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Facepalm Ranger posted:I'm kinda looking forward to my Chengdu life. It's a fresh start and I feel like I can live the uni life I didn't get to have first time round, do what I want learn my trade and generally be happier than ever! Gosh I can't wait! whitepeople.txt
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Facepalm Ranger posted:To be fair here in the uk, any 'eve' is a working day. Suck though. Right before Chinese New Year is also the biggest human migration event in world history, so it'd be nice to officially get some time in advance to actually go home. Bloodnose posted:Theoretically, private companies can still give their employees the day off. These are only the holidays they are required by law to give. Yeah but you know Chinese companies would never do this.
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Facepalm Ranger posted:I'm kinda looking forward to my Chengdu life. It's a fresh start and I feel like I can live the uni life I didn't get to have first time round, do what I want learn my trade and generally be happier than ever! Gosh I can't wait! Man you're really going to fit in over here
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Don't listen to GrandFromage I'd much rather have a 150aqi day in China than Korea. Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Japan were all better than Seoul when the aqi was the same. I start feeling lovely when outside at around 70. We did have a big coal cloud roll through though. I couldn't see some of the buildings in front of my apartment. It was bad for 2 or 3 days and gathered in the valleys making its way South. My friends school was in one such valley and he had never seen anything that wasn't vibrant there. It was fun seeing him 'uncomfortable'.
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You get used to it. 140 doesn't bother me now but it did when I got off the plane. You also get used to the smell of poo poo. If you're a history buff, you can think of it as time travel! This is what cities smelled like before plumbing!
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DontAskKant posted:Don't listen to GrandFromage I'd much rather have a 150aqi day in China than Korea. Well, you live in Seoul. Ulsan is the cleanest major city in Korea.  Ten years ago it used to be one of the dirtiest. And think about the US in like the 70s. It is a fixable problem if anyone bothers to put the effort into it.
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I wouldn't know anything about Ulsan because I have been to Korea twice, and still haven't met Grand Fromage 
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caberham posted:I wouldn't know anything about Ulsan because I have been to Korea twice, and still haven't met Grand Fromage Come a day that isn't literally the only day the entire year where I absolutely couldn't cancel my plans. 
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I have been to Ulsan and I have not met Grand Fromage. Ulsan is cool. So shiny at night.
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The Worst Muslim posted:whitepeople.txt Hey you're right! Being excited about big changes in life is an exclusively white privilege! Stop being such a Debbie downer. Buy a ballon! goldboilermark posted:Man you're really going to fit in over here It'll be fine. I'll fit just as well as a foreigner in any other country. Facepalm Ranger fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Dec 19, 2013 |
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Facepalm Ranger posted:Hey you're right! Being excited about big changes in life is an exclusively white privilege! Your naivety is cute.
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B-Rad posted:Your naivety is cute. I've been told I am a cutie!  I've been to Chengdu twice in the last two years, place is pretty cool. Girlfriend's family are amazing, I'm sure my naïveté will lead to many wondrous misadventures!
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Facepalm Ranger posted:I've been told I am a cutie! China: come for the culture, stay for the cancer! In all seriousness, though, it's good that you're excited. Living here will become mundane pretty quickly, in my experience, but that's not a bad thing.
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Facepalm Ranger posted:I've been told I am a cutie! You will be called cute multiple times a day, even if you are in fact loving ugly.
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You too will become a bitter and cynical China thread regular, Facepalm Ranger.
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Facepalm Ranger posted:It'll be fine. I'll fit just as well as a foreigner in any other country. How many other countries have you lived in to definitively make this statement?
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I have a 10 hours layover in Amsterdam on my way to Beijing... No way I'm staying in the airport. The hotel HR booked us is the Somerset ZhongGuanCun, in Haidian District. Anybody been there, is it cool?
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goldboilermark posted:How many other countries have you lived in to definitively make this statement? Sorry I should have said, "I'll fit in as well as any other average Foreigner". Does that sentence work better for you as a generalisation rather than a statement of fact? Also as a Scot living in England, you discover white folk are horrendously xenophobic of their own kind. Jeoh posted:You too will become a bitter and cynical China thread regular, Facepalm Ranger. I'm fairly jaded, is that enough of a pass for now until I get to China?
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Facepalm Ranger posted:I'm fairly jaded, is that enough of a pass for now until I get to China? This is so cute... you don't have any clue at all as to the meaning of the word "jaded".
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Facepalm Ranger posted:Sorry I should have said, "I'll fit in as well as any other average Foreigner". Does that sentence work better for you as a generalisation rather than a statement of fact? No true Scotsman would live anywhere but Henan! (guestbob.txt) Also, your jadedness will level up considerably here because it will, perhaps metaphorically but definitely literally (ponder that), get covered in slime, soot, and choking dust... ...before lunchtime! 
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Pro-PRC Laowai posted:This is so cute... you don't have any clue at all as to the meaning of the word "jaded". I can see a cycle forming here. A very condescending cycle. blinkyzero posted:No true Scotsman would live anywhere but Henan! (guestbob.txt) What a country! Sign me up! gently caress the haters, I'm still looking forward to it. Facepalm Ranger fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Dec 19, 2013 |
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Senso posted:I have a 10 hours layover in Amsterdam on my way to Beijing... No way I'm staying in the airport. Schiphol is really close to Amsterdam (20 minutes by train), when are you flying over? I might be able to entertain you or something. No Yoda business.
