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With a dome that big it's a shame the inscrutable easterner is so against losing face.
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Dec 2, 2016 12:34
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Something about Haier skateboarding in Asia is hilarious.
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Dec 2, 2016 13:12
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Today is the worst pollution I've ever personally seen in Chengdu and it's only December.  
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Dec 2, 2016 13:24
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Dec 2, 2016 13:33
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Glenn Quebec posted:Something about Haier skateboarding in Asia is hilarious. Outside of Spain, China and Japan are known as some of the better places for skateboarding (except for China's kan re nao policy). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mJecFqQLPM Grand Fromage posted:Today is the worst pollution I've ever personally seen in Chengdu and it's only December.
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Dec 2, 2016 14:48
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JaucheCharly posted:Pics please It'll take several years to find a VPN that works. Just ask TGA.
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Dec 2, 2016 14:52
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Haier posted:skatebirding in Chinar.
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Dec 2, 2016 14:57
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Grand Fromage posted:Today is the worst pollution I've ever personally seen in Chengdu and it's only December. I had to ask my friend if my eyes were hosed up, it was like Chengdu had a yellow filter over it.
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Dec 2, 2016 15:22
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Haier posted:It's fast, fun, I can carry it anywhere, and people usually get really scared and move out of the way as fast as they can. Shenzhen has tons of skateboarders, and if you go to the Civic Center on any Saturday or Sunday when it's not raining you'll probably see 100 of them flailing and not landing any tricks, like all true skateboarders are great at doing. There are always foreign skateboarders there, either on vacation or work here in the city. Within 2km of me are three different skateboard clubs that meet several nights per week, and it's people from all categories and classes of life. I've met tons of people that way and there always cool dudes to talk to there. I don't post much about it because it would dox me from the other places online that I do post about skatebirding in Chinar. but how meet cool people in chinar when all chinese are bad people face etc? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Dec 2, 2016 15:49
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Haier posted:My China skateboard story from yesterday: On my way to uni there's a narrow bit by a construction site with only enough room for one person to walk in either direction, surprisingly everyone generally keeps to the right. Then last week on my way to class one girl came along and decided she wanted to walk on the left shoving through everyone, she tried to squeeze through the 2cm gap between me and a wall so I just ignored her and carried on, dragging her back squashed against the wall for about 10 meters before she managed to free herself. Grand Fromage posted:Today is the worst pollution I've ever personally seen in Chengdu and it's only December. Yeah, when I first went outside today I thought it was foggy.
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Dec 2, 2016 16:02
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Automatic Slim posted:Any missed opportunity to make someone lose face means you've lost face. This might be one of the best explanations of why you (as a dirty foreigner) can never live a semi-normal life in China. When I finished working in China I basically just handed all of my money over to my wife and she transferred it to Canada before we left because the lady at the bank said, "do you have a week or two to get all of this crap in line?".
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Dec 2, 2016 16:04
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Haier posted:I just looked at the AQI site and parts of Chengdu read 329. Goondolences to your early death. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Hey that's an improvement, it was over 400 earlier.
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Dec 2, 2016 16:05
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THE PWNER posted:but how meet cool people in chinar when all chinese are bad people face etc? Also, girls like this are a dime a dozen at those hang outs and they do their little swirlies and spinnies and ballet hoop-de-doops. 
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Dec 2, 2016 16:07
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The pollution is making my throat sore. I can't believe I have to put up with six more weeks of this poo poo before I can escape to a country with clean air.
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Dec 2, 2016 16:24
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is the pollution universal over there? you can't like, take a day trip to the countryside to take in some less toxic air?
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Dec 2, 2016 16:26
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basic hitler posted:is the pollution universal over there? you can't like, take a day trip to the countryside to take in some less toxic air? Shanghai was basically LA pollution or better for about 3 months straight. Now that it's colder (people use heating in terribly insulated buildings) its pretty bad in comparison but it's been ranging between 50-150 lately. Today my area was pretty nice with a clear blue sky and white clouds. The most beautiful skies I ever saw in my life were also in China but it was basically near Tibet so it doesn't count. Places with frequent horrible pollution tend to be near factories or mining areas. That said, last year Shanghai had some pretty loving horrible pollution. I'm guessing they just got too lazy to turn on all the poo poo they turned off for the G20 summit.
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Dec 2, 2016 16:36
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basic hitler posted:is the pollution universal over there? you can't like, take a day trip to the countryside to take in some less toxic air? If you get far enough out of the cities it's fine, yeah. Some places that's a pretty far trip though. I'm hoping that maybe this is farmers burning their rice fields and it'll go away fairly soon.
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Dec 2, 2016 16:43
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Hong Kong was pretty bad today in 150 range.
