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Title: Happy New Year! 新年好!
Post by: Akima on 02 Feb 2011, 13:35
新年好!
恭喜发财!


Very Best Wishes for a happy and prosperous Year Of The Rabbit!
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Post by: squawk on 02 Feb 2011, 13:37
Fuck I miss chinese food so bad. and filipino food.

I want food :(
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Post by: Barmymoo on 02 Feb 2011, 13:44
I'm really looking forwards to Sunday, when the Chinese quarter are having their New Year celebrations. It'll be my first experience of Chinese culture. There's also another parade the week after! I like that Chinese New Year lasts longer than Gregorian New Year.
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Post by: est on 03 Feb 2011, 02:35
Kung he fut choi and all that jazz.
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Post by: est on 03 Feb 2011, 02:36
oh and uh lai see dou loi, I guess.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 03 Feb 2011, 04:33
Oh sweet, I'm a rabbit.

Better get my rabbit on. Babies! Lettuce! Myxomatosis! Aw yeah.
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 03 Feb 2011, 05:04
Currently working to the pounding of the Lion Dancers outside my office, which is pretty cool. Time for my annual viewing of Hard Boiled.
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Post by: smack that isaiah on 03 Feb 2011, 07:45
Don't forget, to those of you who are years of the rabbit (if you're turning a multiple of 12 this year), to wear a bit of red today for safety
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Post by: calenlass on 03 Feb 2011, 09:06
Safety?



Oh sweet, I'm a rabbit.

Better get my rabbit on. Babies! Lettuce! Myxomatosis! Aw yeah.

Fuck you, you can't be a rabbit, I'm a rabbit.


there can be only one
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Post by: valley_parade on 03 Feb 2011, 09:08
Don't forget, to those of you who are years of the rabbit (if you're turning a multiple of 12 this year), to wear a bit of red today for safety

I knew I picked out my lucky red underwear for a reason.
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Post by: cyro on 03 Feb 2011, 09:40
Don't forget, to those of you who are years of the rabbit (if you're turning a multiple of 12 this year), to wear a bit of red today for safety

I knew I picked out my lucky red underwear for a reason.
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Post by: Alex C on 03 Feb 2011, 10:48
I'm a water dog. Fun combo. Just principled enough to be annoying and just selfish enough to have a hard time keeping friends. That's me all over. Sigh.
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Post by: Gemmwah on 03 Feb 2011, 10:49
My red today is my Arsenal shirt while I nip off to play a bit of badminton.

Yay for rabbits!
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Post by: valley_parade on 03 Feb 2011, 10:51
That's not for safety, that's for supporting a terrible football team.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 03 Feb 2011, 10:57
Oh sweet, I'm a rabbit.

Better get my rabbit on. Babies! Lettuce! Myxomatosis! Aw yeah.

Fuck you, you can't be a rabbit, I'm a rabbit.

there can be only one

No no. We gotta have babies. Eat some lettuce. Give each other myxomatosis and die twitching and blind whilst our babies have babies with each other.

It's the rabbit way.
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Post by: Gemmwah on 03 Feb 2011, 11:03
That's not for safety, that's for supporting a terrible football team.

I'll shank you.
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Post by: Metope on 03 Feb 2011, 11:22
I'm an earth dragon! So badass!
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Post by: Blue Kitty on 03 Feb 2011, 11:25
Earth Dragon here too

Dang, there isn't an image of Onyx on google when I searched it.
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/366/3/4/Earth_Dragon_design_by_KaijuSamurai.jpg)
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Post by: valley_parade on 03 Feb 2011, 11:31
That's not for safety, that's for supporting a terrible football team.

I'll shank you.

You wouldn't shank another rabbit.
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 03 Feb 2011, 11:38
There's a shanks like a rabbit joke in here somewhere.
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Post by: Caleb on 03 Feb 2011, 11:57
Rabbit shanks are best marinated in a vinegar based sauce for at least 6 hours before roasting.
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Post by: Barmymoo on 03 Feb 2011, 12:05
How does one find out what animal and element one is?
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Post by: maxusy3k on 03 Feb 2011, 12:10
I used your friend and mine, Wikipedia! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Astrology)
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Post by: Barmymoo on 03 Feb 2011, 13:39
Oh great. It depends when Chinese New Year falls on the year of your birth, and my birthday is sometimes on Chinese New Year and sometimes not. So some years I have had two birthdays and sometimes none!


ETA: Yang gold horse. Awesome.
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Post by: LittleKey on 03 Feb 2011, 13:53
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f94/LittleKey/waterrooster.jpg)

I'm a water rooster! I'd rather have been a monkey, but the water part is cool.

Happy New Year, guys.
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Post by: Yakob on 03 Feb 2011, 13:53
Quote
Yang Water   壬   申   Monkey   Feb 04 1992–Jan 22 1993

Nice!

