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The Great Autismo!: Mar 3, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Jel Shaker posted:

Has anyone listened to the most recent economist podcast "is this the end of asias rise?"

go post this in the china d&d thread and tell them you are a white male

# ? Feb 24, 2017 01:49

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Electro-Boogie Jack: Nov 22, 2006; bagger mcguirk sent me.

oohhboy posted:

Length is also a terrible way to measure quality as they have nothing in common, I present AO's long post as evidence.

hahhahah holy poo poo. angel opportunity owned you really hard, but you just owned yourself even harder

# ? Feb 24, 2017 02:43

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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Jel Shaker posted:

Has anyone listened to the most recent economist podcast "is this the end of asias rise?"

You can listen to it in the background as you read oooohboys diary entry

Would be interested in listening for sure, do you have a link?

Of course since its the economist I can't help but think that their answer will ultimately be "no of course not because the latest five year plan sure looks good"

# ? Feb 24, 2017 02:56

big time bisexual: Oct 16, 2002; Cool Party

Fojar38 posted:

Would be interested in listening for sure, do you have a link?

Of course since its the economist I can't help but think that their answer will ultimately be "no of course not because the latest five year plan sure looks good"

https://soundcloud.com/theeconomist/the-economist-asks-is-this-the-end-of-asias-rise

# ? Feb 24, 2017 03:49

big time bisexual: Oct 16, 2002; Cool Party

The guy on the economist podcast mentions developing a "risk map" of asia. Sounds interesting so I take a look and this is what he came up with

# ? Feb 24, 2017 04:07

Darkman Fanpage: Jul 4, 2012

im the ship sailing away from all the bad things

# ? Feb 24, 2017 04:17

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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I listened to the podcast and it is actually really good and maybe a refreshing sign that the zeitgeist is catching up with this thread (lmao)

# ? Feb 24, 2017 04:41

FUCK SNEEP: Apr 21, 2007

oohhboy posted:

Length is also a terrible way to measure quality as they have nothing in common, I present AO's long post as evidence.

guess you've never had sex :smuggo:

# ? Feb 24, 2017 05:11

hakimashou: Jul 15, 2002; Upset Trowel

Jose posted:

oohhboy do you not have pictures of all the poo poo you've written about post those instead

Every story is better as a picture story

E:

Here are some pictures I took in Shenzhen at the Minsk World Soviet Aircraft Carrier Amusement Park and Museum

hakimashou fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Feb 24, 2017

# ? Feb 24, 2017 05:18

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Darkman Fanpage posted:

im the ship sailing away from all the bad things

I'm the guy who thought long and hard and then deliberately wrote "Frenemies" on that map.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 05:26

Mr. Fix It: Oct 26, 2000; 💀ayyy💀

McGavin posted:

I'm the guy who thought long and hard and then deliberately wrote "Frenemies" on that map.

I'm gonna take the fact he didn't bother to put quotes around "Frenemies" as he totally buys into it.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 05:51

Riot Bimbo: Dec 28, 2006

Risk of war: cyber war lmao

# ? Feb 24, 2017 05:51

oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

I didn't Finish reading AO's post because I choose to scroll through so if there was some ownage of me in there, I missed it. Yes I scrolled pass, something you can do too. I read something about hugging the Corgi Nuinui. Sorry AO if I blasted past your effort to own me, that really was a lot of effort and dedication I clearly didn't appreciate.

Also I am not going to post the pictures as the phone connection is terrible and it would take a week to do so even if it did. You guys would bitch about how there are too many then bitch about the blocking, why I choose not to take a video etc as you would have no context as to what is going on without the geo-data, limitations at the time, who they are for and captions. You yeah, no one here is going to get to see them without me visiting. If you don't believe that I took the photos I won't try to convince you otherwise. They will stay with my friends and family.

I don't make these posts on Facebook like I do here as the photos tell the story I want to. Had you said something constructive earlier or just scrolled pass I might have had the chance to correct all the writing errors in time.

Yes I did self own with that sentence, woe is me. Exactly what I deserved for being a terrible writer.

Moridin920 blows loving chunks and equating me to him is a nasty sting. I do try to improve unlike him.

