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While "Sports Make You Health" doesn't work on a grammatical level, you certainly feel the meaning in a general sense. You also probably find jokes about sex funny, because you are breathing, and therefore should enjoy Chinese company Elasun's elegantly base collection of condom ads running in China right now.
As if the double-entendre wasn't going far enough, consider that the Chinese have also started referring to going to the Olympics as "avoiding pregnancy," because the words for "Olympics" sounds something like the words for "contraception," or "beef tallow business suit," depending on the tones. Damn you, tonal languages. You're to blame for me being arrested in Hong Kong that one time. How was I to know the words "bank withdrawal" and "I'm robbing this bank with a bomb strapped to my chest" were one tone apart? Really, people.
(Check out a couple more of the ads after the jump.)
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THAT AIN’T RIGHT
by grimey.loljocks on Jul 29, 2008 1:22 PM EDT reply actions
lots of turbulence in that pool.
for her pleasure, of course.
by AllWhoYonder on Jul 29, 2008 2:06 PM EDT reply actions
After seeing what their toys and pet food does to its users, anyone who would buy and use a Chinese condom would have to be clinically insane. Lead poisoning affects any area of the body, does it not?
That said, 10 years from now that may be all that’s available!
by proteusbass on Jul 30, 2008 8:51 PM EDT reply actions
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