Hong Kong fortune-tellers struggle as Covid-19 pandemic keeps tourists away

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    Fortune-tellers normally busy soothsaying for tourists in Hong Kong's Temple Street say they are now struggling amid the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the fortune-tellers says the number of customers had already been down because of civil unrest in the city before the coronavirus all but halted tourism worldwide.
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Комментарии • 159

  • @unisaur5282
    @unisaur5282 4 года назад +223

    Guess they didn't see this coming...

    • @Shiraz687
      @Shiraz687 4 года назад +5

      May be they knew it coming but hide it .

    • @edwardv7991
      @edwardv7991 4 года назад +3

      Best comment ever!

    • @sethgyellins
      @sethgyellins 4 года назад +10

      Ironic. They could guess others fortune but not themselves

    • @eddieyeoh4098
      @eddieyeoh4098 4 года назад +3

      Hilarious 🤣

    • @eddieyeoh4098
      @eddieyeoh4098 4 года назад +1

      True Future Hehe! Very funny! 👍🏻

  • @vondahe
    @vondahe 4 года назад +48

    Two psychics meet. One psychic says to the other one:
    You’re doing well, how am I?

    • @chungyanwong7293
      @chungyanwong7293 4 года назад

      Doing well in waiting for customers

    • @speedstriker
      @speedstriker 4 года назад +1

      Hahaha, this is funny joke.

    • @yingy3213
      @yingy3213 4 года назад

      Mohan Sandal u again mr sandal

  • @RayMak
    @RayMak 4 года назад +7

    They should see their own fortunes

  • @fiero9888
    @fiero9888 4 года назад +68

    Fortune tellers actually spend time and effort into learning the art of fortune telling. They take their time to give you an understanding of ur fortune, although sometimes, their efforts are not appreciated and some fortune tellers are actually just scammers.

    • @jackl2257
      @jackl2257 4 года назад +21

      the only thing they learn is how to convince people of paying them for telling them a story

    • @juliantotriwijaya9208
      @juliantotriwijaya9208 4 года назад +2

      People: they would have know, unless they're scammer
      Me: let me explain you something, let's apply logic here, let say there was two fortune teller 1 & 2 and they both are Legit, actually can tell the future, fortune teller 1 tell twomorow event will be A, but 2 tell it will be B, considering the future always changing based on our action with many posibility and the fact there could only be one future, only one of them can be correct, either fortune teller 1/future A or 2/future B. So if there let say 100 fortune teller in the world, one party would want the future to be B and another to be A/oposite, resulting in technically fortune teller battle/argument, since only one of them can be correct.
      This is what I call "The Fortune Teller Dilema" I name it :D

    • @notaworldpeaceafterall6476
      @notaworldpeaceafterall6476 4 года назад +4

      Fortune telling is a sham. Their real talent is not telling fortune but reading and filling the gaps of your story. Telling what you want to hear. I once met one. She easily guessed what my friends thoughst but when it was my turn, I let her guess without me saying a word then suddenly she brush me off that it is not working.

    • @juliantotriwijaya9208
      @juliantotriwijaya9208 4 года назад

      @@notaworldpeaceafterall6476 I know, it's just that IF "there were legit" fortune tellers than can see the future, only one future/one fortune teller's prediction can happened. This is *by logic,* even if it's legit/real, they can still get it wrong, because forture is always changing and thus only one fortune teller can he correct every time, there are many posibility, but only one future after all.
      The only way a fortune teller can always be 100% correct in their prediction is if they can control the future, which we human obviously can't...

  • @st-fn2lh
    @st-fn2lh 4 года назад +67

    Can't they predict their own misfortune?

    • @Shiraz687
      @Shiraz687 4 года назад +3

      They can only predict how many money they are going to make in the scam.

