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Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Grand Fromage posted:

No but alcohol is central to Korean culture so it is involved with a great many things.

Korea is the midwest of Asia. It's pleasant enough to live there but there isn't a lot to talk about or to sell it when compared with neighbors. It's a very good place to party, the food is repetitive when you live there but good. There's very little culture to speak of.

caberham posted:

Goonsgiving is great. I attended once and I loved it. Korean goons are the best goon hosts in the whole wide world. I only knew a few people from hosting them in Hong Kong but when I went to korea the goons offered me their homes.

As for the country itself, it's wedged between China and Japan so it does get neglected in terms of history/culture/tourism. So Korea is always trying to prove themselves. One wise goon said "Think of it like Canada" and as a Canadian I totally understood what he meant :canada:

At worse, you can call Korea - "Looks like Japan, but feels like China" but it's really modernizing and developing its own scene pretty quickly. Kpop is still bad but they grew out of Jpop and new Korean cuisine is actually amazing.

I had very little interest to go to Korea (not sure why, I guess no why), and now I have even less interest. Thank you both, LOL.

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IN BEIJING, HOME OF THE XI-XI-PEE, THEY HAVE VERY GOOD FOR HEALTHY AIR QUALITY TONIGHT:



All those suckers that paid millions and millions for lovely apartments to go through this for months every year.... HA.

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Jusupov
May 24, 2007
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The Great Autismo! posted:

http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=217472

guess which country's tourists are trashing the Jeju airport? I'll give you a hint: it's somewhat topical for this thread

the unnamed one

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Haier posted:

I had very little interest to go to Korea (not sure why, I guess no why), and now I have even less interest. Thank you both, LOL.

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IN BEIJING, HOME OF THE XI-XI-PEE, THEY HAVE VERY GOOD FOR HEALTHY AIR QUALITY TONIGHT:



All those suckers that paid millions and millions for lovely apartments to go through this for months every year.... HA.

When was the last time it was "Crazy Bad"?. Did they leave that in or did they suck the fun out?

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

oohhboy posted:

When was the last time it was "Crazy Bad"?. Did they leave that in or did they suck the fun out?
What?

Whatever it is, I doubt it will beat Delhi this morning.

Haier posted:

The machines are online again.



Hody shet.

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
I like the 283 in the middle of it all.

Prince Reggie K
Feb 12, 2007

I've been denied all the best Ultra-Sex.

ladron posted:

see, it just amazes me that doing that works out cheaper than real eggs

If you think they paid fair market value for the seashell, seaweed extract and a rubber bouncy ball you'd be right.

I imagine it more like the scene with the fox making popsicles in zootopia. All the ingredients are probably stolen or grifted or left over from previous cons / failed projects / found in abandoned locations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79g9wP7DjmU

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

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Glenn Quebec posted:

I like the 283 in the middle of it all.

Someone wrapped their air quality monitor in saran wrap.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Glenn Quebec posted:

I like the 283 in the middle of it all.

Eye of the storm baby.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
I'm the Asola.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Haier posted:

I'm the Asola.

Not sure if that's the right way to spell rear end in a top hat.

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

Grand Fromage posted:

Korean driving is bad, Chinese driving is homicidal, etc.

I would characterize Chinese driving as "clueless", much like pedestrians and I guess the entire country. If you want homicidal go to India or - god forbid - Nepal. That's a society of drivers where not leaning on the loudest blown-out horn in the country 24/7 means certain death. And even then you're probably mowing down dozens of scooters a day (all of whom are driving the wrong way on whatever lane is currently least congested).

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Darkest Auer posted:

I would characterize Chinese driving as "clueless", much like pedestrians and I guess the entire country. If you want homicidal go to India or - god forbid - Nepal. That's a society of drivers where not leaning on the loudest blown-out horn in the country 24/7 means certain death. And even then you're probably mowing down dozens of scooters a day (all of whom are driving the wrong way on whatever lane is currently least congested).
Saar, India is heavy danger because the man don't watch the rode:


IMO, I can make sense out of Indian traffic and never feel like things are out of control. Like, I can understand my place in the road and all of the other vehicles and rarely have to worry about someone zooming by or cutting me off just because. I used to ride a bicycle every day and sometimes a motorcycle and the first couple days were terrifying but then it wasn't so bad at all and everything was predictable and I felt safer riding my bike on the side of an Indian road or in traffic than I ever did in small town USA due to nobody really thinking the road was ever theirs.

