It made me wince, too, but it certainly didn’t make me make a judgment about the person who posted it!
Indeed, I took it as a timely reminder - for when I waver - to be careful about buying anything from China.
So, thanks, @digitracker
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I agree with all of that, but finding anything that is not made in China is in many cases an impossible task these days.
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True 
. And I note that Amazon.fr may have cottoned on to our avoidance because in many cases they do not give the country of origin.
So, in my due diligence I just have to guess, or I look for an alternative that does declare where it is made.
Then again, I do remember China manufacturers shipping all but finished articles to other countries, where the buttons, bells and whistles would then be added. Along with the labels stating “Made in ……” (not China).
Santa looks like Fozzie Bear!
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A groan worthy one…
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A bloke starts his new job at the zoo and is given three tasks.
The first is to clear the exotic fish pool of weeds. He starts on this when suddenly a huge fish leaps out and bites him. He is not going to let a fish get the better of him so he beats the offending fish to death with a spade.
Realising that his boss is not going to be best pleased, he tries to find a way to hide the dead fish. He hits on the brilliant idea of giving the fish to the lions as lions will eat anything. So he throws the fish into the lion’s cage.
He then moves on to his second job, which is to clear out the monkey house. He goes in and a couple of chimps starts throwing coconuts at him. Not amused he swipes at the chimps with his spade, killing them instantly. He’s really worried now, so what does he do? He feeds the chimps to the lions, because lions eat anything. He hurls them into the lion’s cage.
Anyway, he moves on to his last job, which is to collect honey from South American bees. He starts on this and quickly gets attacked by the bees.Alarmed, he grabs his spade and smashes the bees as hard as he can, squashing them to death. By this point he is not too worried about the death of bees as he knows what to do by now. He throws them into the lion’s cage, because lions eat anything.
Later that day a new lion arrives at the zoo. It wanders up to another lion and says “What’s the food like in here?”. The other lion says:
“Absolutely brilliant, today we had fish, chimps and mushy bees”
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My wife is weird.
Last week she said she wouldn’t mind if I had a tattoo.
Today she’s complaining about all the bagpipers in the garden
When my cousin told me Scandinavian languages don’t have the letter “R”, I immediately thought: “No way!”
What do you call Bears with no ears?
B!
I was caught recently stealing kitchen equipment.
It may seem foolish to you, but it was a whisk I was willing to take.
And finally, to get the thread back on (trivial) track…
A man is dining in a fancy restaurant and there’s a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table. He’s been checking her out since he sat down, but lacks the nerve to talk with her. Suddenly she sneezes, and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket toward the man. He reflexively reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back.
“Oh my, I am so sorry,” the woman says as she pops her eye back in place. “Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you,” she says.
They enjoy a wonderful dinner together, and afterwards they go to the theatre followed by drinks. They talk, they laugh, she shares her deepest dreams and he shares his. She listens. After paying for everything, she asks him if he would like to come to her place for a nightcap.
They had a wonderful time. He stays for breakfast. The next morning, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings. The guy is amazed.
Everything had been SO incredible!
“You know,” he said, “you are the perfect woman, are you this nice to every guy you meet?”
“No,” she replies. . .“You just happened to catch my eye.”
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That’s true. I bought my wife a phone on Amazon marketplace from a firm supposedly based in Holland. The package came from Hong Kong!
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Wish I could have been there to see this
Merry Christmas everyone 
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Sixth-grade science teacher Mrs. Samson asks her class:
“Who can tell me which organ of the human body expands to 10 times its usual size when stimulated?”
Nobody raises a hand, so she calls on the first student to look her way.
“Mary, can you tell me which organ of the human body expands to 10 times its usual size when stimulated?”
Mary stands up, blushing furiously.
“How dare you ask such a question?” she says. “I’m going to complain to my parents, who will complain to the principal, who will have you fired!”
Mrs. Sampson is shocked by Mary’s reaction, but undaunted.
She asks the class the question again, and this time Sam raises his hand.
“Yes, Sam?” says Mrs. Sampson.
“Ma’am, the correct answer is the iris of the human eye.”
“Very good, Sam. Thank you.”
Mrs. Sampson then turns to Mary and says,
"Mary, I have 3 things to tell you: first, it’s clear that you have not done your homework.
Second, you have a dirty mind.
And third, I fear one day you are going to be sadly disappointed."
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