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The USS Ronald Reagan no less. http://www.popularmechanics.com/mil..._source=twitter Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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Oct 26, 2016 02:06
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Which country is the most generous in the world? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37762753 Myanmar apparently. Hmm I wonder who the least is..
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Oct 26, 2016 02:49
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The article opens saying 8 out of 10 Iraqis have helped someone... then Myanmar comes in first? Huh? edit: Also really interesting how the Anglo sphere countries rank so high on that list. Interesting, or Interesting?
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Oct 26, 2016 03:11
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Dear Goonhouse, I never thought it would happen to me, but... Slightly overdramatising things, but my father has just informed me that one of my nieces is considering teaching English in the mainland and he's after any advice I can pass on to her. My knee-jerk response would be DON'T thanks to this thread, but I figure I can at least try and provide something more constructive. Anyone got any sage advice or better alternative countries for teaching english in?
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Oct 26, 2016 03:16
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do it on my face posted:Dear Goonhouse, I never thought it would happen to me, but... if she has a college degree, no criminal record, not morbidly obese (this might be ok), not black (this definitely required), can tolerate children, and is not afraid of maybe becoming an alcoholic, Korea is ok for a short stint.
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Oct 26, 2016 03:22
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ladron posted:if she has a college degree, no criminal record, not morbidly obese (this might be ok), not black (this definitely required), can tolerate children, and is not afraid of maybe becoming an alcoholic, Korea is ok for a short stint. She has no degree, which makes me wonder if this isn't just an excuse to see more of the world, in which case fair enough. Also she isn't black, but there is some Australian Aboriginal in her bloodline, so that might factor in too.
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Oct 26, 2016 03:31
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do it on my face posted:Dear Goonhouse, I never thought it would happen to me, but... First line of advice is "don't". A good suggestion is that if the school/agency/company says to come in on a tourist of business visa and then they will change it to work visa later, then don't take that offer, that cannot be stated enough.
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Oct 26, 2016 03:33
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do it on my face posted:She has no degree, which makes me wonder if this isn't just an excuse to see more of the world, in which case fair enough. Also she isn't black, but there is some Australian Aboriginal in her bloodline, so that might factor in too. I'm no Chinagoon, but I'd say getting a job with no degree in glorious chinar is going to be at some super poo poo place where she might not even get paid before they take her kidneys and deport her.
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Oct 26, 2016 03:34
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do it on my face posted:Dear Goonhouse, I never thought it would happen to me, but... I would tell her not to take advice from an idiot that takes advice from other idiots on the internet.
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Oct 26, 2016 03:34
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do it on my face posted:She has no degree, which makes me wonder if this isn't just an excuse to see more of the world, in which case fair enough. Also she isn't black, but there is some Australian Aboriginal in her bloodline, so that might factor in too. If she has no degree she basically can't be working legally and above-board anywhere, so she'll have to look for somewhere that won't matter as much. Try Cambodia or Thailand?
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Oct 26, 2016 04:05
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do it on my face posted:Dear Goonhouse, I never thought it would happen to me, but... If she doesn't have a degree she's going to have a difficult time finding a good job. If she just wants to take a crap job illegally, may as well if she doesn't have much going on for her back home I guess? Can't imagine it will be that great of an opportunity but if she's open minded and looking for an adventure I guess it couldn't hurt
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Oct 26, 2016 04:07
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Or she could not. We don't need more people who have no idea what they're doing teaching English in third world countries.
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Oct 26, 2016 04:09
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Atlas Hugged posted:Or she could not. We don't need more people who have no idea what they're doing teaching English in third world countries. Personally i think china could use more adventurous, brave, female teaching talent and less fat balding white losers who travel half way across the planet because they can't get laid at home. At least one of the two doesn't engender deep seated resentment among the local populace.
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Oct 26, 2016 04:21
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Atlas Hugged posted:Or she could not. We don't need more people who have no idea what they're doing teaching English in third world countries. As a third worlder, I'm always baffled by countries that import english teachers from america and other english speaking countries. It's not THAT hard, really. You could be paying peanuts for a good local teacher.
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Oct 26, 2016 04:22
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nerdz posted:As a third worlder, I'm always baffled by countries that import english teachers from america and other english speaking countries. It's not THAT hard, really. You could be paying peanuts for a good local teacher. I'm guessing you're an actual English teacher who's native Chinese in order to know exactly how hard it is and the plentiful availability of local instructors like yourself who also know the thousands of random idioms and sayings that can't be taught in a textbook.
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Oct 26, 2016 04:30
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wide stance posted:I'm guessing you're an actual English teacher who's native Chinese in order to know exactly how hard it is and the plentiful availability of local instructors like yourself who also know the thousands of random idioms and sayings that can't be taught in a textbook. No actually there are a lot of fluent non-native English speakers who are aware of these things considering how pervasive English-language media is, it just doesn't attract customers as much as handing a textbook to some prospectless dropout from the anglosphere who's far worse at their job than the aforementioned people would be. On the bright side, said failsons/daughters tend to be so desperate that they can be paid about as much as a local.
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Oct 26, 2016 04:38
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:fat balding white losers what did I ever do to you, man?
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Oct 26, 2016 04:41
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nerdz posted:As a third worlder, I'm always baffled by countries that import english teachers from america and other english speaking countries. It's not THAT hard, really. You could be paying peanuts for a good local teacher. a *LOT* of it is the perceived prestige of learning English from a (white) native speaker
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Oct 26, 2016 04:42
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:Personally i think china could use more adventurous, brave, female teaching talent and less fat balding white losers who travel half way across the planet because they can't get laid at home. At least one of the two doesn't engender deep seated resentment among the local populace. yo getting turned down by chinese chicks p much guarantees you got no chance whatsoever with the white ones. sry dude.
