Taiwan Number 1

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oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Stringent posted:

isn't that how a contract works?

Yes and no. Putting off maintenance on an other part that is not part of the current cycle increases the risk of something going wrong. Naturally if it is something critical it gets fixed, but having to pay extra instead of just fixing it on the spot with your in-house crew can't really be saving that much money for the increased risk along with the time lag by having to fly an empty aircraft away from your hub.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 12:23

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# ? May 13, 2024 21:34

The Great Autismo!: Mar 3, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Yorkshire Pudding posted:

Groups of Chinese tourists are taking pictures of me as I eat a hamburger at 8pm in a crowded metropolitan nightlife area in Japan.

lol owned

tell them "knee- how. knee - may-oh me-en-za" they will be so happy

# ? Oct 7, 2016 12:24

Bro Dad: Mar 26, 2010

Fauxtool posted:

are you black, tall, or very fat?

real talk I was on a tour with a bunch of other American students and realized that the guy in our group matching all those descriptions was a much better guide than the translator waving their arms around

even when he was out of vision you just had to follow all the old people shuffling in the same direction

# ? Oct 7, 2016 12:28

Power Khan: Aug 20, 2011; by Fritz the Horse

That talk about air purifiers is super weird to read. I live in central euopean mid size city, and the air is mostly super nice.

Having an air purifier in your home or workplace sounds like something out of Bladerunner

# ? Oct 7, 2016 12:30

Fauxtool: Oct 21, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

JaucheCharly posted:

That talk about air purifiers is super weird to read. I live in central euopean mid size city, and the air is mostly super nice.

Having an air purifier in your home or workplace sounds like something out of Bladerunner

most of the world has nice air. You have try really hard to gently caress it up

# ? Oct 7, 2016 12:31

Yorkshire Pudding: Nov 24, 2006

Fauxtool posted:

are you black, tall, or very fat?

I look like what Asian people think models look like.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 12:35

Fauxtool: Oct 21, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Yorkshire Pudding posted:

I look like what Asian people think models look like.

which one are you?

# ? Oct 7, 2016 12:42

Yorkshire Pudding: Nov 24, 2006

I'm the sadness behind all their eyes.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 12:59

P-Mack: Nov 10, 2007

Re: air purifiers- if you want the effectiveness of ozone without the risks, check out bipolar ionization.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 12:59

Stringent: Dec 22, 2004; image text goes here

Yorkshire Pudding posted:

Groups of Chinese tourists are taking pictures of me as I eat a hamburger at 8pm in a crowded metropolitan nightlife area in Japan.

you're in akihabara or kanda aren't you

# ? Oct 7, 2016 13:37

Pollyanna: Mar 5, 2005; Milk's on them.

Haier posted:

Ok, I understand the Coco connection and will avoid them. There's also the popular expensive expat and tuhao mall in Shenzhen called CoCo Park that draws throngs of gagglers who eat at the decent food court and then go home after gawking at blonde Russian women buy jeans.

Vivi still number one by far (in my sight). I see Vivians too, but Vivi is the winner. There's some (I believe) Shenzhen vape company that released a product with Vivi in it. I guess Vivi is really cute right now or some dumb poo poo.

I have an "Eliza" coming tonight. She added me a bit ago and last night out of the blue after 11pm was like "Let me come to your house for sex." I refused because it was so sudden and it hadn't come up yet. She explained more to me about her high-stress sales job and getting into the sunk-cost fallacy that business people tend to do. She even took up being the office translator for every thing, so she's working more than anyone else. 10-12 hour days. No actual life. No friends outside of work. Just go to work and come home and sleep. She wants to save up a ton of money and then move back to her hometown a few years later.
She said she hasn't been laid in a couple years and decided, because of Traditional Chinese Medicine, that it's time to get some dick because it will balance her health (not even making this up). TCM has been the scourge of my conversations in China, but this one I am not fighting.
We had a very business-like discussion about FWB situation and it has been decided that she will come late 1-3 nights per week after work and shower to get her relief, and no butt stuff. No relationship, nothing outside of my room, and continue our normal Wechat talking when she's not here. My rule was that she brings me a big box of chopped fruit every time.

