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So I know some people in Korea, but most of them were wiiaboos turned Koreaboos and the only ones that might be somewhat interested are the twins but gently caress them, I'm drunk so let's go with teh story I heard when I was out drunking with the most cool of them So this guy, who's married to a Korean lady, was invited to eat Korean fermented skate, presumably to try and gross him out, because it smells like the mens room of an active bar at 2 am. Apparently this guy didn't like him much and offered only as a sorta "Haha, too bad only Koreans eat this, maybe your wife should have married a Korean so she could take part in events like this", he was apparently a 'friend' of hers that knew her before she went to London to study and was super bitter over how she'd married my buddy. Joke's on himthough, because there is nothing on this gay planet in the sea that my ancestor wouldn't eat and that includes skate; so when my pal happily accepted to Korean guys surprise, then showed up and ate a shitload of it (Apparently they do it sashimi style and with kimchi instead of with potatoes, which is base savagery but whatever) people couldn't believe it. and all the Koreans, bar one, were pretty amazed and impressed. (gently caress if I know if this part was true, but I've been in the position to do this myself with binge drinking so as far as I know east asians are easily impressed) Of course, he later threw up horribly and he said the vomit was the most foulest smelling thing he'd ever encountered because apparently shochu (or whatever they call that hard rice liquor in Korea) is even worse going up than Brennivín when mixed with skate and he ruined his pants on the way home but that's not so different from here really.
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i saw a goony foreigner today waiting to buy a hamburger on the side of the street and he had an anime backpack and i thought "omg i have to get a picture of this guy for the GBS thread" and i took a picture of him but it's kinda blurry
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 07:57 |
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I was back in America a few months ago and nobody believed my descriptions of China. The pan-Asian stereotype of uptight, hard working, inscrutable math geniuses just runs to deep to counter program. Canadians were the worst about it and wasted no time squawking in disbelief at the idea of a STEM teacher from America having anything to teach Chinese students. I just spent two-hours demonstrating examples of conservation of momentum to roomful of blank stares. Breaking the issue down algebraically only complicated matters because apparently p=mv is high level math to these students. The moral of the story is that China is filled with a wide variety of people with many strengths and weaknesses just like everywhere else, but Canadians are assholes. Let us English fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Passive aggressive assholes.
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Haier posted:
yeah man this is pretty good
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 08:32 |
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JaucheCharly posted:The best places in this world, Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The best places in the world to find a used copy of forklift simulator.
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 08:36 |
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Let us English posted:I just spent two-hours demonstrating examples of conservation of momentum to roomful of blank stares. Breaking the issue down algebraically only complicated matters because apparently p=mv is high level math to these students. Foreigners will never match Chinese education if they stubbornly cling to their backward methods.
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 08:36 |
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Tupperwarez posted:Pfft, I bet you didn't even write the contents of the textbook onto the blackboard for them to copy into their notes. My boss tried to claim that American students were pampered, but it's nothing compared to China, and I used to teach kids in Silicon Valley.
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Let us English posted:My boss tried to claim that American students were pampered, but it's nothing compared to China, and I used to teach kids in Silicon Valley.
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Tupperwarez posted:But seriously though, what was so difficult for them? Even when my Form 1 maths and science classes were at their worst, you could read from the textbook and have all the various formulas spelled out for you, and it was 'plug and chug' from there. For whatever reason, I've noticed that any conserved quantity and ideas about conservation tend to throw them for a loop. My thermal energy unit last year ran into similar issues. I think part of it might be that the Chinese side of their education doesn't teach them about models or (conceptually) closed systems. Or it could be because they seem to have trouble dealing with models that include multiple variables. Like, if I give them values, about half of them can plug and chug a problem using the law of universal gravitation, but then if I ask them what two things influence the strength of gravity they fixate on mass OR distance and can't discuss one without seemingly forgetting the other entirely.
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 09:34 |
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Watched a video of an English teacher asking some kids why they brought pens but no paper in clear, easy to understand Chinese. The kids still didn't seem to understand the question. "Why didn't you bring paper?" "Um, we didn't bring any paper." "Why?" "... Um, we didn't bring any paper." What's up with people not understanding basic questions?
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 10:00 |
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https://i.imgur.com/Oa1dFII.mp4 Yo, not racist
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LentThem posted:https://i.imgur.com/Oa1dFII.mp4 How did you manage to get real-time satellite footage of a Chinese intersection
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LentThem posted:https://i.imgur.com/Oa1dFII.mp4 I lost it at the part where the guy goes into the trees on the left backwards.
