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Beijing:
His taxi driver seemed to have just come from the country and took 1h 40 mins to find the hotel finally using Merton's mobile phone (at the insistence of Merton who'd already called th ehotel for him) to findout where the hell it was!
There's bug on sticks in the market... DEEP FRIED SCORPIONS!
Then his guide takes him to a place serving donkey's pen][s. Followed by snake's pen][s(es - they have two apparently). Then sheep's pen][s...
-End of first day-
Loads of police and CCTV camera and the military in Tiananmen Square, scary stuff. Pauls meets his guide there and she wants them to leave quickly, yes she's that scared of the authoritites, scary stuff.
Boom-boxing street youths! Singing about chinese food because they can't do radical lyrics.
Then Merton pulls the team offtrack by insisting they go and see a farmer who builds robots, these turn out to be the sort of little things you'd see at the primary school robot olympics on BBC 2, pretty cool though considering they were all made from scrap from the local heap. Although he did manage to burn down his whole house whilst making one of them!
Then he wheels out the fullsize robot-pulled rickshaw! Very cool. And there's a mini one for the kids!
Most of the currently being built buildings are going to be empty and are just for show for the olympics to make Beijing look modern. :S
Then he goes to an english class being taught by an American. Looks like a load of the class will be evicted from the homes as the place is re-developed for the olympics. :(
57,000 people in the area and the teacher's the only westerner and he's watched like a hawk.
Unsurprisingly basic conditions for the teacher, he lives there because he wants to see the old China before it disappears. Merton thinks it's a shame they're destroying these old communities with the re-development. I have to agree with him.
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Then they go to the rather odd building 'Chateau' that's based upon a huge french hotel, he gets upgraded to room 666. 6 is a lucky number over there. :)
The place is huge and nobody's about.
Merton finds his room and the ceilings are either very high or very low, it's huge and according to Merton 'horrendous'.
The whole place only cost $50 mill.
Merton finds out his rooms above the dance hall and he's woken by Karaoke, he goes down to get it turned down and gets dragged into it all. This all really weird!
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Next Merton goes to Henan and has to go into a horrible rundown hotel that smells of vomit and who's foyer doesn't have, well, a floor.
Huge picture of Stalin at the local worker co-operative commune! :D
Communist noodle making! And the Government officals on the tour with them don't want to elaborate. Why do you have to go on a tour to go see a communist family? The officals runaway from Merton's tour for another one. :D
Selt criticism classes... women sterilised after childbirth...
Big Camel.
End of.
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Next week: Kung-fu training!
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So did anyone else catch it? Looks like it;s shaping up to be a great little series!
His taxi driver seemed to have just come from the country and took 1h 40 mins to find the hotel finally using Merton's mobile phone (at the insistence of Merton who'd already called th ehotel for him) to findout where the hell it was!
There's bug on sticks in the market... DEEP FRIED SCORPIONS!
Then his guide takes him to a place serving donkey's pen][s. Followed by snake's pen][s(es - they have two apparently). Then sheep's pen][s...
-End of first day-
Loads of police and CCTV camera and the military in Tiananmen Square, scary stuff. Pauls meets his guide there and she wants them to leave quickly, yes she's that scared of the authoritites, scary stuff.
Boom-boxing street youths! Singing about chinese food because they can't do radical lyrics.
Then Merton pulls the team offtrack by insisting they go and see a farmer who builds robots, these turn out to be the sort of little things you'd see at the primary school robot olympics on BBC 2, pretty cool though considering they were all made from scrap from the local heap. Although he did manage to burn down his whole house whilst making one of them!
Then he wheels out the fullsize robot-pulled rickshaw! Very cool. And there's a mini one for the kids!
Most of the currently being built buildings are going to be empty and are just for show for the olympics to make Beijing look modern. :S
Then he goes to an english class being taught by an American. Looks like a load of the class will be evicted from the homes as the place is re-developed for the olympics. :(
57,000 people in the area and the teacher's the only westerner and he's watched like a hawk.
Unsurprisingly basic conditions for the teacher, he lives there because he wants to see the old China before it disappears. Merton thinks it's a shame they're destroying these old communities with the re-development. I have to agree with him.
