Dicky mouse posted:

What wrong with her eyes? is it some kinda filter they use?

Dicky mouse posted:

What wrong with her eyes? is it some kinda filter they use?

Grandma Panic! posted:

China-Goons, how common are coloured contacts there? My uni had a pretty big international (90% chinese) student population, and a good 1/5th wore chlorine-pool-blue contacts daily.

nigga crab pollock posted:

they work better in dark conditions but still i dont know why people think fake color lenses are going to fool anyone

ladron posted:

I don't think it's for "fooling" as much as for "fashion"

Away all Goats posted:

Can't they just wear giant sunglasses like everyone else

GoutPatrol posted:

My fiancé had to wear those kind of contacts for our wedding photos. They made her eyes weird but she liked it.

GoutPatrol posted:

My fiancé had to wear those kind of contacts for our wedding photos. They made her eyes weird but she liked it.

Rockin Orthodontist posted:

What? If you've had the wedding isn't she your wife not fiance?

Haier posted:

It's Pat

THE PWNER posted:

i have to ask, is all of this poo poo in the one app? like china has a facebook that's also tinder and pokemon go for people?

Rockin Orthodontist posted:

What? If you've had the wedding isn't she your wife not fiance?

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Who is forcing her? You?!

quote:

Historians say history does not repeat itself. Yet it does at the National Bureau of Statistics in Beijing.

Every so often—two out of three times this year, for instance—China’s leadership has manufactured a recovery during the last month of a quarter. That happened in March. And September has all the hallmarks of a similar upturn.

NBS’s unexpectedly good September news moved global markets Friday. Therefore, investors need a recounting of recent history.

This year, Beijing’s target for growth of gross domestic product was set as a range: “6.5% to 7.0%.”

It’s clear the bottom end of the range was not determined by economic forecasting. On the contrary, the 6.5% figure was almost surely the result of a political mandate. “To finish building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and double the 2010 GDP and per capita personal income by 2020, the economy needs to grow at an average annual rate of at least 6.5% during this five-year period,” Premier Li Keqiang stated in his Work Report delivered to the National People’s Congress in March.

And China’s economic czar sent a clear message to China’s statisticians. It was “impossible,” Li said, for the growth rate to drop below 6.5%.

So far, growth has remained above that figure. NBS reported that GDP in each of the first two quarters increased 6.7%. Nobody thinks China’s official statisticians on Wednesday will report a lower number for Q3.

[...]

So is this a recovery?

Probably not. Last month, China’s exports, in dollar terms, were down 10.0% year-on-year. Imports, considered a sign of domestic demand, were off 1.9%.

September was not an aberration. During the first three quarters of 2016, exports fell 1.6% in renminbi terms and imports fell 2.3%. In dollar terms, these figures would look even worse. The Chinese currency is down 3.6% against the greenback this year. China’s General Administration of Customs, tellingly, did not release dollar numbers for the nine-month period.

The import figure, as weak as it appears, makes China’s domestic demand look stronger than it really is for two principal reasons. First, Beijing has been filling its strategic petroleum reserve this year at an accelerated pace, thereby increasing imports more than expected. Of course, the decision to fill the reserve is political, unconnected to the health of the underlying economy.

Second, China Customs has not been adjusting import numbers to reduce the effect of fake documentation used in capital-flight schemes. The problem seems to be worsening as the year progresses.

[...]

Some find a silver lining in this evident fabrication, arguing it is better that Beijing simply make up its numbers than spend even more in stimulus, thereby further distorting the economy and hastening a debt crisis.

For the moment, that will have to pass for good news in China.

barbecue at the folks posted:

Second, China Customs has not been adjusting import numbers to reduce the effect of fake documentation used in capital-flight schemes. The problem seems to be worsening as the year progresses.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Potrzebie posted:

Pft, old news. Today, no problem. Everything fine.

barbecue at the folks posted:

It's a Forbes opinion piece and you should never take those seriously, but still, some good tidbits here: Good News: China Is Fabricating GDP Statistics Again

THE CHINESE CENTURY IS ALMOST UPON US EVERYONE

Fauxtool posted:

My brother's thai wife had a staged wedding just for photos separate from the real wedding later that month

It was very important that she show up all her "friends" on facebook
They dont know what hearst castle looks like so they think an extremely expensive wedding took place

Dicky mouse posted:

I m sorry, I am having trouble parsing this.

So you didnt go to hearst castle and are showing them up because you can say "yeah we did it a hearst caslte"

or you just gorillia shot some photos at hearst castle and they think the wedding happened there.

