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Pirate Radar posted:Spain rules. Where in the country will you be? My parents live in Barcelona, so I'm hoping to be there, too, but I'd be happy enough elsewhere in the country. I've lived and worked in Spain before and know that it's a lifestyle and place I enjoy (although hopefully I won't be stuck in the deeeeeeep countryside again, unless I'm actually doing arch work [not bloody likely in Spain].)
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oohhboy posted:LOL. I straight up told you guys I do exaggerate or change some details to varying degrees for dramatic effect. If you have to resort to fiction to make the story interesting then it probably isn't worth telling in this thread.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 10:59 |
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oohhboy posted:LOL. I straight up told you guys I do exaggerate or change some details to varying degrees for dramatic effect. I don't even post about the nice or normal stuff because that's boring.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 11:10 |
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is reused wooden chopsticks still a thing in china? bacteria love to get into the nooks and crannys of wooden/stone things (anything porous). there should be a movement to at least some form of plastic chopstick if they're going to be cheap and not have new wooden ones for every meal
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 11:22 |
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Relin posted:is reused wooden chopsticks still a thing in china? bacteria love to get into the nooks and crannys of wooden/stone things (anything porous). there should be a movement to at least some form of plastic chopstick if they're going to be cheap and not have new wooden ones for every meal Yeah. My favorite restaurant uses them. Hasn't killed me yet.
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LentThem posted:today was a real winnr of a day. my aunt had to work so i had the day to myself, seemed like a good day four betting on the races if you get my drift. i found a massage parlour with a decent price, down a hallway on the third floor of a building in Tsim Sha Tsui, lots of little lights that really made me feel christmas. I remember this building had famously been the site of a zoning issue with the government when i was a kid, im pretty sure i remember hearing on the news at the time that a few people served time because of it. ya more posts like this
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 11:25 |
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guys don't postshame.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 11:36 |
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:My parents live in Barcelona, so I'm hoping to be there, too, but I'd be happy enough elsewhere in the country. I've lived and worked in Spain before and know that it's a lifestyle and place I enjoy (although hopefully I won't be stuck in the deeeeeeep countryside again, unless I'm actually doing arch work [not bloody likely in Spain].) Color me jealous, then! Barcelona's beautiful.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:My parents live in Barcelona, so I'm hoping to be there, too, but I'd be happy enough elsewhere in the country. I've lived and worked in Spain before and know that it's a lifestyle and place I enjoy (although hopefully I won't be stuck in the deeeeeeep countryside again, unless I'm actually doing arch work [not bloody likely in Spain].) for real living and retiring in Barcelona has always been a dream of mine.. if your parents need a phd in multicultural education plz hmu...
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Magna Kaser posted:I see this sentiment a lot from Chinese learners and it makes me wonder if there are ESL learners out there who see "color" or the word "eggplant" and go "Man stupid Americans don't know poo poo thank god for proper English from the UK". I think it's apples and oranges. The thing with traditional versus simplified is that it's not just one letter different. It's pretty easy to figure out that color and colour are the same word, especially since it's a consistent pattern. I actually had to Google Translate what ladron wrote because I had zero idea what it said. For reference, here's the simplified and the traditional together: 选择 / 選擇 Adjacent it's more obvious, but on their own I thought the first character was going to be pronounced like 先 (xian) and the second like 棒 (bang). But of course it was xuan and ze respectively. The thing is, the increased complexity of traditional doesn't make them any harder to learn. As long as you are learning the characters mnemonically and slowly learning a stable of radicals and then expanding on them, it's pretty simple. The different radicals tend to inform the meaning of the character or the pronunciation and there's a logical progression to them. Simplified largely throws all of that away. Plus, they're just ugly, though I guess that's more subjective than the other reasons.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I actually had to Google Translate what ladron wrote because I had zero idea pff you and your dead language..Hangukmal supremacy!!!
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oohhboy posted:LOL. I straight up told you guys I do exaggerate or change some details to varying degrees for dramatic effect. you were given an injection and you are taking mystery drugs, drink some gatorade
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 12:09 |
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HK is a cool, good and fun place. I especially like Bird Garden, Goldfish Market and Ocean park. Do NOT get HKD 30 noodles from an ~authentic local shop~ I tried a few times and things got worse and worse and I wish I just got Thai food in Mong Kok (kekeke) again instead.
