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Glenn Quebec posted:I'm the beer bottle 
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Jeoh posted:saw rene chang in the video will probably make a comment on hank hill asses are better than western women yoga asses.
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I spent the better part of the afternoon with a bunch of Chinese people and it was fantastically pleasant. They were coworkers of my wife and their stay at home dad husbands. So while the language and cultural barriers were still there, at least we all had some common ground. The only thing of note was that the one grandma present could not speak Mandarin to save her life. She could understand it fine, but whenever she replied it was in some municipal dialect that only her daughter could understand. My evening was spent with my Korean friend, and that nearly ended up with me getting thrown out of a taxi, literally, because he got bored and decided to open the door while we were in transit. The driver was none to happy. That's the last time I go anywhere with that guy if he's started drinking before I meet up with him.
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Somehow the thing that caught my eye the most are the stools tied together to make table legs...
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Chinese Culture/Face/Tradition Rant incoming So the wife and I are having a Hybrid ("ohhh. . . mixed baby so cute and smart") and I've already made the arrangements for my mother in law to fly out during the March break. My father in law is not coming because his parents are both under the weather. The baby is due in mid-August, and I assumed that he was going to come out some time around then. My wife has just informed me that he might not be coming this year, or the next, or the next. . . until his parents die. My father in law has 4 brothers and one sister. His parents always favoured the oldest brother until the sister married a rich guy and then they hooked their wagon to her star because "they will take such good care of us". In the past 20+ years of their daughter's marriage to this guy, the biggest benefit they have directly received from this arrangement (besides bragging rights) is a one-time, week-long trip to Hong Kong 10 years ago. . . that's it. They visit for a day during spring festival, and during some large events in the town (marriages, etc.) but that is it. So their daughter having married this rich guy has not benefitted them at all in any way (besides the one trip), but they continue to lick their daughter and her husband's boots because their "kindness" is going to pay off big when they get old and sick. . .  x 88888888So guess who is taking care of them now? a. The oldest son who was their favourite at first b. The rich daughter who is their current favourite c. My father in law who was never their favourite d. All of their kids are chipping in to lend a hand e. The CCP's extensive social welfare system  Text your answer to 444NOWHYSo despite my father in law always having to be the one to take care of his parents, and always stepping up and helping everyone in the family out whenever they needed it (financial or in other ways*), nobody is willing to help take care of their parents so that he can be there to see his Grandchild being born, or visit her/him in the near future. His parents are at the point where they are not going to be able to take care of themselves any more, so his job now is to take care of them until they both die. My father in law's parents don't care that they are depriving him of seeing his grandchild, they don't care that they have other children who they could ask or guilt, they don't care that all of that rear end-kissing to their rich daughter was for absolutely nothing, all they care about are themselves. The most infuriating thing, is that their rich daughter and her husband have three apartments, two drivers, and two maids. They could put their parents in one of the apartments, have a live-in caretaker watch them, and never really have to lift a finger themselves or be burdened in any way, and get to brag about taking such good care of their parents. Despite none of this happening, all my father in law's parents do is inquire about his sister and her husband and daughter, and talk about how great they are, all the while he is the one taking care of them. I've been talking to my wife about this for a few days now, because I really want BaBa to come over here, but she's all but resigned to the fact that the grandparents will not make any concessions. She knows that nobody will try and help her dad (by helping their own parents) and that he will not leave his parents (so they, or his siblings don't lose face), and that he's probably going to miss out on the first 5 or so years of his grandchild's life, because he is the only person in the whole family with any ounce of humanity. If he was only a little less Chinese he might say, "to hell with all of you, I'm going", but I don't know if he will do that. I'm going to try and sell my wife on the idea of telling BaBa to just say he is leaving in a few months, and that it's already set in stone, and see if anyone finally has the decency or feels guilty enough to step up and take care of their parents. My money is that if he tried this, everyone would put all of their efforts into shaming him for abandoning his own parents. x4444Basically, "gently caress Chinese Culture", and hurry up and die you two old 傻屄! *I honestly am starting to wonder if my in laws are actually mainland Chinese, since they are so selfless, giving, open to new experiences and food, and are quick learners, gracious and thankful, and adapt really well to other cultural norms.
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Blistex posted:Chinese Culture/Face/Tradition Rant incoming
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Ceciltron posted:In the land of the wicked, the finest form of protest is a life lived in goodness with an open heart. Doesn't get you laid, though.
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Blistex posted:sucky things I'm sorry, Blistex. That must be really upsetting. I don't have anything useful to say, so here is nice catte.
