Phlegmish posted:

The idea of an australian hipster doesn't really compute

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I arrived in Australia when I was 18. I was originally from central China, and then I moved to Shanghai. My first impression was "there are a lot of obese people." Like really, really big. I didn't really know what was going on. I guess the standards are different, skinny back home means very skinny.

Another thing, here there are a lot more people getting drunk and doing drugs. In China, there aren't that many people going crazy because if you take a lot of drugs or sell drugs the penalty is higher.

My favourite thing about Australia is hipsters with skinny jeans, who love strong lattes—no sugar—and they study philosophy at Melbourne Uni. I love hipsters, I think they are a cultural symbol. They have a lot of good ideas, sometimes very experimental. They are my favourite thing about Australia.

Hedenius posted:

Carfentanil. About a hundred times more potent then Fentanyl. Bad idea to mess around with.

Accretionist posted:

That's freaky.

Here's lethal doses of heroin and regular fentanyl (note the scale):

Hedenius posted:

Carfentanil. About a hundred times more potent then Fentanyl. Bad idea to mess around with.

Haier posted:

The turd behind me with bottles of oil began jabbing them into my back to prod me like that would make the cashier work faster

Jimmy Little Balls posted:

Young people are terrible too. Going to use wechat to pay for this 3元 drink, but I suddenly don't know how the phone I stare at for 20 hours a day works so it's going to take 20 minutes.

LentThem posted:

There are so many things that happen in China that look like people are deliberately being passive aggressive assholes to you, unless you know the culture and realize it's No Why, Just Y

LentThem posted:

Speaking of this, I have to ask you something as the India expert: Why the gently caress did men behind me in queues in India feel the need to rest their gut against my back/arm? I mean it wasn't just me, everyone lines up that way, but what the gently caress, dont they feel strange resting their gut on people?

oohhboy posted:

I wished the pollution charats just said "Crazy bad" all over China like that one time the US embassy hit it's limit of 500. It's almost unbelievable now it has pegged the meter at twice the level. Winter is a bitch.

Jose posted:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...t-a7350186.html

blowfish posted:

I expect there's a 50:50 chance of it being either "We can supply carfentanil . for sure. Lots of Laowais buy crazy poo poo from us" or "We can supply carfentanil . for sure. I don't know what it is or whether we produce it but I must not admit it or I lose face as a salesperson".

Invisible Handjob posted:

Ahahahaha. Brilliant.

I was probated and couldn't reply at the time but your peanut story viscerally hosed me up for a couple days

very clever with maracas posted:

Hey chinar thread

i ilve in myanarm and i thought of you today


the city municpality evided to start testing food stuffs thats sold around the city


Turns out most of the fried tofu you can buy on the street has formaldehyde in it

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In late 2012, as I was researching the latest news on trans fat replacements, Gerald McNeill, vice president of Loders Croklaan, which is one of the country’s largest suppliers of edible oil, told me something scary. He explained that fastfood chains including McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s have swapped out hydrogenated oils and started using regular vegetable oil instead. “As those oils are heated, you’re creating toxic oxidative breakdown products,” he said. “One of those products is a compound called an aldehyde, which interferes with DNA. Another is formaldehyde, which is extremely toxic.”

Aldehydes? Formaldehyde? Isn’t that the stuff that’s used to preserve dead bodies?

He went on to tell me how these heated, oxidized oils form polymers that create “a thick gunk” on the bottom of the fryer and clog up the drains. “It’s sticky, horrible! Like a witches’ brew!” he exclaimed. Partially hydrogenated oils, by contrast, were long-lasting and stable in fryers, which is of course why they were favored. And beef tallow, McDonald’s original frying fat, was even more stable.

McNeill’s company was a subsidiary of a giant Malaysian corporation that sold palm oil, so I wondered at first if he wasn’t just vilifying the competition. Then I called Robert Ryther, a senior scientist at Ecolab, the giant industrial cleaning company that services nearly all the major national fast-food restaurants, and he confirmed the “gunk” issue. “It builds up on everything. It’s like paint shellac . . . anywhere from a real hard, clear coating to a thick, gooey material, like a white silicone lubricant that you use on car engines, with a Crisco-type feel to it.” The gunk, he said, is the result of a hot oil mist coming off the fryer and then collecting on cold surfaces all over the restaurant—in mixers, ovens, and vents and on the floors and walls. Within a day, it would start building up. “Literally,” says Ryther, “we’d go into [restaurants], and people would say that we’ve been trying to get rid of this stuff for three weeks using sand blasters or hand scraping.”

JaucheCharly posted:

Isn't Heilongjiang literally Mordor this time of the year?

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Nigeria has confiscated 2.5 tonnes of "plastic rice" smuggled into the country by unscrupulous businessmen, the customs service says.

It is not clear where the seized sacks came from

Haier posted:

Thanks for reminding me about the poor quality of oils used in many food products.

http://www.westonaprice.org/know-your-fats/the-big-fat-surprise-toxic-heated-oils/

oohhboy posted:

Is that a yes or a no?

Mr. Nice! posted:

I never thought about this because I hadn't been frying anything for long, but I used vegetable oil for frying in my truck and the gunk is a real loving problem. Like wire brush and industrial degreaser to remove type problem. I yanked my fryer out of the truck entirely just because I was tired of dealing with constantly having to scrub the gently caress out of anything that was near it.

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5. The seed pulp and oil are then put through a hexane solvent bath and steamed again to squeeze out more oil.
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8. The crude vegetable oil is then put through further refining techniques including degumming, neutralization and bleaching:

Haier posted:

Haier posted:

So, if anyone else keeps up with Will Ferrell's career, him and John C. Reilly are teaming up again to make a Talladega Nights-esque movie about professional e-sports. I really hope South Korea and China make a biased entry in the movie and many jimmies are rustled.

Or they might pander to the Chinese in hopes of it being released here