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Moon Slayer posted:DaJia, actually, at least for another week or so. Then I'm moving to Taipei. I'm actually going up tomorrow to pay the deposit on my new apartment. It's half the size of my current one and the rent is twice as much. But I'll actually have stuff to do in my free time now! Ah, I knew you were somewhere up there. I work just south of that area in Longjing. Was one of your Kevin's a fat kid who would just vacantly stare off into anytime you or a CT would tell him to do something, and act like a massive prick any other time? Age 11 or so. Edit: Magna Kaser posted:I had a Superman once. Superman was a right dick though and nobody liked him. Thankfully his parents got frustrated he wasn't learning anything (because he would just writhe on the floor saying "pig" any time we weren't doing a game or some other activity) and pulled him out after only a few weeks. The second or third week he didn't show up one of my students asked me "Superman is GAME OVER?" and I nodded yes. He relayed this to the rest of the class and all those seven year olds started dancing :3 I wish more parents would pull their kids when they aren't learning anything. It boggles my mind how many parents continue to pay money when their kid shows 0 improvement, and ends up getting held back 3-4 times in even the simplest of classes. So tired of working in glorified day care centers... HappyHelmet fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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Magna Kaser posted:Dang Taiwan is expensive. 711 sells 500ML cans of Asahi for 12rmb, which is like 60NTD according to this app on my computer. Same here in 7/11 for the shorty silver Asahi. I forget which is the legit one the silver or the gold cans. But, they're both pretty reasonable if you have a serious aversion to the regular local beer. For naming fun: I've borrowed cigarettes from a guy at work called Justice. He looks the part (as in Judge Dredd proportions - rather than a fey robe-wearing carrier-of-scales) I met a girl called Miaow too - she's cool, afaik she uses the name because it sounds like her Chinese name.
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HappyHelmet posted:Beer chat: Drink bear beer. The beer for bears. It'll get you liquored up with quickness.
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Spanish Matlock posted:Drink bear beer. The beer for bears. It'll get you liquored up with quickness. Haha, yeah if I am out with friends drinking beer sometimes I'll drink the bear. Gotta drink it fast though because it is nasty when it gets warm. And yes, it does indeed get you drunk.
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I try not to get all beer snobby, but the canned Guinness they make for export is a far cry from the real tap stuff and honestly kind of nasty. Also Duckfarts quoted once but I'm gonna quote this yet again since the thread has been moving so quickly lately. quote:Poker on Wednesday July 10 @ 8:00pm
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USDA Choice posted:I try not to get all beer snobby, but the canned Guinness they make for export is a far cry from the real tap stuff and honestly kind of nasty. Yeah, going to canned export Guinness straight from spending a month in Dublin was terrible. On the subject of odd English names that show up with regularity, I know three Bensons and two Hebes. Also I totally get the Kevin hatred, I have four in one class.
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I know name chat was last page, but I wanted to complain about all the Hong Kong girls in their mid to late 20s named Hebe. That's a weird fuckin name and I blame Taiwan.
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I have several students named Kevin and they are generally quite smart and well behaved. I find in all my teaching that Wayne is the name of a child is a total idiot. Johnny doesn't fall far behind. There have been kids named Money, Cash, Nini, Momo, Jojo, Cat and I'm sure a lot of others that I've simply forgotten. I actually mentioned the story of this Turkish foreigner to my wife and several other Taiwanese people and not one of them knew what I was even talking about. As soon as I mentioned the news they all told me about the new baby panda at the zoo.
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url posted:Same here in 7/11 for the shorty silver Asahi. I forget which is the legit one the silver or the gold cans. It's be great if she was a Miao as well.
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url posted:I met a girl called Miaow too - she's cool, afaik she uses the name because it sounds like her Chinese name. She wasn't a very tall, incredibly busty woman by chance, was she? Bear Beer is alright, but more of you have to try the Tucheng microbrew. It's legitimately good beer. I've never heard anyone say they didn't like it. Well, except for maybe the algae beer. thegoat posted:I actually mentioned the story of this Turkish foreigner to my wife and several other Taiwanese people and not one of them knew what I was even talking about. As soon as I mentioned the news they all told me about the new baby panda at the zoo. We better make sure that every foreigner coming into the country is aware of the state of the media and how it will affect their dating lives since this story broke. Not a baby panda? Not getting laid.
