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ladron posted:a sampling of korean university freshmen girl names - Jinny, Jenny, Potato, Kitty, Lisa, Mary, Devil, SexyGirl, MonkeyFace Why do you have a list of Korean freshmen girls? No, on second thought, don't answer that.
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Pirate Radar posted:Why do you have a list of Korean freshmen girls? No, on second thought, don't answer that. I was a professor there for 6 years. Students liked me. Students still regularly contact me, if just to say hi.
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Mar 2, 2017 08:37
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ladron posted:MonkeyFace very close to my chinese name, "monkeyfart" spooky
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Mar 2, 2017 08:41
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Name talk: my dad wanted to give me the English name Wilson but my mum vetoed him because she thought it was a stupid name. Thanks mum. I just rock my Chinese name and try to tally up all the ways that people mispronounce it.
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Mar 2, 2017 08:43
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Fojar38 posted:very close to my chinese name, "monkeyfart" I would for real kill for business cards that said my name was "MonkeyFart"
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Mar 2, 2017 08:46
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I just like reading this thread but had to add this story of me and my girlfriend taking a tour of the Hearst Castle. We were the only two americans in the tour group, with three families of unrelated chinese tourists making up the rest of it. Half of them didn't even speak english so i'm not really sure why the chose the guided tour instead of just walking around at their own pace. When the tour guide did his usual ice breaker routine going around the group there was a teenage boy who said his name was Johnson. When he noticed the tour guide was looking a little incredulous he clarified that he really liked the ball player Magic Johnson. The tour guide left it there and we continued the tour. I spent the whole rest of the tour thinking of a polite way to break it to this kid that the english first name he chose a. Wasn't a first name and b. Could be considered a dick euphemism until him and his family kept touching all the exhibits and leaving peanut shells everywhere and I ended up deciding that that was actually the name he probably deserved.
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Mar 2, 2017 08:54
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Mar 2, 2017 09:40
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lol
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Mar 2, 2017 09:42
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ladron posted:a sampling of korean university freshmen girl names - Jinny, Jenny, Potato, Kitty, Lisa, Mary, Devil, SexyGirl, MonkeyFace That's so funny; I had "The Monkey Face," too. He would get very angry if you forgot "the." I also had a sixth-grade boy named I Don't Think So Girl. for sale posted:I just like reading this thread but had to add this story of me and my girlfriend taking a tour of the Hearst Castle. We were the only two americans in the tour group, with three families of unrelated chinese tourists making up the rest of it. Half of them didn't even speak english so i'm not really sure why the chose the guided tour instead of just walking around at their own pace. When the tour guide did his usual ice breaker routine going around the group there was a teenage boy who said his name was Johnson. When he noticed the tour guide was looking a little incredulous he clarified that he really liked the ball player Magic Johnson. The tour guide left it there and we continued the tour. I have had several students tell me their English name was Johnson...because they know it means dick. But I just realized "Magic Johnson" is a hilarious name.
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Mar 2, 2017 09:45
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I also had a sixth-grade boy named I Don't Think So Girl. Son of Mrs Yes-man
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Mar 2, 2017 09:46
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I bet that family knows who's on first.
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Mar 2, 2017 09:54
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i knew a chinese university freshman named "Fuckman" i dont know if he still uses that name
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Mar 2, 2017 10:11
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CAKE Today is 21c/70f, bright and sunny, no humidity, and a nice light breeze. I wanted to eat my lunch outside so I went and bought some oily veg and doufu thing along with a piece of cake from a bakery. The quiet and hidden place I would normally sit was under construction suddenly, so I walked around for a while until I found a decent spot in a dead-end corner between a short wall and some bushes. Immediately the kan re nao begins, starting with old people. The place I am sitting is visible from another walkway about 15 meters away, and people stopping to look at me from a distance. Now they walk close, with the usual old-man-with-his-arms-behind-his-back walking so close to gawk that he's brushing my knees while I am just trying to listen to a podcast and eat my drat food. Some just stand there, saying nothing and watching. Now Face culture comes in, because it's a dead-end and they can admit they just came to gawk and go back the way they came, or climb the small wall to get back to the sidewalk. These 70-year-old raisins choose to climb the wall. The younger people start coming, also slowing down to stare at the zoo animal using chopsticks to eat. I can see my reflection in the glass and notice a guy standing behind me and the wall, watching me from the backside. Now there are women in high heels climbing over the wall and bushes because they don't want to lose face to turn around and go back. I get to my cake and realize I forgot to get a fork. I cut it into squares with the chopstick and eat them that way with the chopsticks, easily and without making much of a mess. This really gets people on the other side of the wall to stop and stare. Some fat Buzzcut walks up to me (on my side) and stares, laughs loudly while pointing, and then climbs the wall while his melted-pudding wife follows him I can't wait to stop being seen on the same level as a loving zoo animal.
