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You have the choice between the Crimson and the Scarlet edition of Comrade Red
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May 21, 2014 17:07
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(Actually I have no idea if that's true)
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May 21, 2014 17:08
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The Shanghai thing, not the Hong Kong thing
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May 21, 2014 17:08
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Yet another meat cleaver-wielding maniac in China going after elementary school kids. WTF China.
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Bloodnose posted:Ocean Park has cheap, direct buses from Admiralty station, which is the heart of the city's financial district and easily accessible from anywhere. caberham posted:Oh a visitor, that's rare. For your budget stay here - Bishop Lei International House. It's not too expensive and is an actual hotel. Guest houses are more for the budget slumming back packing crowd. Sorry, I forgot to thank you guys when you took the time to respond to my post last month. So, thank you. The wife and I are in HK now; we did end up booking at the Bishop Lei International House, and we're very happy with it. The price was right and the views are great in the harbor view suite. We're going to go to Ocean Park today, so hopefully the rain won't be too bad just yet. Are there any tour services that you could recommend, or should we just go out and explore on our own? We definitely wanted to see Victoria Peak and the other tourist sites around here tomorrow, though. We had lunch at Mak's noodle yesterday, which is probably the best Wonton I've ever had. While exploring the mid-level escalator area going back to the hotel, we got jealous of a guy eating a burrito in the window of one of the restaurants in that area (Taco Loco?), so we ended up having that for dinner. I guess we'll have dim sum later tonight instead.
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May 22, 2014 01:57
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But HK is nice, we have a good mix of culture (history museum, villages, cage homes), food (everywhere), nature (island hopping and hikes), and city stuff. It really depends on what you are looking for.
Everyone has to visit the racetrack.
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Oracle posted:Yet another meat cleaver-wielding maniac in China going after elementary school kids. WTF China. Like I always say, China's trying to copy all the bad part of the US.
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May 22, 2014 02:41
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Any chance we'll ever hear any of these attackers talk about what they were thinking or why they did it? Or even a psychologist who's spoken with them? I'm betting it's something related to the sex ratio. VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 03:41 on May 22, 2014 |
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May 22, 2014 03:38
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pedro0930 posted:Hello China goons, can't believe I'll be a China goon too pretty soon. I'll be in Shenzhen by this Friday. Is there any other China goon based in Shenzhen? I'm in Shenzhen. Pretty sure someone asked me ages ago, so sorry for not responding to that person. Where you staying and what ya doing here?
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May 22, 2014 05:42
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Unless it fell apart in a pile of rust, I'd think he could wound a lot more than 8 kids with a meat cleaver.
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May 22, 2014 05:43
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LentThem posted:Unless it fell apart in a pile of rust, I'd think he could wound a lot more than 8 kids with a meat cleaver. I watched part of a badminton tournament here at the high school last week and let me just say that showcase of Chinese dexterity leaves me surprised this guy was coordinated enough to hit 8. Seriously though hope all the kids are okay. 
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blinkyzero posted:I watched part of a badminton tournament here at the high school last week and let me just say that showcase of Chinese dexterity leaves me surprised this guy was coordinated enough to hit 8. At the high school I was at a few years ago, there was a thrilling basketball match, half court game, between year 10 class 3 and year 10 class 5. It was 15 minutes running clock, three on three, and the final score was 6-4. It was 6-2 and then with a minute left a kid hit a shot and the way the gym teacher celebrated you would have thought it was a mixture between China winning the World Cup and someone having a killer slam on MTV's short lived YO MOMMA.
