China is Building Escalators to Nowhere - No, Really

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China's stupidest infrastructure projects are absolutely insane. You'd think a country with a struggling economy would be more careful with its money, but you'd be wrong. Here are some of the most ridiculously stupid infrastructure projects in China.
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[@BoycottChinaa]

It's part of the USbiden greenish newdeal

[@stlouisix3]

The CPCommunist party is deleting the 'People's' China 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 Escalators to nowhere are hilarious😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅

[@stlouisix3]

The CPCommunism party 🍕 behaves like a doughnut 🍩 playing Sims with cheat-mode on😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😂😂😅😂😅😅😂😅😂😅😂

[@uchia4206]

That idea belongs to the simpsons 😂

[@sygneg7348]

Bro China is literally how I treat my Cities Skylines world, literally develops new areas and spends all the money on infrastructure projects, while ignoring the fact that my city has massive traffic/crime problems, and how half of it is abandoned because no one wants to live there

[@heikkiaho6605]

My dad visited china in the late 80's. In some rural town (i think, not sure where) he had to take a dump, and the only "toilet" was a long, ditch- or trench-like hole in the ground, over which you would squat and do your business, next to strangers. What made the experience even more memorable for my dad was that in those parts, in those times, many people hadn't even seen a white person, so naturally the whole village gathered around to watch a white man take a shit. 👍

[@AaronSoul725]

Omg please tell me there's more to this, I literally burst out laughing

[@heikkiaho6605]

​@@AaronSoul725 XD im sorry but thats all he told me about that particular event. Though another one was when he had dinner with some family (possibly in the same town/village), every time he finished his meal, the granny who did the cooking would fill his plate up again, cos an empty plate meant that you want more. I Don't know how many full plates he ended up eating. :d also, when visiting the Great wall, he had to like actually run from kids selling souvenir coins, cos he made the mistake of buying one. I'm sure he had a lot more fun experiences in addition to those, I gotta ask him for more. :D

[@user-hl3qv8qg2s]

thats the "white monkey" thing. its huge in many parts of china. if you are tall and handsome, a lot of women will think you are a deity or something. im not kidding. old ladies told me to cure diseases.... it was fun but sad at the same time for me

[@mecadragoon]

lit XD

[@dopedrums]

I bet he heard a lot of: Ooooooh! Aaaaaah! He was lucky no phones were around 🤣

[@mairiconnell6282]

Seeing the crops being destroyed is heart breaking. A famine is looming . Crops are chosen by the soil not Party Policy.

[@alpyki2588]

Some people must learn from the school of hard Knocks. For some, its a bachelor's degree. For others, a master's. CCP is going back for its doctorate in "don't f around with mother nature." But its very sad its education is paid for in the lives of its citizens. No wonder their social movements are so somber. The people don't want to do anything and they do not want to bring anyone else into their world.

[@bentalexranebundgaard4867]

You mean thaat the soil have to be punished as the anti proletariat treasoner that it are?

[@WolframHeart-xp2px]

The CCP does not need to learn because it is the people who pay the price, not them. Worst case, just blame it on America.

[@hermit_Ajivika]

Looming*

[@long-hair-dont-care88.]

It's amazing how low prices have stayed in America. Don't get me wrong they high in comparison to years back but honestly the dollar isn't worth shit yet people act as if it is.

[@ecappy4545]

Seeing all the clips of everything breaking and falling apart is what "made in China" really means.

[@silvercat18]

My company bought some soccer balls that were made in china. They fell apart really quickly and on closer inspection had been sewn up with simple garden string rather than a decent waxed thread - so as soon as they took any pressure or got wet, they tore apart. China's quality control seems to be all about things "looking ok" and then not being around to take the blame when they inevitably fall apart. This applies to the smallest soccer ball and the largest building, all put together for purely visual inspection and in fact made of the least suitable materials available.

[@IamtheMan1111]

How can you know it's because of weak structure? How do you know it's because interference from other countries like America? How do you know they don't slip and then exploding things? America is great at armies right?

[@DarkWolfsDen]

At one time "made in China" meant something was really good quality. China has really gone downhill.

[@starcorpvncj]

I saw many huge empty developments like this when working in Saudi Arabia. This was your best video ever. Thanks and cheers from Vietnam.

[@Knoloaify]

The arbitrary removal of crops thing is by far the most scary part of this for me. That's how you start famines.

[@jootan91]

@@elypowell6797 piss off a people enough and they will find a way.

[@schloops8473]

it also shows how the civil servants will do even the most horrible stuff if asked to by the CCP. Those farmers have very little to live on and they just destroy their crops... they could very well have waited for the harvest before destroying them but nope.

[@jamesabestos2800]

@elypowell6797 The last time that happened they were almost successful with the republic

[@stlouisix3]

Those CCP government employees who did that are daemonic.

[@stlouisix3]

Those CCP employees utterly lack empathy, like psychopaths.

[@Gormfeld]

Honestly, I'm surprised that they even built real escalators, and not just stairs disguised to look as such lol.

[@Cbd_7ohm]

​@@elypowell6797 Escalator print out rolled down a hill.

[@twoburs1505]

​@@Cbd_7ohm An edited Google maps that shows escalators on the hillsides

[@goldenagenut]

You just gave a low level Chinese government official 'a great idea'!

[@zarthemad8386]

it will stop working after 1 good rain

[@jtiagosd]

Don't give them more ideas please, they are destroying the planet as it is

[@dreadpenguinlord340]

The poor farmer chasing after the bulldozer was heartbreaking 😞

[@osamu_90]

I used to work with Chinese colleagues (outside of China), and some of them constantly bragged about how great China is, how advanced technology in China is, etc. One day, another colleague (not Chinese) sarcastically asked them "if China is so great, why don't you go back there?", they clammed up and tried to change the subject. And then there was the one honest Chinese guy who seldom talked about China at all and clearly felt embarrassed about their non-stop bragging. His answer to the question was that he's not going to return to that shithole for the rest of his life. They probably all think the same as well, just too prideful to talk about it.

