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I tried to find it. I remember they uploaded a corrected version and removed all links to the dipshit version, but still left the latter online. I can't seem to dig it up though. e: Nope, still can't find it, but I did find this steaming pile of poo poo. Hoooo boy is it a ride.
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Don't worry, the competition's no better.
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There is indeed some lovely writing produced here. I just got done editing one such story. And there are some reporters that are lazy and others that straight-up plagiarize. And us copy editors are far from perfect and typos wind up in the paper. But there's also a lot of good work being done here too, and I'm pretty happy with my job.
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You've totally got my sympathy. While not for a newspaper or anything, and definitely not daily, I've done a bit of copy editing too, and definitely let a few things slip past (it's totally minor, but I still cringe at the idea I actually let "Academica Sinica" get by me at one point). I can't imagine it's an easy job having to do it for a daily publication.
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Haha that editorial is so glorious  So I'm a masochist or an extrovert or something and I'm heading with a huge group of people to 101 to catch the fireworks this year. Is it true that there are no bathrooms or food and you just stand there for 6 hours? Should I actually bundle up, or will the masses of people make it easy to overheat? I'm asking my friends but they're Taiwanese so they're giving me weird advice like "be sure to tie up your hair so you don't get trampled" ( http://legacy.nownews.com/2005/01/02/329-1736205.htm ) and they think it's cold when it's like 20*C out. Oh goons probably don't go out on NYE 
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I did 101 for New Years once and it was entirely underwhelming. The most notable thing about it was getting stuck in an alley behind a garbage truck with a few dozen people as we were walking away.
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hitension posted:Haha that editorial is so glorious If you're going to be at 101 for nye, you might as well get a ticket to the room 18 party. Rooftop next to the fireworks is better than street in the middle of a human tsunami.
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TetsuoTW posted:Actually you could be wrong on one of those, you're objectively wrong about another, and you're just being an arse about the whole thing. You're not wrong, I'm being a dick, I'll always happily put my hands up to the fact. I just 'really' dislike abbreviations like that. I'm 99.99% sure the headline is CP staff. The writer submitted headlines rarely account for headline space.
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Dec 30, 2013 14:56
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TetsuoTW posted:Don't worry, the competition's no better. This.
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If you're going to the 101 for New Year's, make sure you're on the northeast side, or at the very least NOT the southwest side. The firework smoke blows southwest every time so you can't see anything after the first volley.
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url posted:You're not wrong, I'm being a dick, I'll always happily put my hands up to the fact. Yes, we routinely abbreviate Singapore to S'pore because we have to work with limitated space for the headlines that we can't adjust around. So ... too bad, I guess. Read the Taipei Times instead.
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My New Years resolution is to give up drinking.
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Atlas Hugged posted:My New Years resolution is to give up, drinking.
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101 trip report: Definitely not as bad as Times Square, the most crowded parts were about as crowded as mainland China in a crowded place, but we had a few friends save seats and it was all fine. Even bumped into quite a few people without planning to (不約而同,heh). At the end of the day Taipei's just not that big and people who overhype 101 on NYE are overreacting... Trying to get drinks was an interesting ordeal but all in all not that bad. Warm enough to sit on my coat instead of wearing it. No need to tie up hair. Fireworks felt like they were about 30 seconds long! Not sure who this information would be useful for at this point.
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Where were you sitting? I was on the north side I guess near the W hotel, and we had a pretty awesome view, but yeah with all the cordoned off streets it was really rough trying to get to 7/11 for beers
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I can't help but notice Coke seems to have thought better of their packaging in Taiwan. This is from a few months ago.  This is what I noticed today.  Obviously the Fu is the romanization for a Taiwanese expression roughly meaning feeling good, but part of me hopes they went from Fu to FUN because someone told them that printing Fu on a bottle was probably a bad idea.