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pedro0930 posted:Hello China goons, can't believe I'll be a China goon too pretty soon. I'll be in Shenzhen by this Friday. Is there any other China goon based in Shenzhen? ally_1986 posted:I'm in Shenzhen. Pretty sure someone asked me ages ago, so sorry for not responding to that person. Where you staying and what ya doing here? Oh hi, still in Shenzhen? Whereabouts are you? Are you free next Saturday on the 31st? We are having a major goon bbq. I'm trying to get MeramJert to come as well. ihatepants posted:Sorry, I forgot to thank you guys when you took the time to respond to my post last month. So, thank you. I live a few blocks away from Bishop Lei. My weekend schedule is kind of packed but message me on wechat if you want to catch a drink or have some sweet dessert Cantonese soup somewhere. caberham fucked around with this message at 06:04 on May 22, 2014 |
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May 22, 2014 06:02
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caberham posted:Oh hi, still in Shenzhen? Whereabouts are you? Are you free next Saturday on the 31st? We are having a major goon bbq. I am hungry for this already, goddamn. For once won't have any ridiculous meetings or other bullshit to deal with. Gonna have to iron my jorts. 
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Xinjiang in the news again, and not surprisingly, it isn't for a good reason. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-05/22/content_17532424.htm
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I have a very hard time walking past kids playing baseball here without correcting whatever* they're horribly botching. *The answer is always everything. Last weekend Kant and I saw a kid with a bat holding it bolt upright against his hips and swinging by pivoting his whole body without moving his arms. And of course they were playing on blacktop with no stop or catcher so they had to chase the ball like 150 meters after the batter (shockingly) missed. My soul hurts.
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Cross posting from the LAN thread. Ok, enough silly snarky posting for now. Going to start a GoonBq. Right now on my sign up sheet. I probably ought to make a google doc signup sheet.   May 31st, Hong Kong BBQ (Goon B Q - GBQ) MEGA MEET MANDATORY Entry fee for food and drinks: 11RMB an hour location - Sheung Wan, 1pm 85 Bonham Strand West  https://goo.gl/maps/CJfg5Goons and everyone welcome (We are not responsible if your significant other/friends is horrified of us.) Goooooooon list - I Need to a rough head count to prepare food. I'm going to the butcher next week and will cut some steaks
Those who can come 11 Yes, 6 tentative = 17 max +/- 3 people. 7 really hungry people. Let's say 10. That's A LOT OF PREP WORK. Man maybe even crazier than Korean goons giving. I love lists - please help.
Oh yeah, there will be cake. Yummy yummy cake. caberham fucked around with this message at 07:39 on May 22, 2014 |
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May 22, 2014 07:28
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caberham posted:Geocities/Asian web design Your post is missing this,  This sounds awesome though, it's a shame I'll miss it.
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Eifert Posting posted:I have a very hard time walking past kids playing baseball here without correcting whatever* they're horribly botching. Hey, those kids still play better defense than Cleveland.
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I wouldn't know. I'm a Bengals/Reds fan. Cabe how could you have a goon meet on a day Koreagoons can't make it?
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So, I saw a fairly brutal case of domestic violence today. Guy stops his scooter, throws a woman off the back, climbs off and starts beating her. I started yelling at him, asking what he was doing, telling him to stop (in loving English, because I kind of lost my head a bit and my Chinese failed me completely) and he ignored me, as did the dozen or so other people nearby. I don't know what I could have done, really; I doubt I could have fought him, and from what I gather that's not really advisable anyway. I tried to find my phone to call the police but he took off long before I could have done that, leaving the crying woman walking off in the same direction. From what I gather, being China, that wouldn't really have helped either. gently caress.
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If it makes you feel any better, I saw an e-trike guy blindly swerve into a kid today hard enough to break the apple the kid was holding clean into 2 but probably not hard enough to do lasting damage. The kid started scream crying and the guy on the e-trike stopped for about 2 seconds before speeding off again.
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New Coke posted:So, I saw a fairly brutal case of domestic violence today. Guy stops his scooter, throws a woman off the back, climbs off and starts beating her. I started yelling at him, asking what he was doing, telling him to stop (in loving English, because I kind of lost my head a bit and my Chinese failed me completely) and he ignored me, as did the dozen or so other people nearby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cWnubJ9CEw
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MeramJert posted:If it makes you feel any better, I saw an e-trike guy blindly swerve into a kid today hard enough to break the apple the kid was holding clean into 2 but probably not hard enough to do lasting damage. The kid started scream crying and the guy on the e-trike stopped for about 2 seconds before speeding off again. That does make me feel better
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New Coke posted:That does make me feel better You're welcome.
