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Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

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.

# ? Nov 27, 2016 06:40

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# ? May 14, 2024 07:31

Haier: Aug 10, 2007; by Lowtax

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.

There were more studies done, but here's one:

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

# ? Nov 27, 2016 06:46

Lord of Pie: Mar 2, 2007

That thick coating of coal dust and heavy metals in every Chinar lung probably helps slow down the nicotine pretty well

# ? Nov 27, 2016 07:38

E_P: Feb 22, 2003

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.

# ? Nov 27, 2016 07:43

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

I hope sharing their story with BBC doesn't backfire

100 Women 2016: My sham marriage - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37470074

# ? Nov 27, 2016 09:18

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

IHomo? Couldn't they find a name slightly more in the closet?

# ? Nov 27, 2016 14:26

cnut: May 3, 2016

ecceHomo

# ? Nov 27, 2016 14:35

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

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

# ? Nov 27, 2016 14:40

Power Khan: Aug 20, 2011; by Fritz the Horse

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.

# ? Nov 27, 2016 15:23

simplefish: Mar 28, 2011; So long, and thanks for all the ~~fish~~ gallbladdΣrs!

Lucky reds have always given me headaches

# ? Nov 27, 2016 15:49

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# ? Nov 27, 2016 17:13

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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.)

# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:04

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

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.

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.)

god drat dude

# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:11

devil: Jul 14, 2012

Living in China like 4000 years ago would have been cool

# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:16

Fauxtool: Oct 21, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

devil posted:

Living in China like 4000 years ago would have been cool

yeah no chinese people would be pretty nice

# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:27

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

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.

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.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blpe_sGnnP4

# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:32

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

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

# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:33

devil: Jul 14, 2012

Fauxtool posted:

yeah no chinese people would be pretty nice

Chinese people have been aorund for 10s of thousands of years

# ? Nov 27, 2016 22:49

The Great Autismo!: Mar 3, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

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

# ? Nov 28, 2016 00:36

Nucken Futz: Oct 30, 2010; by Reene

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

# ? Nov 28, 2016 01:47

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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I'm going to go back to mystical and wondrous ancient china and get buried alive in pigshit for reading a book

# ? Nov 28, 2016 01:55

nomad2020: Jan 30, 2007

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.

# ? Nov 28, 2016 02:06

LentThem: Aug 31, 2004; 90% Retractible

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

# ? Nov 28, 2016 02:44

P-Mack: Nov 10, 2007

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

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

My daughter just read it recently, thanks for letting me know there's a sequel.

# ? Nov 28, 2016 03:28

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

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.

# ? Nov 28, 2016 03:35

Stringent: Dec 22, 2004; image text goes here

LentThem posted:

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

*snaps fingers*

# ? Nov 28, 2016 03:41

Punk da Bundo: Dec 29, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

was china cool 500 years ago tho , why go back thousands of years

# ? Nov 28, 2016 04:47

poly and open-minded: Nov 22, 2006; In BOD we trust

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

# ? Nov 28, 2016 04:52

nomad2020: Jan 30, 2007

Outrail posted:

40,000 years of Australian culture.

~150,000 years of African culture.

~3.5b+ years of Earth culture

# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:16

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

nomad2020 posted:

~3.5b+ years of Earth culture

Most of it rocks.

# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:22

Prokhor Zakharov: Dec 31, 2008; This is me as I make another great post

Good luck with your depression!

got some hurt feelings incoming

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/12/chinas-great-leap-backward/505817/

# ? Nov 28, 2016 06:30

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

Had the perfect ad for last page. Thanks Haier.

# ? Nov 28, 2016 06:30

Stringent: Dec 22, 2004; image text goes here

https://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/surging-homeowner-loans-in-china-raise-alarms-over-debt

quote:

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.

Skyrocketing real estate prices in major Chinese cities in recent years have seen families� wealth surge. But at the same time they have fuelled a historic boom in mortgage lending, as buyers race to get on the property ladder, or invest to profit from the phenomenon. Now the debt owed by households in the world�s second largest economy has surged from 28 percent of GDP to more than 40 percent in the past five years.

�The notion that Chinese people do not like to borrow is clearly outdated,� said Chen Long of Gavekal Dragonomics. The share of household loans to overall lending hit 67.5 percent in the third quarter of 2016, more than twice the share of the year before.

But this surge has raised fears that a sharp drop in property prices would cause many new loans to go bad, causing a domino effect on interest rates, exchange rates and commodity prices that �could turn out to be a global macro event�, ANZ analysts said in a recent note. While China�s household debt ratio is still lower than advanced countries such as the U.S. (nearly 80 percent of GDP) and Japan (more than 60 percent), it has already exceeded that of emerging markets Brazil and India, and if it keeps growing at its current pace will hit 70 percent of GDP in a few years. The ruling Communist party has set a target of 6.5 to 7 percent economic growth for 2017, and the country is on track to hit it thanks to a property frenzy in major cities and a flood of easy credit. But keeping loans flowing at such a pace creates such �substantial risks� that it could be a �self-defeating strategy�, Chen said.

China�s total debt�including housing, financial and government sector debt�hit 168.48 trillion yuan ($25 trillion) at the end of last year, equivalent to 249 percent of national GDP, according to estimates by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a top government think tank. China is seeking to restructure its economy to make the spending power of its nearly 1.4 billion people a key driver for growth, instead of massive government investment and cheap exports. But the transition is proving painful as growth rates sit at 25-year lows and key indicators continue to come in below par, weighing on the global outlook.

Authorities �desperate� to keep GDP growth steady have turned to consumers as a source of finance because �many of the sources of capital through the banks and corporations are essentially used up�, Andrew Collier of Orient Capital Research told AFP.

Individuals have turned to pawn shops, peer-to-peer networks and other informal lenders to borrow cash against assets such as cars, art or housing, he said, to spend it on consumption. Banks are also driving the phenomenon, Andrew Polk of Medley Global Advisors told AFP. �Banks have been pushing people to buy houses because they need to make loans,� he said, as corporate borrowing has dried up. Combined with a rise in peer-to-peer lending, with over 550 billion yuan borrowed in the third quarter of 2016, the risks of speculative investment have risen, S&P Global Ratings said.

Some analysts argue that China is well positioned to manage these risks, and has plenty of room to take on more leverage as families still save twice as much as they borrow, with some 58 trillion yuan in household deposits, according to Oxford Economics. �From an overall perspective, household debt remains in a safe range,� Li Feng, assistant director of the Survey and Research Center for China Household Finance in Chengdu, told AFP, adding that risks over the next three to five years were modest. But Collier said that credit-fuelled spending was a �risky game�, because when capital flows slow, property prices are likely to collapse, particularly in China�s smaller cities.

That could lead to defaults among property developers, small banks, and even some townships. �That will be the beginning of a crisis,� he said. �How big this becomes is unclear but it�s going to be a difficult time for China.�

# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:05

Haier: Aug 10, 2007; by Lowtax

LentThem posted:

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

https://i.imgur.com/MdH6yzQ.gifv

# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:14

Groda: Mar 17, 2005; Hair Elf

Poetry. In motion.

# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:51

fish and chips and dip: Feb 17, 2010

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.

# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:54

Moonshine Rhyme: Mar 26, 2010; Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate

Haier posted:

https://i.imgur.com/MdH6yzQ.gifv

I'd listen to this guy's slam poetry

# ? Nov 28, 2016 08:46

Relin: Oct 6, 2002; You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!