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*Trump turns to Bannon* "Which one, the dead hooker, which one has the dead hooker?" *Bannon whispers into Trump's ear* "The other one." *Trump, to audience* “I don’t want to tell you to this, I refuse to tell you, don’t let it outside of this room. I will not tell you that one of our great, great allies don’t let it outside, we are going to recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state, and we’re not announcing it until Monday so don’t tell it to anybody.”
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Trump actually meant to call the leader of Thailand, but figures Thailand, Taiwan, you know
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Don't worry, China has assured the world that Trump is a hapless manbaby, and can't be blamed for the underhanded trickery of the wily separatists.
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Same sex marriage, recognition from the American president-elect, and flushing toilet paper all in the same year. Taiwan, that's progress. http://news.thewildeast.net/epa-major-policy-shift-toilet-paper-to-be-flushed/
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Atlas Hugged posted:Same sex marriage, recognition from the American president-elect, and flushing toilet paper all in the same year. Taiwan, that's progress. Huh, didn't realize that was a legal issue. I always thought it was more of a "is this building's plumbing new enough to handle it because Taiwan bought all of America's 2nd hand and unused piping."
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AFAIK, it's not a legal issue, it's just guidance from a government agency on what people should do. Stupid, wrong guidance that is gross af and I'm glad it's finally changing. Maybe, just maybe, people will someday be able to drink tap water here in our lifetime as well.
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I got curious and read a bunch and apparently it's not even the plumbing in your building that's the problem most of the time, it's the main sewer lines that can get junked up, and flushing paper means they need more frequent maintenance. So the government has been doing the math to see if that maintenance is more expensive than additional garbage costs from tons of lovely toilet paper
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Anyone here have experience with orthopedic surgeons and can recommend a good one? My pt understands I have a weird rear end injury (old one that is degenerating) , and the two orthopedic surgeons I have been to have both done the tried and true arm manipulation for rotator cuff issues, and I have had an MRI on the front of my shoulder despite me telling them that the injury is not rotator cuff related and on my upper back, scapula, and arm. I don't blame them though. They see like 60 patients in a morning. I get an hour with my pt every time, and he is one of the best in Taiwan as he's been a trainer for several professional teams and is a Hong Konger who studied in the US.
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I'm friends with a pianist who had surgery for a shoulder/back issue late 2015 iirc. He was at the point of having difficulty putting stuff on high shelves; now he is a very active basketball player so I'd say it went pretty drat well. I'll check and see where he went. e: nevermind, apparently he actually had it done at home in the EU sentimental snail fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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No worries. I've had a sonography done on all the potential culprits for my issue, and everything is connected normally. A couple of doctors have told me its a nerve issue, which seems strange to me because I don't have numbness or radiating pain from my neck. Anyway, having an EMG test done early next month, and then I guess I'm going to go from there. Gonna head back to the gym in the meantime as I now know it's not a muscle issue.
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Don't gently caress around too much tho man, nerve damage is nothing to sniff at.
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Yeah, nerve damage is v. not cool to deal with. I have ulnar neuropathy in both arms. Typing isn't really an issue unless I'm holding my phone with one hand in a weird, stretched position, but play pretty much any instrument for too long, and half of my hand goes completely numb. Never had any pain, and numbness only came on once it was already a pretty serious condition. Quite a sudden onset, too.
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Yeah I really don't think it's a nerve issue. I have full range of motion and nothing is compressed as far as I can tell. I have had treatments to release trapped nerves, and they have been ineffective. Got a couple appointments this week, one at Taipei Veterans' Hospital and one at Cathay to see two orthopedic doctors. Gonna go in and just straight up tell them what I think it is, an untreated partial pec tear, and see what they think. I've found giving them all the information of my condition has led the doctors astray into nerve damage land when I feel my right arm is not fully attached to my torso at the front, I have noticeably different-sized pecs, a deformity in my right armpit, and several of the other pec tear symptoms. Now I have to hope I get a confirmed diagnosis and can find a surgeon who has repaired or reconstructed a pec before. It's not as common an injury as the knee and rotator cuff stuff they see day in and day out.
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Or else I get to fly to the US and go into extreme debt to have a specialist repair it. Fun times!
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Pandemonium posted:Or else I get to fly to the US and go into extreme debt to have a specialist repair it. Fun times! That's Capitalism! 
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The saga continues. New physical therapist says it's not my chest that is hosed but my triceps! Something that is rarer than rare. FML. But thank god for socialized medicine. I get to go pester two more sports medicine doctors tomorrow for less than $1000 NTD.
