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ladron posted:for real not the dumbest thing I've seen there.. Can you explain a bit? I have a feeling I know exactly what you're going to say, but I'm hoping to be surprised.
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BCR posted:Hot water is good for the healthy.
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Blistex posted:Can you explain a bit? I have a feeling I know exactly what you're going to say, but I'm hoping to be surprised. Getting a job as a phd in the humanities is very, very difficult.
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Do Chinese people still always message you and call you to ask "What are you doing" ?
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Arbitrary Coin posted:I wanted to say this obsession with college prestige and becoming a doctor is like the norm amongst Chinese/maybe Asian in general immigrant families and definitely is linked to cultural shennagins regarding face from China It's common to almost all immigrant families. Once you come from the old country and see how lovely life is for poor people and face racism from the native population, you want your kids to have a stable job in a respectable profession so they'll be able to say "gently caress you" to all the haters.
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Boiled Water posted:Getting a job as a phd in the humanities is very, very difficult. I wanted to know the story behind the "refusing to get hosed" part.
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I love how her expression is the same in both shots.
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Jan 22, 2017 00:48
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Baronjutter posted:I love how her expression is the same in both shots. I'm partial to the "I'm Elegant" shirt she's wearing
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Blistex posted:I wanted to know the story behind the "refusing to get hosed" part. hired at a "university", a week in I discover that they want me to teach kids too
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ladron posted:hired at a "university", a week in I discover that they want me to teach kids too Haha they did that in my first job in China too.
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hakimashou posted:Do Chinese people still always message you and call you to ask "What are you doing" ?
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the best is when someone asks me "what are you doing?" and im like "hanging out at home watching tv or reading" and then i ask "what are you doing?" and they respond with "messaging you" lol
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ladron posted:hired at a "university", a week in I discover that they want me to teach kids too Browse the website for the Education University of Hong Kong. They had listings a while back for positions you may be qualified for.
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I've noticed Trump anger is more commonly being refashioned as China envy thanks to the Chinese Century.
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Baronjutter posted:I love how her expression is the same in both shots. When money is no object to you, and you've never had to consider making your own, or it ever running out, then getting a new car and losing a new car doesn't really elicit any strong emotions, since whatever you could possibly ever want is just a call to daddy away. She probably had a brand new one (or an even more expensive one) to replace that one before those photos went viral.
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Imperialist Dog posted:Browse the website for the Education University of Hong Kong. They had listings a while back for positions you may be qualified for. yeah but then I gotta live in hong kong
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Haier posted:I've noticed Trump anger is more commonly being refashioned as China envy thanks to the Chinese Century. There's been loads of this sort of nonsensical poo poo over the past couple days. It's the left's turn to be irrational morons for the next few years.
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Fojar38 posted:There's been loads of this sort of nonsensical poo poo over the past couple days. It's the left's turn to be irrational morons for the next few years.  http://i.imgur.com/KS0dRMc.gifv
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I've been saying for years amidst all the "Yankee go home!" attitudes that you see from lots of US allies that is dangerous because these guys don't seem to understand just how much of the current world order exists at the whims of the US and it's vindicating to see the rhetoric change from "Warmongering Americans, I hope you decline!" to "Oh poo poo come back please." Also really weird to see people saying that we're at the end of the American century when apparently the US can alter the entire global order with a single presidential election. Yeah definitely a sign of declining US influence.
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Fojar38 posted:it's vindicating to see the rhetoric change from "Warmongering Americans, I hope you decline!" to "Oh poo poo come back please." basically a weekly event in korea
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http://i.imgur.com/qwcpuA2.gifv This reminded me of something. I would like to take a moment to say that I have done something just like this here in China while walking and looking at my phone. Luckily it was at sunset on a weekend and very few people were around. I got kinda bashed up on the concrete because the fountain was not a traditional pool-style, and more of an artsy fartsy thing. My phone didn't get wet, but my shoes and legs up past the knees did. The security guard that watched it happen didn't say anything, but I am sure he had quite the story to tell later.
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Fojar38 posted:I've been saying for years amidst all the "Yankee go home!" attitudes that you see from lots of US allies that is dangerous because these guys don't seem to understand just how much of the current world order exists at the whims of the US and it's vindicating to see the rhetoric change from "Warmongering Americans, I hope you decline!" to "Oh poo poo come back please." We all gone be that guy blowing up his ex's phone with desperate drunk texts at three in the morning but the ex is teh global elites.
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I was at some fancy looking hotel once with Chinese people and one of the girls said "waaa, so much noble." Cantonese people are literally the best people anywhere.
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Haier posted:I've noticed Trump anger is more commonly being refashioned as China envy thanks to the Chinese Century. It just makes me wonder how somebody misses China's focus on lovely manual labor or the socially conservative government. If anything this guy should be celebrating Trump pushing the US toward Glorious China's example.
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pkay posted:It's amazing how after a decade of people saying "Better start learning Chinese if you plan on being an executive in business, because China is going to be a big part of those dealings" the country went to "China can't gently caress with the US economically, they are weak". All while watching their jobs go to China. So their solution, Nationalism because what could ever go wrong with that idea.