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LentThem posted:https://i.imgur.com/Oa1dFII.mp4
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 10:22 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:As far as comparing a phonetic script to Chinese, why would you do that? Chinese as a written language doesn't need any phonetic value. That was the whole loving point. It doesn't even really correspond with modern spoken Mandarin. Like you're never going to hear someone refer to a restaurant in conversation as 本店. You have to take the writing system for what it is, which is a method to represent each meaning individually so that speakers of diverse dialects can all understand the same document. Because written Chinese is not an ideographic system. It is a crippled phonetic system. The vast majority of Chinese characters consist of a phonetic component to aid the reader in pronunciation and a semantic component tied to the meaning. 故居估菇蛄辜胡罟 etc etc are all pronounced gu because they have 古 in them. You have to remember that spoken language always comes first, and the written characters followed much later in different stages. http://www.omniglot.com/chinese/types.htm Most characters came about by someone saying "hey how do you write mushroom, which is pronounced gu because we don't have many syllables?" and another guy going "well mushroom sounds like 姑 so how about we show it's some kind of plant by adding the grass component 艹?" "Ok so 菇 it is then, thanks." In fact before Pinyin or even Gweoyuh Romatzi or however you spell it was developed Chinese dictionaries would show you a rhyming character so you'd know how to pronounce the obscure character you looked up. As for the uniformity across dialects it was certainly a tool of administrative control as the Qin and then Han conquered their way through what we call China. All I really know is from Chinese propaganda blockbuster All Under Heaven where Qin Shi Huang murders anyone who writes Chinese different from the Qin and this is seen as a good thing. I certainly wouldn't doubt it as there is a big stigma against using nonstandard characters to write in Chinese, like every time I get told it's impossible to write Cantonese in Chinese script (we can and do, with the help of an extended character set). It's funny to see my in-laws try to read a "local" Hong Kong newspaper because it's full of characters they've never seen before and are only used in Cantonese.
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 11:16 |
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DON'T TRUST THE CCP http://www.smh.com.au/world/operation-fox-hunt-melbourne-grandmother-zhou-shiqin-prosecuted-after-return-to-china-20161025-gsalul.html quote:A Melbourne grandmother who protested her innocence after being listed by Chinese authorities among its most-wanted international fugitives will be prosecuted on corruption charges, despite voluntarily returning to China in an attempt to clear her name.
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 11:41 |
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LentThem posted:https://i.imgur.com/Oa1dFII.mp4 For anyone with no experience, this is actually less chaotic than reality because: No motorbikes/tricycles loving up everything. No one is blowing through the red lights.
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Where is that from?
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Imperialist Dog posted:Because written Chinese is not an ideographic system. It is a crippled phonetic system. The vast majority of Chinese characters consist of a phonetic component to aid the reader in pronunciation and a semantic component tied to the meaning. I am aware that written Chinese is made up of semi-phonetic ideograms. But the key word there is semi-phonetic. Many characters don't have any phonetic hint and since the writing system has been around for oh a few thousand years, pronunciation has drifted enough that the phonetic values are completely off the mark these days for a huge percentage of characters. Even with weird English vowel drifts and diphthongs, written English is still more or less phonetic. Edit: I mean, you're trying to evaluate written Chinese with the same tools you'd use to evaluate an alphabet or a syllabary and it's seriously apples to oranges. Chinese is definitely harder to learn than Hangul, but I had a much easier time learning to read and write Chinese than I've had with Thai. If you want a ridiculous nonsensical writing system, it's that. Atlas Hugged fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Grand Fromage posted:For anyone with no experience, this is actually less chaotic than reality because: Also theres no people standing in the middle of the road waiting to cross because you must be infront of everyone else even if you are the slowest moving person on the planet. Then when the crossing light does turn green you have to stare at it for 10 seconds before deciding that yes it is green.
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Grand Fromage posted:For anyone with no experience, this is actually less chaotic than reality because: there's no pedestrians either, and the road seems intact nickmeister posted:Where is that from? china
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LentThem posted:https://i.imgur.com/Oa1dFII.mp4 How about exiting a highway It only had a single lane painted up to the end
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 12:34 |
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Dear Civ VI dev, please fix Qin Shi Huangquote:As a Chinese, Qin Shi Huang has been bugging me since the release of the game.
