Sometimes you just have to laugh. That’s the thought behind scores of Chinese-language pages on Facebook that take aim at various aspects of life in Hong Kong. There are fewer English-language pages, but they are out there.
So if house prices, health scares and C.Y. Leung are getting you down, here are three popular Hong Kong Facebook pages to check when you need a giggle.
Hong Kong Fashion Victims
“I feel happiness when I eat a potato”. Sound familiar? How about: “Keep Clam and Rock”, “Lick me”, or “Knowledge is poo-poo”? Yes, the infamous Hong Kong T-shirt fails, and this page has plenty of samples.
This community celebrates Hongkongers’ highly individual sense of dress style and taste, or total lack of it, and proves the point that not everyone in Hong Kong is obsessed with luxury labels. You’ll find a rose-print black suit jacket worn with half-mast skull-print trousers, and other combinations too colourful to mention – except the baby blue, pink-lined jacket matched with black and purple knee socks and fuchsia pumps with yellow laces, accessorized with a studded purple and blue faux crocodile skin handbag.
Mismatched socks, lion’s head backpacks, back-to-front trousers, and a wannabe Lady Gaga on the MTR – definitely a page to check on a dull day.