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Feb 26, 2017 01:09
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That really sucks because I remember your father in law being dope as hell
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Any of you guys have the pleasure of eating Donkey Meat? Donkey hot pot or donkey blood rice? The chinese are wrong about a lot of stuff but not 天上龙肉 地上驴肉
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hakimashou posted:Any of you guys have the pleasure of eating Donkey Meat? You are what you eat. 
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Facebook Aunt posted:You are what you eat. does that make me a dick or an rear end in a top hat
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I'm sorry, Blistex. That must be really upsetting. Fojar38 posted:That really sucks because I remember your father in law being dope as hell They're both really, really awesome and the coolest in-laws that you could ask for. They were with us ten days short of a year and even on the last day it did not feel like they were in the way or a burden in any way. My father in law was a huge help around the house (replacing windows) and on the farm (helping my dad with fences and vaccinations), and he even helped me (and himself) to make a crapload of money doing contracting in the spring and summer (I paid him $100 a day, and I think he went home with about $2,500, $1,500 short of what they brought and spent. It really sucks that everyone in his family are so selfish that they would rather him stay in China and not see his first grandchild, than step up and share the responsibility that he is doing alone. I think in a month or two my wife and I will try again, and see if we can get him to give his family an ultimatum, so that they have no other choice (tell him that we bought a ticket and can't return it). If not, I'm going to try and get my wife to call her grandparents and guilt them into letting him go, but as you all know, that sort of thing goes against he instincts of pretty much every Chinese person on earth.
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Fojar38 posted:does that make me a dick or an rear end in a top hat 
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Warning! This post contains potential spoilers about the movie Arrival! I was reading the wiki because my friend was talking to me about the movie but I didn't care enough to watch it. Anyway, theres some alien pods or something appearing all over the world and China wants to attack the one near them. However, "Louise returns as the camp is being evacuated. She has a vision of herself at a future United Nations reception, being thanked by General Shang for convincing him to suspend China's military attack. He explains that she had called his private mobile telephone. He shows her its number, which he says he knows he must do without understanding why." No why 
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I'm fresh off a double-probation. Thanks to Genesplicer, my rap sheet makes me look a DnD poster and a mod can glance at it and think I am more scummy than I already am. LOL. Restaurant Review: A few nights ago Chaoshan Girl took me to eat at a Chaoshan restaurant that she said was "just like home," AKA a 3 hour bus ride away. It was... It tasted like when someone who has never cooked a type of food before tries to make it based on memories of seeing pictures in a food magazine a few years prior. It was like a shanzhai version of what you think Chinese food is supposed to be. It was noodles in slime with boiled lettuce and about a cup full of MSG flavoring. Her bowl-plate was similar, but it was instead like rice-slime that was supposed to noodle-ish. I don't know. I looked around and everyone had a giant bowl of slime with melted green vegetables and meat or doufu floating. Atmosphere: 4/10; The kitchen was loud, but the place was clean. No music. Food Presentation: 2/10; Ghostbusters-level of slime here (or GB-inspired porn levels). Taste: 3/10; Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh. MSG Level: 10+/10 Amount of Oil-Per-Bite (O/B): 10/10 Replay Value: 0/10 Last night we went to Saizeriya (萨莉亚). I don't often go there, but sometimes you want cheap junk food pizza that is similar to Lunchables pizza put in a microwave. One of my friends was like "I thought only children eat there? I have never seen adults in that place unless it's the parents." I have not had that experience at the locations I've been to until last night, when we went to the one near my house and we were the oldest people in the entire place. It was so loving loud that we had to shout at each other to speak, which eventually just made us stop talking. Kids were running back and forth playing Tag and other games, and the little idiots came in big groups but decided to sit in the 2-seat booths, and then bring wood chairs and crowd them around the tiny tables, blocking all access to the walkways for workers and customers. Nobody said anything or did anything about it. Atmosphere: 0/10; So loud with kids I couldn't even enjoy eating. Italian music was playing, some guy singing "rear end in a top hat-a-mia" over and over. Food Presentation: 6/10; It looked like the food it represented. Taste: 5/10; Junk food, but hit the junk food tropes properly (salt, fats, and carb ratio) Hot Drink Machine Selection: 10/10; Hot matcha milk, six kinds of decent coffee, milk tea, etc. Price: 8/10; Cheap enough for "Western" garbage food. Replay Value: 6/10; Only if it is once per month and during the time when the poo poo head kids are in school. I was sitting there and see my boss's daughter's friend taking a photo of me and Chaoshan Girl at our booth. I know she would be immediately sending the photo to my boss's daughter, who would then be like "Look, Mama, Haier is with a girl!!!!" This means on Monday I am going to get grilled about it. As far as my boss is concerned, I am celibate and perpetually alone. Even though I do have male Chinese friends I meet like twice a month (but they are married and with children, so it's not that fun), she thinks I never talk to women. Her whole goal for me is for me to find a girlfriend, which in Chinese thinking will be the reason I can't ever leave China because I will love her so much and never want to be without her. My boss wants this because she wants to give me her company and go do something else, and she believes a girl is the only way to get me to stay. Glenn Quebec posted:If I am in mainland china. In a rural part. And I accidentally maim someone with my Audi. Do I: https://i.imgur.com/PL7OEUF.gifv (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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hakimashou posted:Any of you guys have the pleasure of eating Donkey Meat? I tried it in Xi'an at a restaurant that was (wait for it) famous for donkey meat. It was altogether unremarkable for me. Not quite sure what I expected but it wasn't bad.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Korean friend Guess you'll never see him again. Donkey is really good, I just had some yesterday.
