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Atlas Hugged posted:He was the dude that while he was doing his military service he would take smoke breaks to tell the other men that smoking was bad for them and that they should quit. Every. Single. Day. He's super proud of that. I thought smoking was good for healthy? I'm confused.
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nickmeister posted:I thought smoking was good for healthy? I'm confused. In Taiwan they know it's terrible for you, but they do it because it looks cool.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 07:42 |
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Wait, are they all Chinese people, but you're in Thailand? Or they are Thais in Thailand? I am so confused. LOL on making IRL friends out of goons. We have the best goons in China. The best! The fact that you have Thailand goons.. SAD!
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 08:05 |
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Haier posted:Wait, are they all Chinese people, but you're in Thailand? Or they are Thais in Thailand? I am so confused. True story, the vast majority of my friends in Asia are goons. Taiwan's social scene is particularly big so you'd end up friends with goons basically no matter what you did without even realizing it. And given what a cesspool Bangkok is, hanging out with goons is usually the better option.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 08:20 |
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Time to play "BBC or Global Times?"quote:A week is just a week, but when it comes to strategic focus, China is on course. It's easier to look laser sharp when the competition is in disarray. Here the internal difficulties of the US and the European Union are helpful to China.
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Atlas Hugged posted:True story, the vast majority of my friends in Asia are goons. Taiwan's social scene is particularly big so you'd end up friends with goons basically no matter what you did without even realizing it. And given what a cesspool Bangkok is, hanging out with goons is usually the better option.
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Haier posted:So you're in Bangkok, and the family is Chinese? Or they are all Thai? My Thai family p chill and don't complain much (except that one that got arrested for breaking in and stealing stuff from other family members, lol). I'm in Bangkok, my wife's family is Taiwanese.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 09:24 |
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Fojar38 posted:Time to play "BBC or Global Times?" There's a difference?
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Outrail posted:You're guilty of using logic. If someone looks like the same ethnicity as everyone else in the country you're in, you're allowed to start off on the assumption they speak that country's language. Either that or we have to start every conversation with a stranger with "Do you speak [language]?", which is retarded. I said hello to a white guy in a bar near me in Taipei and he said "I don't speak English here, I am here to learn Chinese." lol
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 10:02 |
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All the white people in my city are immigrant Russian workers. I dont even try anything past a mild *we both share a skin color that isnt average here* head nod.
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Sheep-Goats posted:I said hello to a white guy in a bar near me in Taipei and he said "I don't speak English here, I am here to learn Chinese." lol If he's trying to learn Chinese, why did he come to Taipei????
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 10:29 |
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nickmeister posted:If he's trying to learn Chinese, why did he come to Taipei???? You are only allowed to inquire once about a warlock, a second question would have sealed the curse.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 10:41 |
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Learning Chinese is all about being inconvenienced and uncomfortable. His first mistake was going to Taipei, the second was hanging out in a bar.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 10:50 |
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In my opinion after taking to the fellow he should a) get away from me and b) gently caress off for being a dorky dipshit.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 10:58 |
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All the whiteys I met in China who had majored in Chinese or were super into China were weirdos. Lol if you didn't just go to China after you graduated school because it seemed like an adventure and gently caress getting a real job when you're 22. Don't even get me started on those fucks who work for cctv9 or whatever the English one was called. I really do pity people who get sent there by companies to try vainly to hold back the tide of getting cheated and hosed over and have to fly back and forth all the time and poo poo. hakimashou fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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wait did a goon really call his chiner wife a big baby because he's flying to calgary for work while she's by herself raising a newborn because lol goddamn
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hakimashou posted:All the whiteys I met in China who had majored in Chinese or were super into China were weirdos. and within a year they leave quietly never to be seen in the country again it's the ones who can see it with some sense of humor that are able to stay quote:It is a foggy winter day. The air tastes of burning. On the crossroads people are squatting and burning paper iphone 7 rosegolds to the dead. Bungbungche's line the streets waiting for passengers. A stray dog begs. I go inside the agricultural bank. It is hot inside. People still have their winter coats on in the 30c heat. Everyone but the staff is sweating. Drip, drip, drip. A grandmother is leaning on a mop by a brown bucket. Everyone is sniffling, blowing their noses and hacking onto the floor. I get a ticket and wait. Drip. There are ten counters and three bank tellers. A child starts screaming, then the parents let him go. Off he runs doing laps of the chairs slapping their backs. Drip. Slap. A phone rings next to me. Wei? Wei? Wei? A middle aged woman starts screaming at the bank tellers 'Why is this taking so long? I have important things to do. Why cant you go faster? I need to go to a meeting'. The bank tellers say the sorrys then ignore her. Drip. Slap. Wei? The woman storms off saying she'll have them all beaten up and pulls the fire alarm. Drip. Slap. Wei? Alarm. The tellers start telling people to get out, the banks closed, they need to restart the system. Everyone starts yelling. I walk out and put on my mask. No banking for me today. thank you so much for this, Mao bless that dumb country
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Glenn Quebec posted:wait did a goon really call his chiner wife a big baby because he's flying to calgary for work while she's by herself raising a newborn because lol goddamn That's not how I read that post, but your interpretation could be just as valid as mine.
