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Grand Fromage posted:"There is an ancient Chinese saying: 'Sow melons and you will this must be a lie because it implies that people in china have understood the concept of "cause and effect" for generations
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Thank god I'm married. The abuse women take for being over 30 and unmarried here (and Korea, and Japan, and...) is more than I would be able to deal with. I get enough crap for not having kids- not so much here, but in Korea it was almost a daily lunch topic for my coworkers until I started refusing to go to lunch. don't be so selfish share those massive white boobs with the next generation
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LentThem posted:this must be a lie because it implies that people in china have understood the concept of "cause and effect" for generations lol
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Haier posted:I like these kinds of stories because it's an obvious cash-grab and he set himself up for it by telling her his salary, but now he's going to speculate away his time trying to figure out if his princess and her family are really that shallow. Yeah one of the things that makes the 50000 years of history poo poo so funny is that its more like 5 years.
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ladron posted:don't be so selfish share those massive white boobs with the next generation 
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The Great Autismo! posted:china's problem with modern day racism was imported from europe and white colonialism culture It was a thing of beauty, classic D&D.
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ladron posted:don't be so selfish share those massive white boobs with the next generation Thank you; this will be my custom title someday.
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Fauxtool posted:He has more posts asking him to stop than his own posts. He should take the hint I have landed safely and my reign of terror shall continue! South Korea in the day time is such a drab and depressing place not too unlike Russia at least from the photos I have seen anyway. It's grey with modern tower blocks interceded by large blocks of dead land broken up large avenues that could double for highways in New Zealand if not for the intersections. The North must be the second suicide capital of the world. Wandered around by bus and train until I reached Incheon Station/China Town. Had a walk through and it was the hokey as poo poo. It was more a glorified open air mall with a Chinese theme than an actual Chinatwon where people lived at. I took the Incheon tour bus for 5000won which appeared to be half the going rate as it is Independence Day. I didn't see any Independent Day events as they were either out of range, at night or otherwise couldn't appreciate due to time. The lady selling tickets had information and promo materials to give me that came with your tourist packets but unlike a lot of other people she apologised for not haven't English materials with which I was quite appreciative of her efforts. I let her off the hook by showing her the website version. The website version is a mix of lies and truths as none of the routes and stops described happened in any of the order described. Best answer, they haven't updated the website in ages and no one complained. The second to last stop was at and amusement park and I just can't say no. Played a kick skill/strength game getting some pretty good scores for someone wearing a 5 piece suit. Rode in a white taxi this time with more than enough time to spare. Security ran my duffel bag through the x-ray a couple times as they couldn't make out something they were visibly concerned about. Taken aside I opened the bag and went straight for the item that I thought might be the offending item as it looked like a hand grenade (I could see what they saw). We had a good laugh and security was quiet relieved. Had allocated some pretty good seats for myself on the plane and made a new friend from South Korea who was going to New Zealand studying business at Auckland U. The walking finally ends. I am home. This will be the final post on this matter as I am no longer in Asia. gently caress all you haters for not bringing anything to the table other than empty bitching. At least AO took some real effort to mock me. Love you AO. Electro-Boogie Jack posted:You understand that not posting is preferable to posting boring garbage, right? Let me quote Lowtax here: AHHHH YESSS some real sage advice. In China there is no Rule of Law so your assertion is meaningless. Haier posted:My Chinese name is 大白 Big White. Some girl gave me this name and I kept it out of novelty factor, and I am still a little surprised when someone uses it. For all the complaining I do IRL about "That's not an English name.. that's not even a name!," I decided to do the reverse for them. That is a drat good move. I have the opposite problem where I don't have an English name and people in HK get a little confused that someone would use their real name. Christianity is pretty big there mostly Catholic I presume so a lot of people get baptised which gets them an English name in the process.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:the majority of the 'barbarian' peoples actually have animal characters in their names 'cause they're less than human/civilized of course white people are birds iirc
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Fojar38 posted:white people are birds iirc yes because we have cloacae
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oohhboy posted:The second to last stop was at and amusement park and I just can't say no. Played a kick skill/strength game getting some pretty good scores for someone wearing a 5 piece suit. *counts on fingers* overcoat and fedora?
