Add Oil!

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 01/28/2020 at 17:25 • Filed to: None

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An interesting series of clips from the q uarantined city of Wuhan. People all over the city of 8 million people yelling “ Jiayou” or “Add Oil” which apparently means stay strong or similar in Mandrin.

Either that, or they all drive old Alfa Romeos.

PS, this is some pretty haunting dystopian style stuff if you ask me. Millions stuck inside towering apparment buildings shouting at each other.

facw > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/28/2020 at 17:39

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A friends cousin sent some silly/terrifying of (lots of) people with low quality homemade protective gear at YVR. Water bottles, clear trash bags, etc. Hope they are just having some fun with it, because it’s hard to think about people being so terrified, and harder still to think it might be justified.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > facw 01/28/2020 at 17:44

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link? Vancouver always freaks about this kinda stuff.

I saw a comment on a news article (I know, I shouldn’t read those) where someone was purporting that oregano oil stopped the spread of the virus.

facw > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/28/2020 at 17:55

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Not posted online. I could post them, but might be a bit doxxy. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > facw 01/28/2020 at 18:00

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that’s ok!

AestheticsInMotion > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/28/2020 at 18:12

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I'm trying to think what the last big scares were. Bird flu and before that mad cow disease? I must be missing some right? 

RPM esq. > facw 01/28/2020 at 18:17

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I’m going to Japan and southeast Asia in a couple weeks and I’m very interested to see how the more paranoid among us are navigating the airports there.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > AestheticsInMotion 01/28/2020 at 18:18

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Swine flu, ebola and sars

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > facw 01/28/2020 at 18:32

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The photos from Tokyo, where they are already nutty for the masks on the street, were pretty horrifying...

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/28/2020 at 18:35

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Bird flu...

Always seems like large segments of populace in close proximity to their living pets/support-animals/lunch— and the markets that handle same.

Strange that our “greatest geopolitical foe” can be struck down by apartment-living flightless fowl, but what do I know?

Urambo Tauro > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/28/2020 at 20:38

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Either that, or they all drive old Alfa Romeos.

[stifles a chuckle]

At the risk of ruining the joke... I was curious about what context would make the notion of “adding oil” a message of encouragement . I mean, h aving to top off leaking motor oil is hardly encouraging... I figured it was going to end up being something related to food and/ or cooking, but according to this it is indeed an automotive reference after all :

“Add oil” is a Hong Kong English interjection literally translated from the Cantonese expression g yáu, with reference to petrol being injected into an engine. The common expression is a versatile one used by native Chinese speakers to express encouragement, incitement or support, somewhere along the lines of “keep it up”, “hang in there”, or “good luck”.

So k eeping in spirit with the English phrases of encouragement listed above, maybe a better interpretation than “add oil” would be something more like   “give it gas”, “pedal to the metal”, or “ keep on truckin ” .

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Urambo Tauro 01/28/2020 at 20:47

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Awesome! I like the idea of standing on a balcony of a high-rise with tons of people yelling "keep on trucking"!