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Jesus, whoever keeps planning the 101 fireworks just cannot stick the landing worth a drat. Watched it from the roof of our building alongside a bunch of other locals and literally everyone, to a man, got to the end, stood there for like a minute (with a bunch still shooting video), and then kind of drifted away all "Wait, I guess it's done then?" Just like every drat year. e: Although on the plus side, at least there wasn't any kind of "Taiwan UP" horseshit this year (that I could see, at least).
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Hope you all had a fun New Year! I'll be arriving in Taipei tomorrow evening. I still need to find a job, but I have an interview lined up with a small buxiban, so there's some hope that I won't annihilate my savings. One of the reasons I'm getting the travel nerves is because most advertised positions ask for 2 years of experience, while I have 15 months. I'm confident that I'll find a job because I plan to hit the pavement hard, but I might end up with a crap job, and not be anyone's first choice. Have you, or anyone you've known, been in a similar situation? Alpacalips Now fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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I guess we have a Krispey Kream now? Taiwan's gradual transformation of its citizens from stereotypical skinny Asians to fat gently caress Americans is almost complete!
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Woo we may have 4 Korea goons in Taiwan at one time! One is coming later.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I guess we have a Krispey Kream now? Taiwan's gradual transformation of its citizens from stereotypical skinny Asians to fat gently caress Americans is almost complete! Apparently you have to queue up for hours to get some? Some natives I've talked to are interested but it seems like overkill for something you can buy in a gas station back in the states.
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Average wait time is still sitting at two hours to get into Krispy Kreme.
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Totally bizarre to see new posts in this thread and see it's about Krispy Kremes since my dad literally just walked back in the door ten minutes ago, and he brought some back from Taipei tonight. Total wait time is about 6 minutes if you're willing to buy either 2 or 4 dozen (no more, no less). I just had my first Krispy Kreme in about... 6 years. Tastes the same as back home, nothing too special though.
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Moon Slayer posted:Average wait time is still sitting at two hours to get into Krispy Kreme. Coming back from visiting the folks, where we had a dozen hanging out on our kitchen table with a microwave conveniently nearby. 
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Oh. My. Zeus. posted:Apparently you have to queue up for hours to get some? Some natives I've talked to are interested but it seems like overkill for something you can buy in a gas station back in the states.
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TetsuoTW posted:That's totally normal. Dunkin and Mr Donut were both exactly the same when they opened. People lined up for entire afternoons for that poo poo. And now, AFAIK, Dunkin has picked up and pissed off. I had some friends working at the Dunkin Donuts in Ximen Ding (years ago when it still existed). I'd get free donut holes after close all the time.
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Ravendas posted:I had some friends working at the Dunkin Donuts in Ximen Ding (years ago when it still existed). I'd get free donut holes after close all the time. uhhhhh I think you mean Munchkins.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Crazier to me was the 2 hour line of people waiting outside of a pineapple cake store I saw yesterday. They're just loving pineapple cakes. No no, you don't understand ... that place is FAMOUS.
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I've never been able to (and wouldn't know how to) get any kind of confirmation on it, but my favorite theory about those is that the store's hired a dozen or so ringers to line up and make the place look popular, getting people to queue up under that assumption and thus making it popular, at least for a while.
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Our working theory is that it's mainlanders who don't know there are shops they can go to.
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Moon Slayer posted:No no, you don't understand ... that place is FAMOUS. I once was eating a zongzi at school, which I had just gotten at some little place around the corner. My boss asked "Is it from a famous store?" "I don't know, is that little place around the corner famous?" "No, and I only eat famous zongzi!" I just wanted some lunch. Then I got zongzi shamed.
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Taiwanese famous and actually famous are very different things. Its a running joke among my friends.
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I, for one, refuse to eat at any street stall that doesn't have a TV playing a looped clip of some D-list celebrity eating there for some obscure variety show. 
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Poorly duck. Rest in peace.
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caberham posted:Poorly duck. Rest in peace. I'm tempted to ask a factory to knock out 100,000 deflated ducks.
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Can i get a map of kelp beer place or an address? An escort would work too.
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When? I'd be down for more algae beer.
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