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The corpse mountain always gets its due.. 
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Nov 11, 2016 20:28
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Tiger Dad and his son gonna find a new level of mishaps to get themselves into
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Nov 11, 2016 20:42
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"Most important, China has a functioning liaison system, staffed by competent government officials who manage climbing teams and their waste." I was like "yeah this article is reasonable" until I got to competent government officials. Not just regular ones!
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Nov 11, 2016 21:40
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big time bisexual posted:time to merge the china and everest threads So they'll build stairs all the way to the top, and middle aged women in high heels and miniskirts will try to summit.
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Nov 12, 2016 03:38
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I will look forward to the many ways they will gently caress up.
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Nov 12, 2016 03:39
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Hopefully they'll try, blood for the blood god.. They'll try but it'll fail spectacularly in which droves of people will die because of ignoring safety instructions while climbing the stairs. Lazer Monkey fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Nov 12, 2016 |
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Nov 12, 2016 04:30
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Dicky mouse posted:Crazy person ---- Here's a gifv of a kid being run over. Nobody dies or anything, the kid walks away. I am not quite sure it's China, but it fits Chinese-style driving. Can anyone confirm or deny if it is from China? code:I have an ethnic-Chinese friend that is fluent in Chinese and goes to China once or twice a year for family. She's not a Chinese citizen, nor are any of her relatives, but can read, write, and speak just as well as any local. She uses Wechat and somehow Mainlanders keep finding her and adding her, so she's taken to screwing with them. She sent me a big chat log screen capture today (with the Chinese translated in Wechat so I could read it) and asked me for help messing with him. It was basically: (In Chinese) Her: *Gripes about the government, street making GBS threads, pissing, spitting, lying, pushing and shoving, corruption, the educational system being poo poo, etc.* Him: "You don't know anything about China, you just believe foreign lies." Her: "I go to China all the time, I saw this with my own eyes." Him: "You don't understand China. This is all lies. I lived abroad for many years and it was the same thing there too." Her: "Where did you live?" Him: "That's not the point. The point is I know foreigners do the same. You cannot speak about China this way. What about your country!?" Her: "That kind of stuff doesn't happen here." Him: "Yes it does!" Her: "Did you live somewhere abroad where you use English? Do you speak English?" Him: "I will not tell you that, it is not important to this conversation." Her: "I speak English. Do you want to talk in English?" Him: "I don't understand your Chinese. What are you trying to say to me? Where did you learn Chinese?" From that point she switched to English and he kept replying in Chinese, obviously using the translation feature to understand her. She kept bugging him about where he went abroad and he was losing tons of face not being able to reply. I told her to tell him Taiwan is number one and the true version of China and Chinese culture, and is better in most aspects over Mainland. He asked her if she ever went there, because of course he did and saw no difference over where he lives in China, and Taiwan is part of China and is the same. She kept bugging about where he lived abroad and he kept saying she should accept she doesn't understand these topics and doesn't know anything about China and she's foreign so she shouldn't feel so bad for not knowing about China. The same arguments from a billion people about a billion people.
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Nov 12, 2016 06:02
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In Chinese education news:quote:The development of schools using international curriculums has gone out of control, and attracted the attention of upper central authorities, [which] calls for countermeasures to carry out changes, the document states. The complete importation of international curriculums is forbidden, it adds. Yup, gotta stamp out any and all independent thought! This sure will work wonders long term! http://qz.com/821667/a-crackdown-on...source=fb1111_3
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Nov 12, 2016 06:06
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Cool. I've been offered a job to be principal of one of those international programs and one of the main reasons I'm not going to do it is I'm pretty sure it'll be illegal in a few years anyway. Looks like I may be right.
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Nov 12, 2016 06:12
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fish and chips and dip posted:In Chinese education news: The next step is gotta be cracking down on people going overseas to study.
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Nov 12, 2016 06:16
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Haier posted:The same arguments from a billion people about a billion people. This is why I have trouble talking to people I don't know in China. It is the same conversation over, and over, and over, and over. My first year I didn't get it, second year I liked practicing my Chinese, third year I was looking for girls, fourth year found my wife and kinda stopped. Now it's just the same questions and same responses and same stuff over, and over, and over. I just don't have the energy for it anymore. Grand Fromage posted:Cool. I've been offered a job to be principal of one of those international programs and one of the main reasons I'm not going to do it is I'm pretty sure it'll be illegal in a few years anyway. Looks like I may be right. The principal jobs are fat pay but wayyyyyyyyyy too much work or trouble for the amount of stupidity you'd have to deal with, plus like you said, they will probably go under in less than two years.