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Random minibus shows up just as I need it. It is a rather run down one without a octopus card reader and tells me to pay later which is very much like the old days since I was getting off at his terminus. I thank him just for being there and he gives me a quick run do about his poo poo relationship with his wife. He continues to pickup and drop off passengers as we make our way there at where ever the gently caress traffic be damned.
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Blistex posted:Chinese Culture/Face/Tradition Rant incoming
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Haier posted:My boss wants this because she wants to give me her company and go do something else, and she believes a girl is the only way to get me to stay. what is this willy wonka bullshit
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I love that the reason this guy leaves his car in drive, is because he's in such a rush to throw open his door and charge at the other driver in order to regain Face for an accident that was clearly his fault in the first place. Ah, mainland China. 
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Almost got chinr. Walked into a gym / fighting shop hoping to learn one or to things and get some exercise for a couple hundred bucks. Get shown the place which is pretty impressive. I get taken into a hot booth and the high pressure sale pitch starts. They don't get it through their thick skulls I am really only there for an hour or two and was only willing to spend a couple $100hkd as they offer a plan for $1500. They come back with a lower price of $1200. The room is getting rather warm which would have worked on anyone else but as perusal I am wearing shorts and a t-shirt. They keep pressuring me as I go for the door. I think it's locked but a quick check and the door opens with a lot more force. All this no doubt done to pressure the mark. Another thing to tick off my list.
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Haier posted:my rap sheet makes me look a DnD poster and a mod can glance at it and think I am more scummy than I already am. LOL. debatable Known Lecher posted:I love that the reason this guy leaves his car in drive, is because he's in such a rush to throw open his door and charge at the other driver in order to regain Face for an accident that was clearly his fault in the first place. Ah, mainland China. I'm no car scientist, but I think leaving it in drive would make it move forward. I think he went to put it into park and didn't go far enough and left it in R, which stands for "not foRward"
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ladron posted:debatable Duh yeah, it looks like one of those elevated expressways so I assumed they were going up an incline and the car started rolling backwards, but that's much more likely (and even funnier).
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LentThem posted:what is this willy wonka bullshit
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Haier posted:This country holds zero interest for me at this point, no matter the money I could be making. hey now, let's not discount the number of hair caves yet to be explored
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Sorry you got probated in that dumpster fire of a thread, haier.. welcome to the "new" GBS.
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Haier, it seems like you regularly get in trouble for being transphobic. I'm not offended personally, so I'm not really bothered, but what's your deal? Does this issue have something to do with your history in Thailand?
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nickmeister posted:Haier, it seems like you regularly get in trouble for being transphobic. I'm not offended personally, so I'm not really bothered, but what's your deal? Does this issue have something to do with your history in Thailand? First probation: Told a story of a hijra, which are Indian transwomen that are culturally tied to certain things, demanding money and trying to scratch my face when I wouldn't give my hard-earned rupees (actually told the story later in the thread, rather than a summary). I didn't use the proper pronouns. Second time: Said regular cis women probably don't want to gently caress transwomen. Third time: Hours later I got probated again for the same post for some reason. That's it. One of my Thai relatives is a ladyboy, and my best friend in Thailand seems to have like half of her friends as ladyboys so she's always asking me to hang out in the groups when I am there, and we do. Last time in Thailand I added one of her friends to my Line and she (a ladyboy) was like "Wow, you're the first guy to speak to me like a normal human... I LOVE YOU and I want to marry you" and then had to say I did not feel the same, and got the cold shoulder and a few dick pics later to test the waters (it was not a good dick). I could not give a flying gently caress, and everyone should be free to do what they want with their own life (though I did not bang any ladyboys, unfortunately for this thread). I posted my theory a few times how if China accepted transwomen it would save the country for all the unmarried men and people would be a lot more chill.
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Haier posted:Regularly? The first probie for the post in the gassed thread was an instant 6 hour from the mod. They queued you up at the same time for a longer one but that takes admin approval, hence the two probations for the same post.
