grumpy man on bus in hong kong becomes star of the internet

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this is awesome! the wee man got pwn3d cos he was lame (despite trying to do the right thing in the first place).

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1783351,00.html

this is the one with english subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzD5H7vWek&search=grumpy%20man%20bus%20hong%20kong

taking sides: grumpy man vs lame young man?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 June 2006 07:59 (eighteen years ago)

They call him Bus Uncle. Here is an interview with him.

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Thursday, 1 June 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

Grumpy man wins!

A modern Shakespearian drama in one act, but disappointing denouement. Crap subtitles too. Is it genuine though or a set-up to make the youth look stupido?

― salexander (salexander), Thursday, 1 June 2006 09:08 (eighteen years ago)

the subtitles is rubbish yes! i can give a better translation if i have some time... it's so much more colourful in cantonese!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 June 2006 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

Translation please! Or just the swear words would be good!

― salexander (salexander), Thursday, 1 June 2006 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

ahhh man if the kid had tapped him again when he was back on the phone at the end it woulda been perfect

― rtccc (mwah), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

Is it genuine though or a set-up to make the youth look stupido?

Er, isn't it more like the old man looking stupid? The kid asks him to speak more quietly, and he bursts into an angry fit, saying that he fucked the kid's mom and all...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

See 'lame young man.' Besides, didn't you hear the grumpy man - the other dude was also prattling on his phone, and thus it's a classic case of the pot and the kettle. The old man was just speaking out against hypocrisy.

(Yes, the old man is a dipstick but it's more fun to be sardonic about these matters).

― salexander (salexander), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Well, yeah, but we don't how loudly the old man and the young man speak on their phones. Maybe the old man was shouting out loud his personal issues or something. I hate when people talk loudly on their phones in public transport, and you have to inadvertently witness their dramas.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 1 June 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

"don't know how"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 1 June 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

Also, whenever there's a situation of youth-hating old person attacking a young person, I generally side with the latter, because I've personally witnessed how awful old people can be towards youngsters they view "impudent".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 1 June 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

We know what he was talking about because of the interview Steve linked. He was talking to the Samaritans!

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 1 June 2006 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

tuomas where in that video was there suggestion that the old person is "youth-hating". he even said "DON'T CALL ME BOSS - WE'RE EQUAL"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

problem with the guy was that he was all ready to be self-righteous and taps the other dude on the shoulder because he was being loud (which is well and good), but he totally loses the plot and clearly showed that he hadn't thought it through when the guy asks him why he did it, he couldn't answer and backed down and didn't stand up to his point, and didn't even try and argue the case. whereas the other guy at least made some sound points (e.g. is it more disturbing to be loud than for you to physically touch somebody? haha this is the kind of stuff you get ilx threads about)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

WE ALL HAVE PRESSURE I HAVE PRESSURE YOU HAVE PRESSURE

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Why did you aggress me?

I love them both. I love the fact that the kid touched the older guy and didn't, oh, I don't know, STAB HIM TO DEATH, and I love the fact that the older guy was able to turn round and have a bit of a rant knowing that he wasn't going to get stabbed to death.

Basically it's good if people can have arguments on public transport without anyone ending up in hospital.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

Or anyone fucking anyone's mom.

― breathny spears let me see the sex that you did. (noodle vague), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

In A.D. 2101, Internet Catchphrase Goldmine Found!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ is a GE Money Genie (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

when I first saw this, I was sure it would come to blows.

― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I'd say I'd lose my plot too, if I'd ask some person in the bus to speak less loud, and he'd start shouting at me and saying he fucks my mom. What I'm trying to say is, we don't know what has happened before the video begins, all we see is the old man making an ass of himself and the young man acting in a much more restrained manner.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

My penis is not your mom!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Grumpy Bus Uncle's kitchen cats
http://static.flickr.com/68/162499428_9d3de92829.jpg?v=0

― Bnad (Bnad), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Almost surely photoshopped in
http://static.flickr.com/69/162503686_146acf886d.jpg?v=0

― Bnad (Bnad), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

That interview is amazing. He killed two people, ran drugs, carved fruit for the King of Belgium?

He said that he has been divorced before and that is why he values his current girlfriend Shirley because she appreciates his fruit plate. Preparing the fruit plate is the main way for Chan to relieve stress. "Sometimes when she gets mad, I would carve on the fruit plate 'I love Shirley' and she isn't mad anymore. She is the first woman to appreciate my fruit plate."

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

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