The train is late

[underpants]

Stranded train passengers wait outside a railway station in China's southern city of Guangzhou February 1, 2008. Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages and millions more were stranded by snow ahead of what for some is the only holiday of the year.
(Bobby Yip/Reuters)

[Avalux]

1. What a nightmare. 10 hour bus ride taking 4 days.

I saw that earlier today - people stuck in traffic on a bus for 4 days; running out of supplies. They are not equipped to handle the freak weather.

[libbygurl]

2. Omigod. Can anyone even breathe in that crowd? Nightmarish travels. nt

[Mojambo]

3. HOLY CRAP. n/t

[glowing]

4. Wow, Chinese people actually get time off? Wonder what that feels

like..

[glowing]

5. When I saw the pic.. I thought it was just another Obama adoration crowd.

[thunder rising]

6. 20K at every stop ... damn it's tough when your winning.

[glowing]

8. yes, I love how the media and propaganda machine has made this

presidential election look like another season of the American Idol.. Is it Justin or (damn I forget the first girl winner).. Maybe they can get together for the musical movie.. That really sucked.

On Edit: Kelly (first winner).

I suppose though, if you have never seen or realized what a president does, and your only memories are of Bush, you may think the White House is run by advisors and that the President is just a mouth piece showing up for fluff speaches and doing "work" around his ranch.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. Whew.

For a minute there, I thought this was another one of those secret code threads and I can't find my one-time pad anywhere.

[JetJaguar]

9. At least they can say There are no lines.

The concept of queuing is foreign to the Chinese.

The "product", "service" is "there" go get it.


Only Westerners stand in line for things.