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The best of both worlds is giving tourists directions based on landmarks that are no longer there and people they don't know. Straight to the former post office, then take a right and keep going until you see the mayors house, and turn toward the old mill. If you get to the building that used to be a bakery, you've gone too far.
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Pair the obsolete landmarks with a scribbled map like this without labels. Where am I now? What was this circle again?
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So that's how you get to Israel.
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I always used streets/landmarks like malls and parks with chinese taxis then just told them where to turn/stop. I tried to always ride motorbike taxis if it wasn't raining though since it was exciting, and those dudes didnt have any gps or any poo poo like that. Where I lived there was apparently a law requiring all motorcycle riders to wear helmets, but what amounted to a flimsy toy plastic hat thing counted as a helmet. Some of them didnt even fit on my head and i'd just hold it on with my hand. A couple of people told me that children were exempted from the helmet law. I left my wallet in a taxi once and got a friend to call the taxi company and tell them where I was picked up and let off, and apparently the taxis even back then (2009?) had GPS in them. I was able to go to the taxi office the next day out in the sticks and pick my wallet up, money and all. I was pretty impressed i'm not gonna lie. I left my cell phone in a taxi once and texted it saying i'd pay 100rmb if they brought it back and they did.
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Feb 7, 2017 12:21
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peanut posted:Where am I now? Nagoya!
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Feb 7, 2017 12:45
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Two pages of map chat punctuated with a Haier humblebrag and Xi taking over the CCP.
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That wasn't even a humblebrag. Harris Wittels must be spinning in his grave. Fun fact: my phone wanted to autocorrect "spinning" into "spin nong".
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Feb 7, 2017 13:49
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peanut posted:Pair the obsolete landmarks with a scribbled map like this without labels. Where am I now? What was this circle again? Is this why there are so many boundary disputes in Asia? drat, this scribble is gonna be used in a hundred years as evidence that Morocco has always been Chinese.
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Feb 7, 2017 14:01
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peanut posted:Pair the obsolete landmarks with a scribbled map like this without labels. Where am I now? What was this circle again? These puzzles from The Witness just get weirder and weirder as you go along.
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Ceciltron posted:Is this why there are so many boundary disputes in Asia? drat, this scribble is gonna be used in a hundred years as evidence that Morocco has always been Chinese. It also proves Western Sahara is Moroccan.
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Feb 7, 2017 14:27
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Mameluke posted:It also proves Western Sahara is Moroccan. Western Sahara, aka Xinjiang.
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Mameluke posted:It also proves Western Sahara is Moroccan. pyf territorial disputes
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Feb 7, 2017 14:59
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Vancouver was the site of an ancient Chinese trading settlement.
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Feb 7, 2017 15:39
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Haier wasn't humble bragging a random dude who rarely posts about China was triggered Haier hosed around with a Chinese girl It happens all the time just ignore it
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Moving away from the creepy poo poo: Dissapointed Owl posted:sad sexual experiences you have with people you genuinely seem to loathe and talking about the women you hooked up with like it's a loving safari. Dissapointed Owl posted:You're way too old to be such a goddamn child, holy moly. someone doesn't like Haier. Big surprise. Who cares
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Feb 7, 2017 16:19
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i like haier's stories beacuse usually he's just eaten loads of food and doesn't want to gently caress then ends up loving and it going badly
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Feb 7, 2017 16:22
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I find Haier's stories funny. Haier, please continue posting.
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Haier consistently brings a narrative and an outlook that you rarely get on the internet and for that people should be appreciative. I lived with someone like Haier for two years in China so it doesn't bother me in the slightest because I personally had to deal the the worst of the fallout and like walking in on random girls in my bathroom literally squatting on our western toilet on their phone. I never post these stories here but Haier does. It's like a Chinese foreigner version of master of none
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Feb 7, 2017 16:26
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haier's like our kramer always bursting in with some wacky entertaining story but under that false veneer of hilarious jewisity there is a seething racist just waiting to bust out the n-word
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Feb 7, 2017 17:27
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Vancouver was the site of an ancient Chinese trading settlement. Chinese money's been hidden offshore far longer than most Canadians would care to acknowledge.
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Feb 7, 2017 17:29
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I'm a fan of Haier. With exception to peanut brittle puss. That was..... 
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Feb 7, 2017 18:02
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I like Haier because everyone one has 1 or 2 wierd hook up stories (especially out here in Asia) and then they usually becomes traumatised and move on to something else but Haier's stories are like watching a bird fly into a closed window over and over and over.
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Feb 7, 2017 18:46
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Haier is to Icarus as making GBS threads your own pants, and gutter oil hotpots and disgusting women are to the sun.
