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Imperialist Dog posted:What does Fojar mean anyway? What is the significance of 38? It's an anagram for "Jar of 83", which I don't think needs any further explanation.
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BCR posted:This is a Chinese ad about human furniture and loving your family. I have deffo seen a video where they play the whole angle perfectly straight and am super sure it was FOUND IT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxUuU1jwMgM
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When china had the olympics last did they literally paint the mountains green so that from afar it would look more like a place where life could exist and less like mordor? I read this in newspapers at the time and can still find newspapers that say this but mentioning it in a different thread got me called racist and dumb.
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Zzulu posted:china is not a race quote:When the han had the olympics last did they literally paint the mountains green so that from afar it would look more like a place where life could exist and less like mordor? I read this in newspapers at the time and can still find newspapers that say this but mentioning it in a different thread got me called racist and dumb. fixed
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Jan 19, 2017 18:20
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More proof for my theory that trucks in China have only to states of existence. Out out control, and after collision. http://i.imgur.com/t0EYoud.mp4 I don't know if I ever saw a large truck being driven in an appropriate manner in China. They were always going too fast, following too close, and braking much too late. Pretty much every accident you see involving a truck in the wrong is because the drivers either didn't know the concept of momentum, or they never bothered to maintain the brakes, and when they stepped on the pedal nothing happened.
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Fojar38 posted:A guy on Reddit thinks I'm a bitter expat and also apparently reads this thread what do I do Click his profile and scroll down a few posts to find some screed he wrote about how women are all cunts and how he is haunted by extremely sexy children.
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Blistex posted:More proof for my theory that trucks in China have only to states of existence.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Even if the breaks are hosed, they should at least have the retarder to keep them from doing that though that mostly relies on not being at insane speeds already These are Chinese trucks/truck drivers remember. I would not be surprised if they either don't have Jake Brakes, or they don't know how to use them.
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Jan 19, 2017 18:59
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How many school children were killed in that accident? Any sauce on that?
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I'd be surprised if any of the people driving those trucks and getting in accidents were ever trained in how to properly drive one. It'd be an easy way to cut costs
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My employer is cheap as hell, so we get to enjoy a bunch of Chinese busses and for the most part, they're ok. Yeah, the guide seats are too loving tiny so if there was an accident I would break my skull and the automatic ones are kinda garbo with the gearbox (but that's all autos amirite) but we recently had another breakdown and the thing is that while this wouldn't have happened in one of our Benz-es, that's because they are old and manual and can actually be repaired on site, while the Chinese ones have all this electronic poo poo in them, which when it goes kaput fucks everything up and you need special equipment to gently caress with it. So I dunno; at least the stuff they export is not noticeably more poo poo than western equivalents of similar ages.
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Blistex posted:These are Chinese trucks/truck drivers remember. I would not be surprised if they either don't have Jake Brakes, or they don't know how to use them. I don't know, jake breaks are so noisy and unpleasant that I expect any mainlander would be drawn to them like either a cat or a mainlander is drawn to a beached carp.
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Haier posted:How many school children were killed in that accident? Any sauce on that? Assuming you're talking about that really famous one from 2011 18 Schoolchildren, 1 teacher, and the driver. 44 were hospitalized (64 passengers total). Also this wasn't a bus as much as a 1 Ton van with an empty back end so they could cram students in it "Auschwitz style".  Edit:  says they're not investigating the crash in that photo, but assessing how much to get the bus up and running again.
