flattered, or irritated that someones stealing his gig?

ray actually believes what he is saying, so he isn't stealing liebots bit.

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how is this racist

cultural ignorance isnt necesarily part of racism.

the alt txt is what makes this strip amazing.

...what's even more amazing: the Chinese invented SEX.

i thought i invented masturabtion when i was twelve. i was all "FUCK! PEOPLE HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS!"

Is that from something? It feels like I've heard it before.

not that I know of...it's possible, I suppose, that I subconsciously quoted something. It wasn't intentional, although.

It is from every twelve-year-old boy's thoughts upon discovering the miracle of masturbation.

Choke, by Chuck Palahnuik?

Wait, is that... [Sinister]?

The thing I really like about this strip is that where most people would say this to a five-year-old to humour them or distract them from what was going on, Ray's just being candid with his inner thoughts.

Do peanuts grow in China?

Of course they do. Where do you think Ultra Peanut came from?

Japan?

Actually, if you note the alt text on Ultra Peanut's original introduction, she is speaking Chinese .

Huh. I didn't realise that before, but from the point of view of someone who didn't have access to alt text, she could just have easily have been Japanese. Actually, from her grasp of western slurs and bizarre name, Nihonjin would have been my first guess.

I really like the intense seriousness on Phillipe's face in the last panel.

I'm so surpirsed that a comment like this didn't appear further up the page. Phillipe's expression in the last panel is literally the best fucking thing I have ever seen.

He's giving serious consideration to all of the things Chinese people have done.

Kinda odd to see an ear-related appliance actually connected to the ears...

....probly some chinese telemarketer trying to sell the dude some toasters

I fived the for the alt-text alone.

*this. dammit.

Thanks to peanuts, the oldest dude in the world is always Chinese.

The oldest dude in the world just died again. Man, it's like that title is cursed or something.

Panel 1 is as close as I ever want to get to Ray's thong. Dude's bikini line could use some work.

holy crap dude i just figured out that that's what that was

my eyes, the burning

i used to work in a low-end tobacco store (which is depressing enough in itself, but i digress), and there was this one sad old man who'd come in and talk to me for HOURS. and he'd end EVERY story with "if i'm lyin' i'm dyin'". i had to call the cops to escort him off the premises when it was time to close. *sigh*

Ray's dyin'!

I have often thought about this. Chinese people invented literally everything in the world. They just didn't share it with anyone else because hell, those guys ain't Chinese, what's the point of that

I love the silent resignation on Philippe's face in the last panel, like he's just decided he will be as awesome as the Chinese.