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I'm all in favor of making sure everyone knows that Taiwan is the superior China right down to being able to get its pandas to gently caress.
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TetsuoTW posted:I'm all in favor of making sure everyone knows that Taiwan is the superior China right down to being able to get its pandas to gently caress. Living in Chengdu I can attest our panda porn is the best quality stuff insofar as getting pandas to get it on. 
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Speaking of panda dick, is the Taipei Zoo any good? I've been here for a long time but still haven't gone. I wouldn't be expecting a world class animal sanctuary, but I'm hoping it's not dirty/awful/awkward because I do want to check it out sometime.
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duckfarts posted:Speaking of panda dick, is the Taipei Zoo any good? I've been here for a long time but still haven't gone. I wouldn't be expecting a world class animal sanctuary, but I'm hoping it's not dirty/awful/awkward because I do want to check it out sometime. When I went there the pandas were getting checkups or something  Red pandas were there though, and they're the superior panda. It's a decent zoo as I remember. Also seeing as it's on the MRT essentially it's very easy to get to which is a big plus. Probably worth going to once.
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duckfarts posted:Speaking of panda dick, is the Taipei Zoo any good? I've been here for a long time but still haven't gone. I wouldn't be expecting a world class animal sanctuary, but I'm hoping it's not dirty/awful/awkward because I do want to check it out sometime. I enjoy it because I live in Kaohsiung and the zoo here is terrible. Make sure not to go on a weekend.
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It's along an incredibly long series of riverside parks too, so you take a leisurely scenic bike ride there and/or back, if you're feeling energetic that day.
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TetsuoTW posted:I'm all in favor of making sure everyone knows that Taiwan is the superior China right down to being able to get its pandas to gently caress. You need to come back to the motherland of Hong Kong. You know it's the coolest reaaaaaal China place.Cross posting from China LAN chat. If this posting goes one, maybe you guys should move to LAN instead   Just order online from hopleaf? They do deliveries  http://hopleaf.hk/hong-kong-craft-beer-beer-brands/hong-kong-craft-beer-rogue.html If you want gulden drak order from these guys http://www.belgianbeer.com.hk/ Oh and  Ooops Forgot about that, never cared much for Irish beers. I just like my Wheats and dunkels  caberham fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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caberham posted:Oh and Boddingtons tastes better than Guinness I was born a Murphy's man, I'll die a Murphy's man.
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Are mainland student names allowed? Because one of my students wrote that he was "Optimus" on his final exam.
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Ravendas posted:Also, Pandemonium, people say you're on a crusade because look at your posts. You've written pages and pages of words in the past day or two. You really really really seem to have strong feelings about something or another. Or sitting at home or one-of-the-companies-I-do-contract-work-for's office with a lot of free time.  I didn't know I needed a five step plan of action to write some words on an internet forum. Admittedly quite a few words, but I am still working out the kinks. Sorry, TetsuoTW. I'll make sure I have a super polished argument with effective ways to see that argument realized in the real world next time I make some internet posts.  Then you might feel bad about your retarded, ham-handed Don Quixote analogies, right? I guess you and I have different experiences with the media here, Atlas Hugged. Is that fair? Also, I think the MRT video I mentioned a few pages ago was different from the one you or someone else brought up. It wasn't a woman yelling but a white guy-Taiwanese girl couple in the MRT with the girl sitting on his lap and her rear end hanging out of her dress. poo poo like this probably doesn't make it into the circles of Taiwanese professionals because they could give two shits and are depressed as gently caress about working so much and making no money, but I would argue the younger generation here, particularly college students, are affected. I would agree that it is still in-one-ear-out-the-other gossipy material, but it does stay with them and I really do think it builds up, story by story. Otherwise, how do you explain this? http://blog.udn.com/mobile/kellygun20000/4410891 (I think this is written by multiple Taiwanese but am not sure.) More