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 13:35 |
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Hahaha, someone coined a great term for what Duterte is doing wrt china. He's invoking "Heisenberg's Uncertainty Philippines", being deliberately obtuse and obfuscating so nobody knows where they got him, giving him room to manuver, or something. I dunno, I just liked the term.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Living in Dongducheon was the loving worst because everyone really wanted to believe I was a soldier since a ton of the infantry are stationed there and that's what I look like in my everyday clothes since I keep my hair as short as possible. loving LOL! Where in Dongducheon were you living? I was in Jihaeng, the station was just a 10 minute walk from where I lived. Dongducheon is a dangerous town to get a haircut. First time I went to a barber shop the lady took the clippers and started to give me a GI "High and Tight" before I could pull out the written instructions a Korean teacher had prepared for me.
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LentThem posted:https://i.imgur.com/Oa1dFII.mp4 if you've never been to china, this is what you're missing...and it's not a joke. this is actually what chinese intersections look like
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 14:19 |
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actually for that gif to work you needGrand Fromage posted:motorbikes/tricycles loving up everything. plus Jimmy Little Balls posted:people standing in the middle of the road waiting to cross because you must be infront of everyone else even if you are the slowest moving person on the planet. Then when the crossing light does turn green you have to stare at it for 10 seconds before deciding that yes it is green. plus at least one person in the suburbs of vancouver or san francisco screaming that you are a racist on the internet
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 14:25 |
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i can make these statements because falun bong refugee is probated for the next week, lol
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The Great Autismo! posted:i can make these statements because falun bong refugee is probated for the next week, lol We are blessed indeed.
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Blistex posted:loving LOL! Where in Dongducheon were you living? I was in Jihaeng, the station was just a 10 minute walk from where I lived. Dongducheon is a dangerous town to get a haircut. First time I went to a barber shop the lady took the clippers and started to give me a GI "High and Tight" before I could pull out the written instructions a Korean teacher had prepared for me. I think I was technically closer to Dongducheon Jungang than Jihaeng, but it was 6 of one half a dozen of the other. It just depended on where I was going. I worked way the gently caress up in Daegwang-ri, Yeoncheon County and so would take the subway up to Dongducheon station every morning and switch to the diesel train and ride that all the loving out there. It was awful. Miller Time was our go to watering hole, but after awhile we started making our way down to Cheers in Uijeongbu. There were also a couple of whiskey bars that I frequented because I'm a terrible alcoholic. Of course, only about half of them would let us in. Ah memories.
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nickmeister posted:Where is that from? finite state automata
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 14:38 |
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Bribery during elections is now ok as long as you are a cheapskate. https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/10/27/student-allegedly-bought-votes-will-not-face-investigation-amount-immaterial-report/ quote:University of Hong Kong student Printa Zhu Ke will not face investigation over a bribery allegation because the university’s governing council considered the amount involved to be “immaterial,” Ming Pao has reported.
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nickmeister posted:Where is that from? Jeoh posted:china It's actually Russia, there's дпс (road police) cars, who are doing nothing about the situation
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Thin Privilege posted:It's actually Russia, there's дпс (road police) cars, who are doing nothing about the situation good catch. china also doesn't have road signs for yielding because nobody ever yields for anything in china.
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 15:22 |
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Are there any good articles about face I can read? Something like a face workbook would be awesome, where you get presented a situation and have to answer who lost face, and why. It's seems like it's the critical thing that westerners (and Americans) just have no clue about, particularly with china. For example, I read this comic and all I could think of was "holy poo poo that dude with the minesweeper lost a lot of face" followed by realizing that people from many cultures would have just not admitted the error, the loss of face would be too great. Unless my analysis of face is wrong, since it's not like I understand it.
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Uncle Enzo posted:Are there any good articles about face I can read? Something like a face workbook would be awesome, where you get presented a situation and have to answer who lost face, and why. Someone came close to literally losing their Face in that comic.
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 16:42 |
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A thread about the silly Berkeley protests. Can we guess who the "Asian" students are? IN B4 Baby Helldump calls me racist.
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# ? Oct 27, 2016 17:35 |
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In a weird turn of fate. I was reading this thread last night. I also took my meds which tend to have strange side effects. And holy poo poo. I dreamed I was traveling through india with you guys. You'll never guess which poster got pissed at me, at me for being creepy and left the group. To never be seen again.
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Dicky mouse posted:In a weird turn of fate. I was reading this thread last night. you'll never guess which poster cares about your creepy goon dreams (it's no one)
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