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JaucheCharly posted:Is this real? How are people going around without constantly hacking up coal dust? Totally real, mine look like that too when I replace them and Magna and I live in the same city. People are constantly hacking and spitting so.
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We have filters like those to clean the air coming into where I work. When we changed them last year, they had been in place for about four years. They were slightly grey.
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Baronjutter posted:Cool they have my city Victoria is where old Canadians with bum tickers go to die.
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oohhboy posted:Here is a bit of Hong Kong logic for you guys. my old roommate moved to shenzhen, and was waiting for the bus, got in a long line, the bus came and went and didn't pick him up, so he asked the old lady in front of him what the line was for, and she said all these people were waiting here because sometimes people came and brought free cookies, and you could get a free cookie if they came and you were there. he was irate and was like "what?? i missed the bus because a ton of people are waiting in a group for one free loving cookie???"
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Gorilla Salad posted:We have filters like those to clean the air coming into where I work. When we changed them last year, they had been in place for about four years. I just got out of bed and didn't read the text. My thought was, that these are 2 different kinds of filter, the other one is just black fresh out of the factory. Nope.
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Sometimes they do have an activated charcoal insert to try to get out chemical fumes that the filter won't catch.
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oohhboy posted:I keep getting told that I should always go eat at a place that has a people queuing outside. The problem with this is that people here will queue for just about anything and the genesis of a queue and the length of it has nothing to do with the quality of the establishment or the purpose. The only time going into a long queue makes sense is when you already know the place you are going to is famous or excellent. In Shanghai if a restaurant has a huge line outside of it, it usually means one of two things -The food is really good -The food is really cheap Usually the latter, never both. About two blocks from Xintiandi there's this ramen shop where the ground floor is ~4ft below the sidewalk. The place is packed inside and outside, with a huge line crowded around the door waiting for a table. The food looks very plain and smells exactly like the kibble I fed my dog as a child after soaking it in hot water before serving it to her. I've also passed by this place mid-afternoon when they're dumping out the soup pots into the gutter, and the smell has progressed to roadkill.
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Haier posted:Her: "Yes. We can only learn Chinese if we are born here, because it is too difficult to learn." With the general public having this belief, it makes sense that someone like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashan is viewed as a superhero edit: quote:Following Rowswell's first appearance as "Dashan", he began formal study of crosstalk (a traditional Chinese comedic performance) with his mentor, comedian Jiang Kun. In December 1989, Dashan became the first foreigner to be formally accepted into the strict crosstalk hierarchy as a member of the "9th generation," a move that caused considerable controversy in Chinese performing arts circles at the time. Crosstalk is often called "the art of comedic language," and as such is regarded in China as a highly skilled form of performing art beyond the reach of most native speakers, much less a foreigner. wordplay: beyond the reach of normal men, and requires admittance to the social hierarchy LentThem fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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WarpedNaba posted:Heh, I was just about to post this: Let's see, we got Sephiroth in there, Immortan Joe...
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JaucheCharly posted:Is this real? How are people going around without constantly hacking up coal dust? It's real, and I dunno! The scariest part is where I am is not even half as bad as a lot of other places. I'm lucky enough to work in an office that has a bunch of purifiers in a building that already purifies the air. These days all the SG and HK owned office complexes will talk about their air filtration systems and average AQI indoors in their marketing materials, so there's a dystopian future thing made real. I switched out the filters in the purifiers in my home last night but they weren't nearly as impressive.
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https://i.imgur.com/16hgWk7.gifv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUjxsPsxWsY The name of that character is triggering to me because I got probated for it. Haier fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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Haier posted:https://i.imgur.com/16hgWk7.gifv I'm the stereotypical "oriental" font
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Magna Kaser posted:It's real, and I dunno! The scariest part is where I am is not even half as bad as a lot of other places. I'm lucky enough to work in an office that has a bunch of purifiers in a building that already purifies the air. These days all the SG and HK owned office complexes will talk about their air filtration systems and average AQI indoors in their marketing materials, so there's a dystopian future thing made real. What is +800 like?
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You'll do no such thing young man!
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LentThem posted:With the general public having this belief, it makes sense that someone like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashan is viewed as a superhero So, it's the Chinese equivalent of: "I say, I say, I say. My wife went to Indonesia for her holidays." "Jakarta?" "No, she went of her own accord!"
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JaucheCharly posted:Is this real? How are people going around without constantly hacking up coal dust? They arent.
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Gorilla Salad posted:So, it's the Chinese equivalent of: Yeah my understand of it is it's kind of Vaudeville, there's a straight man and a funny man and rapid fire joke throwing.
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Gorilla Salad posted:So, it's the Chinese equivalent of: lol
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Bad news, Uncle Haier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.dbf94f0c5e19
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Fojar38 posted:sure, i was referring more to the fact that you get op-eds and statistics that say "China has a huge middle class!" and your average joe thinks that means that 800 million chinese now live lifestyles equivalent to the american or european middle class I was applying for my Taiwanese APRC over the winter break and you need to provide your tax statements. The woman who helped me with my application looked it and said to me "it seems like all of you foreigners make so much more money than us Taiwanese..." I really wanted to say "if you think I make alot, think about how much the parents of my students make." I make around an American starting teacher's salary.
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It's going to be real weird three years from now, when China surpasses the US by 2020.
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P-Mack posted:It's going to be real weird three years from now, when China surpasses the US by 2020. all you white nerds who made fun of China will really get it when china owns the USA in 2020!
