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I sat across the isle from Shaun White on a flight to China in 2011 and that's my lifetime skiing experience wrapped up in a single sentence.
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Were you in first class or have Shaun White's fortunes taken a turn for the worse?
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Not sure how far behind I am and if you guys are still talking about it, but I actually found my first job through Rebecca Tang and other than kind of being a bitch when I called the day of my first visa expiring, she agreed to talk to the people at my job and told them to stop loving around and do something about my visa expiring. She also wasn't taking any of my money (that I know of) and I didn't sign any contract from her, just from the school, and it had no stipulations about Chinese contracts taking precedence or giving her X amount of money every month. The school did end up screwing me over, but I don't think she had anything to do with it and my experience with her was pretty decent overall.
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Feb 6, 2014 15:23
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So goon meet in Chengdu, when??
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Feb 6, 2014 15:23
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Bloodnose posted:Were you in first class or have Shaun White's fortunes taken a turn for the worse? It was in economy. He and his entourage all sat in economy. I think they had their travel plans disrupted because their seats were spread all over the place.
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Anyone have information on Aston schools? The branches in Chengdu, Xiamen and Dalian interest me the most. I failed to get a job for the Spring semester, so now I'm opening up my options and reforming plans. Aston has summer school options, so I'm considering a short-term contract with them then hopefully begin the Fall semester teaching at a university. Also, any other summer camp recommendations? I've made overtures to a company called Omeida in Yangshou. It seems like a good first job in China.
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Feb 6, 2014 19:41
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Airport riot in Henan. Awesome.
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Feb 8, 2014 02:04
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goldboilermark posted:Airport riot in Henan. Awesome. How exactly can you tell that a riot has started in a Chinese airport? Do the people suddenly line up? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10623528/Chinese-passengers-start-riot-in-airport-over-delayed-flights.html  This is a winner of an idea.  Yeah, expecting people to act civilized is pretty crazy, I know. blinkyzero fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Feb 8, 2014 |
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Feb 8, 2014 02:12
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Reuters posted:A riot at a major airport in China by passengers angry about delays caused by heavy snow has marred the end of the traditional week-long lunar new year holiday, state media said on Friday, as millions rush to return to work. 
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Feb 8, 2014 02:18
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drat yo, I missed out on that poo poo.
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Feb 8, 2014 02:37
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GuestBob posted:drat yo, I missed out on that poo poo. As I read the article, I was like, "Hmm, aren't those GhostBob's haunts?" I suppose you can hardly blame people for rioting when their attempts to leave Henan are confounded.
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Feb 8, 2014 02:47
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The best is the people who got angry because employees were indifferent and answered "I don't know" a lot. How is that different from any other job in this country, ever?
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Feb 8, 2014 02:49
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I have revised the anthem of the People's Republic to better reflect the attitudes of its people. 起来！没办法！不愿做奴隶的人们！麻烦！ 把我们的血肉，筑成我们新的长城！我不知道！ 中华民族到了最危险的时候， 每个人被迫着发出最后的吼声。没办法！ 起来！起来！起来！麻烦！麻烦！麻烦！ 我们万众一心， 冒着敌人的炮火，前进！我不知道！ 冒着敌人的炮火，前进！我不知道！ 前进！前进！进！没办法！没办法！没办法！
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Feb 8, 2014 02:57
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goldboilermark posted:The best is the people who got angry because employees were indifferent and answered "I don't know" a lot. In China it's a special kind of indifference. Malevolent indifference, if that makes sense
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Feb 8, 2014 02:57
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I am probably going to get an email from my mother asking if I was responsible for the mess.
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GuestBob posted:I am probably going to get an email from my mother asking if I was responsible for the mess. It's those cardigans. It gets the Orientals all a-flutter.
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Feb 8, 2014 02:58
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I love how millions of migrant workers manage to squeeze through overcrowded train stations and survive 36 hour journeys in sardine cans full of feet while a five hour delay causes a few middle class Henanren to throw their toys out.
