Today in Hong Kong I was riding the bus home and staring glaze-eyed at the TWO TV screens in the bus. Mostly they have advertisements but sometimes they have little cultural tid-bits. You can't really hear them and they are always in Cantonese so I don't pay much attention.
Today they were talking about turtles. There is a preppy guy showing us turtles in their habitat documentary style. I could imagine what he was saying: "These special turtles are prized for their special markings; see how the beautiful black markings signify the value of these turtles (turns the turtles over to show the markings on the shell). Look these lovely little turtles that are just so many months old (now we can see several baby turtles climbing on each other in an adorable way). Ha ha they all want to go exploring! (The man chuckles. Obviously these turtles are special pets and maybe are rare and highly prized in Asia.) Here is their natural habitat. These turtles lay their eggs here and hope that they will be protected until they hatch (the man is whispering now as he shows us from behind some long sea grass the egg area for these prized turtles.)
I think I am really good at interpreting this documentary and it seems very nice and wholesome and about these special turtles.
The next scene blares "TURTLE DESSERT JELLY! THIS BRAND BLAH BLAH BLAH" and shows the empty beautiful shells of these special turtles!!
AY YA! that was really jarring and disappointing! the whole thing was a commercial for this brand of Turtle jelly and how they have the best turtles to make it!!
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