[@YourFrienjamin]

Not pride. Brainwash.

[@B..P..]

Im brazilian and my people are like that too. They brag about brazil but the whole country is plagued with corrupt politicians,poverty and crime. Brazil is beautiful and has the grestest natural resources in the world plus THE AMAZON FOREST. But the corrupt government never allowed brazil to reach its full potential.

[@clarence_illust]

It's true tho, China is pretty advanced in technology

[@spacewizard69]

@@clarence_illust not really is just a facade

[@user-el7mq3zy7f]

因为在你们那挣钱啊

[@CuriouslyContent]

As shocking as those bathroom videos were, I must inform the internet that those ARE NOT the worst bathrooms you will find in China. I went to inland China, Yunnan province (in 2001) and our bus stopped at a 'lunch stop' where there was a 'bathroom' next to a place that sold soup. We go into the bathroom and there were no deep holes to receive the poop. Nope, just a trough that went from one end of the room to the other with a drain on one end for EVERYONES business. Of course, the drain got pugged and with no one maintaining it, the poop just piled up. Eventually, the entire trough was filled and people just kept using it. By the time we got there, every spot where one could squat on the trough was filled up to bum-level with poop. And since there was no toilet paper, people had used the walls to 'clean' off their hands. So now imagine walking into a room with 20 feet of feces piled 18 inches high, with poop on the walls, then add the beautiful image of maggots EVERYWHERE making the whole thing look like it was moving. Good times.

[@nerfherder4284]

A friend went to India and at some point asked a local where the bathroom was. The man raised his hand above his head and said: "All of India is your bathroom". Nuff said.

[@pjeng1]

Please don't come and stay in China if you don't like China.

[@eugenetswong]

I didn't expect that. 😞 Thanks for sharing, though.

[@Xbalanque84]

_JESUS WEPT!_

[@TorpedoEight]

The Chinese reflexively avoid restrooms because they are such hell holes at home. This is why the one sign near the Louvre in Paris (which reads "Please do not s*** in the street") is in Mandarin.

[@N8_R]

These escalators are actually an extremely conceptually advanced fine art project that the CCP is patronizing. Whoever the artist is hit the nail on the head, I think these escalators to nowhere are a perfect metaphor for China's industrialization.

[@randomperson4198]

i just imagined what happened if its rained. very helptful to the farmer indeed

[@robertlewis2542]

The CIA tricked Xi into thinking he was talking with an advanced alien civilization that was willing to transport them to a new better planet if they built landing/loading area's. :)

[@merlinathrawes6191]

They take forever to get to the destination as they''re so slow and break within a month.

[@fhuuraliulfr5756]

🤣😂

[@Professor__S]

There's a Simpson episode where there is an escalator that goes nowhere. People still take it and at the top they fall to their death. Seems like a good metaphor for China lol

[@SaulGoodman399]

Forget the escalator to no where, painting yourself out to be some sort of utopia while having toilets like that should be a war crime 🤢

[@mellonhead9568]

yeah Saul i tell yah control and chaos go hand in hand

[@infinite_frozen98]

8:18 Even the goose is looking around, like "you seeing this shit?"

[@HermitGeek]

Amazing that Rome figured out sewage 2000 years ago, yet China being around longer still hasn't...

[@johnynoway9127]

thats like saying every grown up is smarter then a kid. And theres a lot of dumb grown ups

[@madarauchiha8146]

@@johnynoway9127every adult should be smarter then a kid tho… that’s literally what life is about, learning new stuff/ getting smarter ( evolution). China has clearly failed

[@johnynoway9127]

@@madarauchiha8146 .... should and is are very different. If we went with IS we would have much much better tech and no bums no drug addicts basically utopia.

[@gildedpeahen876]

Bit of an unfair comparison as that knowledge was promptly lost for over 1000 years until the mid 1800s, and even parts of America and UK had no plumbing until the 1950s. They are a century behind, not several millenia.

[@argylemanni280]

@@gildedpeahen876 How is it an unfair comparison? 99% of the Roman Empire wasn't "plumbed". People look at ancient Rome and just mentally copy-paste that template all over millions of square kilometers. Most of the rural Roman Empire looked like most of the rural world has since... forever. Even in the most advanced modern countries there's no area that's completely modern. Infrastructure is extremely hard. China has problems, US has problems, everywhere has problems. But these kinds of simplistic comparisons so someone can say "ah it's better in this time period, in this place" aren't very accurate.

[@SeeLasSee]

If I came across a random escalator in the US landscape, I’d assume it was a functional sculpture. Probably someone had too much money.

[@gravityissues5210]

YES! I immediately thought it looked like an art installation.

[@Xbalanque84]

After years of listening to creepypastas (wherein stairways in the woods became a meme), I would immediately assume such an edifice was haunted or led to another dimension or something similarly spooky. You could not pay me enough to come withing 50 yards of that thing!

[@brian_sipe]

I would have just thought there must be something at the top, and used the escalator to go take a look.

[@petebaron4643]

I suppose they're electrically powered, and until they get too rusty or dirty, they'll function.

[@brianchee1968]

Someone calling it an art installation has no sense of art.

[@gbear1005]

Imagine trying to confiscate the equipment and destroy the crops of an ARMED populace.

[@SeverityOne]

Then the police get bigger arms. That's how it works in the USA. I've yet to see a situation where the mutual ownership of arms leads to a de-escalation of conflict.

[@oscarp9336]

More reasons why you shouldn't worry about China's army. Chances are most of their munitions don't work at all.