.....wait

(http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h375/Jakob_Roberts/sea_monkeys2.jpg)

fuck.
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Post by: Tom on 03 Feb 2011, 14:26
(http://center44.com/content/images/325x347/C14_ram.jpg)
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Post by: öde on 03 Feb 2011, 14:34
(http://www.rockyhorrorarchives.org/kansas2003/images/wichita/P0012759.JPG)
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Post by: Caleb on 03 Feb 2011, 14:35
(http://i516.photobucket.com/albums/u330/Dreamcastguy/41n7W1yjeSL_SL500_AA280_.jpg)
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Post by: calenlass on 03 Feb 2011, 14:50
(http://www.deviantart.com/download/87196315/Fire_Rabbit_by_MacGreen.png)

(http://myhouserabbit.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/fire-bunny.jpg)
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Post by: Barmymoo on 03 Feb 2011, 14:56
That just made me explode with laughter. Why does that even exist?
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Post by: the_pied_piper on 03 Feb 2011, 15:00
So I'm a Yang Earth Dragon apparently but I was also born on Chinese New Year 1988. So does that make me extra special?
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Post by: De_El on 03 Feb 2011, 15:22
ETA: Yang gold horse. Awesome.

Me too!

(http://www.fengshuimall.com/image/cache/data/golden-victory-horse2-400x300.jpg)
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Post by: bainidhe_dub on 03 Feb 2011, 16:06
My birthday is before New Years, so..
(http://www.adamchou.com/show-image/340729/Adam-Chou/Ox.jpg)

Wait, Wikipedia gives "Traditional aspects and associations" for each sign, ok, but how is the ox traditionally associated with Switzerland, India, Cuba, Yemen, Finland, and Ukraine???
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Post by: JD on 03 Feb 2011, 16:14
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f94/LittleKey/waterrooster.jpg)

I'm a water rooster!
Oh hey me too.
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Post by: J on 03 Feb 2011, 16:59
well happy new year then.

shot these some years ago.

(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e196/EveryPossibleNameWasTaken/79b265c8.jpg)

(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e196/EveryPossibleNameWasTaken/4cccc4a3.jpg)

i think the thing is happening on saturday this year. if i can i'll get some new ones.
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Post by: Papersatan on 03 Feb 2011, 18:08
Don't forget, to those of you who are years of the rabbit (if you're turning a multiple of 12 this year), to wear a bit of red today for safety
Also to save 20% on most purchases at Macy's, this week only!  (I'm gonna tell people that it is for Chinese new years, and not for ladies heart attacks)
also: (http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/08/water-pig-1.jpg)
water pig
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Post by: Akima on 03 Feb 2011, 18:11
(http://www.greentreecoffee.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/water_dog_fs.jpg)

Wait, Wikipedia gives "Traditional aspects and associations" for each sign, ok, but how is the ox traditionally associated with Switzerland, India, Cuba, Yemen, Finland, and Ukraine???

I have no idea where Wikipedia gets the association between Chinese zodiac animals and countries*, but it is rather cool that mine is associated with Australia, my adopted home.

*I know the USA is regarded as a Fire Monkey because it was "born" on 4th July 1776, but how it works for countries without a definite birth date, I do not know. Neither of the potential offical birthdays of Australia as a nation (Federation in 1901, foundation of the first British colony in 1788) falls in a Dog year, and of course nobody knows in what year the land was first settled by Aboriginal Australians.
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Post by: Thomas Edison on 03 Feb 2011, 18:39
I went to a Chinese take-away today with my Malaysian room mate and he wished the cooks a happy new year in Mandarin and I got really jealous that I can't speak another language. I might learn Mandarin for him.
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Post by: JD on 03 Feb 2011, 19:33
Good luck with that.
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Post by: Papersatan on 03 Feb 2011, 21:53
I took Chinese for one semester, and I taught English to a Chinese girl who latter became my good friend.  I can recognize like 35 characters and say maybe 6 sentences.  Half of them are dirty. 
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Post by: David_Dovey on 03 Feb 2011, 23:44
Fire tiger! I should be more pissed off?
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Post by: est on 04 Feb 2011, 00:50
Yang Fire Dragon here.  I do so like to burninate.
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Post by: Eris on 04 Feb 2011, 00:59
(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v97/108/38/501555697/n501555697_97899_6785.jpg)

So you do!
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Post by: pwhodges on 04 Feb 2011, 01:24
Yang Fire Dog, me.  Woof!

(http://cassland.org/images/FireDog.jpg)
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 04 Feb 2011, 02:02
(http://www.kasterborous.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/misc-connolly8thdr-hp3.jpg) (http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01136/arts-graphics-2002_1136031a.jpg)

Ho hum, the boring one once again.
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Post by: Inlander on 04 Feb 2011, 02:09
A Scottish YBA? That Chinese zodiac has everything!
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Post by: est on 04 Feb 2011, 03:37
So you do!

