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Pirate Radar posted:To be fair to Haier, China's the last place you could have an excuse for being grossed out by a period. Like, hear me out--nobody should be grossed out, but if there's anywhere you really shouldn't, it's China. Otoh periods are gross as heck.
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Sheep-Goats posted:Otoh periods are gross as heck. Meh!
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Haier posted:Girl asks me to come sleep at her house. I am really tired, but ask what she has planned. She says not much. We can sleep in bed and talk, but she's not feeling that well. Dierrel sounds like an expensive french brand. Just pointing out, in case one of you looks for a name for his new shop.
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Pirate Radar posted:Meh! As heck!
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Grand Fromage posted:I liked that his spelling of chabuduo was itself chabuduo. and the fact that it took so drat long to appreciate is so much lost face.
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JaucheCharly posted:Don't post in D&D maybe? this looks like a p appealing option at this point
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JaucheCharly posted:Don't post in D&D
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Is the D&D china thread 100% serious? I keep imagining the "CHINA BY 2020" and "now it's china's turn! this is historically inevitable and also about fairness" people are mocking chinese propaganda but they seem maybe entirely sincere?
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Baronjutter posted:Is the D&D china thread 100% serious? I keep imagining the "CHINA BY 2020" and "now it's china's turn! this is historically inevitable and also about fairness" people are mocking chinese propaganda but they seem maybe entirely sincere? It's not terrible but there are a couple of posters who are exactly like that including one who wants China to rule the world purely because they hate white people (he is also on record as referring to SE asians as "jungle asians") Nobody takes him seriously though Edit: Also ran into the "west did x in 19th century so it is okay for china to do x now" argument Fojar38 fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Feb 15, 2017 22:30
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GBS is like sifting through feathers to find a hard boiled egg, D&D is like sifting through fiberglass dust to find a puddle of piss, btw D&D is also the minority in this "do like this--- do like that~~~~" joke.
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D&D has a tendency to live and die by official statistics and we are dealing with a national government/culture that commits deep level fraud at the drop a hat. They probably just believe most of the poo poo that is self reported by China (or re-reported by gullible westerners).
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welcome back fojar38 missed u buddy
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The Great Autismo! posted:welcome back fojar38 missed u buddy thanks bro i saw the d&d fojar analysis and full disclosure no, i have never been to mainland china (though I have been to asia) and live in torontos china town in a building that is like 80% overseas chinese students. virtually all of my neighbours are chinese i used to be full in the bag for the Chinese Century until i moved here and got a four year degree at the university of toronto and now i am bitter over the fact that everything i had thought i knew about china were lies
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To be fair China is mostly about lies
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Sheep-Goats posted:To be fair China is mostly about lies Yes this is what I often find myself having to explain to people but they think that I am making an Inscrutable Chinaman argument when actually I'm making a "uniformly terrible communist government" argument
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Fojar38 posted:and live in torontos china town in a building that is like 80% overseas chinese students. virtually all of my neighbours are chinese well I guess that explains it. At least you're not some old curmudgeon in the suburbs annoyed over the concept of Vancouver real estate prices or whatever. I still think you should take a break from China news for a while though.
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Koramei posted:well I guess that explains it. At least you're not some old curmudgeon in the suburbs annoyed over the concept of Vancouver real estate prices or whatever. no this is going to be me in about 6 months now that the CCP is trying to clamp down on domestic housing, vancouver has a real estate tax, and you can see the bullseye on toronto from space
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Fojar38 posted:thanks bro Nobody who hasn't spent time in China really knows anything about it and nobody who has has a good opinion of the place, unless they are crazy or have something wrong with them. I've never subjected myself to the autistic idiocy of the D&D China thread but I can imagine. For quite a while D&D had mods that would give out long probations or bans for posting things they disagreed with, but Great Helmsman lowtax purged them and now its safe for goons again. So don't not post in D&D is what I'm saying. First some screeching autist buys you an avatar, then you win! hakimashou fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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Fojar38 posted:thanks bro Because of the student body at U of T, or because of China in general?
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hakimashou posted:Nobody who hasn't spent time in China really knows anything about it and nobody who has has a good opinion of the place I don't usually go in for universal kinda statements but I agree with this one and also China sucks.
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Fojar38 posted:no this is going to be me in about 6 months now that the CCP is trying to clamp down on domestic housing, vancouver has a real estate tax, and you can see the bullseye on toronto from space 26% increase since last year. Buy now or get priced out forever!