than the media, I think it speaks to our different experiences here. I get sent poo poo like the above blog, and the Turkish guy's escapades, and the MRT couple video, and a video I have not yet seen on the news (but was perhaps the most offensive of them all) of a white guy loving a Taiwanese girl on the ground outside of a club in Taichung all the time by my Taiwanese friends, most in the 20-29 age bracket, male and female. I don't seek this poo poo out; I get "informed" by Taiwanese. I think this might have something to do with our locations and the discrepancy in the number of foreigners. That is, Taiwanese outside Taipei see even fewer foreigners and have an even more media-oriented perspective. These are Taiwanese living in Taichung, Changhua, and Nantou county, who may go to Taipei once or twice a year. That is speculation, though, because I really don't know. My favorite English name so far was "Lancelo". Not Lancelot. Or else the trio of brothers named "Spider", "Penguin", and "Hippo". These were three brothers at a school for the devil spawn that are filthy rich Taiwanese engineers and businesspeople's children. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oh good, this has already descended into "But I live in real Taiwan you see."Donraj posted:Are mainland student names allowed? Because one of my students wrote that he was "Optimus" on his final exam. sub supau fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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I prefer the video that got posted everywhere of the Taiwanese girl giving the Taiwanese guy a blowjob on the MRT. What impact did that have on the youths of the country so susceptible to the media and its devilish campaigns? It seems you just freak out when foreigners are portrayed badly. I guess that means you can start to emphasize with minorities in your home country now. I don't know man, the people you hang out with seem pretty lovely if that's the kind of stuff they keep forwarding you. I don't spend a ton of time in Pingtung, but I'm there frequently and have friends there and have never dealt with any of this poo poo and I'd hazard that's a bit more remote than Taichung.
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TetsuoTW posted:Oh good, this has already descended into "But I live in real Taiwan you see." You love construing what people say, don't you? I never once made a qualitative statement of my experience in this country versus Atlas Hugged or you. I said they were different, which might explain why we have different views. Reading comprehension works wonders, I hear. Also, you are a loving ornery old man, aren't you? (At least one thing I would love to have answered is if my assumption that you are in your 40s is correct or not. I will gladly eat crow if it isn't, but I had people giving me poo poo for making "generalizations" about you, an individual, (  ) based on the fact that you said you had a bad heart and are too old to care about x, y, and z. I'm not asking for an exact number, here; ballpark it, bud.)Edit: Sorry, just saw your post, Atlas Hugged. These are people I rarely see in person. Mostly former private students and clients (people whose English essays I have edited on the side) who I keep in touch with on Facebook. They are more curious than anything. They forward this poo poo with tons of questions. Also, I would encourage people proficient in Chinese to read that blog post I linked to. I know that it is expressing a sentiment among some Taiwanese, but before one of my friends (again) showed me that blog I had never seen someone go off and describe it in such depth. Like I said before, it feels like a few people contributed to it. But what do I know, it may be the work of one dude. Pandemonium fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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I've lived in loving rural Guizhou, bub. Let's have a "whose neighbors are more blindly influenced by the media and interact less with foreigners" fight. Bet I'll win.  I was there right after Michael Jackson died and our neighbors kept giving us condolences and poo poo like we were personally connected to the dude fake e: Videos of Taiwanese kids loving on roofs pops up on mainland Chinese boards all the time. It's some weird trend where they keep filming themselves loving on roofs and the mainlanders go nuts and torrent them like crazy, while making thousands of posts about how morally deficient Taiwanese youths are for making them.
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quadrophrenic posted:Where are you guys finding all these videos Friends posting them on Facebook, guys at the gym watching the news. I rarely go to the Taiwanese news sites unless I'm curious about something.
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I think Quintons actually a bona-fida Dutch name. I met a met with the same moniker this weekend!
