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China’s censorship efforts were recently hadouken’d by internet material about the mythical “grass-mud-horse” creature. Understandably, it seems like just another day in China’s war against all things arbitrary… but the amazing thing about the grass-mud-horse phenomenon is that it managed to bypass China’s “profanity and vulgarity” scanning system. For those of you who speak Mandarin, sound out the pin yin for grass-mud-horse (草泥馬)… go on, don’t be shy.

Cao… ni… ma? Potty mouth. This mythical creature’s moniker is homonymic for—how do I say this without actually saying it?—fcuk yo mama. 好嗎?

The actual characters aren’t profane; it’s the way they sound. So, if any of you Mainlanders are in the mood for some good ol’ fashioned political dissent, just write your manifesto in puns. What’s at the root of all of this evil in the first place? A children’s song about the grass-mud-horse:

Well, there goes your censorship system, PRC. Didn’t you guys get the pun software update…? Just goes to show that you can burn as many books as you want, but you can’t physically destroy literature and subversion. Sooner or later, it all comes back to cao ni ma.

Image courtesy of niuroumian007. (beef noodle soup 007…? haha)


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Meh just move to Europe.


I think Korea is more harsh.


Depends who you ask. I think they’re both equally strict.


Is China as strict as Korea? Or is China more strict?


Now why didn’t I think of that.


I feel like going on to Chinese gaming servers and spamming that. rofl.


Puns ftw.


Video doesn’t work anymore. :(


Apparently you can.


You can’t really ban something that sounds bad.


So is it banned now?


hahahahhahahaa!


Funniest thing I’ve heard all day.


hahahah Nice.


lollllllll Funny stuff Tiff. Ty.


oh tiff, you’re such a bad girl
first colored wolves, now alpaca, what’s next?  female tigers?


This is some work of genius!


Kids play games that’s why.


Why are they so strict on profanity? It’s not like they can stop people from speaking it.


lol…


That’s my mandarin lesson for the day. haha


hehe That’s funny.


Hrm...video doesn’t work.


There’s even a song for it? lol


It’s not really profanity, it just sounds like it. smile


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