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Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012

hemophilia posted:

So uh, is there a reason the roads are so god damned dangerous in places like china and india? Why do people drive like that? Why do pedestrians cross like that? Why is nobody ever paying attention when their life is in danger?

Roads are pretty dangerous everywhere man. Also China and India are semi-developed countries where road accidents are commonly filmed.

Come to the wikipedia page "countries by traffic-related fatalities", where you can learn that 1-in-10 car drivers in Guinea have killed somebody or died in a car accident.


Seriously :stare:

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Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

hemophilia posted:

So uh, is there a reason the roads are so god damned dangerous in places like china and india? Why do people drive like that? Why do pedestrians cross like that? Why is nobody ever paying attention when their life is in danger?

Because no one is paying any attention to their surroundings, have zero sense of self-preservation and the "me first" culture of queuing means that even if pedestrians stop at a red light, they end up standing in the middle of the road anyway.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Fojar38 posted:

also lol all that loving pandering and it only got 37 million in china

should have paired up with a chinese financier like warcraft did and let them use their skills in corruption and fraud for big box office returns

They did blow up some Generic Developed Asian City. I can't remember if it was Chinese or not since the language seemed garbled and the city had zero landmarks. Wow, the Chinese Uncle played Lau in TDK, I didn't recognized him, it's only been 8 years, what happened to him? At least no one got teleported to the SCS.

I saw a bit of Warcraft and I am like, the gently caress is this? Who would watch this trash? This is coming from a person who enjoyed ID4:2 and looks forward for ID4:3 so we can bring our brand of xenophobia to the larger universe.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->
a bunch of retarded white people saw that warcraft did really well in china and wrote a bunch of articles about how it proves that the future of hollywood movies is in china while completely ignoring the fact that since its china a lot of those ticket sales were fraudulant

like apparently wanda group was reporting that 130 people were seeing warcraft per-screening in a city that was loving flooded

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->

oohhboy posted:

They did blow up some Generic Developed Asian City. I can't remember if it was Chinese or not since the language seemed garbled and the city had zero landmarks. Wow, the Chinese Uncle played Lau in TDK, I didn't recognized him, it's only been 8 years, what happened to him? At least no one got teleported to the SCS.

I saw a bit of Warcraft and I am like, the gently caress is this? Who would watch this trash? This is coming from a person who enjoyed ID4:2 and looks forward for ID4:3 so we can bring our brand of xenophobia to the larger universe.

i heard that it picked up a bunch of cities from china and dropped them on europe, causing billions of casualties and trillions of dollars in damage for what i can only imagine is a metaphor for one belt one road

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007


So many hurt feelings in this clip.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

hemophilia posted:

what about self preservation? my home borders an asphalt state highway, it's usually not even very busy, and it's only a two lane thing, but I'm incredibly careful about crossing it even though i do so regularly. that the danger is routine, nearly mundane, doesn't soften my caution. I just don't get it.

I honestly don't think Chinese people want to live when it comes to driving and being a pedestrian or their environment or operating heavy machinery correctly or a number of other things

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Lichy posted:

not being able to find brown rice in China is pretty lol

I once tried to find bread that didn't have a hotdog stuck in it or sugar mixed into the dough and in a city of twelve million was told there was only one store that stocked such a thing. It was called "The Russian Bread Store" and was almost two hours away by bus. Later I happened to walk past it and there was a line going around the block from it.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I also forgot about "Moon Milk" that is served on the Moon. Get it? I think it is the same stuff they had in Iron Man 3 but had a more "Digital" font and a giant QR code that takes up half the front of the box which probably leads to an actual site.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Sheep-Goats posted:

I"The Russian Bread Store" and was almost two hours away by bus. Later I happened to walk past it and there was a line going around the block from it.

Russian bread lines eh?

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug
When in china, it's best to just give up starches and carbs. If you value not dying. Actually, you know what? Just don't eat.

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Ceciltron posted:

When in china, it's best to just give up starches and carbs. If you value not dying. Actually, you know what? Just don't eat.

Just do as the Chinese do, bring enough food from your home country with you when you visit.

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012
Oh that's who all the baby formula is for

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
Can't you find basmati rice or something else with lower GI?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->
new pew global attitudes report is out

usa back on top as "worlds leading economy" plus everyone hates china now

:australia: is an outlier with both positive views of china and a belief that china is the worlds leading economy

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Haha drat Australia is retarded

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

hemophilia posted:

Haha drat Australia is retarded

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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:canada: has both too but with a much smaller margin (only a few percentage points) so this is very possibly just chinese_expats.txt

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


Lichy posted:

not being able to find brown rice in China is pretty lol

You can find it pretty easily where I am. You do have to go to a more upscale grocery store though.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Can't you find basmati rice or something else with lower GI?