[@DarkWolfsDen]

I seen a video once where some Chinese soldiers were doing target practice and the bullets were coming out and hitting the targets sideways. It was the most confusing thing I have ever seen.

[@leeuniverse]

Man it's crazy the "Resources" they waste... Ghost cities, homes and other structures that have no quality etc.

[@nerfherder4284]

The piles of bikes (Google it) and now the fields full of registered electric cars, all to boost numbers on a spreadsheet to get more investment. China is a Ponzi scheme and they are going to be left with the ashes of a once great society, reduced to robots following a sad ignorant man.

[@akmon3490]

Ghost cities were 5 years ago now they are ghost rubble

[@giannishen]

Recently, it has been discovered that many foreign Internet celebrities have been invited to Chongqing to shoot videos. The purpose is of course to help promote CCP. Everyone should be careful when watching those videos!

[@no-lagteardown3558]

Dude over 1000 ppl died in a tunnel flood. Thats insane.

[@user-ps4hw4rh5v]

reminds me of the bay bridge reconstruction project in california. they used a chinese firm and chinese parts on some of it. what happened was that when it went live, the anchor bolts snapped and caused millions and millions of dollars worth of damage.

[@turdfurgeson8769]

The tunnels flooding is heartbreaking. All those people, lost to corruption and ineptitude.

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

This reminds me a lot of the old Eastern Germany

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

@@Michael-Archonaeusthat’s kind to china, reminds me more of nazi germany

[@long-hair-dont-care88.]

​@@Michael-Archonaeusit was really that bad?

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

@@long-hair-dont-care88. Don't know if it was as bad, but it was certainly very close

[@thelovedevil]

​@@long-hair-dont-care88.in eastern germany they stopped terming suicide suicide and instead called it selbstmord or "self-murder" due to there being so many of them. Twas bad

[@inconspicuousiceberg9363]

Serpentza said it best when he described China as the land of facades and shortcuts.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Sadly, it doesn't matter what either of these channels do, report, or announce. Nothing will ever change it. XiXiPi will control the world by 2049. It's been their plan for decades. Censorship and suppression will definitely allow it to happen, because it's already been working for decades. 💪😎✌️ All dissension is silenced.

[@HarryGoulding]

Eloquent.

[@user-mt9lw1gn3i]

中国人的劣根性是很多的，撒谎，虚伪，用不正当的方式竞争，愚昧无知，汉语就是低级的语言。 英语是最优雅的语言，白人是最优秀的民族，白人勤劳，善良，讲契约精神，高贵，爱好和平。 中国人就会用偷鸡摸狗的手段，应该肉体毁灭。

[@seanevertts2735]

@@HarryGoulding Very

[@bingbingbaobei]

We used to call it the brown scented markers. The ones we had in school were cinnamon. Cinnamon. So as a kid, you'd grab this brown marker, convinced it would be chocolate... intuitive, like all the other colors. Then when you opened it... got below the surface... cinnamon. That's China.

[@fukkyoutube]

the floor in that outhouse looked like you would fall through in to the.....well you saw it 😂

[@ziongite]

The water damage from the rain, and the dirt and dust from it being outdoors will assure that the escalator works for likely less than 3 months and then sit there broken down forever. So silly.

[@kollok3740]

As， a Chinese guy I totally agree. My city have rebuilt the road in front of my house for 10 times just to record it as an achievement for officer. That is so terrible that I have to get in my house from an extra road built by wood.😅

[@jackiekittridge-steele385]

Wow! Take care friend!

[@littleloner1159]

I can't stop laughing at this. I'm sorry you have to deal with that

[@pvb16]

you have youtube in china

[@dangalaksikkafali]

@@pvb16 They have vpn

[@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS]

Best of luck to you dude. I hope you are able to thrive or get out of the country if you want to.

[@RacerX888]

I was at a factory in Taiyuan city in China and was in one of those outdoor "toilets" that is a wooden shack elevated over an overhang. This one was hanging over the cliff at the top of a mountainside. When I looked down through the holes in the floor I was about 500 ft up from the next level spot. All the excrement fell hundreds of feet into a valley below. Scariest place I have ever been in, LOL. This was 35 miles from where China launches satellites into space, so quite high in the mountains.

[@scandilad5152]

It scares the shit out of you, it's a feature.

[@rockyroad7345]

Very medieval technology. European castles had their crappers cantilevered out over a river far below where the sewage directly went kerplunk and splash.

[@gravityissues5210]

Squat toilet off a mountainside next to a space research center. Perfect image of modern China.

[@alex29443]

Not going to lie, that sounds like something I would definitely use for fun.

[@ericmaclaurin8525]

Did the height manage to fool your brain into thinking you might fall into the toilet?

[@icu3869]

WTF China?!?! to all the hard, working, honest people around the world, making it safe. Thank you. this was an incredibly hard watch, the humor and honesty are commendable, given such heart, wrenching, mind-boggling content.

[@GuyWets-zy5yt]

We have lot of things here in EU. Highways to nowhere, bridges for nothing, subway never used...etc welcome in Belgium🇧🇪

[@marisakennedy777]

My friend was a teacher in China for a few years. There were plenty of students that didn't pay attention, didn't do their homework, and tried to bribe her to get - not just passing - but good grades. When she refused because her integrity doesn't allow her to accept bribes, the parents would complain. One set of parents took it to the principal and the principal tried to get her to take the bribe. When she still refused, they fired her. All they have to do to fix the giant sink holes is bribe the ground to hold up under the wait of the traffic. 🤣 Lesson learned! 🎈

[@changeworld5096]

As a Chinese, I can confirm that the education system in many of the normal level schools in remote areas in China is very corrupted. The teachers makes the school like a prison and you have to have some relationship with someone from that school to not being targeted. I really hope this phenomenon can be changed one day, but I am pretty sure it will take decades…Very sad

[@Xbalanque84]

@@changeworld5096 Reject the mandate of heaven, and this will stop.