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It's me again, from ~2.5 months ago, a.k.a last page. I have booked my trip for 2/18/17-2/25/17. The Goon I'm staying with isn't much of a food guy, so if you guys could toss out specific food recommendations (other than DTF; if I want to go there, I'll take the 20-minute bus ride), that would be great. Also, how good is the public transit from the airport around 6:30am? Assume I need to get to the Ambassador Hotel. Ham Equity fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Thanatosian posted:It's me again, from ~2.5 months ago, a.k.a last page. I have booked my trip for 2/18/17-2/25/17. The Goon I'm staying with isn't much of a food guy, so if you guys could toss out specific food recommendations (other than DTF; if I want to go there, I'll take the 20-minute bus ride), that would be great. Buses should start somewhere around there. You can just grab a bus to the city center and the MRT will be open by then. There'll also be a bunch of dudes trying to get you into a taxi, which is lazier but probably a fine way to get home from the airport.
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Heh, now I'm starting to think of things: Googling hasn't brought up anything so I'm guessing it's fine, but I can get some pretty bad allergies when I'm around air pollution; am I going to get in trouble for bringing in OTC antihistamines (most likely diphenhydramine and fexofenadine) or pseudoephedrine? I'm assuming Ibuprofen is fine. I'm making a doctor's appointment for a Hep A vaccination; checked the State Department website, and they didn't recommend anything else unless I'm going to be spending lots of time in very rural areas or getting tattoos or piercings. Anything else I should be thinking about health-wise?
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Thanatosian posted:Heh, now I'm starting to think of things: I've brought in drugs like that before and never had an issue. Customs is pretty lax so long as you aren't bringing in heroin. You're unlikely to run into any major health issues in Taiwan. It's been awhile since a major bird or pig flu outbreak and none of the rabid ferret-badgers ever made it into Taipei proper to my knowledge.
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Yeah and even if they confiscate it antihistamines are p easy to get hold of at Watson's or Cosmed or a real pharmacy. Transport from the airport to the Ambassador should be easy enough too. I've gone out to the airport like that early before, so coming back should be fine. If you're real lucky - and I mean like "oh no that bullet didn't kill me it hit me in the pocket bible I keep in my chest pocket conveniently" lucky - the Airport Metro line might have even finally started operation then. The plan is apparently Feb/Mar 2017, but considering they've been incrementally delaying it since like 2012 I wouldn't pin my hopes on it or anything. e: And if rabies ever makes it up to Taipei they're going to have to straight napalm the riverside parks for all the stray/feral loving dogs there.
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TetsuoTW posted:e: And if rabies ever makes it up to Taipei they're going to have to straight napalm the riverside parks for all the stray/feral loving dogs there. Get Ang Lee to film it. It won't make any sense but it will at least be visually poetic.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Get Ang Lee to film it. It won't make any sense but it will at least be visually poetic.
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Thanatosian posted:It's me again, from ~2.5 months ago, a.k.a last page. I have booked my trip for 2/18/17-2/25/17. The Goon I'm staying with isn't much of a food guy, so if you guys could toss out specific food recommendations (other than DTF; if I want to go there, I'll take the 20-minute bus ride), that would be great.
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Thanatosian posted:Would it help if I said I was a moderately adventurous eater, looking for new experiences? I wouldn't mind going to one or two expensive places, but I'm a big street food fan. Night markets are where you'll get your street food on at. There's Shilin and Raohe (Songshan) that are big, popular, and conveniently located at MRT stops. Smaller night markets like the one by my apartment will probably have food more focused on Taiwanese tastes rather than that of tourists. Still, oyster omelette is a good choice, and if you feel adventurous, maybe try some stinky tofu.
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What's sort of a good baseline rate for private English lessons? I had someone ask and I don't want to over- or undercharge them.
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You shouldn't be doing it for less than 1000 NT an hour, 1500 isn't unreasonable depending on the income level of the parents/client. It's usually better to say you'll do a group of four for 2000 since everyone gets a deal and groups are better than individuals for language learning.
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Cool, thanks.
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1500 is about what you'd have to pay for an hour if you went to a language school, and 6-700 an hour is what you'd get paid as a teacher. From there you can work out exactly how you want to charge the student considering their circumstances. What I find useful is to go by the 1000 an hour baseline rule, and then depending on the location and convenience of travel charge around 200nt as a travel fee.
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Charging a travel fee is solid advice.
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YF19pilot posted:Night markets are where you'll get your street food on at. There's Shilin and Raohe (Songshan) that are big, popular, and conveniently located at MRT stops. Smaller night markets like the one by my apartment will probably have food more focused on Taiwanese tastes rather than that of tourists. Still, oyster omelette is a good choice, and if you feel adventurous, maybe try some stinky tofu. Also, should I order up a transit pass of some sort before I get there for the trains (likely to just be taking day trips on the inter-city trains, and using public transit inside Taipei), or can that wait until I get there?
