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Modest Mao
Feb 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747
It's weird cause I've gone out with lots of Chinese and Taiwanese girls and like the weirdest thing was one called me daddy in english. I literally have no idea how Haier selects people because even using dating apps the worst surprise I've encountered was a girl with a big mole that she photoshopped out of her pictures, or a girl who got quite upset if the blankets of my bed touched the ground. It's incredibly easy to find strange and not end up in these situations

edit: cool more horrible snipes

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Modest Mao
Feb 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747

Fojar38 posted:

what is the most cosmopolitan city in asia

tokyo? hong kong?

hong kong by a large margin yeah

edit: maybe singapore? depends on if you feel like other kinds of asians don't count

uli2000
Feb 23, 2015

Grand Fromage posted:

Dunno about weapons but actually the coins were used to make scale armor. The Tlingit in the Pacific Northwest did it and I think it happened other places too.



If you're gonna wear your wealth, at least have some style like this player:

Yorkshire Pudding
Nov 24, 2006



Modest Mao posted:

It's weird cause I've gone out with lots of Chinese and Taiwanese girls and like the weirdest thing was one called me daddy in english. I literally have no idea how Haier selects people because even using dating apps the worst surprise I've encountered was a girl with a big mole that she photoshopped out of her pictures, or a girl who got quite upset if the blankets of my bed touched the ground. It's incredibly easy to find strange and not end up in these situations

edit: cool more horrible snipes

Have you ever met the kind of person who continually gets fired from very job they have, and when you ask them they always have some story about how it absolutely wasn't their fault and it was some crazy situation that came upon them because that's just their life? That Haier, but with women.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

uli2000 posted:

If you're gonna wear your wealth, at least have some style like this player:


Funnily enough he was robbed recently

mrbotus
Apr 7, 2009

Patron of the Pants
Wasn't Trudeau a liberal darling when he first got elected? Seems like his reputation has gone downhill pretty quickly.

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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nickmeister posted:

Wasn't Trudeau a liberal darling when he first got elected? Seems like his reputation has gone downhill pretty quickly.

it would be most obvious itt because he's uncomfortably into china

probably because of his father, who was also really into china

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

nickmeister posted:

Wasn't Trudeau a liberal darling when he first got elected? Seems like his reputation has gone downhill pretty quickly.

That's generally what happens when you make a bunch of very specific progressive promises in order to get elected and then drag your heels on implementing any of them to focus on cash for access fundraising instead.

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


Fojar38 posted:

what is the most cosmopolitan city in asia

tokyo? hong kong?

Tokyo has a lot of stuff because it's big but it's still very Japan. Hong Kong I think is the most cosmopolitan, it feels like New York City with a reaaaaaaally big Chinatown. Bangkok is also a strong candidate.

You can sort of measure cosmopolitan-ness by how much you get stared at and nobody gives a poo poo about you being foreign in Tokyo/Hong Kong/Bangkok. One that's definitely not on the list is Seoul, it's huge but still has a small town mentality for the moment. It's getting there though, maybe someday. Korea's more (legally) open to immigration than its northeast Asian neighbors so the possibility exists.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Modest Mao posted:

It's weird cause I've gone out with lots of Chinese and Taiwanese girls and like the weirdest thing was one called me daddy in english. I literally have no idea how Haier selects people because even using dating apps the worst surprise I've encountered was a girl with a big mole that she photoshopped out of her pictures, or a girl who got quite upset if the blankets of my bed touched the ground. It's incredibly easy to find strange and not end up in these situations

edit: cool more horrible snipes

Well sure if you only go after boring whitebread partners. Whatever he's doing is more 'dangerous' but less boring.

I've met girls who travel and have dozens of stories about stupid poo poo the stupid people they hang out with/gently caress, Haier isn't a unique specimen or anything, just an usual man in an apparently unusual place.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Fojar38 posted:

what is the most cosmopolitan city in asia

tokyo? hong kong?

No way it's not Tokyo.

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー

Outrail posted:

Down on some of the Argentinian borders they have globes with massively outsized Falkland islands and huge signs declaring that the Islands belong to Argentina.

I don't think many brits know or care about the Falklands. I don't think 90% of Argentinians care about the Falklands, I doubt the Falklands really care either because it's just rocks and bushes and sheep. Except for the few people for whom it's a very big important deal because reasons.

