China Took OUR PASSPORTS for $8 of Gas!!!

welcome guys to another adv china we're going to be taking you through some pretty interesting places here we're going to be translating some of the signs the propaganda that kind of thing but we're in a completely different place because the last two videos we were down south you know yeah we were kind of in hunan and we were down in guanxi and places like sorry guy yeah we obviously went through guanxi and stuff but uh but this time we're very very far away we're in a city called qingdao at least on the outskirts [Music] maybe you can introduce the area we're in yeah so qingdao is in shandong province shandong is a coastal region of northern china so qingdao actually used to be a german concession and winston i went up there to check out some of the below the qingdao brewery when we checked out the the german caves that were built for the tunnels before world war before world war one yeah um and the whole area was a german concession for a while so there's a lot of cool german architecture when you're there that being said um there's still a lot of influence left over from that because of it had such good infrastructure qingdao was one of the wealthier cities in china yeah in this area that we're in is called lausanne lausanne is about 18 kilometers outside of downtown yeah and it's known for having a very clean water table so it's very rare in china very rare so if you anywhere you go around in china you'll find laoshan mineral water yeah and then dao beer like you said um and then all of these things are basically make up qingdao in general they speak in northern dialect or chinese so there's a lot of ar hua mm-hmm so they say zainar like which means where instead of zainali exactly i i really don't like the sound of that accent yeah i've got a very strong opinion about our but whatever it doesn't matter anyway um so this is where we are and we are just outside where they banned motorcycles yeah so qingdao downtown obviously it's banned the majority of qingdao motorcycles are banned but once you get into the outskirts this happens in a lot of cities around china the outskirts they still allow it begrudgingly because you know most people cannot afford you know your lower income families even some middle class they cannot afford a car so their main form of transport would be public transport buses and stuff or a motorcycle because they're cheap the problem is of course they don't want these motorcycles coming into the city and cluttering the place up but it's difficult to get rid of them because you know so many people rely on them so we're in an area that still allows motorcycles but there's a line that if you cross your motorcycle gets you know confiscated immediately now just to set this up so you guys understand again one of the most wealthy areas of china this is going to be a stark contrast completely what you saw in the last two episodes absolutely so let's get started yeah let's get right into it so uh let's see what's going on in the background here uh we have a couple of shops here there is a what's it jienshan uh you enjoy so i guess ginseng yeah it's just the name of it so hot pot restaurant we've got a mortal hue which is a motorbike club over there a couple of other things but what we're actually doing here is we are on our way to fill up with petrol um yes for most people do you want to talk about that just to set you guys up um remember we talked about in the last episode every license plate in china each province will have its own character the character is usually an ancient character so the ancient character for the shandong region where we are is lu and this liu character is what you'll see here and lu b is qingdao yeah that means the the city of qingdao yeah the b the actually you know it's interesting a means the capital yes and b would be like the next biggest city important so shenzhen is a uab and uaa is guangzhou which is the capital yeah so yeah that's kind of how you tell it i like this guy's car by the way it's got a fart cannon on a fake lancer that has a rally art sticker on there because they try to make it into a real mitsubishi lancer well it's a direct copy of the lancer it's the south east remember the south east southeast is the english name you get a lot of these knock-off cards and people just put on badges on them and then kind of you know make it look like the real things you try to put a wing on there and everything to make it later but yeah a lot of these parts are interchangeable because it's that it's that much of a copy it is a copy it's a complete copy yeah um but they're terrible don't don't think you can buy one it'll be okay okay well we got up there shadzuko and uh yeah yeah we actually nearby here is that mountain that we went up to go into the tunnels so lausanne very beautiful area actually amazing views of qingdao yeah but yeah we climbed up that mountain that's pretty much where we are yeah uh so anyway we have to go fill up with petrol and it was quite quite the task i'll tell you that much and this is going to show you a lot about uh what it's like to actually deal with this whole surveillance state and the way china is going i was going to say this is our this is one of our first introductions to how stark and unbelievable and oppressive the surveillance state became around this time yeah under xi jinping's rules just just looking there's a couple walking down the side of the road yeah just kind of over here where there's nothing yeah let's see what does this sign say over here that says yes yeah construction up ahead drive slowly you know that kind of thing area all right that's a high speed rail by the way yeah that's right there's a high speed rail you know china is very famous for that uh their high speed rail network's amazing and we have a little bit of propaganda on the side the building yeah what does that say oh this is yeah it just means like uh development is the bottom line is like a