The price of beauty...

[Peter_Puget]

smile

 

and then there is this.

[olyclimber]

Darn...I thought this was going to be an itemized list of your lipstick and mascara bill.

[archenemy]

The agents say some of the company's products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is "traditional" and nothing to "make such a big fuss about".

 

Using tiger penis to stir your coffee is also traditional.

[archenemy]

Skin was said to be highly valued for the treatment of burn victims, and Dr Wang said that in 1995 he skinned a shot convict's body while the man's heart was still beating. Dr Wang, who was seeking asylum in the US, also alleged that corneas and other body tissue were removed for transplant, and said his hospital, the Tianjin paramilitary police general brigade hospital, sold body parts for profit.

 

 

Asylum? What job would he have here? Some resume that dude must have.

[olyclimber]

like all the info that was gathered and used for the betterment of science with the Nazi human experiments....

[archenemy]

The gruesome practice has been documented among ethnic Chinese communities throughout Asia, but so far every attempt to prove that people were leaving U.S. soil to buy organs from China's massive death row has failed.

 

 

what is the difference between an "ethnic Chinese community" in Asia and a Chinese community in Asia?

[Dru]

So of the 5,500 executions worldwide last year, 5,000 wre Chinese.

 

and were 400 of the other 500 American? Think of all the lost cosmetics kickback. I bet they just sold the bodies for cattle feed.

[Dru]

what is the difference between an "ethnic Chinese community" in Asia and a Chinese community in Asia?

 

There are minorities in China too. Mostly persecuted by the Han chinese.

[archenemy]

Why are some Chinese "ethnic" and the others "Han"?

[Dru]

Han Chinese are ethnic Chinese. The others, specifically minorities like Uighurs, Tibetans and so on, are Chinese by nationality but not by ethnicity. There are also "linguistic minorities" like the Cantonese.

[archenemy]

Ah. So are there no "ethnic Americans"?

[cj001f]

Han Chinese are the dominant ethnicity in China and are often referred to as "chinese". The others (uighurs, Tibetans, Sherpa, etc.) are equally chinese, whatever the hell that means.

 

"ethnic Chinese" in other parts of Asia often refers to Han Chinese immigrants (ex. Indonesia)

[Dru]

Ah. So are there no "ethnic Americans"?

 

They are called "Native Americans" in America.

[archenemy]

No, they are/were a diverse group of people who belonged to many different tribes with their own different ethnicity.

[slothrop]

Oh, enough of the semantics already.

 

You are a beautiful and unique snowflake, OK?

[archenemy]

And you are a wanker.

[archenemy]

That is my favorite word of the day.

[barjor]

We need to stop prisoners from getting tattoes that would make there skin less valuable when we want to sell it after they get the chair.

[archenemy]

The get shot.

[Dru]

guillotine would be better for the doctors than a messy bullet hole?

[archenemy]

Good thinking. Then, you can just hang and drain em.

[cj001f]

We need to stop prisoners from getting tattoes that would make there skin less valuable when we want to sell it after they get the chair.

And they need to put the lotion on their skin.

[olyclimber]

thanks for that memory.

[cj001f]

thanks for that memory.

If you'd used the lotion you'd be in a better place right now.