[@BladeEXE67]

how do they even afford to bribe them? it boggles my mind, how china is all about money.

[@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113]

@@BladeEXE67 China got the idea from somebody. "Uncle $am", maybe.

[@BladeEXE67]

@@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113 but they are a strict communistic country 🤡

[@plpa8250]

Buried alive, burned alive, drowned, collapsed on, plummeting to my doom... They literally covered my top 5 fears.

[@Hellsong89]

And not even being able to have that one round to end it before that happens... then again we all know there is rampant illegal gun market in China.

[@user-ju1my1ho2b]

Spiders. They haven't had a spider problem yet.

[@theuncalledfor]

How about starvation? With those destroyed crops, a famine is surely brewing.

[@walls_of_skulls6061]

@@user-ju1my1ho2bspiders are waaaaaaay too demonized. They’re super beneficial and generally friendly. If you see one and want it to go away put some water near it, that’s most likely the only reason it’s in your space.

[@thepenitentcop1033]

Thank you for exposing me to life in China~ Coming to Merica!!

[@lindadeeds5326]

That was a real, live goose! Taped to a chair!

[@acetylslicylsyra]

I remember one time in China, I was at a cinema and had a very bad stomach. I had to rush to the toilet in panic. First stall was occupied. Second had a massive triceratops pile stuck on the squat toilet. 3rd was also occupied. I open the 4th. Unoccupied. Western style toilet. Clean. Looked like it had never been used. Thank god!

[@Regin314]

Probably locals didn't know what it was, when I 1st saw squat toilet... I figured it was a toilet but as how to use it, didn't know how to.. after in the future learning how your suppose to... I prefer the western version..

[@acetylslicylsyra]

@@Regin314 They think western toilets are unsanitory, at least for public toilet. Maybe they are right, but not when everyone avoids them :P All chinese I know personally in China have western toilets at home. Squat toilets takes learning to use for a westerner like me, the muscles simply doesn't have the right configuration anymore so it becomes a great struggle. In the beginning I had to sit almost as if on a chair, but in the air, and push my arms with full force against the walls to maintain position.

[@justsomecoolprayingmantisd6422]

😂🤝

[@saryukhare1778]

@@Regin314 If you figure out Squat version toilet, it's way more sanitary and germ free since in western style you have to sit on the same seat that many people have used before.

[@Regin314]

@@saryukhare1778 There is no scientific or medical evidence or history at ALL you can get any disease or germs on a western style toilet and if your still concern most bathroom provide toilet covers.. as for sanitary from what I've been told who uses them your most likely to get into accident using squat toilet as you are squatting for a while and in truth that just looks really uncomfortable..

[@radioa3sthetic]

3:10 imagine walking in and hearing the floor breaking away as your standing trying to pee real quick

[@Adomas_B]

Remember, if some system makes absolutely no sense it's because someone is profiting off of it

[@Mr_blue_7777]

The fire part and the flooding tunnel has to be by far the most terrifying thing just imagine the people's last moments in life

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

Look, it's just a minor logistical issue. Once they can get the fire to the flood, or vice-versa, neither will be a problem.

[@Hellsong89]

On the plus side if the implosion of the tunnel is rapid enough, you are near the entrance and car you are driving is not made in China ie its sealed even relatively well, there is chance the tidal wave will flush you out of the tunnel.... but that takes lots of luck so i would not count on it. Negative part is trying to sue the government... in China... taking CCP into court XD

[@TheColonelKlink]

An escalator to nowhere is literally a gag on an early episode of The Simpsons.

[@jamesabestos2800]

I’m pretty sure it’s to heaven after you fall asleep or the skies? Clouds? The grou-

[@deadgoldenheart9560]

when you try to go to heaven but the CCP said

[@jaybee6505]

Anything else on the list? A Monorail, 50ft Magnifying Glass and the Popsicle Stick Skyscraper.

[@bradcavanagh3092]

@@jaybee6505 President Trump

[@jaredcarlson3500]

Thank you soooo much for bringing us the truth!!!!!

[@AdrienMelody]

Well that escalated quickly

[@toddmaggio2032]

Every time I think China can''t get worse, I am proven wrong by your next show.

[@kevfit4333]

In terms of corruption it is the Ukraine of Asia.

[@juups86]

@@kevfit4333 China's corruption is worse than Ukraines lol!

[@peachginger9844]

@@kevfit4333 More like the Russia of Asia.

[@pjeng1]

Please don't come visit and stay in China if you don't like China.

[@Connormctague29]

@@peachginger9844 Russia is in Asia

[@user-id3bg3kc3l]

I worked in china and still have friends that work there. We´d talked to people that work in the government. The problem comes down to how their system works. Local officials have a yearly growth rate they have to meet. If they do not meet the set growth rate, someone else will replace them. And there are a few ways to do it. They could have factories produce, sell, export more, they could have more commerce/trade/service, or the easiest way: Build thing. Construction projects are the fastest and easiest way to perk up the stats. And, of course, there is also corruption in those contracts. So the video shows the results.

[@amyshew1151]

Wow ! That’s the church of Scientology business system too . In fact , the CCP and the COS are a weird mirror of each other .

[@YourFrienjamin]

I'm terrified someone will get gnawed by that thing when it breaks.

[@PubRunner]

And my local state government wants to jump on board with the Belt Road Initiative….

[@WhatThePheel]

Never been there, never plan on going.

[@Mightydoggo]

Everyone around the world: "Oh shit, the planet is dying, we really should stop wasting resources!" China:

[@jamesabestos2800]

Don’t worry they will make the smoke turn gReN?!?