Fitting that my left shoulder is visible in that pic.
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Post by: Dliessmgg on 04 Feb 2011, 04:47
(http://sensationalserpents.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/rough-earth-snake.jpg)

Yin Earth Snake. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS  :mrgreen:
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Post by: valley_parade on 04 Feb 2011, 05:55

Wait, Wikipedia gives "Traditional aspects and associations" for each sign, ok, but how is the ox traditionally associated with Switzerland, India, Cuba, Yemen, Finland, and Ukraine???

Jussi can probably explain it for you.
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Post by: BrittanyMarie on 04 Feb 2011, 06:32
Fire tiger! I should be more pissed off?

it means we have sexy eyebrows.
"ou see the Fire Tiger across the room, making a very dramatic entrance. Suddenly you are mesmerized by the eloquent eyebrows, yes, eyebrows, of that very vital face. So expressive, this face is positively on fire!"

i have read the eyebrow thing about fire tigers more than once. i really do have amazing eyebrows though; my hair bitches (self proclaimed-hairstylists who are really into being hairstylists) always tell me so all the time.
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Post by: Lummer on 04 Feb 2011, 07:44
WOOD OX

Totally using that band name.
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Post by: Lines on 04 Feb 2011, 07:54
I'm a fire tiger, rawr!

Edit: Yang fire tiger, to be more specific.
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 04 Feb 2011, 07:55
Fucking posers
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 04 Feb 2011, 07:56
I wish I were a fire tiger. Rawr
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Post by: redglasscurls on 04 Feb 2011, 08:06
(http://www.deviantart.com/download/130254773/Earth_Elemental_Dragon_by_MichaelJaecks.jpg)

Lame, yang earth dragon. Every GIS result for dragons are dull deviantArt bullshit, no bunnies on fire for me :(
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Post by: cyro on 04 Feb 2011, 08:28
(http://api.ning.com/files/XoqCaYgqvZNkqy2zCS8s--jJqBSROha0h5rmR0CNQm6KBEU3lQaBJX3wD08S2xBuGNd9ZPrWvtQXKZiIcFivOEKBBAX61LUq/Fire_Rabbit2.jpg)

Your demise will be adorable.
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Post by: jwhouk on 04 Feb 2011, 11:52
Fire Goat. Not sure about that one.
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Post by: Blue Kitty on 04 Feb 2011, 12:12
Wait, why is a dragon a snail in Kazakhstan? Do they hate dragons or something?
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Post by: Lines on 04 Feb 2011, 12:40
I eat your bunny. I eat it up.

(http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/kristenkoley/tigers/firetiger.jpg)
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Post by: Zingoleb on 04 Feb 2011, 13:30
Yang metal horse.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mbFFUtm641k/TCmQvGatOeI/AAAAAAAABzk/3dKeFQtN6II/s1600/M36.jpg)
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Post by: Dazed on 04 Feb 2011, 13:38
Yang Earth Dragon as well. I feel pretty good about that.
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Post by: bainidhe_dub on 04 Feb 2011, 18:28
Lame, yang earth dragon. Every GIS result for dragons are dull deviantArt bullshit, no bunnies on fire for me :(

?
(http://mythopoeic.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sand_dragon2.jpg)
(would be better without the port-a-potty in the background)
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Post by: Jace on 06 Feb 2011, 02:51
Yin Earth Snake master race reporting in.
Having Earth Snake tattoo on arm, fuck yeah.
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Post by: Inlander on 06 Feb 2011, 04:22
Hey guys this is a pretty dull thread with us all just saying what we are.

I'm a linoleum okapi, it's a pretty obscure sign you probably haven't heard of it.
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Post by: Jace on 06 Feb 2011, 08:33
I was looking into Deep Chinese Astrology (its an underground zodiac system) and found out that I'm a Vinyl Fossa. Much like Harry's, it is pretty obscure. All of my Buttpamphlet (like facebook, you've probably never heard of this one though) friends know theirs though. And my band's label is named after one too (Its a pretty underground indie label, basically I've got a macbook in the basement).
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Post by: Inlander on 06 Feb 2011, 14:00
Chinese Astrology? Pfft, I get all my personal knowledge from Taiwanese Astrology!
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Post by: KharBevNor on 06 Feb 2011, 14:01
Uh oh.
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Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 06 Feb 2011, 16:06
I spent an hour on the phone with my mother last night, trying to explain why astrology is bullshit while she read me my stars (which she was given by her "guru"). She says that she knows astrology is real "because it works". There really isn't any arguing with someone who thinks like that.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 06 Feb 2011, 17:54
What about exotic astrology?
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Post by: Inlander on 06 Feb 2011, 18:07
Is that like glamour astrology?