Barto posted:

Well, well, well, I guess I really did get under someone's skin

this is a stickup posted:

the white terror

Pandemonium posted:

Yeah, that's the sad part. You all circled the wagons long, long ago. It's for my own amusement and posterity, I guess. I think he's up to like 5 posts since he said "Pandemonium saying Atlas Hugged is in Bangkok after Atlas Hugged says that in the thread is the exact same thing as Barto implictly admitting to doxxing Pandemonium and gossiping with people he knows (which Barto is doing for effect, but whatever)", I told him to explain how those two things are even remotely related, and then he started making GBS threads posts out his rear end with unfunny one-liners over and over.

Don't feel left out, though. I'm also tallying how many times you make stupid loving assumptions. You're up to four, I think. MGTOW, no certification, red pill, and spermjacking. I'm sure I'm missing more.

Chantilly Say posted:

I'll feel bad if it turns out Pandemonium's first language isn't English because at this point that would explain a lot.

TetsuoTW posted:

much like his posting

Chantilly Say posted:

I'll feel bad if it turns out Pandemonium's first language isn't English because at this point that would explain a lot.

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I didn't say anything about that part because there is nothing wrong with it. Ridiculous slang and words from other languages can fit in sentences or phrases just fine, and incomplete thoughts can be correct.

No one on line uses complete sentences, but they also wouldn't say anything like you did. This is because none of your poo poo is correct, and you don't sound funny, you sound like an idiot. Also I'd prefer you use 謝天謝地 over poo poo like "ruffling feathers"

quadrophrenic posted:

Also not for nuffin but I seem to recall pandemonium getting all bitchy at me for using 得 as a verb in the Chinese thread not too long ago

Atlas Hugged posted:

That's not what TetsuoTW was saying though. See my above post to clarify. He and several others, myself included, thought your comment meant you were saying meeting a girl in Bangkok was different than meeting one in Taiwan. And then your comments about me already saying I lived in Bangkok appeared as backpedaling. My point is that me living where I do is irrelevant to your initial comment, and it was in fact so irrelevant that you threw the thread off.

Second, he's pointing out that you love to jump on people for making assumptions, but after Barto's comments, you seem to be assuming that everyone in the Line chat is a creepy weirdo despite Barto not being a member. You were adamant about joining, but given the chance, you immediately dodged.

Pandemonium posted:

You're forgetting the inclusion of both thank you phrases in the same sentence.

Barto posted:

Well, in non-retard related news,

Wells English and its online component just went under. The owner is in hiding and the 14 or so branches are all closed. Of course, the employees weren't paid for the last couple months, the students are out of luck for the classes they already paid for---the usual deal with this kind of slimy cram school undertaking.

This news is actually a bit bigger than it looks at first glance though. I manage a couple of English schools, so I'm familiar with the business practices at work here and there could be a massive chain reaction in the ESL industry.

Basically, most schools use a business model where adult English students are signed up for 1, 2, or 3 years of classes. The student takes out a loan with a bank which cooperates with the school, and the school gets the entire sum at once. Generally, the school spends the 3 years worth of tuition on expenses that month, which means (much like a pyramid scheme) they need new students every month.

So Wells ran into the situation where their classes were of generally poor quality, their sales people were tricking people into signing the loan papers, and then word got out. So suddenly, business collapsed for them. But there are still several thousand students who have loan payments to make every month but no longer have classes to go to.

So now, the banks are possibly/probably refusing to work with the other big schools such as Jujiang English and others. If these schools can't use loans to sign up more students, they will most likely go under. There's also a strong possibility the legislature will make using loans like this illegal. So this could end up being a huge circular firing squad with 3 or 4 big companies going under and potentially thousands of students being defrauded.

It's an ESL apocalypse basically.
So...hold onto your butts.

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I do not care about this at all because it sounds fine. If you added a few more into the same sentence, THEN you'd have a joke.

Barto posted:

It's an ESL apocalypse basically.
So...hold onto your butts.

Pandemonium posted:

Good luck!

Barto posted:

My schools are fine and hiring
But not you.
We won't be hiring you.

Spanish Matlock posted:

I had heard about that actually. It's good for us because we don't gently caress around with that kind of bullshit and it means we can hire some of the good staff and take the students as well.

Atlas Hugged posted:

If I ever crack and flee back to Taiwan, I'll hold you to that.

Barto posted:

My schools are fine and hiring
But not you.
We won't be hiring you.

Pandemonium posted:

Oh no, my goon networking is a bust! How ever will I make ends meet.

Spanish Matlock posted:

By fleeing to a country where you aren't really expected to participate in society so your obvious social disorders will be less crippling.

Pandemonium posted:

PS. You still haven't explained what spermjacking is.

TetsuoTW posted:

it's fun to imagine though

Pandemonium posted:

It'd be nice to know what the meaning of the words the dude is putting in my internet/real mouth.

Lady Galaga posted:

I love to post. Post post post post post. And I love to cum.

Lady Galaga posted:

I love to post. Post post post post post. And I love to cum.

Lady Galaga posted:

I 喜歡 to post. Post post post post post. And 我 love to 射精.

TetsuoTW posted:

i just like to imagine it as one ship full of pirates pulling up alongside another ship and stealing it, except both ships are shaped like cocks and the pirates are sperm

TetsuoTW posted:

Barto posted:

It's an ESL apocalypse basically.
So...hold onto your butts.

TetsuoTW posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubU-dB8B-94

YF19pilot posted:

I assume this isn't something that will affect buxibans directly, is that right? I'm contemplating jumping ship as a serious option (probably much to the annoyance of the Line chat as I ask a million questions), and wanting to know how this should affect my decisions, if at all.


Also, this has to be the greatest thing to come out of the thread, if only for the music. I could loop that poo poo while I was grading homework.

Barto posted:

It will definitely affect the buxibans directly. 14 schools closed a few days ago and if things keep going in this direction, enough 20-50 schools closing wouldn't be out of the question. This is flooding the market with teachers who have no job and need money---driving down wages and also making students wary of signing up for schools.

Kojen's adult department looks like it will blow apart this spring or summer too, so watch out for that as well.

But this probably won't affect the children's side of things except that there's going to be a lot more competition for jobs for at least half a year or more.

YF19pilot posted:

drat, sounds exactly like when I graduated college - poo poo went south in my industry and you had a flood of college kids, laid off workers, and "forced into early retirement, but willing to work for pennies on the dollar" types.

I'm just curious if/how this should be affecting my decision as far as what schools to look into and avoid. If I leave Hess, I really want to move up the ladder, but I'm wondering if this is the kind of news where I should just wait it out another year before moving onto another school.

YF19pilot posted:

drat, sounds exactly like when I graduated college - poo poo went south in my industry and you had a flood of college kids, laid off workers, and "forced into early retirement, but willing to work for pennies on the dollar" types.

I'm just curious if/how this should be affecting my decision as far as what schools to look into and avoid. If I leave Hess, I really want to move up the ladder, but I'm wondering if this is the kind of news where I should just wait it out another year before moving onto another school.