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Mar 2, 2017 10:14
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if you put a tip jar out and strummed some chords i bet you could make some money
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Mar 2, 2017 10:28
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meatspin for fun and profit
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Mar 2, 2017 10:29
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Haier posted:CAKE How do you put up with this? I'd be on the first plane out.
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Mar 2, 2017 10:40
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Money and Pussy are like neutron stars in certain conditions - crushed though you might be, you can't escape that space.
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Mar 2, 2017 10:53
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drat, if I was a chinese dude, I'd call myself Chingis Carl or Jupiter Optimus Prime.
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Mar 2, 2017 11:11
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Most of my female students had stripper names: Apple, Cherry, Strawberry, etc.
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Mar 2, 2017 11:13
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Atlas Hugged posted:Most of my female students had stripper names: Apple, Cherry, Strawberry, etc. ..... "students"
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Mar 2, 2017 11:19
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I don't get odd names at school right now, but a lot of my students have family abroad so I think there's a sort of moderating check on whether or not their name sounds alright. My boss has a relatively narrow range of names she thinks are okay or easy, and sometimes we hire someone with an uncommon (English or at least European in origin) first name, so my boss gives them a nickname--might or might not be anywhere close to their real name--so that it's easier for her to remember and pronounce.
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Mar 2, 2017 11:19
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Pirate Radar posted:my boss gives them a nickname--might or might not be anywhere close to their real name--so that it's easier for her to remember and pronounce. does she not know about numbers?
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Mar 2, 2017 11:21
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ladron posted:does she not know about numbers? Teacher #317 and Teacher #316 are still confusingly similar when all whiteys look the same
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Mar 2, 2017 11:25
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ohhboyyy show up a pic of your 5 piece suit
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Mar 2, 2017 12:04
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Steakandchips posted:How do you put up with this? *chews thoughtfully* *stares* *follows you down the street* *quacks*
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Mar 2, 2017 12:25
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simplefish posted:Teacher #317 and Teacher #316 are still confusingly similar when all whiteys look the same just tattoo the numbers on them, like all great leaders do
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Mar 2, 2017 12:30
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I miss just wandering around the streets in China. Sometimes it was all just chinese bullshit but sometimes you'd find really cool stuff. One time down some random street i found a tiny little Japanese restaurant that always had real high quality salmon sushi, and real imported Japanese beer from kegs, sold ice cold. It was like finding treasure or some secret temple. The only good cold beer in a city of a million or more people. hakimashou fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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Mar 2, 2017 12:55
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Restaurants that stand out like that in Shanghai are gone in a few months because only places that conform are popular It's safer to open a restaurant that matches at least two other places on the same street
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Mar 2, 2017 13:10
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LentThem posted:Restaurants that stand out like that in Shanghai are gone in a few months because only places that conform are popular I dunno how this place stayed open, but there was usually one or two dudes I figured were Japanese businessmen sitting at the tiny sushi bar drinking huge bottles of sake and looking glum. It was cool sometimes how China would have streets where all the shops were the same kind of thing. City where I lived had a flower street of all flower shops, and a little pet street of all pet shops. My favorite street in HK is Des Vouex Road, split down the middle by the quaint old trams, totally lined on both sides with dozens of dried seafood shops, center of the world trade in shark fins and the most genuinely fragrant precinct of all in the Fragrant Harbor. The first time I bought dried scallops was in the mainland, from what I guess was like a gift shop in the fanciest hotel in town, and they charged me 70 rmb each or something for a few of them, but I'd read about "conpoy" and really wanted to have a try. The next time I was in HK I went to Des Vouex Rd and into a random shop. The scallops they had were bigger and better than the desiccated things I'd paid so much for back in Chinar. They had many differnt sizes piled high in bags, beautiful fresh translucent