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Facepalm Ranger posted:I can see a cycle forming here. A very condescending cycle. That's the right attitude. We're just getting the ritual hazing out of the way now because it's China and no one will remember to schedule it otherwise (until 5 minutes before it needs to happen).
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blinkyzero posted:That's the right attitude. We're just getting the ritual hazing out of the way now because it's China and no one will remember to schedule it otherwise (until 5 minutes before it needs to happen). Do I get my very own membership card at the end of it, or is that just my residency permit?
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Facepalm Ranger posted:Do I get my very own membership card at the end of it, or is that just my residency permit? When you get Pro-PRC Laowai fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Dec 19, 2013 |
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Jeoh posted:Schiphol is really close to Amsterdam (20 minutes by train), when are you flying over? I might be able to entertain you or something. No Yoda business. I'm landing in Beijing on Dec 30th at 10am. I'm not sure how much work I'll have to do, the planning for our trip is completely lovely. I might have to work 16 hours/day or not at all. If the latter, I will definitely want to go out. I'd like to see the nightlife and club scene and whatnot. Especially on NYE! I'm in the wechat group (as Manu) but I didn't talk yet, you guys are intimidating with 800 messages per day.
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Pro-PRC Laowai posted:When you get For me this didn't happen until after I left China. Now I make Bristol proud on the reg. 
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blinkyzero posted:No true Scotsman would live anywhere but Henan! (guestbob.txt) Henan, the poor man's Skinflats. In other news: my family has begun its annual Christmas goat exchange. Tearfund recently contacted us to say that we are collectivley responsible for 20% of the Feta currently being produced in Sub-Saharan Africa. Send them some olives too, maybe they can make a salad.
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GuestBob posted:Henan, the poor man's Skinflats. gimme dat feta
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Facepalm Ranger posted:I can see a cycle forming here. A very condescending cycle. Hey man, just come on over. I root for all China newbies Give me a visit in HK sometime. And if you got girlfriend/inlaw problems post here. I'm the model Filial Son and the darling of all Chinese parents. Keep your chin up, learn some Chinese and roll with everything. If things go bad  If things go good Do you have wechat? Join our wechat group, and maybe get PLECO Optical Character Recognition module. The only thing you have to beware is that goons will try to give you constructive criticism and suggestions, but may be brutally honest and most likely call you a dumbass/idiot for getting things wrong. Everyone likes to say "WE TOLD YOU SO!". And don't worry about TWM, he just feels gross about his previous enthusiasm in China. He still likes China and CN goons
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caberham posted:
We were Darth Vader to his Ben Kenobi and he has become stronger than we could possibly imagine
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tacoman165 posted:We were Darth Vader to his Ben Kenobi and he has become stronger than we could possibly imagine As long as I get to be Princess Leia. I mean, Henan is pretty much Alderaan.
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How in the world do you think the Wechat group would be even remotely helpful for anyone coming over here right now. You seem obsessed with that group, I can't figure out how in the world you can't see how horrifically awkward and cringe-inducing it is to any normal person who is not a complete...I don't know. I don't know what word to use here. I've been over here for four years and that Wechat group made me want to leave China MORE THAN actual China. The goons, or whoever else some of those people are, that actually post there actually made me want to leave China more than the making GBS threads, spitting, lying, pollution, swearing, staring and straight up lack of manners of normal China. That's impressive. Now that I'm off that boat I'm back to just sometimes disliking the making GBS threads and spitting and pollution, but those aren't as bad as they used to be, as I'm heading to Japan next week and then I have another business trip to the states in less than 5 months. Bottom line: If Facepalm Ranger thinks people are being hard on him now, we will seem like a freakin' Disney Classic here compared to how that group interacts. I get it that it is a cute little community that seems to interact somewhat well together but it is certainly not for everyone and trying to get everyone to join that as they are fresh off the boat just seems like a really, really strange idea to me. That's all. The Great Autismo! fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Dec 20, 2013 |
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Caberham's the group administrator so he's drunk with power and wants more people under his thumb. That's my guess. But yeah it's definitely not a place you wanna hang out if you don't have a thick skin and there's certainly no benefit to being there that you couldn't get by posting on the forums. That said, if you're into black humor and wanna be super tight bros with a few very specific cliques of China goons, it doesn't cost anything to give it a try. Also goldboilermark please explain the purpose of your Japan trip in the LAN thread and also answer my questions about your gf asap. Thanks in advance.
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goldboilermark posted:How in the world do you think the Wechat group would be even remotely helpful for anyone coming over here right now. You seem obsessed with that group, I can't figure out how in the world you can't see how horrifically awkward and cringe-inducing it is to any normal person who is not a complete...I don't know. I don't know what word to use here. It's just his little way of pretending that hong kong matters, well... that, and a whole bunch of people who are basically some twisted form of chinaboo that don't even live here. Doesn't change the fact that it's a pretty lovely group.
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It was actually the Wechat group that was THE reason why I didn't go to the Goon Meet in Beijing. I always thought it would be fun to go to one of those at some point...and then I joined that group. Honest to God I tried to fit in for a while, but I just couldn't do it.
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I used to enjoy going to goon meets but then caberham kept making fun of my fedora so now I'm leaving the wechat group, hong kong and all the other yoda stuff behind because I don't like fun. I'm a grown rear end man, not a funhaver.
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On the other hand, it's where 90% of the Chengdu meets are actually organized, and basically becomes "Chengdu: It's a Nice City. Ribs?" when that happens, so then it's okay.
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