Yep. Once you get your internet shopping set up you can buy literally anything.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Fojar38 posted:

:canada: has both too but with a much smaller margin (only a few percentage points) so this is very possibly just chinese_expats.txt

I was going to say this. Possible that the number of Chinese people in each county is skewing the results. . . but what is France's excuse?

LentThem
Aug 31, 2004

90% Retractible



Shanghai is the most international city but here we are

Second Sun
Apr 6, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Good news!

http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/shock-study-finds-beijing-sinking-at-alarming-rate/news-story/79484a53e491edfbaa2e52fb9580efac

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012



quote:

IT’S one of the world’s most important, vibrant cities

lol no

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

hemophilia posted:

Haha drat Australia is retarded

When a massive amount of your income is dependant on someone you'll believe anything but bad things about them.

Or its Stockholm syndrome.

Probably that and the Chinese propaganda, Australians aren't too bright in some ways.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Hmmmm. . .

new.com.au posted:

"IT’S one of the world’s most important, vibrant cities and home to 20 million people, but Beijing is literally collapsing under the weight of its own economic success."







"no why"

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
Wouldn't it just be all of the Chinese expats in Australia and Canada, with their stolen money, helping convince all the idiot politicians and businesses that they can get as much money by cooperating with China without realizing they can't be half as corrupt and get away with it?

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties
This must be how the US's unconditional support of Israel looks like to other countries.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
China buys all the poo poo we dig up :shrug:

Also, our politicians suck the beefy cock of the mining industry because, even though they only make up about 10% of the economy, they have always had the most effective lobbyists and biggest bribes.

So, when the mining conglomerates say, "China good" our politicians wipe the bauxite flecked semen off their lips and parrot what their masters tell them.

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
Chinese expats in kangaroo land are in for a fun surprise when global warming makes the temperature there measured in oven settings

angel opportunity
Sep 7, 2004

Total Eclipse of the Heart


this guy is soooo good





Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.

Venom Snake posted:

Chinese expats in kangaroo land are in for a fun surprise when global warming makes the temperature there measured in oven settings

then all the water will be hot water

so good for healthy

akulanization
Dec 21, 2013

Cry Havoc posted:

then all the water will be hot water

so good for healthy

what happens to healthy when hot becomes the new room temperature?

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

akulanization posted:

what happens to healthy when hot becomes the new room temperature?

smoke more

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

akulanization posted:

what happens to healthy when hot becomes the new room temperature?

hot pot stay hot longer

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

akulanization posted:

what happens to healthy when hot becomes the new room temperature?

healthy will get bad

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/asia/south-china-sea-philippines-hague.html

quote:

Beijing Rejects South China Sea Case Ahead of July 12 Ruling

The landmark case centers on the Philippine government’s argument that China’s claims over much of the sea, a strategic waterway in the western Pacific, are illegal under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Philippines initiated the case in 2013 after China seized Scarborough Shoal, an atoll that the Philippines administered and that was a favorite fishing ground for Filipino fishermen.

A special five-member tribunal established by the court in 2013 will also decide on the size of maritime zones around rocks and reefs in the Spratly archipelago off the Philippine coast. It will also rule on whether China has caused environmental damage in constructing an artificial island at Mischief Reef.


China has refused to participate in the proceedings, saying that the tribunal has no jurisdiction, and has insisted that it will ignore its rulings.

The tribunal is not considering questions of sovereignty, and which country owns what islands, reefs and atolls in the sea will remain unresolved by the decision. China and nearly half a dozen countries in Southeast Asia have long disputed ownership of various tiny specks in the waterway.

In a statement, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said late Wednesday that it would reject any decision by the tribunal.

“China does not accept any means of third-party dispute settlement or any solution imposed on China,” a ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, said. “The Chinese government will continue to abide by international law and basic norms governing international relations as enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, and will continue to work with states directly concerned to resolve the relevant disputes in the South China Sea through negotiation and consultation on the basis of respecting historical facts and in accordance with international law, so as to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.’’

LOL at so much, but especially their reply to remaining law abiding.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ug6hehTyY

EDIT: Propaganda using BLACK PEOPLE MUSIC. Or maybe Eminem invented rap? Everyone loves Eminem.

Haier fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jul 1, 2016

akulanization
Dec 21, 2013

Haier posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ug6hehTyY

EDIT: Propaganda using BLACK PEOPLE MUSIC. Or maybe Eminem invented rap? Everyone loves Eminem.

a 5000 year old mixtape proves that rap music was invented in china and is a traditional chinese art.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

angel opportunity posted:



this guy is soooo good






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07sBT1Eh-Q

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GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

Haier posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ug6hehTyY

EDIT: Propaganda using BLACK PEOPLE MUSIC. Or maybe Eminem invented rap? Everyone loves Eminem.

I can't tell if this is propaganda or something made by goons ironically

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