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GuestBob posted:I love how millions of migrant workers manage to squeeze through overcrowded train stations and survive 36 hour journeys in sardine cans full of feet while a five hour delay causes a few middle class Henanren to throw their toys out. It's like Fitzgerald wrote: the very rich are different than you and me. (They can get away with rioting.)
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Feb 8, 2014 03:15
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On my way back from Nanjing to Shanghai the trains were all delayed because of the snow, and while there were people sitting on their luggage (and even the floor!  ) eating two-minute noodles, there was thankfully no rioting. Not even from those on their luggage without any noodles, two-minute or otherwise.
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Feb 8, 2014 03:19
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Ahahaha, Zhengzhou. Henan is truly the Germany or Florida of China. Last night I saw a crashed Mercedes abandoned by its owner on the bridge, blocking two of four traffic lanes, hung around taking pictures for about ten minutes, nobody stopped.
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Feb 8, 2014 07:00
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It's baffling to me that here, in the self congratulated birthplace of noodles, instant noodles are not only tolerated but ubiquitous. It's like they talk a good game but actually don't give a shi-oh. Mystery solved.
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Feb 8, 2014 07:09
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I like instant noodles.
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goldboilermark posted:The best is the people who got angry because employees were indifferent and answered "I don't know" a lot. STORY TIME! We have a group of students transferring to a US college for a summer term; as such packets of info about their meal plans and whatnot has been coming in. I put all the mail I received for them into individually marked envelopes, then dropped those envelopes off at our gate/mail area for students to pick up at their leisure (as is our policy). There is always the same dude working behind the counter, and because of the holiday the mail room was deserted. I got my drop-off receipt, checked to make sure they were in our class bin, and texted the kids to let them know they were available. Today, less than 24 hours after they were originally dropped off, I get a frantic message from a student that all the envelopes are gone. He's been talking to the mail guy for about ten minutes, and is convinced that everything is ruined forever. I go down to the guard area, and get this:  "Hey, I dropped off envelopes yesterday?" "I don't know, there are no envelopes." "But I brought them here yesterday. I put them in that bin." "I don't know. They're not there." "Did someone move them? Could they be somewhere else?" "I don't know. Nothing I can do." "Yeah, but, I brought them here yesterday. I have a receipt. You were here" "Well, there are no envelopes." "BUT THERE SHOULD BE ENVELOPES."After another ten minutes of this he begrudgingly lets me behind the little counter thing, and SURPRISE, there is a huge bin of unsorted mail and other nonsense under the counter. And there, between a tea tin and his puffy coat, are the envelopes. How and why they got there is a mystery. I signed them out so now students can just pick them up at my office (which I would have done in the first place, but last time I did that the gate guard refused to let students on campus, thus requiring the use of the mail dude).
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Feb 8, 2014 09:08
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Tom Smykowski posted:I like instant noodles. Invented by THE JAPANESE
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If it was a box of industrial samples and it ended up sitting in the guard room then heads will loving roll.
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caberham posted:If it was a box of industrial samples and it ended up sitting in the guard room then heads will loving roll. Don't worry, it was just envelopes.
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MeramJert posted:Don't worry, it was just envelopes. but if it had been instant noodles it would have been better
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Arglebargle III posted:It's baffling to me that here, in the self congratulated birthplace of noodles, instant noodles are not only tolerated but ubiquitous. It's like they talk a good game but actually don't give a shi-oh. Mystery solved. There's another noodle aisle, you know. Korea is worse. Korean instant noodles, especially Nong Shim, are far and away the best. Go to a restaurant and order pretty much any non-clear noodles, though, and that is what you're going to get. As good as Nong Shim is, it isn't as good as fresh, or even regular dried noodles.
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VideoTapir posted:There's another noodle aisle, you know. There's a man in a little white hat In Lanzhou I got to know my local lamian whacker well enough to get the chance to do it myself.