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Haier posted:It's fast, fun, I can carry it anywhere, and people usually get really scared and move out of the way as fast as they can. Shenzhen has tons of skateboarders, and if you go to the Civic Center on any Saturday or Sunday when it's not raining you'll probably see 100 of them flailing and not landing any tricks, like all true skateboarders are great at doing. There are always foreign skateboarders there, either on vacation or work here in the city. Within 2km of me are three different skateboard clubs that meet several nights per week, and it's people from all categories and classes of life. I've met tons of people that way and there always cool dudes to talk to there. I don't post much about it because it would dox me from the other places online that I do post about skatebirding in Chinar. I used to help my cousin go around Shenzhen/Hong Kong/Macau and film break dancing battles. I guess you can say I'm the backup camera man of his crew. SSSM - SPECIAL STYLE SEX MACHINE. The MC's in the tournament get a little embarrassed reading it out but everyone is out to have fun and end up dancing. I'm not a good dancer but I don't care. A friend of mine is in his 30's now and he lived to break dance. His name is "bboy rocklee" (yes, from naruto when he was a teenager). He still joins competitions and events from time to time but his knee isnt doing so great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_CFRwBABM4 He worked a variety of jobs from food and beverage manager, casino security, dj, etc. But he found his new hobby in cutting hair. With his cousin and a small loan he managed to open a new barber shop and is doing pretty well for himself. I guess like most people with alternative hobbies/lifestyles the mainstream folks always shits on them and I'm glad my friend Rock Lee is doing well. His real name is Luis and he's 1/4 Portuguese and he speaks 4 languages. But he doesn't really give a poo poo and just wants to dance, run a barber shop, and have people call him rock lee. Here's an interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0BlrB2UUhA shameless plug https://www.facebook.com/2legitcutz/
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Dec 2, 2016 16:55
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is it like a tattoo/barber shop?
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Dec 2, 2016 17:04
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My trip to Vietnam got postponed and I'm pretty bummed  gives me more time to prepare I suppose
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Living in the post-apocalyptic hellscape that is Beijing, it gives me a bit of dark amusement when expats in other parts of China freak out about pollution levels that are semi-routine here. Or even:caberham posted:Hong Kong was pretty bad today in 150 range. Which seems like it's about the default background level of pollution here. If the air stagnates for a few days it'll drift up in the 200-300+ range, if a stiff wind blows through it will be <100 for a couple of days, otherwise it seems to just hover in the 150-200 range much of the time. But hey, at least here in the capital we've got endless traffic jams and the suffocating presence (and related security paranoia) of the central government to balance it out!  
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Dec 2, 2016 18:19
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Haier posted:You had me at H... thats me
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Dec 2, 2016 18:23
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Dec 2, 2016 18:25
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Known Lecher posted:Living in the post-apocalyptic hellscape that is Beijing, it gives me a bit of dark amusement when expats in other parts of China freak out about pollution levels that are semi-routine here. Or even: People weren't kidding about calling Beijing Silent Hill huh
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https://gfycat.com/AdvancedTornBluebottlejellyfish death
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Dec 2, 2016 18:35
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I think this is the worst one i've seen so far.
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Dec 2, 2016 18:37
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Dec 2, 2016 18:41
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Oh drat. Death by I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Michael-Bay I thought push-bike guy was going to make it out but then he got slammed into the tarmac by a lamp post, set on fire (very fake-looking btw, although I'm not saying it is, just that spontaneous orage WHOOMPF...) and then run over by an artic lorry Might wanna throw a NMS or whatever on there It's a good lesson in why you don't do the "run away from danger in a straight line" movie thing simplefish fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Dec 2, 2016 |
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Dec 2, 2016 18:43
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I love all the stories but I still don't understand why any of you are in China when it's so bad, polluted, and enraging.
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Dec 2, 2016 18:43
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Dec 2, 2016 18:43
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Check out the cyclist that tries to get away, almost manages and then gets decapitated by the streetlatern. That's pretty messed up.
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Dec 2, 2016 18:45
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The finger of God is shaped like a lamppost
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Dec 2, 2016 19:00
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Fire looks like a CNG fire so it kind of checks out, that poo poo's pretty popular over there.
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Dec 2, 2016 19:18
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Baronjutter posted:I love all the stories but I still don't understand why any of you are in China when it's so bad, polluted, and enraging. Shanghai is pretty cool but it's like fake China so it doesn't count. Also not terribly polluted or enraging at all for me.
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Dec 2, 2016 19:20
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China is cool and good and hilarious, it's just not cool and good if you are there in the winter or have a child
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Dec 2, 2016 19:22
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Taiwan seems like you get all the good parts of mainland and none of the bad, I want to visit sometime.
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Dec 2, 2016 19:24
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Jesus, it just keeps going. Don't watch this if you don't want to see a couple people probably die, btw Edit: C-SPAN Caller posted:Taiwan seems like you get all the good parts of mainland and none of the bad, I want to visit sometime. It's cool. Do visit in the winter if you don't like heat and humidity.
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