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Jimmy Little Balls
Aug 23, 2009
Me and my girlfriend have a venue we rent out for private parties. One night some of the guests got too drunk started smashing stuff, my girlfriend told them to stop so they started smashing more stuff. Called the police and they didn't like that, some girl slapped my girlfriend, so my girlfriend grabbed her by the hair and started smashing bottles into her face and it all kicked off. 20 vs 2, we won, my girlfriend is loving vicious. Police don't really give a poo poo here, they put you in a room to sort it out yourselves, if you haven't after a few hours they'll get involved. So had to sit around at the police station til about 5am before they gave us a few thoasand kuai.

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BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

what kind of parties do you throw?

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

aeglus posted:

For the guy thinking about Beijing: don't, that's not enough money to support a family. I'm single and don't have any expenses other than food/drinks and I get by fine but with your degree you'd be much better off at home even if it's not as adventurous.


Did you see only like 2 fights or something? Vast majority of fights I've seen in Korea literally were just slapping and flailing around and hoping the other person would accidentally leave a mark so that they can get blood money.

I'm only counting actual fights, and not +40 year old guys puffing up their chests and putting on a show. Then again the majority of my time hanging out in areas where fights happened had a younger crowd (Dongducheon, and the club area of Daejeon).

mrbotus
Apr 7, 2009

Patron of the Pants
Speaking of Chinese islands, has anyone ever been to Hainan? It's a big island, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information about it.


Haier posted:

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5phjg9/kellyanne_conway_spicer_gave_alternative_facts_on/dcrdfgn/?st=iy99x3xr&sh=83b411f1
And finally, I was again in the designated bike area, riding in the flow of the bikes all moving one direction. People were mostly segregated on the proper sides of the path, so traffic was moving smoothly in either direction. A family of four were all on rented bikes coming towards us, with one of the kids riding against traffic. There was plenty of space for the kid to get out of the way, but instead the kid chose to go forward while the parents said nothing. She forced an old woman on a bike off the path, a mom with a stroller, and one more person on a bike. I decided to play chicken and the kid had huge eyes when she saw it was a foreigner coming at her. I stopped first and her tire hit my board, and I stood there with my arms up saying "What are you doing?" Her mom just started laughing. This kid actually also said "sorry" in English. I don't get it. Like, somewhere in their minds they all know what they are doing is stupid and inconveniences others, but who cares, right?

They know they're acting stupid, but it's only embarrassing when an outsider sees them doing it. My family and I are slobs and have weird habits, but it's only awkward when an outsider comes to our home. Same thing, really.



Where is this from? If it's the future, it's more likely to be "Juan" than "Johnny," although I'm not sure if China would be in any position to donate to America, unless they've all moved to the moon in this one.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Best Koreans commit 100%

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

https://twitter.com/R4nd4hl/status/822919250805399553

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


BONGHITZ posted:

what kind of parties do you throw?

parties i wanna be at

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party

nickmeister posted:

Where is this from? If it's the future, it's more likely to be "Juan" than "Johnny," although I'm not sure if China would be in any position to donate to America, unless they've all moved to the moon in this one.

The fourth episode of Incorporated. I had to :rolleyes: when it cold opened.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

nickmeister posted:

They know they're acting stupid, but it's only embarrassing when an outsider sees them doing it. My family and I are slobs and have weird habits, but it's only awkward when an outsider comes to our home. Same thing, really.
This makes sense. It's the same feeling I get now when I go to my boss's house and the grandparents are watching Trump on the news channel and give me this look. I will write more about them another time, because they deserve it.
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I figure this thread needs some shaking up with a little bit of India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...25.cms?from=mdr

quote:

LUDHIANA: A 16-year-old boy from Ludhiana has been detained for killing a nine-year-old boy, chopping his body into six pieces, eating the flesh and drinking the blood. Deepu Kumar had gone missing on Monday. His beheaded body was found the next day, dumped in a vacant plot in the city's Dugri area.