development this word is something you'll hear in english and in chinese all over china and yes you've got the development bank of everything is construction bank of china that's ginseng mo money more fun anyway um don't look that up yeah anyway development as a bottom line is probably the most honest bit of propaganda i've ever seen in china because that is it's development at all costs yeah it all goes pretty much now what is that building attached to say something else up there uh it's just a driver just a driving school yeah um cool all right see if there's anything else interesting i'm curious about that building up on the left there i don't know what that is yeah it looks cool though hang on i think uh we missed something on the bus stop there bus stops are a great place to search for propaganda as well often often post that there oh yeah i could i could read that that's a bit let me squint a little bit there it says knee wash here so you and me hand in hand basically it's about food safety yeah so basically it says you and me hand in hand let's create china's food safety city so this this is the thing we should uh explain yeah they all have blah blah blah city yes so yeah so like huizhou where i used to live was called uh yes there's probably a lot of these too yeah that means china's civilized city now they'll give this title to a lot of places and people will be like our city is trying to civilize city but then all the other cities are called that too yeah our chinese a lot of those places in hainan are called china's green city yeah china's ocean city this one in qingdao what they're trying to say is let's create a food safety city yeah ironically i got food poisoning multiple times anyway that's the whole point if you have to tell people common sense like this like let's let's make food safety a priority basically yes that the propaganda is saying we must make a food safety city it just shows you that food safety is a big issue though right right right that's something i find a lot about the propaganda around china is it's common sense stuff first of all that you would never think about you don't see billboards up in america saying like let's make sure we don't poison our customers at the restaurant yeah seriously it's basically what it's saying and with a lot of things it'll be like we want let's make it a civilized city that means it's not surprised correct right so you've got to look at it every time they're telling you to do something that means it's a problem that needs to be served the irony here is that qingdao is actually one of the cleanest and best and it's tropical heat there so everything goes off and they leave the meat out in the sun and stuff yeah so keep in mind we're on the top top top of the pops for china where we are here you can see on the right hand side there ktv everyone knows karaoke that's where you go to party it's probably dodgy yeah i mean it's in a construction you know what happened when i was there this is crazy but some of the universities i worked at there would be ktvs and then small hotels across the street yeah and a lot of the girls that work at the the university the hot girls the pretty ones yeah they would go part-time work at these places as hostesses and uh and other things oh i mean yeah what is that dude doing up on the high speed rail up there by the way um see there's just a guy just hanging out just still waiting to get right over here apparently yeah what is he doing is he a construction worker maybe the rail's done though i don't understand there's doing some maintenance obviously yeah yeah they've got some kind of cage over there so hopefully he's okay yeah oh there's a chinese stop sign oh yeah yeah yeah dude stop this is actually an issue um quite a lot of chinese tourists cause accidents because they don't stop at stop signs um and that's just i did a video about this ages ago but maybe it's because in china they don't use the word stop on them they just use the chinese word ting which means to stop i think it's kind of interesting because a lot of countries i went to i think it was thailand a bunch of other countries they use stop it yeah it says stop in english but anyway even this sign this is quite rare in china yeah and also can you explain to me how it works because look where it's facing apparently as a pedestrian you're supposed to stop in the middle of the cross i know that makes no sense because if you're driving out of that road you don't stop because you can't see the sign you're not stopping on this main road so it's useless no no wonder you know chinese tourists don't stop at stop signs because they don't make sense you'll often see road instructions that are completely wrong yeah like seriously you'll see it i'm sure we'll see more in the video absolutely i'm sure we will um okay looks like quite a couple of young people walking around here it's still a little young city yeah i want to know what that building is on the left looks kind of cool looks nice it really does look nice also take a look at this yeah oh by the way yeah look at the road first yeah yeah look it's telling us you just what did i just say okay yeah it's telling us the u-turn i i would like to try u-turn right there and see what happens probably not good into oncoming do you know those like uh those freaking videos what is that website called lively lively that's why you see live leaks all the time that's true i mean obviously this this was probably a road that's been extended or something and they didn't take care of it but that doesn't make sense but see how they put like fake trees on the on the side i actually like that it's better than the blue corrugated iron stuff that they usually put up if i crop that it'll look like a man is lost in the forest i don't i don't think anyone would ever buy that like i'll make it happen with some video magic okay let's see how that works out shall we saying there's a propaganda oh we got some selfies in front of