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Here's a question: what is it about Taiwan that makes white dudes think that wearing their hair in a topknot doesn't look stupid?
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Sep 27, 2014 11:45
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Moon Slayer posted:Here's a question: what is it about Taiwan that makes white dudes think that wearing their hair in a topknot doesn't look stupid?
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Sep 27, 2014 13:07
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Math Debater posted:I'm sorta scared to name the agency. It seems that folks on other parts of the Internet seem to view the agency negatively, and I'm feeling kinda anxious about the tentativeness and uncertainty of my current situation. I met someone at the agency today, and he told me that I'm scheduled to observe and help out and teach at various English camps and events at nearby schools during the next couple of weeks. And he acted confident that I'll be offered some kind of a permanent job at a school in the next couple of weeks.
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Sep 27, 2014 16:06
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Moon Slayer posted:Here's a question: what is it about Taiwan that makes white dudes think that wearing their hair in a topknot doesn't look stupid? Please tell me you saw that guy at the LoL tournament last weekend. What a chode. Or is the topknot like a semi-popular hair style among Taipei foreign chodes? No morons like that in Taichung... as far as I know.
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Sep 27, 2014 18:53
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Moon Slayer posted:If anyone is (or knows anyone who is) looking to pick up some extra teaching hours in October, I'm going to be on vacation from the 8 - 22 and need someone to sub. Three classes available, choose any combination! Paul //@//niland//.tw I have more flux in my life than I catevto mention right now, so yeah, I'm interested.
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Sep 27, 2014 23:05
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Some important questions I've forgot to ask, considering at the end of this week I will be moving to where ever I'm stationed. I got an international driver's license before I left, but as I don't already have a motorcycle endorsement I didn't get it approved for scooters/motorcycles. How do I go about getting a permit? Also, what kind of registration and plate fees are there? How much different are things if I wanted to get a proper motorcycle instead of a scooter? I'm probably going to try to source a bicycle first if I'm not too far away from the school (I'm a goon, need the workout), but I'd like to get a motorcycle to take up into the mountains and to get around once I get the money together for all that.
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Sep 28, 2014 09:22
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Currently staying in Ximending, this area is pretty chill with all the alleyways. Been to Shilin and Tonghua night markets and Jiufen so far, then we're going to go to Taichung. I had the 16oz sirloin at Tonghua, it was a beast and pretty cheap too. Any suggestions about cool and chill places to go, like beaches etc? Going to see if it's viable to go to Hualien when I'm in Taichung.
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Sep 29, 2014 04:11
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Lady Galaga posted:Any suggestions about cool and chill places to go, like beaches etc? Going to see if it's viable to go to Hualien when I'm in Taichung.
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Sep 29, 2014 04:20
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I need to go back up to Shilin before I leave, on of the other NSTs in my group found that toilet themed restaurant there. Anyways, it's officially official, JiaYi/Chiayi is my branch. Waiting for the phone call. About a dozen NSTs in my group, only half are actually going to be in Taipei! Got a headache, trying to cure it with Excedrin, Coke, and Pringles.
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Sep 29, 2014 12:40
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Lots of HESS people seem to wind up down there. Must be a lot of branches, or a few big ones. Either way, good luck and have fun going up to Taichung for that mandatory unpaid training!
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Sep 29, 2014 13:10
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YF19pilot posted:I need to go back up to Shilin before I leave, on of the other NSTs in my group found that toilet themed restaurant there. Congrats, hope you enjoy it.
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Sep 29, 2014 17:40
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Moon Slayer posted:Lots of HESS people seem to wind up down there. Must be a lot of branches, or a few big ones. Either way, good luck and have fun going up to Taichung for that mandatory unpaid training! I imagine it's because no one wants to stay there. Put in your dues for a year then move to one of the larger cities.
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Sep 29, 2014 17:48
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I'm in Taichung now, staying at a hipster hostel called N-Joy that seems pretty chill. This whole town seems very hipster and also there's construction everywhere
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Sep 30, 2014 08:04
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Anyone planning to go to the Hong Kong solidarity protest thing tomorrow at CKS Memorial Hall? It's from 6-8 pm. I've got work before and very important drinking plans later, but if anyone wants to go, I'll be by my lonesome and meeting up with a goon would be cool. https://www.facebook.com/events/719822681432856/
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Sep 30, 2014 14:24
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I'll def. see if I can make it, but I'm not sure I'll be done at work in time.