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I'm in Shenzhen now, and Haier is right. It's relatively deserted and quiet. I finally found a VPN service that works so I can access the forum's because Google is blocked, and the cloudflare protection's captcha is provided by Google so I couldn't get past verification. A few fireworks have gone off but so far nothing special, but it might turn into a war zone at midnight. Most Chinar stuff so far: 1. The hotel we're staying at is the Military Police Hotel. Do the profits go there or do they just offer discount, I wonder? 2. We met Grandpa 2. He came to Hong Kong around Christmas and it was his first trip "abroad" and was constantly complaining that things were not as good as his hometown. He also refused to visit any historical or cultural sites and only ate at the hotel restaurant. Tonight he is talking about how Hong Kong is overrated with terrible food. 3. We're at my wife's cousin's place. Uncle has been chain-smoking since we got here four hours ago. The flat has smoky haze in the air and the kids' clothes smell like we all went to a scummy nightclub. 4. We're watching the CCTV New Year Craptacular. Everyone is ignoring it and playing on their phones except for Grandpa 2 who thinks it's fantastic. 5. At dinner, Uncle was baffled as to why Canada has geese walking around. Why aren't they eaten? He then said goose is evidence of why Chinese food is better.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 13:44 |
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The last time my Mother-in-law was in Bangkok, I made tacos. Check out the Chinese New Year dinner she made for the family in Taiwan. Meanwhile I had one beer with a Taiwanese guy in Bangkok and his whole body turned red and he said he was drunk and had to quit. 新年快樂
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do you live in a grocery store?
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 13:58 |
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ladron posted:do you live in a grocery store? They literally do. This is not uncommon in Taiwan.
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Glenn Quebec posted:wait did a goon really call his chiner wife a big baby because he's flying to calgary for work while she's by herself raising a newborn because lol goddamn no, read it again.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 14:14 |
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At dinner I got asked if Americans eat bread at every meal instead of rice. I'm going for my night time walk. TTYL
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Haier posted:At dinner I got asked if Americans eat bread at every meal instead of rice. Try not to explode in a fireworks barrage
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Imperialist Dog posted:Try not to explode in a fireworks barrage Outside sounds like Iraq or some poo poo.
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Imperialist Dog posted:I'm in Shenzhen now, and Haier is right. It's relatively deserted and quiet. I finally found a VPN service that works so I can access the forum's because Google is blocked, and the cloudflare protection's captcha is provided by Google so I couldn't get past verification. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWk6JcheLMU
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Lazer Monkey posted:no, read it again. Kind of disappointed in the reread to be honest
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 15:40 |
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I always called CNY the Tet Offensive because of all the constant booms. I was in Beijing when they burned down the new Mandarin Oriental with fireworks. Gong xi ni fa cai!
