{"id":3458,"date":"2003-09-15T21:12:53","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2003-09-15T21:12:53","modified_gmt":"2003-09-15T21:12:53","slug":"words_more_than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"Words More Than Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was catching up on my RSS reading and this caught my eye on the AP news feed at Yahoo! News:<\/p>\n

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China ‘Open-Crotch Pants’ Face Extinction<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n

His head is shaved. His red-and-yellow T-shirt proclaims “Cute Girl!” His loose, white-cotton shorts are grimy with dirt. Suddenly, he stops in mid-stride and squats, the seam of his pants parting smoothly to allow a stream of urine to pool onto the concrete. <\/p>\n

“Good boy!” his 25-year-old mother, Wu Chunhua, shouts encouragingly as he speeds back to play. <\/p>\n

The startlingly revealing “kaidangku” (literally “open-crotch pants”) have made such posterior peek-a-boo a common sight in China for decades — rain, shine or, in a specially padded form, snow. <\/p>\n

The principle is clear: no-fuss waste disposal. They’re split down the middle — in front and back — and provide what many parents say is maximum convenience with minimum coverage. [Yahoo! News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Can’t. Stop. Laughing. (And possibly the best headline EVER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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