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Foreign Student Hospitalized In China Gets Note From Nurse Who Doesn’t Speak English, And The Comments Crack Us Up
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Language mix-ups and misunderstandings can make for hilarious travel anecdotes - but not when they happen at a hospital. An international student was hospitalized in China and fell under the care of a nurse that didn't speak English. Understanding the importance of getting the proper medical information across to her patient, she used some creativity to write him a detailed note that used some pretty frighting graphics.
Reddit user under the username of WaspDog, uploaded the note and internet users went wild. To her credit if you know the context her message is clear: the patient has surgery tomorrow and tonight they can't have food or water after 10 pm. But of course, that didn't stop people from coming up with their own hilarious interpretations. Scroll down below to see what people came up with and don't forget to upvote your favs!
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So everyone made basically the same joke. Right.
yes, but it was still funny.
Humour is subjective.
No, no -- it wasn't a joke! The nurse said, "Tonight the number 22 will equal 00 after....no, no. she meant to say, "No place settings with spoon and chopstick on the right side... no, no -- she meant to say, "One drop of water tomorrow will turn into a drop of blood at eight o'clock." Yes, that's what she meant to say.
Fantastic! Ahaha. Surgery translates to "open knife/ knife open" in colloquial - just fyi :) the graphic translation occured because western medicine and cutting into living things is/was still a new form of treatment. Buddhism did not believe in cutting into living beings. It treated more through meditation massages and by application of medicine on the surface of the body -
Thank you for this explanation.
Ooh that must've been shitty for everyone with ... really a multitude of illnesses.
How did the massage and meditation cure work out for them? I've got a colonoscopy on Tuesday, and I'm looking for alternatives.
That joke didn't come out so well.
Average Chinese people won't consider massage or meditation as a way to cure illness.
Meet me at 10 PM in New Orleans for Ice Cream and Bacon and we will do some Nitric Oxide and some plumbing so tomorrow at 8 AM we can become blood brothers! That was too easy. Next puzzle please!
So everyone made basically the same joke. Right.
yes, but it was still funny.
Humour is subjective.
No, no -- it wasn't a joke! The nurse said, "Tonight the number 22 will equal 00 after....no, no. she meant to say, "No place settings with spoon and chopstick on the right side... no, no -- she meant to say, "One drop of water tomorrow will turn into a drop of blood at eight o'clock." Yes, that's what she meant to say.
Fantastic! Ahaha. Surgery translates to "open knife/ knife open" in colloquial - just fyi :) the graphic translation occured because western medicine and cutting into living things is/was still a new form of treatment. Buddhism did not believe in cutting into living beings. It treated more through meditation massages and by application of medicine on the surface of the body -
Thank you for this explanation.
Ooh that must've been shitty for everyone with ... really a multitude of illnesses.
How did the massage and meditation cure work out for them? I've got a colonoscopy on Tuesday, and I'm looking for alternatives.
That joke didn't come out so well.
Average Chinese people won't consider massage or meditation as a way to cure illness.
Meet me at 10 PM in New Orleans for Ice Cream and Bacon and we will do some Nitric Oxide and some plumbing so tomorrow at 8 AM we can become blood brothers! That was too easy. Next puzzle please!