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Fojar38 posted:Japan is sufficiently stable, cosmopolitan (at least in the big cities), and good that you're unlikely to find stories in the same vein as Chinar or Corea Lol
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Whoah for a few pages I was certain IŽd accidently entered the LAN thread Hey Hey Hey Leave LAN ALONE
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the best part about japan is going to all the animal islands. There is are islands for cats, deer, bunnies, and foxes. Also the monkey hot springs. The cat and bunny islands are my favorites
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Oct 24, 2016 04:59
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Koramei posted:Lol 
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Oct 24, 2016 05:00
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I think Haier had an old Japan story from his dad, and I assume that Japan in like the 50s/60s produced some pretty crazy stories.
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Oct 24, 2016 05:00
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ladron posted:Satisfied? Yes, very.
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Oct 24, 2016 05:13
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Koramei posted:Lol He's right though, Japan really isn't on the same level as China or Korea. I mean, while China was having the cultural revolution Japan was being run by Americans so it just kinda figures things would be a little better. 
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Oct 24, 2016 05:15
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I'm actually thinking of accepting an offer that would have me moving to Korea in the middle of next year. I spent a few weeks in Seoul and I thought it was very nice! Huge, clean, modern and with decent food plus beer and friendly people!* *none of this seemed to apply I the 80% of the city that still looked like 1970s Japan
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Oct 24, 2016 05:18
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ladron posted:First, before anyone can eat, this woman shows a powerpoint and a video about her department, which 99% of the people there work in and don't want to see a video about, in really broken English, because even tho she is in charge of the English speaking staff and the required English classes every student needs to take, she doesn't loving speak it. this is so working in Asia and just reading it makes me furious
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Oct 24, 2016 05:20
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TsarZiedonis posted:Korea oh you sweet innocent child. (now that there's craft beer there are drinkable things but paying $10 for a beer sucks)
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Oct 24, 2016 05:21
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Grand Fromage posted:oh you sweet innocent child. It's gotten better, some enterprising young Koreans are making decent beer now that can be had for maybe $7 in a few places
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Oct 24, 2016 05:31
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Haier posted:People joke, but I remember this being all over the internet and in some newspapers when people figured it out (forgive the source): who was the china goon who had "too good to eat human hair" as his av?
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Oct 24, 2016 05:45
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Haier posted:People joke, but I remember this being all over the internet and in some newspapers when people figured it out (forgive the source): I don't know, these two sentences seem dubious together: quote:other sources of L-cysteine include chicken feathers, duck feathers, cow horns and petroleum byproducts. Poultry plants have a vast quantity of feathers all in one place. Each barber shop produces a paltry amount of hair, and they are dispersed all over a city, so gathering it is going to be inefficient. Even if some L-cysteine is sourced from human hair, it seems doubtful that most of it is.
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Grand Fromage posted:this is so working in Asia and just reading it makes me furious This reminded me of about a million long, boring, pointless presentations whose only function was to let the admin fellate themselves. But it also reminds me of a few dozen after-hours school functions that I had to attend while in Korea which all involved mandatory binge drinking, and were never not a riot. - Principal projectile vomiting on his dick while trying to use the urinal. - An admin guy trying to pick up the principal's mistress (an admin lady at the school) - Watching a Korean teacher pick up a cigarette he dropped into a puddle of urine under a urinal, and put it back in his mouth, then look confused when it wouldn't light. - Two members of the parent's committee getting into a cat fight. - A Korean teacher waving his fist in my face because I had the nerve to smoke an expensive Cigar in front of the principal, while he was only smoking regular cigarettes. - A Korean teacher (male) trying to kiss a foreign female teacher (Chinese) in the hallway of the restaurant by backing her into a corner. She managed to dodge him. - Going to a bar and getting a bad batch of Dong-Dong-Ju (rice wine) and nearly all of the staff puking on the side of the street while waiting for taxis. - The foreign Japanese teacher locking herself out of her apartment at the school in her underwear (it was 3am and she was putting the garbage in the bin at the end of the hall to be picked up in 4 hours), and knocking on my door for help. I had to climb across two balconies 8 floors up to get into her room and open the door for her. - An elderly admin guy getting drunk, getting off the elevator on the wrong floor (7th floor was the girl's dorm, 8'th floor was the teacher's apartments) and leaving a massive mound of vomit in the middle of the hallway. I'm talking a pile that would fill your average bucket of KFC. This was a long weekend as well, so it stayed there for 4 days and apparently came off in one solid piece. - Me switching a Lucky Strike for one of the Chinese Foreign teacher's cigarettes in his pack while he wasn't looking, and him immediately puking after one puff. - A Korean teacher being so drunk that he forgot how to speak Korean while doing Karaoke, and just grunting some pop song. - Me being drunk enough to let them convince me to get up and do a Karaoke song (apparently I just nailed Elton John's "Your Song". - The Korean teacher who was in charge of the English department asking me which one of the three female Korean teachers in my office I found the most attractive (right in front of them). I was pretty drunk, so I said something along the lines of, "that's like trying to find the most beautiful rose in a bouquet, when what you should really be doing is just admiring the beauty of it". (this was my ticket into "Korean teacher's Ladies night" for the remaining 4 months of my stay, which was a real eye opening experience*). - A severely hung over staff littering the slopes of Mt. Soyosan with vomit during a mandatory hike at 7:00am. - Female Korean teachers forgetting that they "don't smoke" and then crying when everyone notices. Luckily, Korea has an unwritten rule that whatever happens during drinking sessions, is never spoken of again, and cannot be held against you. *closest I will ever be to a "gay friend" from a movie, and got to see how Korean women act when there are no Korean men around.
