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Saw the greatest thing ever today! I'm waiting to get on a bus in China town to go back to St. Patrick station and there is a queue at one of the posts. The bus pulls up and people start getting off the front and middle exits of the bus. As we start to get on the front, a Chinese lady (about 60 or so) tries to push right in front of a guy 2 spots in line in front of me (skipping the entire line). He brushes her aside, and takes a step up the first step into the bus and she swings her purse and hits him in the back. He turns around and puts his foot against her chest and sends her flying 5 feet backwards (her face has this look of angry confusion the whole time). He turns around and looks at the bus driver, as if to say, "are you calling the cops?". The driver puts his hand over the ticket/token slot and says to the guy (with a huge poo poo-eating grin), "this one is on me". I have never been so jealous of someone before. He did something that I have probably fantasized about a thousand times while riding the bus/subway/trains in Korea and China, but would never actually have the courage to do. God bless you guy who sent a Chinese granny flying on her rear end.
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Kicking an old lady seems a bit of a nasty over-reaction on the dudes part. But people like this getting any sort of push-back is always glorious because they are so absolutely shocked when it happens.
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Dec 22, 2016 20:29
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Baronjutter posted:Kicking an old lady seems a bit of a nasty over-reaction on the dudes part. But people like this getting any sort of push-back is always glorious because they are so absolutely shocked when it happens. I'm guessing that was the 100th time that had happened to him, and he just snapped. . . or he is a hero that spends all day getting on buses all over Toronto, kicking old Chinese ladies who try and cut lines. I'm hoping he's the latter. Also, I was sure the cops would be stopping the bus at the next stop, but I think everyone on the bus secretly wished they could do what that guy did so nobody bothered to call them.
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Dec 22, 2016 20:40
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Blistex posted:he is a hero that spends all day getting on buses all over Toronto, kicking old Chinese ladies who try and cut lines. 
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Dec 22, 2016 20:43
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It's the proper way to take out the trash, no matter of age, gender, color or religion.
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Dec 22, 2016 21:01
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Truly a story of elderly abuse to warm the cockles durin the holidays Punktur neposting so I cant copy/paste but check out „Doris“ in the comments: http://tinyurl.com/jssenf8
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Dec 22, 2016 21:42
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http://shanghaiist.com/2016/12/05/straddling_bus_abandoned.php This was probably posted earlier this month but it's still funny today. Anyone know if the bus is still sitting in one spot rusting?
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Dec 22, 2016 22:17
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Nobody had issues flying Korean Airlines? It isn't direct to HK, but it's cheaper than direct and I don't mind the layover as a 12 hour one would let me look around the place. Any tips?
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oohhboy posted:Nobody had issues flying Korean Airlines? It isn't direct to HK, but it's cheaper than direct and I don't mind the layover as a 12 hour one would let me look around the place. Any tips? I flew Korean Air to Japan, and liked it so much that when it was time to fly from Hong Kong to Toronto with my family, we chose it for the whole run. Wonderful service and it's so much cheaper than the alternatives. Twelve hour layover is unfortunate though as there's not much to do inside the airport.
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Korean Air is the best
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Dec 23, 2016 02:16
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The Great Autismo! posted:Korean Air is the best It certainly sounds healthier than Chinese air.
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My in-laws had an old box of what they thought was instant coffee. Open it up and there's a box in the box filled with little bags of instant coffee, looks legit. I was about to make some when my wife told me to hold on. Under the coffee were a bunch of plastic bags and a tube labeled "olive oil." She began reading the instruction packet and it turns out it is instant coffee, but it's meant to be used to give yourself an enema. The "olive oil" is lube. Nowhere on the box does it mention this and nowhere does it say "do not consume" so now I'm curious how it actually tastes. Also I learned a bunch of new swears when our taxi driver not only drove through multiple bike/moped lanes, but upon seeing a cop standing at the end of one lane, reversed at like 30km/h through 200m of the lane, almost hitting multiple people who had to jump out of the way. That's my china.txt for the day.
