巴士阿叔 - Bus Uncle
June 6th, 2006 by MarkI don’t normally post any Cantonese videos, but in the end I just couldn’t resist this one. Bus Uncle (巴士阿叔 or 公車阿叔) has become something of a craze.
Here’s the story: a young man on a bus in Hong Kong tapped the guy in front of him and asked him not to speak so loudly on his cellphone. Then, the man on the cellphone, A.K.A. “Bus Uncle”, became enraged and spent nearly seven minutes scolding, cursing, and forcing an apology out of the younger passenger who asked him to tone it down. Unbeknownst to either of them, another passenger filmed the whole thing on his cellphone and then put it up on the web.
It became an instant hit in Hong Kong, and now countless versions of the video are floating around online, and there’s even an English wikipedia article on it. Furthermore, resourceful HK reporters managed to track Bus Uncle down, publish his height, weight and other personal information, and even get a snapshot of his messy appartement. Oh, yeah. Here’s the Bus Uncle remix.
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June 6th, 2006 at 1:47 am
that is the funniest thing i’ve ever seen!!
June 6th, 2006 at 4:59 am
Now you can buy the bus uncle shirts! Its sell at http://www.cafepress.com/uncle_bus
Uncle Bus “Unresolved” Gift Shop
I HAVE PRESSURE.
YOU HAVE PRESSURE.
WHY DON’T YOU BUY SOME CLOTHES?
BUY.
If you don’t buy, I may have to DIU LE LO MO!
June 6th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Mark-san,
You made me spend my precious seven minutes this morning. But it was really worth seeing the funny video. I thought that the young man would shout back at the Bus Uncle in the end, but contrary to my expectation he did not. What a patient guy he is !
I want you to see fierce battles on buses in China. The most often seen case is a quarrel or a fight between a conductor and passengers. The match of an excited female Hanzu(漢族) conductor v.s. a drunken male Korean-Chinese is really worth watching.
June 6th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
haha, that’s great. I can’t believe the guy didn’t react to all those things the Uncle was saying about his mum!!!
June 7th, 2006 at 2:00 am
everyone has pressure !!!
ha, it’s freaking fun..
June 7th, 2006 at 3:11 am
I know, Dan! Uncle Bus goes on and on warning the other guy to be careful about his manners, and then he totally dismissed his request to leave his mom out of the discussion. It’s like it didn’t even occur to him that spewing forth a barrage of profantities about someone’s mother could be as rude as asking someone not to shout on their cell phone in public. What a bull-headed guy!
Smokey, I like that line too. I think my favorite quotes are:
1) 未解定! 未解定! 未解定! (It’s not settled!)
2) 我有壓力. 你有壓力. (I have pressure. You have pressure.)
June 10th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
It was especially relieving to find out Uncle’s penis was not attached to other guy’s mom, or that his penis was not,indeed, his mother.
Effing hilarious!!