[@willam1992]

@@saladealer "official" more like made up

[@user-wo9dx6nf5b]

@@willam1992always!!!😮‍💨😮‍💨

[@AJ-kv1po]

Relax you missed his vid where they were painting stuff green. China is fully green now 😊

[@TROLGUY999]

@@saladealer LMAO imagine thinking the CCP gives out ANY accurate information at all

[@stevejones8660]

One of my delights when visiting China was watching the locals exit escalators. Invariably they take one step off, stop and look at which way to go. People get fed into them from behind like a conveyor belt, and at worst end up in a pile of people struggling to get to their feet. I saw one such of around 12-15 people in Hong Kong. Maybe these escalators have been built in rural China by the government to help the local Nongs develop their escalator skills before migrating to First and Second Tier cities?

[@philipthomey7884]

Bahaha...Escalator skills.

[@jeanneganrude8549]

That’s hilarious ~

[@sydneykendall7125]

😂😂😂

[@ghostsade3]

@FurtiveGesture Care to elaborate? Why are they insects? Why are we comparing a group of people "literally" (meaning actually, or in fact) to a commonly disliked animal, seen as lower than a human being? Isn't this no different from that viral chinese video asking why chinese women are dating "white dogs" or "little Japanese ghosts"? Why is your channel description a direct quote from /b/ on 4chan, one of the absolute fucking worst places on the Internet, the quote being "The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."? A place where they often describe Asians as "bug people" or "insects"?

[@ElAnciano767]

In my hometown, the city opted to import steel and components from China to build a bridge since it was so much cheaper than other bids. The whole thing was deemed unsafe, with the steel being substandard and many of the components not built to spec. In the end, the project came in massively over budget with everything having to be rebuilt. So much for the economics of "made in China" bargain infrastructure.

[@erkkihelminen7580]

Both russia and ccp build like they play city skylines for the first time

[@GeorgeCowsert]

Chinese policy feels like it has been in the control of a _really_ *faulty* AI for some time now.

[@fdhadi]

you dream to became a CEO? nice

[@nerfherder4284]

​@@fdhadi huh?

[@nerfherder4284]

Yeah, It kinda seems like I am watching that AI made beer commercial and things keep getting weirder and weirder.

[@fdhadi]

@@nerfherder4284 I was just doing back ground checks trolling.

[@Xbalanque84]

Looking at this level of corruption, one wonders what it would actually take to make their culture abandon their insipid "mandate of heaven" philosophy...

[@robwalsh9843]

China actually brought a Simpsons gag to life.

[@cosmicdrift8311]

Yoy forgot the epic bicycle initiative and the mountains of excess bikes. Oh, and the green painted hills.

[@justiceforinjustice0044]

Please bring more of this type of stuff in front of the world. You are doing very great work. Thanku 🙏🏻

[@ingridcruickshank1221]

So weird. Its like the government is deranged. It's unsettling to know they are on the same planet as us

[@countryjoe3551]

Yes, especially when you remember that they have nukes.

[@jonathanbenoza8136]

They are a bunch of psychopaths

[@guysabol8743]

not deranged just an autocrat never thinking jsut hding in his palace

[@mafiawaffle1386]

@@countryjoe3551 lol allegedly

[@6Haunted-Days]

They also MAKE ALMOST EVERYTHING and EVERY part that goes into that thing…..in AMERICA. So….hmmmmm. Deep thoughts.

[@saltalmighty1141]

I remember that in Dublin City they where/are planning an underground metro for the city with it costing more than 10 billion . And then a Chinese company offered to build it for 2 billion .. thank god the goverment said " haha no ! "

[@AveryHyena]

I like the people in the comments saying "oh but it's fine because they're used to it! It's just a culture shock! You are the problem!" "Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved?" "Yes."

[@RayMak]

The guy that fell into drain too funny

[@rancierae]

I lived in Beijing for 3 years and had to continually watch where I walked , potholes etc . I was nearly hit several times by cars avoiding traffic jams by driving on the footpaths . Once the bus we were travelling on scattered pedestrians when the driver decided he couldn’t wait for traffic and took the footpath route

[@kdrapertrucker]

So it's like Chicago?

[@GF-mf7ml]

The competitive attitude in China are insane.

[@360decrees2]

"If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk." - A 1980s bumper sticker. Seriously, a man in some fit of anger drove his car deliberately onto the sidewalk in the Westwood section of Los Angeles in the 1980s. He crippled a young woman for life and got a life sentence.

[@4thought___]

People drove on footpaths/ side- walks in the USSR too ;(

[@thereseemstobeenanerror1219]

​@@360decrees2 Wait, really? And that must have been a nasty case of road rage.

[@Grubbstich]

It's an amusingly educational day when Laowhy uploads.

[@oriraykai3610]

An entire country with the same floorplan as the Winchester Mystery House? Well, if they can charge the same admission and give tours, that might save their economy. 😆

[@annenelson5656]

The Winchester House isn’t going to fall down though! 😅

[@feilox]

sad to hear the glass bridge, my dad was right about them not being safe lol. I thought they were all made to spec. Also that finger painting at the end reminds me of "flirting scholar" movie. I actually didn't believe those types of people exist lol.

[@solomani5959]

When I lived in HK anything built by a mainland Chinese company was considered subpar and risky.

[@metalvideos1961]

and yet they make among the best products in the world. i call BS on what you say. but hey everyone can be anything on the internet ofc. its all anonymous.

[@1080GBA_SC]

stereotype moment

[@solomani5959]

@@1080GBA_SC blame the Chinese who are stereotyping other Chinese. I’m the end, it was a correct pattern. Mainland built buildings were condemned more often then locally built buildings. And the one building that partially collapsed when I lived there was built by mainlander Chinese company not HK builder. /shrug. YMMV.

[@solomani5959]

@@metalvideos1961 best products in the world? Lol.