    • @juliantotriwijaya9208
      @juliantotriwijaya9208 4 года назад +1

      People: they would have know, unless they're scammer
      Me: let me explain you something, let's apply logic here, let say there was two fortune teller 1 & 2 and they both are Legit, actually can tell the future, fortune teller 1 tell twomorow event will be A, but 2 tell it will be B, considering the future always changing based on our action with many posibility and the fact there could only be one future, only one of them can be correct, either fortune teller 1/future A or 2/future B. So if there let say 100 fortune teller in the world, one party would want the future to be B and another to be A/oposite, resulting in technically fortune teller battle/argument, since only one of them can be correct.
      This is what I call "The Fortune Teller Dilema" I name it :D

    • @narudayo5053
      @narudayo5053 4 года назад +1

      A fortune teller can only tell something blur about what would happen. You can't predict the death or life of someone, just one of their path that they can have if they do some choices. Real fortune telling is more therapy than anything.

  • @groceries9981
    @groceries9981 4 года назад +26

    these old ladies so cute, just wanna hang out with them 🥺

  • @caldera878
    @caldera878 4 года назад +18

    The irony about fortune tellers not knowing the future.

    • @chungyanwong7293
      @chungyanwong7293 4 года назад +1

      They should be making a lot of money right now if they know the future

  • @QianLi-hg5pk
    @QianLi-hg5pk 4 года назад +10

    Wait if they’re fortune tellers....why didn’t they see this coming lol?

  • @NightcorEDM
    @NightcorEDM 4 года назад +29

    Hong Kong fortune tellers are always wrong

    • @goku1943
      @goku1943 4 года назад

      Atleast they are fighting to change their pre written destiny

    • @themilliondollarbaby
      @themilliondollarbaby 4 года назад +3

      You mean fortune tellers in general. Including those in China, Thailand, etc.

    • @juliantotriwijaya9208
      @juliantotriwijaya9208 4 года назад +1

      People: they would have know, unless they're scammer
      Me: let me explain you something, let's apply logic here, let say there was two fortune teller 1 & 2 and they both are Legit, actually can tell the future, fortune teller 1 tell twomorow event will be A, but 2 tell it will be B, considering the future always changing based on our action with many posibility and the fact there could only be one future, only one of them can be correct, either fortune teller 1/future A or 2/future B. So if there let say 100 fortune teller in the world, one party would want the future to be B and another to be A/oposite, resulting in technically fortune teller battle/argument, since only one of them can be correct.
      This is what I call "The Fortune Teller Dilema" I name it :D

    • @juliantotriwijaya9208
      @juliantotriwijaya9208 4 года назад +1

      @Langdon Alger so even if the fortune teller is Legit has the ability "to see the future" doesn't mean it's always "correct" since it can change.

  • @adityamittal3885
    @adityamittal3885 4 года назад +1

    This is the first time I am not sad about someone losing their business.

    • @user-cp7vv5ot9n
      @user-cp7vv5ot9n 4 года назад +1

      Yes, because you see others' difficulties as entertainment, kid. 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @yorkiesweetpea23
    @yorkiesweetpea23 4 года назад +4

    That one man said: hypothetically speaking, If you open fire on an automatic weapon/machine gun and spay for an entire hour, you won't even hit a single person"
    (Pertaining to how quiet it is on the streets)

    • @chungyanwong7293
      @chungyanwong7293 4 года назад

      No, then all the fortune tellers will get shot if this happens

  • @SuccessforLifester
    @SuccessforLifester 4 года назад +1

    I tried once for the novelty but had a bad experience. Nearly got scammed by one. If I could remember, I only asked for a hand read, but after a hand read, he still proceeded to give a face read and wanted to charge me for both.

  • @satriaamiluhur622
    @satriaamiluhur622 4 года назад +16

    Just get a real job!

    • @Shiraz687
      @Shiraz687 4 года назад

      This type of easy job and there is no much investment needed for the operating .

  • @NixSiow
    @NixSiow 4 года назад +7

    Please substitute the word ‘fortune-teller’ to SCAMMER. Thanks.

  • @conthought8256
    @conthought8256 4 года назад +17

    *fortune teller to fortune teller*
    i predict that we have less costumer🤔

    • @vondahe
      @vondahe 4 года назад

      Fortune teller 2: We don’t need costumes. We need customers!

  • @rina2012ful
    @rina2012ful 4 года назад +1

    Now I wonder if they did predict that a pandemic would happen worldwide. Too bad they could not see it coming.