But don't worry guys, you can get a repeat in a couple years! :thejoke:

Fake edit: Po po is lovely as she warned me it was cold for reals(I hadn't checked the weather yet) instead of the usual reasons of because it is a thing you just do even if the other person is known to wear 4 layers of clothing including the ever present puff jacket in 20 degree weather.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:05

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

The Economist: Young People Trying to Sound Like Old People

# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:05

Pretty good: Apr 16, 2007

Ooohboy you prick you can't post about ocean park and not tell the world what you thought about the escalators

# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:08

LentThem: Aug 31, 2004; 90% Retractible

one of the other china threads mentioned a thing where chinese dudes will win a Face argument by getting less and less coherent and increasingly aggressive, forcing the other guy to walk away confused.

i feel like i may be witnessing that

# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:19

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

I think of all the posting styles and types of complaints we have on these here forums, by far and away the absolute worst are the lovely posters who try to justify their lovely posting and then tell everyone that they can just scroll past their lovely posting if they don't like it. What you're basically saying is that your posts are without merit, which makes me wonder why you thought you should post them in the first place.

It's not the quality of the writing. It's not the length of the posts. A Sweaty Fatbeard in the Croatia thread rambles for pages with English as his second language but no one complains because he has something interesting to say. The issue we have with your posts is that they're laborious to get through. Making them shorter wouldn't actually change the fact that there's no content to them. You talk about how your Facebook posts tell your story with photos, but you're clearly not telling your story with words. Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end, which usually comes in the form of a payoff or a unifying point. Your posts are a meandering play by play of the most mundane poo poo possible.

Try this in the future: focus on one anecdote that was particularly outrageous and make a post that gets straight to the point.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:19

oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Atlas Hugged posted:

I think of all the posting styles and types of complaints we have on these here forums, by far and away the absolute worst are the lovely posters who try to justify their lovely posting and then tell everyone that they can just scroll past their lovely posting if they don't like it. What you're basically saying is that your posts are without merit, which makes me wonder why you thought you should post them in the first place.

It's not the quality of the writing. It's not the length of the posts. A Sweaty Fatbeard in the Croatia thread rambles for pages with English as his second language but no one complains because he has something interesting to say. The issue we have with your posts is that they're laborious to get through. Making them shorter wouldn't actually change the fact that there's no content to them. You talk about how your Facebook posts tell your story with photos, but you're clearly not telling your story with words. Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end, which usually comes in the form of a payoff or a unifying point. Your posts are a meandering play by play of the most mundane poo poo possible.

Try this in the future: focus on one anecdote that was particularly outrageous and make a post that gets straight to the point.

I will that this to heart.

I said that you could scroll pass not because I believe that they are without merit(pretty low self esteem place to be and someone in that state of mind wouldn't post on the first place). But you might find they are not worthwhile therefore you have both the free will, ability and my blessing for what's that is worth is skip pass it.

Basically your thought process on this is opposite from mine.

Edit: my apologies phone posting

oohhboy fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Feb 24, 2017

# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:49

lonter: Oct 12, 2012

oohhboy posted:

I will that this to heart.

I said that you could scroll pass not because I believe that they are without merit(pretty low self esteem place to be and someone in that state of mind wouldn't post on the first place. But you might find they are not worthwhile therefore you have both the free will, ability and my blessing for what's that is worth is skip pass it.

Basically your thought process on this is opposite from mine.

Please close your parenthesis.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:53

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

oohhboy posted:

You can do that since you are so interested in their menu. It can be your homework. Assignment due tomorrow.

I don't know if they still have them, but the taro pies at HK McDonalds I had, like, ten years ago? So frickin' good.

P.S. You be grumpy!

P.P.S. Is ohhhhhboy an AO sockpuppet?

# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:57

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

This is weird, maybe you guys can explain what is going on here.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B06W58XBNT

Even from China a $20 desk is stupidly cheap. The fourth photo says if there is missing parts to contact us "South Shore" but the product name doesn't contain contain South Shore so I try searching for South Shore desks. Hmm.

https://www.amazon.ca/South-Shore-Furniture-Axess-Collection/dp/B00846JN00

The exact same promotional photos, but this desk costs $120. Still a cheap desk, but more in line with what a cheap pressboard desk would cost locally.

I can't stop wondering what you get if you order the $20 desk. I mean, it can't actually be a knock-off of the $120 desk, it's too cheap even for a knock off. It's too cheap even if you made it out of leftover asbestos, lead paint, and spiders. What can they possibly be sending for $20?

# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:59

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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lol if you AREN'T an AO sockpuppet

# ? Feb 24, 2017 06:59

hailthefish: Oct 24, 2010

Facebook Aunt posted:

This is weird, maybe you guys can explain what is going on here.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B06W58XBNT

Even from China a $20 desk is stupidly cheap. The fourth photo says if there is missing parts to contact us "South Shore" but the product name doesn't contain contain South Shore so I try searching for South Shore desks. Hmm.

https://www.amazon.ca/South-Shore-Furniture-Axess-Collection/dp/B00846JN00

The exact same promotional photos, but this desk costs $120. Still a cheap desk, but more in line with what a cheap pressboard desk would cost locally.

I can't stop wondering what you get if you order the $20 desk. I mean, it can't actually be a knock-off of the $120 desk, it's too cheap even for a knock off. It's too cheap even if you made it out of leftover asbestos, lead paint, and spiders. What can they possibly be sending for $20?

A damaged, repackaged $120 desk with parts possibly missing.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:02

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

hailthefish posted:

A damaged, repackaged $120 desk with parts possibly missing.

Yeah, but then you could get your money back from amazon. And $20 shouldn't even be enough to cover the shipping. :psyduck:

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:05

oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Fojar38 posted:

lol if you AREN'T an AO sockpuppet

This would be an elevation of status at this point going by your responses.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:07

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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That was directed at everyone

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:08

oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Fojar38 posted:

That was directed at everyone

Communist!

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:16

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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okay which one of you loving goons posted this on reddit

quote:

It is insane hearing the US, in its current position as de facto world leader, try and lecture other countries about "freedom" or "democracy," or "world peace." The hypocrisy boggles my mind.
The US political system is the least democratic in the world. Hillary Clinton won the election, but Donald Trump was appointed president by a group of 538 randomly selected people.
The US is the only country in the world to have invaded another country in the past 70 years. 2.5 million civilians were massacred by US troops in Iraq, and then the US has the gall to call out China for defending its own territorial waters. The US tries to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, when it was the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon against CIVILIAN cities.
The US loves to bitch and whine about "terrorism," but it supports the terrorist state of Israel, and exports its hateful ideology to its neighbor Canada, recently resulting in a terrorist attack on a Quebec Mosque that killed six people.
Fortunately, the US' days as world leader are limited. It is being ruled by an incompetent lunatic, Donald Trump. It's economy is quickly falling. And it's military (in which I served, by the way) is nothing more than a paper tiger. The country is uneducated, is suffering from the highest murder rate in the world, and under Trump's EPA, its environment will soon become toxic and unlivable.
I honestly can think of no better country than China to fill the position that the US will soon vacate.
China is a stable, peaceful, forward thinking country. It is spending billions of dollars on developing new solar technology and cleaning its air at a time the US is actively trying to poison its own water.
China is a country with the finest education system in the world, and a deep respect for knowledge and scientific progress. At a time when Donald Trump is actively trying to shut down universities in America, China's PISA test scores are the highest in the entire world.
China does not carry out acts of aggression against other countries. China has never invaded a country once in it's history as a People's Republic. China has a few peacekeeping missions overseas, but that is nowhere near the 200 US military bases in countries it sometimes occupies by force or bullying.
China does not have the systemic racism and bigotry that is prevalent in the US. Chinese police officers are unarmed, and unlike in the USA, do not shoot or taze innocent people of color. At a time when Donald Trump is trying to close off America to non-white immigrants, China is expanding its green card system and opening its doors to people of all creeds and colors.
China is a country which cares for its citizens. At a time when Trump is trying to repeal Obamacare, China has universal healthcare. At a time when Trump is cutting funding to public services, China is pouring more money and support into its childrens' education.
Under Trump and the GOP rule, the US will quickly fall from its position of power in the world. This is a good thing in and of itself. What makes it even better is that China, a country wholly devoted to environmental protection, educational excellence, and non-intervention in other countries' business, will be the country that takes the mantle as the world's moral leader.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:21

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

lol that's a hell of a post right there. I was going to line by line it but I'm lazy.

imo these parts are valid

quote:

civilians were massacred by US troops in Iraq
The US was the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon against CIVILIAN cities.
It is being ruled by an incompetent lunatic, Donald Trump.
under Trump's EPA, its environment will soon become toxic
Donald Trump is trying to close off America to non-white immigrants
Trump is trying to repeal Obamacare Trump is cutting funding to public services
Under Trump and the GOP rule, the US will quickly fall from its position of power in the world.

Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Feb 24, 2017

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:33

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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virtually all of it is opposite-of-reality.txt actually

trump is a giant turd but he is a giant turd with limited influence

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:35

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

I wish I'd known China has universal healthcare before I paid for the private health insurance that is necessary because there's no healthcare here.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:40

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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i will bet that the chinese are really mad at the usa for dropping nukes on japan

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:43

hakimashou: Jul 15, 2002; Upset Trowel

Grand Fromage posted:

I wish I'd known China has universal healthcare before I paid for the private health insurance that is necessary because there's no healthcare here.

there's renmin hospital

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:44

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

Facebook Aunt posted:

This is weird, maybe you guys can explain what is going on here.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B06W58XBNT

Even from China a $20 desk is stupidly cheap. The fourth photo says if there is missing parts to contact us "South Shore" but the product name doesn't contain contain South Shore so I try searching for South Shore desks. Hmm.

https://www.amazon.ca/South-Shore-Furniture-Axess-Collection/dp/B00846JN00

The exact same promotional photos, but this desk costs $120. Still a cheap desk, but more in line with what a cheap pressboard desk would cost locally.

I can't stop wondering what you get if you order the $20 desk. I mean, it can't actually be a knock-off of the $120 desk, it's too cheap even for a knock off. It's too cheap even if you made it out of leftover asbestos, lead paint, and spiders. What can they possibly be sending for $20?

Oh, I think I figured it out. It's scammers scamming Amazon, lol.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadesh...g/#b64b3a43ea6d

quote:

This was unexpected. I have never had any problems on Amazon before. For many years I would order items and they would show up, exactly as they were supposed to � it wasn�t like I was using China�s Taobao or something, where you never know what you're going to get (if anything at all). But now that I've been scammed three times in a single holiday season, I�m starting to wonder if Amazon, a company that was once held as the global standard for e-commerce, has descended to the depths of its scam-rife, counterfeit-laden Chinese counterpart.

Was my experience this year merely an improbable coincidence or is there a growing pattern of customers being scammed on Amazon?

A brief internet search unfortunately revealed that it is more than likely the later. Starting around August 2016 a wave of articles and forum posts were published which outline this exact scam, which works like this:

A seller opens a new account and begins selecting popular items to "sell," which they can easily select with a few clicks using Amazon's streamlined seller's platform. They then list these items for prices that are generally cheaper than what other vendors are selling them for. When the orders come rolling in they almost immediately claim that the items have left the seller facility and are in transit to the carrier -- which releases the payment to their account. But they don�t actually ever ship out anything. In all likelihood, they never really even have the items they are claiming to be selling in the first place.

The game now is to buy time, to wait out Amazon�s two week payment cycle before the negative feedback and customer complaints inevitably begin coming in. To do this, these merchants claim that their items will not arrive for three to four weeks from the purchase date, which enables them to get paid long before customers even start wondering where their stuff is.

Eventually, after dealing with masses of angry customers who have come to terms with the fact that they were scammed, Amazon boots the offending party from their marketplace. But by this time the scammer has their money and has more than likely already opened a new seller account under a different name, as the process begins all over again.

In which case the scammers might not even be in China, they could be just pretending to be from China. Ruining the good name of the Chinese. :china:

# ? Feb 24, 2017 07:58

mrbotus: Apr 7, 2009; Patron of the Pants

Chinese cops are so not violent they will stand by and kan renao while your boyfriend stabs you to death on the floor of a 7-11.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 08:14

LimburgLimbo: Feb 10, 2008

oohhboy posted:

I will that this to heart.

I said that you could scroll pass not because I believe that they are without merit(pretty low self esteem place to be and someone in that state of mind wouldn't post on the first place). But you might find they are not worthwhile therefore you have both the free will, ability and my blessing for what's that is worth is skip pass it.

Basically your thought process on this is opposite from mine.

Edit: my apologies phone posting

Your lack of self awareness is really quite mind boggling. Are you just posting this all here because you have literally no friends to talk to or what? Can't imagine why that would be.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 09:33

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

cheer up

the world will end soon

# ? Feb 24, 2017 09:56

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

peanut posted:

cheer up

the world will end soon

# ? Feb 24, 2017 09:59

Gargamel Gibson: Apr 24, 2014

Remember back when we were surprised he found no takers on Chinese Tinder? Were we ever so young?

# ? Feb 24, 2017 10:00

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LimburgLimbo: Feb 10, 2008

I'm in Bangkok DMK immigration and there are so many Chinese tourists and they suck at lining up.

That's my concise China story of the day. It was really really hard to not ramble on pointlessly for pages but I'm not an autist so I somehow managed.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 10:05

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