So it's not just China that gets lovely about losing realistically pointless but symbolically vital islands off their main landmass.

I assure you, ask any domestic Argentine about 'Las Islas Malvinas', and you'll get a 100% 'they belong to Argentina' response. I also found more puzzling (at the time, now it's just comical) that Argentine globes claims a huge loving wedge of Antarctica as their own.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Serephina posted:

I assure you, ask any domestic Argentine about 'Las Islas Malvinas', and you'll get a 100% 'they belong to Argentina' response. I also found more puzzling (at the time, now it's just comical) that Argentine globes claims a huge loving wedge of Antarctica as their own.

In another Argentine-Sino correlative boxing's biggest Argentinian at the present moment is Marcos Maidana, whose nickname is Chino, because he looks like a Chinaman.

Nine of Eight
Apr 28, 2011


LICK IT OFF, AND PUT IT BACK IN
Dinosaur Gum

nickmeister posted:

Wasn't Trudeau a liberal darling when he first got elected? Seems like his reputation has gone downhill pretty quickly.

He's personally more or less progressive, but the liberal party is basically just a giant ball of patronage politics and discreet corruption, so it's no surprise that they and the Chinese get along so well. Also the unofficial liberal party slogan is "run from the left, rule from the right" so they rely on people thinking they're progressive and then forgetting the ensuing four years once elections come about again.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Jose posted:

lmao i love haier's stories

Haier stories is like humor from the Ash vs Evil dead series can't make up your mind whether to laugh or throw up.

I'm glad that he didn't have peanut allergy.

Moonshine Rhyme
Mar 26, 2010

Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate

Outrail posted:

Well sure if you only go after boring whitebread partners. Whatever he's doing is more 'dangerous' but less boring.

I've met girls who travel and have dozens of stories about stupid poo poo the stupid people they hang out with/gently caress, Haier isn't a unique specimen or anything, just an usual man in an apparently unusual place.

Haier isn't into any of that vanilla stuff he's searching for a fivehead or a snakekin who's a freak in the sheets

Dicky mouse
Apr 11, 2008

"No No Not like that....Thats just silly"
So are 3 ways a thing in china?

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

Dicky mouse posted:

So are 3 ways a thing in china?

you/your boss/prostitute

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Haier's story is worse than those old Hakan posts in the halcyon days of GBS, and those were never presented as anything but fiction.

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party
https://zippy.gfycat.com/DrearyFickleHusky.mp4

Dicky mouse
Apr 11, 2008

"No No Not like that....Thats just silly"
I hope he was okay

Pretty good
Apr 16, 2007



Jel Shaker posted:

Funnily enough he was robbed recently
Robbed to death, specifically

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/16/indian-businessman-famed-for-240000-gold-shirt-beaten-to-death

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Dicky mouse posted:

I hope he was okay

Yea, the tank is ok.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Looks like self propelled gun artillery. So not a tank.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
http://www.danwei.com/university-diploma-scam-in-jinan/

quote:

The Jinan Times is a daily newspaper based in Shandong province. Today’s front page features a picture of a distressed student along with a phony university admissions letter. The headline reads: “68 ‘university students’ realize on the eve of their graduation that they have been duped.” The story is about a recently uncovered higher education scam, where a man called Zhao Lianshan distributed fake university admission offers to students who had not scored high enough on the entrance exam to get in.

Zhao’s letter offered these would-be students admission to the Shandong Institute of Light Industry, through a new pilot program for students who had not scored as well. They could enroll as full-time students for four years, and pay about RMB 8,000 per year in tuition. Sixty-eight students agreed to enroll, and it was not until June 3, 2012, four years later, that they realized they had never been enrolled in the Shandong Institute of Light Industry. The whole college career had been a sham, and Zhao Lianshan, the man who devised it, has disappeared.

As one student told the Jinan Times, “Until now, our teachers all claimed to be from the Shandong Institute. We only just found out they’re not affiliated with the university at all. So now they’re avoiding us, and not answering their phones.”

The fake school was officially set up as a training school on the grounds of the Shandong Institute. It was in charge of its own admission, finances, teaching and administration. Yet the letterheads were fake, and copied from the university itself.