  • @KillJoy_Since2017
    @KillJoy_Since2017 4 года назад +20

    Why is this news ?!?!?!

    • @extremepsyche3135
      @extremepsyche3135 4 года назад +2

      Being bombarded by Covid news all day, wouldn't it great to have something different for a change?

    • @worldview2888
      @worldview2888 4 года назад +3

      Because in Hong Kong "fortune telling" all this superstitious stuff is an industry. Revenue is generated for the country through such markets. People really take such services very seriously. It is a multibillion industry.

  • @HolgerDanske
    @HolgerDanske 4 года назад +1

    One would think that if they can tell the future that they would have seen this coming.....

  • @jkking6089
    @jkking6089 4 года назад +1

    Can't they tell their own fortune?

  • @Nico-Yume
    @Nico-Yume 6 месяцев назад

    i feel like these fortune tellers only tell you about YOUR fortune, thats why they cant predict these future events

  • @laviniaconde7580
    @laviniaconde7580 4 года назад +1

    Guess they weren't able to tell their own fortunes.

  • @k-studio8112
    @k-studio8112 4 года назад +1

    *You better do it online😂*

  • @Apple-dk2xl
    @Apple-dk2xl 4 года назад

    Where is this location in Hong Kong?

  • @jakelaw9768
    @jakelaw9768 4 года назад +1

    If you're a fortune-teller why didn't you see this coming??

  • @nintendobrawler7417
    @nintendobrawler7417 4 года назад

    Of course...

  • @abhishekmhatre1554
    @abhishekmhatre1554 4 года назад +6

    I love how the pandemic is destroying superstitions and pseudoscience

  • @Itilgals
    @Itilgals 4 года назад +6

    They cant even see & predict Viros is coming, how then can they read our fortunes,,? Tis is BS.

    • @Sa.d.bo26
      @Sa.d.bo26 4 года назад

      Yeah thats why no one is coming cause they got exposed

  • @kehidupankanada
    @kehidupankanada 4 года назад

    Could dey even know when virus end?😄

  • @Pheebe.Dee.
    @Pheebe.Dee. 4 года назад

    Fortune 🔮 Telling is for entertaining purposes only. Nothing more or less.
    “Mystical Philosophers” 😂

  • @bw1678
    @bw1678 4 года назад +1

    Well I won't rely on these guys to tell me about future significant events.

  • @ROCKSTAR3291
    @ROCKSTAR3291 4 года назад +1

    the virus has been very unfortunate for them

  • @kymgarcia09
    @kymgarcia09 4 месяца назад

    Grace did my face and palm reading last week! It was a very interesting experience 😊

  • @trvoski2655
    @trvoski2655 4 года назад

    Thats why you should try fortune teller on zoom now

  • @thehdtv7552
    @thehdtv7552 4 года назад +1

    Example of where the state neglects its citizens allowing them to eat dangerous foods. And an example of how china does not follow world rules. And standards

    • @user-cp7vv5ot9n
      @user-cp7vv5ot9n 4 года назад

      Better not to bark, if you don't understand politics, it'll only make you look like a dumb kid.

  • @tokekkk
    @tokekkk 4 года назад +1

    Unfortunate tellers

  • @spectacularspaghetti1849
    @spectacularspaghetti1849 4 года назад

    Those guys seem like some pretty nice people tho

  • @armanasaintclair8962
    @armanasaintclair8962 4 года назад +1

    Too bad they can’t see Misfortunes !

    • @Shiraz687
      @Shiraz687 4 года назад

      No they do not disclose otherwise they have to file bankruptcy

  • @anitadimaya
    @anitadimaya 4 года назад

    I wish I could go over there to get my fortune told

  • @MichaelHarto
    @MichaelHarto 4 года назад +7

    Irony, they should've been the first ome to know.

  • @claudettedelafayette9979
    @claudettedelafayette9979 4 года назад

    This reminds me of a game.. it started with fotune tellers at hong kong and some american guy asking for his fortune and then there was this big ol ship transfering crates. The guy was a vietnam war veteran i think... Then the ship was infested with these alien looking kids and killing almost everyone on the ship.
    What game is this?