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Stringent posted:He's right though, Japan really isn't on the same level as China or Korea. yeah, well so was korea, and at least half of it still is, and I will testify that the vast majority of it is really kinda hosed up in an almost a gods must be crazy kind of way of dumping vast amounts of money, infrastructure, and technology on a bunch of 농부and then microwaving it for 50 years or so... TsarZiedonis posted:I'm actually thinking of accepting an offer that would have me moving to Korea in the middle of next year. If you want some hoonest trutrh about why that might or might not be a good idea, fell free to ask here, or you can email me anopnymously if you want. username at hotmail. I think everyone would prefer it if you did it here, you knopw, for entertainment reasosn. EDIT Blistex posted:
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Oct 24, 2016 06:32
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Grand Fromage posted:oh you sweet innocent child. 
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Blistex posted:I'm here from the future to tell you about the success and integrity of the CCP-Social Network. In this system would I win or lose points for having 10,000 hours on Steam
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Phlegmish posted:In this system would I win or lose points for having 10,000 hours on Steam How rich are your parents? Are they connected to the party?
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Oct 24, 2016 06:43
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Blistex posted:*closest I will ever be to a "gay friend" from a movie, and got to see how Korean women act when there are no Korean men around. Go on... Also, are your experiences due to the fact that you work in the bureaucratic environment of the Korean education system? Would things be different/better in a small private sector firm? (I'm assuming Samsung, Hyundai etc are just as bureaucratic) because this makes me appreciate China, and not a lot of things do.
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fish and chips and dip posted:Go on... for real, I have seen businessmen sleeping next to piles of vomit on the steps of their office buildings, using their loving shoes as a pillow, because the boss made stay out drinking all night. I have seen this MULTIPLE THOUSANDS OF TIMES. #blackoutkorea is a real thing that really exists for a real reason EDIT - but yeah, tell us about korean ladies night....
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ladron posted:for real, I have seen businessmen sleeping next to piles of vomit on the steps of their office buildings, using their loving shoes as a pillow, because the boss made stay out drinking all night. I have seen this MULTIPLE THOUSANDS OF TIMES. This definitely happens in Japan, along with puking/passing out in the trains, but it doesn't seem to be as widespread as y'all are saying it is in Korea.
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Stringent posted:This definitely happens in Japan, along with puking/passing out in the trains, but it doesn't seem to be as widespread as y'all are saying it is in Korea. I kinda got the vibe tho that FOR REAL unlike koreans the japanese were pretty chill drunks tho...c/d?
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I was munching on my lunch and reading about ways China can kill me. Here's one I had forgotten about : https://draxe.com/aflatoxin/ quote:Aflatoxin is a type of mold that is considered a human carcinogen. Its found in certain commonly eaten foods including peanuts, peanut butter and corn, and is most harmful in parts of the world where people consume large amount of these foods, such as Asia and Africa. Found most in peanuts, corn, wheat and grains, soy beans, dried spices. Considering the way food is processed and handled in China, LOL at everyone going to die if they stay here for too long.
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A cool thing I noticed in Korea is that the good beer scene seems very much like a scene driven by fashionable women. Like, the decent beer bars are mostly populated by thirty-something year old professional women, the sex in the city crowd. I suppose men are mostly into swilling as much cheap liquor as possible, so good beer became a chick thing? I just know that a really good way for me to ingratiate myself with my gf's friends is to bring them nice bottles of good beer and homebrew from the US. Ballast Point sculpin was also sold st super high prices in the fancy department stores and its definitely not the first time I've seen that brand marketed in Asia as some kind of super luxury beer, their international distribution must be super on point
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Haier posted:I was munching on my lunch and reading about ways China can kill me. Here's one I had forgotten about : I'm counting down the months until I'll leave, just 9 months, just 9 more months.