When asked about the incident, the local police said, “we ourselves are victims here.” They would like to track down Zhao, but have been unsuccessful.
The students who were tricked are very anxious about their futures, and several are hesitant to tell their families what has happened.

Oldie, but a goodie. LMAOZEDONG.

Dicky mouse
Apr 11, 2008

"No No Not like that....Thats just silly"



So I assume the university was in on it right?

I mean wouldn't they just give them fake deplomas

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Dicky mouse posted:

So I assume the university was in on it right?

I mean wouldn't they just give them fake deplomas

I wonder if the teachers themselves were in on it or not?

Dicky mouse
Apr 11, 2008

"No No Not like that....Thats just silly"

Pirate Radar posted:

I wonder if the teachers themselves were in on it or not?

It was most likely a temporary employee, some crafty loawai ,and of course some dude who is missing

BCR
Jan 23, 2011

I love it. Operating out a shed in the corner of the campus no doubt, which fits the light industry theme, the baoans aren't going to give a flying gently caress who's going in and out. And for the semester project, you could do heres a old beater car, take it apart and put it back together again.

I have so many questions for the students who took this scam. :allears:

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

BCR posted:

I love it. Operating out a shed in the corner of the campus no doubt, which fits the light industry theme, the baoans aren't going to give a flying gently caress who's going in and out. And for the semester project, you could do heres a old beater car, take it apart and put it back together again.

I have so many questions for the students who took this scam. :allears:

NSFW
code:
http://i.imgur.com/NdeZsWr.gifv

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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pla war games lookin good

mrbotus
Apr 7, 2009

Patron of the Pants
I'm trying to understand why they would continue the scam for four years? Did they actually have fake classes for four years? That seems like a big risk for about 80 grand USD a year.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

nickmeister posted:

I'm trying to understand why they would continue the scam for four years? Did they actually have fake classes for four years? That seems like a big risk for about 80 grand USD a year.

china.txt

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2054171/forty-six-chinese-groups-malaysia-affirm-support-china

quote:

“Through this declaration, we can affirm that the Malaysia-China bilateral cooperation is built on frankness and equality for mutual benefit. We insist on the principle of moderation, peace and openness, and strongly oppose any extreme and malicious comment or action that undermines our bilateral friendship,” he said.

In his speech, Liow also decried the irresponsible and negative remarks over the Prime Minister’s recent visit to China, which saw the highest investments from China, adding that this would create unnecessary hate and conflict.
MCA leaders, think-tanks and professionals, he added, had immediately refuted such claims with facts and figures.

“But that is not enough. We need to unite the strength of all Chinese groups to support the Government’s efforts in pushing for the bilateral cooperation. Hence, the declaration was born,” he said here yesterday.

Are all these old fat guys from the Mainland? Why so much preparatory butthurt if someone talks poo poo?

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

nickmeister posted:

Wasn't Trudeau a liberal darling when he first got elected? Seems like his reputation has gone downhill pretty quickly.

The forums are full of NDP supporters who voted for him to get the Conservatives out and then acted all shocked when he didn't implement full communism now

mrbotus
Apr 7, 2009

Patron of the Pants

Fallen Hamprince posted:

The forums are full of NDP supporters who voted for him to get the Conservatives out and then acted all shocked when he didn't implement full communism now

I could have sworn a year and a half ago (maybe two?) half of Youtube was making GBS threads themselves in rage over Canada's "sjw" prime minister who had the gall to have non-white people on his cabinet. But it turns out he's not just another shill, but one who's stupid enough to cozy up to the CCP.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

nickmeister posted:

I could have sworn a year and a half ago (maybe two?) half of Youtube was making GBS threads themselves in rage over Canada's "sjw" prime minister who had the gall to have non-white people on his cabinet. But it turns out he's not just another shill, but one who's stupid enough to cozy up to the CCP.

Well compared to Xi, would Trump be any better/safer/saner?

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Xelkelvos posted:

Well compared to Xi, would Trump be any better/safer/saner?

Yes. Absolutely yes. are you insane?

Hackers film 1995
Nov 4, 2009

Hack the planet!

trump participates in face culture too. could be a coin flip

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Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Wiggles Von Huggins posted:

trump participates in face culture too. could be a coin flip

trumps face culture involves making GBS threads on other people, so it will end badly/hilariously either way

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