Both the accused and the victim are children of migrant labourers living in the same lane. Police said that after killing the boy, the accused, who is a class VIII student, came home and behaved normally. He even cooked food for his father as his mother was away in Chandigarh with his elder brother.
...
Deputy commissioner of police Bhupinder Singh said, "This is a case of cannibalism as the boy craves for human flesh. He told us that he would often want to eat raw chicken. At times he even craved to eat his own limbs, he said."

Officials have taken the boy for medical and psychological tests.

The boy told police that around 1.40 pm on Monday, he took Deepu home on the pretext of giving him some kite string. At the time, their parents were at work. The accused first strangled Deepu and then cut him into pieces with a sharp gardening tool inside the bathroom after removing his clothes. Later, he put the body parts in polybags and carried them on his bicycle to dump them. He extracted the boy's heart and threw it in his school campus. He said he hated his teachers and wanted the school to get a bad name. Police recovered the heart under a water tank.

You know... I have a hunch that Indian food is much tastier than human flesh, and now I need to find this kid and get evidence towards this idea.

EDIT:

quote:

I think this boy is from a Muslim background. and may be a fan of Zakir naik. true Hindus won't do anything horrible like this. these kinds of crime suit's only for Muslims. because we can see what's happening in Arab country's.
Vishnu bless you, Times of India comments. Naik is a retard, but the millennia of Hindu Vs. Muslim hate in India is real.

Haier fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Jan 23, 2017

aeglus
Jul 13, 2003

WEEK 1 - RETIRED

Blistex posted:

I'm only counting actual fights, and not +40 year old guys puffing up their chests and putting on a show. Then again the majority of my time hanging out in areas where fights happened had a younger crowd (Dongducheon, and the club area of Daejeon).

Oh nevermind they definitely throw down there. Daegu people also shouldn't start poo poo since they also tend to fight for real. Actually pretty much anywhere south of Seoul so I guess I realized I'm pretty wrong for half of Korea in retrospect.

In comparison Hongdae is slap fights and sometimes hilarious bits where people break bottles and then slip and fall on boiling hot pots in the process, Itaewon is foreigners starting fights with other foreigners and Gangnam can be iffy but worst I saw was a guy getting bottled pretty bad in a big club though he had it coming.

aeglus fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jan 23, 2017

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Beachcomber posted:

Out of curiosity, were you rewarded or banned for your chivalry?

Neither.

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4

Beachcomber posted:

Out of curiosity, were you rewarded or banned for your chivalry?

People rose and clapped slowly into a maddening crescendo of jubilation at his heroic defense against Korean Racism.

E_P
Feb 22, 2003

In my first month in Korea I was getting some food with a weirdo brit expat (I later found out he was super into trains and nonstop posted about how good brexit is) who lived around my hood. On the way back I saw 2 sober 40ish Korean guys beating the absolute dogshit out of a completely shitfaced dude while a woman cried out hysterically. I am talking full force face punches and slamming his head into a car door and leaving dents. Eventually one the guys cocked back and accidentally elbowed the woman which put an end to the beat down. I thought Korea was gonna be off the loving chain after that, alas, 5 years later I aint seen anything I would even call a fight since.

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
That's a pretty good one though.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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"why do we keep losing voters?" wondered the davos billionaires aloud between long bouts of sucking xi jinpings dick

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006


So, again, is this dude just entirely ignorant of China's hilariously protectionist trade policies?

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

he's a "software innovatoure" with a creepy stare so yes.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Glenn Quebec posted:

People rose and clapped slowly into a maddening crescendo of jubilation at his heroic defense against Korean Racism.

Thanks for the memes Redditor

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

E_P posted:

In my first month in Korea I was getting some food with a weirdo brit expat (I later found out he was super into trains and nonstop posted about how good brexit is) who lived around my hood. On the way back I saw 2 sober 40ish Korean guys beating the absolute dogshit out of a completely shitfaced dude while a woman cried out hysterically. I am talking full force face punches and slamming his head into a car door and leaving dents. Eventually one the guys cocked back and accidentally elbowed the woman which put an end to the beat down. I thought Korea was gonna be off the loving chain after that, alas, 5 years later I aint seen anything I would even call a fight since.

