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Eifert Posting posted:K, I gotta find a place I can pay/perform sexual favors for a fast connection Friday. It's the first Bengals preseason game Friday morning and I'm climbing a clocktower if I can't watch it. I just bought tickets to their first home game of the season. 
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Magna Kaser posted:It was right on the Sichuan-Yunnan border though. I imagine if you were planning on bussing it there could be some serious delays. Those mountain roads have a lot of delays even without any quakes. Thanks guys, good to know. Thankfully, I am planning on taking the train.
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tacoman165 posted:I just bought tickets to their first home game of the season. I'm finishing the ESL thing in December, just in time to go to Bengals v Broncos. I always dramatically overestimate how easy it's gonna be to recognize a few key menu items in Mandarin. 
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Aug 5, 2014 04:18
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poo poo, if I wanted to visit zhunan shuhai in Yibin would the roads be damaged there?
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Aug 5, 2014 04:22
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Eifert Posting posted:I'm finishing the ESL thing in December, just in time to go to Bengals v Broncos. Have you forgotten how to point at random things and eat them? I am disappointed. 
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Aug 5, 2014 04:35
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Bugblatter posted:Thanks guys, good to know. Thankfully, I am planning on taking the train. Train should go through Panzhihua, which is fine. Lijiang is all the way to the west near Dali anyway. Dali owns, BTW, clear blue skies.
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Aug 5, 2014 05:09
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Hey I made another not-terrible remix of a terrible Chinese song. Enjoy, and force your chinese friends to listen! https://soundcloud.com/insuffleupagus/feel-me-bro-90s-by
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Aug 5, 2014 08:28
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Jeoh posted:Train should go through Panzhihua, which is fine. Lijiang is all the way to the west near Dali anyway. Dali owns, BTW, clear blue skies. Cool, Dalhi's on my list of places to visit too.
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Aug 5, 2014 10:58
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Got my visa in the mail today, everything's a go! I'll be in Qingdao on Sunday. 
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Aug 5, 2014 20:30
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My (edit: mainlander) girlfriend was just refused her visa to visit Canada as a tourist with my family hosting. How hosed are we in the long run?
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Aug 5, 2014 21:04
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Impregnate her. Then when you get to immigration, simply show the man your Chinese/Canadian child.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:41
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How can he do that when he skipped out of China in violation of his contract and she's blacklisted from Canada? They're going to have to meet in Thailand or Jeju island or some place Chinese people can visit.
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Aug 6, 2014 07:16
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Duh, go to mexico and sneak into the US then keep going to Canada
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Aug 6, 2014 07:30
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MeramJert posted:...some place Chinese people can visit. Kosovo. Although all of this is news to me: I thought all rich Chinese people were also Canadian. Is your girlfriend terribly poor Cecil?
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Aug 6, 2014 07:42
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I don't think poor people should be allowed to travel.
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Aug 6, 2014 07:59
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Also: Australians, Russians and Israelis.
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Aug 6, 2014 07:59
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Agreed.
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Aug 6, 2014 08:00
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Jeoh posted:Also: Australians, Russians and Israelis. Do invasions into neighbouring territory count as travel?
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simplefish posted:Do invasions into neighbouring territory count as travel? Doubt they needed a visa, so, nope!
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simplefish posted:Do invasions into neighbouring territory count as travel? Where the heck did Australia invade?!
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MeramJert posted:Where the heck did Australia invade?! New York City
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Aug 6, 2014 08:37
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Short trips from Chengdu. Go. Xian? I need Muslim food and old walls. Chongqing, it's close. Other places?
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How long are you gonna be there? I enjoyed climbing Emeishan. Leshan was also cool. Jiuzhaigou (it'll be crowded though)? Chongqing is an obvious choice but I didn't spend any time there besides waiting for the train to Chengdu. Kunming is also pretty great but might be a bit far.
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Aug 6, 2014 09:28
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I'm going to zhunan shuhai national park. There are national parks all around Sichuan.
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Aug 6, 2014 09:31
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Grand Fromage posted:Have you forgotten how to point at random things and eat them? I am disappointed. A man can not live on random menu pointing alone.
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Aug 6, 2014 10:15
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Ceciltron posted:My (edit: mainlander) girlfriend was just refused her visa to visit Canada as a tourist with my family hosting. How hosed are we in the long run? Did they state a reason for her denial? Did she somehow insinuate that she was going to be visiting a boyfriend while in Canada?
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Aug 6, 2014 11:03
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I tried to find a hotel in juizhaigou this month and I didn't find any openings.
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Aug 6, 2014 11:11
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Arglebargle III posted:I tried to find a hotel in juizhaigou this month and I didn't find any openings. I called them up and they had openings, but they said they just don't have rooms for overweight, gay nerds. Sorry.
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Aug 6, 2014 11:18
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Woodsy Owl posted:Did they state a reason for her denial? Did she somehow insinuate that she was going to be visiting a boyfriend while in Canada? She probably made the novice mistake of acting (probably honestly) like she liked Canada too much. Chinese people need to act cold and aloof to get visas anywhere.
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MeramJert posted:I called them up and they had openings Could you let me know which hotel, and did you ask about rates?
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Magna Kaser posted:She probably made the novice mistake of acting (probably honestly) like she liked Canada too much. Chinese people need to act cold and aloof to get visas anywhere. If you don't have a job, don't own any property, and probably don't have any money you aren't getting a visa regardless.
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Aug 6, 2014 11:48
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Arglebargle III posted:Could you let me know which hotel, and did you ask about rates? They wouldn't tell me that stuff because I'm also an overweight, gay nerd.
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Aug 6, 2014 12:17
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Taobao master dudes, I bought an awesome mega cage for my rabbit and it arrived like 3 days after ordering. Really fast. Really impressive. I went to go confirm that I've received the thing so the guy can get his money sooner, but every time I click 確認收貨 it keeps downloading aliedit.exe and gently caress no I am not running an executable from a Chinese website. Is there a way to confirm receipt of the goods without letting Jack Ma use my graphics card to mine for bitcoins, or do I just let the confirmation timer run out? I've only bought two other things on Taobao and those were so slow I had to actually add time to the thingy.
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Aug 6, 2014 13:22
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I don't know because my computer is loaded up to the brim with Chinese software, so everything Just Works. Just let the time run out, the dude can probably handle it just fine.
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Aug 6, 2014 13:27
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You should get a VM for your China Internet Things. Spin it up whenever you want to buy your BDSM cage on Taobao or whatever.
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Sounds like a lot of work. No thanks.
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Whoever asked me about Ningxia, just stay in the capital and arrange for a driver to take you to the cool places and Jesus you better speak Mandarin or you're hosed out there. Can't give advice on hotels either as we stayed in fancy Party-only compounds.
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DontAskKant posted:Short trips from Chengdu. Go. As a Chongqing boy ,I very much think you should go Chongqing .In fact, Chongqing is my hometown .Is so beautiful, have many mountains .Li Bai writing fameuhrrrs poem about Chongqing ,so is very special .Maybe I give you a listen the poem ,then you can understanding the beauty of Chongqing : quote:朝辞白帝彩云间 What you say ?O, you don't speak Chinese ?I find a better version give you : quote:Zhaoci Baidi cai yun jian Can you read such po-erm and not want to come look my hometown ?No, is not possible, also Chongqing have chicken feet and hot pot.
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There's a nice Ted Koppel documentary on China from like 2009 called the People's Republic of Capitalism. It was pretty good. I liked it although a lot of it is outdated now. Anyway I bring it up because he spends a lot of time in Chongqing and refers to it repeatedly as "China's Detroit." Enjoy.
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