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Grand Fromage posted:Guess you'll never see him again. My wife will be thrilled.
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quote:We're not really picky about food. A Chinese proverb: "anything whose back faces the sky can be eaten". It really depends how you cook it. Even in Taiwan, it took my stomach about a month to adjust to the oilier foods here.
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Many pages ago, someone posted about how when people are going to take a long train ride the family will give them a 10kg bag/box of fruit/medicine/food to carry home. It's exactly how it is, but there's the other side of it. It's always "You are going/coming to/from X? Well, can you bring/take this garbage for me? Come on." It's completely normal to bug people to bring stuff or carry stuff to and fro, usually useless herbal medicine or other mundane crap that puts the carrier into a lovely position. They all do it, especially with medicine or some dumb thing they can buy where they live. "Hey, I heard that the thing I want is 10 RMB cheaper where you live. Please carry it all the way back to where I live. Thanks." I never tell anyone I am going to Hong Kong because every single time it's either "Can you bring this medicine to my relative?" or "Can you bring back X-kg of milk powder for my friend's kid?" It doesn't matter if it's exactly the same poo poo that they can buy in China, but they really make such a huge deal about stuff coming from HK. Even the Mannings (pharmacy health shop) at the border crossing on the HK side is bustling with people going there just for buying the same baby formula sold in China, probably made in the same factory. I got duped the first time when my boss's husband asked me to bring back 3kg of baby formula for him, which he had apparently made a sale for on Taobao and was waiting impatiently for me to return with it. He still hasn't paid me back, which I completely forgot about until writing this and now need to bug him about it. I also like the non-logic about people always needing to arrive to their hometown during Spring Festival carrying humongous boxes of oranges or apples, which are sold abundantly everywhere and easier just to buy once they arrive. Instead of doing that, they carry a 10kg box of the same boring oranges 15 hours on a train and 6 hours on a bus. The first time I met my ex-GFs parents in hometown, when we were leaving they gave us a 5kg bag of pomegranates. I didn't know much about face culture back then, and they had assumed I had never eaten or seen such a fruit before. The look on their faces when I said they are common in the supermarkets where I am from... pure face loss. nickmeister posted:Even in Taiwan, it took my stomach about a month to adjust to the oilier foods here. Me: "Maybe it was that fried food feast you ate last night. That was a ton of oil in one meal." Her: "No, it's not that. There was a fan blowing on my body, and I think the air made my stomach bad. I really can't be near fans." Me: "That's not how the body works." Her: "Really? Do you think maybe it's the food I ate last night? Why?" Me: "You ate a bunch of fried street food, of course that could be a cause. I sometimes take dumps that are nothing but oil." Her: "I had the oil poop today, but I really think it was the wind. When the body gets cold wind on i.." Me: "OK"
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Haier posted:Me: "Maybe it was that fried food feast you ate last night. That was a ton of oil in one meal." One of my Chinese language teachers is a total babe, but recently she's started talking about TCM-type stuff. It's honestly a turn off to hear a woman who is really intelligent spout off a bunch of silly poo poo.
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nickmeister posted:One of my Chinese language teachers is a total babe, but recently she's started talking about TCM-type stuff. It's honestly a turn off to hear a woman who is really intelligent spout off a bunch of silly poo poo. you eventually compromise/settle and tune it out
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Haier posted:Many pages ago, someone posted about how when people are going to take a long train ride the family will give them a 10kg bag/box of fruit/medicine/food to carry home. It's exactly how it is, but there's the other side of it. It's always "You are going/coming to/from X? Well, can you bring/take this garbage for me? Come on." It's completely normal to bug people to bring stuff or carry stuff to and fro, usually useless herbal medicine or other mundane crap that puts the carrier into a lovely position. They all do it, especially with medicine or some dumb thing they can buy where they live. "Hey, I heard that the thing I want is 10 RMB cheaper where you live. Please carry it all the way back to where I live. Thanks." That was me. I never tell anyone where I am going so I don't get asked to carry stuff too often. When I went back to the UK for summer though one of my girlfriends friends from her hometown who I'd only ever met once wanted me to buy him a watch that was about £10,000. He wouldn't give me the money up front either. From the being given stuff to carry side of things the worst thing I had was we went to visit my girlfriends grandma when we were with her family for spring festival. She lived outside the city in a rural/factory area that looked like a warzone. She decided to show us her chickens and then kept giving me the eggs she would find. I ended up with about 10 of them, just walking around with them awkwardly in my hands trying not to drop them, not even in a bag or anything. Being the other side of the country from where I live there's not really much I can do with eggs so I tried giving them to other people but everyone just refused saying they were for me. Then when we got back to her parents house I tried give them to her parents to cook with but they still refused saying they were mine, I should take them home with me.
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