Fojar38 posted:

basically all the "china invented x" stuff comes back to joseph needham, who was arguably the great originator of "british intellectual is irrationally in love with china"

like we are supposed to believe that the chinese invented/were the only ones to recognize the principles of rotational lift (despite this being something anyone can observe just by going outside and watching leaves fall) and that therefore all things that used it up to now, tyool 2016, are chinese inventions by proxy

god loving dammit

Jumpingmanjim posted:

http://needwant.com/p/visit-factories-china-entrepreneur/

Prepare for the most cringeworthy thing you will read all day China thread.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

http://needwant.com/p/visit-factories-china-entrepreneur/

Prepare for the most cringeworthy thing you will read all day China thread.

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We’ve worked closely with factories in Asia for a several years now, but none of us had ever actually traveled there. All communication up to this point had been over email and Skype.

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The flight was brutal. We flew St. Louis > Dallas > Hong Kong. 18 hours of total flying time, and 22hrs of total travel time including the layover.

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The 3 of us bought Nintendo 3DS’s so we could play a few games together...
While playing games, Marshall pointed out that if you told him as a kid that he’d be a businessman, flying to China when he was 25 — what you’d probably imagine was pretty far from how the 3 of us actually looked — sitting next to each other playing gameboys.

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He explained that taxi’s aren’t allowed to drive to the China border — it’s a much more involved process. Luckily he knew a driver that had a special license that lets him drive between China and Hong Kong. The only catch? It will cost ~$200. Probably too much, but we were ok with the convenience.

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Negotiating with someone is much easier when you’re in the same room with them. After talking for a few minutes we’d managed to negotiate around $3,000 off of our next order.

max4me posted:

I dont see whats soo cringe worthy about that.

Granted i was expecting the lady he sent with them on that vacation to put out at some point.

Shame on me

Haier posted:

Kinda surprised they can do business this way. It has to be rare as hell they can find a company that won't dick them around without ever thinking that maybe they should see the place.


I feel like this is their first time going abroad.


Aaaand they're Millenial manchildren.


I'm not sure if they mean HKD or USD, but I feel like they mean USD.


LOL. "We're such good 25 year old business men!"

The whole article needs to be in Millenial.jpg.

EDIT:

On another part of their site -

Haier posted:

LOL. "We're such good 25 year old business men!"

LentThem posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQYj9X38JM

They also did a podcast about the trip with more details about them having no idea what they're doing

"We realized we needed Visas about 2 weeks beforehand-"
"Well actually I knew about it, I just totally forgot"

Haier posted:

What is with millenials and needing to document every god drat thing like they are the first in the universe to experience it?

Dumbasses posted:

We ended up spending the next 16 days clicking ads during down time to keep our data topped up.

theflyingexecutive posted:

Said every generation about the younger one since the beginning of generations

Haier posted:

Haier posted:

If your dude come close to me
He gon' wanna ride off in a ghost with me (I'll make him do it)
I might let your boy chauffeur me
But he gotta eat the booty like groceries

Oberleutnant posted:

In this instance chinar is legitimately superior to the west

Helios Grime posted:

Saw those in Munich already too, years ago. Now we just need to see who's culture had those earlier.

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Chaos ensues as Leonardo DiCaprio descends on Beijing


By Li Jingjing Source:Global Times Published: 2016-3-21 20:13:01


Leonardo DiCaprio shrugs his shoulders after being taught some Chinese phrases at a press conference for The Revenant in Beijing on Sunday. Photo: CFP

As a film reporter, I've been to dozens of press conferences for films and seen numerous Hollywood superstars, but the conference for The Revenant's China debut attended by Leonardo DiCaprio on Sunday was one of the toughest press conferences I've ever attended.

The chaos of the day actually started long before the press conference even began. It pretty much kicked off as soon as DiCaprio stepped off the plane.

Early morning start

The Chinese mainland's infamous paparazzi team - Quanmingxingtan, which has exposed the secrets of several major celebrities in China over the past few years - was waiting for the star at the airport at 6 am on Sunday. According to the team, a cavalcade of black cars were lined up outside the airport gates where they could block the media's view of the actor.

About a dozen cars full of journalists tailed DiCaprio's car as he was escorted to his hotel. According to Quanmingxingtan, it was at this point that DiCaprio suddenly changed his plans. Instead of going to the Rosewood Hotel where he was supposed to stay, his car took him to the Park Hyatt Hotel where the conference was being held.

At the Park Hyatt, bodyguards assigned to DiCaprio went ahead to lock down the parking lot and ensure no one could get in.

The media was finally allowed into the venue at 1 pm.

However, unlike other press conferences I've attended where press normally checks in at a reception desk, journalists were kept waiting outside the meeting hall on the third floor of Park Hyatt as security blocked the door and shouted for reporters to get in line. Staff was on hand to check each reporter's name and credentials and allow us entry one at a time.

It felt like I was at a train station during the Spring Festival holidays, the busiest time of the year for railways as millions of people try to make their way home.

After we entered the hall, we had to go through a metal detector and no liquids were permitted to be brought inside. It felt pretty much like heading through security at the airport. I began to wonder if perhaps it was US President Obama who had arrived instead of a Hollywood actor.

Going off script

The conference finally began at 2:30 pm, yet the entire conference felt incredibly awkward.