I just really hope she doesn't up in my "LOL crazy person" story pile.

china is weird

# ? Oct 7, 2016 14:14

Haier: Aug 10, 2007; by Lowtax

Since Shenzhen is known as the tech city in China, there are lot of foreign tech nerds and programmers here. I live near one of those software company job areas, so daily I see white guys that are obvious programmers or IT specialists or whatever they are. I'm always surprised to see them, because you would think that all of the tropes of goons would not be present this far from their home countries, but they are.
Giant cargo pants, cargo shorts with white or black socks pulled way up, greasy unwashed hair, unshaven faces covered in pimples, humongous Targus laptop backpacks with way too much poo poo stuffed in them, double chins, ponytails, fat as hell or sickly thin, skin white as printing paper, goony pop culture t-shirt or short-sleeve plaid shirt, those ugly brown urban hiker shoes autists like to wear, etc. It's like every goon.jpg rolled into a human and sent out to huff and puff and sweaty profusely in China while the locals gawk and point as much as possible.

The few times I have seen these guys with girls, she's always the Chinese female version of him and just as goofy.
Tonight I saw several, including one with a graying ponytail past his butt, but I also got to see a rare hunchbacked white girl in sloppy clothes and really stringy unwashed hair, anime backpack, and huge glasses. I thought it was a teenage kid at first, and then I recognized she was nearing her thirties at least. We made eye contact and I think she saw the look of bewildered amusement on my face, so she returned to staring at her pink shoes.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 14:23

ladron: Sep 15, 2007; eso es lo que es

Haier posted:

Since Shenzhen is known as the tech city in China, there are lot of foreign tech nerds and programmers here. I live near one of those software company job areas, so daily I see white guys that are obvious programmers or IT specialists or whatever they are. I'm always surprised to see them, because you would think that all of the tropes of goons would not be present this far from their home countries, but they are.
Giant cargo pants, cargo shorts with white or black socks pulled way up, greasy unwashed hair, unshaven faces covered in pimples, humongous Targus laptop backpacks with way too much poo poo stuffed in them, double chins, ponytails, fat as hell or sickly thin, skin white as printing paper, goony pop culture t-shirt or short-sleeve plaid shirt, those ugly brown urban hiker shoes autists like to wear, etc. It's like every goon.jpg rolled into a human and sent out to huff and puff and sweaty profusely in China while the locals gawk and point as much as possible.

The few times I have seen these guys with girls, she's always the Chinese female version of him and just as goofy.
Tonight I saw several, including one with a graying ponytail past his butt, but I also got to see a rare hunchbacked white girl in sloppy clothes and really stringy unwashed hair, anime backpack, and huge glasses. I thought it was a teenage kid at first, and then I recognized she was nearing her thirties at least. We made eye contact and I think she saw the look of bewildered amusement on my face, so she returned to staring at her pink shoes.

I would pitch in to have you wear a gopro 24/7

# ? Oct 7, 2016 14:34

Haier: Aug 10, 2007; by Lowtax

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/chinese-goods-made-in-china-facebook-whatsapp-social-media-campaign-diwali/1/782272.html

quote:

A social media campaign to boycott 'Made in China' goods, in a rebuttal to its continued support for Pakistan and for voting in the United Nations against Indian interests, has begun to show results. Traders at some of the biggest wholesale markets across the country have reported 10 to 20 percent fall in demand for "cheaper" Chinese wares.

Do us proud, India. Do us proud.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 14:35

Yorkshire Pudding: Nov 24, 2006

Stringent posted:

you're in akihabara or kanda aren't you

Lol like I'd willingly go to Tokyo

# ? Oct 7, 2016 14:38

Pollyanna: Mar 5, 2005; Milk's on them.

Haier posted:

Since Shenzhen is known as the tech city in China, there are lot of foreign tech nerds and programmers here. I live near one of those software company job areas, so daily I see white guys that are obvious programmers or IT specialists or whatever they are. I'm always surprised to see them, because you would think that all of the tropes of goons would not be present this far from their home countries, but they are.
Giant cargo pants, cargo shorts with white or black socks pulled way up, greasy unwashed hair, unshaven faces covered in pimples, humongous Targus laptop backpacks with way too much poo poo stuffed in them, double chins, ponytails, fat as hell or sickly thin, skin white as printing paper, goony pop culture t-shirt or short-sleeve plaid shirt, those ugly brown urban hiker shoes autists like to wear, etc. It's like every goon.jpg rolled into a human and sent out to huff and puff and sweaty profusely in China while the locals gawk and point as much as possible.