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Oct 24, 2016 07:19
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Why do you care about carcinogenic fungi, you'll be dead from heavy metal poisoning long before you have to worry about cancer.
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TsarZiedonis posted:A cool thing I noticed in Korea is that the good beer scene dyde for real if you are moving to Korea hoping to enjoy the "beer scene" tgen I got some bad news for you
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Oct 24, 2016 07:45
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ladron posted:I kinda got the vibe tho that FOR REAL unlike koreans the japanese were pretty chill drunks tho...c/d? Well the society as a whole is p big on the notion of not creating a nuisance for surrounding people, so that would help create that impression. On the other hand there's signs on train platforms asking people to refrain from headbutting and throwing liquids on the station conductors so there's a pretty big range of variation I guess.
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ladron posted:I kinda got the vibe tho that FOR REAL unlike koreans the japanese were pretty chill drunks tho...c/d? The Japanese tend to be very happy drunks. 12 years in Japan, plenty of it spent drinking with friends, coworkers, bosses, and strangers, and I have only seen one fist fight. It was between drunk fat salary men on a train at 7am.
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Yeah, only people I've seen getting pretty rowdy in Tokyo have been Marines and Australians. It wasn't uncommon to see a drunk older guy screaming at people at the bigger stations around midnight or so, but that's about all I can think of.
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JacksAngryBiome posted:The Japanese tend to be very happy drunks. 12 years in Japan, plenty of it spent drinking with friends, coworkers, bosses, and strangers, and I have only seen one fist fight. It was between drunk fat salary men on a train at 7am.
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JacksAngryBiome posted:The Japanese tend to be very happy drunks. 12 years in Japan, plenty of it spent drinking with friends, coworkers, bosses, and strangers, and I have only seen one fist fight. It was between drunk fat salary men on a train at 7am. Year 2000 I had a Japanese guy drunkenly yell at me on the train and basically say it was shameful that Japan lets foreigners into the country, this was during bonenkai, my Japanese friends escorted him off at the next station. Never seen anything remotely resemble a fight or angry drunks since that. Holy poo poo there is alot of street peeing and train puking during bonenkai and shinenkai tho.
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For reference, bounenkai literally translates to "forget the year party." You go out with your coworkers and bosses and everyone drinks to forget. It's a purging event. I appreciate everyone's China stories in this thread in this here thread.
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ladron posted:dyde for real if you are moving to Korea hoping to enjoy the "beer scene" tgen I got some bad news for you Oh, I know. Ive been teaching myself home brewing in preparation.
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TsarZiedonis posted:Oh, I know. Ive been teaching myself home brewing in preparation. you might want to post in the korea thread, I think some dude there homebrews: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3716519
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I'm flying into Ho Chi Minh City tomorrow and have a date with a girl almost exactly my age who works in marketing at a global corporation. My plan is to have some drinks and have her help me explore the city for the next few days and learn something from a local. Help me, China thread, am I a sex tourist?
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The korean beer scene is pretty decent these days - In Itaewon/Noksapyeong (the foreigner heavy areas) you can get something pretty drat decent brewed on Jeju for 6 bucks (Or you could get 3 bottles of soju or 4 bottles of Makgeoli for about the same price). There's a lot of "craft beer" places around that all serve the same stuff made by a larger company, but there's enough new stuff that you don't have to look hard to find a decent beer. Basically if you wanted a place specifically designed to kill alchoholics/heavy smokers with kindness, Korea is pretty much it.
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The North Tower posted:I'm flying into Ho Chi Minh City tomorrow and have a date with a girl almost exactly my age who works in marketing at a global corporation. My plan is to have some drinks and have her help me explore the city for the next few days and learn something from a local. Help me, China thread, am I a sex tourist? yup, congrats
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The North Tower posted:I'm flying into Ho Chi Minh City tomorrow and have a date with a girl almost exactly my age who works in marketing at a global corporation. My plan is to have some drinks and have her help me explore the city for the next few days and learn something from a local. Help me, China thread, am I a sex tourist? Are you asking the drive by howlers, the resident wet blankets, or anyone else?
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Sheep-Goats posted:Are you asking the drive by howlers, the resident wet blankets, or anyone else? Yes.
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