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**Cold Cases of the Bamboo Curtain: Don’t Piss Off Your Wife?**

Everyone knows the names that dominate Western true-crime lore — Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer. But beyond the English-speaking spotlight, there are just as many tragic, brutal, and deeply unsettling cases buried in the histories of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In this experimental series, I want to take you through some of those lesser-known cases — stories that rarely surface in English, yet are no less chilling. Many of these crimes were documented only in their original languages, fragmented across court records, newspaper archives, and oral retellings. What you’re about to read is grounded in real events, but told in the spirit of the old storyteller’s phrase: **聽而言之，耳聽之** — listen as a story, not as a verbatim courtroom transcript. The goal isn’t forensic obsession. Sometimes, the simple fact that this really happened is horrifying enough. --- Long before anyone talked about murder, **Kornhill Garden, Block 1, Flat 312** was already infamous. Neighbors whisp...
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**NECA TMNT Mirage Foot Enforcer Review – Big, Brutal, and Built Like a Brick (In More Ways Than One)**

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Sometimes you buy a figure because of deep lore knowledge. Sometimes you buy a figure because it looks like a **roided-out ninja tank covered in blades**. Guess which one happened here. Image: box back-orange-to-yellow dotted background with blue Foot Soldier illustration holding crossed batons. Orange Nickelodeon logo. [ ] --- ## Who Are the Foot Enforcers? According to the packaging: > *“The most skilled of the Foot Clan's ninjas, the Enforcers are mysterious and menacing. These well-armed warriors form Shredder's inner guard and carry out his most lethal orders.”*  Image: box front with clear window showing blue armored Foot Soldier figure and weapons. Branding NECA, Nickelodeon, TMNTMirage Studios. [ ] So yeah — not your average Foot Soldier. These are **Shredder’s elite inner guard**, the guys you send when regular cannon fodder keeps getting folded by turtles. Big, dangerous, heavily armed, and meant to be intimidating shelf presence. Mission accomplished there. ...
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🐉 Not All Dragons Are Built the Same

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Image:  A fantasy illustration of three winged dragons flying through a cloudy sky. The largest dragon is in the center-right with wide, bat-like wings spread out, a long tail, and spines along its back. Two smaller dragons fly in the background, one at the upper left and one at the lower right. The sky is filled with smoky, swirling clouds in warm gold and brown tones, like sunset light. [ ] My newest video dives into the origins of the Chinese dragon and how it claimed its legendary seat in the Zodiac… but here on the blog, let’s talk about something people constantly get twisted: Chinese dragons and Western dragons are NOT the same creature. In Western mythology, dragons are usually: Hoarders of gold Fire-breathing destroyers Final bosses Something a knight proves himself by killing They represent chaos to be conquered. Image:  A close-up photo of a shiny, crinkled silver foil sheet with an embossed outline drawing of a dragon. The dragon has wide o...
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