Bardeh posted:

I'm currently at a resort in Southern Thailand. Most of the guests are Chinese, but in all honesty they've been fine and well behaved. Until today, when a new family checked in. They've got a son, maybe 3 years old. The mom just follows him round, hovering over him as he runs all over the place. We just went out to get dinner, and on the way back she was crouched by the side of the road as her son took a poo poo on the path, which she threw some tissue on, wiped his rear end, and then they just left it there and walked away. No shame, no nothing, completely businesslike.

Grand Fromage posted:

Yep that's pretty normal. Just chilling out while the kid goes around breaking poo poo or whatever. Today I saw an old man smoking and watching his grandson playing with rusty razor wire.

Every once in a while you see a child being controlled or disciplined but it's pretty rare in China. Korea too, zero discipline.

Haier posted:

But Chinese kids are unwatched and unstopped because the grandparents and parents are lazy and the whole face culture thing means nobody will say poo poo, so they can get away with having their kids wipe boogers on stranger's pants and break poo poo that isn't theirs.

Bardeh posted:

I'm currently at a resort in Southern Thailand. Most of the guests are Chinese, but in all honesty they've been fine and well behaved. Until today, when a new family checked in. They've got a son, maybe 3 years old. The mom just follows him round, hovering over him as he runs all over the place. We just went out to get dinner, and on the way back she was crouched by the side of the road as her son took a poo poo on the path, which she threw some tissue on, wiped his rear end, and then they just left it there and walked away. No shame, no nothing, completely businesslike.

quote:

Sad news for elderly lonely hearts in Shanghai: they can no longer look for love in Ikea.

The Swedish furniture giant's Shanghai store has seen a strange phenomenon of senior citizens descending upon its famed cafeteria to socialise and even find partners.

Locals said it occurs twice weekly, usually on Tuesdays and Thursdays. China's state broadcaster CCTV News reported that the elderly patrons would often buy a cup of coffee or some bread and "spend an entire day just chatting with others". They are believed to be part of a dating community, making use of their Ikea membership cards.

This week, Ikea put a stop to it by imposing a strict "no food, no seating" rule to discourage senior citizens from occupying canteen seats for "extended periods". In a notice posted at the entrance of the Ikea Shanghai Restaurant, staff identified an "illegal blind-dating group" and accused it of "uncivilised behaviour". "The situation has adversely affected the dining experience and security of most of our customers," it said, adding that it had received public complaints about "spitting" and "quarrels and fights".

"It is having a negative implication for our canteen's operation. From today, the restaurant will only be for people who purchase their food first."

The news has attracted attention from netizens on Chinese social media, with many in support of the elderly.

"They are harmless," wrote Ed Ed Chiu in a reply to a post by CCTV News on the popular Chinese micro-blogging Sina Weibo platform.

Weibo user Lee Xin slammed the move as a "draconian measure" and said it was cruel to elderly patrons.

"What wrong are they doing? They are lonely and are probably hoping to find some company again. If anything, the store should practise empathy and at least sympathise with these old people," she said.

The move was criticised by some elderly patrons, who spoke to local media outlets.

"We've been to fast food outlets like McDonald's - but there are barely any peers there," said an 86-year-old man who went by the name of Qiu.

Mr Qiu told the state-controlled Global Times newspaper: "We feel like aliens - surrounded by youngsters. If there is another place in Shanghai where elderly people can gather, we are more than ready to pay twice as much and travel further."

But others online voiced support for the store's management, praising its efforts in "maintaining store policy".

"Intolerable behaviour," said one Weibo user. "I'm with the management on this. It's deplorable how people are caught photographed sleeping on Ikea displays, what more spitting and swearing in public? This should not be tolerated at all."

Another user Lao Gao from Beijing wrote: "To everyone romanticising this, please also consider that the store has an image to uphold while protecting the interests of other paying customers. It is ugly behaviour to take up seats for such long durations while you make others wait."

fish and chips and dip posted:

Ah yes, Gordon Chang, he's been predicting that China will collapse "in two years" since 1994, not to say that the Chinese economy is doing great, just that his predictions have more often than not been quite a bit off.

That being said, I still can't believe how many foreigners in China still wholeheartedly and unironically subscribe to the whole "Chinese Centurty" and "Getting it done Chinese style" ideas.

oohhboy posted:

it said, adding that it had received public complaints about "spitting" and "quarrels and fights".

oohhboy posted:

It can be lonely even with 1.3 Billion other people.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37686968

Sheep-Goats posted:

I had a Chinese bakery near my apartment in NY that, as far as I could tell, functioned as a Chinese Senior citizen daycare from 9-6. There was a library nearby and there was another clique of Seniors that filled in every available seat there for most of the day too. It's nice to see a library get such heavy use but also it was really Chinesey in there.

Of course the Wendys that was a five minute walk away performed the same function for the Colombians and Dominicans around there.