the prop again why are they taking selfies in front of propaganda i don't know anyway that says uh which means chinese culture which means like wisdom wisdom yeah so okay chinese culture chinese wisdom take a look you see that sign that i mean the the road signs up there can you see all the cameras on top yeah i mean look they're not all cameras a lot of that is traffic counters like there's little you see those four little things those are traffic counters so you know like on baidu maps or google maps or whatever when it can tell you if there's a lot of traffic or something that's what's feeding that data sure but there are actual cameras there too right um so yeah you can't get away with anything no you'll get that bill i remember one time i got a mail i rented an apartment i got it the guy the guy that lived there before me was from hong kong yeah but he was living in mainland for his factory right and it was there was probably a hundred and fifty bills for for speed cameras and all 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i was driving the car at the time right take them off my license they can't drive by the way they just went through whatever ways to get licenses and so they've got yeah it was really crazy they still do that yeah they absolutely still do that they've created i know they've cracked down on it a lot so you know props okay so that guy was lost in the forest as well um yeah so what's what's on this truck here uh this is yes so basically yeah they're just basically um the services that they do so like iron pipes and bloody bloody normal crap like that i saw that over there again oh it's chinese culture chinese wisdom thing oh there's a building hold on oh ah it says okay so that's actually that's you know what's funny is i applied to work at the school what there yeah okay and i was looking for jobs up north it's a really good university it's like top 50 in china it's uh ocean university china's ocean they study uh what's it called uh marine biology okay ocean oceanography um i wasn't going to teach marine biology by the way they have other positions at the university but i guess it'd be kind of tough to to study you know marine biology since it's mostly being wiped out around the coast i think maybe it's to make it more efficient at doing so okay maybe okay okay uh but yeah there's obviously some students coming across here probably gonna go visit that dodgy ktv hang around in the construction site you know kind of thing here yeah that's one of those crap electric cars oh there's a little evie's had that yellow thing got like 30 kilometers right yeah in the smaller like when you get out of the big cities you start to see that kind of thing like in the rural countryside you'll see these ridiculous little little electric cars or gas or yeah all these like three wheeled little like motorcycle engines yeah you know some of the northern cities up north they'll put like physical heaters in them like physical heaters in them and freezing those gloves there's mittens on there yeah yeah it's funny okay yeah it's just a different world when you get out of the big cities it is but this is a big serious influence absolutely top top one percent of china yeah we got some scaffolding here we've got hang on oh we got a little camera let's see what that says okay i like the joy straw means to grab you know like a little kid will join the sweets off of a plate or something or those ies you know the grab hags like the shrimp whatever they'll draw the hell out of that yeah and in fact the character is quite interesting it kind of looks like a little flaw you know but anyway like um that basically means it's a it's a traffic camera it's gonna it's a smart traffic camera and it will catch you if you don't obey the law of the traffic laws it's basically saying could stop you stop your car by law right you know or you will get caught you know on the camera that guy's rocking his safety out pretty cool yeah he's like being a little bit rebellious yeah no i'm glad he's wearing it yeah anyway let's continue [Music] so we're going to keep going through again a lot of this is uh the high speed rail everywhere yeah i'm i'm seeing some some outdoors [Music] you know that says the communist party is good see i almost didn't see this and i'll tell you why what you're looking at right now is propaganda but it's very different than the propaganda we've showed you in the other cities yeah usually it's like a red banner with white writing it's just very basic very simple right now the reason that they they dress it up here to make it look like some other random advertisement or art yeah is because qingdao is an affluent and educated city so what happens in these areas is it's a tough sell to sell the maoist's rural propaganda when they see that kind of stuff there's a version to it sure because they say well that just communism and the communist party of china that's kind of like an old school mao like it's poor yeah but when you dress it up and you're like i'm surrounded by development and then they use the communist party is good in that kind of artistic font and surround it with this this mystique and feeling then the people will say oh now the communist party is not associated with destruction and poverty it's associated with richness and culture yeah and so they throw this propaganda amongst other like culture and poetry and things like this i gotta say again if you have to say you have to say the communist party is good right it means it's bad right you know what i mean you have to be like hey guys look it's actually good you have to point it out yeah we're going to point that out to you the communist party is good and i i actually want to bring something up before we continue if you cannot understand chinese okay and let's just say you're you're just visiting or maybe you live live here in qingdao or something or whatever or you're there on a tour or something and you go past a sign like this you