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Arglebargle III posted:It's baffling to me that here, in the self congratulated birthplace of noodles, instant noodles are not only tolerated but ubiquitous. It's like they talk a good game but actually don't give a shi-oh. Mystery solved. As opposed to the US, the birthplace of the hamburger, tolerating McDonald's.
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computer parts posted:As opposed to the US, the birthplace of the hamburger, tolerating McDonald's. This is how you can tell New Guinea has real culture: you don't see any fast food restaurants there slinging human flesh.
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Technically hamburger comes from Mongolia but Americans were the first to incorporate bread, maybe.
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bad day posted:Technically hamburger comes from Mongolia but Americans were the first to incorporate bread, maybe. Hamburgers came from God, sir.
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About a month ago our bathroom was out of toilet paper. I went and told our floor handyman and he said "I don't know". My response "I know you didn't know, but I just recently finished telling you. Now, you know." He then told me "It's not my job." We chatted about his job for about 20 seconds, he had to get up from smoking his cig and Literally Doing Nothing, and he called the front desk to get us new toilet paper. I then went out of the building to go to Starbucks to go to the bathroom. While I was leaving the Starbucks, I got on the elevator on 4. It was going down. It got to floor 2. A really, really fat guy tried to get on and as he did he asked "Going down?" A lady grunted. Another girl was smashing the door close button and the elevator closed on the fat guy. He grunted. He then got on and pressed floor 9. The elevator started going down. He did one of those "aaaaaaa? noises. I left the elevator, laughing, and shaking my head. I walked outside and a little girl, probably about 7, had her underpants and pants down and was pissing on a manhole cover while her grandfather encouraged her. This was the most day I have had in the last month or so.
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goldboilermark posted:About a month ago our bathroom was out of toilet paper. I went and told our floor handyman and he said "I don't know". And this country just landed a piece of hardware on the Moon. Hard to believe. (Granted, it broke pretty much immediately after they tried to do anything with it.)
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bad day posted:Technically hamburger comes from Mongolia but Americans were the first to incorporate bread, maybe. The earliest ground meat patty between bread I'm aware of is from the Roman cookbook Apicius. Sorry Mongols.
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goldboilermark posted:I then went out of the building to go to Starbucks to go to the bathroom. While I was leaving the Starbucks, I got on the elevator on 4. It was going down. It got to floor 2. A really, really fat guy tried to get on and as he did he asked "Going down?" A lady grunted. Another girl was smashing the door close button and the elevator closed on the fat guy. He grunted. He then got on and pressed floor 9. The elevator started going down. He did one of those "aaaaaaa? noises. What is it with China and elevators? I don't think they understand the core concept, like when it reaches the ground floor, if you want to get on, it's probably a good idea to let people off first instead of forcing your way in. But hey, who am I to argue with 5000 years of culture? Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to barge into Subway, run up to the register and start shaking money at the employees.
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tacoman165 posted:What is it with China and elevators? I don't think they understand the core concept, like when it reaches the ground floor, if you want to get on, it's probably a good idea to let people off first instead of forcing your way in. But hey, who am I to argue with 5000 years of culture? Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to barge into Subway, run up to the register and start shaking money at the employees. 先下后上 is plastered everywhere. Same as 往前一小步文明一大步 but there's always piss on the floors around the urinals. I notice it in chengdu but nowhere else, but people will sprint and push people down to get on the escalator first so they can stand still on it.
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tacoman165 posted:Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to barge into Subway, run up to the register and start shaking money at the employees. THIS. I love when someone bypasses a huge line and starts yelling at the cashier, and/or throws money down at them. Bonus points if they're in a group of at least four or on their cellphone. My favorite is at McDonald's (we do not have a Subway) when all of the above is combined with pointing indiscriminately at the signs posted behind the worker, while yelling "I want that one."
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The the most orderly line I see is at the baozi place near my apartment cause the old lady screams at people who cut while shaking a big ladle.
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