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e: ignore this post, it's a stupid derail anyway
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Dec 31, 2016 16:25
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Jimmy Little Balls posted:some old woman barges into me as I'm getting out
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Dec 31, 2016 16:30
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Private Speech posted:e: ignore this post, it's a stupid derail anyway Modest Mao tried to warn us, but we didn't listen. Mao did nothing wrong.
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Dec 31, 2016 16:52
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The Great Autismo! posted:lol I remember knowing a foreign Chinese student while attending a top ten US News ranked university who told me that she was transferring. I asked her why, since she had been here for a couple years now and seemed overall happy and doing okay, and she told me it was because Harvard was ranked higher. That was her entire reasoning for leaving. I didn't understand that at all then--why would you leave while you're doing well, have settled into a place, and stand to graduate from a legitimately good school? Now I get it after reading this thread. It was all about the numbers, and a few places higher in the ranking is apparently worth uprooting your life for.
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Dec 31, 2016 16:52
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quote:http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan-usa-idUSKBN14K03S I assume that's usual BS posturing meanwhile Russia has actually manipulated US elections and hacked into our electrical grid systems. and people are worried about china good move on the russians testing it in vermont though. im surprised anyone bothered remembering it was a state let alone to check its systems
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Dec 31, 2016 17:13
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Also some parent stole my umbrella when I was teaching. I came down from the classroom when parents were picking kids up and it was gone and it was the usual Taipei downpoor outside and I walk to work. I asked the principle, who was in the room, in front of all the parents "Have you seen my umbrella?" "What did it look like?" "It was plaid" "Oh then no, I haven't" "Do you know what plaid means?" ".....no" I got fired like a week later on Taiwan's labor day lmao
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Dec 31, 2016 18:17
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Haier posted:In the two hours I have had four girls all ask me what I am doing tonight and if I want to hang out. I have not met any of them yet, so it would be a new experience. They are as follows: Dont fly to close to the sun. We'll still be proud of you if you manage to gently caress up only two things tonight.
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Dec 31, 2016 18:42
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Modest Mao posted:Also some parent stole my umbrella when I was teaching. I came down from the classroom when parents were picking kids up and it was gone and it was the usual Taipei downpoor outside and I walk to work. I asked the principle, who was in the room, in front of all the parents
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Dec 31, 2016 19:08
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Modest Mao posted:Also some parent stole my umbrella when I was teaching. I came down from the classroom when parents were picking kids up and it was gone and it was the usual Taipei downpoor outside and I walk to work. I asked the principle, who was in the room, in front of all the parents Lol, vicious
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Dec 31, 2016 19:09
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crazy cloud posted:Foods is fine, rolly-polly is fine but pillbug is also acceptable They're all right, it's regional, that's the point. What's the first thing that comes to your head? This is like "Soda/Pop/Coke" or how you pronounce the word "coyote"
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Dec 31, 2016 19:17
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I remember seeing a craigslist or tealit post in Taiwan that was a white dude who was like, hey it's my fetish to get people pregnant I'm a decent looking smart white dude and I'll have sex with you up until you become pregnant I don't care who you are or what you look like lemme kno that dude is low key ghengis khan and I imagine many of the men in this thread could have a significant effect on allele distribution in China that would gently caress up stuff for demographers 300 years down the line, if they so wanted to
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Dec 31, 2016 19:20
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Pirate Radar posted:They're all right, it's regional, that's the point. What's the first thing that comes to your head? I hate to drag the conversation further into words but i also hate the idea of a bunch of rednecks dictating where our speech goes. unfortunately thanks to assholes like me on the internet and people who can't be bothered to punctuate or spell correctly we will end up with some Retarted Vrzn Uv Enlish some day but hey, that's evolution baby, lol wtf Modest Mao posted:I remember seeing a craigslist or tealit post in Taiwan that was a white dude who was like, is his fetish also getting his hole poz'd cause unless he gets them all checked out routinely his harem of chinese women are eventually going to pick something up from their Boss man
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Dec 31, 2016 19:25
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Chinese cannot get AIDS.
