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My Chinese Malay friend just asked me for my opinions on smoking cigarettes and then got mad because I didn't say it was good and healthy but rather that it was bad and addictive. He then swore he could quit whenever he wanted because he could stop smoking for sometimes a whole week. Sometimes.
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Atlas Hugged posted:My Chinese Malay friend just asked me for my opinions on smoking cigarettes and then got mad because I didn't say it was good and healthy but rather that it was bad and addictive. He then swore he could quit whenever he wanted because he could stop smoking for sometimes a whole week. Sometimes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11792749 quote:The lower nicotine (and, therefore, tobacco smoke) intake per cigarette and the fewer cigarettes smoked per day, which may result, in part, from slower clearance of nicotine, may explain lower lung cancer rates in Chinese-Americans. Lower lung cancer rates among Latinos compared with whites, given their similar nicotine intake per cigarette, are probably due to smoking fewer cigarettes. The results with Chinese-Americans may have implications for dosing with nicotine medications to aid smoking cessation in Chinese- American smokers and perhaps in other Asian smokers. Asians tend to absorb nicotine more slowly, so they can smoke longer, stronger, and more manly than any other ethnicity. While this study says it helps with Chinese-American lower rates of lung cancer, the opposite is true here in China where people just puff away all day because of insatiable craving. One example is that due to low absorption from vaping, cigars, and pipe-smoking compared to cigarettes, people can often smoke/vape all day and not feel so bad. Imagine smoking cigs all day and being like "this is fine." LOL
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 06:46 |
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That thick coating of coal dust and heavy metals in every Chinar lung probably helps slow down the nicotine pretty well
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 07:38 |
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I dont know how it is in China but in Korea the nicotine content in cigs is bunk. I started smoking out here and when I went back to the states on vaca I bought the same brand and drat near coughed a lung out.
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 07:43 |
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I hope sharing their story with BBC doesn't backfire 100 Women 2016: My sham marriage - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37470074
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 09:18 |
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IHomo? Couldn't they find a name slightly more in the closet?
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 14:26 |
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 14:35 |
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E_P posted:I dont know how it is in China but in Korea the nicotine content in cigs is bunk. I started smoking out here and when I went back to the states on vaca I bought the same brand and drat near coughed a lung out. My friend went to Japan for a week when he was working in Korea and brought back a few packs of Lucky Strikes, and handed them out during one of our many after-school staff suppers. The Korean teachers/admin that tried them nearly puked on the spot, and stared at the "stats" on the box trying to figure out what the hell was going on. I got curious and tried one and it felt like I was smoking nicotine-flavoured industrial solvents. Is Lucky Strike some sort of crazy-strong cigarette, or was it because it was from Japan that it was nuts and they up the strength/content? While I am not a smoker, even hauling on a Cigar and inhaling was nowhere near what those Lucky Strokes were. Edit: Also, Japanese Lesbian Disney Wedding will always be the most adorable wedding ever. Blistex fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Nov 27, 2016 |
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They like to add all kinds of poo poo to tobacco to make it more addictive. Imagine what those companies do when left off the leash.
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 15:23 |
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Lucky reds have always given me headaches
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 15:49 |
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Grand Fromage posted:Chinese is the only language where I've been told repeatedly by people who learned and speak it well not to bother and that they regret ever wasting their time. That big post from AO here is hardly the only instance of that sentiment. I visited China a while ago. On the Great Wall tour, we shared the bus with an American family with a very depressed late 20's dude. Eventually, he told us why: he'd studied Chinese for a long time (I forget if it was Mandarin or Cantonese). He had a degree in it - and he couldn't understand the local pronunciation. He shrugged dejectedly and said 'I guess I'm just a tourist. (Loooooong sigh.)