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Dec 23, 2016 02:22
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Imperialist Dog posted:I flew Korean Air to Japan, and liked it so much that when it was time to fly from Hong Kong to Toronto with my family, we chose it for the whole run. Wonderful service and it's so much cheaper than the alternatives. Twelve hour layover is unfortunate though as there's not much to do inside the airport. Incheon has free tours of Seoul if you have a layover and has a bunch of stuff to do in and around the airport. It's probably the best airport in the world and a 12 hour layover gives you plenty of time to do a day trip. http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_5_1.jsp
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Dec 23, 2016 02:34
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Blistex posted:I have never been so jealous of someone before. He did something that I have probably fantasized about a thousand times while riding the bus/subway/trains in Korea and China, but would never actually have the courage to do. Almost every drat day I have that fantasy. But you're just so hosed if you do it here that I've managed to mostly resist. oohhboy posted:Nobody had issues flying Korean Airlines? It isn't direct to HK, but it's cheaper than direct and I don't mind the layover as a 12 hour one would let me look around the place. Any tips? Korean is good. Free alcohol too!
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Dec 23, 2016 02:39
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Grand Fromage posted:Almost every drat day I have that fantasy. But you're just so hosed if you do it here that I've managed to mostly resist. Why not rock with their culture? Be one with the Celestials. See a doorway, beeline to it not giving a gently caress when you bowl over the pack. Why can't you just barge your way through? You're bigger (I'm guessing) than the average n o n g Face and No Why should keep you OK. We've adapted in Vancouver, this Is S.O.P. Try it, you might like it.
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Dec 23, 2016 03:32
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Sweet! Korean Air it is, done deal. It is really cheap too. That free tour is exactly the thing every airport should have. Thanks for the input.
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Dec 23, 2016 03:42
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I get physical in Vancouver with idiots not standing to the right on escalators or just being lovely pedestrians.
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Nucken Futz posted:Why not rock with their culture? Oh I slam right through them for sure. I don't cut in lines or anything but I don't put up with any poo poo. The fantasy element is the full on assault. I also have dreams of like one day a month, bus drivers are given permission and encouragement to hit anyone violating the law. Plow right into cars cutting them off, mow down a dozen moped people, whatever. Attach some big Mad Max cowcatcher thing to the front and go hog wild. Continue until people follow rules.
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Grand Fromage posted:Oh I slam right through them for sure. I don't cut in lines or anything but I don't put up with any poo poo. The fantasy element is the full on assault. It'd be like the Purge, but for lovely drivers and pedestrians. There's a shuttle bus that links the SkyTrain stop I used to live at in Bangkok to a shopping mall way out in the sticks. If you took a city bus, it would be about 15 baht (less than $0.50USD), but you would have to take a footbridge over the expressway since the direction the buses go use the lanes opposite the mall. A taxi would take you straight into the mall just like the shuttle does, but that would run you about 70-80 baht (still less than $3). I've ridden buses in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the city bus in Bangkok, as well as jockeyed for a position boarding the river boats in Bangkok while Chinese tourists tried to force their way past me on the dock, and I have to say I've never encountered more straight-up violence than I have when trying to get onto the shuttle bus to that mall. Where the bus picks up is at the mouth of a market, so there's nowhere to form a proper queue. The bus rolls up to the side of the road and everyone tries their best to guess the exact spot the bus will stop and where the doors will be. Then everyone who was wrong by a few feet squares their shoulders, juts out their elbows, and plows forward. I've literally had hands grabbing on my backpack trying to pull me out of the doorway so some rear end in a top hat could get on before me to maybe get a seat. It got to the point where I was willing to drop the $3 every time just to take a loving taxi and save myself the hassle. I'm a short tempered man and the last thing I need to do is headbutt a Chinese tourist or a Thai grandpa.
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I never dealt with a bus like that in Bangkok. The most Mad Max thing I remember is that half of the buses around Victory Monument never fully stopped, you had to run up next to the door and jump in, and if an old lady as trying to get in they still wouldn't stop, they just went a little slower. It's hot the too so you have a good incentive to get on the loving thing (unless you're Thai, then you take the non-AC buses to save a little money) and then here it comes around the arc and you start doing trajectories in your head.
