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HONG KONG — A six-minute film showing a grumpy man scolding a fellow Hong Kong bus rider for interrupting his phone call has become one of the most popular videos online.

"Bus Uncle," as the film is commonly known, has been viewed nearly 1.7 million times on the video Web site youtube.com — the second-most-viewed video on the site in May as of Thursday — spawning spoofs and new slang drawn from the ranting subject's emotionally charged soliloquy.

The grainy film was apparently recorded using a mobile phone.

The film starts out when a middle-age man reacts strongly when a younger man sitting behind him taps his shoulder to ask him to keep his voice down while talking on the phone.

"I don't know you. You don't know me. Why do you do this?" the infuriated bus rider says, jabbing his right hand downward in the air.

When the young man, who rarely talks back during the lengthy argument, expresses an unwillingness to continue the conversation, the older man explodes, "This is not resolved! This is not resolved! This is not resolved!" — which has now become a catchphrase in Hong Kong.

He goes on to say: "I face pressure. You face pressure. Why did you provoke me?"

Just when the dispute seems to have ended after the young man apologizes and the two shake hands, the young man takes issue with profanity used by the middle-age man, who then launches into another round of profanities.

The video has inspired numerous spoofs, including a karaoke version and a rap song using the middle-age man's refrain, "I face pressure. You face pressure."

It still isn't clear who shot the film and it isn't certain if the film was staged or not. The middle-age man hasn't been identified, but a man claiming to be the victim of the verbal abuse has been interviewed on Hong Kong's Commercial Radio.

"Why did I just sit there? I paid to be on the bus. You don't think I would get off the bus and waste my money, do you?" said the man, identified only as Alvin.

Youtube.com is a site that allows users to post videos for sharing. The site ranks videos by the number of viewings.