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Because of the student body at U of T, or because of China in general? it has nothing to do with my neighbours and peers, who are genuinely all good people and i have no plans to move or leave for the foreseeable future. i brought that up mostly to dispel the idea that i believe what i believe due to a lack of worldly exposure to what i am talking about (although again i have never been to mainland china so maybe some stuff 'ought to be taken with a grain of salt) what turned me bitter was actually learning things about china from people who are chinese/have been to china/are academic china specialists which fairly quickly dispelled me of the notion that the exotic east is where the future is and most of that came from the university i asked a chinese history professor what he thought about the idea of china being a superpower and he laughed at me and told me that china is a ticking time bomb that would lose a war with japan by itself
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hakimashou posted:Nobody who hasn't spent time in China really knows anything about it and nobody who has has a good opinion of the place, unless they are crazy or have something wrong with them. go post this in D&D please i find china fascinating and i generally like it, only because i view it daily through a sociological lens, and it is absolutely enthralling in that mindset. the food is great, the people that you're friends with are genuinely the sweetest in the world, and there's just an energy around everything all the time that is different than any place i lived in the united states, or anywhere else in the world. for that, i generally like it. it does have its problems, though. which of course are well documented in these threads, and in other nefarious places on the internet.
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I just read a few pages of the D&D Chinar thread and it's even worse than this one.
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:I just read a few pages of the D&D Chinar thread and it's even worse than this one. it's really really bad
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Bloody hell, now I am coughing up this nasty poo poo from my lungs along with an almost perpetually slightly runny/bleeding nose. The air in this city really doesn't want me here. I had some expectations of pollution, but this is getting ridiculous with the symptoms at a "mild" 60 -70. Probably would have choked to death had I went up into mainland China. Getting some seriously ripped calves as compensation.
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This is actually a really good China thread. I've even told people I knew in China that "something awful dot com has a really good China thread." E: Is the D&D china thread safe to post in since the mod purge?
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The Great Autismo! posted:go post this in D&D please Some of my favorite people I've known have been Chinese people, it's still an objectively terrible soul-crushing place though, and my response to it is to feel sorry for my Chinese friends. After years there I really did understand how good we have it in the west/developed world. It gives you a lot of perspective.
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hakimashou posted:Some of my favorite people I've known have been Chinese people, it's still an objectively terrible soul-crushing place though, and my response to it is to feel sorry for my Chinese friends. I say gently caress them. On the other hand the ones that get out and integrate in the country they are staying are excellent. It is almost like you need social skills!
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so what's the deal with this article https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-15/from-made-in-china-to-made-by-china-for-china quote:China remains the biggest manufacturer on the planet, but most of what it makes stays at home and the vast majority of what it consumes is made there, too. This seems to, uh, be a complete reversal of conventional wisdom and the fact that this is a podunk article on bloomberg combined with Fojar's Law sets off my BS detector but I don't know in what way
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I am not surprised as every country's domestic consumption is greater than it's exports. What you really need to look at are the absolute values as statistics like that can be manipulated easily. The article is pretty rubbish as it contains a graph with hosed up use if axis, gently caress all useful units, relative to what?!. The rest of the article is full of empty assertions that doesn't have any relative numbers to cite and what number it does push out is propaganda about some future plan and growth from the CCP. The "Source" article might be better but it doesn't seem to link it. It's "China rising" bullshit. Disregard.
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I post and read about China here on gbs something awful dot com chinar thread because its like a weird Vietnam vet thing of you can't honeslty connect and talk the positives and negatives about China to someone who wasn't there. They can have opinions of course ranging from informed to armchair strageyist bookstore. Its just they won't get the energy of the place, to the the people doing time in prison waiting to escape feeling, to the streetshitting granny screaming HALLO, so you don't talk about it with friends and family. But when you get someone who has been there its cathartic because you can go I saw a mountain of offo bikes collapse onto the baoan and people gathered to look for 30 minutes and get a I know back..
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There are almost a billion and a half consumers in China.
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hakimashou posted:There are almost a billion and a half consumers in China. *spends 12 years trying to get into chinese market because there are so many potential customers* *sustains repeated losses ranging in the hundreds of millions* *is forced out when CCP subsidized copy that somehow has all your corporate secrets eats up the market*
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hakimashou posted:There are almost a billion and a half consumers in China. Well, don't forget that life has improved significantly for a lot of the population (the urban one mainly) but there's still hundreds of millions of people in grinding rural poverty who ain't consuming poo poo. Urban and rural China are different planets. A lot of the people who have money also try their damndest not to buy anything Chinese. They don't have the nationalist I ONLY BUY DOMESTIC thing you see in Korea--they know Chinese made is garbage and import everything they can. So you have a weird situation where the top and bottom levels aren't buying anything, it's just the... lower middle class I guess? People with enough money to consume but not enough to buy everything from Japan.
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