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Nov 12, 2016 06:17
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https://twitter.com/airlivenet/status/797052811842351105/photo/1 Saw this in another thread, thought of you
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Nov 12, 2016 06:23
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Grand Fromage posted:Cool. I've been offered a job to be principal of one of those international programs and one of the main reasons I'm not going to do it is I'm pretty sure it'll be illegal in a few years anyway. Looks like I may be right. The IB has been looking at China for alot of their growth over the past 4-5 years. If they get kicked out there is going to be some very hosed people I met in my Indonesia and Malaysia conferences this year.
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Nov 12, 2016 06:24
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fish and chips and dip posted:In Chinese education news: Name a school after the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, and watch their heads explode.
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Nov 12, 2016 06:55
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Haier posted:LOL. Goondolences on not being able to find a kawaii waifu and instead being stuck with a loonie bin. There are tests, but what you wrote really sounds like she had some mental issues. On top of that, those who have low-to-no self-esteem will usually do their best to control everything as much as possible because they fear that if the other person enjoys themselves in any other way they will see how wonderful life is, or another person is, and run away. It's all selfish, under the guise of "I care about you and want you with me always." It's a game of manipulation. Hopefully you have found better and really learned a lot from that. What I'm missing is "this doesn't even happen in the Phillipines"
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Nov 12, 2016 08:02
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lol, this is amazingly petty: can you spot what's wrong on this china unionpay page? https://i.imgur.com/XkawKIZ.png
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Nov 12, 2016 08:22
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Ayyy, check out this fuckin' meme. Holy poo poo. Ah ah ah.
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Nov 12, 2016 11:49
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My Saturday in China: Went skateboarding. Sweat a bunch. I saw another skateboarder out of the corner of my eye and figured I would break my avoidance tradition since even my boss made fun of me for it when I told her I avoid Chinese skateboarders. Turns out it was a 22 year old girl and she lives very close to me. We talked and rode for about 30 minutes. She wanted my Wechat and wants to ride on the weekends with me. I have no interest in plunging anyone new, so she'll be a bro to hang with when we have time. It was 18C/64F last night. Everyone outside was in jackets, scarves, long pants, and walking doing the cold-person-self-hug. I saw someone wearing gloves. loving LMAO. Many of these people are in the prime of their youth and health and they act like giant babies for fear of catching bogus mystery illness because it was less-warm outside.
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Nov 12, 2016 12:00
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I never stop being amazed that there are places that are connected to the modern world and germ theory has not yet reached. You know what was famously great in the Middle Ages? Medical care.
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Nov 12, 2016 12:05
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simplefish posted:https://twitter.com/airlivenet/status/797052811842351105/photo/1 I know a few LAX workers, including guys who drive those things. Odds are real good the driver was stoned off his or her gourd. (Seriously they alway have real fuckin' good weed, and they get it cheap)
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Nov 12, 2016 12:07
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Grand Fromage posted:I never stop being amazed that there are places that are connected to the modern world and germ theory has not yet reached. Truthfully, it's sad they don't have miasma theory. At least then they'd do something about the air quality.
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Nov 12, 2016 12:43
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my new go to move, which i've used twice in the past hour, is when people try talking to me, i just answer them in chinese and they ask where I'm from, and i tell them i am from Haiti, and they are like "what's that. where is it" and i say "its near central america" and they say "oh" and i say "sorry i dont understand english" and one person just left me alone and stopped shouting at me, and another justed ask me questions in chinese and i just acted like another being in society it's a safe move because i speak spanish, and i would guess 97% of people walking around this city have no idea what Haiti is or where it is or what they speak or what they look like, so i think i'll keep using it they also didn't just have an election between two of the worst possible candidates in their country's electoral history, so this also seems like a great way to avoid discussing politics. if they ask me any question about Haiti i can just make up a bunch of poo poo, because if they actually are curious, they probably already know something about Haiti, and if they are just making bullshit conversation, i doubt they will go home and look up "politics in Haiti" on Baidu lol anyway, that's my weekend story. i'm going out to meet with SA All-Star Chong. we are going to go drink a bunch. china is cool and good.
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Nov 12, 2016 12:50
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they speak french in haiti, buddy
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Nov 12, 2016 12:55
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Jeoh posted:they speak french in haiti, buddy I worked with a few Haitians back in the day. It ain't French. Close enough I could kinda understand them and they could kinda understand me tho. Haitian Creole really is its own language and deserves to be recognized as such.