---------------------
Then they go to the rather odd building 'Chateau' that's based upon a huge french hotel, he gets upgraded to room 666. 6 is a lucky number over there. :)
The place is huge and nobody's about.
Merton finds his room and the ceilings are either very high or very low, it's huge and according to Merton 'horrendous'.
The whole place only cost $50 mill.
Merton finds out his rooms above the dance hall and he's woken by Karaoke, he goes down to get it turned down and gets dragged into it all. This all really weird!
---------------------
Next Merton goes to Henan and has to go into a horrible rundown hotel that smells of vomit and who's foyer doesn't have, well, a floor.
Huge picture of Stalin at the local worker co-operative commune! :D
Communist noodle making! And the Government officals on the tour with them don't want to elaborate. Why do you have to go on a tour to go see a communist family? The officals runaway from Merton's tour for another one. :D
Selt criticism classes... women sterilised after childbirth...
Big Camel.
End of.
---------------------
Next week: Kung-fu training!
---------------------
So did anyone else catch it? Looks like it;s shaping up to be a great little series!
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Beijing:
His taxi driver seemed to have just come from the country and took 1h 40 mins to find the hotel finally using Merton's mobile phone (at the insistence of Merton who'd already called th ehotel for him) to findout where the hell it was!
There's bug on sticks in the market... DEEP FRIED SCORPIONS!
Then his guide takes him to a place serving donkey's pen][s. Followed by snake's pen][s(es - they have two apparently). Then sheep's pen][s...
-End of first day-
Loads of police and CCTV camera and the military in Tiananmen Square, scary stuff. Pauls meets his guide there and she wants them to leave quickly, yes she's that scared of the authoritites, scary stuff.
Boom-boxing street youths! Singing about chinese food because they can't do radical lyrics.
Then Merton pulls the team offtrack by insisting they go and see a farmer who builds robots, these turn out to be the sort of little things you'd see at the primary school robot olympics on BBC 2, pretty cool though considering they were all made from scrap from the local heap. Although he did manage to burn down his whole house whilst making one of them!
Then he wheels out the fullsize robot-pulled rickshaw! Very cool. And there's a mini one for the kids!
Most of the currently being built buildings are going to be empty and are just for show for the olympics to make Beijing look modern. :S
Then he goes to an english class being taught by an American. Looks like a load of the class will be evicted from the homes as the place is re-developed for the olympics. :(
57,000 people in the area and the teacher's the only westerner and he's watched like a hawk.
Unsurprisingly basic conditions for the teacher, he lives there because he wants to see the old China before it disappears. Merton thinks it's a shame they're destroying these old communities with the re-development. I have to agree with him.
---------------------
Then they go to the rather odd building 'Chateau' that's based upon a huge french hotel, he gets upgraded to room 666. 6 is a lucky number over there. :)
The place is huge and nobody's about.
Merton finds his room and the ceilings are either very high or very low, it's huge and according to Merton 'horrendous'.
The whole place only cost $50 mill.
Merton finds out his rooms above the dance hall and he's woken by Karaoke, he goes down to get it turned down and gets dragged into it all. This all really weird!
---------------------
Next Merton goes to Henan and has to go into a horrible rundown hotel that smells of vomit and who's foyer doesn't have, well, a floor.
Huge picture of Stalin at the local worker co-operative commune! :D
Communist noodle making! And the Government officals on the tour with them don't want to elaborate. Why do you have to go on a tour to go see a communist family? The officals runaway from Merton's tour for another one. :D
Selt criticism classes... women sterilised after childbirth...
Big Camel.
End of.
---------------------
Next week: Kung-fu training!
---------------------
So did anyone else catch it? Looks like it;s shaping up to be a great little series!
His taxi driver seemed to have just come from the country and took 1h 40 mins to find the hotel finally using Merton's mobile phone (at the insistence of Merton who'd already called th ehotel for him) to findout where the hell it was!
There's bug on sticks in the market... DEEP FRIED SCORPIONS!