But China is one I can never understand and everyone drives like a loving idiot and I can feel the passive-aggressive confused rage in every single driver as they drive as dangerously as possible and try to endanger as many pedestrians as they can. The two things I hate the most about China are the drivers and the old people. I wish I had a big frozen potato to throw every time some retard turns a corner at 80kmph without any warning or horn to let the people crossing know. I'd go through a lot of potatoes every time I go outside.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
As a slav, I don't understand why you would reward them with potato?

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party

Haier posted:

Saar, India is heavy danger because the man don't watch the rode:


WOW! HOT a What Baabhabhiat

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Grand Fromage posted:

Also one of the lesser known things about jets is the engines are really hard to make. The engineering and metallurgy is a very limited technology and the US/UK produce almost all of the good engines in the world. That's why so many planes, no matter where they're manufactured, buy the engines from those countries. An engine on a Chinese fighter is trashed and has to be replaced every couple of flights.

China can't even build a decent civilian plane yet they expect us to believe that they have a totally awesome 5th gen fighter that can go toe to toe with the f35/f22 based on a 2 minute flight at an airshow

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



JaucheCharly posted:

As a slav, I don't understand why you would reward them with potato?

Broken car window? No problem! Free potato!

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

big time bisexual posted:

WOW! HOT a What Baabhabhiat

wanted to post this

Koramei
Nov 11, 2011

I have three regrets
The first is to be born in Joseon.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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dont doxx my political affiliations tia

Imperialist Dog
Oct 21, 2008

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The Great Autismo! posted:

http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=217472

guess which country's tourists are trashing the Jeju airport? I'll give you a hint: it's somewhat topical for this thread

attack Japan!

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Fojar38 posted:

China can't even build a decent civilian plane yet they expect us to believe that they have a totally awesome 5th gen fighter that can go toe to toe with the f35/f22 based on a 2 minute flight at an airshow

There was the much touted "Chinese" built commercial airliner and the only part that was made in China was the nose cone or the tail wing, everything else was US, UK, or EU made.

Two Worlds
Feb 3, 2009
An IMPOSTORE!

Blistex posted:

Living in Korea for more than a year will get really repetitive if you don't make a serious point to look for different things to do. Like Grand Fromage hinted at, most things are limited in their variety (food, music, past-times, etc.). Korea really buys into the "hive-mind" effect, as as such there is a really, really, massive groupthink going on which really limits things that westerners are used to having nearly limitless variety in (food, music, shows, movies, beers, shops, hobbies, sports, etc...). When I was there I took advantage of every micro-niche hobby and sport that was available in Korea. I went downhill skiing, played hockey, tennis, went swimming, tried my hand at model-making, urban-exploration, geocaching, painting, etc.

Variety is not one of Korea's strong points (unless it involves fashion/makeup), so people visiting Korea for longer than the standard year can start to feel like they're being limited to 2-3 things to do/eat/drink/see. This is one reason why you can find so many foreign products, themed restaurants, and expat groups doing things like organizing sports/hobbies/events. If they didn't, they'd go crazy. The funny thing is that once you get through the Korean cultural veneer, they will freely admit that life gets pretty boring, really fast in Korea, and that's one reason why they have a national obsession with travelling overseas.

all of the food in korea is the same color

wildemere
Nov 19, 2013
More awesome behavior, got a court date the old uncle.

http://shanghaiist.com/2016/11/02/sydney_park_pee.php

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Two Worlds posted:

all of the food in korea is the same color

Yeah, most of it has the same ingredient (red pepper paste/flakes).

If anyone hasn't had Korean food, and happens by a restaurant, I'd suggest getting any of the following dishes.

Samgyeopsal - Side pork wrapped in lettuce with various toppings
Kimchi Jjigae - Kimchi stew
Bibimbap - Friend rice with various ingredients
Soondae - Korean blood sausage stuffed with rice
Gimbap - rice and various ingredients wrapped in seaweed
Tteokbokki - Rick cakes in spicy sauce
Gamjatang - Pig spine soup
Donkkaseu - Korea's take on the pork schnitzel

Also, I'm going stick my neck out and say that Korea might have perfected BBQ chicken, like "it's peak BBQ chicken" and can't be improved upon.

