Shanghai
About Shanghai
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. It has a population of 29,558,908 in the urban area as of 2025. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River bisecting the city. Shanghai is a global center for finance, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, tourism, and culture. The Port of Shanghai is the world's busiest container port. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of nearly 13 trillion RMB.
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Around the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, there was quite a campaign to stop people wearing their pajamas. The government hired sort of 500 members of the public who volunteered to stand at bus stops — just if someone in pajamas came along, go, hey, that looks daggy.
from No Such Thing As A Rubik's Tube, 2023-03-09 at 00:23:21 · read transcript
Other times Shanghai came up
A fine line between leisure wear but the um there's been shall i tell you about the various attempts to shut down uh pajama wearing in china so in the 1990s there was an education campaign and they put signs up in shanghai saying please don't wear your pajamas 2008 the rixin neighborhood in northeast shanghai had a public campaign saying don't wear your pajamas but then 2020 in suzhan city which is near to shanghai there was a social media post entitled exposing uncivilized.
469: No Such Thing As A Rubik's Tube, 2023-03-10 · listen
All right, no funny business, man. In China, they also have a group that is like the Alliance of... unpopular men in Japan, they have single people who try to pull pranks on Valentine Day in order to stop people having a good night. There was one case in 2004 where a group of single people in Shanghai purchased every single odd-numbered seat for a cinema. That is strong, isn't it?
No Such Thing As A Chatty Cow, 2019-08-09 · listen
Alliance of Unpopular Men in In Japan they have single people who try to pull pranks on Valentine Day in order to stop people having a good night So there was one case in 2004 where a group of single people in Shanghai Purchased every single odd numbered seat for a cinema Hahaha That is strong.
281: No Such Thing As A Chatty Cow, 2019-08-09 · listen
Freewheeling in the air for a bit and then, yeah. That's so weird. I know. Just on fire safety, has anyone seen the fire safety slide that's been installed in Shanghai? No. So it's basically like a slide you see in a playground and it goes around the stairwell and when it's not in use, then it's up vertically kind of attached to the banisters. Why is it not in use?
No Such Thing As A Plummeting Moose, 2017-01-20 · listen
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