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Sep 30, 2014 14:51
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Horatius Bonar posted:Anyone planning to go to the Hong Kong solidarity protest thing tomorrow at CKS Memorial Hall? It's from 6-8 pm. I've got work before and very important drinking plans later, but if anyone wants to go, I'll be by my lonesome and meeting up with a goon would be cool. I'll see if I can get down there, but you know, training and all that.
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Oct 1, 2014 00:05
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Actually Taichung feels more like an American city than anything else, the traffic lights, the boulevards, and the drive-thrus (never lived in America)
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Oct 1, 2014 00:45
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Don't forget the Geiger penis bus stops.
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Oct 1, 2014 03:28
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I don't use Line or anything, text or call me at - redacted - if you plan to be at CKS today around 6-8.
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Oct 1, 2014 06:31
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Atlas Hugged posted:Don't forget the Geiger penis bus stops. I would say a whale boneyard, but that works too.
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Oct 1, 2014 07:00
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Horatius Bonar posted:I don't use Line or anything, text or call me at 0981782337 if you plan to be at CKS today around 6-8. Doing demos tomorrow, so I have to spend tonight planning my first lesson! Would go, but want to get this right, please post pictures.
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Oct 1, 2014 10:52
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Does anyone know of anywhere in Taipei that serves apple cider? It's October and I'm craving it. A shop near me sells Somersby but that doesn't hit the spot.
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Oct 1, 2014 16:03
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YF19pilot posted:I need to go back up to Shilin before I leave, on of the other NSTs in my group found that toilet themed restaurant there. Oh hey, my hometown. The city is branding itself as sort of a retirement city due to being centrally located, having low cost of living, and good weather. Unfortunately the city has been quite stagnate over the past decade until the influx of Chinese tourists causing a couple large hotels and related businesses to spring up. Anyways, hope you enjoy your time there.
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Oct 1, 2014 17:46
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Oh. My. Zeus. posted:Does anyone know of anywhere in Taipei that serves apple cider? It's October and I'm craving it. A shop near me sells Somersby but that doesn't hit the spot. Couple of the bars around Taipei serve Green Goblin which I think is the best cider in the city. Beer and Cheese went through quite a few and everyone said GG was the best.
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Oct 1, 2014 20:22
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Supposedly 10,000 people came out for Hong Kong last night at CKS Hall*, including the regular suspects (Lin Feifan/Chen Weiting, Wu'erkaixi, too lazy to write the rest) More foreigners this time than during Sunflower protests. Extremely peaceful. It was at least half in Cantonese which I do not speak at all. Can guess what "Hong Kong Ga Yo" means, that's about it. *or 中正廟 as my friends have taken to calling it lately...
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Oct 2, 2014 04:58
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YF19pilot posted:Doing demos tomorrow, so I have to spend tonight planning my first lesson! Would go, but want to get this right, please post pictures. I was there from 5:30 to 7:30, it was a good time. There were not more than 3,000 people when I left at 7:30, but it is possible more people showed up later. The crowd was about 94% student-aged Taiwanese, 1% foreigners, then some older people, and some media people and maybe 10-15 plainclothes police total. There was also one baby, and one old lady in a wheelchair with her aide. I can't compare it to the Sunflower Movement protests, since I never went to those.  Around 6pm  The stage  TV crews and vendors selling protest paraphernalia.   This was the scene around 7pm. This is taken from the back end of the square, the only thing behind me were vending machines and smokers.  Few more photos here: http://imgur.com/a/nMBbJ So that's what I saw. They played a catchy protest song that I wish I knew the name of. Horatius Bonar fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Oct 2, 2014 05:44
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That looks about on par with the Tiananmen one I went to.Horatius Bonar posted:They played a catchy protest song that I wish I knew the name of.
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Oct 2, 2014 06:49
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I'm guessing it was this dumb beyond song that nobody can stop singing at any given protest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJjmC1AZHs
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Oct 2, 2014 08:17
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Bloodnose posted:I'm guessing it was this dumb beyond song that nobody can stop singing at any given protest Haha I wish. Did they record that in a KTV? This song was different because nobody even started singing it, even though they played it twice with lyrics up on the screens. Honestly I can't even say if it was sung in Mandarin, Taiwanese, or Cantonese. It often had two doubled words at the beginning of new verses, and that's about it.