What about your living soul vs the hagwon nation??

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
Goodbye China goons. Chinese govt is on the offensive against VPNs.

bongwizzard
May 19, 2005

Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
"Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head"
Grimey Drawer

The Great Autismo! posted:

actually the best countries are norway, sweden, finland, iceland, canada, usa, russia and the UK i think??

So looks like it's time for Russia and the USA to divvy up the world agin.

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always


half of those scenes aren't even the US. the 'coastal cities fell' scenes are from the London riots in 2011 when some cops shot a guy and everyone flipped over it. and the next scenes are after a hurricane or something? it must be some self aware parody surely

e: ok I retract all that and instead submit a lol

kecske fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jan 23, 2017

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

kecske posted:

half of those scenes aren't even the US. the 'coastal cities fell' scenes are from the London riots in 2011 when some cops shot a guy and everyone flipped over it. and the next scenes are after a hurricane or something? it must be some self aware parody surely

e: ok I retract all that and instead submit a lol

It's being broadcast on Show Case, so I'm 99% sure this is the correct.

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party
Guys that scene is from a dumb low budget show on syfy. Please don't take it seriously.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Glenn Quebec posted:

Goodbye China goons. Chinese govt is on the offensive against VPNs.
Where did you see this?

As I have said/complained before, the free VPN extension for Chrome called "ZenMate" works about 1000000000X faster and more stable than paid VypyrVPN that I have. I pretty much only use Vypyr now to download torrents or update software. Very disappointed in it.

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
It was either a BBC or Reuters article talking about how the interior ministry or whatever is going to target VPNs.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler
I was putting lotion on my wife to prevent stretch marks during pregnancy (you don't normally start at 5 weeks, but I'm not complaining) and thought about (the idea of) moving to China with our baby. I obviously would never consider it, but I thought it would be interesting to get her perspective on it. Her reply sort of surprised me in it's directness.

"Nope! That would be a very bad idea for a developing baby to be exposed to all of that pollution, and what if he/she got sick? Where would we take it? I don't trust . . . " (she trailed off as something got interesting in her card game on her phone)

Imperialist Dog
Oct 21, 2008

"I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
\
:backtowork:
Haha, with a 7m rise in sea level, Hong Kong loses the airport and Tin Shui Wai, which is a district that used to be flooded farms and now houses poor people in public housing. Sad, but manageable.

Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta cities are completely hosed.

Anyway, picture time.

A few days back I had to go to Southern District (the southern half of Hong Kong Island) for a bagpiping job. It was in a factory estate; basically, think of a giant apartment block, but instead of having flats to people to live in, each flat is a workshop or factory manufacturing or storing something, with huge cargo lifts to move products from the 25th floor to the loading dock. As manufacturing moved out of Hong Kong, many of these spaces are taken over by entrepreneurs (and families looking for a place to live that is bigger than a shoebox; naturally, the government has deemed these illegal). One of these spaces had been turned into a restaurant by an Israeli, with HK and Filipina staff, and the restaurant was booked by a Scottish architect who had spent the previous 20 years in Singapore.

You meet interesting people here.



When I got off the bus, I noticed this written in correction fluid. It says "Insect Wen Jiabao" and is an insult to the former Chinese Premier, who had some "quiet" business connections in Hong Kong and is yet another target in Xi Jinping's anti-graft campaign, I think. There's a misshapen umbrella above it so it's probably from 2014. Also, the final simplified character is written incorrectly as it's missing the droplet in the 宝.



I just thought this was funny. The management will be annoyed if you call the police if you see someone posting something up.



On Sunday I was in Tsuen Wan. Originally a sleepy Hakka village, it's grown into a major shopping district and is the final stop on the MTR's red Tsuen Wan Line. Here are what I think are postwar buildings; quick concrete that served a purpose as Hong Kong rebuilt after the war and dealt with the flood of refugees and capitalists fleeing China. I find it odd that the windows have been concreted up.