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Yeah the normal buses in Bangkok aren't like that at all. It's specifically this one shuttle bus.
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Blistex posted:Saw the greatest thing ever today! oohhboy posted:Nobody had issues flying Korean Airlines? It isn't direct to HK, but it's cheaper than direct and I don't mind the layover as a 12 hour one would let me look around the place. Any tips?
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http://i.imgur.com/Rum0zSz.gifv Someone recently collided with some of those guard poles on the route that I walk. They were about 30cm diameter and were nearly flattened from whatever vehicle hit them. If anyone was standing there they would have been smooshed.
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dude grabbed the children in order to save them instead of throwing them to the car in the hopes they would soften the blow, must be taiwanese or japanese
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Grand Fromage posted:Korean is good. whoa whoa let's not get carried away here
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Drink the rear end coffee
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Haier posted:LOL. Somebody check baby helldump. I am sure this is on there now. What's baby helldump?
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Blistex posted:What's baby helldump?
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ladron posted:whoa whoa let's not get carried away here I mean it's not Singapore or Emirates but it's on the higher range of the scale.
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Haier posted:There's a thread in (I think) PYF where goons post other goons posts and pick them apart and get all hell-dumpy-holier-than-thou and judgmental from the safety of a thread most other people have no idea exists. Basically the forums version of this thread about China. Anyway, been thinking about y'all fellows over there in the toxic continent and wondering; how is the state of fusion cooking around the various metropoli? I've always heard good things about Singapore and HK, but what about the rest? Are there lotsa Chinese chefs doing actually interesting things with they food?
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Blistex posted:What's baby helldump? The PYF funny forum quotes thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3749412&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 Sometimes mocking other posters. Sometimes just genuinely funny stuff from corners of the forums you might not see otherwise. Sometimes help tracking down a funny historical forums quotation. PYF did not approve of our dear plunger.
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Chiming in to say Korean Air is good, and a 12 hour layover is more than enough time for a daytrip into Seoul, tour or not, since you can walk between a lot of sights in 10-15 minutes.
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Grand Fromage posted:I mean it's not Singapore or Emirates but it's on the higher range of the scale. my bad, thought you were talking about the people/country/culture
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Facebook Aunt posted:PYF did not approve of our dear plunger. What, why?
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I layover again on the return trip so I can take the tour the first time, get some information and free style the second half day trip. Either way the free tour is awesome and should be more common.BONGHITZ posted:Drink the rear end coffee
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Are there lotsa Chinese chefs doing actually interesting things with they food? Nah, too much effort
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Lazer Monkey posted:What, why? Iunno.  Sex-havers are icky. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3749412&pagenumber=114&perpage=40#post465451060
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Is it the dick pics thing?
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Anyway, been thinking about y'all fellows over there in the toxic continent and wondering; how is the state of fusion cooking around the various metropoli? Not a lot but it's around. Chengdu has some interesting parts of the food scene. There's the basic Sichuan stuff, which is great. There's also a debate happening right now about the future of the food. Some Sichuan chefs are traditionalists and aren't happy with the current food, they think Sichuan has gotten a reputation for super spiciness (which isn't really true) and newer chefs are trying to overdo it by throwing in too many peppers and huajiao and just blowing out the subtleties of the food. Then there are the chefs who are trying to go in the punch you in the face style. There's also a growing organic/farm to table kind of thing going on, there's attempts at increasing the profile of minority food since Sichuan has a decent amount of Chinese minorities, and there's a constantly growing influx of non-Chinese food. Another cool thing is there's a poo poo ton of... I don't know what you'd call them, illegal apartment restaurants? Apartments get converted into small restaurants serving all sorts of really good stuff and you can only find them by word of mouth. Like you wander into this generic apartment block and go up to an unmarked door and inside is fantastic West African food cooked by an awesome Nigerian dude. It's still all very new but it's neat.
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So chatting to people via tan tan is sexual harassment, good to know.. Also some china-thread lurkers chiming in on the blatant and monstrous racism at every turn, wow. Lazer Monkey fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Dec 23, 2016 |
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