Then his guide takes him to a place serving donkey's pen][s. Followed by snake's pen][s(es - they have two apparently). Then sheep's pen][s...
-End of first day-
Loads of police and CCTV camera and the military in Tiananmen Square, scary stuff. Pauls meets his guide there and she wants them to leave quickly, yes she's that scared of the authoritites, scary stuff.
Boom-boxing street youths! Singing about chinese food because they can't do radical lyrics.
Then Merton pulls the team offtrack by insisting they go and see a farmer who builds robots, these turn out to be the sort of little things you'd see at the primary school robot olympics on BBC 2, pretty cool though considering they were all made from scrap from the local heap. Although he did manage to burn down his whole house whilst making one of them!
Then he wheels out the fullsize robot-pulled rickshaw! Very cool. And there's a mini one for the kids!
Most of the currently being built buildings are going to be empty and are just for show for the olympics to make Beijing look modern. :S
Then he goes to an english class being taught by an American. Looks like a load of the class will be evicted from the homes as the place is re-developed for the olympics. :(
57,000 people in the area and the teacher's the only westerner and he's watched like a hawk.
Unsurprisingly basic conditions for the teacher, he lives there because he wants to see the old China before it disappears. Merton thinks it's a shame they're destroying these old communities with the re-development. I have to agree with him.
---------------------
Then they go to the rather odd building 'Chateau' that's based upon a huge french hotel, he gets upgraded to room 666. 6 is a lucky number over there. :)
The place is huge and nobody's about.
Merton finds his room and the ceilings are either very high or very low, it's huge and according to Merton 'horrendous'.
The whole place only cost $50 mill.
Merton finds out his rooms above the dance hall and he's woken by Karaoke, he goes down to get it turned down and gets dragged into it all. This all really weird!
---------------------
Next Merton goes to Henan and has to go into a horrible rundown hotel that smells of vomit and who's foyer doesn't have, well, a floor.
Huge picture of Stalin at the local worker co-operative commune! :D
Communist noodle making! And the Government officals on the tour with them don't want to elaborate. Why do you have to go on a tour to go see a communist family? The officals runaway from Merton's tour for another one. :D
Selt criticism classes... women sterilised after childbirth...
Big Camel.
End of.
---------------------
Next week: Kung-fu training!
---------------------
So did anyone else catch it? Looks like it;s shaping up to be a great little series!
Looks like I really missed out... damn!
Another good one last night. I'm not running through it, you either watched it or you didn't!
Ok, one little bit:
He was mistaken for the Canadian Prime Minister of Canada! :D
He was mistaken for the Canadian Prime Minister of Canada! :D
Yeah, that was funny. I was quite disturbed by the levels of pollution in Xonquin (Or however it's spelt in latin text, piny in or whatever), and apprently many of those buildings are there for show, totally unoccupued... and the prostitute, that was pretty funny too. Well, she must have been, Paul Merton isn't a sailor. Though he may be a Pirate.
And it was Kung Fu time too! The extra didn't exactly have a good likeness, but I want to see that advert regularly broadcast over here!
The segment with the Tibetan nomads was also quite something, the same fears (and government intrusion) as when Michale Pail visited the area in Himalaya. Comedians doing travel shows, it works! :)
And it was Kung Fu time too! The extra didn't exactly have a good likeness, but I want to see that advert regularly broadcast over here!
The segment with the Tibetan nomads was also quite something, the same fears (and government intrusion) as when Michale Pail visited the area in Himalaya. Comedians doing travel shows, it works! :)
Yeah, they plugged the kung fu aspect a bit too much considering it was less than five minutes of the programme. The short he was in was damn funny though.
I wonder if it's on youtube...
I wonder if it's on youtube...
Seeing how many clips there are of Have I Got News for You on there, I'd say yes. Mr Merton seems to be rather popular on the Interweb!
Watched the first one, loved it, missed last weeks unfortunately .. might have a look and see if it's on youtube or something. Next episode tomorrow night ... good stuff!
Should anyone find a torrent, I'd really love to see this =(
I'll buy the series if it gets released ... he could be the next Michael Palin ... perhaps?
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