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USDA Choice posted:Not a joke though the umbrella/batteries/basket/phone were added for kicks. I don't expect any of it to actually move except for maybe the lamp and the dehumidifier. What doesn't will be split up between friends, the gf's family, and the dumpster. Shiggles.
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I'd love to lose all my money in card games but coming up from Wenshan on a weeknight probably won't happen. I propose a Goon Autumn Festival street BBQ next week.
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I've been in the same position. You gotta offload what you can, an cash is cash is cash. I'm shy on space since i moved. I was interested in the desk and humidifier but Mrs closed me down :/ Looking forward to poker on weds. Iirc i owe you 1/3 of pikey whisky.
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Sep 8, 2013 18:34
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Can you check if pillow is machine washable. Space foam poo poo is awesome.
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Sep 8, 2013 18:37
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In addition to whatever pillowcase you put around it it also has a relatively thick polyester mesh skin around the foam which can be unzipped and machine washed. The foam itself is not meant for anything more than gentle spot washing though.
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Sep 9, 2013 07:19
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USDA Choice posted:Hullo thread, This is the worst craigslist post ever. Edit: is that your ballsack in the the reflection on the helmet?
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Sep 9, 2013 11:23
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and tried to lean way over and pick something up and it fell over and broke. Now it's a stool. Free if you come pick it up.
so I can take your hard earned cash one last time.
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potatoofdoom posted:This is the worst craigslist post ever.
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Sep 9, 2013 16:28
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Nope it's just a landscape. Sorry to disappoint. Since I'm leaving though, what's the single best non-Western restaurant I should hit up in Taipei?
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USDA Choice posted:Nope it's just a landscape. Sorry to disappoint. der - Lilly's! Dumbass! Pick one of the 5 star hotels they have int'l reputations to maintain (personally i'm not down with buffet). You'll wanna sort the table out quick sharp if you're thinking about Friday night.
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Sep 9, 2013 20:49
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The Chinese place on the 86th floor of 101. It is amazing.
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MaZenDo at SYS Memorial Hall station is super goddamn solid and it's pretty fast and cheap to medium priced.
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Sep 10, 2013 01:31
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Just looked that place up, it sounds pretty awesome. Do you know if reservations are recommended/taken, especially if I'm gonna go on a weekend?
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Sep 10, 2013 01:42
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Any jobs open right now? Kind of in a lovely situation with my school all of a sudden and I'm willing to walk over it but I'd like to continue getting a paycheck.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Any jobs open right now? Kind of in a lovely situation with my school all of a sudden and I'm willing to walk over it but I'd like to continue getting a paycheck. There's always the cold shrug of Korea. Also... You're back to your old Randian self. 
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Sep 10, 2013 17:29
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Wait, I used to be a Randian?
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Atlas Hugged posted:Wait, I used to be a Randian? A cheeky one. I like to interpret usernames in my own way.
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Also, I'm entirely willing to relocate. Cash flow is more important than happiness so long as certain basic conditions which my school wants to violate are met. I actually wouldn't mind Pingtung if people knew of work there just because that's where I've got "family".
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Turns out moving to a "real" city means that people get pissed if you use random plastic bags for your garbage. Where do you even get those special blue bags, anyway? Also, as much as I'd like to continue coming to the poker games, I'm now working from 3:30 to midnight, so I don't think that'll happen. Sorry!
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Yeah that was a big revelation to me as well when I moved up here. I am not 100% sure about the blue bags since I live in New Taipei City and not Taipei itself, but to get our special pink bags I go to Carrefour. They don't actually have them on the shelves, though, I need to go to the customer service counter thing and buy them there. Boy, I sure do love putting trash bags inside other plastic bags, it just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside.
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Sep 11, 2013 07:29
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7-11 has them behind the counter, just ask for the 藍色垃圾袋.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Also, I'm entirely willing to relocate. Cash flow is more important than happiness so long as certain basic conditions which my school wants to violate are met. I actually wouldn't mind Pingtung if people knew of work there just because that's where I've got "family". David's is probably hiring. As a bonus you'd also probably get to do an episode of our radio show. You'd have to find your own apartment and stuff though. David's is just a paycheck. If you need work you could always sign on with global village until you find something better. You should definitely move to Taipei so that your life isn't boring as gently caress all the time though.
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Spanish Matlock posted:David's is probably hiring. As a bonus you'd also probably get to do an episode of our radio show. You'd have to find your own apartment and stuff though. David's is just a paycheck. If you need work you could always sign on with global village until you find something better. You should definitely move to Taipei so that your life isn't boring as gently caress all the time though. Well, I'll bug you about this in a year. My school caved and realized that a teacher with five years of experience and functional Chinese who only earns 550NT an hour isn't something they're willing to let go easily.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Well, I'll bug you about this in a year. My school caved and realized that a teacher with five years of experience and functional Chinese who only earns 550NT an hour isn't something they're willing to let go easily.  For teaching a class? drat, you would probably make more doing tutoring on the side right? Isn't 1.5k NTD an hour more reasonable for a classroom or is that already international school teacher pay?