would not know that that is saying the chinese communist party is good you would just think it's just some cultural thing or some kind of artistic thing you wouldn't know so you know unless you can understand the language in china you really don't have a clue about what's going on around you a lot of nefarious propaganda and a lot of [ __ ] that you would skip over because you don't understand it you know you just live in a little bubble thinking everything's correct you know yeah and you're going to see now when we get to this petrol station finally just how ridiculous uh it's gotten it it gets you know and again if you're not there filling up your bike or you're not the one talking to the locals interacting with the locals in chinese you wouldn't understand what a hassle it is for the local people that's the issue you know yeah yeah anyway let's continue on uh that says jongho i'm having a little bit of trouble translating that one it's something about family loyalty being written in poems yeah so it's like basically if you're loyal and honest then you'll be written about in the in history right the thing is for a long time or whatever the thing is there's nothing to do with propaganda but that isn't the same propaganda series as the communist party is good yeah it's using the same font it's on the same same it's on the same stuff the reason that they do that is it's not to mask is to be part of they want to attribute the communist party they're using the word loyalty in there so that's obviously going to be loyal to the party so it is definitely related you know the thing is in china the chinese language knowing a lot about idioms and you know sayings and stuff is very important of course that shapes the language the culture shapes the language it's something you need to know um although the communist party of china destroyed all of the history and culture of china that now what they're trying to do is they're trying to give china an identity yeah and you know up until now the identity of china has been this kind of communist party bad knockoff of the soviet union yeah there's nothing chinese about it yeah cccp became the ccp i mean you look at all the uniforms that they wear all the mouses all the stuff just looks like stalin and lennon and all this crap it looks the same right all the uniforms look the same as the soviet union the way they do everything their little marches with all their rockets and everything it's exactly the same as the soviet union but they're trying very desperately to find their own identity and unfortunately they wiped that out they were anti their own identity mal even tried to get rid of chinese characters right you know to replace him with abc yeah which you know back in the day the soviets convinced them not to do right you should thank the soviets for having your language really right in china um but yeah it's kind of bizarre and interesting how they've tried to latch on to the culture which they previously tried so hard to destroy well because there's no legitimacy right yeah and they're trying to twist it now yeah we celebrate chinese they're they're twisting it to to work in their favor so it's like the poems and stuff are now about glorifying the party rather than you know the good meanings behind them that they originally had good point oh dude see this you see this one on the side here i recognize this it means one drop of sweat equals one grain of grain basically so it means putting the hard work to get your reward but that's that's when you start to see propaganda about food you know and i'm not talking about food safety here i'm talking about like let's make a grain of rice or grain of grain sorry um with their own sweat then you know you're dealing with communism of course i mean look they are obsessed with wheat wheat it's everywhere that's why you've got the sickle it's all about like you know reaping the wheat or whatever you know it's all about iron and wheat yeah it's like in this case still and get some yeah it's just it's terrible though because you know you know when you're dealing with that when they have to put propaganda about you know working hard to create food i know the meaning of it is like basically you know you get your reward by putting in the hard work but you know that you're dealing with a a terrible system that people are just almost on the brink of starvation because they have to focus so much on food right you know what i mean right i was born out of that yeah i bet you if you google that that that specific saying you would find that exact picture yeah i mean that's malware right yeah i mean i i'd recognize that because i've seen that before yeah it looks familiar yeah i've seen that exact picture before so yeah let's put it up for people to see oh it's sushi dongsho it means like do things yourself yeah which means like self move hands move your hand by yourself yeah sounds a bit dodgy move your hand by yourself okay don't use art if they did ban sex dolls they did they did yeah oh sex doll brothels a little bit of uh you know info for you guys out there da faji or shoot the planes it means self it just means to jerk off think about if you monetize you shoot the plane yeah i don't want to die yeah okay well yeah you guys can figure it out well i mean it's it's one of those things where you you know it's good to know you know yeah just you just hit the plane yeah hit the plane it's more like shoot the plane shoot the plane because you know you die it can also mean shoot yeah it can yeah even though it's hit but yeah that guy's just chilling out in his car yeah a little me and belcher over there red car yeah they're called that's what it is okay so basically we're going to be uh rolling into the gas station now what we want to tell you before we go into this is there is a huge problem in china with motorcycles in general sure but i want you guys to see past this now the whole point is that we're going to struggle to get gas because