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Magna Kaser posted:Living in Chengdu I can attest our panda porn is the best quality stuff insofar as getting pandas to get it on. Oh hey - now you get to go to the seaside too. Kinda cool I thought. Atlas Hugged posted:She wasn't a very tall, incredibly busty woman by chance, was she? Taller than me (which doesn't say much at all), busty ... nope. She's actually a colleague, but I didn't want to use somebody I work with twice in the same paragraph. Oz_Bonus posted:It's along an incredibly long series of riverside parks too, so you take a leisurely scenic bike ride there and/or back, if you're feeling energetic that day. You can, if you're feeling cheeky have a BBQ in the park (did this with former colleagues) Pandemonium posted:and a video I have not yet seen on the news. When you do "stumble across" this video, please link it.  xvideos taiwanese tag is really not upto snuff in my mind; half of it's Chinese, a bunch more is HK, and the rest is hookers in hotels and you can just tell they don't have their heart and soul in it - so yeah - sharing is caring broheim!Pandemonium posted:I will gladly eat crow if it isn't. You should up the ante - crow is probably common place out in deepest darkest Taichung. Maybe cockroach skewers or something would make me believe you really have some skin in the game. url fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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kru posted:I think Quintons actually a bona-fida Dutch name. I met a met with the same moniker this weekend! I had no idea. Just always struck me as a strange name.
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Pandemonium posted:poo poo like this probably doesn't make it into the circles of Taiwanese professionals because they could give two shits and are depressed as gently caress about working so much and making no money, but I would argue the younger generation here, particularly college students, are affected. I would agree that it is still in-one-ear-out-the-other gossipy material, but it does stay with them and I really do think it builds up, story by story. Otherwise, how do you explain this? http://blog.udn.com/mobile/kellygun20000/4410891 (I think this is written by multiple Taiwanese but am not sure.) I'm a current university student in Tainan, and most people had no reaction to any of these things. The only one that really stuck out was the MRT couple, but the comments boiled down to "get a loving room" rather than an attack on foreigners, and the Turkish guy is a complete nonissue. My social circle is almost entirely 18-24 year old Taiwanese students, and the foreigners I see on a regular basis are mostly from HK, Malaysia, or Singapore. A few years ago, that blog link was good reading practice. It's pretty useful as some alternative material. so well just relax I guess, here is a relaxing song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXYH_2GirbM
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So was it in here we were talking about haircuts? Because I found another reason people might not be cool with buzz cuts.this is a stickup posted:so well just relax I guess, here is a relaxing song:
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That guy on the MRT with his Taiwanese girlfriend on his lap, rear end hanging out, is a friend of mine. Really funny reading his Facebook status updates having no idea what he was hinting at, then coming upon the video and immediately recognizing him. His posts made much more sense afterwards.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X2cY6TzDWA it's far, far from porn. Edit: Asked the friend who sent it to me the first time to resend it. He delivered. Pandemonium fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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Atlas's microbrewery is legit good, I'm surprised there are T goons who haven't been. Ah, Murphys a good papist beer, unlike that other one. Name chat. I've currently got an Ambrosia, Galaxy and Warp (after the phones), One, and Crucial. I'd much rather them use their Korean names. I remember a story about one teacher calling on a kid and he wasn't answering because I don't answer to my slave name" don't know who taught him that, but I enjoyed it.
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Atlas's microbrewery is legit good, I'm surprised there are T goons who haven't been. Ah, Murphys a good papist beer, unlike that other one. Name chat. I've currently got an Ambrosia, Galaxy and Warp (after the phones), One, and Crucial. I'd much rather them use their Korean names. I remember a story about one teacher calling on a kid and he wasn't answering because I don't answer to my slave name" don't know who taught him that, but I enjoyed it.
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For awhile, I was all down on forcing kids to take English names because I remember how dumb it was in French class in high school. However, now that I know more about how pronunciation in various East Asian languages work, I kind of agree that it's necessary. It's really tough for English speakers to learn Chinese names and vice-versa. Good luck getting an English speaker to pronounce "zhi", "zi", "chi", or "xi" correctly, or anything with a "u" or an "o" in it for that matter. Kids don't really need an English name, but it would be pretty embarrassing for the teacher if they could never say it right and it's good practice getting used to responding to the name. I'm only just now naturally responding to my Chinese name.
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I'm torn on that. Like I really feel like people should feel free to use their actual names - the world got over (or at least around) names like Thaksin Shinowatra, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, they'll learn to deal - but then I hear some ostensibly professional newsreader or whatever say "Li Kekiang" instead of "Li Keqiang" and I want to slap someone.
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