The few times I have seen these guys with girls, she's always the Chinese female version of him and just as goofy.
Tonight I saw several, including one with a graying ponytail past his butt, but I also got to see a rare hunchbacked white girl in sloppy clothes and really stringy unwashed hair, anime backpack, and huge glasses. I thought it was a teenage kid at first, and then I recognized she was nearing her thirties at least. We made eye contact and I think she saw the look of bewildered amusement on my face, so she returned to staring at her pink shoes.

i thought shenzhen i/o was made up :eyepop:

# ? Oct 7, 2016 14:41

Nanomashoes: Aug 18, 2012

# ? Oct 7, 2016 15:15

Power Khan: Aug 20, 2011; by Fritz the Horse

Getting balls stuck between strong magnets? Check.

There's even a video. Oy vey, lmao.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 15:16

Haier: Aug 10, 2007; by Lowtax

It was already posted, but this is sweet.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/07/anger-on-streets-in-china-as-football-team-suffer-shock-defeat-by-war-torn-syria?CMP=twt_gu

quote:

Chinese sports fans have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of the president of China�s football association after the national side crashed to a shock defeat to Syria in a major blow to president Xi Jinping�s football revolution.

Xi, who Communist party propagandists promote as a dedicated football fan, has vowed to turn China into a footballing superpower.
...
Forty-thousand fans had packed the Zhuque Stadium in the northern city of Xi�an to see China, ranked 78th in the world by Fifa, take on Syria, a footballing minnow ranked 114th, just ahead of Turkmenistan, Lithuania, Palestine and North Korea.
...
�Last night Syria, a country which has been suffering wars for many years, whose manager earns just 2,000 yuan (�240) each month, defeated China whose players earn millions of yuan. It is time for China�s national football team to have a good think,� one critic wrote on Weibo.
...
Some disillusioned fans called for Team China�s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China�s female volleyball team.

LOL. Everything about this is LOL, but also shows how out of touch the fans and teams are. I like the idea to simply replace the coach with one from another sport and that will solve everything.

ladron posted:

I would pitch in to have you wear a gopro 24/7

That was actually on my list before, but I don't want to wear a helmet. So many good things outside could be recorded if wearing a camera all the time.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 16:07

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Haier posted:

That was actually on my list before, but I don't want to wear a helmet. So many good things outside could be recorded if wearing a camera all the time.

Stick it on the shoulder strap of a backpack. You need to do this so I can kan re nao vicariously.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 16:20

Ceciltron: Jan 11, 2007; Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!; Pillbug

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-councillor-called-on-to-resign-after-chinese-flag-raising

Remember how Vancouver had a Chinese flag-raising ceremony?

The Vancouver Sun posted:

A coalition of Chinese immigrants rallied at Vancouver City Hall on Thursday, calling on Coun. Kerry Jang to resign after a controversial flag-raising ceremony last week.

During the ceremony, held outside City Hall last Friday to mark China�s National Day on Oct. 1, Jang hoisted a Chinese flag up a large flagpole. He, along with Richmond East MP Joe Peschisolido, also spoke at the event while wearing a red scarf.

The celebration angered many Vancouverites who say red scarves symbolize loyalty to Chinese communism, and were worn by the fanatical Red Guards during Mao Zedong�s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. They sent an open letter to councillors and Peschisolido seeking assurances that such an event doesn�t happen again.

�We demand our government officials, members of legislative assembly and parliament put our Canadian values first when they deal with Sino-Canadian affairs,� read the letter, signed by Louis Huang, a spokesman for a group called the Alliance of the Guard of Canadian Values.

Jang previously told Postmedia he filled in at the event on behalf of Deputy Mayor Heather Deal, who was unable to attend. He could not be reached Thursday.

Meanwhile, Peschisolido said in an interview that he regretted having worn the red scarf.

He said he had been handed the item and told that it was �a symbol of 5,000 years of Chinese culture and civilization.�

�I looked around and everyone else was wearing it, so I said okay.�

Peschisolido said he later learned what the scarf represents to many Chinese-Canadians.