  • @JosueFeria
    @JosueFeria 4 года назад +1

    Covid 19 doesn't keep tourist away. Governments do it.

  • @Den-Trang08
    @Den-Trang08 4 года назад

    The world : covid 19
    Trump : Kung Flu : news

  • @icyboy771z
    @icyboy771z 4 года назад

    Looks like they didn't predict covid19 beforehand

  • @RasPutintheGreat
    @RasPutintheGreat 4 года назад +1

    Love these old ladies, but it's a sham.

  • @crazyfreak6408
    @crazyfreak6408 4 года назад

    It's actually not the pandemic that's keeping tourist away it's you know who hahaha

  • @maskreps
    @maskreps 4 года назад +3

    Cantonese is epic

  • @jamzjamz8250
    @jamzjamz8250 4 года назад

    They can go near hospitals ,instead of expensive test for covid.. They can directly predict if patient is covid positive or negative at cheaper rate 😀😀.
    Desperate times calls for desperate measures.

  • @thehdtv7552
    @thehdtv7552 4 года назад

    I didn't know china was allowed to have news.

  • @Shiraz687
    @Shiraz687 4 года назад +22

    Superstitious coming to the end .

    • @JD-kp6pt
      @JD-kp6pt 4 года назад +6

      All religions, Gods, ect. were superstitious beliefs created by humans.

    • @Shiraz687
      @Shiraz687 4 года назад +1

      @@JD-kp6pt
      Facts are many but truth is one.

    • @abhishekmhatre1554
      @abhishekmhatre1554 4 года назад

      @@JD-kp6pt except Buddhism

    • @cooliipie
      @cooliipie 4 года назад +2

      @@JD-kp6pt
      You must live a very sad life if you deny a creator

    • @Shiraz687
      @Shiraz687 4 года назад

      @Langdon Alger
      Facts is bitter to digest .

  • @JodBronson
    @JodBronson 4 года назад

    Fortune Teller

  • @nantonaku481
    @nantonaku481 4 года назад +1

    Fortune tellers can't tell the future out of covid-19... 😅

  • @cubeweaver
    @cubeweaver 4 года назад +6

    So tell me when the pandemic will be over, fortune tellers?!

  • @aaronsun4746
    @aaronsun4746 4 года назад

    I respect their hustle but this stuff is a scam. Don't pay for these kids.

  • @itachiknn
    @itachiknn 4 года назад

    The days of fortune tellers are over. The world know it's a scam and fraud.

  • @whospilledmybeans
    @whospilledmybeans 4 года назад

    They should move business online for the time being

  • @abcdLeeXY
    @abcdLeeXY 4 года назад

    I bet you they saw this coming, if they were legit.

  • @Dumb-Comment
    @Dumb-Comment 4 года назад

    Fortune teller, I need your most accurate fortune, I'm going into battle.
    I'm sorry traveler, you can not have my most accurate fortune.

  • @thesmartaspiranttsa5845
    @thesmartaspiranttsa5845 4 года назад

    I thought this nonsense exists in India only, I'm stunned to see this nonsense in financial capital like HK city. It's always about Economics, you see

  • @user-pt5pf1cu7b
    @user-pt5pf1cu7b 4 года назад

    没算到这一步

  • @HonorViego
    @HonorViego 4 года назад

    Scamming you mean?

  • @1DangerMouse1
    @1DangerMouse1 4 года назад

    I mean, it's all bogus. So, maybe it's better if they find a new line of work.

  • @shanemaddox8768
    @shanemaddox8768 4 года назад

    Turn to your own fortune

  • @johnchoiwaihung
    @johnchoiwaihung 4 года назад

    There are professional masters & “non-professional” masters in Hk . Why use “non-professional” masters to represent “HK FORTUNE TELLERS” , while they don’t have the knowledge to calculate COVID-19?
    Using the MASTER 3 ARTS - i did all extensive calculation in 19/9/2019 & posted on my FB and that’s was way before the COVID 19 bursted out in late December.