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So this is going to be loving hilarious:Your ABC via Reuters posted:Beijing city officials told no Lunar New Year fireworks to crack down on smog
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Yeah, I'm in Henan now and the best part of coming here is usually watching all the unsupervised 3 year olds run around throwing high explosives at each other. This year however fireworks are banned so haven't heard any explosions, just the loudspeaker at the end of the road going on about how you will be arrested if you use fireworks, and something about an old woman they detained for using a firework so now she can't see her family for the new year so don't be like her. Also everyone gets stupidly excited when they get a red packet on wechat, usually for something like 0.27rmb.
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*in the haier voice* It's the year... of the cock
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My first Chinese New Year, and celebrate cock! DINNER: 18 dishes. No sweet things. No god damned red bean paste anywhere. No noodles (SAD!). No alcohol (don't care, don't drink). They followed the traditional "A lot of food" method where rice is made but not touched because it will "fill you up" and make you less able to eat main dishes. Every drat thing was fried, even the fruits. Many things were breaded and deep fried. I consumed so much salt and oil in that meal that I can already feel my cheeks swelling with water retention. The grandparents brought these green leaves from Beijing that are some sort of delicacy. They are just tree leaves. They told me they are very expensive right now because everyone wants them, but the grandparents got wise and found one of the trees growing in their Beijing neighborhood, so they picked them and brought them. They told me this after I had eaten several. God loving drat it. I have now consumed Beijing smog. AMA? The grandpa was LOL. He'd ask me a question in Chinese, I'd reply in English (before it got translated) and he'd immediately start laughing. When I'd laugh, he'd laugh. He can barely see out of his baggy squinty eyes. He looks like Cotton Hill. We drank tea and he kept jabbering at me. They all settled in to watch the "gala" on TV that they made such a huge deal about, but the second it started they all got on their phones and started calling everyone else asking if they were watching it. It was just me watching it. If anyone else saw it, like 40 minutes in they had this brown-skinned woman in Sichuan singing her head off. She was beautiful. I want to go find her. Some Chinese actor with a ton of plastic surgery work came on and the grandma pointed and said "WAIGUOREN?????" and I laughed, to which the grandpa started laughing. They all started going apeshit over 0.10 RMB red envelope races in their groups. I said I will go take my walk and left. REST OF THE NIGHT: I had a three hour walk that went through midnight. I meant to go for an hour, but I started taking photos and kept wandering on roads I didn't go on before and looking at new stuff and trying to find things to skateboard on. I was listening to music but started feeling a bass beat, so I took out my earphones and realized I was standing in front of a crazy night club with glass windows letting me see the white guy DJ fist-pumping. I was watching the people inside dance and drink, and I debated going in. I was still wearing my fancy dinner clothes. I had one of those flashes of me going in, getting charged like 100 RMB for a Pepsi, some white-guy-chaser trying to go home with me, and then her running away after I told her I don't use taxis and I prefer to walk. Some girl I had deleted ages ago tried to add me again. Her message was "I want to see you." I re-added her and she said she wants to come to my house tonight because she misses me. I had never met her, and she was begging to marry me (and I could tell she was begging everybody that she talked to), so I had deleted her. She was saying tonight she just wants to have sex and she promised she wouldn't bring up marriage. I told her sure she can come over (she doesn't know where I live), and then ignored her for the rest of the night. Fireworks everywhere at midnight, otherwise I was pretty much the only living being outside except for the rats. I was so happy. China might be for Chinese, but China with less Chinese is sooooooo much better. At one point on the sidewalk it was me and an old woman coming towards each other. She was far ahead of me. I was walking in a straight line. She had about 70 meters to adjust herself, but she started zigzagging the closer she got to me. At the last moment she veered at me and I had to step out of the way. An empty loving sidewalk and she couldn't not walk like a drunk Stevie Wonder. Why do they do this so badly here? Much later I encountered another human, and it was college-aged guy watching a TV show on his phone with the volume blaring. He was ahead of me and going the same direction, but he turned around and saw me and stopped. He waited until I passed him and then immediately started walking about 2-3 meters behind me. His TV show was so loud that I could hear it through my headphones and so I tried to walk faster to shake him. He kept pace. The entire place was empty and there were barely any cars, and this dude had to do the herd thing they are used to doing. Maybe he was just scared. The amount of people that get upset when I tell them I