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D&D is totally convinced that China would crush the US in a trade war because it's the Chinese Century
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ladron posted:yeah but then I gotta live in hong kong Exactly, we need to grow the local goon army Anyway I am sitting on the couch now. Why? Because the morning went like this: Me: *looks outside* Hey it's a beautiful day! Kids, get dressed, let's go outside! Wife: No, my mom is making lunch, what if they spill food on themselves? Me: They're 4 and 6 years old! Wife: ... ? an hour later ... Me: Ok kids, let's get dressed so we can play outside and come back when your grandmother finishes making lunch Kid 1: nonononono Kid 2: I will only go out if Kid 1 goes out. Wife: They don't want to go out. Here, practice this English poem for school. AN HOUR LATER Me: GET DRESSED KIDS. LET'S GO OUTSIDE. Wife: Can you not let them run around? We have a birthday party at 4pm. I don't want them to be tired when we go out. Me: It's 11am!!! Wife: ... ? So now it's almost noon, kids are still in pyjamas, and I'm waiting for the lunch to be served so I can take the kids out of the goddamn apartment so we can enjoy the sunshine, sort-of fresh air (pollution index is Orange today, sigh, but at least we can see blue sky, not like last week). I simply do not understand why getting the kids out of the house is such a bloody chore.
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Imperialist Dog posted:Exactly, we need to grow the local goon army Your kids are goons. It's a genetic trait.
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Nanomashoes posted:Your kids are goons. It's a genetic trait. Isn't going outside and enjoying it a "Western" concept anyway? I mean, I can understand why given the pollution problem, but it's still strange to think considering how landscape art seems to be such a huge part of traditional Chinese painting. On China and "their century." I feel like a lot of people in the West crowing about China's rise are very ignorant about their past and terrible their current government is for some reason...
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nickmeister posted:On China and "their century." I feel like a lot of people in the West crowing about China's rise are very ignorant about their past and terrible their current government is for some reason... I'm just salty, I'm in the midst of a multi-hour long argument in D&D with people who don't click on Something Awful's China threads enough. Like I said, it's the Trump effect. Trump said China was bad and wants to implement policies that will hurt China, therefore China must actually be good and implementing such policies will be a huge mistake.
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remember last june when china built a stunt supercomputer to generate headlines because it was the "fastest" even though it was actually a piece of poo poo we get to do the same thing again this year woooooo
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It's now 12:30 and no lunch yet. Apparently wife and mother-in-law agreed that they would have stir-fried niangao (new year rice cakes) which takes ten minutes, but later said because wife wasn't "enthusiastic enough" she decided to do the usual 5 dishes Chinese meal, so she's still chopping vegetables. It has now been almost three hours since I initially tried taking the kids out. *** Ok now it's almost 1pm, the food came out and we ate. As we finished and I got the kids' stuff ready like heavy winter coats ("But it's blazing sun out and the kids are going to run around the playground, we don't need it." "It's winter."), my wife reminded me that Kid 1 has not made a birthday card for the party this afternoon. So the whole morning when Kid 1 was playing around, doing math exercises etc while wife was watching Chinese comedy talk shows on the computer, it never occurred to her that we should do necessary things first and fun but unnecessary things second. Truly I live in the most Chinese of households!
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I think a problem with the average North American now jumping onto the Chinese Century Train because of Trump is that it's very believable to them and other gullards, so it's easy to spread around on social media. The regular lovely media can pick up on this and help promote it to get more views, and then it might spread further. Foreign countries will see/hear about stronger countries "worrying" about China and then they might jump on this idiotic bandwagon. Chinese propaganda, wumaos, and paid news can infiltrate more easily (as we see they are trying every day regardless), and then every type of Fox News style garbage across the world can push the narrative of China now quickly rising to Supreme Super Power while we're all left in the dust wallowing in amazing at their falsified/invented numbers and accomplishments.Imperialist Dog posted:Truly I live in the most Chinese of households! Haier fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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Imperialist Dog posted:It's now 12:30 and no lunch yet. Apparently wife and mother-in-law agreed that they would have stir-fried niangao (new year rice cakes) which takes ten minutes, but later said because wife wasn't "enthusiastic enough" she decided to do the usual 5 dishes Chinese meal, so she's still chopping vegetables. It has now been almost three hours since I initially tried taking the kids out. leave them all behind, come for a walk in the mountains with me instead
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Imperialist Dog posted:It's now 12:30 and no lunch yet. Apparently wife and mother-in-law agreed that they would have stir-fried niangao (new year rice cakes) which takes ten minutes, but later said because wife wasn't "enthusiastic enough" she decided to do the usual 5 dishes Chinese meal, so she's still chopping vegetables. It has now been almost three hours since I initially tried taking the kids out. Divorce.
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simplefish posted:leave them all behind, come for a walk in the mountains with me instead actually my wife says no
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