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:04 |
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thoughts and prayers posted:I visited China a while ago. On the Great Wall tour, we shared the bus with an American family with a very depressed late 20's dude. god drat dude
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:11 |
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Living in China like 4000 years ago would have been cool
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:16 |
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devil posted:Living in China like 4000 years ago would have been cool yeah no chinese people would be pretty nice
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:27 |
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thoughts and prayers posted:I visited China a while ago. On the Great Wall tour, we shared the bus with an American family with a very depressed late 20's dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blpe_sGnnP4
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:32 |
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Cool thing about Asia: even if you put years into the language and understand the culture better than a local you'll still always be a tourist as far as they're concerned. America and Canada (and maybe Sweden?) are the only countries on earth where if you know a guy that's moved there and has been living and working there for years people tend to ask him "So when are you getting citizenship?" instead of "So when are you going home?" when those sorts of topics come up. Nabokov is an American to Americans. I'm sure there's a fat slice of even the UK that still considers Conrad to be a Polak. Every major Asian state has at least one white guy on their variety shows who speaks perfect localese, has lived in the country for years, and who is referred to and wholeheartedly considered as "the foreigner" in the hearts and minds of the people. raton fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Nov 27, 2016 |
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Fauxtool posted:yeah no chinese people would be pretty nice Chinese people have been aorund for 10s of thousands of years
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# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:49 |
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I've recommended a lot of books about China in this thread and if you're looking for something super light that you could probably read in two nights I'd recommend Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. Yes it is a kids book but it won the Newbury in 2010 so it's obviously pretty good. It seemlessly integrates Chinese folk tales, like Yue Lao and his background, with an original story. It will help you appreciate China and remind you how cool it was a long time ago I really only mention this now because people were talking about how cool China would have been thousands of years ago, but also Grace Lin wrote a sequel to it that came out last month and I'm gearing up for about 20 hours of traveling and am going to try to crank it out on the plane
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devil posted:Chinese people have been aorund for 10s of thousands of years Nope ...... even they're only claiming 5K years, and to be perfectly honest, I think they've fudged THAT number a bit. HTH
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 01:47 |
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I'm going to go back to mystical and wondrous ancient china and get buried alive in pigshit for reading a book
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 01:55 |
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devil posted:Chinese people have been aorund for 10s of thousands of years If this is using the measurement I think it is it makes the US somewhere around 5000 years old.
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Haier posted:Wumao Girl This works so well as beat poetry. --------------------------- Will hook up with internet stranger Her mind disgusts me, fingers crossed her body wont I could meet her at the station like she's a date She meets me at my door like a common escort She looks 15, but fit as hell She shows me her ID card - 24 I show her my dick We talk about my white face and white dick as we move to the bed She asks about my white salary I deflect and put on a condom Vaginismus Briefly soak, condomless Her tiny-hand hand job fails to do the job She drops a deuce, while i drop a load I send her away I eat dumplings alone
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The Great Autismo! posted:I've recommended a lot of books about China in this thread and if you're looking for something super light that you could probably read in two nights I'd recommend Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. Yes it is a kids book but it won the Newbury in 2010 so it's obviously pretty good. It seemlessly integrates Chinese folk tales, like Yue Lao and his background, with an original story. It will help you appreciate China and remind you how cool it was a long time ago My daughter just read it recently, thanks for letting me know there's a sequel.
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nomad2020 posted:If this is using the measurement I think it is it makes the US somewhere around 5000 years old. 40,000 years of Australian culture. ~150,000 years of African culture.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 03:35 |
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LentThem posted:This works so well as beat poetry. *snaps fingers*
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 03:41 |
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was china cool 500 years ago tho , why go back thousands of years
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 04:47 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlkoQ4bUE5k WUMAO! WU-MAO! WUUUUUUUUUMAO! WE MET ON APP SHE CAN'T READ MAP CAN'T PLUNGE WITH THAT SMALL A GAP
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Outrail posted:40,000 years of Australian culture. ~3.5b+ years of Earth culture
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nomad2020 posted:~3.5b+ years of Earth culture Most of it rocks.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:22 |
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got some hurt feelings incoming https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/12/chinas-great-leap-backward/505817/
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 06:30 |
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Had the perfect ad for last page. Thanks Haier.
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https://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/surging-homeowner-loans-in-china-raise-alarms-over-debtquote:Chinese household debt has risen at an “alarming” pace as property values have soared, analysts say, raising the risk that a real estate downturn could send shockwaves through the world’s second largest economy. Loose credit and changing habits have rapidly transformed the country’s famously loan-averse consumers into enthusiastic borrowers.
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LentThem posted:This works so well as beat poetry. https://i.imgur.com/MdH6yzQ.gifv
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:14 |
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Poetry. In motion.
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Stringent posted:https://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/surging-homeowner-loans-in-china-raise-alarms-over-debt When China rules the world! This is the Chinese century! China is the next global super power! China is decades ahead of the west! Everyone will be speaking Mandarin! But seriously, if China collapses while Xi Jinping is at the helm, that poo poo will be hilarious as gently caress. Well, only if I can get out in time.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:54 |
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I'd listen to this guy's slam poetry
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 08:46 |
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it seems like this doomsaying has been going on for a decade maybe it will never happen
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 08:51 |
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so many more good ones here http://imgur.com/gallery/fAHvt
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If You Are The One is the best show on Australian television. FACT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpySSWBrKbc
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