Our friends at Plastered T-shirts have released the latest in their series of promotional videos. It's very much a Beijing production; you'll recognize names and faces. Watch and see. Does this whet your appetite? If so, there's more Plastered videos here and here.

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Following last week's incident in which British guy on a tourist visa was caught on video allegedly sexually assaulting a Chinese girl and beaten up for his troubles, and this week's announcement of a 100-day crackdown on "illegal aliens" (thanks, Xinhua), this is the last thing foreigners in Beijing (or anywhere in China) need ...

Whether it's in a job interview or when they're three sheets to the wind, everybody occasionally speaks in strange tongues. Not everybody, however, makes videos of themselves doing accents and posting them on the Internet. Way back in December, Dalian's Zhang Xu wowed web-goers with his array of accented English. Now he's got competition in the form of Mike Sui's accented Chinese video – hats off to Beijing Cream for following Chinese college students on social media – which is blowing up all over the interwebs right now. We've put the former and the latter together for you to enjoy in one Youkutastic multinational, multilingual melting pot. And then, for contrast, we've added a sweary British kid in a shed offering his take on everything, including a spot of Chinese-accented English. Enjoy your holiday.

If you're not a weibo user yet, what's keeping you? (Besides navigating the Chinese interface and the new, pesky "real-name" registration issues?) Weibos (Chinese for "microblogs") continue to be one of the best places to get a grip on what Chinese Internet users are saying, thinking, eating, doing, you name it. We've kept you in the know with our Weibo Roundups (covering everything from boobs and underwear to Gary Locke, whistleblowing and even a 2011 year-in-review), and there's more where that came from. For now, read up on the latest news about Sina Weibo and other social media here in China.

Weibo’s been abuzz lately with its usual is-it-real-or-fake sensational videos and the topic that seems to be on the tip of everyone’s fingers this week is marriage. In the spirit of marriage, Sina Weibo celebrated its cotton/straw (or two year) anniversary this week.