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Oct 26, 2016 04:42
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Blistex posted:Holy gently caress! How did they think that was a good idea, and not totally 1950's style racism? quote:Murphy wants the world to know that not only have people gotten her "Neenja" song all wrong, but have misjudged her, too. "For those people that were hurt by my song, please understand that it was taken out of context and misconstrued," Murphy's latest no-pology goes. "I promise it was not mean-spirited. I have a big heart and I'm a goof-ball." She reveals that she planned on doing a music video for "I Want to be Neenja" with her Asian friend Peter, who happens to do a great impression of Chow from the Hangover trilogy. And Peter's not her only Asian friend. The Asian woman in the Laguna Hills launch party performance video is also her friend, too. http://www.ocweekly.com/music/wannabe-oc-bed-queen-sings-racist-neenja-song-at-laguna-hills-launch-party-7346900
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Oct 26, 2016 04:45
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http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/6669 lolquote:On 22 October 2016, a Youtube clip showing a few Thai women in Sweden looking for a Thai woman named ‘Wanphen’ was posted. btw I just wanna appreciate how racist we all are for using the China thread as the catch-all Asia thread.
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Oct 26, 2016 04:50
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THE PWNER posted:http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/6669 lol Well, technically it's just the 5000 years of Plunging Thread so it could theoretically deal with wherever Haier has had sex.
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Oct 26, 2016 04:53
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loooooooooooooooooooool
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Oct 26, 2016 05:06
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Teaching English everywhere? Good, because I speak it. Teaching another language in an English speaking country? No, no, bad! I only need English.
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Oct 26, 2016 05:07
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It's kind of like the most natively spoken language in the world though? Do you literally lack any foresight whatsoever? In CA they have primary schools that teach kids English, Spanish, and Chinese concurrently.
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Oct 26, 2016 05:09
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:It's kind of like the most natively spoken language in the world though? Do you literally lack any foresight whatsoever? In CA they have primary school that teach kids English, Spanish, and Chinese concurrently. Tell me more about When China Rules The World
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Oct 26, 2016 05:12
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Fojar38 posted:Tell me more about When China Rules The World I mean it's just basic observation. Maybe learning the most popular native language on the planet might confer certain advantages. Is that really so hard for you to grasp? Perhaps if they explained it in a listicle or in a huffington post article it would be at your reading level. If you're lucky, trump tv will take a crack at it.
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Oct 26, 2016 05:14
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The only real objection could be that Spanish is way more useful in the US. People in the anglosphere in general just have an immediate negative reaction to the notion that learning a second language is a good idea, regardless of the language, because we already know the best language!!. Meanwhile the fact that half the countries in the world force kids to learn English as a second language is cool and good despite the fact that it's actually less common than Spanish and Chinese. It's no coincidence that a lot of these people tend to extol the virtues of French, a loving useless language, because it has white connotations, rather then associations with Latin Americans and Asians like the actually useful world languages of Spanish and Chinese.
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Oct 26, 2016 05:15
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The ability to commune with 6-700 million chinese peasants is definitely a valuable skill for your average American student
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Oct 26, 2016 05:16
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Fojar38 posted:The ability to commune with 6-700 million chinese peasants is definitely a valuable skill for your average American student Yes? That's how you get employed. By having skills.
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Oct 26, 2016 05:17
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Oct 26, 2016 05:18
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Fojar38 posted:lol It may come as a huge surprise to you, but skilled labor is more valuable than unskilled labor. Your employer not withstanding given the government subsidy they get for hiring you as a mental deficient in need of a job.
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Oct 26, 2016 05:19
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:It may come as a huge surprise to you, but skilled labor is more valuable than unskilled labor. You didn't argue this from the standpoint of "any new skill is a good thing." You based your argument on "it has the most speakers in the world!" when that doesn't do a single goddamn thing for its usefulness when almost all those speakers are confined to one country with little to no contact with the outside world and have an income below 5k a year.
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Oct 26, 2016 05:20
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Fojar38 posted:The ability to commune with 6-700 million chinese peasants is definitely a valuable skill for your average American student okay but that still leaves 500 million Mandarin speakers who aren't peasants, a number higher than the number of English speakers in the world.
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Fojar38 posted:You didn't argue this from the standpoint of "any new skill is a good thing." You based your argument on "it has the most speakers in the world!" when that doesn't do a single goddamn thing for its usefulness when almost all those speakers are confined to one country with little to no contact with the outside world and have an income below 5k a year. lol.
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It might surprise you that Chinese has probably jockeyed with Hindi for "language with most native speakers" for a while now and yet nobody has been clamoring to learn them because your argument is in the same poo poo tier as "China was the world's largest economy before so it is destined to be so again!"
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Oct 26, 2016 05:23
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Stringent posted:yo getting turned down by chinese chicks p much guarantees you got no chance whatsoever with the white ones. sry dude. Falun Bong Refugee posted:It may come as a huge surprise to you, but skilled labor is more valuable than unskilled labor. Your employer not withstanding given the government subsidy they get for hiring you as a mental deficient in need of a job. 
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Oct 26, 2016 05:26
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Fojar38 posted:It might surprise you that Chinese has probably jockeyed with Hindi for "language with most native speakers" for a while now and yet nobody has been clamoring to learn them because your argument is in the same poo poo tier as "China was the world's largest economy before so it is destined to be so again!" Lol you know nothing about anything, there's 6 times more Mandarin speakers than Hindi.
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THE PWNER posted:Lol you know nothing about anything, there's 6 times more Mandarin speakers than Hindi. the goon feverishly switched tabs to his wikipedia article "I've got him now!" he thought to himself "with this proof that chinese has always been the world's most spoken language, this thread of racists will finally have indisputable proof of the error of their ways"
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