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Phlegmish posted:The difference is not all Americans are creationists I forgot that diversity of beliefs is a uniquely American trait
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Away all Goats posted:I forgot that diversity of beliefs is a uniquely American trait The US, for all its faults, at least nominally pays lip service to and guarantees freedom of opinion.
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Jan 10, 2017 14:53
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nice to see it's still going, spent a lot of time there back in 2005
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Jan 10, 2017 15:03
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The truth is that Mao have brought the calamitous century of foreign domination in China to its end and saved the whole nation from the perpetual chaos. This simply outweighs all administration failures hereafter. This is already the consensus among all the reasonable and unbiased Chinese. They know what are the facts and not brainwashed! All discourses challenging this are basically malice. For those white worshippers who keep whining that many many people died, please consider 1. The percentage of male killed in the civil war of US. and 2. Thanksgiving thanks Whom? Actually it is completely hilarious
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Jan 10, 2017 15:30
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LentThem posted:The truth is that Mao have brought the calamitous century of foreign domination in China to its end and saved the whole nation from the perpetual chaos. This simply outweighs all administration failures hereafter. Is this a real quote? There's no way to tell. Bringing up the American Civil War is bizarre considering China had a civil war at the exact same time that killed twenty times more people.
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Jan 10, 2017 15:46
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oohhboy posted:This might be one of the few times shaving off metal might actually make the product better. Yeah but it's the kind of metal you shave that matters, also quality of machines. I suspect that the fractal subcontractor hierarchy of chinese manufacturing will bring this venture to its doom. Lazer Monkey fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Jan 10, 2017 15:48
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I love how they always jump to criticizing the "Unnamed Country" when faced with criticism of their favorite hill billy lunatic's administrative gently caress ups.
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Jan 10, 2017 15:52
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nickmeister posted:I love how they always jump to criticizing the "Unnamed Country" when faced with criticism of their favorite hill billy lunatic's administrative gently caress ups. It is a effective counter for the majority of (uneducated)uncritical readers though.
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Jan 10, 2017 15:57
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Late to the party but if you're looking for a savory bean dish http://www.npr.org/2013/04/04/175966697/a-simple-chinese-twist-on-young-soybeans is so goddamned delicious. It's just soybeans stir fried with ginger, peppers, and mustard greens.
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Jan 10, 2017 16:37
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In light of the outline in the schmorky thread im gonna post NONGS not really but god drat it, I posted earlier about starting to work for the chinese earlier in this thread and god drat it its all gone to poo poo due to us not being able to call the shanghai office directly to get some problems solved because that would be going over the head of our local chinese ceo and the hamburg office so we are hosed majorly and pretty much disappointing and losing our customers lol I dont think this is really part of the face culture? But when working for the Taiwanese it really was not a problem to contact the Taipei office over the Rotterdam office if there were problems but here we are now.
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Jan 10, 2017 17:14
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bamhand posted:Late to the party but if you're looking for a savory bean dish never had this but I've never know any Chinese from around Shanghai usually the only soybean dishes I've eaten have been just simply steamed, or fresh soymilk
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Jan 10, 2017 17:21
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Away all Goats posted:I forgot that diversity of beliefs is a uniquely American trait I thought belief in TCM was very widespread in China. If not I duly apologize for my lack of cultural sensitivity
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Jan 10, 2017 17:28
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bamhand posted:Late to the party but if you're looking for a savory bean dish Good finger food
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Jan 10, 2017 17:28
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Phlegmish posted:I thought belief in TCM was very widespread in China. If not I duly apologize for my lack of cultural sensitivity Your thought is correct. It is everywhere and taught in school and stuff. Anecdotally I have never met a Chinese or Korean person who didn't believe wholeheartedly in TCM. It also exists in other Asian countries but I don't have enough experience in any others to say.