[@1080GBA_SC]

@@solomani5959 bruh

[@brian5762]

What I have noticed is that a significant amount of combustible foam is utilized in the construction of the buildings. This can be in the form of exterior insulation with the cladding to facades. There was a high-rise fire in the UK a few years ago, that had a number fatalities as a result of combustible exterior foam insulation.

[@robertgallagher7734]

Seen it here in the USA too- styrofoam with a thin coat of stucco to make the building look more expensive. Do not know if it is still to code but 10 years ago it wasn't uncomon.

[@toolegittoquit_001]

Couple that with non-functioning fire hydrants and the potential for an inferno looms

[@Skiis44]

@@robertgallagher7734it was called Dryvit

[@HasanUnknown]

*[Sorry not Related, but very Important]* Islam is a religion who makes us to Believe in Jesus, We Muslims 100% Believes in Jesus, We Muslims Believes that Jesus is the Christ, We Muslims Believes that Jesus will Come Again to this World, Jesus did Miracles by the Permission of Allah, Jesus himself Never said “Im God” also Never he said anyone to “Worship Me” Jesus was Just a Prophet and Messenger Of Allah Only to Guide The People of Israel, ----------------------- *Jesus Denies Being God* | Read ⬇️ ----------------------- "My Father is greater than me." [John 14:28] “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to My God and your God.” [John 20:17] “Jesus said: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” [Mark 12:29] “Jesus, Fell with his face to the ground and Prayed.” [Matthew 26:39] “Jesus said, “My teaching is not my own, It comes from the one who has sent me.” [John 7:16] “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgement is just because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who has sent me." [John 5:30] “The crowd answered, This is Jesus, the Prophet.” [Matthew 21:10-11] --------------------- *The Coming Of Prophet Muhammad In Bible* --------------------- “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When he the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come, He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” [John 16:12-14] --------------------- *Allah Clears About Jesus* --------------------- [Quran:- 5:72]:- “Jesus has said, "O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." [Quran:- 19:30]:- “Jesus has said, "Indeed, I am the servant of Allah. He has given me the Scripture and made me a Prophet.” [Quran:- 4:171]:- “Christ Jesus the son of Mary was no more than a messenger of Allah, So believe in Allah and His messengers. Say not "Trinity" desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah: ---------------------

[@vanhattfield8292]

You can't look at the foam and know it is a fire hazard. There are different kinds, some flammable, some not, you have know the chemical make up to know which is which...

[@crockodile85]

Lived in China in the early 1980s and I have a set of bathroom tales from the Ching tombs to caravanserai between Urumqi and Turfan to Kumming to Frangrance Hills. Ugh. Think I’m still got toilet PTSD these many decades later.

[@dancahill9585]

This is what happens when projects are only pushed forward that are just built to "increase GDP" at the regional government level. Anyone who has been in a big government contractor knows that sometimes you have to burn your budget just so your budget doesn't get cut in future years.

[@Forgoneconclusion.]

Moronic Anarchist Gutting America (MAGA) want for this country

[@robertschnobert9090]

That's how every company with budgets for certain departments works. If the sales department gets $5k every year for new office furniture you better use all of it, or the budget will be smaller next year. 🌈

[@steelytemplar]

Government: We'll pay you to build an escalator. Contractor: Just an escalator? Any other details? Government: Around some farmers somewhere. Contractor: That's it? Government: Yes. Stop bothering me. Do you want the money or not? Contractor: Escalator near farmers. Coming right up.

[@oscaradeaza1203]

Farmers: WtF is that doing here???

[@mikeagd477]

The cows at the farm: hey look, we can get to heaven now

[@jamesabestos2800]

This is gonna encourage a peasant or more accurately just* a farmers revolt *maybe more people

[@brendancoulter5761]

I grantee you the contractor was not the one deciding where the escalators went

[@mx1]

@@oscaradeaza1203 Workers: China is going to have more Escalators Per Capita than the USA and Europe!

[@Nickle314]

That lorry, going into the hole, and filling it simultaneous. Amazing Efficiency

[@wes773105333]

The one area where China truly innovates.

[@jkutyna]

Winnie the Pooh does not take the stairs when he needs to escape the poop fountains in the streets. He needs modern means of rising above high tide.

[@stevermacsoucher1625]

It would be cool to see how wild animals react to the esculators but thats about it. The first time those things need matinance they are just going to be abandoned

[@THarSul]

I spent most of this video with my jaw on the floor; I knew things weren't as good as they said they were, but this is absolutely astonishing, things are so much worse than they let the world know. Thank you for shining a light on this situation.

[@Danny-bz4gr]

No. Things are much better than usa which is 2nd world in comparison. This white bigot has some biased agenda against china for some bizarre reason. Its even strange not only because there are far worse problematic places in the world such as africa, south america, middl east etc but he focuses on china even though married to a chinese woman and kid.

[@metalvideos1961]

Ever been to China? or do you only watch propaganda videos like this. probably so right? so ofc you believe every crap this guy spews. go to china and see for yourself. but i am sure you will not do that because you have been brainwashed.

[@pliashmuldba]

I am highly critic about my own country, and it sure as hell have its challenges / problems. But then looking at China, well things here look pretty damn good all of a sudden.

[@limitedtime5471]

It's ok more than 1 bad thing can exist at once. Pushing for improvements is the only way things have ever improved

[@LGZSZHB]

你们得无知，让我看到了原来媒体是可以如此强大，控制舆论，控制人们得思想

[@skyechild]

Yes improvements should always be strived for but it is important to acknowledge how far we have come and what we have achieved. Visiting China did make me appreciate my imperfect government more. At leasty gov admits they aren't perfect!

[@brettg9481]

That's is what they want. Settle for less in the US because a semi third world country has problems. We are about a century ahead of China in our development. They were at a feudal level of development in 1950. We were already a modern industrialized country at that point. Of course the US is nicer than China. That is hardly something to brag about.