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The reason my hourly is so low is because I get a free three bedroom apartment plus utilities and yearly airfare. That is unheard of for a buxiban in Taiwan. It ends up meaning I have more disposable income. However, the school decided they wanted to gently caress with my housing and I threatened to walk out. If the housing goes, then I would have no incentive to stay with my school.
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caberham posted:
Hess starts at 580 and tops out at 750. The highest I've heard of for a buxiban class is 800/hour, which is what I used to have at a mom and pop school. 1500/hour? That's nuts.
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Oh, and I have no prep or office hours. If I'm not teaching, I can go home since I live five minutes away. Aside from it being incredibly boring and enabling my wild spiral into alcoholism, it's a sweet gig.
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Those bags are called 台北市專用垃圾袋 (Taipei shi zhuan yong le se dai) and as mentioned you can get them at 7-11. They're not particularly more expensive than other bags so why not just do it.
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I'd suggest just getting the 15L bags or larger then dumping all your trashcans or whatever in it when they're full and then taking that out instead of a bunch of little bags. That said, recycling is still supposed to be separated. 
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duckfarts posted:I'd suggest just getting the 15L bags or larger then dumping all your trashcans or whatever in it when they're full and then taking that out instead of a bunch of little bags. I live near a big apartment complex that has some people that bring around their own truck each night and take whatever recyclables you have, unsorted. I give them that stuff earlier in the evening, then throw the rest away in the garbage truck proper.
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I live in a building with a proper dumpster and recycling room. I haven't taken trash to a truck in about six years. Move to a new building.
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One of the greatest disappointments of my life was walking around a 40C, humid as gently caress day and hearing an ice cream truck jingle in the distance... then seeing the garbage truck come up.
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Ravendas posted:I live near a big apartment complex that has some people that bring around their own truck each night and take whatever recyclables you have, unsorted. I give them that stuff earlier in the evening, then throw the rest away in the garbage truck proper. n/p GoutPatrol fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Sep 8, 2021 |
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thegoat posted:I live in a building with a proper dumpster and recycling room. I haven't taken trash to a truck in about six years. Move to a new building. My building has bins for sorting recyclables and for the trash too, but they use the city's trash service so you still need to put your garbage in the official bags before putting them in the bin. And yeah, I get 15L bags and fill it with other smaller trash bags, which seems wasteful but the smaller bags were...well, too small. One of Hess' reading book even features an American kid getting confused about the garbage truck playing what we think of as an ice cream truck song. It was definitely one of the weirdest things in my first couple of weeks of living here.
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POCKET CHOMP posted:My building has bins for sorting recyclables and for the trash too, but they use the city's trash service so you still need to put your garbage in the official bags before putting them in the bin. Jason goes to Taiwan~ With his Taiwanese buddy Stanley. I forget the story, but the previous one was Stanley Learns to Duck. Taught Hess stuff for way too long. I explained the whole idea to the kids, and how it fooled me too. "Ice cream truck!" "No, you... don't want their ice cream."
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It's Beautiful Island, you're right it's after Stanley Learns to Duck but I'm not sure which level it is exactly, SA 8 and 9? They're not bad books though, good little primer for the kids about cultural differences and stuff. My students always enjoyed them more than the pretty boring reading books in the lower levels. I know you've got me beat on the number of years, but I had 3 years of Hess stuff and it will take me at least that long to get it out of my memory. The most awesome thing I ever found in Hess books is that in one of the Express books they explain a game using the name "Ms. Lar Dass" when it was about suing McDonald's (or some fast food chain). Someone must have been bored at work the night they wrote that one up.
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POCKET CHOMP posted:It's Beautiful Island, you're right it's after Stanley Learns to Duck but I'm not sure which level it is exactly, SA 8 and 9? They're not bad books though, good little primer for the kids about cultural differences and stuff. My students always enjoyed them more than the pretty boring reading books in the lower levels. I know you've got me beat on the number of years, but I had 3 years of Hess stuff and it will take me at least that long to get it out of my memory. SA10 and 11. 8 is The List which has the most disappointing ending to any book I've ever read and 9 is the recycling robot one.
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GoutPatrol posted:Or you could get the deaf mute guy to do it for you and pay him in cans. Better to leave you your recyclables out somewhere in plain sight. Then jingle some empty soda cans and hide in the bushes. Then watch as a horde of old people descend on the bag, and almost get in fist fights trying to claim it for themselves.
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POCKET CHOMP posted:The most awesome thing I ever found in Hess books is that in one of the Express books they explain a game using the name "Ms. Lar Dass" when it was about suing McDonald's (or some fast food chain). Someone must have been bored at work the night they wrote that one up.
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One of the Kids Club Teacher's Guides closing activity for a lesson is 'napalming the main office'. Took a picture of it, it's on my computer somewhere. Also in the same line is the oral test for these kids being 'read the words', two of them being 'beach' and 'funk'. Long E/short I confusion and every kid just dropping the N led to some funny tests.
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 Here's a highly-confidential picture of a Hess Kids Club Teacher's Guide book encouraging violence against the children. Someone alert the media.
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