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Jan 10, 2017 18:05
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Drunk & Ugly posted:well on the one hand thats ok but what happens if i actually slip because im a goofus and your mongoloid boyfriend tries to get into a fight with me just to prove he's real cool and to get laid later and i stab him Don't worry about it, then! Gosh. Relax yr butthole.
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Jan 10, 2017 18:19
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My boss is an elderly Thai woman and she was sick the last couple days. All she did was drink really hot water to try to cure herself. I mean, hydrating is always a good idea, but I kept laughing that that was her "cure".
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Jan 10, 2017 18:25
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I like drinking hot water now  our office is so cold!
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Jan 10, 2017 18:28
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Don't worry about it, then! Gosh. Relax yr butthole. Well, having to stab some fool is a big thing for some of us, sheesh.
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Jan 10, 2017 18:29
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Why drink unflavored water hot Like... Why not tea?
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Jan 10, 2017 18:33
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Glenn Quebec posted:Why drink unflavored water hot I've been asking this for six goddamn years. If you're going to insist on only drinking hot water put some drat leaves in it. Tea is good.
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Jan 10, 2017 18:37
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Glenn Quebec posted:Why drink unflavored water hot My boss drinks tons of tea, but not when she is sick. 
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Jan 10, 2017 18:37
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Don't loving no why me guys I want a real answer
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Jan 10, 2017 18:38
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Glenn Quebec posted:Don't loving no why me guys I want a real answer A real answer or the real TCM answer?
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Jan 10, 2017 19:41
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this story from reddit  quote:Non profit I was working with got together about USD50k worth of musical equipment to give to schools in rural China that we would then give lessons to. Took loving ages of going from manufacturer to manufacturer asking for handouts (Yamaha is loving awesome, ended up giving us everything + a few bucks to pick up stuff they didn't make). Then the real bullshit started when local governments decided that now they actually saw the kit we got our hands on it shouldn't be going to the schools we wanted to put them in (low income areas does not begin to cover it). They wanted the programme to go to the top schools in the province which already had plenty of instruments and teachers. In the end we managed to get them to hold to our initial agreement and we got the instruments to the schools we wanted them in. Bullshit did not end there...
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Jan 10, 2017 20:03
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oohhboy posted:The bandoleers are not bad by themselves, but what hosed them up was the Chinese were still using Matchlocks with loose powder, something that had been obsolete for at least 150 years in Europe. Because of the match if they fell over for any reason the power would spill and woosh! It was bad enough even the British complained about all the burning men. What's crazy is that the British would march up to a town/village/city/battlefield and everyone would be dead, and they would be totally confused as to what happened. The actual fighting between the British and the Chinese was more or less a sideshow to the infighting going on in China. Warlords would see that the imperial army was in disarray during this time and would swoop in and wreck their own people's poo poo to make some short-term gains. Also the numerous representatives of the emperor pretending they had the power to mediate and the British getting pissed that nothing was happening, and moving on to the next garrison to destroy. It was basically the Chinese lining up to get curb-stomped over and over, and the guy next in line would tell the person behind him that they were winning. Also, like you said, the "Nemesis" was a quantum leap in ship design. Since it had a paddle-wheel drive it could steam up rivers and had two pivot-mounted 32-pounder and four 6-pounder guns, and a rocket launcher. She was almost literally invulnerable to the Chinese ships and land batteries since she had guns that far out-ranged her opponents, and a hull that could repel any fire from ships fast enough to close the range.