of the surveillance state set up but i want you to see that this has implications beyond just getting gas this is set up to be so much more than that and this is when we first started seeing how bad xi jinping's regime was getting with just the most mundane things so we're about to go in a gas station to find out that not only do we have to fill it up with a teapot away from uh yeah wait we'll talk about that a little bit and actually see it yeah but we're going to have to register with our passport and our residence permits show where we live get our photo taken by cameras everywhere in our videos taken tell our license plate have our bikes filmed at the actual place where we fill it up and have all of that information go to the central government to buy eight dollars worth of gas yeah absolutely and the reason is they are petrified and terrified of people using petrol or gasoline um in molotov cocktails and to burn things and to up like rise up against the government or anything like that so they have to have a tight control over who gets gas you cannot buy a jerrycan in china you cannot fill up a jerrycan uh you can only fill up your car and that's that um it's so ridiculous that a client of mine who just bought a car she drove the car without knowing casinos new car driver not knowing that when the fuel light comes on you gotta go fill up so she basically ran it empty she managed to park in her underground parking but the car wouldn't start because it was out of gas she had to get a towing company to come up with a flatbed to pick her car up take it to the gas station to fill it up because you're not allowed to take a jerry canyon you're not allowed to go to the petrol station fill up a jerry can to go fill up your lawnmower where you don't have lawn mowers in china you know what so if you break down on the side of the road you have to get towed to a gas station to fill your car it's ridiculous now this again the implications are so much more than this and you have to see what kind of [ __ ] we had to go through yeah so we're just going to let this clip play guys so bear with us we will uh on the other side yeah we'll pop pop in every once in a while to talk but uh we're just going to do this so let's go ahead yeah here it is dude kingpin or whatever [ __ ] kingpik kingpin is a massive peck yeah all right let's see if we have to use our uh and see if this is true g-o-r yeah yeah oh nebula oh yeah i see a [ __ ] teapot right there don't i don't swear oh sorry yeah hey look they've got a little camera and everything really yeah they're really sorted out here um okay well let's fill her up eh i'll get one you get one oh yeah i don't know if it's gonna be one like let's just fill one of these you don't think it's going to be one whole one no way dude well we're not 20 liters our tank fits nine liters so let's let's get like seven yeah about seven liters should do the trick oh huh really yep what do they fill our bikes for us no we got a dung jee with our ship in general i know but i get do do we get to fill our own bikes i don't know so weird yeah [ __ ] mine's in my bag can you help me yeah it's in that one you know that pouch let me just pull mine out in the front pouch no like open the main bag okay and then it's like at the back there you know that hidden area yep here you go ah thanks this is ridiculous is this all of this province or is it just the city uh who knows what's that crap on my passport they're calling it's for 60 cries with a petrol eight nine dollars nine dollars worth of gas you gotta register yourself you know when people think about china and they're like man it's probably like some restrictive police state it usually is not like this yeah this kind of proven them right though hopefully our province doesn't pick this up yeah oh huh yeah i want more why because 35 35 okay you didn't tell them to do that did he feel it already he didn't do it yet okay sanchez sensual i only have 40 on me i've got uh oh i've got in here i got specifically oh son of a [ __ ] it's underneath the cut seating problems there yeah [ __ ] one person should just pay and then yeah i know actually you know what i got in here i got my wallet in here can you help me with this yeah just when i'm blind you know yeah the the less amount of times we have to fill up the better you know yeah for sure is it your b no no no l u l e f woo jio ling u l e f e f o efu jesus christ all that to get gas yeah hey yeah finally dude you have to use a passport to get gas then they have to like check it and type it in their phone then they have to freaking what did they just do no they have to then register our license plate numbers here just to get gas to like prevent terrorism or some [ __ ] this is teapot bill again by the way it's kind of cool it's not it's annoying as hell okay huh how can you can you help me just shove the little [ __ ] yeah just put both of them back in my the rear thing not in here no yeah so in the hole yeah yeah in that like special pouch and then clip me up thanks yeah okay so yeah first of all i've got to say we're frustrated we've been dealing with this kind of thing for years right but the staff who are super polite and she's so sweet yeah so there's you know there's nothing nefarious about the people working here it's the system that they have to adhere to that's nefarious and annoying right i mean just look in the building there there are two cameras up there looks like there's one near the front as well you saw back there at the bikes there were two above the bikes there's that one solar powered one down there little ptz that looks directly at you at your face and stuff when you park your bike in the mortal church you know the motorbike district or whatever it's called the area you know it's everywhere this teapot thing though this is ridiculous okay so we gotta we're gonna talk about this this is widespread around china by the way but it's only in specific provinces yeah so in the guangdong