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Oct 2, 2014 08:34
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This was definitely bigger than the 6/4 Tiananmen vigil and MUCH smaller than the Sunflower protests. The Sunflower protests were about Taiwan, actually stopped up a lot of the workings of daily life, etc. Tiananmen vigil was at most 2,000, this was supposedly 10,000. As for the songs... There were a bunch of songs, they sang the Les Miserables song everyone loves, some Mandarin songs, some Cantonese songs (though I caught my Taiwanese buddy singing at the same time in Mandarin... had half a heart to call him a neocolonist or something :P), even rap towards the end. Very standard peaceful Taiwan style protest/political event and I am disappointed at my classmates who didn't show up because they were scared about what they saw happening in Hong Kong. Oh the crowd probably like a third or even half Hong Kongers, they asked at one point who was from Hong Kong and a LOT of hands went up.
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Oct 2, 2014 09:14
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Horatius Bonar posted:This song was different because nobody even started singing it, even though they played it twice with lyrics up on the screens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgNLY8nDxQ Even though it's got poo poo-all to do with HK, except the idea of no-one singing along to that is insane. fe: OK, a bit of searching and I think it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu_FSptjRic So close guess Bloodnose. e2: hitension posted:Tiananmen vigil was at most 2,000, this was supposedly 10,000. sub supau fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Oct 2, 2014 09:20
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TetsuoTW posted:OK, a bit of searching and I think it was this one: Oh yeah that's the one I meant. Cantopop songs are all the same who cares. Here is the much better Le Mis song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Zt639NdUM
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Oct 2, 2014 10:43
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hitension posted:
It's a prime holiday season and Taiwan is favorable for the exchange rate, what do you expect? The hostel I'm staying in Taichung is almost exclusively Hong Kongers, though everyone thinks I'm Taiwanese.
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Oct 2, 2014 13:42
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Both songs are terribly cliched! Best song is Cui Jian's nothing to my name. Too bad that guy was kind of creepy when I saw him in the concert.Lady Galaga posted:It's a prime holiday season and Taiwan is favorable for the exchange rate, what do you expect? The hostel I'm staying in Taichung is almost exclusively Hong Kongers, though everyone thinks I'm Taiwanese. Taiwan is close enough to HK, just an hour away and it's a pretty cool place to visit!
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Oct 2, 2014 13:45
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C'mon Tetsuo, you know better than this. Why would they sing 勇敢e台灣人 at a Hong Kong event?Lady Galaga posted:It's a prime holiday season and Taiwan is favorable for the exchange rate, what do you expect? The hostel I'm staying in Taichung is almost exclusively Hong Kongers, though everyone thinks I'm Taiwanese. I didn't say I was surprised, I was responding to another poster who said the crowd was 95% Taiwanese students. I actually doubt most of these Hong Kongers were tourists, they mostly seemed like students.
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Oct 4, 2014 09:16
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I am now in Chiayi. Found a nice apartment that overlooks the city. No internet, though. Had a burger from a nearby local place last night. possibly the most American thing I've had since coming here. Need to find a reliable WiFi spot that won't mind me just chilling and playing with my tablet until I get my ARC and can get it on my own. Until then, tethering! Hit Carrefour today, was actually slightly impressed, was expecting worse.
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Oct 5, 2014 09:55
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Im in Taipei as a tourist next weekend. What is closed for the Oct 10 holiday? Will things like museums etc be closed? Restaurants? Also, what is the best bottle shop for imported beer? Thanks a bunch 
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Oct 5, 2014 14:27
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THE LUMMOX posted:Im in Taipei as a tourist next weekend. What is closed for the Oct 10 holiday? Will things like museums etc be closed? Restaurants? A lot of the local foreigner bars have good imported beer. Little London, Beer and Cheese, DV8, quite a few others I can't think of off the top of my head. Not much will close due to the holiday, only things like banks and post offices. Restaurants definitely not as this is a time when people will be out in large numbers; same goes for museums.
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Oct 5, 2014 17:45
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Does FamilyMart and 7-Eleven not take credit cards period, or only certain kinds? Tried to use mine last night and both stores refused based on that it is a 'swipe' card. My card has a RFID or some other kind of chip and the issuer claims it should work here in Taiwan. I was able to use it at the hotel, and to get my phone. Curious what the limitation is so I can look into if my card has a work around. Oh, and I had cash on me, don't want to be a dick to the only stores within walking distance.
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Oct 6, 2014 02:36
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YF19pilot posted:Does FamilyMart and 7-Eleven not take credit cards period, or only certain kinds? Tried to use mine last night and both stores refused based on that it is a 'swipe' card. My card has a RFID or some other kind of chip and the issuer claims it should work here in Taiwan. I was able to use it at the hotel, and to get my phone. Curious what the limitation is so I can look into if my card has a work around. 
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