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I never went to China but about 10 years ago I worked with a bunch of Chinese ladies so I have a couple of stories that make MUCH more sense after reading this thread. I was their IT guy and "knew computers." I was pretty friendly with them and we'd chitchat occasionally. schwag bags I worked at a university library in Boston that had an office right in chinatown, and there were a decent number of mainlanders who worked there with me. Whenever the university was having an event, they'd set up tables to show all the different departments and what they do and the programs that the university offers. Each table would offer a little piece of branded junk like a pen, or a white-board eraser or a small USB stick, something like that. Every single time, these ladies (there were 4 of them, all over 40 and under 60) would head on down and collect as much free junk as they could. Pens, USB drives, little doodads, it didn't matter. I asked one "how come you guys go down and get all that stuff *gestures at the schwag*? It's all just junk and is either useless or will be when it breaks in an hour." And she said something along the lines of "well, it's free, so why not get it?" you can't ask what it is Once they decided that I was all right they came up to me one day and said "beep, we're going for dim sum and you're coming along." I've never had dim sum at the time, so I was all for it. As we're walking to the dim sum place the oldest one goes "beep, we have just one rule for your type (white) when we go to dim sum. We'll order everything and it'll all be good, but we're sick of people constantly asking us what it is, so you can't ask. Just enjoy it." And it did, and it was! To this day I have no idea what I ate, but it was all tasty and since I followed the rules, I got to go with them a bunch more times.
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WarpedNaba posted:Heh, I was just about to post this: I'm the Raiden knockoff.
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The Great Autismo! posted:all you white nerds who made fun of China will really get it when china owns the USA in 2020! Peven Stan posted:It's the only attack they have left against chinese people. China is going to overtake the west economically and geopolitically sometime in the mid 2020s, thus ending 400+ years of unchallenged white dominance over the world. I'm really impressed by your compassion and empathy with which you responded to the dude in the lovely china thread. Power Khan fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6JRtK5R93E
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah my understand of it is it's kind of Vaudeville, there's a straight man and a funny man and rapid fire joke throwing. Exactly, except in 5000 years they've only seemingly achieved safe for 1950s broadcast tv caliber humor. Im sure there is better material out there, but when a lot of stuff is just wholesale repeating the same bits and the "good ones" tend to end up getting career blocked by the CCP its difficult. On the note of history, there was a fairly popular guy doing a show about world history purely as a hobby at first then as a "real show." He got about 12 episodes into the actual program and started talking about I want to say Vietnamese history and mysteriosly his show, and everyt other project he was slated to work on is now canceled.
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GoutPatrol posted:
Seriously. At my current job I tutor some kids from international schools; so on top of the price of tutoring, try looking up how much TAS costs. One of my students was complaining he doesn't get an allowance and casually mentioned how his friends gamble thousands of NTD on Counter-Strike matches.
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Pirate Radar posted:Seriously. At my current job I tutor some kids from international schools; so on top of the price of tutoring, try looking up how much TAS costs. You have to have American citizenship to attend right? I'm guessing more than a few of your students got theirs because their mothers conveniently forgot they were severely pregnant before boarding an airplane for LA.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:HAVE YOU SEEN THIS PERSON OF INTEREST?
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Yea, that's pretty funny. I bet the 2nd one had a shirt with PWNED on it.
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I don't think an international assassin has ever chosen a more lol shirt
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P-Mack posted:It's going to be real weird three years from now, when China surpasses the US by 2020. vaunted bastion of predictive economic analysis, "economist magazine" has pushed the date back to 2030 and it will totally happen for sure this time
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Fojar38 posted:vaunted bastion of predictive economic analysis, "economist magazine" has pushed the date back to 2030 and it will totally happen for sure this time India is supposed to be a superpower around that time, too.
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McGavin posted:Victoria is where FTFY
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JaucheCharly posted:I'm really impressed by your compassion and empathy with which you responded to the dude in the lovely china thread. i'm usually kind of a dick or dry or sarcastic on something that's supposed to be an internet comedy forum, but some people do need compassion and empathy more than others
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If you think Peven Stan will show you mercy when the Chinese Century gets rolling, I've got some bad news for you.
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:If you think Peven Stan will show you mercy when the Chinese Century gets rolling, I've got some bad news for you. 
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GoutPatrol posted:I was applying for my Taiwanese APRC over the winter break and you need to provide your tax statements. The woman who helped me with my application looked it and said to me "it seems like all of you foreigners make so much more money than us Taiwanese..." I hate this conversation so much. Korean coworkers use it as a justification for making you do things, to try and guilt you into it. "Fleta, do you want to come in on three or four Saturdays and teach a special English class?" No, thanks. "But you make so much more money than any Korean teacher!" (note: Not true, when you factor in all the bonuses and paid vacation time the K-teachers get compared to the NET) Haven't had it with a Chinese person yet, though. Thank god. So uncomfortable and awkward.
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Atlas Hugged posted:You have to have American citizenship to attend right? I'm guessing more than a few of your students got theirs because their mothers conveniently forgot they were severely pregnant before boarding an airplane for LA. You get preferential admission if you have an American passport but you just need to have any foreign passport in order to attend an international school. So that covers the big two (TAS/TES) but also the smaller, less prestigious ones like Kangqiao or the Catholic and Adventist schools here. And yeah, that one's pretty common.
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