walk late night is very high, all convinced I am going to get my kidneys stolen by the many many bad people running around the second the sun goes down. He paced me for about 6 minutes before I turned down a street. As I was about to arrive home, that crazy woman that I had in my room several weeks ago (the one that kept pushing my face and ran out of my house crying) tried to add me again on Wechat. I added her and asked what the heck she wanted. She had decided she missed me too much and wanted to make love tonight. LMAOOOOOO. I said this was impossible and we will never meet again. She called me "naive" for not understand a woman with principles (the kind that comes to a guy's house at 1am and smooshes his head when he gets too close). She was upset I didn't understand how could I not see that she likes me and misses me and thinks about me daily! I took a Face strategy and sent her the soldier girl's photo and said this was my girlfriend and she's tough as frick, and don't bother me again. She switched it up to that she loves me and needs me, and I said that was gross and I am gay because it is the year of the cock now. That didn't work either. I blocked her. Imperialist Dog posted:I'm in Shenzhen now, and Haier is right. It's relatively deserted and quiet. I finally found a VPN service that works so I can access the forum's because Google is blocked, and the cloudflare protection's captcha is provided by Google so I couldn't get past verification. The grandpa reminds me of my boss's daughter's friend that i talked to a few days ago. She just got back from like two weeks in the USA, which was her first time there. I asked what she ate and she said they went to Korean or Japanese buffets every day. Because of this, she said American food is disgusting. I asked if she spoke to any Americans, and she had talked to one guy and took a selfie with him. Because of this she said Americans are weird. Overall, she said China is the best and America is a bad country!
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Haier posted:She switched it up to that she loves me and needs me, and I said that was gross and I am gay because it is the year of the cock now. That didn't work either. I blocked her.
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5000 Years of History: We are all gay in the year of the cock
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Jeoh posted:5000 Years of History: We are all gay in the year of the cock Now this is the Chinese century I can get behind
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I (31m) met my wife (27f) of two years at the of 2014 and we were married by August of 2015. She's Chinese and I'm Chinese American and we met while she was working here. Both she and I have terminal graduate degrees. So her personality is very northern Chinese - very aggressive and not to mention she grew up in the political class so she has this exaggerated sense of entitlement. Myself, I'm also from a well to do family. So last November we've finally decided to visit her family in China - with my express objective to tell them that we are going to get married (she hasn't told them out of embarrassment we got married in 2015). Her parents generally love me and my dad has met her while on business trip to Beijing. So midway through this trip her grandmother gets ill and is put into coma. She's dying. So of course, I decide to leave for home first and let her abandon her tickets in order for her to care for her dying grandmother. Of course coming home, I need to start my doctorate program with the expectation that my wife will have an idea of when she will come home here. I did all the moving, setup of furniture, and nice apartment hunting to support our family. Because she is manipulative, I always try to get a verbal agreement so I have a better understanding and forecast of the future. So I told her, just be with your family until the crisis is over because her family is mine but be understanding that you cannot be gone for such an outrageous amount of time because we are a married couple with our life ahead of us. However, midway through this month she said she would come home after Spring Festival- the Chinese New Years. I would think she would mean it's eminent she's coming home finally - but in reality it meant nothing because still has bought not tickets and would not commit to me on a date. We talk everyday of course, but she has decided the the topic is taboo. She has stated to me that pressing her isn't helping the situation but I have told her it is my obligation to know these things because of our marriage. TLDR: Wife went back to China, has a manipulative personality of an entitled princess, she has made no commitment towards coming home in the short term. I'm allowing her time to be with her family, but what about me? Two months now of waiting and her message ranges from "I don't know when I am coming back. " to "If you keep pressuring me I'm staying here forever. Go look for a divorce lawyer." I don't even want to press it anymore - it's making anxious. Help me. Edit: We live in San Diego.
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Divorce and find someone who shares your values and life priorities and you don't consider a manipulative entitled princess. Why the hell did you get married in the first place? Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Haier posted:My first Chinese New Year, and celebrate cock!
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