【有文稿】国庆十大“酷刑”你受了吗？

Heyang: The national golden week has just come to an end. The holiday brings us not only enjoyment but also headaches. Netizens have listed the top ten tortures during the holiday period. What are they and have you fallen victim to it.Mark: I mean one of them which actually isdebatable is no Internet or Wi-Fi.Heyang: Yes, that’s number ten, so it’s the bottom of the list.Mark: I mean it depends on where you go though, doesn’t it, and what kind of plan you have. How cheap you are. As you know, in my case, the answer is extremely.Heyang: Thank you for being so honest.Mark: Therefore, if I’m not in this building or in my flat, I don’t have access to WeChat because I can only use that on the Wi-Fi you see. I can’t use it on the 3G because I keep it switched off. Once I switched it on it cost me 70 yuan just for one day. I think that’s cause I’m on the wrong plan with the provider. So some people are used to sort of being a bit out of touch as they walk from building to building. I know actually some people mightsay it’s a good thing not being in contact with everyone, but no it’s not. You miss it, and it’s nice to keep in touch. So that’s something that I would miss if I went camping for example somewhere in China.Doris: Yes, Wi-Fi would definitely be on my top list when I look for hotels or places to stay. If they don’t have Wi-Fi, then I don’t stay there, because being connected, being in touch with family and friend is very important to me during the holidays whether you are with them or far away from them.Heyang: Yes, of course. I totally agree with you. But I think now it’s not just about keeping in touch with your family and friends. Often it’s about you need to show where you are or what you are going through or just plainly show off in your friend circle or moments on WeChat, and I just don’t get it why people can’t get off the internet for a little bit, or just get away from the social media platforms for a little bit. During the past holiday, the joke in my friend circle was that two of my friends, they accidentally bumped into each other in a restaurant in Beijing. They couldn’t speak to each other because one is supposed to be in Canada, and the other one is supposed to be somewhere in Europe according to their friend circles, but actually they were just in Beijing. But it’sjust like part of this whole culture and I’m like you Mark, I can’t believe that. Yes, I’m a bit cheap, I would want to stay away from the paid internet flow data thingMark: I resent that comment that you call me a bit cheap. I’m very cheap. Don’t insult me! Heyang: Ok, well, you win this battle I suppose. I’m one step behind you. Apparently number nine on the list is someone forgot their smart phone and they are crying about it.Mark: It’s amazing if we start thinking back to how things were before smartphones and before the internet when people had to go to a library if they wanted to know anything about the world that wasn’t in the daily newspaper. So you had to go and look up information that was maybe twenty or thirty years out of date. We are spoiled now with the amount of access we have to freshly updated information, so I can see that someone forgetting their smartphone like innumber nine on this list. It would be very annoying. For practical reasons, say you wanted to go camping and you wanted to know where there was somewhere you could get some water or something like that, so for practical reasons, it’s good to have a smart phone with you when you are somewhere like that.Doris: I know, I recently had my phone shut off for some reason, and people were trying to call me, connect with me and invite me to dinner.And I didn’t have the phone with me, so I left it at home for just two hours, and people got mad at me, because I didn’t answer my phone during that period of time.Mark: Including employers as well. So this is, you know, they know where we are all the time, don’t they now. And there’s no real reason for not answering your WeChat if it’s your boss on there, for example, if they are on your list, because they know that you are using your WeChat to talk to your friends.Heyang: For people enjoying the holiday, it’s not just about having fun, but it’s also about for some people getting up early and getting stuff done, be itmeeting your travel plans.People have really packed their schedule for a holiday. Isn’t it kind of just missing the point of the holiday?Mark: But I think traditionally, holiday was something where agricultural workers didn’t have to go to work and they were exhausted and they just stayed at home. Sometimes, merchants couldn’t go to the bank. This is where in Britain we get the name “Bank Holiday”, which is what we would have called October the first “Bank Holiday”. So if the Bank wasn’t closed, then you didn’t want to leave all the money in your shop that day, so in other words, you didn’t open because you couldn’t take the money to the bank, that’s how bank holiday got started. So yes, I kind of agree with you there.Heyang: Yes, it seems like waiting for others, keeping a diet… Why would people keep a diet during the holiday? I don’t understand that part on this list, because ok, it’s personal sharing time again. What did I do during the holidays? Mark: Do tell us.Doris: Please do.Heyang: Like you guys want to know, I see those eager eyes in the studio.Doris: What did you do?Mark: Suck up! We are gonna find out anyway. You are gonna tell us. Go on, what did you do? Was it interesting? Heyang: It was great! It’s the best thing in the world.Mark: Why don’t we ask the listenerstoguess what it was?Heyang: Basically, I ate ateate and then just lazed around, and was just a total couch potato, and that is the best thing in the world. As you guys know, I’m very much into fitness, like I do a hundred sit-upseveryday. Mark: Well, sounds like it.Heyang: But during the holiday, it’s time to just completely turn off and just enjoy the wonderful food and just laze around. Doris: So the holiday isn’t just a break from work for you. It’s also a break from exercise.Mark: Why do you want abs?Heyang: Well, because I want to look good. Is there a problem with that? I’m getting challenged by a person who doesn’t have it. Once you’ve got it, you love it.Mark: I’m just jealous. Have you actually seen the abs then, already?Heyang: Why are you suddenly so interested in my body? We should not go down that path. Can I please just read out a couple of messages from our listeners? One is WeChat listener Bob, he says that the greatest torturous moment of the holiday is the horrible traffic. The part we didn’t devote a lot of time for is actually No.1 death penalty--when you have no money. Yes, I think it sums it uppretty well.