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Feb 7, 2017 18:51
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E_P posted:I like Haier because everyone one has 1 or 2 wierd hook up stories (especially out here in Asia) and then they usually becomes traumatised and move on to something else but Haier's stories are like watching a bird fly into a closed window over and over and over. someone post the scooter guy and imagine the hole in the ground is a hair cave
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Feb 7, 2017 19:30
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Jose posted:pyf territorial disputes Bir Tawil
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHQ28qCqm3s Im the Chinese announcer in the background telling people that the roads are slippery and they should be careful of ice and snow when crossing the street. I'd love to go to Sapporo to see that snow festival but gently caress the crowds.
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Thought I'd crosspost this from the Archery and stuff thread since it's a cool thing China did. I'm not sure if I buy all the history bits that guy's saying, but repeating crossbows are pretty impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JToxcNxED5I
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I really enjoy Haier's stories but I don't understand why he keeps doing these things that always seem to end in frustration or disgust for him. I'm assuming there are a lot of good things that happen to him that he just doesn't share because they're not as funny as the bad things. Anyway my experience with Chinar is that I went to Beijing for a 2 week trip back during my college days (right before the 2008 Olympics) to scope the place out for a potential bullshit English teaching job. Even as a 22 year old with failing grades the whole thing seemed way too sketchy for me. Like every place was super eager to take me before even asking for any qualifications, and every time I followed up with a school the details always changed in strange ways. What they said on the phone would always be totally different from what they said in person. The whole thing hit too many red flags so I gave up on the idea. It was cool seeing how life works there, though. I was traveling with my college housemate/friend with benefits who was a Beijing native studying in the States, so I stayed at her place instead of some touristy hotel. Her mom had been recently diagnosed with cancer so we helped her out with the hospital visits a few times and I got the full China medical system experience. It was pretty crazy how inefficient and inconvenient everything was, almost seemingly by design. Like the doctor gave her mom a prescription, so we went up 3 floors, pushed our way through a non-line of people to get to a little window where a lady exchanged our piece of paper for a different piece of paper, traveled down 2 floors, pushed our way to another little window, exchanged papers again, down to ground floor, another crowded window, exchanged papers for medicine. Same routine each day. It really struck me how people didn't line up or really have any kind of system for ensuring that a particular person will not be waiting forever. How do the little old people get through the crowd? Everyone just pushed them out of the way. Everyone was pretty nice to me, basically treating me like a celebrity everywhere I went (unless we were "queuing" up for something, then it was every man for himself). I'm a tall white guy and not to brag but I have pretty decent looks, and apparently this is all it takes to make you the center of attention at all times in China. It got to the point where I had to start denying photo ops with random people. One person would want to take a picture with me for some reason, and then a small crowd would start and everyone would want a turn. It was odd. Conversely, the Chinese people seemed to hate each other. They basically regarded other humans as obstacles rather than people. There was no concept of random kindness or common courtesy. Like hold the door open for someone and you're just a sucker who didn't get in first. It made me kind of sad and distressed. I ate local food almost entirely but wow the Pizza Hut over there sure is nice.
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Yea, that's a piece of poo poo that people like to hand around sometimes.  If you want something really neat, you can look at the trigger mechanisms of Qin crossbows.  
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haier here's some thailand.txt for you courtesy of redditquote:I'm a 25 year old white guy been living in isaan for 6 months. Tonight my Thai wife attacked me with a machete because i told her to shut up and I nearly lost my life. I had to wrestle the knife from her and when her dad came back he has been waving a loaded .45 in my face.
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Feb 7, 2017 22:04
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I hope he dies personally.
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E_P posted:I like Haier because everyone one has 1 or 2 wierd hook up stories (especially out here in Asia) and then they usually becomes traumatised and move on to something else but Haier's stories are like watching a bird fly into a closed window over and over and over.
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Sheep-Goats posted:I hope he dies personally. I hope you get your duck avatar back.
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I think masturbation might be a better option than having a Thai wife with an ex-cop Dad and living in Isaan Anyway some guys are just horny I guess.
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Sheep-Goats posted:I hope he dies personally. may i ask why? i thought isan women were cute.
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Feb 8, 2017 01:29
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UltraRed posted:I hope you get your duck avatar back. The situation on the ground regarding my avatar is much more tumultuous now than it has been in recent times
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Feb 8, 2017 01:32
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Sheep-Goats posted:I hope he dies personally. 
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Ups_rail posted:may i ask why? Because he is a dumbshit and also redditor
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I'd like to hear her side of the story. I wonder if there would be any inconsistencies.
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Outrail posted:I'd like to hear her side of the story. I wonder if there would be any inconsistencies. I honestly hope not, I hope she just says "He told me to shut up and he's such a lovely little worm that that's way overstepping his bounds, so I hit him with my machete"
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