  • @juliantotriwijaya9208
    @juliantotriwijaya9208 4 года назад

    People: they would have know, unless they're scammer
    Me: let me explain you something, let's apply logic here, let say there was two fortune teller 1 & 2 and they both are Legit, actually can tell the future, fortune teller 1 tell twomorow event will be A, but 2 tell it will be B, considering the future always changing based on our action with many posibility and the fact there could only be one future, only one of them can be correct, either fortune teller 1/future A or 2/future B. So if there let say 100 fortune teller in the world, one party would want the future to be B and another to be A/oposite, resulting in technically fortune teller battle/argument, since only one of them can be correct.
    This is what I call "The Fortune Teller Dilema" I name it :D

  • @WangJustin
    @WangJustin 4 года назад

    Don’t worry I’ll be coming when I can finally get the drugs to be immune to COVID 19 (the drugs is a joke and it’s just for bad humor so don’t yell at me xD)

  • @Maryam.O_C
    @Maryam.O_C 4 года назад +4

    I urge you to stop this nonsense and plz get a job if you can,it will save your time and yourself.

  • @slchan7879
    @slchan7879 4 года назад

    Fortune teller: *predict gloomy outcome*
    Customer: @#%$%@! I don't need you to give me more gloomy prediction
    Fortune teller: *predict positive outcome*
    Customer: (skeptical look) Things so bad now yet positive prediction. Must be a scammer

  • @shubham12345_
    @shubham12345_ 4 года назад

    I am feeling bad for Chinese soldiers who died defending their land and not given any respect and tribute by CCP. 16 Chinese soldiers who died on the spot after brawl with Indian soldiers and rest of injured who died later.

    • @SuccessforLifester
      @SuccessforLifester 4 года назад +1

      That is their ways. When they rolled out the tank during the sixty four Beijing incident, I understand that they even ran over their own soldiers.

  • @zane718ph
    @zane718ph 4 года назад

    what gives?🤷🏻‍♂

  • @sanivkumar2145
    @sanivkumar2145 3 года назад

    Very sad news

  • @mailtojarriya
    @mailtojarriya 4 года назад

    Why surprise? They should know all this in advance no? They are telling future?

  • @Ash-vf5yt
    @Ash-vf5yt 4 года назад

    #freehongkong
    #freetibbat
    #freetaiwan
    #free made in china corona
    #boycott china

  • @handlymoilp8582
    @handlymoilp8582 4 года назад

    Not related to the video
    But it is possible to live in china without knowing chiense

    • @emy9221
      @emy9221 4 года назад

      Yes, it's possible. Many people in China know some English. Especially in Hong Kong I think.

  • @sct4040
    @sct4040 4 года назад

    First the rioters, then the pandemic. I feel for the HKers, my advise is to leave for the mainland for jobs.

  • @jackl2257
    @jackl2257 4 года назад

    what

  • @mrxxbrian
    @mrxxbrian 4 года назад

    CONfidence Artists

  • @casey7057
    @casey7057 4 года назад

    GO ASK TRUMP TO TRY HIS FORTUNE

  • @calonpetrus9723
    @calonpetrus9723 4 года назад

    Hello china you rich people why do you want to work in Indonesia location sumatera? Tell me why

  • @limrosemary8536
    @limrosemary8536 4 года назад

    快来悔改... 信耶稣... 看以赛亚书 47& 55

  • @alexmax8979
    @alexmax8979 4 года назад

    I see Covid-19 in your future 😷

  • @nemeanlioness
    @nemeanlioness 4 года назад

    Muwahaha

  • @dan020350
    @dan020350 4 года назад

    👺 sad

  • @thennow898
    @thennow898 4 года назад

    Lol, lousy crooks should get proper jobs!!

  • @auroraborealis7667
    @auroraborealis7667 4 года назад

    ...So its time for them to give their life to JESUS CHRIST, and read the Bible maybe they can learn a lesson or two about the way, truth and life!

  • @rubyzhang3061
    @rubyzhang3061 4 года назад

    Third

  • @toddbrothers1520
    @toddbrothers1520 4 года назад

    Frauds

  • @styled_by_fash
    @styled_by_fash 4 года назад

    This is laughable 😁

  • @toddbrothers1520
    @toddbrothers1520 4 года назад

    Why didn’t they let us know about the Kung flu sooner