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Imperialist Dog posted:What does Fojar mean anyway? What is the significance of 38? i ripped fojar off of a maddox post like 15 years ago and it just stuck 38 is a number i picked at random to put on the end of it for rare instances where it was already taken
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One of the Chinese bikeshare companies plans on dumping bikes on the streets of San Francisco. http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-threatens-legal-action-bikeshare-company-rumored-launch-city-streets/
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Mameluke posted:14 years since hosting their last Olympics? Jesus if China's so hot to throw its money at Nike, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola, it can do simpler things "The emperor of China asked his court painter, «What's easy to paint and what's hard to paint?» and the answer was «Dogs are difficult, demons are easy.» Quiet, low-key things like dogs in our immediate surroundings are hard to get right, but anybody can draw a demon. Basic solutions to modern problems are difficult, but pouring money into expensive showpieces is easy. Rather than bury electric wires, officials pay to have telephone poles clad in bronze; the city spent millions on building a Cultural Zone in its new railway station, the design of which denies the city's culture in every way; rather than lower fees, the government subsidizes «experimental cities,» and so forth." This was written about Japan about fifteen years ago. I removed the name of the city in question and some stuff characteristic of a rich economy country, but the basic principle stands. Spending billions on a flashy showpiece like the Olympics (demons) is prestigious and gives the appearance of power and wealth. Spending billions on village schools, enforcing construction standards, and other low-key stuff (dogs) that actually improves the lives of the people doesn't have the same glitz. Enacting sustainable forestry programmes, education campaigns, and hiring rangers to stop illegal logging: hard, dog Painting the mountain green: demon, easy
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This is why China spends billions on modern looking high-speed rail lines while even first tier cities flood every time it rains because of insufficient drainage infrastructure Zoomy fast fast space trains are sexy and prestige building, not icky invisible sewer systems
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Fojar38 posted:A guy on Reddit thinks I'm a bitter expat and also apparently reads this thread what do I do i love how in this interaction, it is most likely two people holding canadian passports in canada that have two completely opposite views on china
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Fojar38 posted:This is why China spends billions on modern looking high-speed rail lines while even first tier cities flood every time it rains because of insufficient drainage infrastructure its literally referred to as a "face project" in china 面子工程
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The Great Autismo! posted:i love how in this interaction, it is most likely two people holding canadian passports in canada that have two completely opposite views on china they are australian lmbo
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My wife just gave me a copy of "Common Knowledge About Chinese History" a bilingual reader put out by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. It skips straight from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea to Deng Xiaoping's reforms. I guess nothing of note happened in between. The final section is titled "China as a World Power in Sports".
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P-Mack posted:The final section is titled "China as a World Power in Sports". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COTdMeKzlVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9mtn2Fnerc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4oebxLUHTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF6aypsGLAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypXZbdq00y8 china will grow stronger! 
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"With eight years of extreme hardship and fighting, Chinese people won the Anti-Japanese war."
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"Mao Anying died a heroic death at his working post in the campaign room. He sleeps eternally on the Korean soil."
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P-Mack posted:"With eight years of extreme hardship and fighting, Chinese people won the Anti-Japanese war." This is about the bid to host the 2020 Olympics, right?
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Fojar38 posted:This is why 
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The Great Autismo! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COTdMeKzlVI The first video is my favourite. The whole team rushes to try and kick and stomp on the smallest player on the team, but everyone outright avoids the large black player.
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after looking again to see if this thread pops up when searching for rene change, the third result was his disqus profile. i was bummed to see the following prognosis for that disease isn't good—three to five years before you become severely disabled 
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big time bisexual posted:after looking again to see if this thread pops up when searching for rene change, the third result was his disqus profile. i was bummed to see the following Next GRRM book is set to have a new character: The Lecher That Shakes
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BCR posted:This is a Chinese ad about human furniture and loving your family. You thought this was about appreciating family, like a government PSA? Hahahaha hell no it's an advert for a furniture company "Love your home because your home loves you" means literally buy more poo poo, not about parents' love That message about not making GBS threads on workers isn't a message for social change, that's just an accepted part of life that customers can relate to: everyone is abused by their lecherous boss and publicly ridiculed by their colleagues in a shameful face-loss incident. The real message is "furniture is important in your life and you should always buy the best". Furniture is people not to show the workers' plight, but to illustrate that it's always there for you and how would you live without it? The "Buy Imported Blonde Sofa" billboard isn't about how Chinese women in the workplace are treated or objectified, or native Chinese workers feeling threatened by their company bringing in foreign experts with degrees from real universities that will expose the worker's incompetence. No, that is to encourage you to buy domestic - you saw how sad that poor woman was after losing her job, you wouldn't do that to your sofa, right? And guess what, the commercial is for a domestic Chibese furniture company Really try watching it again after reading that. See if you agree (it's ok to disagree, I only watched the ad once). I think your cultural colourblindness got in your way the first time, and you expected it to appeal to customers in a certain way that adverts just don't in China.
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big time bisexual posted:after looking again to see if this thread pops up when searching for rene change, the third result was his disqus profile. i was bummed to see the following no known cure in western medicine, but TCM can help
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:no known cure in western medicine, but TCM can help That jumped out at me as well. "It's America's fault I am going to die!" Got to get that last little cheap shot in. Rene Chang. . . Rene Chang never changes.
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MisterOblivious posted:One of the Chinese bikeshare companies plans on dumping bikes on the streets of San Francisco. They'd be chopped up and sold for scrap in less than 48 hours.
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