I'm addicted to chinasmack, a news/forum site from china translated into english. This is Brother Sharp, a famous homeless beggar, idolized by Chinese netizens and named by them. The comments run in the vein of "China truly has innumerable handsome guys, Brother Sharp, you are truly too handsome."
And they do this to him:
Anyway, the web buzz resulted in his long lost mother and brother tracking him down. Apparently he had lost his wife and father in a car crash some time ago, and left for another province never to be found until now. The tragedy must have damaged him; he has just been checked into a mental hospital. At the reunion Brother Sharp was cleaned up, hair short and beard gone, much to the dismay of his fans. "Looks a lot less sharp now."
Read about it here, as well as watch footage and see more of those fantastic photoshops.
The best part about chinasmack is the comments.
In response to an article about corruption, Chinese citizens are split two ways: those who say "There's no such thing as slight corruption! We should throw the book at him!" and those who say "Actually Han Feng is a good comrade: 1) Only has one regular girlfriend; 2) Although he’s having an affair he spends time with his wife, he isn’t just cold to her; 3) He occasionally accepts money [illegally] but nothing more than a few tens of thousands, and only gets 200,000 a year which is peanuts; 4) He pays attention to education in theory, and is hardworking and modest; 5) He pays attention to important national affairs, he mentions the heavy snow that the south got, which shows he cares about your average man; 6) He doesn’t like the sleazy life, but enjoys movies and refined activities, which shows he’s well brought up."
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haha this beggar was all over the korean internet news sites. now i know where korean reporters on china get their stuff from!
haha this beggar was all over the korean internet news sites. now i know where korean reporters on china get their stuff from!
i'm sorry for leaving all these double comments! :( i'm a neandethal
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