province you don't have this no but as soon as you cross over into guanxi or you cross over into hunan or whatever you get this teapot [ __ ] and up here obviously in the north a lot of places it's the teapot thing yeah i used to live in air mongolia i had to do the same thing yeah and uh it goes at some time in the 80s like some guy's motorcycle caught fire near a pump or something and so then they made this rule that all motorcycles have to go park far away from the pumps and then you have to slush around open canisters of gas to get to your bike to fill it up and you know how many people smoke in china i feel like it's the stupidest idea ever it's the most unsafe thing to be carrying around open gasoline around it certainly is but yeah that's what they did so you got to do the teapot thing over here and you have to do all this nonsense so that they make sure that you are not um you know selling this gas or using this gas for for like nefariously i just want to point out that there's a massive disconnect yeah and the reason that the communist party makes laws like this is because someone told them something happened these people would never have to deal with filling up a motorcycle the communist party officials they don't ride motorcycles no it's only for the lower class people so they come up with these things that are just draconian because they think it's a fix little do they know this people are still going to go fill up a car or a bike and then go drain the gas and siphon it out they want to do it like they still do that though they do anyway the point is um what i wanted to say is all this this surveillance of these cameras are all set up right and before you say oh it's that makes everything safe what you have to understand is i'm not talking about you people always make this stupid comparison like oh it's tit for tat give up a little your privacy and you get some safety [ __ ] do you have any motorcycles i've had stolen oh yeah and guess what all of them were captured on camera being stolen do you how much of that footage that was recovered zero yeah every time when my apartment was broken into when the th when i scared the thief off the side of the wall the the security guard who's very friendly and i give cigarettes too and you know hung out with and he's nice guess what oh he just can't find the footage of the thief with all the cctv cameras everywhere gee i wonder if he was paid off by the thief i wonder yeah i also feel like it's it's chabad oil they don't want the hassle yes also this i feel this a lot because that happened when my e-bikes were stolen like they stole multiple of my bikes out of the parking lot in my my old place and it's just one of those things where i think that they realize that okay you're dealing with a foreigner and you're dealing with the police and it's probably more hassle to have it than not because if they don't have it they're just like we don't know we don't know well i've actually there's a couple times where we force the building manager to go in and look and number one sometimes the cameras aren't even on number two at that point they'll actually be able to recover footage but what they can do with it is a different story now my point is in actual crime situations the majority of the time in my experience not just with foreigners i'm dealing with chinese people doing this too because i've had chinese friends lose stuff too right they can't get the footage and the police won't do anything about it anyway yeah so these are set up not for that reason yeah these are security these are set up for state security yeah these are set up so the government can track every single movement of every single person at all times so that if something is committed against the government then it can be recovered that's when they take it seriously and i just want to point that out you may have noticed that uh in the shop on the back of her monitor was these sort of notices yeah the pink ones uh we translated those and uh basically they said you know you need motorcycles specifically for motorcycles uh motorcycle riders you're going to have to produce your shunfendo and you know your photo id your and all this kind of stuff cannot be expired or anything but they also had another thing there about cards now you can get like a fuel card that you can use at a lot of these stations it's kind of like a top-up card yeah you do you could put like 100 rmb on it and then you can go to a pump and you know fill up your own gas but they were very specific that you're not allowed to let anyone else use your card it can only be used for your vehicle so obviously with all the surveillance stuff they could tell like if if your card is obviously tied to you and your id and if they see a vehicle that's not yours filling up with your card then there might be some issues you know what i mean it's just so in this case now the central government knows our face at what time where what vehicles we're riding what our residence permit says our entry and exit stamps and our passport scanned our passport scanned all of our our information all over this place yeah and then basic knows which direction we're going after pretty much yeah it's insane it is pretty very quickly though i wanted to say it looks like winston might be being a little bit rude in the gas station towards this girl now what the issue is here he's not this is how you communicate to someone very very clearly when there's a misunderstanding now there's no language barrier here what this is is that china uses letters a through z yeah just like we do in in languages that use the latin alphabet right now the problem is is that a lot of chinese people this this girl behind the counter she's probably got at least eight years of english study under her belt she should no she should if she went to school right she's probably 18 20 years old she's studied english long enough in the chinese education system to know very should be high levels