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JacksAngryBiome posted:If you have to resort to fiction to make the story interesting then it probably isn't worth telling in this thread. I regularly skip these stories, because they are as interesting as my shopping list. Doesn't even help when I imagine Mr. Bean acting out the scenes. It's like somebody reading the Tv program in a super bored voice, and then some oval office goes off at the poor op for some lovely family trouble detail as if this was D&D.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 12:46 |
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i skip them because they're far too long
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 12:52 |
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Jose posted:i skip them because they're far too long This. Haier usually has the good grace to keep things short and sweet or at least amusing throughout, but oohboy's posts are just too dense for me.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 13:00 |
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Stop talking about and quoting in full long boring storing pls
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 13:11 |
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oohhboy posted:LOL. I straight up told you guys I do exaggerate or change some details to varying degrees for dramatic effect. same
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 13:42 |
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Today a man got into an argument because his electric scooter skidded on the snow and hit a parked car. A argument then happened between the car owner who was kan re nao ing a mahjong game happening under a supermarkets stretched roof and the bike owner. The bike driver dropped his pants and raised his arms saying come at me. Car owner lost face by being confused. Bike owner got on bike and rode away.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 13:45 |
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Don't listen to the haters ohhhboy your stories are good and interesting to read
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 13:56 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:I think it's apples and oranges. The thing with traditional versus simplified is that it's not just one letter different. It's pretty easy to figure out that color and colour are the same word, especially since it's a consistent pattern. I actually had to Google Translate what ladron wrote because I had zero idea what it said. In 2017 this is true, but when handwriting was how you had to get poo poo done simplified characters had a lot more appeal. These days it's not really better or worse and it's all about aesthetics, which is why you still see traditional characters all over the mainland and they have even had talks about bringing them back every now and again. If you wanna read about some even wackier things than simplification check out Gwoyeu Romatzyh which is from the ROC era and who's designers thought it could potentially even replace characters entirely.
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WarpedNaba posted:Isn't that already a thing though? Not modern Beijing, though - I haven't been keeping track of AC but I don't think they went beyond the Industrial Revolution. Oh hey it's a thing.
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oohhboy posted:I enjoy writing them as much as the people reading them. Well if you hate writing them that much, why do it?
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hakimashou posted:Don't listen to the haters ohhhboy your stories are good and interesting to read fyi this person is a notorious loving liar
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Haier posted:EDIT: I just realized I have seen probably 90% of the people wash dishes without soap, too. They use the sponge (or a wet rag) to absorb and smear the oil. They use cold water to wash everything, and to clean chopsticks they rub them together rapidly. It's loving disgusting. My first apartment in China was fairly decent, the owner had remodeled it a couple of years prior, but it literally had no hot water in the kitchen. If you turned the faucet all the way to the hot side nothing would come out. The bathroom right next door had one of those electric tank water heaters, but they just never bothered to run a line from it to the kitchen sink...because why would anyone need hot water in the kitchen??? edit: I see Atlas Hugged mentioned this a while back as well. I don't think it would have been impossible in my apartment, just plumb a line through the wall and into the kitchen and boom, hot water. Porfiriato fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Feb 21, 2017 |
# ? Feb 21, 2017 16:09 |
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is rene chang still around there hasn't been a post about him in ages
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 16:10 |
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ladron posted:if your parents need a phd in multicultural education plz hmu... It's always weird to me when adding a word to a degree makes it seem less substantial somehow.
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Magna Kaser posted:In 2017 this is true, but when handwriting was how you had to get poo poo done simplified characters had a lot more appeal. These days it's not really better or worse and it's all about aesthetics, which is why you still see traditional characters all over the mainland and they have even had talks about bringing them back every now and again. A lot of simplified characters aren't even faster to write. They're different, but only a stroke or two shorter. The thing though is that a lot of the simplified characters came out of cursive or shorthand that may not have been standardized, but was acceptable. If you look at Taiwan, people still do this since just because it's 2017, having to write by hand hasn't magically gone away. Students still primarily complete classroom activities with paper and pencils. Basically, everyone knows and recognizes the formal traditional characters, but when time is short using a cursive version of the script is fine too. It's important though to have the fundamentals first. This is also true in the mainland. Just because they have a simplified script doesn't mean they don't resort to cursive when writing papers or taking tests. Simplified versus Traditional has always had a larger impact on printed script than what people actually wrote.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 16:50 |
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The simplifications that are just changing a radical to a shorthand version are fine. 农 infuriates me though.