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Nov 12, 2016 12:58
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Jeoh posted:they speak french in haiti, buddy Hatians have their own Creole dialect but I assume he knows that, just that Mainlanders would assume Haitians spoke Spanish if he mentioned central America.
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Nov 12, 2016 13:07
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I used to tell koreans that I was from argentina. I few of them would go "MESHI!!" (Messi) but that was the extent of anyone's knowledge. that's my story, hope you liked it
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Nov 12, 2016 13:30
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I usually tell the random Chinese people I'm from Korea or Germany.
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Nov 12, 2016 13:35
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Are there any countries that chinese have issues believing exist, besides tibet and taiwan.
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Nov 12, 2016 13:41
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Third World Reggin posted:Are there any countries that chinese have issues believing exist, besides tibet and taiwan. Austria, kind of. I have some Austrian friends here and each of them have met at least one person who will be adamant that Austria isn't a place, and it's just a mispronunciation of Australia.
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Nov 12, 2016 13:48
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It took literal decades for diplomats to convince the Qing that the United States was a country. They could not understand that it was independent from England. Speaking of there's no term for UK in Chinese or Korean that I'm aware of, it's just called England. E: Also trying to explain Africa is a continent and not just one country never seems to go anywhere.
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Nov 12, 2016 13:48
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Grand Fromage posted:It took literal decades for diplomats to convince the Qing that the United States was a country. They could not understand that it was independent from England. 英国 Yīngguó is supposed to be UK, but is used interchangeably with England. England is actually 英格兰 Yīnggélán but I haven't heard anyone use it outside of a few formal settings.
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Nov 12, 2016 13:53
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fish and chips and dip posted:英国 Yīngguó is supposed to be UK, but is used interchangeably with England. England is actually 英格兰 Yīnggélán but I haven't heard anyone use it outside of a few formal settings. Oh, interesting. I have also never heard 英格兰 used but I'll ask my students about it. They always just say Yingguo = England. Of course as we all know everything outside East Asia is really just the single nation of 外国.
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Nov 12, 2016 13:54
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Gorilla Salad posted:Truthfully, it's sad they don't have miasma theory. At least then they'd do something about the air quality. They did. In Taichung (where I am) during the Japanese colonial times they hired an American to come in and design the city, which is now the central district, to make sure the streets get the maximum amount of sunlight in the most days in order to dry them out, thereby removing standing water, removing bad smells, and miasma would go away. It pays to tell students to do a history project on the development of their own city 
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Nov 12, 2016 13:59
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It's pretty common. Especially recently with news covering brexit
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Nov 12, 2016 14:11
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But if you are some guy living in interior of bumfuck country then I guess you won't need to or will learn much.
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Nov 12, 2016 14:12
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Or maybe people living in a former British colony are more aware of the details of the UK.
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Nov 12, 2016 14:15
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Grand Fromage posted:Oh, interesting. I have also never heard 英格兰 used but I'll ask my students about it. They always just say Yingguo = England. I thought it was called 腐国 these days?
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Nov 12, 2016 14:18
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Grand Fromage posted:Or maybe people living in a former British colony are more aware of the details of the UK. You have to view caberhams posts as like a literal 1%er from the best city in Canada Like by "bumfuck" he means "everyone lower than me". This is a guy who can't stop shitposting about how much he hates Osaka Cabe I looooove you
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Nov 12, 2016 14:38
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Grand Fromage posted:I usually tell the random Chinese people I'm from Korea or Germany. How often do you get reactions like people yelling "HEIL XITLER!" at you? fish and chips and dip posted:Austria, kind of. I have some Austrian friends here and each of them have met at least one person who will be adamant that Austria isn't a place, and it's just a mispronunciation of Australia. Once again, Hitler saves the day. You simply tell them that's where he and the rest of the worst nazi criminals are from. Also, Mozart, Haydn, Liszt and Sigmund Freud. Probably followed a swift joke about their mothers.
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Nov 12, 2016 14:43
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I'm the cat that's yowling out in the hallway near Haier's apartment door because my dumbfuck owners moved out and left me here instead of taking me with them. I am indoor apartment cat and I have no idea what I am doing out here, so I just scream all night and yell at anyone that walks by. I am sure my owners are probably looking at the 100+ photos of me on their Wechat albums and remembering I was a good cat. Poor guy. The girl down the hall feeds him but he's freaked out and has no idea why he's sleeping on a hot water heater instead of in a bed with his humans. The Great Autismo! posted:You have to view caberhams posts as like a literal 1%er from the best city in Canada
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Nov 12, 2016 14:51
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