[@ZYGTropicals]

Yup, china has definitely come far! But unfortunately now, china is showing severe pains!!! They realize the country is in trouble! They even lied on the population information to make it look like china is doing well!!! China is in trouble, and the people from china do not like to admit that their country is in trouble. Truth is, china is doing some scary things that make no sense at all. Their are far to many contractors etc cutting corners and doing jobs without proper regulation and inspections!

[@SimplestUsername]

It's shocking to learn how weak the CCP actually is. I pray that an anti-communist movement follows their current market correction.

[@Guyonnn]

“My god, what happened here?! Is this a murder scene?” “No sir. It’s a public restroom in China.”

[@vada.6024]

Feel bad for that poor goose. I've been taking care of rescued geese and that goose taped to a chair was upsetting.

[@andyt8216]

Yeah it wasn’t funny. The poor thing.

[@user-qy8yj8hn5j]

Yes, but you never feel sorry for foie gras in France! When you know how foie gras is made! Double standard

[@mariakaiser4403]

​@@user-qy8yj8hn5j I never eat foie gras , I never eat boiled frogs ..

[@InVinoVeratas]

​@@user-qy8yj8hn5jkind of a weird assumption that regular non-french eat said meals, ever. I mean, most northern Americans would probably find said meal to be repulsive, the French-Canadian included, as they hate being compared to France, despite being French.

[@user-qy8yj8hn5j]

@@InVinoVeratas Double standard! So why is it called French foie gras, and not American foie gras, Italian foie gras

[@samwindmill8264]

Going to China would be an absolute nightmare for me with those horrible toilets 😫 I'm extremely squeamish

[@steelytemplar]

It makes me wonder how many people look at those and are like, "Nope!" and just go behind some bushes.

[@AaronSoul725]

​@@steelytemplarit's probably safer behind the bushes too...

[@oliveelephant]

well, do you know about 'gutter oil'? or 'young boy virgin eggs'? The latter isn't a China-wide phenomenon, but the former is ...

[@4thought___]

You don't need to go to China: Sydney Australia has some damaged, but mainly filthy toilets since the early 1990s. Worst I've seen is a cubicle with it's walls covered in diarhoea from a definite height above the seat level. They never make any attempt to clean up any of their mess either. Rare to find a toilet without piss on the floor. NB: they stand on the toilet seats, then squat down

[@HiIarityBribo]

horrible toilets would be the least of your problems in china

[@pkjmfineart1593]

Haven't watcher your channel before LMAOwhy86

[@SugarbabySunny]

All the food wasted by police ripping up crops. Those outhouses are scary looking. Think I’d pee behind the outhouse

[@ChefZak]

Not once, in my year in China, did I encounter a functioning escalator.

[@tomlxyz]

meaning it didn't come when you pushed the button or did you end up stuck?

[@bellissimo4520]

After watching all this, I'd be too afraid to use an escalator...

[@norwegianblue2017]

China is one of the few countries where I don't trust their escalators or elevators. Seen too many videos where people get mangled and/or killed.

[@--_DJ_--]

@@tomlxyz How does one get stuck on a set of stairs? Escalators and elevators are not the same thing...

[@TH-jd1kv]

Because Chinese products and people are crapだ

[@anonymouscoward7559]

I like what Winston said "China is the land of half measures a facades".

[@chao-1oveandpeace]

Today, I finally understand why Trump talks about fake news every day.

[@williamko4751]

Half measures, you are wrong. Corruption is always full measure

[@HiIarityBribo]

ping pong ding dong

[@powerbuilder0510]

Straight off the bat, why you no same!?!? (Round toilet square seat, square toilet square seat) That truck stop or what ever diaster struck that now unholy thrown room (toilet area) reminds me of stories from here in australia of a place i worked at after it had long stopped. Three words The phantom shitter From the ceiling the floor, a full 360 left to right not a clean spot as far as one can see with one exception, the clean foot prints from standing upright and shitting on absolutely everything except the patch under their feet 🎉 😮

[@ZYGTropicals]

It’s not two toilets for two people to use together. One is a typical toilet, the other is a Bidet!!! You can clearly see they aren’t the same!

[@ralfanater324]

If you ever feel useless, know that there's a escalator in a middle of a field somewhere in China.

[@derkeksinator17]

Sad, broken, useless, as a result of corruption, and with the knowledge of being made to never accomplish anything.

[@awegahn]

I wonder if Chuang-tzu (taoist philosopher) has anything to do with this mentality. "Do not underestimate the useless old tree in the middle of the desert, one day it will give you shade in your travels". Paraphrasing, but still.

[@ralfanater324]

@@awegahn you can say that kind of philosophy has some merit in this situation. But this seems more like an white elephant than a tree.

[@ollom13]

@@awegahnhe philosophy behind inefficient escalators in the middle of nowhere seems to be more Confucian than Taoist. Especially since they were government-imposed rather than natural.

[@ronnelacido1711]

You misunderstand that escalator. A mall is being planned to be built on that area. The contractor was just "pre-positioning" the elevator to get ahead of the others.

[@studibakre]

The double toilet makes sense. They know one (or both) will break soon, so they have the backup (that will also break) while awaiting repairs 😂

[@nerfherder4284]

That was actually my first thought 😂

[@zombiebullshark3834]

There is a creepy Posta called "don't ride the escalator in the forest to nowhere" lmfao

[@camels9654]

hahahahahha they taped a goose to a chair for the ring toss, only in China hahaha

[@selachian]

That escalator will be broken down constantly. Not only because everything in China breaks, but because of how it'll stop working due to gravel in the machinery week 1. We have elevators in the middle of the city that break down the same week roads are peppered with gravel for the winter (more environmentally friendly alternative to salting the roads.) They are very sensitive to this.

[@Cbd_7ohm]

Plus they're Chinese escalators lol.