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Dec 31, 2016 19:29
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Drunk & Ugly posted:I hate to drag the conversation further into words but i also hate the idea of a bunch of rednecks dictating where our speech goes. It's perfectly natural for a language to change over time and eventually become unintelligible from its previous versions. See: Middle English, Old English
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Dec 31, 2016 19:47
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from what i understand from this thread one could ward off unwanted sti's by dunking their junk in hot water for healthy, if one were so inclined
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Dec 31, 2016 19:52
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Praise the party's archievements with beats and rhymes
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Dec 31, 2016 20:14
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Straight outta Guangdong
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Dec 31, 2016 20:34
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The irony that they have to use western art to have any hope to decry the lure of western culture is delicious.
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Dec 31, 2016 20:38
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JaucheCharly posted:The irony that they have to use western art to have any hope to decry the lure of western culture is delicious. Or for another twist on the matter, -Hates black people and views them as literal animals -Worships black culture I guess some white americans are guilty of this too
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Dec 31, 2016 20:40
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I have to put that little disclaimer at the end every time I talk about china
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Dec 31, 2016 20:41
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You can always say that you poo poo on the mainland's culture but love Taiwan's - e.g. the real China.
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Dec 31, 2016 20:42
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Rich little chinese kids rapping is about as close as I can get to feeling cultural appropriation edit: also them wearing t shirts, jeans, suits. It's a culture not a costume
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Dec 31, 2016 20:56
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Drunk & Ugly posted:I hate to drag the conversation further into words but i also hate the idea of a bunch of rednecks dictating where our speech goes. We already speak a retarded version of English, unless you're secretly all about the thous and thys, dude. Rednecks have no less right to the language than we do. Ain't no thang.
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Dec 31, 2016 21:16
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looks like china is going to see the rise and fall of the middle class at a much faster pace than america http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/30/14128870/foxconn-robots-automation-apple-iphone-china-manufacturing
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Dec 31, 2016 21:21
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Relin posted:looks like china is going to see the rise and fall of the middle class at a much faster pace than america what exactly is the point of building robot factories in china when it would be cheaper to build them close to market ie north america and europe
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Dec 31, 2016 22:18
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Fojar38 posted:what exactly is the point of building robot factories in china when it would be cheaper to build them close to market ie north america and europe I'm guessing that the CCP is subsidizing it so that the manufacturing doesn't go overseas. Also maybe it's still cheaper to build them there because all of the parts that go into them are manufactured within a 3km radius of the plant. Shipping is probably cheaper if you're sending entire phones than ~50 different components in 50 different packages? Just guessing. Also it's probably easier to reverse engineer and steal Apple's ideas if the factory and people making them are still in China. Blistex fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Dec 31, 2016 |
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Dec 31, 2016 23:10
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China also has a heavily subsidized postal and shipping system iirc, which makes it an attractive places to ship goods from. Also basically no environmental regulations for your coal powered smogbots.
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Ceciltron posted:China also has a heavily subsidized postal and shipping system iirc, which makes it an attractive places to ship goods from. I learned this the hard way trying to return something on eBay once
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Jan 1, 2017 01:32
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Also I was eating peanut brittle today, it tasted a little off, then I was reminded of haier No more peanut brittle
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Jan 1, 2017 01:39
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Invisible Handjob posted:I learned this the hard way trying to return something on eBay once Rune face against them. 1 star review with a a description of the awful defective product gets the attention of Chinese ... I want to say salarymen? before you can blink. A refund is only a good review away.