of english so she's passing these exams sure right the problem is is that the nature of of how english education works in china's it's written and not just written and not spoken and even reading like the comprehension is very low it's all memorization so he's trying to say that his license plate says but he had to say ello yeah and he had to over pronounce even wrong some of these letters just to make her understand yeah it's also really frustrating you could see i i'm trying to say like woo jio ling and i was even giving her the chinese woo ling you know that's you know we do one two three four five in in chinese one two three four five six uh seven eight nine right or 10 like this it's a bit different but i was even using that because it's very frustrating but in in chinese numbers okay if you're gonna have chinese numbers and it can only be from one to zero okay that's all there's no other number that sounds like woo no so you say woo and she yeah you can say it doesn't matter what it doesn't matter because there's only one that's kind of like but you know that's one frustrating thing about chinese is if you get the tone a little bit wrong or if they see you get it wrong yeah if they see you're a foreigner then there's like a switch that goes off and like he must be speaking a foreign language i've literally had conversations with people yeah where i get into a taxi or get into a car or something or something yeah and they're like oh nishiwai gura in sweden so you're a foreigner you don't speak chinese and i say oh hui and i said uh where are you from driver you know like just have a conversation he goes i don't speak english i don't understand what you're saying i'm like yeah i'm speaking chinese to you now and he goes yeah i don't understand your foreign language it's funny it's it's a mental block yeah it is truly a mental block it really is so yeah it gets a little frustrating no it didn't mean to be mean or anything no there's no mean it's just i wanted to point that out anyway so another thing about the gas station lore yeah i have never once seen a free candy inside of a gas station that is very impressive yeah uh and the shop is very limited you could buy like tea pots and things what if there's going to be a slew of videos now saying all chinese gas stations have free candy that was the first time i had seen it yeah me too so with surveillance you get a candy yeah that what i'm holding there is called the fabio those are tax receipts yeah and they're different you can't use a normal receipt that you get out of a till or other you know you you when you buy something you get a little receipt that's not legally allowed to be used as a tax receipt you have to get this thing that's stamped and whenever you went into hua juan bay you get those like middle-aged women going like [ __ ] yeah it's all over you see graffiti remember that drug graffiti we had yeah there's fabial graffiti all over too so you can buy receipts yeah with government stamps on them and then you can get your it's basically a way for government officials to scam the ccp or just office work or office workers because that's the thing if you go to hua jumbe you're buying a computer for your office or something right and if you buy a computer and it costs 100 rmb it'll never be that cheap but whatever you go to the fpr women and then you get you buy you buy receipts from them you buy receipts buy tax receipts of like a thousand rmb then when you go back to work you give the receipts for a thousand and they'll reimburse you correct sometimes the uh waitress will come at the end and they'll be talking about stuff instead of like let's say the dinner costs like 500 rmb they'll give them a stack of 4 000 rmb tax receipt tickets what they do is they go and claim that at the party office and they get all that money as a tax break oh and even better flip that on its head sometimes you're at a restaurant yeah and when you finish your meal you ask for the tax receipts but the restaurant might not want to give that to you yeah they have to pay tax so they'll be like how about we just give you a free drink instead right we just give you like uh this much discount right and without getting the taxes then they'll give you some like beer or something [ __ ] we never needed them so we're like sugar yeah we can't use them yeah give us that beer right it's just kind of interesting oh and another thing is when i was asking for the fapia remember like how many times have i said we wanted like chisha choir whatever yeah 70 rmb yeah was it did a cheese award yeah so ask for teacher even after all that after we've paid the money all that hassle they paid it and then she asked me like how much was do you want on the pr was a t-shirt right and i think that's a cue for me to say like no put it down as 200 or something right so that i can then go claim more from my boss or something like that right you know why would she be keep asking me that absolutely the last thing i want to point out is that um even it was confusing for her yeah because like all this rigmarole and all this crap even after all this she thinks it's all done she's like oh i need your license plate number now yeah that's true anyway let's uh let's finish finish this bit up here and see what happens next but again this whole idea of taking an uh an open canister of gas across the fall court like this is just ridiculous to me and it always has been it's like that's there's no common sense here it's stupid right it's just dumb so i really wish they'd change this in china you know thanks man i love how safe this is an open container of petrol this one's like really open as well yep okay fill her up do it i hope it's enough we could definitely get more but whatever no i mean like enough for just for us to get out of this draconian state oh [ __ ] [ __ ] a brick this wouldn't happen if we use the nozzle at a pump nope you gotta bring these back or put them here leave them here they were