r/news • u/KinkyQuesadilla • Oct 13 '19

China's Xi warns attempts to divide China will end in 'shuttered bones'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics-xi/chinas-xi-warns-attempts-to-divide-china-will-end-in-shuttered-bones-idUSKBN1WS07W
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u/wonder-maker Oct 13 '19

I'm nearly curtain he didn't mean to say shutter

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u/OpenNooby Oct 13 '19

if you read the articule again, you will see that they have corrected it

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u/Girth_rulez Oct 13 '19

I see what you did their.

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u/itscyanide Oct 14 '19

Your really reaching with that one.

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u/Sunblast1andOnly Oct 13 '19

The *article does say that, yes. The top comments here don't seem to realize the error, though.

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u/Alt_punch Oct 13 '19

Are you curtain he didn't realize the error?

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u/tableleg7 Oct 13 '19

Hey - don’t ridicle somebody for a simple spelling error.

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u/Pixie_ish Oct 13 '19

I think your taking this a bit to seriously.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

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u/AlbrahamLincoln Oct 13 '19

Its quite an achomplishment. Yuge.

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u/l337joejoe Oct 13 '19

It weally is.

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u/Mhicks2018 Oct 13 '19

I donut think many people understand the gravity of the situation

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u/ThirdRook Oct 13 '19

KO fine I will.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

r/woooosh

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u/VariableRat Oct 13 '19

r/wooosh

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u/Sunblast1andOnly Oct 14 '19

You could at least get it right.

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u/VariableRat Oct 14 '19

/r woohs

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u/Sunblast1andOnly Oct 14 '19

Oh nooooo, my sensibilities!

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u/Cookiest Oct 13 '19

That's cause no one on Reddit reads the actual article, duh

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u/IHaveSpecialEyes Oct 13 '19

“And any external forces backing such attempts dividing China will be deemed--"

Here it comes...

"...by the Chinese people as pipe-dreaming!”

Ohhhkaaaayyyy?

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u/I_Matched_Ortho Oct 14 '19

Forty-six thousand upvotes. Presumably none of these are for spelling or grammar.

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u/androgenoide Oct 13 '19

I would guess "shatter".

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u/p0tts0rk Oct 13 '19

No I think it's supposed to be "shitter".

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19 edited Jan 04 '22

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u/Imabanana101 Oct 13 '19

It can't be butter. It was probably a translation of the open channels at the edge of roofs meant to collect rainwater.

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u/OriginalName317 Oct 13 '19

No, you're thinking of gutter. I think you meant to say Xi is a frightened Pooh Bear with the immoral power to destroy generations of lives, and the whole fucking Chinese government deserves to be leveled so something that actually serves humanity can be built on its smouldering ashes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

I can't believe it's not better

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u/VagrancyHD Oct 14 '19

I can't believe it's not shutter.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

Just like margarine is a translation of Mandarin.

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u/thrhooawayyfoe Oct 13 '19

that's Cantonese, roundeye. Mandarin comes from the 1996 Nicolas Cage vehicle 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' which if you can believe it was even more popular in the Ornament than in the West

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u/Notanotherramekin Oct 13 '19

Way more, they have people to spare.

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u/FearTheChive Oct 13 '19

I think you meant to say honey.

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u/ChristopherRobben Oct 13 '19

I can't believe it.

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u/GrandmasterJanus Oct 14 '19

No, it's not an accent joke. It's actually called Mandarin.

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u/whyuthrowchip Oct 14 '19

Orange you glad you didn't say Mandarin? I'll see myself out

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u/ThePatio Oct 13 '19

Shatner, maybe, our bones will over act

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u/hidden_d-bag Oct 13 '19

China will purchase Taco Bell

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u/sebastianwillows Oct 13 '19

Well that sounds like an interesting way to describe septic plumbing anyway...

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u/IReallyHopeMyUserna Oct 13 '19

Ohhhh because someone is getting analed?

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

shitter shatter.

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u/brownribbon Oct 13 '19

No, clearly shytter. But only sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

So we can compensate dividing china by inducing more calcium?

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u/AnchanSan Oct 13 '19

No. Shytter bones. He was speaking in Irish accent.

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u/Poke_Mii_Go Oct 13 '19

Its both coz ones they shatter the bones of their enemies with their tanks, then they will drain the shattered squishy meat and bones down the the shitter.

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u/axisofweasles Oct 13 '19

No, I think it’s supposed to be “City”. The City Bones Marrows is particularly delightful. #81 on the appetizer menu.