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Updated - 14 people confirmed Ok, enough silly snarky posting for now. Going to start a GoonBq. Right now on my sign up sheet. I probably ought to make a google doc signup sheet. May 31st, Hong Kong BBQ (Goon B Q - GBQ) MEGA MEET MANDATORY Entry fee for food and drinks: 11RMB an hour location - Sheung Wan, 1pm 85 Bonham Strand West https://goo.gl/maps/CJfg5 Goons and everyone welcome (We are not responsible if your significant other/friends is horrified of us.) Goooooooon list - I Need to a rough head count to prepare food. I'm going to the butcher next week and will cut some steaks
Those who can come 14 Yes, 3 tentative = 17 max +/- 3 people. 8 really hungry people. Let's say 10. That's A LOT OF PREP WORK. Man maybe even crazier than Korean goons giving. I love lists - please help.
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edit: nevermind, I tracked some down
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May 23, 2014 08:04
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Yes, Hong Kong
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May 23, 2014 08:08
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Are mainlanders permitted to travel to Hong Kong without a tour group?
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Since 2003.
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Woodsy Owl posted:Are mainlanders permitted to travel to Hong Kong without a tour group? Depends on Hukou. All the big cities, plus some provincial capitals can travel without a tour group. Once you start getting into smaller cities and rural hukou then you need a tour group to go to Hong Kong. quote:8
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Aero737 posted:Depends on Hukou. All the big cities, plus some provincial capitals can travel without a tour group. Once you start getting into smaller cities and rural hukou then you need a tour group to go to Hong Kong. Oh right I forgot about the limitations. Recently I think they stopped adding other cities because OMG MAINLANDERS TOO MANY
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What are mainlanders? Don't you mean "locusts"? edit: actually I suppose that should be a  shouldn't it
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So does this mean if I were to get a job in Hong Kong, my nongmin wife would have trouble coming with me?
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Aero737 posted:Depends on Hukou. All the big cities, plus some provincial capitals can travel without a tour group. Once you start getting into smaller cities and rural hukou then you need a tour group to go to Hong Kong. The rabbit-hole of retardation that is Chinese bureaucracy is boundless, isn't it...
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I mean HK is not very big. Imagine how many street making GBS threads stories we would have to read if mainlanders were free to travel there whenever they wanted.
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Arakan posted:I mean HK is not very big. Imagine how many street making GBS threads stories we would have to read if mainlanders were free to travel there whenever they wanted. That's the entire situation down here that people are worried about.
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Imagine the road situation in the southern US when it snows and no one knows how to drive on it, except instead of snow it's poo poo. Or maybe something like the end of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzxQgRbTesA
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blinkyzero posted:What are mainlanders? Don't you mean "locusts"? This is from MAINLAND MY GIRLFRIEND  And have you been to the West Lake? It's really beautiful  VideoTapir posted:So does this mean if I were to get a job in Hong Kong, my nongmin wife would have trouble coming with me? Yes and No. Yes she can easily periodically come to Hong Kong on a Two-way permit (shuang cheng zheng 雙程證), sub classT - family reunions. Valid for 3 months Single entry is 14 days max, multi entry is 90 days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-way_Permit No she can't will have a harder time settling with you in Hong Kong. It would be a One-way permit (dan cheng zheng 單程證). But that means cancelling her Hukou and being a non-permanent resident in Hong Kong. So she can not legally find a job and is not entitled to social security, no medical-subsidy, etc... It's like the bad end of Ron Paul's paradise. Oh and if she canceled her hukou, that means she cancels her passport as well so she can't even leave Hong Kong for anywhere else! A lot of Mainland mothers and Hong Kong fathers are fighting the immigration department for their kids to settle in Hong Kong. This whole mess started a few famous court cases and re-interpretation of the Hong Kong Basic Law
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Funny how re-interpretation can happen like that but any attempt to do the same for real democracy is met with "we can't just change the law!"
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