Topic: Happy New Year! 新年好！ (Read 11719 times)

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!

squawk · « **Reply #1 on:** 02 Feb 2011, 13:37 »

Fuck I miss chinese food so bad. and filipino food.

I want food

Barmymoo · « **Reply #2 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.

est · « **Reply #3 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 02:35 »

Kung he fut choi and all that jazz.

est · « **Reply #4 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 02:36 »

oh and uh lai see dou loi, I guess.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #5 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 04:33 »

Oh sweet, I'm a rabbit.

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

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #6 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.

smack that isaiah · « **Reply #7 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

calenlass · « **Reply #8 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 09:06 »

Safety?

Quote from: KharBevNor on 03 Feb 2011, 04:33

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

valley_parade · « **Reply #9 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 09:08 »

Quote from: 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

I knew I picked out my lucky red underwear for a reason.

cyro · « **Reply #10 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 09:40 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 03 Feb 2011, 09:08

Quote from: 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

I knew I picked out my lucky red underwear for a reason.

Alex C · « **Reply #11 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.

Gemmwah · « **Reply #12 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!

valley_parade · « **Reply #13 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 10:51 »

That's not for safety, that's for supporting a terrible football team.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #14 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 10:57 »

Quote from: calenlass on 03 Feb 2011, 09:06

Quote from: KharBevNor on 03 Feb 2011, 04:33
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.

Gemmwah · « **Reply #15 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 11:03 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 03 Feb 2011, 10:51

That's not for safety, that's for supporting a terrible football team.

I'll shank you.

Metope · « **Reply #16 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 11:22 »

I'm an earth dragon! So badass!

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #17 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 11:25 »

Earth Dragon here too

Dang, there isn't an image of Onyx on google when I searched it.

valley_parade · « **Reply #18 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 11:31 »

Quote from: Gemmwah on 03 Feb 2011, 11:03

Quote from: valley_parade on 03 Feb 2011, 10:51
That's not for safety, that's for supporting a terrible football team.

I'll shank you.

You wouldn't shank another rabbit.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #19 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 11:38 »

There's a shanks like a rabbit joke in here somewhere.

Caleb · « **Reply #20 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 11:57 »

Rabbit shanks are best marinated in a vinegar based sauce for at least 6 hours before roasting.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #21 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 12:05 »

How does one find out what animal and element one is?

maxusy3k · « **Reply #22 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 12:10 »

I used your friend and mine, Wikipedia!

Barmymoo · « **Reply #23 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.

LittleKey · « **Reply #24 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 13:53 »

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

Happy New Year, guys.

Yakob · « **Reply #25 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 13:53 »

Quote

Yang Water 壬申 Monkey Feb 04 1992–Jan 22 1993

Nice!

.....wait

fuck.

Tom · « **Reply #26 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 14:26 »

Ã¶de · « **Reply #27 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 14:34 »

Caleb · « **Reply #28 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 14:35 »

calenlass · « **Reply #29 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 14:50 »

Barmymoo · « **Reply #30 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 14:56 »

That just made me explode with laughter. Why does that even exist?

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #31 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?

De_El · « **Reply #32 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 15:22 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 03 Feb 2011, 13:39

ETA: Yang gold horse. Awesome.

Me too!

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #33 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 16:06 »

My birthday is before New Years, so..

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???

JD · « **Reply #34 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 16:14 »

Quote from: LittleKey on 03 Feb 2011, 13:53

I'm a water rooster!

Oh hey me too.

J · « **Reply #35 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 16:59 »

well happy new year then.

shot these some years ago.

i think the thing is happening on saturday this year. if i can i'll get some new ones.

Papersatan · « **Reply #36 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 18:08 »

Quote from: 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

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:

water pig

Akima · « **Reply #37 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 18:11 »

Quote from: bainidhe_dub on 03 Feb 2011, 16:06

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.

Thomas Edison · « **Reply #38 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.

JD · « **Reply #39 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 19:33 »

Good luck with that.

Papersatan · « **Reply #40 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.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #41 on:** 03 Feb 2011, 23:44 »

Fire tiger! I should be more pissed off?

est · « **Reply #42 on:** 04 Feb 2011, 00:50 »

Yang Fire Dragon here. I do so like to burninate.

Eris · « **Reply #43 on:** 04 Feb 2011, 00:59 »

So you do!

pwhodges · « **Reply #44 on:** 04 Feb 2011, 01:24 »

Yang Fire Dog, me. Woof!

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #45 on:** 04 Feb 2011, 02:02 »

Ho hum, the boring one once again.

Inlander · « **Reply #46 on:** 04 Feb 2011, 02:09 »

A Scottish YBA? That Chinese zodiac has everything!

est · « **Reply #47 on:** 04 Feb 2011, 03:37 »

Quote from: Eris on 04 Feb 2011, 00:59

So you do!

Fitting that my left shoulder is visible in that pic.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #48 on:** 04 Feb 2011, 04:47 »

Yin Earth Snake. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

valley_parade · « **Reply #49 on:** 04 Feb 2011, 05:55 »

Quote from: bainidhe_dub on 03 Feb 2011, 16:06

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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