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Jan 1, 2017 02:28
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Adam Vegas posted:Food is singular. You cannot pluralise it as 'foods'. What you can do is pluralise it as 'foodstuffs' (yes, seriously). Lol no You can absolutely pluralize words like food and people into foods and peoples particularly when what you're emphasizing is that you have several different foods or several different peoples. This is a practice that is old, common and established in every major variety of English, aka, part of the grammar. raton fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Jan 1, 2017 |
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Jan 1, 2017 03:50
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Pirate Radar posted:Deers and sheeps sound wrong to me and I'm an American. Like I said earlier, maybe this is regional? Deers and sheeps sound weird because it's a very narrow set of circumstances where you would be talking about different sorts of sheep or deer. Say you were talking about three very different species of sheep living on an island, though. Now saying "The three sheeps of Calumet island are not.." is preferable to "The three sheep of Calumet island are not..." Some people will avoid pluralizing sheep by adding "varieties" or something like that but in particular contexts that becomes wordy or awkward and also is less preferable to "The three sheeps of..." This is a niche use of the langue though and has no place in any but the most advanced sort of English lesson.
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Jan 1, 2017 04:03
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I will never respect English prescriptivism. The language is already an unholy mix of like three different languages, gently caress your purity demands. If you can understand What's said, it's valid English.
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basic hitler posted:I will never respect English prescriptivism. The language is already an unholy mix of like three different languages, gently caress your purity demands. If you can understand What's said, it's valid English. agreed
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god drat my av loving owns
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basic hitler posted:I will never respect English prescriptivism. The language is already an unholy mix of like three different languages, gently caress your purity demands. If you can understand What's said, it's valid English. There is a great book called the fight for English https://www.amazon.com/Fight-English-Language-Pundits-Shot/dp/019920764X It talks about the history of English and what mess the rules are. what I find funny is people often point to shakesphear for not following a rule, (while ignoring that said rule or convention wasn't dreamed up till long after he was gone) the people trying to make the rules didn't really have the authority and the few times they could agree on a rule there would be an edge case that would make it not 100% of the time rule. I got a scolding from old man gensplicer months ago about my feelings regarding the singular use of the they as a gender neutral pronoun. This is because of two reason, (one) I had a very mean and crazy fourth grade teacher named Mrs. Fent who beat this into to me, and (two) it happened mostly when I was in jr high/ high school, but people using the term "friend" and 'they" to conceal the gender of the person they are hanging out with. Hell my 16 year old cousin barrowed my apartment a few months ago, (I told her the place is watched by my neighbors) and she had a bunch of people over. When I was sitting at the table with her father and she explained what happened the words "um" "friend" and "they" complete with pause as she switched out "he" for "they" god it was annoying when she was done I pointed it out. and way yes English is a ugly bastard of a language and the frame work it rests on is annoying, I found reading daves book very helpfully in putting me at peace about English and its so called rules.
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Haier posted:In the two hours I have had four girls all ask me what I am doing tonight and if I want to hang out. I have not met any of them yet, so it would be a new experience. They are as follows: NYE HAIRE EDITION: 1. I said no to her. She said ok. She'll try to come visit another time. I said no because I don't want to get her pregnant. Shes said ok, she can wait on the pregnancy. I doubt her. 3. Was talking to me until she said she found out where the foreigner bars are. She stopped talking to me after that. LMAO. Foreigner chasers are the worst. They are like sponges that soak up all the retarded opinions, slang, and habits of all the dudes they get with and it's like being with "Drunk white-girl-Lite." I understood why her English was so weird: It was pure slang. Deleted. 4. She said she wanted to go out but wanted to be home and asleep by 23:30. I said it was the weekend, why not stay awake and hang out? "The weekend doesn't begin until Sunday. There is no need to stay awake on Saturday." Logic is a loanword in Chinese. Told her I was busy. --- Then there was: 5. 