Fakin' The Funk 1: Fake-ass Disneyland in China!

I'm starting a new column here in the blog called "Fakin' the Funk". Whenever I run across something that's a bad representation of the original, be it tangible or intangible, It'll go here.

We're gonna start this show off right-- Here's a fake-ass Disneyland in China, which has long been the "knock-off" capital of the world anyway.

From The Standard we learn that Beijing's state-owned Shijingshan Amusement Park boasts the slogan "Disneyland is too far" and "features a replica of Cinderella's Castle, with staff dressed like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other Disney characters." Here's a quote from a 31-year-old housewife and mother at the park that nicely sums up the situation:

"I don't understand why that is such a big problem. Shouldn't others be able to use those characters besides [Disney]?" she asks.

Japan Probe offers us this gem:

Some have claimed that the park is illegally copying Disney’s Minnie Mouse. However, the park’s operators have insisted that the character ... is not a mouse. It is a cat with very large ears!

Japan Probe also links to several video clips of Japaneses news broadcasts on the topic.

All images originally appeared on Japan Probe.

UPDATE: Japan Probe finds fake zebras at the fake Disneyland, and more Chinese amusement parks ripping off just about everybody. And the AP reports that Shijingshan might be trying to clean up its act.

We'll see. If they can fake the Apple iPhone and get away with it, then why not everything else...

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暗い場所から出たい！

Forgive me for not writing.... Lately.

If anyone ever reads this... and gives a damn... Then understand...

Take whatever pain you've experienced in your life, it could be physical... mental... it can be personal, or empathised. Whatever that pain is, its what I've been feeling for the past month...

I've lost so much this month. A job. A friend. An aunt. A grandma. so much has been ripped from me over the past 4 weeks, and I cannot cry anymore. Im just numb. The pain has dulled my emotions and I'm afraid I can't feel anything right now.

There is no one to tell me sweet things like "it'll be ok" or "that how life is sometimes". No "I'll be there for you" or "Let me buy you a drink" Just dull pain... Not even the pain sometimes though.... Just hollow emptiness.

And in that hollowed out place, only the strained echoes of the voices of those I loved that are now gone can be heard. It's such a sad and lonely place. Like a deserted island with no water, no sound, no sky and no land. Just empty space, a vast void without light, sound, taste or smell...

I miss them... so much.... It makes me miss all those that have gone before them too... I miss them all terribly.

You can't understand me... Don't even try, 'cause I don't care anymore. I stopped giving a damn when all my hard work... All my heart and soul got thrown back into my face by self-serving, hating, careless sons-and-daughters-of-dirty-gutter-trash. This is what you get when you rip someone's heart out... When you take their very essence and piss on it and leave it for dead on the side of the road.... This is what happens... When a man's hopes... and dreams... loves... and pleasures... desires... and wishes... totally... evaporate.

Thanks bitches, Thanks a lot.

If I ever make it outta this dark place I find myself in, I'll thank the few people that help me along the way... As for everyone else.... Well I don't have enough middle fingers because God only gave me two...

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Crazy video of the week: ATV Human Slingshot!

Did you ever watch Tom and Jerry or Wile E. Coyote as a kid and think "I can do that in real life when I get big!" Well it looks like you were not alone...

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