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Why were you wandering around in a five piece suit? What where the five pieces?
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BONGHITZ posted:Why were you wandering around in a five piece suit? What where the five pieces? Four popped collars and a thong.
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BONGHITZ posted:gently caress you fuckman gotta be quicker, son
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BONGHITZ posted:Why were you wandering around in a five piece suit? What where the five pieces? Chinese construction; should have been a three-piece suit, but it broke.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:also I really, really can't wait until those kids try and reconnect with mother China lol, seeing as the levels of disillusionment we get from half-white kids are already incredible and the reaction we have today is hella poo poo I, too, can't wait to read r/wuganda in 2035.
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oohhboy posted:This will be the final post on this matter as I am no longer in Asia. gently caress all you haters for not bringing anything to the table other than empty bitching. At least AO took some real effort to mock me. Love you AO. AO simply put effort into trolling you. Everyone else contributes to the thread by either making actual interesting posts about their times spent in Asia or interacting with Chinese in their home countries or by discussing the contents of one of those posts, thus providing unique insight and humor as a topic is opened up. You provide boring poo poo that no one cares about. Hey, here's a neat idea, why don't you say exactly what it was in your suitcase that looked like a grenade so we could share in the laugh that you had with airport security. I only assume that you didn't say what it was because you are no understanding of the fundamental underpinnings of communicating an interesting idea. Your posts are more like a Markov bot than an actual human trying to effectively communicate. Haier posted:My Chinese name is 大白 Big White. Some girl gave me this name and I kept it out of novelty factor, and I am still a little surprised when someone uses it. For all the complaining I do IRL about "That's not an English name.. that's not even a name!," I decided to do the reverse for them. I don't know that you can have a fake name in Chinese. It's a total grab bag of characters that people like, characters that are auspicious, and what the fortune teller told you was a good character based on when you were born. 大 is also regularly used in nicknames to indicate someone who is an older brother or a senior classmate or a higher rank or position. There very likely are a large number of Chinese people who go by 大白. My wife's actual Chinese name can be translated as "to cause a sewer", something that I love reminding her of at every opportunity.
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My Chinese "name" is 地佬 (ground man) for convoluted dull reasons, but most people just use my English name because I don't live in Bumfuck Henaaaan
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This thread was way more entertaining when people weren't constantly bitching about one users posts.
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simplefish posted:My Chinese "name" is 地佬 (ground man) for convoluted dull reasons, but most people just use my English name because I don't live in Bumfuck Henaaaan That's a megaman character.
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weg posted:This thread was way more entertaining when people weren't constantly bitching about one users posts. He destroyed the harmony of the thread. LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Any China goons have any experience/stories with Chinese gangs or organized crime? Are they as incompetent as this thread makes the rest of China seem? I've definitely hung around guys that were aspiring gangsters in Taiwan. They'd roll up to the lovely dive bars I'm naturally attracted to in their blacked out SUVs with a ridiculous entourage. The bossman would take the center seat on a sofa and order his minions and bar staff around alike. They'd order bottles of whisky like they were important, but in Taiwan that's really just par for the course. Taiwanese love themselves some whisky. Usually if they saw white people like myself they'd order us to drink with them and then I'd have to play translator. This usually earned the ire of someone in the entourage since then I would get to sit directly next to the bossman and would displace someone else in his favor, but there'd be nothing they could do about it but give me the stink eye when the bossman wasn't looking. There'd always be one weaselly looking guy stationed by the bathroom to make sure it was clear when the bossman went to pee. All in all it was usually a ridiculous experience that resulted in a hangover.
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Any China goons have any experience/stories with Chinese gangs or organized crime? Are they as incompetent as this thread makes the rest of China seem? I was chatting with a chinese dude who owns a little sushi place and he was saying where he was from, some very small town outside of Bejing (so probably a million+ people) you had to always have cash on you because "bandits" would accost you on the road and you had to give them some fairly locally agreed upon small amount of money or they'd beat you up. I don't know how true that is but he said he loved Canada because you could walk anywhere even in the country or woods and no one would try to rob you.