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Thanatosian posted:Oyster omelette sounds amazing; I loving love oysters. And eggs. I've had stinky tofu before in the U.S., and liked it, so I will definitely try it there. Any other particular dishes anyone would recommend? Anything uniquely Taiwanese? I'm not sure if you can order a transit pass before you get here, but you can get an Easycard at Taipei Main Station that will pay for public transit in Taipei and inter-city trains.
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If you're going to do a ton of traveling on the MRT each day, you can buy unlimited passes for the day. I think you can buy those from the info desks at any station.
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Okay, since I know there is a lot of misinformation about how to get an APRC on the internet (partially because they keep changing what they want) I just want to write a big post about it and what I just did to finish my paperwork. If everything is correct you can get all the paperwork and hand it in just 1 morning/afternoon. Before starting on this journey, I would suggest visiting the local immigration office inside your town/city and make sure you qualify for an APRC. The easiest way to get one is if you have been living inside the country for five years, and have no breaks in employment during those five years. I had a friend who had been in their 5th year and their work screwed up the dates on the paperwork, giving them a 2 day gap between contracts. Their time started over and had to keep waiting. Just go there and ask to run a check on your Taiwanese ID number and see if there are any gaps. Once you know that you can do it, go get the rest of your paperwork. The immigration office also has a paper, one side English other side Chinese, on what you should require to get an APRC (which ironically has some wrong information on it.) The biggest changes to the old APRC paperwork required a criminal background check from your country or origin and a separate health check. The new rules are you DO NOT need them if you had never left Taiwan during your employment period for longer than three months. For most people, that shouldn’t be an issue. The things that you need to get to start the process are: Copy of current ARC (I had it on one piece of paper with the front and back) Copy of passport (the page with your photo and information. I also gave them the page with my first landing visa.) 2x passport-sized photos (the application says no older than 3 months but I had older ones and were accepted) Actual APRC application (from immigration office) 10,000 NT These are all things you can do yourself. What you need from other people are: Tax Statement of most recent year. This is a stamped blue paper that has your name, ARC number, and income from the previous year. I went to the local tax office (the same place you do your taxes,) went to the resident alien counter and received it in 5 minutes. Statement of employment from your current employer. Mine was a stamped paper with my employer’s name on it, including the length of my current contract with them. Local criminal background check. Received from the police bureau. When I went to the office the police officer standing outside, probably realizing why every foreigner would come here, immediately pointed me in the direction of the background check office. Fill out the application and pay 100 NT for a copy (and 20 NT for each additional copy.) This took around a 30 minute wait. After I acquired all of these documents, I went back to the immigration office and handed in all my documents. I received a receipt and was told they would call me in 3-4 weeks. I would then come back to the immigration office, turn in my old ARC, and receive a new one. Overall, this was a surprisingly easy thing to do.
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Thanatosian posted:Oyster omelette sounds amazing; I loving love oysters. And eggs. I've had stinky tofu before in the U.S., and liked it, so I will definitely try it there. Any other particular dishes anyone would recommend? Anything uniquely Taiwanese? Stinky tofu in Taipei is on another level. Nowhere in the mainland, HK, or even elsewhere in Taiwan did I find it as actually rancid and bad smelling as I did in Taipei's night markets.
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Hey taiwan thread. It was over a year since I was last there. :'(
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GoutPatrol posted:Okay, since I know there is a lot of misinformation about how to get an APRC on the internet (partially because they keep changing what they want) I just want to write a big post about it and what I just did to finish my paperwork. If everything is correct you can get all the paperwork and hand it in just 1 morning/afternoon. This is a Good Guide and matches up with what I can remember of my APRC process from like 3-4 years ago. It's generally a good idea to get the Blue Form of I Paid Taxes for each year; just ask them for The Blue Form after you do taxes, and they'll print out whatever year's form on demand for free. I think I had to wait a day for my Didn't Kill Nobody Check. Other than that, the Taipei County immigration office is now in some weird place in Zhong He kinda near the tax office there; it's a nice large building and they're helpful, but be warned that getting there might be a little confusing. For the record, APRC benefits are something like this: - you no longer have to renew your ARC provided you are in country for the majority of the year (over half, the 183 days rule or whatever) - if you need to be out of country longer than 6 months, you can notify in advance and you can be out for up to two years - you can take on any job, and multiple jobs legally with the open work permit card you get - you don't have to work necessarily; you just need to be in country according to the first point - you do still need get your APRC updated to your new address if you move
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duckfarts posted:Other than that, the Taipei County immigration office is now in some weird place in Zhong He kinda near the tax office there; it's a nice large building and they're helpful, but be warned that getting there might be a little confusing. There's no MRT anywhere nearby and it's a pain to get to, but you can just go to the Taipei one in Xiaonanmen. Does an APRC need five years of unbroken employment, or just five years of unbroken ARC-having?
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