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The Great Wall: worth some clicks. Nice kids, good presentations.
posted by mule98J at 10:35 AM on April 23 Oh wow this is awesome, and it looks like they sell posters too.

Funny aside, one of my friends has something like 9 brothers (and no sisters). In Chinese, you would normally refer to them as "oldest brother" or "second oldest brother" and so on. For some reason, they started doing this in English, and would say things like "Hey, how's two doing?"
posted by jasonhong at 10:37 AM on April 23 [1 favorite]

Pfft. Unrealistic--needs more canine little brothers/sisters in that family tree.

Trust me, they get lai sze and eat moon cakes, they're family.
posted by roquetuen at 2:49 PM on April 23

roquetuen, that's a cute comment :). Some of my Taiwanese friends call their pets "???" or "kids with fur", and do refer to them individually as "my daughter" or "my son".
posted by Alnedra at 11:53 PM on April 23

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