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‘Is this what the west is really like?’ How it felt to leave China for Britainquote:When I told my parents the news, they were rather surprised, but both thought it sounded like a great opportunity. “Your father says he is very proud of you!” my mother said. “All your years of studying now make sense.” Then she added: “You said the scholarship is from England. Do you mean Great Britain?” quote:“I will be walking under a gentle and moist English sky soon,” I said to myself. “It nurtures rather than hinders its inhabitants. I will breathe in the purest Atlantic sea air and live on an island called Britain.” quote:The only place with an open door was a brightly lit pub called the Old Swan, where I used to spend my afternoons. I liked English pubs because they had a particular smell that reminded me of my mother’s silk factory in Wenling, with its heavy scent of steam, stale air, human sweat and scorched protein. quote:The fundamental problem with English for me was that there is no direct connection between words and meanings. In Chinese, most characters are drawn and composed from images. Calligraphy is one of the foundations of the written language. When you write the Chinese for sun, it is 太阳 or 日, which means “an extreme manifestation of Yang energy”. Yang signifies things with strong, bright and hot energy. So “extreme yang” can only mean the sun. But in English, sun is written with three letters, s, u and n, and none of them suggests any greater or deeper meaning. Nor does the word look anything like the sun! Visual imagination and philosophical understandings were useless when it came to European languages.
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Jan 10, 2017 20:13
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Is that lady tarded?
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"Another curious realisation came when I discovered that I used the first-person plural too much in my everyday speech. In the west, if I said “We like to eat rice”, it would confuse people. They couldn’t understand who this “we” was referring to. Instead, I should have said “We Chinese like to eat rice”. After a few weeks, I swapped to the first-person singular, as in “I like to eat rice”. But it made me uncomfortable. After all, how could someone who had grown up in a collective society get used to using the first-person singular all the time? The habitual use of “I” requires thinking of yourself as a separate entity in a society of separate entities. But in China no one is a separate entity: either you were born to a non-political peasant household or to a Communist party household. But here, in this foreign country, I had to build a world as a first-person singular – urgently." So she's that Borg data and geordi taught to say "I" instead of "we" and it totally hosed up their society?
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Jan 10, 2017 20:27
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Jan 10, 2017 20:30
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*assumes everyone is chinese* we like to eat rice yes
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Jan 10, 2017 20:31
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noodles are better rice is okay though too bad noodles didnt take off as hard as rice huh boy that'd be something...
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Jan 10, 2017 20:38
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to be fair a lot of cultures consume rice and it's pretty well liked. It's a staple food. The weird thing is it's not really something to brag about.
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Jan 10, 2017 20:43
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日 does not actually look like the sun. Being round is like the main thing the sun does besides being bright.
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Jan 10, 2017 21:00
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Mr. Unlucky posted:noodles are better rice is okay though no you're wrong but it's ok
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Jan 10, 2017 21:05
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P-Mack posted:日 does not actually look like the sun. Being round is like the main thing the sun does besides being bright. 日 looks like a cupboard or a polygon rear end.
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Jan 10, 2017 21:05
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JaucheCharly posted:日 looks like a cupboard or a polygon rear end. Polygon rear end is a good combination of words. Thank you. The pointy butts of Final Fantasy also thank you.
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Jan 10, 2017 21:20
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Mods please change my name to "Extreme Yang".
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Jan 10, 2017 21:26
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P-Mack posted:日 does not actually look like the sun. Being round is like the main thing the sun does besides being bright. The original pictogram was originally a circle with a dot or line in it fwiw. Eventually the circle became square and the dot became a line that went the whole way across. There's a separate radical/character that's a square that means mouth. Source: http://www.ancientscripts.com/chinese.html
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Bip Roberts posted:Is that lady tarded? "Oh my god, the West isn't a perfect paradise they have flaws too, Communist was right!" Bit of a simplification but holy gently caress who would leave their native country after 30 years for a foreign land without even having a basic grasp of the new language they were about to be immersed in? 30 year old unmarried Chinese woman wanting to be a film director? Yeah, that makes sense because her future in China sure as poo poo isn't going to be pleasant.
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Xelkelvos posted:The original pictogram was originally a circle with a dot or line in it fwiw. Eventually the circle became square and the dot became a line that went the whole way across. There's a separate radical/character that's a square that means mouth. Nowadays Chinese really isn't pictorial outside of like, 龜. Like I sort of get what she was saying but I think its not quite as different or unique as she thinks it is. You get into like Latin roots and stuff in English where words are assembled from the meaning of smaller components. I dunno, not really a linguistics guy.
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