Yesterday I went walking in Kowloon Tong. After the construction of the railway line linking Kowloon with Canton (Guangzhou), the area became very popular with merchants as it was a quick walk to the train station that would take them to their operations in China (until the border closed in 1950 or so it was very common for people to go back and forth between Hong Kong and China). The area became quite rich. Here is a Buddhist temple that shows off some material wealth.



For culture shows, how about Cantonese Opera: Mao Zedong?



That's what Kowloon Tong looks like now. Here's an original house, meant for a merchant and family, built in combination Chinese-Western style that was popular at the beginning of the 20th century. The whole area used to be full of houses like this; now they are rare and often behind high walls.



Some of the properties have been turned into love hotels! There's drive-in space so you can enjoy fun times with your mistress or, if you're a typical Hong Kong family, get away from your parents and your children with your husband/wife.



Kowloon Tong is full of quiet back alleys running behind the houses and along the railway line. They're quite fun to explore. Here's an old telephone pole with Japanese-style wire chaos.



Going down one of the alleys, I found ... an empty lot! Huge trees and the remains of a tile floor from a big house sitting empty in one of the most expensive areas of Kowloon. What gives? My lawyer friend says it's probably a property dispute between two branches of a rich family; they would rather let the land go idle out of spite instead of reaching a compromise. The wall has crumbled in parts and you can go right in. I know goons have special skills regarding construction, perhaps we could construct a Goonfort; the electrical box for the lot is operational.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

What does a factory estate look like? I can't imagine a 25 floor factory. I guess probably just like a really lovely class D office building?

Imperialist Dog
Oct 21, 2008

"I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
\
:backtowork:
Fun fact: you know how the government will build public housing, offering reduced rents etc? In Hong Kong, the colonial government built public factory estates. Some of them are still active today! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_factory_estates_in_Hong_Kong



Here's an older industrial building in Kowloon



The Shell factory building in Chai Wan. You know how on old maps Hong Kong has "Victoria City" marked on it? It's because everything east of North Point was just factories and docks. The Brits lived in Victoria. Nowadays of course it's all built-up and crammed with people; this particular factory building got turned into a hotel.



MIGHT



MANUFACTURING



STRENGTH THROUGH INDUSTRY

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Imperialist Dog posted:

Haha, with a 7m rise in sea level, Hong Kong loses the airport and Tin Shui Wai, which is a district that used to be flooded farms and now houses poor people in public housing. Sad, but manageable.

Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta cities are completely hosed.

The only place in Canada that gets proper-hosed also really fucks China.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Maybe the Chinese maintain a link to our amphibian relatives that the white man has forsaken, and thus prefer shallow pools and to keep a film of oil on all surfaces in their kitchens?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->

Blistex posted:

The only place in Canada that gets proper-hosed also really fucks China.



Toronto wins again :smug:

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer


ancient cloaking technique

MagicBoots
Mar 29, 2010

How about we pump the atmosphere full of methane?
You put me on Cargo handling optimization?! I am the premier defense specialist in the entirety of the UN!
Don't you dare pull my funding!
You can't cut back on funding!
You will regret this!

Blistex posted:

The only place in Canada that gets proper-hosed also really fucks China.



Richmond is built on sand with a significant water table underneath it. It's expected that the entire city will sink into the sea when the Big One hits.

I found an excellent video explaining why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eH5fh0YEuQ

MagicBoots fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Jan 24, 2017

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

fits my needs posted:



ancient cloaking technique

jiangui ah

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
I dunno if it was just in places with hardly and gwei los, but do chinese kids still do drive-by "HELLLLLO!" to you, like at the exact moment they walk past you, so its impossible to make eye contact?

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

hakimashou posted:

I dunno if it was just in places with hardly and gwei los, but do chinese kids still do drive-by "HELLLLLO!" to you, like at the exact moment they walk past you, so its impossible to make eye contact?

You could always whisper MAYOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Goddamn, how many people a year in China are dying from doing this?


aeglus posted:

That said, Korean dudes probably would win in a real fight vs a lot of other countries simply because as you say they're fairly fit, big, and despite how worthless the army conscription is they still learn how to fight.

By all accounts, Korean military service is two years of barracks warming but I suppose they have to pretend to teach them something during their time there.

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