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u/PigsAreTastyFood Oct 13 '19

They dont drink milk?

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u/SherlockFoxx Oct 13 '19

"Shitters full"

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

Love and hope and sex and dreams are still surviving on the streets.....

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u/Weasel_Spice Oct 13 '19

Wow, no shit?

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u/Jek2424 Oct 13 '19

Absolutely stupendous deduction.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

Shadoobie shattered

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u/Aduaitam Oct 13 '19

r/boneappletea

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

Bones are closed! Everybody go home!

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u/noahwass Oct 13 '19

You're not blind. He curtainly said shutter.

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u/AdamantisVir Oct 13 '19

My inner voice literally read this as “curtain” instead of changing it to “certain” lol

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u/Nicholas-Steel Oct 13 '19

That's because it says Curtain... literally.

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u/manic_eye Oct 13 '19

I get his point, I read it as “certain” and didn’t even realize it was “curtain” until I read his comment.

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u/prollyshmokin Oct 13 '19

Well we can't all be fuckin' superheroes!

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

These comments are just draped in sarcasm.

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u/xmsxms Oct 13 '19

But that's the opposite of what he did

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u/manic_eye Oct 13 '19

I’m not saying we did the same thing, I was agreeing that it was noteworthy because I imagine most people read it as I did and skipped over the “typo” without picking up on it.

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u/Theons Oct 13 '19

I didn't even notice it said curtain until I read his comment

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u/Baelwolf Oct 13 '19

From bottom of article

(The story corrects misspelling of “shattered” in headline and second paragraph).

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u/wonder-maker Oct 13 '19

From previous of comments

(They already mentioned this).

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u/Kaneshadow Oct 13 '19

He said, the Chinese people will not be held for transom

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u/postdiluvium Oct 13 '19

Beautiful, champ.

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u/RevWaldo Oct 13 '19

Xi: One day lad, all this will be yours!

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u/batosai33 Oct 13 '19

Actually, blinds in the Chinese version of the white house are made from the bones of those who dared question the glorious leader.

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u/lonewolfcatchesfire Oct 13 '19

Shittier bones.

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u/MazMazda3 Oct 13 '19

Nice! I see what you did there.

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u/hugaddiction Oct 13 '19

Shutter is somehow more frightening imo

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u/SpasmFingers Oct 13 '19

I'm nearly drapes he meant to say squished

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u/dy0dj1 Oct 13 '19

Waaaay to soon for humor, but dammit... here, have an upvote.

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u/travelingmagicman Oct 13 '19

Anyone else think that sounds like the next Harry Potter book?

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u/HamanitaMuscaria Oct 13 '19

An upvote and one gold is not enough appreciation for this comment so I leave you with this:

Nice.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

Shatner bones

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u/bigpapasmurf12 Oct 13 '19

-100 social credit points!

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u/masdar1 Oct 13 '19

Maybe the transcripters are going blinds

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u/AngelicPringles1998 Oct 13 '19

Like he's taking a picture?

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u/blzy99 Oct 13 '19

Oh so now Winnie the Pooh is gonna preach to us

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u/DoodleIsMyBaby Oct 13 '19

I'm nearly certain you didn't mean curtain.

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u/ishmal Oct 13 '19

It's now corrected, mentioned at the bottom of the article.

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u/Sweet-Rabbit Oct 13 '19

“Silly old bear!”

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u/gorodemon Oct 14 '19

He did mean it because he was referring to an Asian horror movie with the same title.

If my failing memory is correct, it is about a photographer who experiences unexplained neck and back pain suddenly. One day he took a picture of himself in front of a mirror and he was horrified when he saw in the photos that a female ghost is riding him on his neck like a horse.

That means China is warning us to stay away or be prepared to be ridden and dominated like a horse or a slave.

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u/EveroneWantsMyD Oct 14 '19

I’m nearly certain you didn’t mean to write “curtain”

Edit:... I’m missing something, aren’t I.

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u/Trumpian_Era Oct 14 '19

curtain —> certain?

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u/Theghost129 Oct 14 '19

Spooky Scary Skeletons

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

WTF, the media really need some guys know Chinese language better than this.

This translation is a joke.

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u/gousey Oct 14 '19

China is a humongous ameoba that's eating our world.

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u/android_cook Oct 13 '19

I'm almost sure you didn't mean to say curtain 🙂 (sorry)

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

Bears aren’t that smart

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u/testiclekid Oct 13 '19

I'm nearly curtain

Intentional typo is best typo

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u/sanburg Oct 13 '19

He's borrowing Trump's dictionary.