But the Liberal MP said he did not regret being there that day.

�If I had to do it again, I still would have gone,� he said. �I got the opportunity to speak, where I talked about the importance of economic ties between Canada and the People�s Republic of China. � But I also spoke about the importance of human rights, the importance of democracy, the importance of freedom of the press and freedom of one�s faith.�

5000 years of The Red Guards.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 16:25

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

Ceciltron posted:

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-councillor-called-on-to-resign-after-chinese-flag-raising

Remember how Vancouver had a Chinese flag-raising ceremony?

5000 years of The Red Guards.

What a retard

# ? Oct 7, 2016 17:31

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Sheep-Goats posted:

What a retard

My MP, ladies and gentlemen.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 17:39

KiteAuraan: Aug 5, 2014; JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!

I really loving hate that 5000 years of history and culture thing and how they wave it around like OH LOOK WE'RE SO SPECIAL! loving Hell the Erlitou agriculturalists (they were not the Xia dynasty, there were no kings or emperors or any of that poo poo, the Xia as propaganda babbles about never existed) aren't even 5000 years old, and their culture, early writing and art, while similar in some ways to Shang, Zhou and all the other stuff that came after, are not the same poo poo as modern China at loving all. And you know who else has a 4000 year history of traceable cultural evolution? Central Mexico, Egypt, India/Pakistan, West Africa, most the Levantine Middle East, basically anywhere agriculture was independently discovered. China is not loving special and they need to stop babbling around like fuckheads and acting like they are.

Edit: Also, anything a Chinese archaeologist says is bullshit and wrong and that's why they won't let foreigners to research on their sites.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 17:44

ocrumsprug: Sep 23, 2010; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

McGavin posted:

My MP, ladies and gentlemen.

The best part of Chinese celebrations in Vancouver is the immigrant populations have a really good mix of China (mainlanders), Better China (Hong Kong) and Even Better China (Tiawan). You can imagine how well the CCP celebration at city hall is going over in the city, even before you get to all the non-Chinese people wondering why one of their councillors is raising a foreign flag over the city.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 17:48

ElGroucho: Nov 1, 2005; We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane; Fun Shoe

Nucken Futz posted:

So I'm reading through PYF Fun Historical Fact thread when I come upon this gem,

Desenrascanco = Chabuduo

Now I'n wondering how many cultures have one word for " Let's fix the "insurmountable problem" with a skeezy ghetto half-assed solution"

Late to this party, but Mexican-Americans call it a jale chicano.

Ed: Also... Outlander!

http://i.imgur.com/4XwXgzl.mp4

ElGroucho fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Oct 7, 2016

# ? Oct 7, 2016 17:53

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

^ Excellent kan re nao. :golfclap:

ocrumsprug posted:

Even Better China (Tiawan)

You mean #1 China.

But yeah, I have no idea how anyone thought it would be a great idea to fly the Chinese flag over city hall when everyone in Vancouver who isn't mainland Chinese is already fairly salty about China.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 18:02

Uncle Enzo: Apr 28, 2008; I always wanted to be a Wizard

KiteAuraan posted:

I really loving hate that 5000 years of history and culture thing and how they wave it around like OH LOOK WE'RE SO SPECIAL! loving Hell the Erlitou agriculturalists (they were not the Xia dynasty, there were no kings or emperors or any of that poo poo, the Xia as propaganda babbles about never existed) aren't even 5000 years old, and their culture, early writing and art, while similar in some ways to Shang, Zhou and all the other stuff that came after, are not the same poo poo as modern China at loving all. And you know who else has a 4000 year history of traceable cultural evolution? Central Mexico, Egypt, India/Pakistan, West Africa, most the Levantine Middle East, basically anywhere agriculture was independently discovered. China is not loving special and they need to stop babbling around like fuckheads and acting like they are.

Edit: Also, anything a Chinese archaeologist says is bullshit and wrong and that's why they won't let foreigners to research on their sites.

