Taiwan World Cup Viewer's Guide

Mr Maddog over at INDIAC e-mailed with these vocabulary items/drinking game seeds that go along with the MUCH TV wanker's overenthusiastic WC commentary.

You've probably learned the Top Five vocabulary items required for
watching soccer on Taiwan TV:
* you3 ji1 hui4! ("He's got a chance [to score]!") [spoken as often as
possible]
* you3 wei1 xian3 ("Danger!") [whenever the ball isn't within a few feet
of the center line]
* fan4 gui1 (foul, violation) [seemingly used at random]
* yue4 wei4 (offsides) [only real soccer fans know for sure]
... and the number one vocabulary item equired for watching soccer on
Taiwan TV is...
* mei2 cuo4! [usually over-mispronounced as mei2 chuo4] ("That's right!"
[used as a low-calorie filling for "dead air" (the worst possible thing
that can happen in Taiwan) whenever the announcer has nothing original
to say)

Incidentally, the cable company sent me a post card the other day. It's gone to Bali for the month and is having a wonderful time and do I realize I haven't paid my cable bill? Dear Taichung Cable Company, do you realize your service is still crap?



I just found a link to this page with instructions for watching the World Cup free on the Internet. There's a link to a program called TVU, another web tv outlet. You can download their Beta version and try it for 40 days free. After that...well, after that the World Cup will be over and you're on your own again.

If I still have cable this evening, I'll watch England v. T&T with the sound down on the TV and up on the computer. Goodbye CCTV.