The host wanted to teach the Oscar winner some Chinese, so he taught DiCaprio how to say ni hao (hello). For some reason however, the host didn't feel that was enough and continued to have DiCaprio repeat phrases in Chinese - wo ai Beijing (I love Beijing) and wo ai zhongguo (I love China), without explaining what he was having the actor say. Apparently a good sport, DiCaprio parroted the host for a bit and then just shrugged his shoulders as if to say "whatever."

DiCaprio was also presented with a piece of Chinese calligraphy that read tiandao chouqin (Heaven rewards the diligent), surely a reference to DiCaprio finally winning an Oscar after years of waiting.

Another gift presented to the actor consisted of a giant human-sized Oscar made from thousands of roses painted in gold. Apparently made by fans, it was on display during the entire conference.

To be honest though, the trophy was really creepy… like the wicker statue from the movie The Wicker Man. The same one in which Nicolas Cage is burned alive.

The host said DiCaprio would take it back to the US, but I doubt that's where it will end up.

The Q&A section was chaos. Although there were apparently headsets provided for simultaneous interpretation they must have neglected to tell DiCaprio about them because he didn't put one on. This led to journalists asking their questions to a baffled DiCaprio, who of course had no idea what they were saying. For some reason the bilingual host chose not to translate even though things were getting increasingly awkward for everyone involved.

Finally, an interpreter was found but this ended up using up most of the time for the Q&A session. In the end, there was only enough time to ask around five questions.

Considering DiCaprio's record on environmental issues one of these questions was about environmental protection. In answer the actor revealed he has confidence in China's ability to lead the pack when it comes to environmental protection.

"I really think that China can be the hero of the environmental movement, they can be the hero of the climate change movement," he said.

Of course the lack of time wasn't the only drama involved in the Q&A session.

Like many conferences, who were allowed to ask questions and what they could ask had been approved ahead of time. Yet apparently one reporter decided to go off script and ask a question that wasn't on the list. According to Quanmingxingtan, this extra question upset the Chinese distributors of the film so much that they canceled the reporter's invitation to the red carpet premiere of The Revenant in Beijing as well as his one-to-one interview with DiCaprio.

The offending question?

"Leo, what do you think about the weather in Beijing today?"

Leo, if you don't feel like to coming to China again, I understand…

Blistex posted:

My wife was just telling me that her cousin (rich aunt and uncle's daughter) is going to go to the US to get a degree. She's rich, she knows it, and thus never bothered to apply herself in school, and bombed the Chinese SAT's, so there is pretty much no hope of her getting into a decent university there (they're rich, but not "Coal Boss" rich). So the rich aunt asked my wife to ask me what were some good US universities that she could go to. My first question was, "Why bother sending her to a University for 4 years in the US if she can almost literally not speak anything more than "hello" and count to ten?" (her father has already made arrangements for her to work in a moderately high position in the Nickel mine he is a manager in).

Their reply was that she needs a US degree. . .

So I'm debating whether or not I should tell them to send her to one of those diploma mill places where she is 100% going to get a diploma if the cheque clears, or say, "Anything less than Harvard, Princeton or Yale is unacceptable".

Suggestions? (legit or comedy option)

Mechafunkzilla posted:

She was trying to have sex with you hth

Shifty Pony posted:

Question for the thread: assuming she gets into a US university are the odds of her parents using her to max out their foreign dollar withdrawals as close to 100% as I think they are?

smooth jazz posted:

Singapore is a poo poo town.
The people here think they're God's gift to asia.
Would rather live in China.
rant over

Jumpingmanjim posted:

http://needwant.com/p/visit-factories-china-entrepreneur/

Prepare for the most cringeworthy thing you will read all day China thread.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

http://needwant.com/p/visit-factories-china-entrepreneur/

Prepare for the most cringeworthy thing you will read all day China thread.

Der Shovel posted:

Recently a Chinese family moved into the building I live in. It's all rentals, and it's a really quiet middle class Finnish neighbourhood. The Chinese family have had some difficulty adapting to life in Finland, or rather their precious little emperor has.

You see, whereas most Finnish children either play at home, at a friend's place or the playgrounds most buildings have, this inventive little chap likes to play in the stairwell. Most days when I come home the door to their apartment will be open and the kid will be playing on the stairs, which by itself is not something I'd want a ~5 year old child doing because it's pretty dangerous.

But that's not the worst of it. No, see the games this kid likes to play involve beating the walls and railings in the stairwell with branches and pieces of wood until the whole landing is covered in sticks and splinters. Or alternatively carrying buckets of sand and dirt in and dumping them on the stairs and landings. I bet the people who clean these stairwells three times a week are just LOVING all of this.

There have already been other unpleasant instances as well, like the kid hitting an old lady's dog with one of his playing sticks.

I suspect they won't be living here for long because a number of people have already complained about them to the supervisor, as evidenced by notices reminding "everyone" about the rules of conduct expected from tenants here. No effect, naturally.

Fauxtool posted:

these guys suck. The correct response to being sent on a "vacation" right after spotting mistakes in the production is to wonder how much they are overcharging you and why they want to get rid of you.

"Having a room on a floor that starts with the number 8 is so desirable that they just decided to add 8 before every number. Genius!"

Its cute how they think its quaint where I see stupid

serious norman posted:

Snake Spirit Boy spotted

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The factory boss on his hoverboard during our meeting.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

I'm glad they found a fellow manchild on their Chinar adventure.

Darkest Auer posted:

Keeping the door open is a classic nong thing. The only thing you can do is print a bunch of business cards that read "Taiwan number #1", throw one in every time you walk past their door and then slam the door in. This won't make them move away, but it'll give you some satisfaction.