Could learn a thing from their defeat at the hands of Syria, the oldest city on earth seems pretty widely accepted to be Damascus or Aleppo. Habitation reaching back to roughly 9000 BC

That's a glorious 12 11,000 years of history

edit for math

Uncle Enzo fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Oct 7, 2016

# ? Oct 7, 2016 18:17

KiteAuraan: Aug 5, 2014; JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!

Uncle Enzo posted:

Could learn a thing from their defeat at the hands of Syria, the oldest city on earth seems pretty widely accepted to be Damascus or Aleppo. Habitation reaching back to roughly 9000 BC

That's a glorious 12,000 years of history

Jericho is the one I see bandied around the most. Similar occupational history, with pretty much no gaps.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 18:27

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

McGavin posted:

^ Excellent kan re nao.

You mean #1 China.

But yeah, I have no idea how anyone thought it would be a great idea to fly the Chinese flag over city hall when everyone in Vancouver who isn't mainland Chinese is already fairly salty about China.

I'd say anyone involved had no consideration to anyone's feelings who isn't Mainland China.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 18:34

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Outrail posted:

I'd say anyone involved had no consideration to anyone's feelings who isn't Mainland China.

Yes, and we wouldn't want to hurt the feelings of the Chinese people. :nallears:

# ? Oct 7, 2016 18:37

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Uncle Enzo posted:

Could learn a thing from their defeat at the hands of Syria, the oldest city on earth seems pretty widely accepted to be Damascus or Aleppo. Habitation reaching back to roughly 9000 BC

That's a glorious 12 11,000 years of history

edit for math

america has 16,000 years of cultural history and invented tobacco, please respect it

# ? Oct 7, 2016 18:47

DACK FAYDEN: Feb 25, 2013; Bear Witness

Haier posted:

I'm always surprised to see them, because you would think that all of the tropes of goons would not be present this far from their home countries, but they are.
Giant cargo pants, cargo shorts with white or black socks pulled way up, greasy unwashed hair, unshaven faces covered in pimples, humongous Targus laptop backpacks with way too much poo poo stuffed in them, double chins, ponytails, fat as hell or sickly thin, skin white as printing paper, goony pop culture t-shirt or short-sleeve plaid shirt, those ugly brown urban hiker shoes autists like to wear, etc. It's like every goon.jpg rolled into a human and sent out to huff and puff and sweaty profusely in China while the locals gawk and point as much as possible.

Not New Balances? I'm not up on my goon shoe stereotypes, what are these?

# ? Oct 7, 2016 19:02

Pollyanna: Mar 5, 2005; Milk's on them.

ElGroucho posted:

Late to this party, but Mexican-Americans call it a jale chicano.

Ed: Also... Outlander!

http://i.imgur.com/4XwXgzl.mp4

is this literally only happening because small blonde kid?

# ? Oct 7, 2016 19:13

ElGroucho: Nov 1, 2005; We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane; Fun Shoe

Uncle Enzo posted:

Could learn a thing from their defeat at the hands of Syria, the oldest city on earth seems pretty widely accepted to be Damascus or Aleppo. Habitation reaching back to roughly 9000 BC

That's a glorious 12 11,000 years of history

edit for math

Having seen this, why would I give a poo poo about some crummy 5000 year old country?

# ? Oct 7, 2016 19:13

Pollyanna: Mar 5, 2005; Milk's on them.

also, which one of you runs this site https://mypreciouschinar.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/14/

# ? Oct 7, 2016 19:14

Nanomashoes: Aug 18, 2012

Pollyanna posted:

also, which one of you runs this site https://mypreciouschinar.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/14/

That's Angel Opportunity's.

# ? Oct 7, 2016 19:46

Bro Dad: Mar 26, 2010

Pollyanna posted:

is this literally only happening because small blonde kid?

china is so monocultural that a hanified minority person wearing a ceremonial hat is impossibly exotic, seeing a westerner (especially a blonde one) is like meeting a martian

# ? Oct 7, 2016 20:40

Bro Dad: Mar 26, 2010

also does anyone have that qing-era painting of a westerner and its a hairy birdperson with bad breath?

# ? Oct 7, 2016 20:48

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# ? May 13, 2024 21:34

Power Khan: Aug 20, 2011; by Fritz the Horse

No, but here's some Qing dynasty European cosplay

"Hon hon hon"

# ? Oct 7, 2016 21:01

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