[@larion2336]

It will be a pile of rust after the first rain.

[@josiahjacinto4156]

China makes 3rd world countries comfortable to live in

[@dapje2002]

I lose track of this channel from time to time because the algorithm doesn't notify me properly, or I get unsubscribed for whatever f*cking reason, but I love your videos. I know you get a lot of flack, but keep going. The Chinese people deserve a better life and a competent government.

[@patrickhamos2987]

Agree except they deserve nothing but to stew in their own filth.

[@millennialodyssey5956]

Same here I only get notifications for some of the videos. But when I watch one of them I end up binge watching the new ones as well lol

[@ryanreedgibson]

Same! And yes, they Chinese people deserve much better.

[@meestaShin]

A channel doesn't magically get unsubscribed. :P

[@wojtekpolska1013]

if you want to get notified you have to change notification settings (the bell icon next to subscribe button) subscriptions dont mean anything anymore on youtube

[@Joeyd-tm5fp]

I love you work !! even though it makes me sick …. I enjoy it !!

[@alannajones330]

I think that I would prefer go in the woods than in any of these " restrooms". But I am just a lady that grew up in rural America.

[@abrahamthebewildered1448]

Nothing wrong with the woods. If you go number 1 it'll sink into the ground, if you go #2 then dig a hole then bury it. Fairly sanitary. Just need a water source to wash up. If you have wood ash, you can also use it to give you hands a deep clean. That'll kill ALL bacteria, lol. Might be a bit rough though for people with soft skin. The bathrooms in the video on the other hand were probably crawling with disease, and maybe even parasites.

[@CalimehChelonia]

If someone destroyed my crops, I would shoot. That's where the fun stops. That's a red line. Most people have no idea how much energy and labor small farmers put into their fields and gardens. My heart bleeds. Down with these psychopaths!

[@Xbalanque84]

Looking at this level of corruption, one wonders what it would actually take to make their culture abandon their insipid "mandate of heaven" philosophy...

[@ronblack7870]

in china you would not have a gun to shoot with

[@CalimehChelonia]

​@@Xbalanque84 You're right. Dictators are absolutely powerless without all the serfs to follow their orders. The proportion of people on the strong narcissistic and psychopathic spectrum is only a few percent. If we as humanity managed to exclude them from any position of power, a lot would already have been gained. Even police officers in some countries have to pass certain tests because they are allowed to exercise a certain amount of power. But a ice cold psychopath can become a politician without people seeming to care at all what kind of personality that really is. That urgently needs to change now. For this to happen, however, human culture must change worldwide. Humanity needs to get out of this damn slave mentality.

[@ronnelacido1711]

If you do that in China, you will be branded as a "radical". You will be sent to a vocational-tech nical school in Xinjiang to be "de-radicalized".

[@deborahdean8867]

You probably couldnt have a gun, or rifle. You'd have to fight the army with pitchforks and sticks.

[@ItsTimePictures]

I was so grossed out by my life in China I look back and wonder how I lasted as long as I did.

[@SincerestSawa]

Survival, glad you made it out

[@IamAnonX]

China isn't that bad is it?

[@xLuis89x]

and it makes you wonder about all those posts of people saying that ''the *media* is telling us lies about china, it's not at all as bad as they paint it out to be!''

[@seth1455]

it would help your story if said how long you were there 20 days or 20 years?

[@fortunateson101]

​@keythvance1 I was there 14 years. It depends where you go. Of you stick to the touristy/ foreigner frequented places it is fine. Move outside of the big cities, or even into the places in big cities where foreigners don't generally go and things get rougher. In the smalle cities and towns, it can get pretty brutal. Then, in the truly rural areas, things get very basic and dire. But those places are where you come across some of the most wonderful people.

[@paladro]

reminds me of that scene from cowboy bebop where they tripping on shrooms, dudes endlessly walking up stairs, but just standing in place )

[@SomeCanine]

>Not wanting to hold hands with your bros when you're pooping

[@ateam6486]

in 2012 the train to Guangzhou toilet was just a sheet of thin metal with hole in it, The metal floor moves and buckles as you step onto it and you see into the hole the rocks going under the train. Like the floor will fall with you on it onto the train tracks.

[@deeznutsifier69420]

I just like how for the 2 toilets, the one on the right has a matching lid. The one on the left has the same lid as the right toilet, but on a different shaped toilet bowl. So they got the same seat lid, but they couldn't get the same toilet

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

Nope, they didn't even get that much right. Check the locations of the feet on the lids.

[@derstef4n]

That literally says everything... Not even the easiest things can be managed properly...

[@DeadDancers]

The useless building projects was already baffling - but the idea that so much money could be wasted on houses nobody would ever live in when basic sanitation needs weren’t being met is almost inconceivable.

[@donha475]

Shocking

[@Mysticmegster1]

Thanks for showing this. That goose taped to a chair was insane! And it s interesting how Chinese infrastructure isnt as full proof as theyre making it out to be

[@laughingseagull000]

*foolproof Sorry

[@charliedulin]

And they weren't even throwing rings at it!

[@Antifuzz1]

I almost lost it at the goose 😂

[@PaulMurrayCanberra]

Very medieval. Wouldn't be at all out of place in Ye Ole Faire.

[@LGZSZHB]

哈哈哈，笑死我了😂😂😂

[@FirstLast-vr7es]

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." ~Napoleon Bonaparte~ Let them keep eating their own. Let it rot.

[@danieldjz]

China is the enemy of humanity.

[@danieldjz]

@@tinkrls3r Yeah, whatever. The world must act to cut China from the economic community by NOT buying their shit.

[@jessicascoullar3737]

As someone who likes to go nowhere and hates stairs, not completely against this trend. If they want to come build one on the hill up from the bus stop near my house I would be grateful.

[@painandsuffer]

Two toilets in case you clog one.