21 years old. Really weird with her English. Can barely type, can barely read. Can speak fine, but rarely speaks. She's the kind of person that says "yes, no, or OK" to everything, regardless if the answer matters. She's really confusing to me, but has bugged me to meet her for a month but our schedules never matched. She started ignoring me about 10 days ago for some reason. Suddenly last night she messaged me to ask me what I was doing. She said she had to work, no time to do anything else or meet. Then she said tonight she wants to make love with me. I told her I don't appreciate being ignored and that I am annoyed with her. She apologzed and she said she still wants to come make love. I said probably, hit me up before the last train. I said something else and got no reply. I knew she was ignoring me again. As expected, long after the last train I got "I was working. No time to do anything else or meet." When asked why she had no time, but still said she wants to meet tonight, she said "yes." 6. 22 years old. Was a yoga instructor but became a model for TV commercials and print ads. I added her on Wechat one night months ago when she was between boyfriends. She's the kind of girl that gets the guys with the latest Ferraris and who have huge houses, gets to go to all sorts of places around China for vacations and photos. She messages me at 2am sometimes and complains how much she hates all of these people around her and how everything and everyone is so fake. She used to live down the street but is now more than an hour away by Metro, so meeting is not a simple thing now. She messaged me asking me to go with her and her girlfriends to the concert at the bay. This is like the main NYE event here, so a very large portion of those celebrating will be there. Total Chinese pandemonium with hundreds of thousands of people, many probably drunk. As fun as a night with models sounds, becoming an ant in coughing, smoking ant hill sounds like hell. I told her we can hang another time before CNY. -- I went with option 2. She told me she will finish work at 6pm and meet me about 30 minutes later since her office is right to a Metro stop and she can ride to where we agreed to meet. 6pm comes and goes, no word from her. Before 7pm, she tells me she had work to do, and will be late. She then says she wants to take a shower. She can meet me at 8pm no problem, and I should wait for her at the meeting place. I'm not too thrilled about all this waiting, as I thought I was going to meet option 5 and didn't want to cut my time so close. It's 8pm and I am one stop away from where we will meet, and she send a voice message that she's standing on the train platform and it's 16+ stops to get to where we said we will meet. She might not arrive until 9pm, and asks if I can wait. I said we can meet another day. She sends me multiple messages the rest of the night apologizing and saying she ruined my night. I was kind of in a bad mood after that because I could have gone out earlier, or met other people, or made some other plan. I went and bought some food and wanted to go eat it in the park nearby. The girl put both boxes of food upside down into the bag, and the tops (now bottoms) of the boxes were super weak and opened and I didn't notice it until I got there and the bag was all slimy and everything ruined. That put me in a lousy mood, as my eating utensils and napkins were all soggy and food squished. You ever get ready for a big meal and you drop the plate on the floor? That's the kind of thing that will bring me to tears. I hate ruined food. LOL I tried walking for about 30 minutes, but didn't want to, so I looked on the map for the nearest Metro station. I turned on the street I was supposed to, but it was the wrong street and somehow I went completely backwards and 30 minutes later ended up at the place I started. I said gently caress it, went home, got my skateboard, and went riding. By 11pm the streets were clearing up and people were going home. There were drunk dickbags on the rented bikes swerving around, but they went by quickly. Countless men and women were being carried by friends as they were too smashed off one beer to walk at all. I had to avoid a lot of puke. By midnight the streets were practically deserted, just like a normal Saturday. I was sitting in an outdoor shopping center near some 24h food places when midnight came. Literally 3 girls said something and took selfies at the moment, and a few fireworks burst in the air. The rest of the crowd eating and sitting registered no reaction or emotion, or looked up from their phones. I bought some ice cream and rode around eating that. I've been wanting to ride around so late at night for ages, but worried falling down on the sidewalks in the dark. It was totally fine, though I did have to hop off many times. The streets were mostly empty so I could ride in the road. Whatever bad mood I had was cured and I got really sweaty. I rode about 8km at various speeds. 2016 I paid for no dates. My resolution for 2017 is to try the same thing, at least in China. If I snag a date in India, lol, what's $5 for a night out? Phlegmish posted:You've told us how they were still struggling with the Gregorian calendar, so it makes sense they'd attach less importance to this than to the Chinese New Year. EDIT: Can we just go back to speaking English pre-1066 already?
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jesus, haier, I love reading your stories but they make me happy to be old, married, and settled down. also I have an unfortunate amount of Haier appliances around my house and every time I see one I think of you happy new years man, and here's to be a better life for you in India
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happy 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9zuSTOE2vk
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