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BONGHITZ posted:you were given an injection and you are taking mystery drugs, drink some gatorade They seemed to have worked great. I took everything as directed as she wasn't going to go otherwise. I did take the time to look up what they did after she left and they are legit for what they are meant for just that they sort of overlap a bit. I will be cutting the items I don't need which are all the motion sickness drugs taking me down to 5 from 10. Given it was a one time injection and I was not prescribed any antibiotics the injection by the process of elimination it was Buscopan as that is the only one that can be injected. It cuts down on abdominal cramps which is an excellent first step. So the doctor was on to it or close enough with his shotgun approach even though his office looked like the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Pham Nuwen posted:Well if you hate writing them that much, why do it? hakimashou posted:Don't listen to the haters ohhhboy your stories are good and interesting to read JacksAngryBiome posted:If you have to resort to fiction to make the story interesting then it probably isn't worth telling in this thread. I never ever resorted to actual fiction. Everything I have typed up happened. I do puff up the emotional aspect a little bit much, swap event sequence for better flow, the odd detail to improve clarity. I am not writing a police report. I currently have a unique perspective in this thread although there should others who fit the bill but are not active at this time. I am not a white guy ex-pat ubermensch like Haier(Don't ever stop). I was born here, I grew up elsewhere yet retained the ability to speak the language for most part without being too noticeable which is getting better by the day. I look like everyone else if not for the fact I don't fear the cold instead I start over heating at 23 degrees. I get to observe the differences in cultures without getting the foreigner treatment. I get to play with everyone's expectations when I interact with them. It is a lot of fun just seeing what happens. Relatives/families is always drama and isn't it nice not to have stories once in a while that doesn't involve suicide, abuse, or an ending that is awful/murder porn? Sure I get irritated and things go sideways, but in the end everything works out and no one is hurt(Mostly). If you don't enjoy the posts that's cool, skip it and move on like some other folks. Besides why aren't you posting any stories? ---- Met up with my BIL(Brother in Law) for dinner and a movie(John Wick 2 go loving see it). We went to the third floor, looked for a place to eat. Sat down, ate food. I guess this is boring now so I won't tell you how we talked about Magic Whitey Powers, cultural observations we both make and share, and poo poo he can't talk to anyone else in all of Hong Kong to. Watched movie, went their flat, got the card, went home. The end. Now for some autistic screeching I will actually write about it, just not now
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ladron posted:heh, I was a prof at yonsei, the seoul not wonju one No poo poo? I took my first module for the global MBA but then decided it wasn't for me. If there's one thing that's for certain, I really like the campus at Yonsei, despite it's almost schizophrenic mishmash of building styles. That library was serious business too; first you have to check out an assigned seating area, and then mark how long you're going to be there so the next student can slide in at their designated time. I can wax poetic about my time at Yonsei now but when I was going it was pretty stressful to me.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 18:59 |
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gently caress the haters. If they don't like it they can burn one of their goony calories flipping their scroll wheel down a few notches. I do enjoy your stories, but hope you're not too stressed out during your trip. Traveling usually makes me uncomfortable because I don't like to not know what's going on.
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Worst part of the year is coming up: I have to play make escort with my Hong Kong counterpart. Once or twice a year she comes to New York for some reason and I'm basically her bitch. I don't know how since we are equivalent to one another but it's just a given because we have to work with each other all the time. The past three years: One of my three bosses: "Oh, hey Glenn. Eustace is coming next Thursday. You'll show her around right?" And I say yes because I'm a colossal pussy. Que receiving an email from her for a one hour meeting everyday while she's in town. Invariably I have to stay late and chat with her about nothing but it's slightly work related. Without fail on Friday we will get drinks with the team and I'll have to take her to her hotel (because NYC is so confusing and scary) I'll say yes to a few drinks at the hotel bar and she will be on the edge of blacking out before I leave to go home. Nevermind that she has been to NYC about 5 or 6 times in three years. Everyone expects me to babysit and I cannot unfuck myself out of this short of a role change. AMA about my annoying HK counterpart.
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Glenn Quebec posted:Worst part of the year is coming up: I have to play make escort with my Hong Kong counterpart. Once or twice a year she comes to New York for some reason and I'm basically her bitch. I don't know how since we are equivalent to one another but it's just a given because we have to work with each other all the time. plunge
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:58 |
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No, there is no plunge I will not plunge. I am not a plunger. I loving WISH I could sever. The inane chatter, the emails requesting me to be on a call at like some absurd hour and looping me into emails written in Chinese to show off her American connect is awful. I literally have outlook route her emails to a special folder that is like a quarter of my daily emails. I get around 200 emails daily. And the conversations we have are so milquetoast. Everytime I've pushed the envelope with a question as bold as, "let's skip some protocol between each other (I.e. leave me off these emails and conference invites.)" She titters and covers her mouth and tells me I'm so bad. How? How am I bad? What have I done that's bad? I get giggled at. Almost the same response on the phone or by email. I swear to god if she gets promoted over me I'll leave.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 21:09 |
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Glenn Quebec posted:"let's skip some protocol between each other (I.e. leave me off these emails and conference invites.)" She titters and covers her mouth and tells me I'm so bad. How? How am I bad? What have I done that's bad? I get giggled at. Almost the same response on the phone or by email. Are you explicit about the "(I.e. leave me off these emails and conference invites.)" part? Because "let's skip some protocol between each other" sounds like you're coming onto her.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 21:50 |
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Do you want me to copy over a sanitized email Convo? I promise I'm not flirting.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 22:04 |
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She's acting like she thinks you are and what you posted sounds an awful lot like a rephrasing of how about we get more comfortable Like if you've put it like that instead of saying 100% explicitly that you want her to leave you off the emails and invites, I think I know what the problem is.
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I'm direct but friendly. I can't be a dick, I am reliant on her and if she freezes me out of critical, time sensitive stuff it'll look bad on my end.
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