here over on the side so you know i spilled a little bit of petrol on my tank there and i thought i'd go ask and see if they had a tissue available because you know that's one thing about china tissues are never free yeah but you think maybe in a gas station they'd have some kind of like top towels and paper towels but no no you'll see in a minute like exactly what that's all about yeah you're made to jean you're gonna have to go buy him yeah so i said swandler because he was like go inside to get one i didn't want to go through the hassle no but yeah they just get stolen off the full court if they were there by the lost generation they'll go there and like one person will take all the paper towels so they just don't have that kind of thing available that's right yeah so this is us leaving the gas station we're about to go on to our journey into the city which you have to be very careful some cycles were banned make it normal make a good routine make a normal routine to make uh the food safety city of china yeah i'm glad you read that because i would have read that as shihini because you know shia looks the same as you but with a little cap on top that means right so that would have been wrong uh and it looks like the other one there is that that's the same one from before you know they're like hand in hand hand in hand yeah anyway what i was saying is like um i i had gotten in contact with this group of motorcycle riders and their whole thing was because qingdao clamped down on bikes and was actually you know doing the whole thing trying to clear it out their whole little wechat group was spotting where the cops are so they'd be like oh don't go down this road because they're they're taking bikes on this road so that's how i actually got the the information for us to ship our bikes up to qingdao so remember we started our whole northern kind of adventure from qingdao yeah and it was only from that that group of like uh cop dodgers i should say yeah you know that we got this so yeah we we were in touch with them and stuff and that's how we got into the city because we had to go through some bike ban zones to get to the that's right to where we were going you know yeah that's pretty much it i guess yeah just wanted to say um this is hopefully interesting to you guys it's fun for us to go down memory lane a little bit oh yeah but it was also very alarming when we were looking back a little bit at this we were like you know what this was kind of the beginning of when things started to get very very bad i would say things started to get really bad in 2014 2015. sure but with the surveillance state tech stuff it was around this time like a little bit later like 2018 era very bad i mean just think about it again guys to get whatever eight nine dollars worth of petrol slash gasoline we had to go through all of that you saw how long that took yeah then we had to waddle around with teapots and there's all this other nonsense you just have to understand again if you're the kind of person who's just visiting as a tourist or maybe you live in the city of qingdao you know as a foreigner live in your little bubble um you don't know this kind of stuff because you're not doing it right sure and so you might think just on the surface that things in china are great and free because like if you can't read anything and you see what's around you like this you see people couples walking on the road you see people just carrying on with their daily lives but you're not there having to go through all the hassle interacting with the locals and seeing what those local people that look like they're having a great time are putting up with you don't have to put up with all the restrictions of the huco system which is a residence system if you come from out of town you cannot you know do anything in the city you don't get any kind of social anything you can't go to school there send your kids to school you can't do anything like that it's tough you know it's it's really tough for the local people rigid yeah it's very rigid and so if you don't have like a lot of these people they have their wives or secretaries basically imagine like you're a factory dude you go over there and you have a secretary that goes and translates everything for you yeah you're a foreigner that makes videos for china let's say oh sure you're getting ferried around on these government trips that put you up in hotels they translate they tell you this it seems so convenient but it's because you're getting treated like royalty because china wants everyone to think that's how chinese life is you're not filling up your own motorcycle with gas no because you're being ferried around in cars being driven around in buses cars whatever and you have no idea what's going on right you just and you can't read the propaganda signs around you that are basically saying down with america or whatever it is you can't read that so you wouldn't think anything's bad you know so yeah anyway a little perspective keep an open mind we hope you enjoyed this you know we hope that you could get a little bit of insight into what goes on in china through these we're going to do more of these yeah we thought here on the adv china channel we're going to go back and go through a lot of these because it's quite fascinating a lot of the the signs and things that you just pass by when you're writing you don't pay attention no because we're not writing them like oh we're reading it all the time i mean we pick up on it but we're not talking about it no but now yeah can't wait to see in the next one guys until then you know the drill as always stay awesome as i'm editing this i realized winston cut himself off as usual i think he said we wanted to say something like stay cool or stay hip i can't remember anyway see you guys in the next video

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Id: Ej1t2b9frp4

Length: 50min 8sec (3008 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 28 2021