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

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Pillbug
Korea perfected fried chicken and pickled radish.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012


no need for american election. the winner has been chosen.

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

Ceciltron posted:

Korea perfected fried chicken and pickled radish.

fermented rice as well

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Blistex posted:

Also, I'm going stick my neck out and say that Korea might have perfected BBQ chicken, like "it's peak BBQ chicken" and can't be improved upon.



Oh lawdy

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

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wildemere posted:

More awesome behavior, got a court date the old uncle.

http://shanghaiist.com/2016/11/02/sydney_park_pee.php

To be fair, there's nothing wrong with pissing on a tree like that.

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug

Outrail posted:

To be fair, there's nothing wrong with pissing on a tree like that.

Anywhere BUT the botanical gardens and would agree with you.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

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Ceciltron posted:

Anywhere BUT the botanical gardens and would agree with you.

Pretty sure a few dudes pissing on a tree a few times a years has virtually zero impact.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

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Outrail posted:

Pretty sure a few dudes pissing on a tree a few times a years has virtually zero impact.

Yeah, but if it is allowed it won't be just a few will it?

ocrumsprug
Sep 23, 2010

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Outrail posted:

Pretty sure a few dudes pissing on a tree a few times a years has virtually zero impact.

There are lots of old Chinese guys too, so a couple getting to chat with a judge will also have virtually zero impact.

LentThem
Aug 31, 2004

90% Retractible

Haier posted:

But China is one I can never understand and everyone drives like a loving idiot and I can feel the passive-aggressive confused rage in every single driver as they drive as dangerously as possible and try to endanger as many pedestrians as they can. The two things I hate the most about China are the drivers and the old people. I wish I had a big frozen potato to throw every time some retard turns a corner at 80kmph without any warning or horn to let the people crossing know. I'd go through a lot of potatoes every time I go outside.

That's what makes this video so good (mobile url warning): http://m.miaopai.com/show/channel/GCMydrkGo1xZD~9tSO5n~w__?from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0

Punk da Bundo
Dec 29, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
if china sucks so bad and can't do anything right and the people smell and are gross and smoke all day why do you live there

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
Expats are loving garbage losers we know this already.

Punk da Bundo
Dec 29, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

Glenn Quebec posted:

Expats are loving garbage losers we know this already.

does this only apply to expats to china...?

speaking of expats how is that white guy who expatriated to north korea after the korean war doing

i wonder if all that jack daniels and smoking caught up to him yet

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

If I ever drove in china I would have to have a total beater car because god drat I would bumper car the gently caress out of idiots like that.

Imperialist Dog
Oct 21, 2008

"I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
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I'm stopping off at a Subway before proceeding to our school sports day which is held in the middle of nowhere. There's a huge lineup of elderly people running past it, queuing up for a free newspaper that they will immediately take, unread, to a recycler to exchange for a few cents. There's another guy in front of me ordering food, but as he's doing it two extremely old, bent-double women are staring at him. They've actually just moved BESIDE him to get closer to look at the food. Like they're between him and the cashier now.

Ok, I finished ordering. The clerk asked me what I wanted on my sub, right? And for every ingredient the old ladies repeated it in amazement. "Look, he pointed to the vegetable, and she put the vegetable on the bread!

They have lined up for the free paper beside this Subway for ... six years, I think, and are still amazed by the concept.

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Jan 4, 2009

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Imperialist Dog posted:

I'm stopping off at a Subway before proceeding to our school sports day which is held in the middle of nowhere. There's a huge lineup of elderly people running past it, queuing up for a free newspaper that they will immediately take, unread, to a recycler to exchange for a few cents. There's another guy in front of me ordering food, but as he's doing it two extremely old, bent-double women are staring at him. They've actually just moved BESIDE him to get closer to look at the food. Like they're between him and the cashier now.

Ok, I finished ordering. The clerk asked me what I wanted on my sub, right? And for every ingredient the old ladies repeated it in amazement. "Look, he pointed to the vegetable, and she put the vegetable on the bread!

They have lined up for the free paper beside this Subway for ... six years, I think, and are still amazed by the concept.

Talk to the guy running the free newspaper stall. Tell him you'll give him :10bux: if he tells everyone that there is no newspaper today, there will not be any more free newspaperm and he gives them to you at the end of each day. Then you get #(newspapers) x $(cents per newspaper). Bam, now you've got Subway money and less people gawking at your dietary habits.

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