amber and gold. I didn't really understand the way they'd marked the prices, but I figured it was HK, these were better, they were gonna cost a fortune. I was conservative and didn't go for the silver dollar sized ones, but tried to eyeball something the same size as what I'd had. Once you've eaten dried scallops you're an addict, or at least that's how it went for me. I confidently went up to the dude working there and asked in my lovely Cantonese for Three Scallops, pointing to the ones I'd picked out. Li go, Sam go ah. He was already looking at me with a thinly veiled "what's this dumb gweilo doing in here ogling all our poo poo," but when I said I wanted three he really screwed up his face and held up his hand with three fingers and repeated back to me with naked disdain SAM GO UHHH?, then shook his head and and waved me away. MOOOUU AH, MMMMMM GOP CHOP, (((STRANGLING-HORSES))), gently caress-off-idiot. I had no idea what he said, I asked again for three, and got another little head shake, a wrinkled nose, and a hand wave. I thought WTF? But gently caress it it's Hong Kong, mou chin mou gom, no money no talk. I took out my wallet and my 300 HKD, all the money I could spare on scallops and pointed again, Li go, Sam bat man. This one, 300 hkd. OOOOAH! SAM BAT MAN, HOU ah, OK ah. NOPROBLEM. He got a bag and started shoving handfuls into it. Sam bat man was enough for loving 30 or 40 of them. Every time I went to HK after that I went back to the same shop, 永利海味, and bought scallops from them, because that dude could have loving ripped me off like the mainland shitheads did. The last year I was in China I was on some hosed up visa that only let me stay for 2 or 3 months at a time so I'd have to cross the border to get a new passport stamp periodically. I'd fly into Guangzhou, take a bus or train to Shenzhen, take a train from there into HK, make my way through the MTR to HK island, emerge from subterrania at sheung wan, breathe the fragrant air of the fragrant harbor, remember freedom, walk down to the shop, get my scallops, and repeat the journey back to the mainland. But there were no dried scallops in lovely Anhui. hakimashou fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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Stringent posted:*counts on fingers*  I bet you do.BONGHITZ posted:Why were you wandering around in a five piece suit? What where the five pieces? It was some warm clothes and walking around all dressed up is fun to do once in a while. Most people thought I was just a salary man anyway as that is a shared word. hakimashou posted:ohhboyyy show up a pic of your 5 piece suit I don't know dude, people will bitch or something if I don't keep my posts short. Haier posted:I can't wait to stop being seen on the same level as a loving zoo animal. Just embrace it and don't give a gently caress. It will never stop happening.
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Mar 2, 2017 13:44
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oohhboy posted:I don't know dude, people will bitch or something if I don't keep my posts short. Actually we fully encourage posting pictures.
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Mar 2, 2017 13:53
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oohhboy posted:I don't know dude, people will bitch or something if I don't keep my posts short. All the people bitching about you are the real problem here,  and gently caress the haters.
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Mar 2, 2017 13:57
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My wife just got an email from a bunch of Taiwanese parents concerned that their kids can't differentiate between chi, zhi, shi, and qi, ji, xi. My wife's email was succinct. "Record yourselves speaking and play it back." The parents lost much face.
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Mar 2, 2017 14:13
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ladron posted:..... None of Atlas' students are even asian, for that matter. Also his classroom is an old mauve Cadillac.
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Mar 2, 2017 14:17
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Atlas Hugged posted:Actually we fully encourage posting pictures. seriously you've posted a novel when you could have just posted photos of cool things you saw
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Mar 2, 2017 14:20
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Atlas Hugged posted:Actually we fully encourage posting pictures. Because you want it, then no, I won't post. Go bitch about it.
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Mar 2, 2017 14:22
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There's a drunk old lady outside my apartment slowly stumbling up a few stairs, then slowly falling over and rolling back down them whilst screeching what I guess is supposed to be Beijing opera and randomly giggling.
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Mar 2, 2017 14:27
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oohhboy posted:Because you want it, then no, I won't post. Go bitch about it. You could do something really constructive here.
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Mar 2, 2017 14:28
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Mimesweeper posted:All the people bitching about you are the real problem here, ^ Post pics of your suit I bet it's badass and I've never seen a 5 piece suit before. I love clothes and I'm curious.
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Mar 2, 2017 14:31
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Don't post the suit.
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