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Fojar38 posted:white people are birds iirc Pejorative ethnonyms in Chinese usually use either the dog or snake radical What a missed opportunity that the homonym 狫外 wasn't ever used.
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Atlas Hugged posted:All in all it was usually a ridiculous experience that resulted in a hangover. a summary of my 10 years in korea
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Any China goons have any experience/stories with Chinese gangs or organized crime? Are they as incompetent as this thread makes the rest of China seem? A while back there was a fight at my school (not my students) where one kid beat up another one pretty good. The kid who lost the fight's dad hired a bunch of gangsters and the school was on lockdown for a week because every entrance had a van of thugs outside with hammers waiting to beat the gently caress out of the victorious kid if they caught sight of him.
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Grand Fromage posted:A while back there was a fight at my school (not my students) where one kid beat up another one pretty good. The kid who lost the fight's dad hired a bunch of gangsters and the school was on lockdown for a week because every entrance had a van of thugs outside with hammers waiting to beat the gently caress out of the victorious kid if they caught sight of him. and these were like middle school kids?
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Atlas Hugged posted:He destroyed the harmony of the thread. To contribute: Up until recently I worked at an American dental lab that did 90% of its manufacturing in Shenzhen. Every Chinese New Year we would have 10-20% of our staff not return to work. This would always throw production into a tailspin for a few weeks and they'd have the sales people lying to customers about non-existent shipping delays. This was because for a while they hid the fact their product came from China. Is this in any way typical? I assumed this was because they were just as lovely and annoying to work for in China as they were in the US. 
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ladron posted:and these were like middle school kids? Dunno. It's one of those giant school campuses that has the full 1-12 grade range so it could've been any age.
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I like when chinese people give themselves an english name. I know 2 separate unrelated women who like to be called "money"
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Baronjutter posted:I was chatting with a chinese dude who owns a little sushi place and he was saying where he was from, some very small town outside of Bejing (so probably a million+ people) you had to always have cash on you because "bandits" would accost you on the road and you had to give them some fairly locally agreed upon small amount of money or they'd beat you up. I don't know how true that is but he said he loved Canada because you could walk anywhere even in the country or woods and no one would try to rob you. 5000 years of banditry.
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weg posted:Report/Ignore/Move On? The wall of complaints is way more boring to read then any of his posts. My girlfriend used to be a HR director, she said this happens every year at spring festival at most factories and places like that and it's getting more common. The cost of living is rising faster than wages so it's not as worthwhile for people to live at the bottom of society in the city away from their families. I think this is just for higher tier cities though.
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Any China goons have any experience/stories with Chinese gangs or organized crime? Are they as incompetent as this thread makes the rest of China seem? I have no experience with them in China, but if I'm in a big city after dark, I always head for Chinatown. Triads don't let anyone gently caress around on their turf; I've had bouncers at Chinatown clubs nicely escort me down the street and tell me not to go back that way again for a few hours. Also, the Fillmore Karaoke in Oakland Chinatown totally lets you smoke in the rooms. Fauxtool posted:I like when chinese people give themselves an english name. I know 2 separate unrelated women who like to be called "money" I love weird English names. One of our kids came up with "Vancely" last year, but the principal made her change it. I think they're weirder in China; my coworkers in Japan and Korea were like, "Hi, I'm Sunny/Jane/Mary," etc. I meet Chinese English teachers and they're like, "I'm Cherry/Chocolate/Happiness."
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weg posted:Is this in any way typical? I assumed this was because they were just as lovely and annoying to work for in China as they were in the US. Sounds legit. Errr, or not.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I think they're weirder in China; my coworkers in Japan and Korea were like, "Hi, I'm Sunny/Jane/Mary," etc. I meet Chinese English teachers and they're like, "I'm Cherry/Chocolate/Happiness." a sampling of korean university freshmen girl names - Jinny, Jenny, Potato, Kitty, Lisa, Mary, Devil, SexyGirl, MonkeyFace
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